Amazon Applied Scientist Demand Tech 

United States, New York, New York 

705736967

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

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

- Experience using Unix/Linux
- Experience in professional software development