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Amazon Applied Scientist, TMT - Search in Seattle, Washington

Description

Amazon's Automated Marketing and Events (AME) team builds and manages automated marketing programs at scale, determining how and where to most efficiently invest.

Our mission is to engage customers both onsite and off Amazon's websites with the right products and services to enable a great shopping experience. You will go home and show your family and friends why they receive this ad on search or social channels or that email from Amazon. You will make a difference by improving the relevancy for customers and optimizing the investment level for Amazon. Cutting edge technology and algorithms including econometric methods, statistical modeling, machine learning, and data mining are the core of our business. Marketing drives a large portion of Amazon’s traffic and business, and represents a unique opportunity to drive impact on the company’s bottom line. We also focus on developing novel A/B experimentation mechanisms to measure efficacy of our ML solutions. With essentially full ownership of our own product roadmap, there is a large R&D component to our work, and strong engineering skills together with sound business understanding and an appetite for innovation are highly valued.

We are seeking a self-directed Applied Scientist to develop state of the art machine learning algorithms including generative AI applications for large scale bidding and LLM aided marketing content generation to power Amazon ads. With over a billion product offers and ads worldwide, our programs are some of the largest across Amazon. This role operates as a subject-matter expert on statistical and scientific methods across traffic channels (Search, Social, Email, Push, and Creators), and will work directly with our advertising partners (e.g., Meta, Google, Microsoft, Tiktok, Pinterest etc), market intelligence tools and internal stakeholder teams to solve challenging scientific problems.

Key job responsibilities

Responsibilities include :

  • Design, implement, test, deploy, and maintain innovative data and machine learning solutions, including cutting-edge real time bidding and optimization models using advanced machine learning techniques.

  • Provide inputs to the product roadmap, emphasizing research and development (R&D) to continuously enhance bidding capabilities.

  • Create experiments and prototype implementations of new learning algorithms and prediction techniques

  • Model development , validation and deployment using Internal Amazon tools and public services such as AWS SageMaker for large-scale applications.

  • Collaborate with scientists, engineers, product managers, and business stakeholders to design and implement software solutions for science problems

  • Superior verbal and written communication and presentation skills, ability to convey rigorous mathematical concepts and considerations to non-experts

A day in the life

What will you be doing?

As an Applied scientist on our team, you will leverage your strong background in Computer Science and Machine Learning to help build the next generation of our model development and assessment pipeline, harness and explain rich data at Amazon scale, and provide automated insights to improve machine learned solutions that impact millions of customers every day. This role requires a pragmatic technical leader comfortable with ambiguity, capable of summarizing complex data and models through clear visual and written explanations. The ideal candidate will have experience with machine learning models and information retrieval system. We are particularly interested in experience in building large scale marketing spend optimization models.

About the team

We are a team of scientists with engineering expertise. You will extract, analyze and transform large scale data for modeling. You will research and implement forecasting models to solve optimization problems. You will collaborate with partner teams to understand the current systems and data sources, or propose new system or data collection improvements. You will communicate findings and results to leadership, and shape the product roadmap for the organization.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Seattle, WA, USA

Basic Qualifications

  • 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 in patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals

  • Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience in professional software development

  • Experience with modeling tools such as R, scikit-learn, Spark MLLib, MxNet, Tensorflow, numpy, scipy etc.

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $136,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $222,200/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

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