Amazon
Senior Applied Scientist, Sponsored Products, Sponsored Products
Amazon, Seattle, Washington, us, 98127
Senior Applied Scientist, Sponsored Products
Job ID: 2713681 | Amazon.com Services LLCAmazon Advertising is one of Amazon's fastest growing and most profitable businesses, responsible for defining and delivering a collection of advertising products that drive discovery and sales. As a core product offering within our advertising portfolio, Sponsored Products (SP) helps merchants, retail vendors, and brand owners succeed via native advertising, which grows incremental sales of their products sold through Amazon. The SP team's primary goals are to help shoppers discover new products they love, be the most efficient way for advertisers to meet their business objectives, and build a sustainable business that continuously innovates on behalf of customers.Basic qualifications:PhD degree with 4 years of applied research experience or a Masters degree and 6+ years of experience in applied research.3+ years of experience in building machine learning models for business applications.Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language.Preferred qualifications:Advanced degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, or related quantitative field.Published research work in academic conferences or industry circles.Experience in building large-scale machine-learning models and infrastructure for online recommendation, ads ranking, personalization, or search.Technical leadership in machine learning.Effective verbal and written communication skills with non-technical and technical audiences.Experience working with real-world data sets and building scalable models from big data.Thinks strategically, but stays on top of tactical execution.Exhibits excellent business judgment; balances business, product, and technology very well.Experience in computational advertising.Why you will love this opportunity: Amazon is investing heavily in building a world-class advertising business. This team defines and delivers a collection of advertising products that drive discovery and sales. We are a highly motivated, collaborative, and fun-loving team with an entrepreneurial spirit - with a broad mandate to experiment and innovate.Key job responsibilities:Be the technical leader in Machine Learning; lead efforts within this team and across other teams.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.Drive end-to-end Machine Learning projects that have a high degree of ambiguity, scale, and complexity.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.Recruit Applied Scientists to the team and provide mentorship.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 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 computingPREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience using Unix/Linux- Experience in professional software developmentAmazon 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.
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Job ID: 2713681 | Amazon.com Services LLCAmazon Advertising is one of Amazon's fastest growing and most profitable businesses, responsible for defining and delivering a collection of advertising products that drive discovery and sales. As a core product offering within our advertising portfolio, Sponsored Products (SP) helps merchants, retail vendors, and brand owners succeed via native advertising, which grows incremental sales of their products sold through Amazon. The SP team's primary goals are to help shoppers discover new products they love, be the most efficient way for advertisers to meet their business objectives, and build a sustainable business that continuously innovates on behalf of customers.Basic qualifications:PhD degree with 4 years of applied research experience or a Masters degree and 6+ years of experience in applied research.3+ years of experience in building machine learning models for business applications.Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language.Preferred qualifications:Advanced degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, or related quantitative field.Published research work in academic conferences or industry circles.Experience in building large-scale machine-learning models and infrastructure for online recommendation, ads ranking, personalization, or search.Technical leadership in machine learning.Effective verbal and written communication skills with non-technical and technical audiences.Experience working with real-world data sets and building scalable models from big data.Thinks strategically, but stays on top of tactical execution.Exhibits excellent business judgment; balances business, product, and technology very well.Experience in computational advertising.Why you will love this opportunity: Amazon is investing heavily in building a world-class advertising business. This team defines and delivers a collection of advertising products that drive discovery and sales. We are a highly motivated, collaborative, and fun-loving team with an entrepreneurial spirit - with a broad mandate to experiment and innovate.Key job responsibilities:Be the technical leader in Machine Learning; lead efforts within this team and across other teams.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.Drive end-to-end Machine Learning projects that have a high degree of ambiguity, scale, and complexity.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.Recruit Applied Scientists to the team and provide mentorship.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 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 computingPREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience using Unix/Linux- Experience in professional software developmentAmazon 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.
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