Senior Applied Scientist, Commerce Insights

Amazon Science; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Science in London is seeking an Applied Scientist to join the Prime Video Commerce Insights team, developing and deploying customer-facing ML models at scale.

You will work with engineers and scientists to solve problems at massive scale, balancing objectives and positively impacting hundreds of millions of customers worldwide. Your research will ship to production and influence decisions across subscriptions and transactions.

Qualifications

• 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.
• Professional non-internship experience in a relevant field (CS, CE, ML)

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

ML models

Algorithms

Data mining

Distributed computing

High-performance computing

Education

Master's degree

Job description

Amazon Science in London is seeking an Applied Scientist to join the Prime Video Commerce Insights team, developing and deploying customer-facing ML models at scale.

You will work with engineers and scientists to solve problems at massive scale, balancing objectives and positively impacting hundreds of millions of customers worldwide. Your research will ship to production and influence decisions across subscriptions and transactions.