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machine learning scientist

Amazon.com

<div><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>DESCRIPTION</b></h2><p>
WW Amazon Stores Finance Science (ASFS) works to leverage science and economics to drive improved financial results, foster data backed decisions, and embed science within Finance. ASFS is focused on developing products that empower controllership, improve business decisions and financial planning by understanding financial drivers, and innovate science capabilities for efficiency and scale.<br>
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We are looking for a data scientist to lead high visibility initiatives for forecasting Amazon Stores' financials. You will develop new science-based forecasting methodologies and build scalable models to improve financial decision making and planning for senior leadership up to VP and SVP level. You will build new ML and statistical models from the ground up that aim to transform financial planning for Amazon Stores.<br>
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We prize creative problem solvers with the ability to draw on an expansive methodological toolkit to transform financial decision-making with science. The ideal candidate combines data-science acumen with strong business judgment. You have versatile modeling skills and are comfortable owning and extracting insights from data. You are excited to learn from and alongside seasoned scientists, engineers, and business leaders. You are an excellent communicator and effectively translate technical findings into business action.<br>
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Key job responsibilities<br>
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Demonstrating thorough technical knowledge, effective exploratory data analysis, and model building using industry standard ML models<br>
Working with technical and non-technical stakeholders across every step of science project life cycle<br>
Collaborating with finance, product, data engineering, and software engineering teams to create production implementations for large-scale ML models<br>
Innovating by adapting new modeling techniques and procedures<br>
Presenting research results to our internal research community</p><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS</b></h2><ul><li>2+ years of data scientist experience</li><li>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</li><li>3+ years of machine learning/statistical modeling data analysis tools and techniques, and parameters that affect their performance experience</li><li>Experience applying theoretical models in an applied environment</li><li>Bachelor's degree</li></ul><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS</b></h2><ul><li>Experience in a ML or data scientist role with a large technology company</li><li>Experience working on multi-team, cross-disciplinary projects</li><li>Experience effectively communicating complex concepts through written and verbal communication</li><li>Master's degree</li><li>Experience formulating and solving predictive modeling, machine learning, forecasting or statistical modeling problems</li></ul><br>
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.<br>
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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&rsquo;s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.<br>
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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. If the country/region you&rsquo;re applying in isn&rsquo;t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.<p><br>
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life &amp; AD&amp;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, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.</p><br>
USA, CA, Sunnyvale - 157,300.00 - 212,800.00 USD annually<br>
USA, WA, Bellevue - 136,000.00 - 184,000.00 USD annually<br>
USA, WA, Seattle - 136,000.00 - 184,000.00 USD annually</div><p></p>

