Senior Applied Scientist, Traffic Quality

Amazon is hiring a Senior Applied Scientist, Traffic Quality in Bengaluru, India. Level rates it ; you can apply on Amazon.

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Level rates this applied scientist role Builds AI ●●●●: the job is building AI systems.
The posting mentions TensorFlow, scikit-learn and Deep learning among its tools and skills.
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Design and implement machine learning and deep learning solutions to detect invalid traffic and bot networks at scale.

TensorFlowscikit-learnDeep learningGenerative Modeling

machine-learninganomaly-detectionalgorithmspython

Amazon Ads is a multi-billion dollar global business that delivers advertising experiences across Amazon's owned-and-operated properties (including Prime Video, Twitch, Fire TV, and Amazon.com), third-party publisher networks, and emerging channels like generative AI-powered shopping experiences. As one of the fastest-growing segments of Amazon, we operate at unprecedented scale across desktop, mobile, connected TV, and emerging surfaces.

Within Amazon Ads, Traffic Quality is a critical pillar of advertiser trust and marketplace integrity. Our mission is to build advanced capabilities that work at petabyte scale to detect sophisticated invalid traffic (IVT) which includes sophisticated non-human traffic, bot networks, and fraudulent engagement patterns across programmatic advertising. We are on a journey to establish Amazon Ads as an industry leader in traffic quality standards and transparency. Our research agenda focuses on staying ahead of adversarial actors through continuous innovation in detection methodologies, leveraging state-of-the-art techniques in deep learning and generative modeling, user behavior and multi-modal representation learning, anomaly detection, time-series analysis, and sparse labeling methods. We process billions of ad events daily, developing novel algorithms that balance precision and recall while operating under strict latency constraints. Our work directly protects hundreds of millions of dollars in advertiser spend annually while maintaining a seamless user experience.

Key job responsibilities
Strategic Leadership & Vision
- Define long-term science vision for Traffic Quality driven by advertiser and publisher needs, translating direction into actionable team plans.
- Solve strategically important business problems independently, delivering robust, scalable scientific solutions with limited guidance.
- Proactively identify technology gaps and business opportunities, determining resource allocation priorities.

Scientific Innovation & Execution
- Design and implement statistical and machine learning solutions to detect robotic and human traffic patterns across billions of daily ad events.
- Own full development cycle for production-level code handling billions of ad requests: design, prototype, A/B testing, and deployment.
- Stay current with scientific advancements and build publication strategy while championing excellence best practices.
- Directly protect hundreds of millions of dollars in advertiser spend annually while maintaining seamless user experience.
- Partner with engineers, product managers, and cross-functional teams to solve complex IVT detection problems and influence strategic initiatives.
- Mentor scientists on the team.

About the team
Here are a few papers published by the team:
1/ [Scaling Generative Pre-training for User Ad Activity Sequences. AdKDD 2023.](https://assets.amazon.science/b7/42/03be071743d5a57cb1656e6caa34/scaling-generative-pre-training-for-user-ad-activity-sequences.pdf)
2/ [SLIDR: Real-time Robot Detection On Online Ads, IAAI 2023, Deployed Highly Innovative Applications of AI Track (AAAI 2023)](https://assets.amazon.science/75/2f/3b7106b143f38f7f4d2806388ace/real-time-detection-of-robotic-traffic-in-online-advertising.pdf)
3/ [Self-supervised Representation Learning Across Sequential and Tabular Features Using Transformers, NeurIPS 2022, First Table Representation Learning Workshop](https://openreview.net/forum?id=wIIJlmr1Dsk)

Basic qualifications

- 3+ years of building machine learning models for business application experience
- PhD, or Master's degree and 6+ years of applied research experience
- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
- Experience with neural deep learning methods and machine learning

Preferred qualifications

- Experience with modeling tools such as R, scikit-learn, Spark MLLib, MxNet, Tensorflow, numpy, scipy etc.
- Experience with large scale distributed systems such as Hadoop, Spark etc.

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How we rate this

Senior Applied Scientist, Traffic Quality at Amazon rates 90 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Builds AI (AI Level 4 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Builds AI. The job is building AI systems.

●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

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Key facts

Senior Applied Scientist, Traffic Quality is an open job at Amazon.
Level rates this role AI Level 4 of 4: Builds AI.
The role is based in IN, KA, Bengaluru.
The job was posted on July 30, 2026.
Seniority: senior.
Applications are handled by Amazon. Apply on Amazon

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Skills and AI tools this role asks for

Machine learningAnomaly DetectionAlgorithmsPythonTensorFlowscikit-learnDeep learningGenerative Modeling

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