Sr Data Scientist, Amazon - Vertical Ads
About the role
Are you passionate about solving big problems from ground-up? Do you enjoy building new state-of-the-art products at internet scale? Come lead the innovation in this startup team, vertical ad products. This is a green field problem without a known answer or a pattern to follow. We have ambitious vision to simplify full funnel advertising solutions, at scale, with specialized agentic AI-powered models and diversify the demand to strategic verticals including finserv, autos, locals.. etc. We are seeking an experienced Sr Data Scientist to drive innovation in our Ads Foundational Model. In this individual contributor role, you will apply advanced machine learning techniques to improve advertiser performance and customer experience.
Key job responsibilities
- Develop and drive the science strategy for Ads Foundational Model (Ads-FM), aligning it with the program's objectives and overall business goals.
- Identify high-impact opportunities within Ads-FM program and lead the ideation, planning, and execution of science initiatives to address them.
- Build and deploy machine learning models using computer vision, natural language processing, and deep learning to evaluate and enhance ad effectiveness.
- Develop algorithms that extract meaningful signals from image, video, and audio content to predict and improve customer engagement.
- Leverage Amazon's extensive data repository to create predictive models that generate actionable recommendations for more compelling ad creative.
- Collaborate with business leaders and cross-functional teams to implement ML-powered solutions.
- Contribute to the ML roadmap for the Ads-FM program through innovation and research.
Basic Qualifications
- 5+ years of data querying languages (e.g. SQL), scripting languages (e.g. Python) or statistical/mathematical software (e.g. R, SAS, Matlab, etc.) experience.
- 4+ years of data scientist experience.
- Experience with statistical models e.g. multinomial logistic regression.
Preferred Qualifications
- 2+ years of data visualization using AWS QuickSight, Tableau, R Shiny, etc. experience.
- Experience managing data pipelines.
- Experience as a leader and mentor on a data science team.
Pay
USA, WA, SEATTLE - 159,200.00 - 215,300.00 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.
Benefits
- Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans).
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line.
- Flexible Spending Accounts.
- Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage.
- 401(k) matching.
- Paid time off.
- Parental leave.