Applied Scientist , Sponsored Products

Amazon
New York, NY, USA2026-09-02ONSITE

About the job

The Sponsored Products and Brands team at Amazon Ads is re-imagining the advertising landscape through cutting-edge 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

- Define and lead science initiatives from problem framing through production deployment in a high-ambiguity environment

- Develop and deploy models spanning computer vision, language, and search and retrieval that operate on multimodal inputs at scale

- Design and analyze large-scale online experiments to measure impact on shopper and advertiser outcomes

- Collaborate with engineering, product, and design to ship science into production

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 using Unix/Linux

- Experience in professional software development