Amazon
Applied Scientist, Bidding Science and Experimentation
$143K–$193K
Seattle, WA +1 · Full-time · Posted Sep 4, 2026
- Location
- Seattle, WA
SEATTLE, WA - Experience
- 3+ years building models for business application; PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience.
- Education
- PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience.
About the job
Develop and productionize bidding, ranking, and experimentation algorithms for Amazon Advertising’s real-time bidding system, using machine learning and statistical methods to improve ad pricing and decisions.
What you'll do
- Build, test, optimize, and deploy machine-learning models and online optimization or control algorithms.
- Design and run A/B experiments, analyze results, and develop experimentation methods and tools.
- Work with engineers to productionize models and establish automated monitoring and feedback processes.
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.
- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or 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 using Unix/Linux.
- Experience in professional software development.
Pay
USD 142,800.00 - 193,200.00 annually (base salary)
Tools
Java, C++, Python, Unix/Linux
AI focus
Apply machine learning, online optimization, optimal control, forecasting, causal inference, bandits, and reinforcement learning to bidding, ranking, and experimentation; deploy models and algorithms into production.
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