[Remote] Applied Scientist, Sponsored Products

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Amazon is at the forefront of re-imagining the advertising landscape through generative AI technologies with its Sponsored Products and Brands team. The Applied Scientist role involves driving end-to-end machine learning projects, building and deploying models, and conducting data analysis to enhance advertising experiences and customer engagement.

Responsibilities

• Drive end-to-end Machine Learning projects that have a high degree of ambiguity, scale, complexity
• 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
• 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

Skills

• 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 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
• Experience in professional software development
• Experience in search advertising, search marketing, performance advertising, or similar digital advertising
• Strong technical fluency in Generative AI
• Deep understanding of large language models (LLMs), model fine tuning and prompt engineering
• Ph.D. in computer science, mathematics, statistics, machine learning or equivalent quantitative field

Benefits

• Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
• 401(k) matching
• Paid time off
• Parental leave

Company Overview

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