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Every member of the team is expected to build customer (advertiser) facing features, contribute to the collaborative spirit within the team, publish, patent, and bring innovative research to raise the bar within the team.\nYou will:\n- Drive the invention and development of novel methods for the use of Generative AI in ads\n- Work closely and integrate end-to-end proof-of-concept Machine Learning projects that have a high degree of ambiguity, scale and complexity.\n- Build interface-oriented systems that use Machine Learning models, perform proof-of-concept, experiment, optimize, and deploy your models into production; work closely with software engineers to assist in productionizing your ML models.\n- Run A/B experiments, gather data, and perform statistical analysis.\n- Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large-scale data analysis, machine-learning model development, model validation and serving.\n- Mentor and help recruit Applied Scientists to the team.\n- Present results and explain methods to senior leadership.\n- Willingness to publish research at internal and external top scientific venues.\n- Write and pursue IP submissions.\nKey job responsibilities\nThis role is focused on developing Machine Learning and Generative AI methods to augment generative imagery and videos. You will develop new paradigms that will impact how users can engage and benefit from GenAI and that are at the core of advertising-facing tools that we are launching. You will also work on development of ML and GenAI models. You will conduct literature reviews to stay on the top of the field. You will regularly engage with product managers, who will partner with you to productize your work. \nAbout the team\nBasic qualifications\n- PhD, or a Master's degree and experience in CS, CE, ML or related field\n- Experience in patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals\n- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language\n- Experience in any of the following areas: algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, high-performance computing\n- Experience in building machine learning models for business application\n- Experience with experimental design\n- Experience with programming languages such as Python, Java, C++\n- Experience with researching, publishing and or developing human-in-the-loop systems\nPreferred qualifications\n- Experience using Unix/Linux\n- Experience in professional software development\nAmazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.\nOur inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. 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