Principal Applied Scientist, Sponsored Products and Brands

About the role

The Sponsored Products and Brands team 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.

Responsibilities

• Play a pivotal role in managing projects at all stages: inception, design, development, deployment and subsequent improvements.
• Tackle challenging problems and coordinate high profile projects across multiple teams to ensure customer and business goals are met.
• Interface across product, science, and engineering teams within the advertising and retail organizations.
• Drive mechanisms that allow the team to move quickly and deliver strong results.
• Operate with a high degree of autonomy and efficiency.
• Recommend alternative technical approaches and partner with product, science, and engineering teams to meet timelines.
• Actively role model the use of GenAI to make the team more efficient.

Requirements

• PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related technical field
• 7+ years of working with Data & AI related technologies, including, but not limited to, AI/ML, GenAI, Analytics, Database, and/or Storage experience
• Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
• 7+ years of working directly with engineering teams experience
• 7+ years of technical product or program management experience
• Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition

Qualifications

• 8+ years of hands-on work managing complex technology projects experience
• Experience managing projects across cross functional teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules

Skills

You will have the opportunity to apply your deep subject matter expertise in the area of ML, LLM and GenAI models. You will invent new product experiences that enable novel advertiser and shopper experiences. This role will work on bringing state-of-the-art GenAI models to production. You will define the long-term science vision for our advertising business, driven by our customer’s needs, and translate it into actionable plans for our team of applied scientists and engineers.

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.