Applied Scientist, Sponsored Products and Brands
About Sponsored Products and Brands
The Sponsored Products and Brands (SPB) organization at Amazon Ads is re-imagining the advertising landscape through industry leading 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. We are a passionate group of innovators dedicated to developing responsible and intelligent AI technologies that balance the needs of advertisers, enhance the shopping experience, and strengthen the marketplace. If you're energized by solving complex challenges and pushing the boundaries of what's possible with AI, join us in shaping the future of advertising.
About Our Team
The Brand Beacon team is responsible for inventing impressions offerings for brands to increase share of voice via premium experiences, helping brands get discovered, acquire new customers and sustainably grow customer lifetime value. We build end-to-end solutions that enable brands to drive discovery, visibility and share of voice. This includes building advertiser controls, shopper experiences, monetization strategies and optimization features. We succeed when (1) shoppers discover, engage and build affinity with brands and (2) brands can grow their business at scale with our advertising products.
About This Role
As an Applied Scientist on our team, you will:
- Develop AI solutions for advertiser and shopper experiences.
- Build monetization and optimization systems that leverage generative models to value and improve campaign performance.
- Define a long-term science vision and roadmap for our Brand Beacon advertising business, driven from our customers' needs, translating that direction into specific plans for applied scientists and engineering teams. This role combines science leadership, organizational ability, technical strength, product focus, and business understanding.
- Design and conduct A/B experiments to evaluate proposed solutions based on in-depth data analyses.
- Effectively communicate technical and non-technical ideas with teammates and stakeholders; Stay up-to-date with advancements and the latest modeling techniques in the field.
- Think big about the arc of development of Gen AI over a multi-year horizon and identify new opportunities to apply these technologies to solve real-world problems.
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 any of the following areas: algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, high-performance computing
- 3+ years in digital advertising technology.
Preferred Qualifications
- Demonstrated track record of innovative AI solution development.
- Experience with generative model architectures.
- Research publications or patents in generative AI technologies.
Pay
- USA, NY, New York - 172,400.00 - 223,400.00 USD annually
- USA, WA, SEATTLE - 142,800.00 - 193,200.00 USD annually
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.
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