Sr. Applied Scientist - Video Demand Amazon
Seattle, WA

Job Description

A quiet revolution is underway in how people consume video. People are watching more video than ever, but the viewing medium is shifting from broadcast & cable TV to smartphones, connected TVs, and OTT apps. As viewing habits shift, a tremendous opportunity is emerging to shape the future of video advertising. Amazon Advertising is building new products and services to address that opportunity, and we are looking for engineers and scientists help us get there.

Amazon's Video DSP enables programmatic video advertisers to place, configure, measure, and optimize their video advertising campaigns. We are innovating at the intersection of advertising, e-commerce, and entertainment. We're looking for intuitive, entreprenurial Applied Scientists who can look at the mass of data generated by video advertising, intuitively develop hypotheses on optimization opportunities, quickly test these out, then deliver to our engineers for production.

As an Applied scientist on the Video Demand team, you will provide machine learning leadership to the team that helps accelerate the business. You will build various data and machine learning models that help us innovate different ways to enhance advertiser and customer experience. You will need to be entrepreneurial, wear many hats, and work in a highly collaborative environment. We like to move fast, experiment, iterate and then scale quickly, thoughtfully balancing speed and quality.

Responsibilities:

* Drive collaborative research and creative problem solving
* Constructively critique peer research and mentor junior scientists and engineers
* Create experiments and prototype implementations of new learning algorithms and prediction techniques
* Collaborate with engineering teams to design and implement software solutions for science problems
* Contribute to progress of the Amazon and broader research communities by producing publications

Video Demand is part of Amazon Advertising. Amazon Advertising has a top tier culture, with talented engineers who take great pride in both the technical and business contribution of their work. As part of Amazon Advertising you will be have a significant impact Amazon's business, advertisers, and customers.