Amazon is investing heavily in building a world class advertising business and we are responsible for major initiatives. We deliver billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks daily and are breaking fresh ground to create world-class products. We are highly motivated, collaborative and fun-loving with an entrepreneurial spirit and bias for action. With a broad mandate to experiment and innovate, we are growing at an unprecedented rate with a seemingly endless range of new opportunities. Are you passionate about developing new state-of-the-art measurement approaches at Petabyte scale? Amazon Advertising is one of Amazon’s fastest growing businesses, and we are leveraging our unique data, the latest machine learning methods and big data technologies to better understand how advertising influences customer behavior. We are looking for a Senior Economist to develop new methods and systems in the most challenging and data rich areas of marketing. We need an expert in experimental statistics,
· PhD or Masters in Computer Science, Statistics, or a related quantitative field with at least 5+ years of research experience in training and implementing advanced models (machine learning, predictive modeling, and analysis). · 4+ years hands-on experience programming in R, Java, C#, C++ or other similar programming languages · Algorithm and model development experience for large-scale applications· 7+ years of hands-on experience applying theoretical models in an applied environment · Extensive knowledge and practical experience in several of the following areas: machine learning, statistics,