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Senior Applied Scientist, Amazon Ads

Amazon Development Centre (Scotland) Limited
London
1 year ago
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Re-imagining the realms of what’s possible in advertising.

Amazon is re-imagining advertising. Amazon Ads operates at the intersection of eCommerce and advertising and offering a rich array of advertising solutions and audience insights so businesses and brands can create relevant campaigns that produce measurable results.

At Amazon Ads, you can build models that impact millions every day. And we’re passionate about solving real-world problems while using cutting-edge machine learning and artificial intelligence to do this.

For example, our applied science teams leverage a variety of advanced machine learning and cloud computing techniques to power Amazon's advertising offerings. This includes building algorithms and cloud services using clustering, deep neural networks, and other ML approaches to make ads more relevant while respecting privacy. They develop machine learning models to predict ad outcomes and select the optimal ad for each shopper, context, and advertiser objective, leveraging techniques like multi-task learning, bandit/reinforcement learning, counterfactual estimation, and low-latency extreme ML. The teams also utilize Spark, EMR, and Elasticsearch to extract insights from big data and deliver recommendations to advertisers at scale, continuously improving through offline analysis and impact evaluation. Additionally, they apply generative AI models for dynamic creative optimization and video experimentation and automation.

Underpinning these efforts are unique technical challenges, such as operating at unprecedented scale (hundreds of thousands of requests per second with 40ms latency) while respecting privacy and customer trust guarantees, and solving a wide variety of complex computational advertising problems related to traffic quality, viewability, brand safety, and more.


Help us take innovation in advertising to the next level.

Our teams are based in our fast-growing tech hubs in London and Edinburgh. Learn more about Amazon Ads, employee stories and available opportunities here:


Key job responsibilities
* Design, prototype and test many possible hypotheses in a high-ambiguity environment, making use of both analysis and business judgment.
* Collaborate with software engineering teams to integrate successful experiments into large-scale, highly complex Amazon production systems.
* Promote the culture of experimentation and applied science at Amazon.
* Demonstrate ability to meet deadlines while managing multiple projects.
* Excel communication and presentation skills working with multiple peer groups and different levels of management
* Influence and continuously improve a sustainable team culture that exemplifies Amazon’s leadership principles
* Develop a deep and wide understanding of large ad tech solutions to which you will contribute, and how they interact with components owned by other teams.
* Anticipate obstacles and look around corners, effectively prioritising work, solving trade-offs and influencing the development of advertising products beyond the scope of your immediate team.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Edinburgh, MLN, GBR | London, GBR

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
- Experience with neural deep learning methods and machine learning
- Experience in building machine learning models for business application
- Experience in applied research
- Master's degree
- PhD in engineering, technology, computer science, machine learning, robotics, operations research, statistics, mathematics or equivalent quantitative field

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience with modeling tools such as R, scikit-learn, Spark MLLib, MxNet, Tensorflow, numpy, scipy etc.
- Experience with large scale distributed systems such as Hadoop, Spark etc.
- Experience using managed ML/AI solutions
- Experience with conducting research in a corporate setting

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