Amazon.com, Inc.
Sr. Applied Scientist , Sponsored Products Ads Response Prediction
Amazon.com, Inc., Palo Alto, California, United States, 94306
DESCRIPTION
Amazon Advertising is one of Amazon's fastest growing and most profitable businesses. 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!
The Response Prediction team builds machine-learning models and infrastructure to support the Sponsored Products Ads business. Through precise estimation of shoppers' response to ads (e.g. clicks or product purchases), this team helps deliver the most relevant ads experience to shoppers, improves advertisers' ROI, and optimizes Amazon's long-term monetization. The team builds and operates one of the largest ML workflows in WW Advertising, serving Search and Detail Pages. Additionally, it also owns the horizontal ML infrastructure to support various ML use cases - from offline ML pipelines to online model inferencing and model management services.
Team video https://youtu.be/zD_6Lzw8raE
Key job responsibilities
As a Sr. Applied Scientist on this team, you will:
* Drive end-to-end Machine Learning projects that have a high degree of ambiguity, scale, complexity.* Perform hands-on analysis and modeling of enormous data sets to develop insights that increase traffic monetization and merchandise sales, without compromising the shopper experience.* Build machine learning models, perform proof-of-concept, experiment, optimize, and deploy your models into production; work closely with service engineers to bring your ML models in production* Run A/B experiments, gather data, and perform statistical analysis.* Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large-scale data analysis, machine-learning model development, model validation and serving.* Research new and innovative machine learning approaches* Publish papers in internal and external conferences
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
* 3+ years of building machine learning models for business application experience* PhD, or Master's degree and 6+ years of applied research experience* Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language* Experience with neural deep learning methods and machine learning
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
* Experience with modeling tools such as R, scikit-learn, Spark MLLib, MxNet, Tensorflow, numpy, scipy etc.* Experience with large scale distributed systems such as Hadoop, Spark etc.
Amazon 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. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.
Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company's reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $150,400/year in our lowest geographic market up to $260,000/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
Amazon Advertising is one of Amazon's fastest growing and most profitable businesses. 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!
The Response Prediction team builds machine-learning models and infrastructure to support the Sponsored Products Ads business. Through precise estimation of shoppers' response to ads (e.g. clicks or product purchases), this team helps deliver the most relevant ads experience to shoppers, improves advertisers' ROI, and optimizes Amazon's long-term monetization. The team builds and operates one of the largest ML workflows in WW Advertising, serving Search and Detail Pages. Additionally, it also owns the horizontal ML infrastructure to support various ML use cases - from offline ML pipelines to online model inferencing and model management services.
Team video https://youtu.be/zD_6Lzw8raE
Key job responsibilities
As a Sr. Applied Scientist on this team, you will:
* Drive end-to-end Machine Learning projects that have a high degree of ambiguity, scale, complexity.* Perform hands-on analysis and modeling of enormous data sets to develop insights that increase traffic monetization and merchandise sales, without compromising the shopper experience.* Build machine learning models, perform proof-of-concept, experiment, optimize, and deploy your models into production; work closely with service engineers to bring your ML models in production* Run A/B experiments, gather data, and perform statistical analysis.* Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large-scale data analysis, machine-learning model development, model validation and serving.* Research new and innovative machine learning approaches* Publish papers in internal and external conferences
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
* 3+ years of building machine learning models for business application experience* PhD, or Master's degree and 6+ years of applied research experience* Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language* Experience with neural deep learning methods and machine learning
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
* Experience with modeling tools such as R, scikit-learn, Spark MLLib, MxNet, Tensorflow, numpy, scipy etc.* Experience with large scale distributed systems such as Hadoop, Spark etc.
Amazon 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. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.
Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company's reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $150,400/year in our lowest geographic market up to $260,000/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.