Applied Science Manager, Advertising Trust
Core
Lead a team of applied scientists building next-generation content moderation intelligence for Amazon Ads, combining multimodal ML, retrieval systems, and generative AI to automate policy enforcement at global scale.
Role type
Senior Applied Science Manager (Advertising Trust)
Builds
Production ML systems for multimodal content understanding, retrieval-based classification, and LLM-based policy reasoning
Domain
Advertising, Trust & Safety, Multimodal AI, Generative AI
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Applied research, team management (5-15 members), multimodal deep learning, large-scale retrieval systems, generative AI/LLMs, end-to-end ML delivery, science roadmap definition
Preferred skills
Internet-scale production ML systems, automation/classification systems with business impact, content moderation experience, top-tier ML publications, LLM fine-tuning/distillation/RLHF
Technologies
Vision-language models, video understanding, embedding-based similarity, agentic architectures, reinforcement learning
Responsibilities
Lead applied scientists across multimodal ML and generative AI; Define science strategy for ads trust; Own end-to-end delivery of ML solutions from experimentation to production; Build and grow the science team; Partner with engineering and product teams; Communicate science strategy to senior leadership
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with management responsibilities
