Applied Scientist, Device Ad Products & Personalization

Amazon • New York, NY

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About The Position

We are seeking an Applied Scientist for our Device Ad Products science team. This team addresses challenging optimization problems related to how advertisements are priced, selected, allocated and shown to customers on Amazon devices including Fire TV, Alexa and Fire Tablet. As Applied Scientist, you will be responsible for improving advertising performance and delivering innovative advertising experiences for display and video ads on Amazon Devices. This team leads initiatives to improve advertising fundamentals such as relevance, coverage, CTR, and CPSU (cost per sign up for streaming services) which in turn increase advertising revenue across Amazon's devices worldwide. You will own the scoping, implementation, and launch of science based ad solutions and experiences specifically for these entertainment focused environments.

A day in the life
In this role, you will regularly work with scientists and technical leaders across the advertising organization, including other science teams, product management, and senior leadership. You will also collaborate with science leaders across Amazon Devices and Prime Video organizations to build company-wide alignment. You will manage and work closely alongside your team of applied and data scientists to guide them through high-ambiguity problems and deliver robust, scalable solutions.

About the team
This role is on Device Ads and Personalization (DAPP) team, which is under Amazon Publisher Monetization (APM). This team has a vision to create innovative Ad experiences on Amazon Devices, providing customers better convenience and more selection.

Requirements

• 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

Nice To Haves

• Experience using Unix/Linux
• Experience in professional software development
• PhD
• 3+ years of deep learning, computer vision, human robotic interaction, algorithms implementation experience
• Experience in building speech recognition, machine translation and natural language processing systems (e.g., commercial speech products or government speech projects)

Responsibilities

• Gain a comprehensive understanding of the customer lifecycle journey with Amazon Ads, and develop sophisticated models to optimize various conversion KPIs for enhanced marketing effectiveness.
• Develop scalable data processing pipelines and architectures to ingest, transform, and enrich Customer data from various sources (Retail, Prime Video, FireTV and AppStore).
• Build machine learning models, perform proof-of-concept, experiment, optimize, and deploy your models into production; work closely with product managers and engineers to launch your models to customers.
• Drive innovation within your team and partner closely with other scientists, engineers and Product Managers to build science roadmaps
• Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large-scale data analysis, machine-learning model development, model validation and serving.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest advancements in machine learning, natural language processing, knowledge representation, multi-modal learning and related fields, and identify opportunities to apply them to Advertising Use Cases.
• We are looking for world class researchers with experience in one or more of the following areas of Agentic AI for ads targeting - autonomous agents, multi agent orchestration, Planning, large multimodal models (especially vision-language models), reinforcement learning (RL) and sequential decision making.
• Effectively communicate complex science problems and solutions to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Benefits

• health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
• 401(k) matching
• paid time off
• parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree