Overview As a Senior Applied Scientist on the SPB Bidding team, you will shape AI/ML features across Sponsored Products to improve traffic monetization and product discovery. You'll lead AI initiatives, drive end-to-end ML projects, and productionize models that balance business impact with shopper experience. You'll work with engineers and data scientists to run experiments, validate ideas, and scale data-driven solutions. This role sits at the intersection of science leadership, product impact, and scalable systems in a fast-growing advertising business.
Compensation / Benefits- RSUs
- sign-on payments
- health insurance
- 401(k) matching
- paid time off
- parantal leave
Responsibilities- Lead AI/ML features initiative for Sponsored Products Bidding
- Serve as technical leader in AI/ML across teams
- Analyze large datasets to derive insights that drive monetization and sales while preserving shopper experience
- Drive end-to-end AI/ML projects with high ambiguity, scale, and complexity
- Build models, run proofs-of-concept, experiment, optimize, and deploy in production with software collaboration
- Conduct A/B experiments, data collection, and statistical analysis
- Create scalable, automated processes for data analysis, model development, validation, and serving
- Research new AI/ML approaches and techniques
- Recruit Applied Scientists and provide mentorship to the team
Key requirements- 3+ years of building ML models for business applications
- PhD, or Master's degree and 6+ years of applied research experience
- Proficient in Java, C++, or Python
- Experience with neural networks and ML technologies
- Strong data analysis and modeling skills
- leadership and mentorship
- collaboration and teamwork
- problem solving and analytical thinking
- Python, Java, C++
- neural networks and deep learning
- AI/ML technologies
