Principal Applied Scientist, Sponsored Products, Advertiser GenAI (Sunnyvale)

Principal Applied Scientist, Sponsored Products, Advertiser GenAI

Job ID: 2918382 | Amazon.com Services LLC

Amazon Sponsored Products is investing heavily in building a world class advertising business and we are responsible for defining and delivering a collection of GenAI/LLM powered self-service performance advertising products that drive discovery and sales. Our products are strategically important to Amazon’s Selling Partners and key to driving their long-term growth. We deliver billions of ad impressions and clicks daily and are breaking fresh ground to create world-class products. We are highly motivated, collaborative and fun-loving team 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.

This position will be part of the Advertiser Growth organization within Sponsored Products. Our team focuses on launching GenAI initiatives that help advertisers create and manage performant SP campaigns. We develop AI powered experiences to help advertisers use advertising effectively and develop state-of-art ML based optimization services to represent our advertisers in the SP marketplace. We strive to improve the ability for advertisers to help shoppers discover relevant products on customer search, browse and detail pages.

Key job responsibilities

1. Seek to understand in depth the Sponsored Products offering at Amazon and identify areas of opportunities to grow our business using GenAI, LLM, and ML solutions.
2. Mentor and guide the applied scientists in our organization and hold us to a high standard of technical rigor and excellence in AI/ML.
3. Design and lead organization-wide AI/ML roadmaps to help our Amazon shoppers have a delightful shopping experience while creating long term value for our advertisers.
4. Work with our engineering partners and draw upon your experience to meet latency and other system constraints.
5. Identify untapped, high-risk technical and scientific directions, and devise new research directions that you will drive to completion and deliver.
6. Be responsible for communicating our Generative AI/ Traditional AI/ML innovations to the broader internal & external scientific community.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

1. PhD in Computer Science, Statistics or related field.
2. 8+ years of applied AI/ML experience in deploying ML solutions to customer facing products.
3. 2+ years hands-on experience leading multiple ML teams to design products that satisfy a customer need.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

1. Track record of delivering large-scale and high-quality ML solutions.
2. Experience in taking on & using ML to deliver on business goals.
3. Experience in shipping GenAI/LLM models.
4. Experience partnering with engineering teams to ensure AI/ML solutions meet latency requirements.
5. Experience in influencing product strategy through product innovation and research.
6. Evidence of producing internal or external publications that motivate new lines of research.
7. Excellent verbal and written communication.

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Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $179,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $309,400/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 This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.