Senior Applied Scientist - Personalization for Ads at Scale
Amazon
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Arlington, VA · Posted November 4, 2026
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About the job
...Amazon's Prime Video Ads team is seeking an experienced lead applied scientist to advance personalization, relevance and causal inference at scale. You will own ML models for advertising decisions across millions of customers and titles, delivering production-ready systems...