We are seeking a technical leader for our Search Thematic Advertising Experiences team to lead a multi-disciplinary team of science and engineering. This team is within the Sponsored Product team, and works on complex engineering, optimization, econometric, and user-experience problems in order to deliver relevant product ads on Amazon search and detail pages world-wide. The team operates with the dual objective of enhancing the experience of Amazon shoppers and enabling the monetization of our online and mobile page properties. Our work spans ML and Data science across predictive modeling, reinforcement learning (Bandits), adaptive experimentation, causal inference, data engineering.

Key job responsibilities

Search Thematic Advertising Experiences , within Sponsored Products, is seeking a Senior Applied Scientist to join a fast growing team with the mandate of creating new ads experience that elevates the shopping experience for our hundreds of millions customers worldwide. We are looking for a top analytical mind capable of understanding our complex ecosystem of advertisers participating in a pay-per-click model- and leveraging this knowledge to help turn the flywheel of the business.

As a Senior Applied Scientist on this team you will:

Act as the technical leader in Machine Learning and drive full life-cycle Machine Learning projects.

Lead technical efforts within this team and across other teams.

Build machine learning models, perform proof-of-concept, experiment, optimize, and deploy your models into production.

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.

Work closely with software engineers to assist in productionizing your ML models.

Research new machine learning approaches.

Recruit Applied Scientists to the team and act as a mentor to other scientists on the team.

A day in the life

The successful candidate will be a self-starter comfortable with ambiguity, with strong attention to detail, and with an ability to work in a fast-paced, high-energy and ever-changing environment. The drive and capability to shape the direction is a must.

About the team

We are a customer-obsessed team of engineers, technologists, product leaders, and scientists. We are focused on continuous exploration of contexts and creatives where advertising delivers value to customers and advertisers. We specifically work on new ads experiences globally with the goal of helping shoppers make the most informed purchase decision. We obsess about our customers and we are continuously innovating on their behalf to enrich their shopping experience on Amazon

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 4+ years of applied research experience

- 3+ years of scientists or machine learning engineers management experience

- 3+ years of building machine learning models for business application experience

- PhD, or Master's degree and 6+ years of applied research experience

- Knowledge of ML, NLP, Information Retrieval and Analytics

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

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience building complex software systems, especially involving deep learning, machine learning and computer vision, that have been successfully delivered to customers

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including 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, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, NY, New York - 202,200.00 - 273,600.00 USD annually

USA, WA, SEATTLE - 183,800.00 - 248,700.00 USD annually