Applied Scientist

1 month ago


Toronto, Ontario, Canada Amazon Full time
Job Title: Applied Scientist

Amazon Advertising is one of Amazon's fastest-growing and most profitable businesses. 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.

Our Mission

Our 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.

Why You'll Love This Opportunity

Amazon is investing heavily in building a world-class advertising business. This team is responsible for defining and delivering a collection of advertising products that drive discovery and sales. Our solutions generate billions in revenue and drive long-term growth for Amazon's Retail and Marketplace businesses.

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.

Key Responsibilities
  • Build machine learning models and utilize data analysis to deliver scalable solutions to business problems.
  • Perform hands-on analysis and modeling with very large data sets to develop insights that increase traffic monetization and merchandise sales without compromising shopper experience.
  • Work closely with software engineers on detailed requirements, technical designs, and implementation of end-to-end solutions in production.
  • Design and run A/B experiments that affect hundreds of millions of customers, evaluate the impact of your optimizations, and communicate your results to various business stakeholders.
  • Work with scientists and economists to model the interaction between organic sales and sponsored content and to further evolve Amazon's marketplace.
  • Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large-scale data analysis, machine-learning model development, model validation, and serving.
  • Research new predictive learning approaches for the sponsored products business.
  • Write production code to bring models into production.
Requirements
  • 3+ years of building models for business application experience
  • 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 solving business problems through machine learning, data mining, and statistical algorithms
  • 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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