Amazon · 1 week ago
Principal Applied Scientist, Sponsored Products and Brands
United States
Full-time
Remote
Lead/Staff
$179K/yr - $309K/yr
10+ years expAmazon is a leading company in the advertising landscape, focusing on innovative generative AI technologies. The Principal Applied Scientist will develop AI solutions to enhance advertiser and shopper experiences, define a long-term vision for the advertising business, and mentor applied AI talent within the organization.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)DeliveryE-CommerceFoundational AIRetail
Responsibilities
Develop AI solutions for Sponsored Brands advertiser and shopper experiences. Build monetization and optimization systems that leverage generative models to value and improve campaign performance
Define a long-term science vision and roadmap for our Sponsored Brands advertising business, driven from our customers' needs, translating that direction into specific plans for applied scientists and engineering teams. This role combines science leadership, organizational ability, technical strength, product focus, and business understanding
Design and conduct A/B experiments to evaluate proposed solutions based on in-depth data analyses
Effectively communicate technical and non-technical ideas with teammates and stakeholders
Stay up-to-date with advancements and the latest modeling techniques in the field
Think big about the arc of development of Gen AI over a multi-year horizon and identify new opportunities to apply these technologies to solve real-world problems
Qualification
Required
PhD in Computer Science, Statistics or related field
10+ years of programming in Java, Python or related language
10+ years of applied ML experience in building complex, real-time systems involving AI, ML with successful delivery to customers
3+ years in LLMs, model fine tuning and prompt engineering
3+ years in digital advertising technology
Preferred
Demonstrated track record of innovative AI solution development
Experience with generative model architectures
Research publications or patents in generative AI technologies
Experience in Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF), Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and AI model trade-offs (e.g., model size, latency, cost, and output quality)
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
H1B Sponsorship
Amazon has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not
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Distribution of Different Job Fields Receiving Sponsorship
Represents job field similar to this job
Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (22803)
2024 (21175)
2023 (19057)
2022 (24088)
2021 (12233)
2020 (14881)
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
Recent News
2026-01-11
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