Applied Scientist, Personalization for Streaming Commerce

Amazon Science; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Science 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 behavior at scale, and explore techniques to improve decisions quickly.

This is a delivery-focused role within a high-visibility multidisciplinary group solving challenges at Amazon’s scale. You will lead research that ships to production, partnering with engineers and senior leaders to improve the customer experience for

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 any of the following areas: 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.

Skills

Machine learning

Research

Publication record

Java

Python

C++

Distributed computing

Numerical optimization

Education

PhD or MS in CS/CE/ML

Tools

Unix/Linux

Distributed computing frameworks

Job description

Amazon Science 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 behavior at scale, and explore techniques to improve decisions quickly.

This is a delivery-focused role within a high-visibility multidisciplinary group solving challenges at Amazon’s scale. You will lead research that ships to production, partnering with engineers and senior leaders to improve the customer experience for