Applied Scientist, SPEED

Company:  Amazon
Location: Seattle
Closing Date: 25/10/2024
Salary: £125 - £150 Per Annum
Hours: Full Time
Type: Permanent
Job Requirements / Description

Job ID: 2683126 | Amazon.com Services LLC

Amazon Worldwide Advertising is one of Amazon's fastest growing and most profitable businesses. Ads Self-serve Products for Experience, Experimentation, and Developer productivity (Ads SPEED) team drives a coherent experience across Amazon Ads Console for all endemic and non-endemic advertisers and their agencies using Amazon’s marketing portfolio to grow their business and brands on and off Amazon. We enable Ad application builders across every product development cycle stage — from decisions to build, to launch and ongoing product health monitoring and troubleshooting. Our foundation charter builds common features that form the home for all Amazon Ads products and applications. Experience charter builds and enhances marketer experiences across Ads Portal. Analytics & Science charter empowers builders to make data-informed product decisions through the next generation of analytics technologies and experimentation capabilities.

We seek a strong technical leader with domain expertise in machine learning and deep learning, transformers, generative models, large language models, computer vision and multimodal models. You will devise innovative solutions at scale, pushing the technological and science boundaries. You will guide the design, modeling, and architectural choices of state-of-the-art large language models and multimodal models. You will devise and implement new algorithms and new learning strategies and paradigms. You will be technically hands-on and drive the execution from ideation to productionization. You will work in a collaborative environment with other technical and business leaders, to innovate on behalf of the customer.

Key Responsibilities:

  1. Map business requirements and customer needs to a scientific problem.
  2. Align the research direction to business requirements and make the right judgments on research/development schedule and prioritization.
  3. Research, design and implement scalable machine learning (ML), natural language, or computational models to solve problems that matter to our customers in an iterative fashion.
  4. Mentor and develop junior applied scientists and developers who work on applied science problems in the same organization.
  5. Stay informed on the latest machine learning, natural language and/or artificial intelligence trends and make presentations to the larger engineering and applied science communities.

You will work as part of a diverse data science and engineering team comprising of other Applied Scientists, Software Development Engineers and Business Intelligence Engineers. You will participate in the Amazon ML community by authoring scientific papers and submitting them to Machine Learning conferences. You will mentor Applied Scientists and Software Development Engineers having a strong interest in ML. You will also be called upon to provide ML consultation outside your team for other problem statements.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

  1. 3+ years of building models for business application experience
  2. PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience
  3. Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
  4. Experience in any of the following areas: algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, high-performance computing

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

  1. Experience using Unix/Linux
  2. Experience in professional software development
  3. 2+ years of scripting language experience

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.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $136,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $222,200/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.

Posted: August 23, 2024

Posted: September 27, 2024

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.

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