Applied Scientist, Amazon Advertising

Amazon

Seattle, WA

Full Time

Mid Level

136k-223k

8 days ago

Job Description

About the Role

Amazon Advertising is one of Amazon's fastest growing and most profitable businesses. Amazon's advertising portfolio helps merchants, retail vendors, and brand owners succeed via native advertising, which grows incremental sales of their products sold through Amazon. The primary goals are to help shoppers discover new products they love, be the most efficient way for advertisers to meet their business objectives, and build a sustainable business that continuously innovates on behalf of customers. Our products and solutions are strategically important to enable our Retail and Marketplace businesses to drive long-term growth. We deliver billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks and break fresh ground in product and technical innovations every day! As an Applied Scientist on this team, you will contribute to machine learning efforts, perform data analysis, develop insights, and build scalable models to enhance advertising effectiveness.

Key Responsibilities

Be a strong contributor to Machine Learning; lending effort within this team and across other teams.
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.
Drive end-to-end Machine Learning projects that have a high degree of ambiguity, scale, and complexity.
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, validation, and serving.
Research new and innovative machine learning approaches.

Requirements

3+ years of building models for business application experience.
PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience.
Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language.
Experience in algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, high-performance computing.

Nice to Have

Experience using Unix/Linux.
Experience in professional software development.

Qualifications

3+ years of experience in building models for business applications.
Advanced degree (PhD or Master's) in CS, CE, ML, or related fields.

Benefits & Perks

Competitive salary ranging from $136,000 to $223,400 per year, based on geographic location and experience.
Total compensation including equity, sign-on payments, and other benefits.
Medical, financial, and other benefits as part of the total package.

Working at Amazon

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. We value innovation, collaboration, and a commitment to excellence, fostering a work environment that supports diversity and professional growth.

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