Amazon
Senior Applied Scientist, Sponsored Products Bidding
$167K–$249K
Seattle, WA +2 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Jul 4, 2026
- Location
- Seattle, WA
New York, NY
SEATTLE, WA - Experience
- 3+ years building machine learning models for business application; PhD, or Master's degree and 6+ years of applied research experience.
- Education
- PhD, or Master's degree
About the job
Leads AI/ML science for Sponsored Products bidding, developing and deploying models and personalized bidding features that improve advertiser outcomes while protecting the shopper experience.
What you'll do
- Lead AI/ML initiatives and define science direction for Sponsored Products Bidding.
- Develop, test, and deploy models; run A/B experiments and statistical analyses on large-scale data.
- Establish scalable ML processes and recruit and mentor Applied Scientists.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of building machine learning models for business application experience.
- PhD, or Master's degree and 6+ years of applied research experience.
- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language.
- Experience with neural deep learning methods and machine learning; experience with AI/ML technologies.
Nice to have
- Experience with modeling tools such as R, scikit-learn, Spark MLLib, MxNet, Tensorflow, numpy, scipy etc.
- Experience with large scale distributed systems such as Hadoop, Spark etc.
Pay
USD 183,800.00 - 248,700.00 annually (base salary); USD 167,100.00 - 226,100.00 annually (base salary)
Tools
Java, C++, Python, R, scikit-learn, Spark MLLib, Tensorflow, Hadoop
AI focus
Lead AI/ML bidding features and develop personalized, context-aware bidding systems using auction simulations, ML models, optimization algorithms, bidding agents, tool integration, reasoning frameworks, and model customization, including tuning and preference optimization.
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