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principal applied scientist, sponsored products and brands Jobs in Seattle

principal applied scientist, sponsored products and brands

software dev. engineer sde ii, sponsored products and brands Jobs in Seattle

software dev. engineer sde ii, sponsored products and brands

sr. manager, applied science, sponsored products and brands Jobs in Seattle

sr. manager, applied science, sponsored products and brands

sr manager applied science sponsored products and brands

Amazon.com

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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 bridge human creativity with artificial intelligence to transform every aspect of the advertising lifecycle from ad creation and optimization to performance analysis and customer insights.<br>
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SPB Global Optimization (GO) team was created recently to accelerate GMSP growth in non-US markets. We are helping drive profitability across all marketplaces by creating delightful experiences for shoppers and advertisers alike. We are working backwards from customers to re-imagine Amazon's advertising stack from the ground up, leveraging multilingual and multi-modal GenAI technologies including semantic hash designs, LLMs, and more to deliver solutions that scale worldwide from day one. This is your opportunity to be part of a small, high-impact team that prototypes, invents, and ships state-of-the-art solutions that will define the future of digital advertising. 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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Key job responsibilities<br>
<ul><li>Lead a cross-functional team of Applied Scientists, Machine Learning Engineers, and Software Development Engineers in delivering GMSP acceleration across multiple EU markets.
</li><li>Understand the unique needs of advertisers and shoppers in diverse marketplaces to craft the vision and milestones for SPB GO program in EU to create delightful experiences that increase engagement and satisfaction for both customer groups.</li><li>Architect next-generation systems that replace legacy monolithic infrastructure with scalable, intelligent solutions that scale worldwide on day one.
</li><li>Pioneer breakthrough applied science in multi-modal GenAI applications for advertising, combining text, image, and multi-lingual support.</li><li>Drive end-to-end innovation from research ideation through production deployment at Amazon scale.</li><li>Hire and develop top talent, providing technical direction and career growth guidance to scientists and engineers within and across organizations.</li></ul><br>
Your contributions will be highly visible and instrumental in hitting goals carried by Amazon's leadership team (S-Team). A diverse group of stakeholders will rely on your vision and messaging, including advertisers, agencies, and internal ad sales and operations teams.</div><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS</b></h2><ul><li>Master's degree in Computer Science (Machine Learning, AI, Statistics, or equivalent)</li><li>8+ years of building large-scale machine learning and AI solutions at Internet scale experience</li><li>Experience building large-scale machine learning and AI solutions at Internet scale</li><li>Experience distilling informal customer requirements into problem definitions, dealing with ambiguity and competing objectives</li><li>Experience hiring and leading experienced scientists as well as having a successful record of developing junior members from academia or industry to a successful career track</li></ul><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS</b></h2><ul><li>PhD in Computer Science (Machine Learning, AI, Statistics, or equivalent)</li><li>10+ years of practical work applying ML to solve complex problems for large-scale applications experience</li><li>Experience in practical work applying ML to solve complex problems for large scale applications</li><li>Experience working with big data, machine learning and predictive modeling</li><li>Experience with big data technologies such as AWS, Hadoop, Spark, Pig, Hive etc.</li><li>Experience with Java, C++, or other programming language, as well as with R, MATLAB, Python, or an equivalent scripting language</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.<br>
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $196,900/year in our lowest geographic market up to $340,300/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.</div>

