Machine Learning Engineer

Amazon Advertising is one of Amazon's fastest growing and most profitable businesses, responsible for defining and delivering a collection of advertising products that drive discovery and sales. As a core product offering within our advertising portfolio, Sponsored Products (SP) helps merchants, retail vendors, and brand owners succeed via native advertising, which grows incremental sales of their products sold through Amazon. The SP team's primary goals are to help shoppers discover new products they love, be the most efficient way for advertisers to meet their business objectives, and build a sustainable business that continuously innovates on behalf of customers. Our products and solutions are strategically important to enable our Retail and Marketplace businesses to drive long-term growth. We deliver billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks and break fresh ground in product and technical innovations every day!

Does serving ads to billions of search requests daily and finding the most relevant ads for a search page from billions of ads in 10s of milliseconds excite you? The Sponsored Products Search Sourcing team owns identifying the relevant ads to surface to customers when they search for products on Amazon. We strive to understand our shoppers’ intent and identify relevant ads which enable them to discover new and alternate products. This also enables sellers on Amazon to showcase their products to customers, which may at times be buried deeper in the search results.

Our systems and algorithms operate on one of the world's largest product catalogs, matching shoppers with products - with a high relevance bar and strict latency constraints. We are a team of machine learning scientists and software engineers working on complex solutions to understand the customer intent and present them with ads that are not only relevant to their actual shopping experience, but also non-obtrusive. This area is of strategic importance to Amazon Retail and Marketplace business, driving long term-growth.

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer, who can drive appropriate technology choices for the business. You will build services to handle billions of requests per day, while maintaining response latencies in milliseconds and meeting strict SLA requirements. It is quite routine for our systems to operate on massive datasets using distributed frameworks. You will design and code, troubleshoot, and support high volume and low latency distributed systems. The solutions you create would drive step increases in coverage of sponsored ads across the retail website and ensure relevant ads are served to Amazon's customers. You will directly impact our customers’ shopping experience while helping our sellers get the maximum ROI from advertising on Amazon. This role will provide exposure to cutting-edge innovations in product search, information retrieval, natural language processing (NLP), deep learning, and image processing.

Job Responsibilities:

• Drive the direction of our technical solutions, and work on many different technologies such as deep learning, AWS, Auto ML, real-time ML serving systems.
• Design, develop, and production software to support scalable offline machine-learning pipelines and online serving components.
• Work closely with applied scientists to optimize the performance of machine-learning models, improve the team’s machine learning productivity, and advance the technical foundation to empower our science innovation. What you create is also what you own.

Impact and Career Growth:
This is a rare opportunity to work on new projects that are responsible for billions of dollars in revenue as well as work alongside many of the best and brightest science and engineering talent within Amazon. This is a highly visible role that will help take our solutions to the next level. The work you deliver will have a direct impact on customers and revenue!

Why you love this opportunity:
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.

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Basic Qualifications

• Programming experience with at least one software programming language.
• 3+ years of experience in software development
• Experience with building machine learning infrastructure, data pipelines to train ML models, etc.
• Experience with common machine learning techniques such as pre-processing data, training, evaluation of classification and regression models.
• Experience in building large-scale machine-learning infrastructure for online recommendation, ads relevance and/or ranking, personalization, search, or similar area.

Preferred Qualifications

• Industry experience in software development.
• Experience with machine learning in production
• Experience with Big Data technologies such as AWS, Hadoop, Spark, Pig, Hive, Pig, Hive, Presto, HBase, etc.
• Excellent software systems design experience
• Experience with ML libraries/frameworks such as Tensorflow, AWS Sagemaker, Keras, PyTorch, etc.
• Coursework or thesis in machine learning, data mining, information retrieval, statistics or natural language processing
• Advanced knowledge of performance, scalability, enterprise system architecture, and engineering best practices

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