Applied Scientist, Amazon Ads, Forecasting, Insights and Guidance (FIG)

What you'll do

• Lead machine-learning initiatives from problem framing through production deployment.
• Develop models and run experiments to validate their real-world impact on advertisers.
• Work with engineering and product partners to bring research and science into customer-facing products.

What they ask for

• 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.
• Programming experience in Java, C++, Python or a related language.
• Experience in algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, or high-performance computing.

Nice to have

• Experience building machine-learning models or developing algorithms for business application.
• Experience designing experiments and performing statistical analysis of results.

Pay

171,600.00 - 222,200.00 USD annually (base salary); 172,400.00 - 223,400.00 USD annually (base salary)

Tools

Java, C++, Python, PyTorch

AI focus

Applies machine learning and generative AI to campaign optimization and advertising; includes training or adapting large language models.