Senior Data Scientist - Advertising Technology at Amazon
Senior Data Scientist - Advertising Technology Details
March 13, 2019, 7:04 a.m.
Data Science
Self Service Performance Advertising
Seattle, Washington
and Verticals team Senior Data Scientist
Amazon is building a world class advertising business and defining and delivering a collection of self-service performance advertising products that drive discovery and sales of merchandise. Our products are strategically important to our Retail and Marketplace businesses driving long term growth. 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. We are seeking a Senior Data Scientist to join the Sponsored Products Supply and Verticals team. This team works on complex engineering, optimization, econometric, and user-experience problems in order to deliver relevant product ads on Amazon search and detail pages world-wide. Leveraging Amazon's massive data repository,
· Master’s degree in mathematics, computer science, statistics or related field. · At least 7 years of experience with A/B testing, statistical inferencing and modeling. · At least 5 year of experience working with very large (e.g., Terabyte/Petabyte) data sets and using SQL with relational databases or data warehouses. · At least 5 years of experience with statistical modeling tools such as R, and scripting languages such as Python or Scala. · At least 3 years of experience with applying machine learning techniques to real-world problems.· PhD in a quantitative field. · Background in economics