Data Scientist II, Amazon Stores Finance Science

<div><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>DESCRIPTION</b></h2><div>
Prime Video is a first-stop entertainment destination offering customers a vast collection of premium programming in one app available across thousands of devices. Prime members can customize their viewing experience and find their favorite movies, series, documentaries, and live sports &ndash; including Amazon MGM Studios-produced series and movies; licensed fan favorites; and programming from Prime Video add-on subscriptions such as Apple TV+, Max, Crunchyroll and MGM+. All customers, regardless of whether they have a Prime membership or not, can rent or buy titles via the Prime Video Store, and can enjoy even more content for free with ads.<br>
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Are you interested in shaping the future of entertainment? Prime Video's technology teams are creating best-in-class digital video experience.<br>
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As a Prime Video technologist, you&rsquo;ll have end-to-end ownership of the product, user experience, design, and technology required to deliver state-of-the-art experiences for our customers. You&rsquo;ll get to work on projects that are fast-paced, challenging, and varied. You&rsquo;ll also be able to experiment with new possibilities, take risks, and collaborate with remarkable people.<br>
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We&rsquo;ll look for you to bring your diverse perspectives, ideas, and skill-sets to make Prime Video even better for our customers. With global opportunities for talented technologists, you can decide where a career Prime Video Tech takes you!<br>
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The Prime Video Title Lifecycle Presentation team sits at the intersection of science, experimentation, and customer experience. We leverage data signals and rigorous testing to present the most engaging information about our content to customers at precisely the right moment. Our mission is to ensure every customer interaction with Prime Video content is informed, relevant, and compelling in order to drive discovery and engagement across our vast catalog.<br>
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We're seeking an Applied Scientist who excels at building sophisticated machine learning systems for content presentation and discovery. The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in:<br>
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<ul><li>Multi-modal embeddings for rich metadata representation, enabling nuanced understanding of content attributes and customer preferences</li><li>Contextualized ranking systems that adapt to customer intent, viewing context, and real-time signals</li><li>Reinforcement learning frameworks that create continuous improvement loops, allowing our systems to learn and optimize from customer interactions over time</li><li>General modeling techniques with strong fundamentals in machine learning and statistical methods</li><li>Recommender systems experience, with proven ability to build and scale personalization solutions</li></ul><br>
You'll work with cutting-edge technology to solve complex problems in content discovery, leveraging large-scale data to create experiences that delight millions of Prime Video customers worldwide.<br>
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Key job responsibilities<br>
As an Applied Scientist, you will have access to large datasets with billions of images and video to build large-scale machine learning systems. Additionally, you will analyze and model terabytes of text, images, and other types of data to solve real-world problems and translate business and functional requirements into quick prototypes or proofs of concept.<br>
We are looking for smart scientists capable of using a variety of domain expertise combined with machine learning and statistical techniques to invent, design, evangelize, and implement state-of-the-art solutions for never-before-solved problems.</div><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS</b></h2><ul><li>3+ years of building models for business application experience</li><li>PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience</li><li>Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language</li><li>Experience in any of the following areas: algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, high-performance computing</li></ul><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS</b></h2><ul><li>Experience using Unix/Linux</li><li>Experience in professional software development</li></ul><br>
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.<br>
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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. If the country/region you&rsquo;re applying in isn&rsquo;t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.<p><br>
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life &amp; AD&amp;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, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.</p><br>
USA, WA, SEATTLE - 142,800.00 - 193,200.00 USD annually</div><p></p>

