Amazon
Senior Applied Scientist, Entertainment Devices & Grocery Experiences (EDGE) Ads
$167K–$260K
Boston, MA +2 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Apr 17, 2026
- Location
- Boston, MA
Sunnyvale, CA
New York, NY - Experience
- 5+ years building machine-learning models for business applications; PhD, or Master's degree and 6+ years of applied research experience.
- Education
- PhD, or Master's degree
About the job
Owns the design, development, and launch of science-based advertising models and experiences for Amazon devices, improving ad performance and customer relevance.
What you'll do
- Develop, test, deploy, and optimize machine-learning models for advertising and conversion outcomes.
- Build scalable data pipelines and automated systems for data analysis, model development, validation, and serving.
- Partner with scientists, engineers, and product managers to set science roadmaps and launch ad solutions.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of experience building machine-learning models for business applications.
- PhD, or a Master's degree and 6+ years of applied research experience.
- Programming experience in Java, C++, Python, or a related language.
- Experience building speech recognition, machine translation, and natural language processing systems.
Nice to have
- Experience with modeling tools such as R, scikit-learn, Spark MxLib, MxNet, Tensorflow, numpy, or scipy.
- Experience with large-scale distributed systems such as Hadoop or Spark.
Pay
192,200.00 - 260,000.00 USD annually (base salary); 167,100.00 - 226,100.00 USD annually (base salary); 183,800.00 - 248,700.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
Java, C++, Python, R, scikit-learn, Spark MxLib, Tensorflow, Hadoop
AI focus
Develops advertising models and experiences, with a focus on agentic AI for ad targeting, including autonomous agents, multi-agent orchestration, planning, large multimodal models, reinforcement learning, and sequential decision-making.
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