Sr. Manager, Applied Science, Sponsored Products and Brands

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About Sponsored Products and Brands:
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The Sponsored Products and Brands team at Amazon Ads is re-imagining the advertising landscape through industry leading 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.
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About Our Team:
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The Sponsored Brands Impressions-based Offerings team is responsible for evolving the value proposition of Sponsored Brands to drive brand advertising in retail media at scale, helping brands get discovered, acquire new customers and sustainably grow customer lifetime value. We build end-to-end solutions that enable brands to drive discovery, visibility and share of voice. This includes building advertiser controls, shopper experiences, monetization strategies and optimization features. We succeed when (1) shoppers discover, engage and build affinity with brands and (2) brands can grow their business at scale with our advertising products.
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About This Role:<br>
As a Principal Scientist for the team, you will have the opportunity to apply your deep subject matter expertise in the area of ML, LLM and GenAI models. You will invent new product experiences that enable novel advertiser and shopper experiences. This role will liaise with internal Amazon partners and work on bringing state-of-the-art GenAI models to production, and stay abreast of the latest developments in the space of GenAI and identify opportunities to improve the efficiency and productivity of the team. Additionally, you will define a long-term science vision for our advertising business, driven by our customer&rsquo;s needs, and translate it into actionable plans for our team of applied scientists and engineers.<br>
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This role will play a critical role in elevating the team&rsquo;s scientific and technical rigor, identifying and implementing best-in-class algorithms, methodologies, and infrastructure that enable rapid experimentation and scaling. You will communicate learnings to leadership and mentor and grow Applied AI talent across org.<br>
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<ul><li>Develop AI solutions for Sponsored Brands advertiser and shopper experiences. Build monetization and optimization systems that leverage generative models to value and improve campaign performance.</li><li>Define a long-term science vision and roadmap for our Sponsored Brands advertising business, driven from our customers' needs, translating that direction into specific plans for applied scientists and engineering teams. This role combines science leadership, organizational ability, technical strength, product focus, and business understanding.
</li><li>Design and conduct A/B experiments to evaluate proposed solutions based on in-depth data analyses.
</li><li>Effectively communicate technical and non-technical ideas with teammates and stakeholders.</li><li>Stay up-to-date with advancements and the latest modeling techniques in the field.</li><li>Think big about the arc of development of Gen AI over a multi-year horizon and identify new opportunities to apply these technologies to solve real-world problems.</li></ul><br>
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BASIC QUALIFICATIONS</b></h2><ul><li>PhD in Computer Science, Statistics or related field.</li><li>10+ years of programming in Java, Python or related language.</li><li>10+ years of applied ML experience in building complex, real-time systems involving AI, ML with successful delivery to customers.</li><li>3+ years in LLMs, model fine tuning and prompt engineering.</li><li>3+ years in digital advertising technology.</li></ul><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b><br>
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS</b></h2><ul><li>Demonstrated track record of innovative AI solution development.</li><li>Experience with generative model architectures.</li><li>Research publications or patents in generative AI technologies.</li><li>Experience in Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF), Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and AI model trade-offs (e.g., model size, latency, cost, and output quality).</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.<br>
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $179,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $309,400/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.</div>

Principal Applied Scientist, Sponsored Products and Brands

<div><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>DESCRIPTION</b></h2><p><br>
The Sponsored Products and Brands team at Amazon Ads is re-imagining the advertising landscape through industry leading 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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Key job responsibilities<br>
The ideal candidate for this role has strong experience in designing and developing scalable high-performance systems and services that are flexible, reliable, and maintainable. You have excellent problem-solving skills, a solid understanding of computer science fundamentals, and a customer-focused mindset. You take pragmatic and iterative approach to building software: you have an ability to simplify and get things done with a demonstrated track record of building and delivering software and working effectively with external and internal teams. You will build services to handle billions of requests per day, while maintaining response latencies in the milliseconds and meeting strict SLA requirements. Our systems and algorithms operate on one of the world's largest product catalogs and it is quite routine for our systems to operate on massive datasets using distributed frameworks.<br>
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About the team<br>
The Sponsored Brands Impressions-based Offerings team is responsible for evolving the value proposition of Sponsored Brands to drive brand advertising in retail media at scale, helping brands get discovered, acquire new customers and sustainably grow customer lifetime value. We build end-to-end solutions that enable brands to drive discovery, visibility and share of voice. This includes building advertiser controls, shopper experiences, monetization strategies and optimization features. We succeed when (1) shoppers discover, engage and build affinity with brands and (2) brands can grow their business at scale with our advertising products.
</p><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>BASIC QUALIFICATIONS</b></h2><ul><li>3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience</li><li>2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience</li><li>Experience programming with at least one software programming language</li></ul><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS</b></h2><ul><li>3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience</li><li>Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent</li><li>Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems</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.<br>
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223,600/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.</div>

