Applied Scientist, Commerce Insights & Personalization

Prime Video & Amazon MGM Studios; Greater London; On-site; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Development Centre (London) Limited in London is seeking an Applied Scientist to join the Prime Video Commerce Insights team. You will develop and deploy customer-facing models, understand customer behaviour at scale, and explore emerging techniques that help us make better decisions faster.

This is a delivery-focused role within a high-visibility group of engineers and scientists, aimed at improving the customer experience for Prime Video, balancing business and technical constraints,

Qualifications

• Patents or publications in top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals.
• Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language.
• Experience in algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, high-performance computing.
• Experience in building machine learning models for business application.
• PhD, or a Master's degree and experience in CS, CE, ML or related field research.

Responsibilities

• Research, design, and implement machine learning approaches (e.g. reinforcement learning and recommendation systems) that personalise across different customer touch points.
• Collaborate with engineers to deploy and integrate successful experiment results into large-scale, complex Amazon production systems with low latency.
• Design and execute rigorous experiments to demonstrate the technical efficacy and business value of your methods.
• Act as a subject-matter expert and help define the science roadmap and research agenda in line with organisational priorities and production constraints.
• Provide machine learning thought leadership to technical and business leaders, thinking strategically about business, product, and technical challenges.
• Work with technical product managers to work backwards from what matters to customers and deliver ML-backed solutions.
• Share results with the team and wider scientific community through documents that are both statistically rigorous and compellingly relevant.

Skills

Java

C++

Python

Algorithms & data structures

Education

PhD or Master's in CS/CE/ML

Job description

Amazon Development Centre (London) Limited in London is seeking an Applied Scientist to join the Prime Video Commerce Insights team. You will develop and deploy customer-facing models, understand customer behaviour at scale, and explore emerging techniques that help us make better decisions faster.

This is a delivery-focused role within a high-visibility group of engineers and scientists, aimed at improving the customer experience for Prime Video, balancing business and technical constraints,