Amazon Principal Applied Scientist Sponsored Products Amazon 

United States, Washington, Seattle 

56648939

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

• PhD in Computer Science, Statistics or related field.
• 10+ years of applied ML experience in deploying ML solutions to customer facing products.
• 2+ years hands-on experience leading multiple ML teams to design products that satisfy a customer need.
• Track record of delivering large-scale and high-quality ML solutions.
• Experience in taking on & using ML to deliver on business goals.

• Experience in shipping large recommender systems.
• Experience partnering with engineering teams to ensure AI/ML solutions meet latency requirements.
• Experience in influencing product strategy through product innovation and research.
• Evidence of producing internal or external publications that motivate new lines of research.
• Excellent verbal and written communication.