Sr. Applied Scientist, Amazon Ads

Amazon
Boston, Massachusetts, USA / Corvallis, Oregon, USA / Sunnyvale, California, USA2025-12-09ONSITE

About the job

Amazon Ads is re-imagining advertising through cutting-edge generative artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. We combine human creativity with AI to transform every aspect of the advertising life cycle—from ad creation and optimization to performance analysis and customer insights. Our solutions help advertisers grow their brands while enabling millions of customers to discover and purchase products through delightful experiences. We deliver billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks daily, breaking fresh ground in product and technical innovations. 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

Research and implement cutting-edge ML approaches, including applications of generative AI and large language models

Develop and deploy innovative ML solutions spanning multiple disciplines – from ranking and personalization to natural language processing, computer vision, recommender systems, and large language models

Drive end-to-end projects that tackle ambiguous problems at massive scale, often working with petabytes of data

Build and optimize models that balance multiple stakeholder needs - helping customers discover relevant products while enabling advertisers to achieve their goals efficiently

Build ML models, perform proof-of-concept, experiment, optimize, and deploy your models into production, working closely with cross-functional teams including engineers, product managers, and other scientists

Design and run A/B experiments to validate hypotheses, gather insights from large-scale data analysis, and measure business impact

Develop scalable, efficient processes for model development, validation, and deployment that optimize traffic monetization while maintaining customer experience

Qualifications

Minimum

5+ 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.