About the job
As a Sr. Applied Scientist on this team, you will identify big opportunities for the team to make a direct impact on customers and the search experience. You will work closely with with search and retail partner teams, software engineers and product managers to build scalable real-time GenAI and ML solutions. You will lead projects end-to-end including problem formulation in collaboration with Product Managers and key stakeholders, lead a team of scientists to build models, design, run, and analyze A/B experiments to improve the experience of millions of Amazon shoppers.
Responsibilities
- Architect next-generation systems that improve Amazon's Search page.
- Pioneer breakthrough applied science in multi-modal GenAI applications for advertising, combining text, image, and multi-lingual support.
- Develop real-time machine learning algorithms to allocate billions of ads per day in advertising auctions.
- Research new and innovative machine learning approaches.
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.
- Experience in auctions or mechanism design