Senior Applied Scientist - Predictive Scoring, AWS Marketing Science

Amazon.com Inc

Seattle, WA

JOB DETAILS
SKILLS
A/B Testing, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Analysis Skills, Best Practices, Cross-Functional, Customer Acquisition, Customer Conversion, Data Modeling, Deep Learning, Establish Priorities, Expense Allocation, Industry/Trade Analysis, Machine Learning, Market Segmentation, Marketing, Mentoring, Metrics, Patents, Predictive Modeling, Production Systems, Retention Programs, Return on Investment (ROI), Web Application Framework, Website Conversion
LOCATION
Seattle, WA
POSTED
3 days ago

As a Senior Applied Scientist specializing in lead scoring and deep learning modeling, you will tackle complex challenges in machine learning and deep learning to redefine how our business engages with customers. You will design and deploy high-impact models that drive customer segmentation, adaptive recommendations, and predictive lead and account prioritization. Leveraging your expertise in deep learning, representation learning, and general modeling, you"ll help build solutions that directly influence business outcomes, collaborating with cross-functional teams to turn novel research into scalable, production-grade systems.

Key job responsibilities

  • Design and deploy predictive lead scoring models to optimize customer acquisition, conversion, and retention strategies using advanced techniques like survival analysis, graph networks, or transformer-based architectures.
  • Architect end-to-end ML pipelines for large-scale deep learning models, including data preprocessing, distributed training, model optimization, and real-time inference.
  • Publish research, file patents, and stay ahead of industry trends in the marketing science, propensity modeling, and customer journey prediction domains.
  • Innovate in multi-modal modeling (text, graph, behavioral, and temporal data) to enhance scoring accuracy across account and lead levels.
  • Conduct rigorous A/B testing, causal inference, and counterfactual analysis to measure model impact and iterate rapidly.
  • Collaborate with MLOps engineers to streamline model deployment, monitoring, and retraining using tools like AWS SageMaker, or MLflow and other internal tools.
  • Participate in science reviews to raise the science bar in our organization. This includes reviewing your work and the work of others.
  • Mentor junior scientists on ML methodology, experimentation design, and production best practices.
  • Define offline and online evaluation frameworks; establish success metrics tied to business outcomes (conversion rates, pipeline generation).

About the team

The AWS Marketing Science team builds the ML models and measurement systems that drive marketing decisions across Amazon Web Services. We own incrementality and valuation, ROI measurement, marketing attribution, propensity scoring, account and lead clustering, and next-best-action models. Our work directly influences how AWS allocates marketing spend, targets accounts, and measures effectiveness across billions in pipeline.

About the Company

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Amazon.com Inc

At Amazon, we don’t wait for the next big idea to present itself. We envision the shape of impossible things and then we boldly make them reality. So far, this mindset has helped us achieve some incredible things. Let’s build new systems, challenge the status quo, and design the world we want to live in. We believe the work you do here will be the best work of your life.

Wherever you are in your career exploration, Amazon likely has an opportunity for you. Our research scientists and engineers shape the future of natural language understanding with Alexa. Fulfillment center associates around the globe send customer orders from our warehouses to doorsteps. Product managers set feature requirements, strategy, and marketing messages for brand new customer experiences. And as we grow, we’ll add jobs that haven’t been invented yet.

It’s Always Day 1
At Amazon, it’s always “Day 1.” Now, what does this mean and why does it matter? It means that our approach remains the same as it was on Amazon’s very first day – to make smart, fast decisions, stay nimble, invent, and stay focused on delighting our customers. In our 2016 shareholder letter, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos shared his thoughts on how to keep up a Day 1 company mindset. “Staying in Day 1 requires you to experiment patiently, accept failures, plant seeds, protect saplings, and double down when you see customer delight,” he wrote. “A customer-obsessed culture best creates the conditions where all of that can happen.” You can read the full letter here

Our Leadership Principles
Our Leadership Principles help us keep a Day 1 mentality. They aren’t just a pretty inspirational wall hanging. Amazonians use them, every day, whether they’re discussing ideas for new projects, deciding on the best solution for a customer’s problem, or interviewing candidates. To read through our Leadership Principles from Customer Obsession to Bias for Action, visit https://www.amazon.jobs/principles
COMPANY SIZE
10,000 employees or more
INDUSTRY
Retail
FOUNDED
1994
WEBSITE
http://Amazon.com/militaryroles