Applied Scientist I, Conversational Ad Experiences

About the role

The Sponsored Products and Brands (SPB) team at Amazon Ads is re-imagining the advertising landscape through generative AI technologies, revolutionizing how millions of customers discover products and engage with brands across Amazon.com and beyond. We are at the forefront of re-inventing advertising experiences, bridging human creativity with artificial intelligence to transform every aspect of the advertising lifecycle from ad creation and optimization to performance analysis and customer insights.

This position will be part of the Conversational Ad Experiences team within the Amazon Advertising organization. Our cross-functional team focuses on designing, developing and launching innovative ad experiences delivered to shoppers in conversational contexts. We utilize leading-edge engineering and science technologies in generative AI to help shoppers discover new products and brands through intuitive, conversational, multi-turn interfaces.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a tech lead for defining the science roadmap for multiple projects in the conversational ad experiences space powered by LLMs.
• Build POCs, optimize and deploy models into production, run experiments, perform deep dives on experiment data to gather actionable learnings and communicate them to senior leadership.
• Work closely with software engineers on detailed requirements, technical designs and implementation of end-to-end solutions in production.
• Work closely with product managers to contribute to our mission, and proactively identify opportunities where science can help improve customer experience.
• Research new machine learning approaches to drive continued scientific innovation.
• Be a member of the Amazon-wide machine learning community, participating in internal and external meetups, hackathons and conferences.
• Help attract and recruit technical talent, mentor scientists and engineers in the team.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications: Master's degree in computer science, mathematics, statistics, machine learning or equivalent quantitative field.

• Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language.
• Experience with SQL and an RDBMS (e.g., Oracle) or Data Warehouse.

Preferred Qualifications: Experience implementing algorithms using both toolkits and self-developed code, have publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals.

Benefits

Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including 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, and parental leave.

Pay

The base salary range for this position is $136,000.00 - $184,000.00 USD annually. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location.