About the position
Amazon is investing heavily in building a world class advertising business and we are responsible for defining and delivering a collection of self-service performance advertising products that drive discovery and sales. Our products are strategically important to our Retail and Marketplace businesses driving long term growth. We deliver billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks daily and are breaking fresh ground to create world-class products. We are highly motivated, collaborative and fun-loving with an entrepreneurial spirit and bias for action. With a broad mandate to experiment and innovate, we are growing at an unprecedented rate with a seemingly endless range of new opportunities. Amazon's Sponsored Products advertising business is one of the fastest growing areas in the company. The Ads Response Prediction team owns multiple critical services and applications that empowers personalized Ads recommendations in Sponsored Products. We apply state-of-the-art deep learning and LLM based methods on Click-through-rate (CTR) prediction, with a mission of improving both shopper and advertiser experiences. By developing and using real-time shopper understanding signals, deep product embeddings and LLM-based insights, we provide personalization power for the entire Ads business within Amazon. As a Software Development Engineer in Machine Learning in this team, you will drive the technical direction of our offerings and solutions, working with many different technologies across the sponsored products organization. You will design, code, troubleshoot, and support scalable machine-learning pipelines and online serving systems. You will work closely with applied scientists to optimize the performance of CTR prediction models and infrastructure, and implement end-to-end solutions. What you create is also what you own. The business and technical challenges are significant. Fortunately, we have a broad mandate to experiment and innovate, and a seemingly endless range of new opportunities to build a big, sustainable business that helps Amazon continuously delight our customers.
Responsibilities
- Own technical vision and direction: Identify problems and develop MLOps solutions; embrace performance metrics and dive deep into business and data to drive innovation in Ads CTR prediction.
- Build and grow your team: Be a key contributor on an engineering team that delivers results, wearing many hats including software design, implementation, project management, and operations.
- Collaborate on product direction: Build and maintain strong relationships between engineering and science to ensure focus on delivering the right product for customers.
- Lead beyond your team: Be a key part of a small but growing community of engineering leaders who support their teams and contribute to the overall growth of the product development organization.
- Own your own shop: Ensure that the services delivered meet high standards for operational excellence.
Requirements
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language
Nice-to-haves
- 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- Experience in machine learning, data mining, information retrieval, statistics or natural language processing
Benefits
- Medical, financial, and/or other benefits
- Equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package
