Software Development Engineer - Machine Learning, Sponsored Products

$129,300 - $223,600/Yr

Amazon - New York, NY

Full-time - Mid Level

New York, NY

10,001+ employees

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

About the position

The Software Development Engineer - Machine Learning position at Amazon Advertising focuses on developing and optimizing advertising products, specifically within the Sponsored Products team. This role involves building scalable software solutions that serve relevant ads to customers based on their search queries, utilizing advanced machine learning techniques and technologies. The engineer will work on high-volume, low-latency distributed systems, ensuring a seamless shopping experience for customers while maximizing ROI for sellers. Additionally, the position includes mentoring junior engineers and contributing to innovative projects in product search and information retrieval.

Responsibilities

• Drive the direction of technical solutions using deep learning, AWS, Auto ML, and real-time ML serving systems.
• Design, develop, and produce software to support scalable offline machine-learning pipelines and online serving components.
• Collaborate with applied scientists to optimize machine-learning model performance and improve team productivity.

Requirements

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of experience in design or architecture of new and existing systems.
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language.

Nice-to-haves

• 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, and testing.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
• Experience in machine learning, data mining, information retrieval, statistics, or natural language processing.

Benefits

• Medical insurance coverage
• Financial benefits including equity and sign-on payments
• Comprehensive employee benefits package