Amazon Applied Scientist Ad Catalyst Team 

United States, Washington, Seattle 

848207351

excellent teamwork and communication skills, and a motivation to achieve results in a fast-paced environment through both strong personal delivery and the ability to develop partnerships with science teams across the org. This is a high visibility leadership position where you will be the first principal scientist in a 400+ people org.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 senior scientists.
- Partner with engineering leaders to build efficient and scalable solutions.
New York, Seattle

- 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
- 2+ years of scripting language experience