Amazon · 1 day ago
Sr. Applied Scientist, Amazon Advertising
New York, United States
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$150K/yr - $260K/yr
6+ years expAmazon is one of the fastest growing and most profitable businesses in the advertising sector. As a Senior Applied Scientist, you will lead machine learning initiatives, conduct data analysis, and develop scalable processes to enhance advertising effectiveness while mentoring new team members.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)DeliveryE-CommerceFoundational AIRetail
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, 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
Qualification
Required
3+ years of building machine learning models for business application experience
PhD, or Master's degree and 6+ years of applied research experience
Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
Experience with neural deep learning methods and machine learning
Preferred
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
Benefits
Equity
Sign-on payments
Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits
Company
Amazon
Amazon is a tech firm with a focus on e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$8.11BKey Investors
AmazonKleiner Perkins
2023-01-03Post Ipo Debt· $8B
2001-07-24Post Ipo Equity· $100M
1997-05-15IPO
Leadership Team
Douglas J. Herrington
CEO, Worldwide Amazon Stores
Werner Vogels
VP & CTO
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