Amazon Senior Applied Scientist Ad Catalyst Team NYC & SEA 

United States, Washington, Seattle 

740509046

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 measure the effectiveness of advertising recommendations using a variety of science techniques (Randomized Control Trials, Causal Modeling, Reinforcement learning policy evaluation)
- 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 scientists.
- Partner with engineering leaders to build efficient and scalable solutions.New York, Seattle

- 3+ years of building machine learning models for business application experience
- PhD, or Master's degree and 6+ years of applied research experience
- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
- Experience with neural deep learning methods and machine learning