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Applied Scientist, Sponsored Products

Amazon

Amazon

Seattle, WA, USA
Posted on Friday, August 23, 2024

DESCRIPTION

Amazon is investing heavily in building a world class advertising business and developing a collection of self-service performance advertising products that drive discovery and sales. Our products are strategically important to our Retail and Marketplace businesses for 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.

Sponsored Products DP Experience and Market place org is looking for a strong Applied Scientist
who can delight our customers by continually learning and inventing. Our ideal candidate is an experienced Applied Scientist who has a track-record of performing deep analysis and is passionate about applying advanced ML and statistical techniques to solve real-world, ambiguous and complex challenges to optimize and improve the product performance, and who is motivated to achieve results in a fast-paced environment. The position offers an exceptional opportunity to grow your technical and non-technical skills and make a real difference to the Amazon Advertising business.

As an Applied Scientist in the Blended Widgets team, you will:
* Conduct hands-on data analysis, and run regular A/B experiments, gather data, perform statistical analysis and deep dive, and communicate the impact to senior management
* Rapidly design, prototype and test many possible hypotheses in a high-ambiguity environment, making use of both quantitative analysis and business judgment
* Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large-scale data analysis, machine-learning model development, model validation and serving
* Collaborate with software engineering teams to integrate successful experimental results into large-scale, highly complex Amazon production systems
* Promote the culture of experimentation and applied science at Amazon

Team video https://youtu.be/zD_6Lzw8raE

We are also open to consider the candidate in New York, or Seattle.