Software Dev. Engineer SDE II, Sponsored Products and Brands

<div><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>DESCRIPTION</b></h2><div>
We are looking for a Senior Software Development Engineer who will own the infrastructure, platform, and production systems that underpin our agentic advertiser guidance framework. In this role, you will lead the design, build, and scaling of core services such as tool orchestration, agent execution engine, evaluation pipelines, model serving/tuning infrastructure, and monitoring systems. You will work closely with applied scientists and engineers to translate prototype agent capabilities into robust, scalable production systems. You will need to rapidly learn and apply new techniques in agent deployment, model tuning, reinforcement learning infrastructure, multi-step reasoning orchestration, and system optimization. You will build APIs, pipelines, and frameworks that allow agents to reason, plan, and act reliably at scale, ensuring low latency, high throughput, resilience, fault tolerance, versioning, and safety guardrails. A critical aspect of this role is being customer-obsessed: you will work backwards from advertiser needs to ensure that infrastructure decisions enable real customer-facing experiences. You will also partner with cross-functional teams&mdash;science, product, operations&mdash;to continuously iterate the agentic architecture, evaluation metrics, and tuning loops. This is a high-impact role where you balance deep technical craftsmanship with product sensibility, setting standards, influencing architecture, and owning end-to-end delivery of agentic capabilities.<br>
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Key job responsibilities<br>
<ul><li>Lead engineering strategy and roadmap for Sponsored Products Agentic Advertiser Guidance</li><li>Design and implement scalable architecture to host agent orchestration, tool invocation, state management, and feedback loops.</li><li>Build scalable, reusable data and tool registry</li><li>Construct evaluation pipelines (offline and online) to assess agent reasoning quality, performance metrics, safety constraints, and KPI impact.</li><li>Integrate and manage tuning pipelines (e.g. hyperparameter tuning, RL fine-tuning, preference optimization), and provide abstraction layers for scientists to plug in models.</li><li>Implement observability, logging, metrics, alerting, tracing, and drift detection for agent behaviors and model performance.</li><li>Ensure resilience, fault isolation, auto-scaling, batching, caching, resource allocation, concurrency control, and SLA compliance.</li><li>Rapidly prototype and evaluate new system designs or algorithmic patterns (e.g. streaming inference, memory caching, chaining of reasoning modules, tool embeddings).</li><li>Collaborate in design reviews, code reviews, system design, and cross-team architecture alignment.</li></ul><br>
About the team<br>
The Sponsored Products and Brands team at Amazon Ads is re-imagining the advertising landscape through the latest 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.<br>
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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The Advertiser Guidance team within Sponsored Products and Brands is focused on guiding and supporting 1.6MM advertisers to meet their advertising needs of creating and managing ad campaigns. At this scale, the complexity of diverse advertiser goals, campaign types, and market dynamics creates both a massive technical challenge and a transformative opportunity: even small improvements in guidance systems can have outsized impact on advertiser success and Amazon&rsquo;s retail ecosystem.<br>
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Our vision is to build a highly personalized, context-aware agentic advertiser guidance system that leverages LLMs together with tools such as auction simulations, ML models, and optimization algorithms. This agentic framework, will operate across both chat and non-chat experiences in the ad console, scaling to natural language queries as well as proactively delivering guidance based on deep understanding of the advertiser. To execute this vision, we collaborate closely with stakeholders across Ad Console, Sales, and Marketing to identify opportunities&mdash;from high-level product guidance down to granular keyword recommendations&mdash;and deliver them through a tailored, personalized experience. Our work is grounded in state-of-the-art agent architectures, tool integration, reasoning frameworks, and model customization approaches (including tuning, MCP, and preference optimization), ensuring our systems are both scalable and adaptive.</div><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS</b></h2><ul><li>5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience</li><li>5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience</li><li>5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience</li><li>Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team</li></ul><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS</b></h2><ul><li>5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience</li><li>Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent</li><li>Experience with AI/ML technologies</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.<br>
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $151,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $261,500/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.</div>

