• Applied Scientist, Creative X

    Amazon (Seattle, WA)


    Description

    Amazon Advertising is one of Amazon's fastest growing and most profitable businesses. Amazon's advertising portfolio helps merchants, retail vendors, and brand owners succeed via native advertising, which grows incremental sales of their products sold through Amazon. The primary goals are to help shoppers discover new products they love, be the most efficient way for advertisers to meet their business objectives, and build a sustainable business that continuously innovates on behalf of customers. Our products and solutions are strategically important to enable our Retail and Marketplace businesses to drive long-term growth. We deliver billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks and break fresh ground in product and technical innovations every day!

     

    The Creative X team within Amazon Advertising aims to democratize access to high-quality creatives (image, video, copy) by building AI-driven solutions for advertisers. To accomplish this, we are investing in latent-diffusion models, large language models (LLM), computer vision (CV), and related ML methods. You will be part of a close-knit team of applied scientists and machine learning engineers, who are highly collaborative and at the top of their respective fields.

     

    We are looking for talented an Applied Scientist who is adept at a variety of skills, especially with latent diffusion models, large language models, or related foundational models that will accelerate our plans to generate high-quality creatives on behalf of advertisers. Every member of the team is expected to build customer (advertiser) facing features, contribute to the collaborative and innovative spirit within the team, and bring latest applied research to raise the bar within the team.

     

    Key job responsibilities

    As a Generative AI Applied Scientist on this team, you will:

    * Drive end-to-end GenAI projects that have a high degree of ambiguity, scale and complexity.

    * 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.

    * Perform hands-on analysis and modeling of enormous data sets to develop insights that increase traffic monetization and merchandise sales, without compromising the shopper experience.

    * Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large-scale data analysis, machine-learning model development, model validation and serving.

    * Identify and action data collection and labelling in conjunction with team members.

    * Research new and innovative machine learning approaches.

    * Present results and explain methods to senior leadership.

    A day in the life

     

    On a day-to-day basis, you will be doing your independent research and work to develop and deploy models, you will participate in sprint planning, collaborative sessions with your peers, and demo new models and share results with peers, other partner teams and leadership.

    About the team

    The team consists of applied scientists and machine learning engineers. We reside in the Creative X organization, which focuses on creating products for advertisers that will improve the quality of the creatives within Amazon Ads.

    Basic Qualifications

    - Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language

    - Experience with SQL and an RDBMS (e.g., Oracle) or Data Warehouse

     

    - Master's degree in computer science, mathematics, statistics, machine learning or equivalent quantitative field, or PhD

    Preferred Qualifications

    - Experience implementing algorithms using both toolkits and self-developed code

     

    - Have publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals

     

    Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

     

    Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

     

    Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129,400/year in our lowest geographic market up to $212,800/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.