Principal Applied Scientist, Products and Brands

Principal Applied Scientist, Sponsored Products and Brands

About Sponsored Products and Brands:
The Sponsored Products and Brands team at Amazon Ads is re-imagining the advertising landscape through industry leading generative AI technologies, revolutionizing how millions of customers discover products and engage with brands across  and beyond. We are at the forefront of re-inventing advertising experiences, bridging human creativity with artificial intelligence to transform every aspect of the advertising lifecycle from ad creation and optimization to performance analysis and customer insights.

We are a passionate group of innovators dedicated to developing responsible and intelligent AI technologies that balance the needs of advertisers, enhance the shopping experience, and strengthen the marketplace.

About Our Team:
The Sponsored Brands Impressions-based Offerings team is responsible for evolving the value proposition of Sponsored Brands to drive brand advertising in retail media at scale, helping brands get discovered, acquire new customers and sustainably grow customer lifetime value. We build end-to-end solutions that enable brands to drive discovery, visibility and share of voice. This includes building advertiser controls, shopper experiences, monetization strategies and optimization features.

We succeed when (1) shoppers discover, engage and build affinity with brands and (2) brands can grow their business at scale with our advertising products.

About This Role:

As a Principal Scientist for the team, you will have the opportunity to apply your deep subject matter expertise in the area of ML, LLM and GenAI models. You will invent new product experiences that enable novel advertiser and shopper experiences. This role will liaise with internal Amazon partners and work on bringing state-of-the-art GenAI models to production, and stay abreast of the latest developments in the space of GenAI and identify opportunities to improve the efficiency and productivity of the team.

Additionally, you will define a long-term science vision for our advertising business, driven by our customer’s needs, and translate it into actionable plans for our team of applied scientists and engineers.

This role will play a critical role in elevating the team’s scientific and technical rigor, identifying and implementing best-in-class algorithms, methodologies, and infrastructure that enable rapid experimentation and scaling. You will communicate learnings to leadership and mentor and grow Applied AI talent across org.

Responsibilities

• Develop AI solutions for Sponsored Brands advertiser and shopper experiences. Build monetization and optimization systems that leverage generative models to value and improve campaign performance.

• Define a long-term science vision and roadmap for our Sponsored Brands advertising business, driven from our customers' needs, translating that direction into specific plans for applied scientists and engineering teams. This role combines science leadership, organizational ability, technical strength, product focus, and business understanding.

• Design and conduct A/B experiments to evaluate proposed solutions based on in-depth data analyses.

• Effectively communicate technical and non-technical ideas with teammates and stakeholders.

• Stay up-to-date with advancements and the latest modeling techniques in the field.

• Think big about the arc of development of Gen AI over a multi-year horizon and identify new opportunities to apply these technologies to solve real-world problems.

Basic Qualifications

• PhD in Computer Science, Statistics or related field.

• 10+ years of programming in Java, Python or related language.

• 10+ years of applied ML experience in building complex, real-time systems involving AI, ML with successful delivery to customers.

• 3+ years in LLMs, model fine tuning and prompt engineering.

• 3+ years in digital advertising technology.

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated track record of innovative AI solution development.

• Experience with generative model architectures.

• Research publications or patents in generative AI technologies.

• Experience in Reinforcement Learning from…