About the job
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. We are seeking an experienced Data Scientist to join the Sponsored Products Auction team. This team is responsible for building and evaluating mechanisms to rank and price billions of ad impressions per day. We're looking for a Data Scientist to define measures of auction efficiency and produce insights into the quality of inputs to our auction (supply, demand, ML model predictions). This role will also be responsible for exploratory data analysis to identify opportunities for improvement of the system and working closely with Economists, Applied Scientists and Engineers to improve our product.
Responsibilities
Solve real-world problems by getting and analyzing large amounts of data, diving deep to identify business insights and opportunities, design simulations and experiments, developing statistical and ML models by tailoring to business needs, and collaborating with Scientists, Engineers, BIE's, and Product Managers.
Write code (Python, R, Scala, SQL, etc.) to obtain, manipulate, and analyze data
Apply statistical and machine learning knowledge to specific business problems and data.
Build decision-making models and propose solution for the business problem you define.
Retrieve, synthesize, and present critical data in a format that is immediately useful to answering specific questions or improving system performance.
Analyze historical data to identify trends and support optimal decision making.
Formalize assumptions about how our systems are expected to work, create statistical definition of the outlier, and develop methods to systematically identify outliers. Work out why such examples are outliers and define if any actions needed.
Given anecdotes about anomalies or generate automatic scripts to define anomalies, deep dive to explain why they happen, and identify fixes.
Conduct written and verbal presentations to share insights to audiences of varying levels of technical sophistication.
Qualifications
Minimum
3+ years of data querying languages (e.g. SQL), scripting languages (e.g. Python) or statistical/mathematical software (e.g. R, SAS, Matlab, etc.) experience
2+ years of data scientist experience
3+ years of machine learning/statistical modeling data analysis tools and techniques, and parameters that affect their performance experience
Bachelor's degree
Experience applying theoretical models in an applied environment
Preferred
Experience in Python, Perl, or another scripting language
Experience in a ML or data scientist role with a large technology company