Applied Scientist III, Amazon SP

1 week ago


Toronto, Ontario, Canada Amazon Development Centre Canada ULC - K03 Full time

Amazon Advertising is one of Amazon's fastest growing and most profitable businesses, responsible for defining and delivering a collection of advertising products that drive discovery and sales.

As a core product offering within our advertising portfolio, Sponsored Products (SP) helps merchants, retail vendors, and brand owners succeed via native advertising, which grows incremental sales of their products sold through Amazon.

The SP organization's primary goals are to help shoppers discover new products they love, be the most efficient way for advertisers to meet their business objectives, and build a sustainable business that continuously innovates on behalf of customers.

Our products and solutions are strategically important to enable our Retail and Marketplace businesses to drive long-term growth. We deliver billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks and break fresh ground in product and technical innovations every day


Our team, Off-Search Sourcing and Relevance, has a mission to deliver relevant and useful shopping experience at non-Search pages at We innovate technology solutions, develop cutting-edge machine learning models that incorporate deep product and shopper understanding, and conduct A/B tests to ensure that we identify all useful and relevant advertisements and provide them to downstream systems for click through prediction and ad auction.


We are looking for a passionate Senior Applied Scientist who has technical expertise in information retrieval, Natural Language Processing (NLP), and Large Language Models (LLM).

In addition to having hands-on experience in building ML-based solutions, an ideal candidate should be able to create and articulate a customer-centric science vision, show willingness to continuously learn about new scientific approaches, and enjoy operating in startup-like environment.

Key job responsibilities

  • Lead business, science and engineering strategy and roadmap for Sponsored Products Off-Search Sourcing and Relevance.
  • Drive alignment across organizations for science, engineering, and product strategy to achieve business goals.
  • Lead/guide scientists and engineers across teams to develop, test, launch and improve of science models designed to optimize the shopper experience and deliver long term value for Amazon and advertisers
  • Develop state of the art experimental approaches and ML models.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Toronto, ON, CAN

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

  • 3+ years of building machine learning models for business application experience
  • PhD, or Master's degree and 6+ years of applied research experience
  • Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
  • Experience with neural deep learning methods and machine learning
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

  • Experience with modeling tools such as R, scikitlearn, Spark MLLib, MxNet, Tensorflow, numpy, scipy etc.
  • Experience with large scale distributed systems such as Hadoop, Spark etc.


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