Applied Scientist, Prime Video - Title Lifecycle Presentation

Amazon Web Services

<div><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>DESCRIPTION</b></h2><div>
Amazon Quick Suite is an enterprise AI platform that transforms how organizations work with their data and knowledge. Combining generative AI-powered search, deep research capabilities, intelligent agents and automations, and comprehensive business intelligence, Quick Suite serves tens of thousands of users. Our platform processes thousands of queries monthly, helping teams make faster, data-driven decisions while maintaining enterprise-grade security and governance. From natural language interactions with complex datasets to automated workflows and custom AI agents, Quick Suite is redefining workplace productivity at unprecedented scale.<br>
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We are seeking a Data Scientist II to join our Quick Data team, focusing on evaluation and benchmarking data development for Quick Suite features, with particular emphasis on Research and other generative AI capabilities. Our mission is to engineer high-quality datasets that are essential to the success of Amazon Quick Suite. From human evaluations and Responsible AI safeguards to Retrieval-Augmented Generation and beyond, our work ensures that Generative AI is enterprise-ready, safe, and effective for users at scale.<br>
As part of our diverse team&mdash;including data scientists, engineers, language engineers, linguists, and program managers&mdash;you will collaborate closely with science, engineering, and product teams. We are driven by customer obsession and a commitment to excellence.
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Key job responsibilities<br>
In this role, you will leverage data-centric AI principles to assess the impact of data on model performance and the broader machine learning pipeline. You will apply Generative AI techniques to evaluate how well our data represents human language and conduct experiments to measure downstream interactions.<br>
Specific responsibilities include:<br>
<ul><li>Design and develop comprehensive evaluation and benchmarking datasets for Quick Suite AI-powered features</li><li>Leverage LLMs for synthetic data corpora generation; data evaluation and quality assessment using LLM-as-a-judge settings</li><li>Create ground truth datasets with high-quality question-answer pairs across diverse domains and use cases</li><li>Lead human annotation initiatives and model evaluation audits to ensure data quality and relevance</li><li>Develop and refine annotation guidelines and quality frameworks for evaluation tasks</li><li>Conduct statistical analysis to measure model performance, identify failure patterns, and guide improvement strategies</li><li>Collaborate with ML scientists and engineers to translate evaluation insights into actionable product improvements</li><li>Build scalable data pipelines and tools to support continuous evaluation and benchmarking efforts</li><li>Contribute to Responsible AI initiatives by developing safety and fairness evaluation datasets</li></ul><br>
About the team<br>
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Why AWS?<br>
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world&rsquo;s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating &mdash; that&rsquo;s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.<br>
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Inclusive Team Culture<br>
Here at AWS, it&rsquo;s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.<br>
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Mentorship &amp; Career Growth<br>
We&rsquo;re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth&rsquo;s Best Employer. That&rsquo;s why you&rsquo;ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.<br>
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Work/Life Balance<br>
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there&rsquo;s nothing we can&rsquo;t achieve in the cloud.<br>
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Hybrid Work<br>
We value innovation and recognize this sometimes requires uninterrupted time to focus on a build. We also value in-person collaboration and time spent face-to-face. Our team affords employees options to work in the office every day or in a flexible, hybrid work model near one of our U.S. Amazon offices.</div><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS</b></h2><ul><li>2+ years of data scientist experience</li><li>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</li><li>3+ years of machine learning/statistical modeling data analysis tools and techniques, and parameters that affect their performance experience</li><li>1+ years of working with or evaluating AI systems experience</li><li>1+ years of creating or contributing to mathematical textbooks, research papers, or educational content experience</li><li>Master's degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM), or experience working in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM)</li><li>Experience applying theoretical models in an applied environment</li></ul><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS</b></h2><ul><li>Ph.D. in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM)</li><li>Knowledge of machine learning concepts and their application to reasoning and problem-solving</li><li>Experience in a ML or data scientist role with a large technology company</li><li>Experience in defining and creating benchmarks for assessing GenAI model performance</li><li>Experience working on multi-team, cross-disciplinary projects</li><li>Experience applying quantitative analysis to solve business problems and making data-driven business decisions</li><li>Experience effectively communicating complex concepts through written and verbal communication</li></ul><br>
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.<br>
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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&rsquo;s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.<br>
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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. If the country/region you&rsquo;re applying in isn&rsquo;t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.<p><br>
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life &amp; AD&amp;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, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.</p><br>
USA, CA, Santa Clara - 157,300.00 - 212,800.00 USD annually<br>
USA, NY, New York - 153,400.00 - 207,500.00 USD annually<br>
USA, WA, Seattle - 136,000.00 - 184,000.00 USD annually</div><p></p>

Data Scientist, AWS Quick Data

<div><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>DESCRIPTION</b></h2><div>
About Sponsored Products and Brands<br>
The Sponsored Products and Brands team at Amazon Ads is re-imagining the advertising landscape through generative AI technologies, revolutionizing how millions of customers discover products and engage with brands across Amazon.com and beyond. We are at the forefront of re-inventing advertising experiences, bridging human creativity with artificial intelligence to transform every aspect of the advertising lifecycle from ad creation and optimization to performance analysis and customer insights. We are a passionate group of innovators dedicated to developing responsible and intelligent AI technologies that balance the needs of advertisers, enhance the shopping experience, and strengthen the marketplace. If you're energized by solving complex challenges and pushing the boundaries of what's possible with AI, join us in shaping the future of advertising.<br>
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About our team<br>
The SPB Offsite team builds solutions to extend campaigns to reach customers off the store and extend shopping experiences on third party sites where shoppers search and discover products. We use industry leading machine learning, high scale low latency systems, and AI technologies to create better sponsored customer experiences off the store. This role will have deep interest in building the next innovations in ad tech and shopping wherever shoppers go. You will work with external and internal partners to connect ad tech systems, understand customers, and drive results at scale. You are a deeply technical leader who operates with a GenAI first approach to product, engineering, and science based solutions.<br>
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As an Applied Scientist on this team, you will:
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<ul><li>Drive end-to-end Machine Learning projects that have a high degree of ambiguity, scale, complexity.</li><li>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.</li><li>Build machine learning models, perform proof-of-concept, experiment, optimize, and deploy your models into production; work closely with software engineers to assist in productionizing your ML models.</li><li>Run A/B experiments, gather data, and perform statistical analysis.</li><li>Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large-scale data analysis, machine-learning model development, model validation and serving.</li><li>Research new and innovative machine learning approaches.</li></ul><br>
Why you will love this opportunity: Amazon is investing heavily in building a world-class advertising business. This team defines and delivers a collection of advertising products that drive discovery and sales. Our solutions generate billions in revenue and drive long-term growth for Amazon&rsquo;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 a highly motivated, collaborative, and fun-loving team with an entrepreneurial spirit - with a broad mandate to experiment and innovate.<br>
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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 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.</div><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b><br>
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS</b></h2><ul><li>3+ years of building models for business application experience</li><li>PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience</li><li>Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language</li><li>Experience in any of the following areas: algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, high-performance computing</li></ul><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS</b></h2><ul><li>Experience in professional software development</li><li>Experience in search advertising, search marketing, performance advertising, or similar digital advertising</li><li>Strong technical fluency in Generative AI</li><li>Deep understanding of large language models (LLMs), model fine tuning and prompt engineering</li><li>Ph.D. in computer science, mathematics, statistics, machine learning or equivalent quantitative field</li></ul><br>
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.<br>
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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. If the country/region you&rsquo;re applying in isn&rsquo;t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.<p><br>
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life &amp; AD&amp;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, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.</p><br>
USA, NY, New York - 172,400.00 - 223,400.00 USD annually<br>
USA, VA, Arlington - 142,800.00 - 193,200.00 USD annually<br>
USA, WA, SEATTLE - 142,800.00 - 193,200.00 USD annually</div><p></p>

