Machine Learning Engineer II, Monetization, Sponsored Products

$129,300 - $223,600/Yr

Amazon - Seattle, WA

Full-time - Mid Level

Seattle, WA

Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, Book, and Miscellaneous Retailers

About the position

The Machine Learning Engineer II position in the Monetization team at Amazon focuses on building auction pricing systems for Sponsored Products. This role involves designing and developing scalable machine-learning pipelines and online serving components to optimize ad pricing on Amazon's search pages. The engineer will work within a cross-functional team to enhance the customer shopping experience while ensuring that sellers receive optimal value from their advertising efforts.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and production software to support scalable offline machine-learning pipelines and online serving components.
• Partner with scientists to build pricing systems to test auction monetization policies by running A/B experiments.
• Integrate solutions with high volume and low latency distributed systems.
• Measure the impact and customer response to solutions through rapid experimentation.
• Work closely with applied scientists to optimize the performance of machine-learning models and improve the team's machine learning productivity.

Requirements

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience of new and existing systems
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Nice-to-haves

• 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience
• Master's degree in computer science or equivalent
• Experience in machine learning, data mining, information retrieval, statistics or natural language processing

Benefits

• Equity options
• Sign-on payments
• Medical benefits
• Financial benefits
• Comprehensive employee benefits package