Amazon Sr Principal Scientist 

United States, Washington, Seattle 

586496890

Key job responsibilities
The Senior Principal Scientist role leads across all these areas, inventing new shopper and advertiser experiences, accelerating the pace of Machine Learning, and raising the bar on science and experimentation. You will be an industry-leading expert in at least one of: Machine Learning, Statistics, Operations Research, Causal Inference and Optimization. Furthermore, you will have broad exposure to the breadth of modern Computer Science and Machine Learning, able to work across disciplines and drive clarity and collaboration with technical and business leaders across the company. You will be an exceptional communicator, able to earn the trust of technical peers and builders and executive leaders. You will have experience hiring and growing more junior scientists and engineers, and a track record of bringing clarity to ambiguous domains and delivering outsized results for customers.

* MA/MSc in Computer Science, Engineering, Economics, Operations Research or a related field.
* 10+ years of experience driving end-to-end products at scale, delivering results, leading high performance science and engineering teams
* Strong verbal and written communication skills.
* Strong analytic and problem-solving skills.
* Experience with machine learning, statistics, economics, auction theory, mechanism design or game theory.

* PhD in Machine Learning, Computer Science, Statistics, Operations Research, Economics or related disciplines
* Experience in performance advertising.
* Experience building and operating ML systems in production, including high performance Deep Learning training & inference
* History of publication in top-tier conferences, or equivalent innovation in a commercial setting