Sr. Applied Scientist, Sponsored Products and Brands Agent

Amazon
Palo Alto, CA, USA / New York, NY, USA / Seattle, WA, USA2026-08-18ONSITE

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

- Build a highly personalized and context-aware agentic advertiser guidance system that seamlessly integrates Large Language Models (LLMs) with sophisticated tooling

- Interface with advertisers across Ads Console, Selling Partner portals, and internal Sales systems as the central SPB-Agent

- Identify high-impact opportunities spanning from strategic product guidance to granular optimization

- Deliver personalized, scalable experiences grounded in state-of-the-art agent architectures, reasoning frameworks, and sophisticated tool integration

- Apply model customization approaches including fine-tuning, MCP, and preference optimization

Qualifications

Minimum

- 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

Preferred

- 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.