Sr. Applied Scientist, Amazon Advertising

Overview

Sr. Applied Scientist, Amazon Advertising role at Amazon . Join to apply for the Sr. Applied Scientist, Amazon Advertising role at Amazon .

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.

Responsibilities

• Be the technical leader in Machine Learning; lead efforts 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 your models into production; work closely with software engineers to assist in productionizing your 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.

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of building machine learning models for business applications.
• PhD, or Master's degree and 6+ years of applied research experience.
• Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language.
• Experience with neural deep learning methods and machine learning.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with modeling tools such as R, scikit-learn, Spark MLLib, MxNet, TensorFlow, NumPy, SciPy, etc.
• Experience with large scale distributed systems such as Hadoop, Spark, etc.

Additional Details

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Location: West Hollywood, CA

Job ID: A

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Research, Science, and Engineering
• Industries: Software Development

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay ranges from $150,400/year to $260,000/year, depending on location and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company with potential equity, sign-on payments, and other benefits as part of the package. For more information, visit

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected status. If you require a workplace accommodation during the application and hiring process, visit for more information.

Position status: This post will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.