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Sr. Applied Scientist , Amazon Ads

Seattle, Washington, United StatesFull-time$184k2026-09-10 → 2026-10-22

Core

Science leader for AI-powered automation and intelligence within Advertising Services, owning R&D of ML systems that improve self-service advertiser experiences, power autonomous workflow agents, and drive operational intelligence.

Role type

Sr. Applied Scientist (AI/ML)

Builds

Intelligent assistants, autonomous agents for low/medium-judgment tasks, and automated identification of product gaps from unstructured operational data.

Domain

Advertising services, AI/ML, operational intelligence

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Machine learning model building, neural deep learning methods, Java, C++, Python

Preferred skills

Large scale distributed systems (Hadoop, Spark), modeling tools (R, scikit-learn, Spark MLLib, MxNet, Tensorflow, numpy, scipy)

Responsibilities

Study patterns in Contact Us traffic, experiment with improving Help content effectiveness, optimize knowledge systems, build autonomous agents, develop intelligent assistants, pioneer automated identification of product gaps.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC