Applied Scientist, Personalised Commerce at Scale

Amazon Inc.; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Development Centre (London) Limited in London is seeking an Applied Scientist for the Prime Video Commerce Insights team. You will develop and deploy customer-facing ML models, analyze large-scale user behavior data, and push experiments from concept to production, impacting hundreds of millions of customers.

You will collaborate with engineers and product managers to translate customer problems into ML solutions, publish results, and help shape our science roadmap in a fast-moving

Qualifications

• Experience in patents or publications at 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

Machine learning models

Java/C++/Python

Research

Education

PhD

Master's in CS/CE/ML

Tools

Unix/Linux

Job description

Amazon Development Centre (London) Limited in London is seeking an Applied Scientist for the Prime Video Commerce Insights team. You will develop and deploy customer-facing ML models, analyze large-scale user behavior data, and push experiments from concept to production, impacting hundreds of millions of customers.

You will collaborate with engineers and product managers to translate customer problems into ML solutions, publish results, and help shape our science roadmap in a fast-moving