Amazon Advertising is one of Amazon's fastest growing and most profitable businesses. Amazon's advertising portfolio helps merchants, retail vendors, and brand owners succeed via native advertising, which grows incremental sales of their products sold through Amazon. The primary goals are to help shoppers discover new products they love, be the most efficient way for advertisers to meet their business objectives, and build a sustainable business that continuously innovates on behalf of customers. Our products and solutions are strategically important to enable our Retail and Marketplace businesses to drive long-term growth. We deliver billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks and break fresh ground in product and technical innovations every day!
Why you will love this opportunity: Amazon is investing heavily in building a world-class advertising business. To meet Advertiser goals, we process over 3 million ad request per second. This team defines and delivers optimization solutions for this enormous volume of traffic filtering unnecessary ad request and processing only whats in-demand and brings value for our Advertisers. Our solutions generate billions in revenue and drive long-term growth for Amazon’s Retail and Marketplace businesses. We deliver billions of ad impressions, millions of clicks daily, and break fresh ground to create world-class products. We are a highly motivated, collaborative, and fun-loving team with an entrepreneurial spirit - with a broad mandate to experiment and innovate.
Impact and Career Growth: You will invent new experiences and influence customer-facing shopping experiences to help suppliers grow their retail business and the auction dynamics that leverage native advertising; this is your opportunity to work within the fastest-growing businesses across all of Amazon! Define a long-term science vision for our advertising business, driven 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.
Team video https://youtu.be/zD_6Lzw8raE
Key job responsibilities
As a Senior Applied Scientist on this team, you will:
* Conduct hands-on data analysis, build large-scale machine-learning models and pipelines.
* Work closely with software engineers on detailed requirements, technical designs and implementation of end-to-end solutions in production
* Run regular A/B experiments, gather data, perform statistical analysis, and communicate the impact to senior management
* Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large-scale data analysis, machine-learning model development, model validation and serving
* Provide technical leadership, research new machine learning approaches to drive continued scientific innovation
* Perform hands-on analysis and modeling of enormous data sets to develop insights that optimize ads traffic throughput, without impacting the Advertiser goals.
* 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.
* Research new and innovative machine learning approaches.
* Recruit Applied Scientists to the team and provide mentorship.
