Senior Data Scientist, Analytics and Data Management
US, WA, Virtual Location - Washington
Amazon.com
Free shipping on millions of items. Get the best of Shopping and Entertainment with Prime. Enjoy low prices and great deals on the largest selection of everyday essentials and other products, including fashion, home, beauty, electronics, Alexa...Amazon Advertising is one of Amazon's fastest growing and most profitable businesses, responsible for defining and delivering a collection of advertising products that drive discovery and sales. We deliver billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks and break fresh ground in product and technical innovations every day!
Amazon is investing heavily in building a world class advertising business and we are responsible for defining and delivering a collection of self-service performance advertising products that drive discovery and sales. Our products are strategically important to our Retail and Marketplace businesses driving long term growth. We deliver billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks daily and are breaking fresh ground to create world-class products. We are highly motivated, collaborative and fun-loving with an entrepreneurial spirit and bias for action. With a broad mandate to experiment and innovate, we are growing at an unprecedented rate with a seemingly endless range of new opportunities.
The Analytics and Data Management team for Performance advertising organization is looking for a Sr Applied Scientist to play a key role in building its next generation analytics tools and solutions that enables and grows Performance Advertising business.
As a Senior Applied Scientist, you will:
- Be a technical leader in Machine Learning and drive full life-cycle Machine Learning projects.
- Lead technical efforts within this team and across other teams.
- Build machine learning models, perform proof-of-concept, experiment, optimize, and deploy your models into production.
- Run A/B experiments, gather data, and perform statistical analysis.
- Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large-scale data analysis, machine-learning model development, model validation and serving.
- Work closely with software engineers to assist in productionizing your ML models.
- Research new and innovative machine learning approaches.
- Recruit Applied Scientists to the team and mentor scientists on the team.
A day in the life
You will invent new experiences and influence customer-facing shopping experiences to help suppliers grow their retail business and the auction dynamics that leverage native advertising; this is your opportunity to work within the fastest-growing businesses across all of Amazon! Define a long-term science vision for our advertising business, driven from our customers' needs, translating that direction into specific plans for research and applied scientists, as well as engineering and product teams. This role combines science leadership, organizational ability, technical strength, product focus, and business understanding.
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree
- 5+ years of experience with data scripting languages (e.g SQL, Python, R etc.) or statistical/mathematical software (e.g. R, SAS, or Matlab)
- 4+ years working as a Data Scientist
Preferred Qualifications
- Advanced degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, or related quantitative field.
- Broad knowledge of ML methods, statistical analysis, and problem-solving skills.
- Expert level knowledge in statistics and sophisticated user of statistical tools.
- Experience in data applications using large scale distributed systems (e.g. EMR, Spark, Elasticsearch, Hadoop, Pig, and Hive).
- Experience processing, filtering, and presenting large data sets (hundreds of millions/billions of rows).
- Combination of deep technical skills and business sense, to interface with all levels and disciplines within our customer’s organization.
- Demonstrable track record of dealing well with ambiguity, prioritizing needs, and delivering results in a dynamic environment.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to advocate technical solutions for science, engineering, and business audiences.
- Ability to develop experimental and analytical plans for data modeling, use effective baselines, and accurately determine cause-and-effect relations.
- Experience in computational advertising is a plus.
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