Senior Software Development Engineer, SPB Advertiser Guidance

<div><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>DESCRIPTION</b></h2><div>
We are looking for a passionate Applied Scientist to help pioneer the next generation of agentic AI applications for Amazon advertisers. In this role, you will design agentic architectures, develop tools and datasets, and contribute to building systems that can reason, plan, and act autonomously across complex advertiser workflows. You will work at the forefront of applied AI, developing methods for fine-tuning, reinforcement learning, and preference optimization, while helping create evaluation frameworks that ensure safety, reliability, and trust at scale.
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You will work backwards from the needs of advertisers&mdash;delivering customer-facing products that directly help them create, optimize, and grow their campaigns. Beyond building models, you will advance the agent ecosystem by experimenting with and applying core primitives such as tool orchestration, multi-step reasoning, and adaptive preference-driven behavior. This role requires working independently on ambiguous technical problems, collaborating closely with scientists, engineers, and product managers to bring innovative solutions into production.<br>
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Key job responsibilities<br>
<ul><li>Design and build agents to guide advertisers in conversational and non-conversational experience.</li><li>Design and implement advanced model and agent optimization techniques, including supervised fine-tuning, instruction tuning and preference optimization (e.g., DPO/IPO).</li><li>Curate datasets and tools for MCP.
</li><li>Build evaluation pipelines for agent workflows, including automated benchmarks, multi-step reasoning tests, and safety guardrails.</li><li>Develop agentic architectures (e.g., CoT, ToT, ReAct) that integrate planning, tool use, and long-horizon reasoning.</li><li>Prototype and iterate on multi-agent orchestration frameworks and workflows.</li><li>Collaborate with peers across engineering and product to bring scientific innovations into production.</li><li>Stay current with the latest research in LLMs, RL, and agent-based AI, and translate findings into practical applications.</li></ul><br>
About the team<br>
The Sponsored Products and Brands team at Amazon Ads is re-imagining the advertising landscape through the latest 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.<br>
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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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The Advertiser Guidance team within Sponsored Products and Brands is focused on guiding and supporting 1.6MM advertisers to meet their advertising needs of creating and managing ad campaigns. At this scale, the complexity of diverse advertiser goals, campaign types, and market dynamics creates both a massive technical challenge and a transformative opportunity: even small improvements in guidance systems can have outsized impact on advertiser success and Amazon&rsquo;s retail ecosystem.<br>
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Our vision is to build a highly personalized, context-aware agentic advertiser guidance system that leverages LLMs together with tools such as auction simulations, ML models, and optimization algorithms. This agentic framework, will operate across both chat and non-chat experiences in the ad console, scaling to natural language queries as well as proactively delivering guidance based on deep understanding of the advertiser. To execute this vision, we collaborate closely with stakeholders across Ad Console, Sales, and Marketing to identify opportunities&mdash;from high-level product guidance down to granular keyword recommendations&mdash;and deliver them through a tailored, personalized experience. Our work is grounded in state-of-the-art agent architectures, tool integration, reasoning frameworks, and model customization approaches (including tuning, MCP, and preference optimization), ensuring our systems are both scalable and adaptive.</div><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>
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 in designing experiments and statistical analysis of results</li></ul><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS</b></h2><ul><li>Experience in professional software development</li><li>Experience in state-of-the-art deep learning models architecture design and deep learning training and optimization and model pruning</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.<br>
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $136,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223,400/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.</div>

Applied Scientist II, SPB Advertiser Guidance

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Innovators wanted! Are you an entrepreneur? A builder? A dreamer? This role is part of an Amazon Special Projects team that takes the company&rsquo;s Think Big leadership principle to the limits. If you&rsquo;re interested in innovating at scale to address big challenges in the world, this is the team for you.
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Our team rewards curiosity while maintaining a laser-focus in bringing products to market. Competitive candidates are responsive, flexible, and able to succeed within an open, collaborative, entrepreneurial, startup-like environment. At the forefront of both academic and applied research in this product area, you have the opportunity to work together with a diverse and talented team of scientists, engineers, and product managers and collaborate with other teams.<br>
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We are seeking a Principal Applied Scientist working on machine learning applications in life sciences. This role combines scientific leadership with hands-on innovation, driving solutions from exploratory research through production-ready solutions deployment, while maintaining high scientific standards. You will work with Amazon's large-scale computing resources to accelerate advances in machine learning applications.<br>
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Key job responsibilities<br>
<ul><li>Lead ML for life science efforts using computational design approaches and ML-based tools.</li><li>Guide teams in applying SOTA ML methods, experimentation design, and modeling approaches.</li><li>Transform complex real world problems into scientific challenges and allocate resources effectively.</li><li>Review requirements, conduct technical architecture reviews, and make informed judgments around technical and business tradeoffs.</li><li>Provide mentorship to Applied Scientists, Research Scientists and Data Scientists while maintaining scientific rigor.</li><li>Collaborate with cross functional teams.</li></ul></div><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b><br>
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS</b></h2><ul><li>Deep expertise in machine learning, with broad knowledge across biology and life science.</li><li>Strong understanding of scientific methodologies and experimental design.</li><li>Ability to develop production-level code and systems.</li><li>Track record of working with cross-functional scientific teams and fostering collaboration.</li><li>10+ years of relevant, broad research experience after a PhD degree in computer science, computational biology or relevant field .</li></ul><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS</b></h2><ul><li>Experience with deep learning frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow).</li><li>Familiarity with high-performance computing environments.</li><li>Experience with ML for science and structural biology tools.</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.<br>
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $179,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $309,400/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.</div>

Principal Applied Scientist, Amazon Special Projects

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The Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) team is looking for a passionate, talented, and inventive Principal Applied Scientist with a strong deep learning background, to lead the development of industry-leading technology with multimodal systems.<br>
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As a Principal Scientist within the Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) organization, you are a trusted part of the technical leadership. You bring business and industry context to science and technology decisions, set the standard for scientific excellence, and make decisions that affect the way we build and integrate algorithms.<br>
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A Principal Applied Scientist will solicit differing views across the organization and are willing to change your mind as you learn more. Your artifacts are exemplary and often used as reference across organization. You are a hands-on scientific leader; develop solutions that are exemplary in terms of algorithm design, clarity, model structure, efficiency, and extensibility; and tackle intrinsically hard problems, acquiring expertise as needed.<br>
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Principal Applied Scientists are expected to decompose complex problems into straightforward solutions. You amplify your impact by leading scientific reviews within your organization or at your location; and scrutinize and review experimental design, modeling, verification and other research procedures. You also probe assumptions, illuminate pitfalls, and foster shared understanding; align teams toward coherent strategies; and educate keeping the scientific community up to date on advanced techniques, state of the art approaches, the latest technologies, and trends.<br>
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AGI Principal Applied Scientists help managers guide the career growth of other scientists by mentoring and play a significant role in hiring and developing scientists and leads. You will play a critical role in driving the development of Generative AI (GenAI) technologies that can handle Amazon-scale use cases and have a significant impact on our customers' experiences.<br>
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Key job responsibilities<br>
You will be responsible for defining key research directions, inventing new machine learning techniques, conducting rigorous experiments, and ensuring that research is translated into practice. You will develop long-term strategies, persuade teams to adopt those strategies, propose goals and deliver on them.<br>
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A Principal Applied Scientist will participate in organizational planning, hiring, mentorship and leadership development. You will also be build scalable science and engineering solutions, and serve as a key scientific resource in full-cycle development (conception, design, implementation, testing to documentation, delivery, and maintenance).</p><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS</b></h2><ul><li>Master's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent, or PhD</li><li>Experience in building complex, real-time systems involving AI, ML, and NLP with successful delivery to customers.</li><li>Experience with project delivery for large, cross-functional projects with evolving requirements.</li></ul><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS</b></h2><ul><li>PhD with specialization in artificial intelligence, natural language processing, machine learning, or computational cognitive science with 10+ years of combined academic and research experience.</li><li>First&#8209;author research on scaling laws, evaluation metrics, data mixture optimization, data efficiency, neural network architectures in top-tier journals and conferences.</li><li>Functional thought leader, sought after for key tech decisions.</li><li>Can successfully sell ideas to an executive level decision maker.</li><li>Mentors and trains the research scientist community on complex technical issues.</li><li>Excellent written and spoken communication skills with successful delivery to customers</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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Pursuant to the San Francisco 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.<br>
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $179,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $309,400/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.</div>

Principal Applied Scientist, Artificial General Intelligence

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