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Senior Applied Scientist, Sponsored Products

Seattle, Washington, United StatesFull-time2026-10-22 → 2026-11-10

Core

Lead end-to-end Machine Learning and Generative AI projects to retrieve relevant sponsored products for shopper queries, serving billions of daily ad impressions.

Role type

Senior Applied Scientist (Generative AI & Search)

Builds

Production-grade GenAI applications, retrieval, targeting, and ranking systems for sponsored products.

Domain

E-commerce advertising, Search, Natural Language Processing

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Machine Learning, Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Statistical Analysis, A/B Experimentation, Python, Java, C++

Preferred skills

Large-scale ML systems, Machine Learning Infrastructure, Information Retrieval, Computational Advertising, Technical Leadership, Patents/Publications

Technologies

LLMs, RAG, Prompt Engineering, Fine-tuning, Multi-agent workflows, Deep Learning frameworks

Responsibilities

Lead end-to-end ML projects with high ambiguity and scale; Build, optimize, and deploy ML models into production; Analyze large-scale data sets to increase traffic monetization; Design and run A/B experiments; Recruit and mentor Applied Scientists.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities