Applied Scientist, Amazon Ads

3 months ago

Toronto, Canada Amazon Development Centre Canada ULC Full time

PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience
- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
- Experience in any of the following areas: algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, high-performance computing

Amazon Advertising is one of Amazon's fastest growing and most profitable businesses, responsible for defining and delivering a collection of advertising products that drive discovery and sales. Our products and solutions are strategically important to enable our Retail and Marketplace businesses to drive long-term growth. We deliver billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks and break fresh ground in product and technical innovations every day
We are looking for an accomplished and visionary machine learning expert to lead the Applied Science strategy for our Media Planning Science program. In this role, you will work closely with business leaders, stakeholders, and cross-functional teams to drive program success through ML-driven solutions. You will shape the applied science roadmap, promote a culture of data-driven decision-making, and deliver significant business impact using advanced data techniques and cutting-edge applied science methodologies.
Key job responsibilities
**As an Applied Scientist on this team, you will**:

- Serve as the technical leader in Machine Learning, guiding efforts within the team and collaborating with other teams.
- Conduct hands-on analysis and modeling of large-scale data to generate insights that boost traffic monetization and merchandise sales while maintaining a positive shopper experience.
- Lead end-to-end Machine Learning projects that involve high levels of ambiguity, scale, and complexity.
- Build, experiment, optimize, and deploy machine learning models, collaborating with software engineers to bring your models into production.
- Run A/B experiments, gather data, and perform statistical analysis to validate your models.
- Develop scalable and automated processes for large-scale data analysis, model development, validation, and serving.
- Explore and research innovative machine learning approaches to push the boundaries of what’s possible.

About the team
The Media Planning Science team builds and deploys models that provide insights and recommendations for media planning. Our mission is to assist advertisers in activating plans that align with their goals. Our insights and recommendations leverage heuristic and machine learning models to simplify the complex tasks of forecasting, outcome prediction, budget planning, optimized audience selection and measurements for media planners. We integrate our insights into user interfaces and programmatic integrations via APIs, ensuring reliable data, timely delivery, and optimal advertising outcomes for our advertisers.
- Experience using Unix/Linux
- Experience in professional software development

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, or other legally protected status. If you would like to request an accommodation, please notify your Recruiter.

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