Applied Scientist II, CMT

Amazon Science; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Science in Bengaluru seeks an Applied Scientist II to advance the Competitive Monitoring technology, tackling ML, LLM production, and recommender system challenges at scale.

You will lead research, mentor junior scientists, collaborate with engineers on LLD/HLD designs, and communicate insights to stakeholders. A strong record of publishing or patents and proficiency in Java, C++, and Python are valued.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of building models for business applications.
• PhD or Master's degree in a related field.
• Publications or patents in top-tier venues.
• Proficiency in Java, C++, Python.
• Experience with algorithms, data structures, and numerical optimization.

Responsibilities

• Set team directions as a thought leader.
• Mentor junior scientists and provide critical guidance.
• Collaborate with engineers on LLD and HLD to solve business problems.
• Communicate via writing and talks and align with stakeholders.

Skills

Java

C++

Python

ML model building

Communication skills

Mentorship

Education

PhD or Master's degree in a related field

Job description

As a member of the CMT team, you'll play a key role in the evolution of our Competitive Monitoring systems to solve significantly complex and interesting technical challenges in machine learning, large language models in production, and recommender systems to name a few. The team's work directly impacts customer experience at a worldwide scale.

Key job responsibilities

• Thought leader on the team and help set team directions
• Research multiple problem domains, suggest various approaches to try and be as hands-on as needed while providing more junior scientists with critical mentorship
• Collaborate with engineers to come up with the right LLD and HLD to solve key business problems
• Strong emphasis on communication via writing, internal and external talks, and being able to align with multiple stakeholders

A day in the life

As an Applied scientist II, a typical day will involve aligning with key product, engineering and business stakeholders ; advising junior scientists on the work they are doing ; reading current research papers and staying up-to-date on AI research ; diving deep as needed to improve CMT models and addressing stakeholders from the science perspective ; writing python code

Basic Qualifications

• 4+ years of building 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 in state-of-the-art deep learning models architecture design and deep learning training and optimization and model pruning
• Experience in designing experiments and statistical analysis of results

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