Applied Scientist II, WW Integrated Marketing Systems & Intelligence

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Transform how Amazon reaches and engages customers at a global scale through innovative machine learning solutions.
• Partner with scientists, engineers, and product managers to design and deploy models for personalized, automated marketing.
• Take ownership of the end-to-end scientific process: problem framing, data exploration, model development, evaluation, and deployment.
• Work on high-impact initiatives including response prediction, content selection, attribution modeling, and experimentation design.
• Build and enhance causal measurement, optimization, and prediction models for Amazon's global marketing budget.
• Collaborate with teams to develop scientific roadmaps, drive innovation, and influence resource allocation decisions.
• Innovate scalable marketing methodologies using causal inference and machine learning.
• Develop interpretable models that provide actionable business insights.
• Collaborate with engineers to automate and scale scientific solutions.
• Engage with stakeholders to ensure effective adoption of scientific products.
• Present findings to the Amazon Science community to promote excellence and knowledge-sharing.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience building models for business applications.
• PhD, or Master's degree with 4+ years of experience in CS, CE, ML, or related fields.
• Experience in patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals.
• Proficiency in programming in Java, C++, Python, or related languages.
• Experience with algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, or high-performance computing.

Nice to Have

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

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS, CE, ML, or related field (implied by experience requirements).
• 3+ years of relevant model-building experience or 4+ years with a Master's degree.

Benefits & Perks

• Full range of medical, financial, and other benefits.
• Competitive salary ranging from $136,000 to $223,400 depending on location and experience.
• Equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total package.