Applied Scientist Ii, Sponsored Products and Brands

Amazon Amazon · Big Tech · Seattle, WA · Machine Learning Science

The role focuses on improving ad selection within Amazon Ads using generative AI, LLMs, and ML optimization techniques. The primary goal is to enhance the customer shopping experience and drive revenue impact through online experimentation, ML modeling, and real-time ML solutions.

What you'd actually do

  1. improve quality of ads shown using in-session and offline signals via online experimentation, ML modeling, simulation, and online feedback
  2. identify opportunities for the team to make a direct impact on customers and the search experience
  3. work closely with with search and retail partner teams, software engineers and product managers to build scalable real-time ML solutions
  4. design, run, and analyze A/B experiments that improve the experience of millions of Amazon shoppers while driving quantifiable revenue impact while broadening your technical skillset

Skills

Required

  • 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 any of the following areas: algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, high-performance computing

Nice to have

  • 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.

What the JD emphasized

  • building models for business application experience

Other signals

  • Generative AI
  • LLMs
  • ML modeling
  • online experimentation
  • reinforcement learning