What are the responsibilities and job description for the Applied Scientist, Sponsored Products Off-Search Sourcing and Relevance position at Amazon?
DESCRIPTION
Amazon Advertising is one of Amazon's fastest growing and most profitable businesses, responsible for defining and delivering a collection of advertising products that drive discovery and sales. As a core product offering within our advertising portfolio, Sponsored Products (SP) helps merchants, retail vendors, and brand owners succeed via native advertising, which grows incremental sales of their products sold through Amazon. The SP organization's primary goals are to help shoppers discover new products they love, be the most efficient way for advertisers to meet their business objectives, and build a sustainable business that continuously innovates on behalf of customers. Our products and solutions are strategically important to enable our Retail and Marketplace businesses to drive long-term growth. We deliver billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks and break fresh ground in product and technical innovations every day!
Our team, Off-Search Sourcing and Relevance, has a mission to deliver relevant and useful shopping experience at non-Search pages at Amazon.com. We innovate technology solutions, develop machine learning models that incorporate deep product and shopper understanding, and conduct A/B tests to ensure that we identify all useful and relevant advertisements and provide them to downstream systems for click through prediction and ad auction.
We are looking for a passionate Applied Scientist who has technical expertise in information retrieval, Natural Language Processing (NLP), and Large Language Models (LLM). In addition to having hands-on experience in building ML-based solutions, an ideal candidate should be able to create and articulate a customer-centric science vision, show willingness to continuously learn about new scientific approaches, and enjoy operating in startup-like environment.
Key job responsibilities
* Conduct deep data analysis to derive insights to the business, and identify gaps and new opportunities
* Develop scalable and effective machine-learning models and optimization strategies to solve business problems
* Run regular A/B experiments, gather data, and perform statistical analysis
* Work closely with software engineers to deliver end-to-end solutions into production
* Improve the scalability, efficiency and automation of large-scale data analytics, model training, deployment and serving
* Conduct research on new machine-learning modeling to optimize all aspects of Sponsored Products business
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 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 solving business problems through machine learning, data mining and statistical algorithms
- Experience in state-of-the-art deep learning models architecture design and deep learning training and optimization and model pruning
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience with popular deep learning frameworks such as MxNet and Tensor Flow
- Experience in professional software development
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $136,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223,400/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
Salary : $136,000 - $223,400
