Applied Scientist, Amazon - Sponsored ProductsJob ID: 2743014 | Amazon.com Services LLC
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!
Our team develops cutting-edge AI solutions to tackle the most difficult challenges that hinder the search experience on Amazon. To accomplish this, we invest in large language models (LLM), multi-modal Generative AI models, and other related DL methods.
We are looking for a passionate Applied Scientist talented in the fields of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Natural Language Processing (NLP), and Information Retrieval, to invent and build scalable solutions for improving sponsored products experience in the context of Amazon Search.
A successful candidate will have strong machine learning background and a desire to push the envelope in one or more of the above areas. The ideal candidate would also have hands-on experiences in building end-to-end Generative AI solutions (mainly with LLMs and multi-modal foundation models), enjoy operating in dynamic environments, be self-motivated to take on challenging high-ambiguity problems to deliver big customer impact.
Key job responsibilitiesAs an 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 using AI solutions.Design and lead AI roadmaps and solutions aimed at helping 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 devise new research directions that you will drive to completion and deliver.Be responsible for communicating our AI innovations to the broader internal & external scientific community.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS3+ years of building models for business application experiencePhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experienceExperience programming in Java, C++, Python or related languageExperience in any of the following areas: algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, high-performance computingPREFERRED QUALIFICATIONSExperience using Unix/LinuxExperience in professional software developmentAmazon 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.
#J-18808-Ljbffr
