Applied Scientist, Sponsored Products Off-Search Auction
New York, NY, Seattle, WA$172.4k - $223.4kFull-timePosted yesterday
About the role
Research-focusedApplied Scientist role on the Sponsored Products and Brands Off-Search team at Amazon Ads, leveraging GenAI and large language models to redesign ad retrieval, auctions, and page relevance across Amazon surfaces beyond Search.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to the design and development of GenAI, deep learning, multi-objective optimization and/or reinforcement learning empowered solutions to transform ad retrieval, auctions, whole-page relevance, and/or bespoke shopping experiences.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with other scientists, engineers, and product managers to bring scalable, production-ready science solutions to life.
- Stay abreast of industry trends in GenAI, LLMs, and related disciplines, bringing fresh concepts, ideas, and prototypes to the organization.
- Contribute to the enhancement of team’s scientific and technical rigor by identifying and implementing best-in-class algorithms, methodologies, and infrastructure that enable rapid experimentation and scaling.
- Mentor and grow junior scientists and engineers, cultivating a high-performing, collaborative, and intellectually curious team.
Qualifications
- PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience
- 3+ years of building models for business application experience
- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
- Strong foundation in GenAI, large language models, machine learning, deep learning, probabilistic modeling, and/or optimization
- Experience developing and deploying models in real-world production environments
Skills
Required:GenAI/LLMsMachine learning / Deep learningProduction model deploymentProgramming
Benefits
- comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
- 401(k) matching
- paid time off
- parental leave
- sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs) included in package
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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