Applied Scientist, Advertiser Guidance

Amazon

New York, NY

Full Time

Senior

129k-213k

4 days ago

Job Description

About the Role

Amazon Advertising is one of Amazon's fastest growing and most profitable businesses, responsible for defining and delivering a collection of advertising products that drive discovery and sales. As an Applied Scientist on this team, you will drive machine learning projects to increase traffic monetization and merchandise sales, perform data analysis, build and deploy models, and research innovative approaches. The role involves working closely with software engineers, conducting experiments, and mentoring team members to support Amazon's long-term growth in advertising.

Key Responsibilities

Drive end-to-end Machine Learning projects that have a high degree of ambiguity, scale, and complexity.
Perform hands-on analysis and modeling of enormous data sets to develop insights that increase traffic monetization and merchandise sales, without compromising the shopper experience.
Build machine learning models, perform proof-of-concept, experiment, optimize, and deploy models into production; work closely with software engineers to assist in productionizing ML models.
Run A/B experiments, gather data, and perform statistical analysis.
Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large-scale data analysis, machine-learning model development, model validation, and serving.
Research new and innovative machine learning approaches.
Recruit Applied Scientists to the team and provide mentorship.

Requirements

Master's degree in computer science, mathematics, statistics, machine learning or equivalent quantitative field.
Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language.
Experience with SQL and an RDBMS (e.g., Oracle) or Data Warehouse.

Nice to Have

Experience implementing algorithms using both toolkits and self-developed code.
Have publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals.

Qualifications

Master's degree in a relevant field (computer science, mathematics, statistics, machine learning).

Benefits & Perks

Not explicitly specified in the description.

Working at Amazon

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer with an inclusive culture that empowers employees to deliver the best results for customers. The environment encourages experimentation, innovation, and collaboration, with a focus on long-term growth and customer-centric solutions.

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