Senior Applied Scientist, Smart Home AI & Personalization

Amazon; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

RRSP

DPSP

Paid time off

Well-being resources

Job summary

Amazon's Alexa Smart Home Science team seeks a Senior Applied Scientist to own a major workstream's scientific direction, turning ambiguous problems into production systems that improve customer experiences across millions of homes.

You will define the research agenda, partner with engineering to deploy models, and mentor other scientists, influencing product and technical roadmaps beyond your team.

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.

Responsibilities

• Independently identify, frame, and solve ill-defined research problems tied to broad Smart Home problem areas, delivering with limited guidance.
• Define system-level technical requirements and partner with engineering teams to adapt scientific techniques to meet production constraints (latency, cost, reliability), making appropriate tradeoffs.
• Own the science strategy and roadmap for a workstream; anticipate future business and technical requirements.
• Design and run rigorous experimentation and evaluation to validate approaches and quantify customer/business impact.
• Build consensus on scientific approach and best practices across multiple teams; influence product features and technical direction beyond your own team.
• Actively mentor and develop other scientists, and raise the bar in hiring.
• Contribute to the internal and external scientific community through publications, patents, and dissemination of scientific artifacts.

Skills

Machine learning

Deep learning

Programming (Java/C++/Python)

Mentoring

Education

PhD or MS + 6+ years of applied research

Tools

R

scikit-learn

Spark

Job description

Amazon's Alexa Smart Home Science team seeks a Senior Applied Scientist to own a major workstream's scientific direction, turning ambiguous problems into production systems that improve customer experiences across millions of homes.

You will define the research agenda, partner with engineering to deploy models, and mentor other scientists, influencing product and technical roadmaps beyond your team.