Applied Scientist, Private Brands Discovery

Amazon; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading e-commerce firm in Vancouver is seeking an Applied Scientist for the Private Brands Discovery team. This role focuses on designing innovative machine learning solutions to enhance customer product discovery and drive business impact. The candidate will leverage techniques like causal ML and statistical inference while collaborating closely with teams across the organization. Ideal applicants will possess a PhD or Master's degree with 3+ years of relevant experience in building models for business applications and strong programming skills in languages such as Python and Java.

Benefits

Health insurance

Retirement savings plan

Paid time off

Qualifications

• 3+ years of building models for business applications.
• Experience in patents or publications at top-tier conferences.
• Strong programming experience in relevant languages.

Responsibilities

• Drive applied science projects in machine learning end-to-end.
• Present results to both technical and business leadership.
• Mentor junior scientists and engineers.

Skills

Causal ML

Python

Machine Learning pipelines

Data analysis

Statistical inference

Education

PhD or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Machine Learning, or related field

Tools

Java

C++

Unix/Linux

Job description

Applied Scientist, Private Brands Discovery

The Private Brands Discovery team designs innovative machine learning solutions to drive customer awareness for Amazon’s own brands and help customers discover products they love. Private Brands Discovery is an interdisciplinary team of Scientists and Engineers, who incubate and build disruptive solutions using cutting-edge technology to solve some of the toughest science problems at Amazon. To this end, the team employs methods from Natural Language Processing, Deep learning, multi-armed bandits and reinforcement learning, Bayesian Optimization, causal and statistical inference, and econometrics to drive discovery across the customer journey. Our solutions are crucial for the success of Amazon’s own brands and serve as a beacon for discovery solutions across Amazon.

This is a high visibility opportunity for someone who wants to have business impact, dive deep into large-scale problems, enable measurable actions on the consumer economy, and work closely with scientists and engineers. As a scientist, you bring business and industry context to science and technology decisions. You set the standard for scientific excellence and make decisions that affect the way we build and integrate algorithms. Your solutions are exemplary in terms of algorithm design, clarity, model structure, efficiency, and extensibility. You tackle intrinsically hard problems, acquiring expertise as needed. You decompose complex problems into straightforward solutions. With a focus on bias for action, this individual will be able to work equally well with Science, Engineering, Economics and business teams.

Key job responsibilities

• Experience in causal ML and treatment effect estimation, including methods like propensity scoring, doubly robust estimators, and uplift modeling. Strong background in Python, ML pipelines, and deploying models to production with robust monitoring and evaluation. Familiarity with causal inference frameworks and translating business questions into actionable causal insights.
• Drive applied science projects in machine learning end-to-end: from ideation over prototyping to launch. For example, starting from deep scientific thinking about new ways to support customers’ journeys through discovery, you analyze how customers discover, review and purchase Private Brands to innovate marketing and merchandising strategies.
• Propose viable ideas to advance models and algorithms, with supporting argument, experiment, and eventually preliminary results.
• Invent ways to overcome technical limitations and enable new forms of analyses to drive key technical and business decisions.
• Present results, reports, and data insights to both technical and business leadership.
• Constructively critique peer research and mentor junior scientists and engineers.
• Innovate and contribute to Amazon’s science community and external research communities.

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of building models for business application experience
• PhD, or Master\'s degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience
• Experience in patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals
• Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
• Experience in any of the following areas: algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, high-performance computing

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience using Unix/Linux
• Experience in professional software development

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. As a total compensation company, Amazon\'s package may include other elements such as sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, basic life & AD&D insurance), Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP), Deferred Profit Sharing Plan (DPSP), paid time off, and other resources to improve health and well-being. We thank all applicants for their interest, however only those interviewed will be advised as to hiring status.

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