Senior Applied Scientist, Funnel Agentic Intel

Amazon
USA, WA, SEATTLE2026-05-15ONSITE

About the job

Amazon Ads is building Ads Agent, an AI-powered agent that understands advertiser intent, reasons over campaign strategy, and executes across the full Amazon Ads portfolio. If you want to work at the frontier of agentic AI and large language models while directly impacting a multi-billion dollar business, this is your team.

Responsibilities

- Design, build, and evaluate agentic systems that plan multi-step workflows, invoke tools, and take autonomous actions across Amazon Ads products on behalf of advertisers.

- Define evaluation frameworks and benchmarks for agent reliability, correctness, safety, and advertiser satisfaction.

- Analyze agent behavior through deep data analysis and rigorous A/B experimentation to identify failure modes, measure effectiveness, and derive business insights.

- Partner with engineers, product managers, and UX designers to ship end-to-end agent experiences that are scalable, efficient, and reliable at Amazon scale.

Qualifications

Minimum

- 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

- Experience with modeling tools such as R, scikit-learn, Spark MLLib, MxNet, Tensorflow, numpy, scipy etc.

- Experience with large scale distributed systems such as Hadoop, Spark etc.