Applied Scientist II Amazon Search

Amazon; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 4,000,000; Full time

Job summary

ADCI - Karnataka is seeking an Applied Scientist II to advance search quality using NLP, ML, and DL techniques. You will design and deploy models for query understanding, semantic matching, and ranking across multilingual search interfaces.

You will lead research from problem framing through production deployment, partnering with engineers and scientists to deliver high-precision, low-latency solutions for Amazon's global customers.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of building ML models for business applications.
• PhD or Master’s degree in a relevant field.
• Experience with patents or publications in top-tier conferences or journals.
• Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language.
• Experience in algorithms, data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, high-performance computing.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end ML research projects from problem definition to production-ready solutions.
• Develop and deploy NLP/ML models for search relevance and user experience.
• Collaborate with software engineers to integrate models into scalable systems.

Skills

ML model development

Programming Java/C++/Python

Research publications

Algorithms & data structures

Education

PhD or Master's degree

Tools

Unix/Linux

Job description

Job Description:

Description

We are embarking on a multi-year journey to improve the shopping experience for customers globally. Amazon Search team creates customer-focused search solutions and technologies that make shopping delightful and effortless for our customers. Our goal is to understand what customers are looking for in whatever language happens to be their choice at the moment and help them find what they need in Amazon's vast catalog of billions of products — starting from the very first keystroke.

As Amazon expands to new interfaces, we are faced with the unique challenge of maintaining the bar on Search Results Quality and Search Autocomplete.

We are looking for a Applied Scientist II to work on improving search on Amazon using NLP, ML, and DL technology. As an Applied Scientist, you will lead our efforts in query understanding, semantic matching, and ranking. You will build systems that anticipate search query intent and surface the right results. As part of this role, you will develop high precision, high recall, and low latency solutions for search. Your solutions should work for all languages that Amazon supports and will be used in all Amazon locales world-wide. You will develop scalable science and engineering solutions that work successfully in production.

Key job responsibilities

As An Applied Scientist On The Team, You Will Lead Science Innovation To Improve The Customer Search Experience Through Higher-quality Search Results. You Will

• Develop and deploy ML models to produce relevant search results.
• Design and train semantic matching models (bi-encoders, cross-encoders, and distillation from large foundation models) for ranking and relevance.
• Develop reinforcement learning and reward-modeling approaches to continuously improve search results quality.
• Train multi-objective ranking and scoring systems that balance suggestion diversity, specificity, and relevance.
• Design and implement scalable model architectures optimized for strict latency constraints, including knowledge distillation, quantization, and efficient inference strategies for production deployment.
• Lead end-to-end science projects from problem formulation through production launch, collaborating closely with engineers and scientists within and outside the team to deliver customer-facing impact.

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of building machine learning models for business application experience
• PhD, or Master's degree
• 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience using Unix/Linux
• Experience in professional software development

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Company

ADCI - Karnataka

Job ID: A10497888

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