Applied Scientist Ii, Sponsored Products

Amazon Amazon · Big Tech · NY +1 · Machine Learning Science

Applied Scientist II role focused on building and deploying generative AI technologies for Amazon's Sponsored Products and Brands advertising platform, with a focus on video content. The role involves developing new solutions, evaluating technologies, and mentoring other scientists, while working with LLMs and production environments.

What you'd actually do

  1. Participate in the Science hiring process as well as mentor other scientists - improving their skills, their knowledge of your solutions, and their ability to get things done.
  2. Identify and devise new video related solutions following a customer-obsessed scientific approach to address customer or business problems when the problem is ill-defined, needs to be framed, and new methodologies or paradigms need to be invented at the product level.
  3. Articulate potential scientific challenges of ongoing or future customers’ needs or business problems, and present interventions to address them.
  4. Independently assess alternative video related technologies, driving evaluation and adoption of those that fit best

Skills

Required

  • Java
  • C++
  • Python
  • algorithms and data structures
  • parsing
  • numerical optimization
  • data mining
  • parallel and distributed computing
  • high-performance computing
  • vLLM
  • SGLang
  • TensorRT
  • deploying LLMs in production on GPUs, Neuron, TPU or other AI acceleration hardware

Nice to have

  • Machine Learning fundamentals
  • Large Language Model fundamentals
  • architecture
  • training/inference lifecycles
  • optimization of model execution
  • architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems
  • video compression
  • image processing fundamentals

What the JD emphasized

  • building models for business application experience
  • developing, deploying and managing AI products at scale

Other signals

  • Generative AI
  • LLMs
  • Video
  • Advertising