Amazon · 2 days ago
Applied Scientist II, SPB Advertiser Guidance
Seattle, WA
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
$136K/yr - $223K/yr
4+ years expAmazon is seeking a passionate Applied Scientist to help pioneer the next generation of agentic AI applications for advertisers. This role involves designing architectures, developing tools and datasets, and creating systems that can reason and act autonomously to optimize advertising campaigns.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)DeliveryE-CommerceRetail
Responsibilities
Design and build agents to guide advertisers in conversational and non-conversational experience
Design and implement advanced model and agent optimization techniques, including supervised fine-tuning, instruction tuning and preference optimization (e.g., DPO/IPO)
Curate datasets and tools for MCP
Build evaluation pipelines for agent workflows, including automated benchmarks, multi-step reasoning tests, and safety guardrails
Develop agentic architectures (e.g., CoT, ToT, ReAct) that integrate planning, tool use, and long-horizon reasoning
Prototype and iterate on multi-agent orchestration frameworks and workflows
Collaborate with peers across engineering and product to bring scientific innovations into production
Stay current with the latest research in LLMs, RL, and agent-based AI, and translate findings into practical applications
Qualification
Required
PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience
3+ years of building models for business application experience
Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
Experience in designing experiments and statistical analysis of results
Preferred
Experience in professional software development
Experience in state-of-the-art deep learning models architecture design and deep learning training and optimization and model pruning
Benefits
Equity
Sign-on payments
Medical
Financial
Company
Amazon
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10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$8.11BKey Investors
Kleiner 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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