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Amazon is investing heavily in building a world-class advertising business to define and deliver a collection of ad products that drive long-term customer value. Our team, Sponsored Brands (SB), owns a mid-funnel ad product dedicated for brand owners. We empower brands of all shapes and sizes to attract shoppers in the research and consideration phases of their shopping journey, through visually stunning, inspiring and relevant sponsored shopping experiences. In doing so, we deliver billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks daily, but are only just getting started.

The SB Sourcing and Relevance team consists entrepreneurial machine learning scientists and engineers who are responsible for developing core machine learning models and model development pipelines. Through precise estimation of shoppers’ interaction with brand ads and their long-term value, we aim to drive optimal ads retrieval and ranking, and help to deliver a relevant, engaging and delightful ads experience to Amazon shoppers. All of these, powered by state-of-the-art machine learning models, take place in milliseconds.

We are looking for an experienced Applied Scientist who is passionate for building machine learning solutions, and communicating science insights, and executing strategic projects. You will work with business partners to design, implement and launch machine learning solutions. You will innovate machine learning models and LLM to connect shoppers with brand ads via shopper intent understanding as well as brand ads interpreting. This is a unique opportunity to stand at the intersection of e-commerce, advertising and state-of-the-art machine learning techniques.

As an Senior Applied Scientist on this team you will:
- Research and prototype LLM power ad retrieval
- Work closely with software engineers on detailed requirements, technical designs and implementation of end-to-end solutions in production.
- Build machine learning models and utilize data analysis to deliver scalable solutions to business problems.
- Perform hands-on analysis and modeling with very large data sets to develop insights that increase traffic monetization and merchandise sales without compromising shopper experience.
- Design and run A/B experiments that affect hundreds of millions of customers, evaluate the impact of your optimizations and communicate your results to various business stakeholders.
- Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large-scale data analysis, machine-learning model development, model validation and serving.
- Write code to bring models into production.

Why you love this opportunity
Amazon is investing heavily in building a world-class advertising business. This team is responsible for defining and delivering a collection of advertising products that drive discovery and sales. Our solutions generate billions in revenue and drive long-term growth for Amazon’s Retail and Marketplace businesses. We deliver billions of ad impressions, millions of clicks daily, and break fresh ground to create world-class products. We are highly motivated, collaborative, and fun-loving team with an entrepreneurial spirit - with a broad mandate to experiment and innovate.

Impact and Career Growth
You will invent new experiences and influence customer-facing shopping experiences to help suppliers grow their retail business and the auction dynamics that leverage native advertising; this is your opportunity to work within the fastest-growing businesses across all of Amazon! Define a long-term science vision for our advertising business, driven fundamentally from our customers' needs, translating that direction into specific plans for research and applied scientists, as well as engineering and product teams. This role combines science leadership, organizational ability, technical strength, product focus, and business understanding.