Amazon · 1 day ago
Applied Scientist, Sponsored Products
New York, NY
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
$172K/yr - $223K/yr
4+ years expAmazon is a leading company in the advertising landscape, particularly through its Sponsored Products and Brands team, which focuses on utilizing generative AI technologies. The role of Applied Scientist involves designing and building intelligent targeting and recommendation agents, collaborating with teams to apply scientific innovations in advertising, and developing advanced machine learning models.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)DeliveryE-CommerceFoundational AIRetail
Responsibilities
Design and build targeting and 1 click recommendation 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)
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
Develop agentic architectures that integrate planning, tool use, and long-horizon reasoning
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 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
Strong technical fluency in Generative AI
Deep understanding of large language models (LLMs), model fine tuning and prompt engineering
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
Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
401(k) matching
Paid time off
Parental leave
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
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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
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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