Sr Data Scientist, Amazon - Vertical Ads

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