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Posted date: Mar 23, 2025
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Location: Seattle, WA
Estimated salary: $179,700
Range: $136,000 - $223,400
Description
Amazon Advertising is one of Amazon's fastest growing and most profitable businesses, responsible for defining and delivering a collection of advertising products that drive discovery and sales. Amazon Advertising is at the forefront of shaping the future of advertising technology, and our Auction team in Sponsored Brands is pivotal in driving this innovation.SB Auction team's role is to develop optimized and fair auction systems for sponsored brands that deliver value for advertisers while enhancing the shopping experience for customers. We collaborate with different teams across the Amazon Ads to build scalable online and offline ML infrastructure systems to accelerate science innovations, facilitate business growth and promote technology innovation.
Key job responsibilities
Key job responsibilities
As an Applied Scientist on this team, you typically play a key role in optimizing ad delivery, improving targeting accuracy, and maximizing revenue generation for advertisers, all while maintaining a seamless user experience, you will:
Develop optimization techniques (e.g., multi-objective optimization) to balance multiple goals, such as maximizing revenue for advertisers, increasing user engagement, and maintaining fair ad distribution.
Build machine learning models, perform proof-of-concept, experiment, optimize, and deploy your models into production; work closely with software engineers to assist in productionizing your ML models.
Run A/B experiments, fine-tune the models for real-world effectiveness, ensuring that the ad auction system works optimally in production environments.
Run large-scale experiments to test different auction strategies, bidding algorithms, and ad targeting techniques, using methodologies like multi-arm bandit or reinforcement learning.
Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large-scale data analysis, machine-learning model development, model validation and serving
Communicate results and insights clearly to non-technical stakeholders, including product managers, advertisers, and executives, helping them understand the impact of data-driven decisions.
Research new and innovative machine learning approaches.
Qualifications
- 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 any of the following areas: algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, high-performance computing
Extended Qualifications
- 1. Knowledge of optimization algorithms for multi-objective problems (e.g., gradient descent, linear programming).- 2. Strong background in probability theory, game theory, and auction theory (important for designing competitive auction systems).
- 3. Proficiency in reinforcement learning, particularly for decision-making problems like bidding strategies and auction design.
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, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.
Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $136,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223,400/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
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