Applied Scientist, Sponsored Products

<div><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>DESCRIPTION</b></h2><div>
Advertising is a complex, multi-sided market with many technologies at play within the industry. The industry is rapidly growing and evolving as viewers are shifting from traditional TV viewing to streaming video and publishers are increasingly adding video content to their online experiences. Amazon&rsquo;s video advertising is a rising competitor in this industry. Amazon&rsquo;s service has differentiated assets in our customer &amp; audience insights, exclusive video content, and associated inventory that position us well as an end-to-end service for advertisers and agencies. We are innovating at the intersection of advertising, e-commerce, and entertainment.<br>
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Amazon Publisher Monetization (APM) is looking for a a passionate and experienced scientist who is adept at a variety of skills; especially in generative AI, computer vision, and large language models that will accelerate our plans to maximize yield via AI-driven contextual targeting, Ads syndication and more. The ideal candidate will be an inventor at heart, they will provide science expertise, rapidly prototype, iterate, and launch, foster the spirit of collaboration and innovation within our larger sister teams and their scientists, and execute against a compelling product roadmap designed to bring AI-led science innovation to solve one of the most challenging problems in advertising.<br>
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Key job responsibilities<br>
This role is focused on shaping our approach to the solving the trifecta of advertising - serving the right ad to the right viewer at the right moment - delivering engaging ads for viewers, improved performance for advertisers, and maximizing the yield of our supply inventory.<br>
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Responsibilities include:<br>
<ul><li>Partner deeply with Product and Engineering to develop AI-based solutions to generating contextual signals across both video (VOD and Live) and display ads.</li><li>Drive end-to-end applied science projects that have a high degree of ambiguity, scale, complexity.</li><li>Provide technical/science leadership related to computer vision, large language models and contextual targeting.</li><li>Research new and innovative machine learning approaches.</li><li>Partner with Applied Scientists across the broader org to make the most of prior art and contribute back to this community the innovation that you come up with.</li></ul></div><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS</b></h2><ul><li>3+ years of building machine learning models for business application experience</li><li>PhD, or Master's degree and 6+ years of applied research experience</li><li>Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language</li><li>Experience with neural deep learning methods and machine learning</li></ul><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS</b></h2><ul><li>Experience with modeling tools such as R, scikit-learn, Spark MLLib, MxNet, Tensorflow, numpy, scipy etc.</li><li>Experience with large scale distributed systems such as Hadoop, Spark etc.</li></ul><br>
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.<br>
<br>
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. If the country/region you&rsquo;re applying in isn&rsquo;t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.<p><br>
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life &amp; AD&amp;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, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.</p><br>
USA, WA, SEATTLE - 167,100.00 - 226,100.00 USD annually</div><p></p>

