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Sr. Applied Scientist, Amazon Ads Marketing Decision Science

New York, New York, United States💼 Full-time💰 $183,800–$248,700🗓 2026-09-01 → 2026-09-30

Core

Leading the science behind conversational and agentic AI experiences for advertisers, specifically designing chatbot capabilities for WeChat and third-party channels.

Role type

Senior Applied Scientist (Gen-AI/LLM/NLP)

Builds

Agentic AI systems, chatbot reasoning, retrieval, and evaluation pipelines for Amazon Ads.

Domain

Advertising technology, Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLM), Natural Language Processing (NLP)

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Machine learning fundamentals, LLM/NLP expertise, agentic reasoning, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), reinforcement learning, model fine-tuning, RLHF/RLAIF, LLM evaluation, PyTorch, API design, latency optimization

Preferred skills

Distributed systems (Hadoop, Spark), modeling tools (TensorFlow, scikit-learn, Spark MLLib)

Responsibilities

Lead design and development of chatbot/agentic AI from concept to production; Architect agentic AI systems with planning and tool use; Apply reinforcement learning and fine-tuning to adapt LLMs; Define and operationalize rigorous LLM evaluation metrics; Own applied engineering quality of the science stack; Collaborate with engineering and product teams to ship measurable impact; Mentor junior scientists.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with mentorship responsibilities

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