Amazon
Job title:
Sr. Applied Scientist LLM/LVM, Contextual Ads
Company
Amazon
Job description
DESCRIPTIONAmazon Advertising is looking for a Senior Applied Scientist to join its brand new initiative that powers Amazon’s contextual advertising product.Advertising at Amazon is a fast-growing multi-billion dollar business that spans across desktop, mobile and connected devices; encompasses ads on Amazon and a vast network of hundreds of thousands of third party publishers; and extends across US, EU and an increasing number of international geographies.We are looking for a dynamic, innovative and accomplished Senior Applied Scientist to work on machine learning and data science initiatives for contextual data processing and classification that power our contextual advertising solutions. Are you excited by the prospect of analyzing terabytes of data and leveraging state-of-the-art data science and machine learning techniques to solve real world problems? Do you like to own business problems/metrics of high ambiguity where yo get to define the path forward for success of a new initiative? As an applied scientist, you will invent ML and Artificial General Intelligence based solutions to power our contextual classification technology. As this is a new initiative, you will get an opportunity to act as a thought leader, work backwards from the customer needs, dive deep into data to understand the issues, conceptualize and build algorithms and collaborate with multiple cross-functional teams.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.
- Demonstrated ability to meet deadlines while managing multiple projects.
- Excellent 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.
About the team
The Supply Quality organization has the charter to solve optimization problems for ad-programs in Amazon and ensure high-quality ad-impressions. We develop advanced algorithms and infrastructure systems to optimize performance for our advertisers and publishers. We are focused on solving a wide variety of problems in computational advertising like Contextual data processing and classification, traffic quality prediction (robot and fraud detection), Security forensics and research, Viewability prediction, Brand Safety and experimentation. Our team includes experts in the areas of distributed computing, machine learning, statistics, optimization, text mining, information theory and big data systems.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS– PhD in engineering, technology, computer science, machine learning, robotics, operations research, statistics, mathematics or equivalent quantitative field
– Experience in applied research
– Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
– Experience in building machine learning models for business application
– Experience with generative deep learning models and specifically LLM and/or LVM development.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.Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Amazon. Please consult our Privacy Notice (https://www.amazon.jobs/en/privacy_page) to know more about how we collect, use and transfer the personal data of our candidates.Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations.
Expected salary
Location
London
Job date
Fri, 06 Sep 2024 01:05:27 GMT
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