# Senior Applied Scientist, Traffic Quality Source: https://realanalystjobs.com/job/senior-applied-scientist-traffic-quality-amazon-e372a4bd Senior Applied Scientist, Traffic Quality at Amazon, an on-site role based in Bengaluru, India. Experience level: 3+ Years. Posted on 30 July 2026, read from Amazon's own careers page (Amazon), which RealAnalystJobs re-checks daily and removes the role when it closes. Updated 15 November 2026. ## Key facts - Company: [Amazon](https://realanalystjobs.com/companies/amazon) - Location: Bengaluru, India - Work mode: On-site - Posted: Jul 30, 2026 - Employment type: Full time - Experience level: 3+ Years - Source: Amazon's careers page (Amazon), re-checked daily Skills: [Python](https://realanalystjobs.com/skills/python), Spark, [R](https://realanalystjobs.com/skills/r) ## Visa sponsorship The posting does not say. Amazon had H-1B petitions approved for 12,010 workers in fiscal year 2026 (USCIS). That is history, not a promise for this role. [See the record](https://realanalystjobs.com/companies/amazon#h1b-record) ## About this role 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. Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner. Description from Amazon's public careers feed, reproduced so you can read the role here. Apply on the company's own site; Real Analyst Jobs never submits anything for you. ## How to apply Open [this role on Real Analyst Jobs](https://realanalystjobs.com/job/senior-applied-scientist-traffic-quality-amazon-e372a4bd) and use Apply now there to reach the employer's application. The listing is re-checked against Amazon's careers page daily and removed when it closes. ## Amazon 583 open analyst roles on Real Analyst Jobs. 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