Principal Applied Scientist, Amazon

Amazon is investing heavily in building a world class advertising business and we are responsible for defining and delivering a collection of self-service performance advertising products that drive discovery and sales. Our products are strategically important to our Retail and Marketplace businesses driving long term growth. We deliver billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks daily and are breaking fresh ground to create world-class products. We are highly motivated, collaborative and fun-loving with an entrepreneurial spirit and bias for action. With a broad mandate to experiment and innovate, we are growing at an unprecedented rate with a seemingly endless range of new opportunities.

The Ad Response Prediction team in the Sponsored Products organization builds GenAI-based shopper understanding and audience targeting systems, along with advanced deep-learning models for Click-through Rate (CTR) and Conversion Rate (CVR) predictions. We develop large-scale machine-learning (ML) pipelines and real-time serving infrastructure to match shoppers' intent with relevant ads across all devices, contexts, and marketplaces. Through precise estimation of shoppers' interactions with ads and their long-term value, we aim to drive optimal ad allocation and pricing, helping to deliver a relevant, engaging, and delightful advertising experience to Amazon shoppers. As our business grows and we undertake increasingly complex initiatives, we are looking for entrepreneurial, and self-driven science leaders to join our team.




Key job responsibilities
As a Principal Applied Scientist in the team, you will:

* Seek to understand in depth the Sponsored Products offering at Amazon and identify areas of opportunities to grow our business via principled ML solutions.
* Mentor and guide the applied scientists in our organization and hold us to a high standard of technical rigor and excellence in ML.
* Design and lead organization wide ML roadmaps to help our Amazon shoppers have a delightful shopping experience while creating long term value for our sellers.
* Work with our engineering partners and draw upon your experience to meet latency and other system constraints.
* Identify untapped, high-risk technical and scientific directions, and simulate new research directions that you will drive to completion and deliver.
* Be responsible for communicating our ML innovations to the broader internal & external scientific community.

Basic Qualifications

* PhD in Computer Science, Statistics or related field.
* 8+ years of applied ML experience in deploying ML solutions to customer facing products.
* 2+ years hands-on experience leading multiple ML teams to design products that satisfy a customer need.
* Track record of delivering large-scale and high-quality ML solutions.
* Experience in taking on & using ML to deliver on business goals.

Preferred Qualifications

* Experience in shipping large-scale deep learning models for online recommendation, personalization, or search.
* Experience partnering with engineering teams to ensure deep learning solutions meet latency requirements.
* Experience in building GenAI-based product strategy.
* Evidence of producing internal or external publications that motivate new lines of research.
* Excellent verbal and written communication.

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $179,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $309,400/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.