Amazon · 2 hours ago
Applied Scientist, Sponsored Products
Seattle, WA
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
$136K/yr - $223K/yr
3+ years expAmazon is a leading company in the advertising space that is leveraging generative AI technologies to transform how customers discover products. The Applied Scientist role focuses on driving machine learning projects and building models to enhance advertising experiences and optimize performance analysis.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)DeliveryE-CommerceRetail
Responsibilities
Drive end-to-end Machine Learning projects that have a high degree of ambiguity, scale, complexity
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
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
Qualification
Required
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 computing
Preferred
Experience in professional software development
Experience in search advertising, search marketing, performance advertising, or similar digital advertising
Strong technical fluency in Generative AI
Deep understanding of large language models (LLMs), model fine tuning and prompt engineering
Ph.D. in computer science, mathematics, statistics, machine learning or equivalent quantitative field
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
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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
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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