Amazon Principal Applied Scientist Sponsored TV 

United States, New York, New York 

286173550

We are building a suite of new services to enable a pioneering advertising initiative, Sponsored TV, using content-rich video optimized for mobile, desktop, and over-the-top platforms. This is a greenfield project in which you will to help define every aspect of the user experience, video services, content delivery, asset management, and advertiser self-service experience.Key job responsibilities
- Be a thought leader and forward thinker, anticipating obstacles to success, helping avoid common failure modes, and holding us to a high standard of technical rigor and excellence in machine learning (ML).- Define evaluation methods and metrics that measures viewer experience (e.g., ad relevance) and invent scientifically sound and scalable solutions in the streaming TV context, to improve viewer experience.- Research, build, and deploy innovative ML solutions; working across all technical disciplines.
- Identify untapped, high-risk technical and scientific directions, and stimulate new research directions that you will deliver on.
- Be responsible for communicating our ML innovations to the broader internal & external scientific communities.
- Hire, mentor, and guide senior scientists.
- Partner with engineering leaders to build efficient and scalable solutions.

- Ph.D. in Machine Learning, Computer Science, or related disciplines.
- 10+ years of applied ML experience in delivering ML-based solutions to solve real-world problems and achieve business goals, at a very large scale.
- 2+ years of hands-on experience leading multiple ML teams to design products that satisfy a customer need.