Amazon's Sponsored Ads is one of the fastest growing business domains and we are looking for a senior applied scientist with experience building complex machine learning models and writing production code. We are rapidly growing but we are still in Day 1 in terms of what yet remains to be accomplished. We are a team of highly motivated and collaborative applied scientists and software development engineers with an entrepreneurial spirit and bias for action. With the team growing at an unprecedented rate, there is broad mandate to experiment and innovate! Our systems and algorithms operate on one of the world's largest product catalogs, matching shoppers with products - with a high relevance bar and strict latency constraints. The ads sourcing works across the spectrum of ad serving including coverage expansion, increasing utilization of tail search pages, ad relevance, ad quality, collaborative filtering, and much more. Our technology enables thousands of brands, sellers and authors to
· BS/MS in Computer Science, Machine learning, Statistics, or similar quantitative field. · At least 5 years of hands-on experience building ML (machine learning) and/or NLP (natural language processing) models. · At least 5 years of experience in data mining and data analytics techniques. · At least 5 years of experience in writing code in Java, C++, Python (or similar scripting language).· A PhD in Computer Science, Machine learning, Statistics, or similar quantitative field. · Published research work in academic conferences or industry circles. · Comfortability with programming in SQL, Hive,