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Senior Applied Scientist, Sponsored Products Bidding

Palo Alto, California, United States💼 Full-time🗓 2026-07-30 → 2026-09-25

Core

Define long-term science vision and lead AI/ML initiatives for Sponsored Products bidding controls to drive discovery and sales for merchants on Amazon.

Role type

Senior Applied Scientist (AI/ML Strategy & Leadership)

Builds

AI/ML features for dynamic bidding and bid recommendations within the Sponsored Products ecosystem

Domain

E-commerce advertising, Auction dynamics, Machine Learning

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Machine learning model development, Neural deep learning, AI/ML technologies, Statistical analysis, A/B experimentation, Model deployment, Team leadership, Technical strategy

Preferred skills

Large scale distributed systems, Modeling tools (R, scikit-learn, Spark, TensorFlow)

Technologies

Java, C++, Python, R, scikit-learn, Spark MLLib, MxNet, Tensorflow, numpy, scipy, Hadoop, Spark

Responsibilities

Lead new AI/ML initiatives for bidding, Perform hands-on analysis of large datasets, Drive end-to-end ML projects with high ambiguity, Build and deploy models into production, Run A/B experiments and statistical analysis, Recruit and mentor Applied Scientists

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities

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