Amazon
Manager, Applied Science, Sales AI
$184K–$249K
Sunnyvale, CA +2 · Manager · Full-time · Posted Sep 30, 2026
- Location
- Sunnyvale, CA
Seattle, WA
SEATTLE, WA - Experience
- 3+ years of scientists or machine learning engineers management experience; 6+ years of applied research experience with a Master's degree, or a PhD.
- Education
- PhD, or Master's degree and 6+ years of applied research experience.
About the job
Leads an applied science team building and deploying AI agents and machine learning solutions for advertising sales workflows and business decisions.
What you'll do
- Set the scientific strategy and research roadmap; align priorities and success criteria with business and technical stakeholders.
- Guide rigorous experimentation and improve model accuracy and performance, preparing results for business decisions or production.
- Hire, mentor, and develop scientists and technical contributors while identifying new analysis, efficiency, and generative AI opportunities.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of scientists or machine learning engineers management experience.
- Knowledge of ML, NLP, Information Retrieval and Analytics.
- PhD, or Master's degree and 6+ years of applied research experience.
- Knowledge of machine learning approaches and algorithms.
Nice to have
- Experience building machine learning models or algorithms for business applications, or delivering complex machine learning software systems to customers.
- Experience with autonomous AI services, sequential recommendation or behavioral modeling, or LLM training, fine-tuning, or adaptation.
Pay
183,800.00 - 248,700.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
machine learning, NLP, Information Retrieval, Analytics, Natural Language Processing, Large Language Models, Reinforcement Learning, Recommender Systems
AI focus
Build AI agents that operate accurately at scale to improve account teams' end-to-end workflows; apply generative AI and machine learning research to advertising sales.
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