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# Machine Learning Applied Scientist

- **Company:** Amazon.com, Inc.
- **Location:** Palo Alto, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Mxnet, Big Data, Distributed Systems, Apache Hadoop, Machine Learning, NumPy, Tensorflow, SciPy, Apache Spark, Deep Learning, Spark Mllib, Scikit Learn
- **Published:** June 28, 2026
- **Apply:** https://find.jobs/jobs-near-me/senior-applied-scientist-sponsored-products-and-brands-ads-response-prediction-palo-alto-california/2845333214-2/

## About the Role

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS - 3+ years of building machine learning models for business application experience

 - PhD, or Master's degree and 6+ years of applied research experience
 - Experience programming in Java, C+, Python or related language
 - Experience with neural deep learning methods and machine learning
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS - Experience with modeling tools such as R, scikit-learn, Spark MLLib, MxNet, Tensorflow, numpy, scipy etc.

 - Experience with large scale distributed systems such as Hadoop, Spark etc.

## Description

As a Machine Learning Applied Scientist, you will:

 * Conduct deep data analysis to derive insights to the business, and identify gaps and new opportunities
 * Develop scalable and effective machine-learning models and optimization strategies to solve business problems
 * Run regular A/B experiments, gather data, and perform statistical analysis
 * Work closely with software engineers to deliver end-to-end solutions into production
 * Improve the scalability, efficiency and automation of large-scale data analytics, model training, deployment and serving
 * Conduct research on new machine-learning modeling to optimize all aspects of Sponsored Products and Brands business


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