Amazon Senior Applied Scientist Demand Tech 

United Kingdom, England, London 

251326012

Key job responsibilities
* Design and implement auctions for scaled self-serve display advertising.* Invent new auction types and controls for advertisers that balance value for shoppers, advertisers and Amazon.* Understand the latest literature on auction theory, machine learning and measurement to guide strategic investment for the organizationA day in the life
* Be immersed in Sponsored Display's auction data: candidate ads, objectives, bids and outcomes
* Design, prototype and validate new auction mechanisms or parameterizations
* Take technical leadership over turning prototypes into shopper- and advertiser-facing software
* Stay abreast of the latest trends and opportunities in machine learning, economics, auction theory and measurement
* Be an advocate and expert for SD's auction to leaders and stakeholders inside and outside advertising

- Master's degree
- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
- Experience with neural deep learning methods and machine learning
- Experience in building machine learning models for business application
- Experience in applied research

- 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.