Sr. Principal Applied Scientist, Sponsored Products

The Sponsored Products & Brands team is looking for a Sr. Principal Scientist to help our millions of shoppers intuitively navigate our vast inventory by harnessing the power of GenAI and large language models.

Amazon Advertising is one of Amazon's fastest growing and most profitable businesses. As a core product offering within our advertising portfolio, SPB helps merchants, retail vendors, and brand owners succeed via advertising, which grows the incremental sales of their products sold through Amazon. The SPB team's primary goals are to help shoppers discover new products they love, be the most efficient way for advertisers to meet their business objectives, and build a sustainable business that continuously innovates on behalf of customers. Our products and solutions are strategically important to enable our Retail and Marketplace businesses to drive long-term growth. We deliver billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks and break fresh ground in product and technical innovations every day!

As a Senior Principal Scientist in Sponsored Products, you will have deep subject matter expertise in the area of large language models and generative AI across various modalities. You will work with multiple teams of scientists and engineers to translate business and functional requirements into concrete deliverables. You will invent new product experiences that enable our shoppers to easily navigate our vast inventory either via search queries, multi-turn conversations, or other modes of input. You will use your expertise to process shopper behavior and product catalog information to generate accurate shopper representations and use it to accurately predict shoppers propensity to engage with our products. You will have the opportunity to invent new approaches that help our advertisers achieve better performance using natural language as the interface. Your inputs will shape how our marketplace understands the shopper and advertiser context to present delightful discovery opportunities to our shoppers.

You will liaise with internal Amazon partners and work on bringing state-of-the-art LLM/GenAI models to production. You will stay abreast of the latest developments in the field of GenAI and identify opportunities to improve the efficiency and productivity of the team. You will define a long-term science vision for our advertising business, driven by our customer’s needs, and translate it into actionable plans for our team of of applied scientists, and engineers. Finally, you will work with academic partners to support our in-house talent with direct access to cutting edge research and mentoring.