Sr. Applied Scientist, Amazon Publisher Monetization - Ads

<div><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>DESCRIPTION</b></h2><p>
WW Amazon Stores Finance Science (ASFS) works to leverage science and economics to drive improved financial results, foster data backed decisions, and embed science within Finance. ASFS is focused on developing products that empower controllership, improve business decisions and financial planning by understanding financial drivers, and innovate science capabilities for efficiency and scale.<br>
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We are looking for a data scientist to lead high visibility initiatives for forecasting Amazon Stores' financials. You will develop new science-based forecasting methodologies and build scalable models to improve financial decision making and planning for senior leadership up to VP and SVP level. You will build new ML and statistical models from the ground up that aim to transform financial planning for Amazon Stores.<br>
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We prize creative problem solvers with the ability to draw on an expansive methodological toolkit to transform financial decision-making with science. The ideal candidate combines data-science acumen with strong business judgment. You have versatile modeling skills and are comfortable owning and extracting insights from data. You are excited to learn from and alongside seasoned scientists, engineers, and business leaders. You are an excellent communicator and effectively translate technical findings into business action.<br>
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Key job responsibilities<br>
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Demonstrating thorough technical knowledge, effective exploratory data analysis, and model building using industry standard ML models<br>
Working with technical and non-technical stakeholders across every step of science project life cycle<br>
Collaborating with finance, product, data engineering, and software engineering teams to create production implementations for large-scale ML models<br>
Innovating by adapting new modeling techniques and procedures<br>
Presenting research results to our internal research community</p><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS</b></h2><ul><li>5+ years of data querying languages (e.g. SQL), scripting languages (e.g. Python) or statistical/mathematical software (e.g. R, SAS, Matlab, etc.) experience</li><li>4+ years of data scientist experience</li><li>Experience with statistical models e.g. multinomial logistic regression</li><li>Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field such as statistics, mathematics, data science, business analytics, economics, finance, engineering, or computer science</li><li>Experience managing data pipelines</li></ul><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS</b></h2><ul><li>Experience as a leader and mentor on a data science team</li><li>Knowledge of AWS tech stack (e.g., AWS Redshift, S3, EC2, Glue)</li><li>Master's degree</li><li>Experience formulating and solving predictive modeling, machine learning, forecasting or statistical modeling problems</li></ul><br>
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.<br>
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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&rsquo;s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.<br>
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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. If the country/region you&rsquo;re applying in isn&rsquo;t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.<p><br>
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life &amp; AD&amp;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, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.</p><br>
USA, CA, Sunnyvale - 183,000.00 - 247,600.00 USD annually<br>
USA, WA, Bellevue - 159,200.00 - 215,300.00 USD annually<br>
USA, WA, Seattle - 159,200.00 - 215,300.00 USD annually</div><p></p>

Senior Data Scientist, Amazon Stores Finance Science, Amazon Stores Finance Science

<div><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>DESCRIPTION</b></h2><div>
The Sponsored Products and Brands (SPB) team at Amazon Ads is re-imagining advertising through generative AI, transforming how millions of customers discover products and engage with brands across Amazon.com and beyond. We bridge human creativity with artificial intelligence across the full advertising lifecycle&mdash;from ad creation and optimization to performance analysis and customer insights.<br>
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Within SPB, the Off-Search team builds ad experiences across surfaces beyond Search&mdash;product detail pages, the homepage, and store-in-store pages. Our team is specifically focused on ad and experience expansion on Homepage: growing the number of ad placements, introducing new widget formats, and delivering richer, more personalized ad experiences that integrate naturally with the shopping journey. We partner with Amazon Stores to ensure ads complement organic recommendations&mdash;new arrivals, deals, basket-building content, and fast-delivery options&mdash;while adapting to shopper preferences, seasonal moments, and diverse page layouts. We operate full stack, from backend retrieval and auction systems to the shopper-facing experience layer.<br>
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If you're energized by solving complex challenges at the intersection of ads, personalization, and customer experience, join us in shaping the future of advertising on Amazon's most visited surface.<br>
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Key job responsibilities<br>
This role will be pivotal in redesigning how ads contribute to a personalized, relevant, and inspirational shopping experience, with the customer value proposition at the forefront. Key responsibilities include, but are not limited to:<br>
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<ul><li>Contribute to the design and development of GenAI, deep learning, multi-objective optimization and/or reinforcement learning empowered solutions to transform ad retrieval, auctions, whole-page relevance, and/or bespoke shopping experiences.</li><li>Collaborate cross-functionally with other scientists, engineers, and product managers to bring scalable, production-ready science solutions to life.</li><li>Stay abreast of industry trends in GenAI, LLMs, and related disciplines, bringing fresh and innovative concepts, ideas, and prototypes to the organization.</li><li>Contribute to the enhancement of team&rsquo;s scientific and technical rigor by identifying and implementing best-in-class algorithms, methodologies, and infrastructure that enable rapid experimentation and scaling.</li><li>Mentor and grow junior scientists and engineers, cultivating a high-performing, collaborative, and intellectually curious team.</li></ul><br>
A day in the life<br>
As an Applied Scientist on the Sponsored Products and Brands Off-Search team, you will contribute to the development in Generative AI (GenAI) and Large Language Models (LLMs) to revolutionize our advertising flow, backend optimization, and frontend shopping experiences. This is a rare opportunity to redefine how ads are retrieved, allocated, and/or experienced&mdash;elevating them into personalized, contextually aware, and inspiring components of the customer journey. You will have the opportunity to fundamentally transform areas such as ad retrieval, ad allocation, whole-page relevance, and differentiated recommendations through the lens of GenAI. By building novel generative models grounded in both Amazon&rsquo;s rich data and the world&rsquo;s collective knowledge, your work will shape how customers engage with ads, discover products, and make purchasing decisions. If you are passionate about applying frontier AI to real-world problems with massive scale and impact, this is your opportunity to define the next chapter of advertising science.<br>
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About the team<br>
The Off-Search team within Sponsored Products and Brands (SPB) is focused on building delightful ad experiences across surfaces beyond Search on Amazon&mdash;such as product detail pages, the homepage, and store-in-store pages&mdash;to drive monetization. Our Homepage team is at the center of this mission, leveraging large language models (LLMs) to build a new generation of personalized ad experiences that understand shopper intent, adapt to individual preferences, and deliver contextually relevant creatives in real time. Beyond Homepage, we are designing these experiences as reusable building blocks that can scale across other pages on Amazon&mdash;detail pages, browse, store-in-store, and emerging surfaces&mdash;so that innovation on one page accelerates growth everywhere. We operate full stack, from backend ads-retail edge services, ads retrieval, and ad auctions to shopper-facing experiences, working in close partnership with Amazon Stores to integrate advertising seamlessly alongside organic content like new arrivals, basket-building recommendations, and fast-delivery options.<br>
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Curious about our advertising solutions? Discover more about Sponsored Products and Sponsored Brands to see how we're helping businesses grow on Amazon.com and beyond!</div><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b><br>
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS</b></h2><ul><li>PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience</li><li>3+ years of building models for business application experience</li><li>Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language</li><li>Experience with Machine Learning and Large Language Model fundamentals, including architecture, training/inference lifecycles, and optimization of model execution, or experience in machine learning, data mining, information retrieval, statistics or natural language processing</li><li>Experience developing and deploying models in real-world production environments.</li></ul><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS</b></h2><ul><li>Proven expertise in Generative AI, foundation models, LLMs, and/or fine-tuning and customization for downstream tasks.</li><li>Hands-on experience in ads ranking, retrieval, recommendation systems, search, or personalization at web scale.</li><li>Deep understanding of multi-modal modeling, few-shot learning, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), or reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF).</li><li>Experience with online experimentation, A/B testing frameworks, and metrics design for advertising or e-commerce.</li><li>Demonstrated ability to communicate complex technical topics clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.</li><li>Experience in computational advertising, including familiarity with auction theory, ad economics, and advertiser performance metrics.</li></ul><br>
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.<br>
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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&rsquo;s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.<br>
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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. If the country/region you&rsquo;re applying in isn&rsquo;t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.<p><br>
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life &amp; AD&amp;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, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.</p><br>
USA, CA, Palo Alto - 171,600.00 - 222,200.00 USD annually</div><p></p>

Applied Scientist, Sponsored Products Off-Search Homepage Team

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