Applied Scientist, Sponsored Products

Amazon
New York, NY, USA / Arlington, VA, USA / Seattle, WA, USA2026-04-08ONSITE

About the job

The Sponsored Products and Brands team at Amazon Ads is re-imagining the advertising landscape through generative AI technologies, revolutionizing how millions of customers discover products and engage with brands across Amazon.com and beyond. We are at the forefront of re-inventing advertising experiences, bridging human creativity with artificial intelligence to transform every aspect of the advertising lifecycle from ad creation and optimization to performance analysis and customer insights. We are a passionate group of innovators dedicated to developing responsible and intelligent AI technologies that balance the needs of advertisers, enhance the shopping experience, and strengthen the marketplace. If you're energized by solving complex challenges and pushing the boundaries of what's possible with AI, join us in shaping the future of advertising.

Responsibilities

- Drive end-to-end Machine Learning projects that have a high degree of ambiguity, scale, complexity.

- Perform hands-on analysis and modeling of enormous data sets to develop insights that increase traffic monetization and merchandise sales, without compromising the shopper experience.

- Build machine learning models, perform proof-of-concept, experiment, optimize, and deploy your models into production; work closely with software engineers to assist in productionizing your ML models.

- Run A/B experiments, gather data, and perform statistical analysis.

- Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large-scale data analysis, machine-learning model development, model validation and serving.

- Research new and innovative machine learning approaches.

Qualifications

Minimum

- 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 any of the following areas: algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, high-performance computing

Preferred

- Experience in professional software development

- Experience in search advertising, search marketing, performance advertising, or similar digital advertising

- Strong technical fluency in Generative AI

- Deep understanding of large language models (LLMs), model fine tuning and prompt engineering

- Ph.D. in computer science, mathematics, statistics, machine learning or equivalent quantitative field