Applied Scientist II, Advertising Incrementality Measurement

About the role

Do you want to lead the Ads industry and redefine how we measure the effectiveness of Amazon Ads business? Are you passionate about causal inference, Deep Learning & AI, raising the science bar, and connecting leading-edge science research to Amazon-scale implementation? If so, come join Amazon Ads to be a science leader within our Advertising Incrementality Measurement science team!

Responsibilities

• Apply expertise in ML/DL, AI, and causal modeling to develop new models that describe how advertising impacts customers’ actions
• Own the end-to-end development of novel scientific models that address the most pressing needs of our business stakeholders and help guide their future actions
• Improve upon and simplify our existing solutions and frameworks
• Review and audit modeling processes and results for other scientists, both junior and senior
• Work with leadership to align our scientific developments with the business strategy
• Identify new opportunities that are suggested by the data insights
• Bring a department-wide perspective into decision making
• Develop and document scientific research to be shared with the greater science community at Amazon

Requirements

• 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

Qualifications

• Experience using Unix/Linux
• Experience in professional software development

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. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

Pay

The base salary range for this position is listed below. 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.

• USA, NY, New York - 172,400.00 - 223,400.00 USD annually

Schedule

Not specified