Amazon is hiring: Data Scientist, Amazon Advertising in Seattle

Job ID: 2912293 | 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. 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!

As a Data Scientist on this team you will:

1. Lead Data Science solutions from beginning to end.
2. Deliver with independence on challenging large-scale problems with complexity and ambiguity.
3. Write code (Python, R, Scala, SQL, etc.) to obtain, manipulate, and analyze data.
4. Build Machine Learning and statistical models to solve specific business problems.
5. Retrieve, synthesize, and present critical data in a format that is immediately useful to answering specific questions or improving system performance.
6. Analyze historical data to identify trends and support optimal decision making.
7. Apply statistical and machine learning knowledge to specific business problems and data.
8. Formalize assumptions about how our systems should work, create statistical definitions of outliers, and develop methods to systematically identify outliers.
9. Given anecdotes about anomalies or generate automatic scripts to define anomalies, deep dive to explain why they happen, and identify fixes.
10. Build decision-making models and propose effective solutions for the business problems you define.
11. Conduct written and verbal presentations to share insights to audiences of varying levels of technical sophistication.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• 3+ years of data querying languages (e.g. SQL), scripting languages (e.g. Python) or statistical/mathematical software (e.g. R, SAS, Matlab, etc.) experience
• 2+ years of data scientist experience
• 3+ years of machine learning/statistical modeling data analysis tools and techniques, and parameters that affect their performance experience
• Bachelor's degree
• Experience applying theoretical models in an applied environment

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience in Python, Perl, or another scripting language
• Experience in a ML or data scientist role with a large technology company

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.

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.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $125,500/year in our lowest geographic market up to $212,800/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.

Posted: March 3, 2025 (Updated about 8 hours ago)

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