Amazon Principal Applied Scientist Autonomous AI Sponsored Products Ads 

United States, California, Palo Alto 

959569154

This role will be pivotal within the Autonomous Campaigns org of Sponsored Products Ads, where we're pioneering the development of AI-powered advertising innovations that will redefine the future of campaign management and optimization. As a Principal Applied Scientist, you will lead the charge in creating the next generation of self-operating, GenAI-driven advertising systems that will set a new standard for the industry.This is not simply about automating existing processes; your work will redefine what's possible in advertising. Our GenAI systems will employ multi-step reasoning, considering a vast array of factors, from seasonality and competitive landscape to macroeconomic trends, to make decisions that far exceed human speed and effectiveness. This autonomous, context-aware approach represents a paradigm shift in how advertising campaigns are conceived, executed, and optimized.As a Principal Applied Scientist, you will be at the forefront of this transformation, tackling complex challenges in natural language processing, reinforcement learning, and causal inference. Your pioneering efforts will directly shape the future of e-commerce advertising, with the potential to influence marketplace dynamics on a global scale. This is an unparalleled opportunity to push the boundaries of what's achievable in AI-driven advertising and leave an indelible mark on the industry.Key job responsibilities
• Seek to understand in depth the Sponsored Products offering at Amazon and identify areas of opportunities to grow our business using GenAI, LLM, and ML solutions.
• Mentor and guide the applied scientists in our organization and hold us to a high standard of technical rigor and excellence in AI/ML.
• Design and lead organization-wide AI/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 Generative AI/ Traditional AI/ML innovations to the broader internal & external scientific community.

• PhD in Computer Science, Statistics or related field.
• 8+ years of applied AI/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 GenAI/LLM models.
• 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.