AI Risk Scientist - Marketplace Integrity & Prevention

Amazon; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 143,000 - 193,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RSUs

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Job summary

Amazon seeks an Applied Scientist for Global Risk Intelligence and Prevention to lead the development of advanced AI solutions that prevent marketplace abuse and enable Selling Partners to grow securely. You will design, develop, and deploy scalable AI systems using large-scale multimodal data to detect abuse across the seller lifecycle.

The role emphasizes building interpretability pipelines, cross-team collaboration, and deploying models into production with robust evaluation.

Qualifications

• PhD, or Master’s degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Design and build predictive risk detection models using advanced AI techniques, including NLP and LLMs to identify bad actors and prevent marketplace abuse at scale.
• Own the end-to-end scientific solution from risk quantification through decision optimization, determining the appropriate actions to take across varying risk levels.
• Develop interpretability and reasoning pipelines that provide transparent explanations for model decisions to support enforcement and seller experience.
• Work with risk programs across the seller lifecycle to define detection strategies, translate operational patterns into automated systems, and prioritize high-impact risk areas.
• Partner with engineering teams to deploy models into production, define evaluation frameworks, and collaborate with operations and verification teams to measure and improve detection effectiveness.

Skills

Java

C++

Python

Algorithms

Education

PhD or Master’s degree in CS/CE/ML

Tools

Java

C++

Python

Job description

Amazon seeks an Applied Scientist for Global Risk Intelligence and Prevention to lead the development of advanced AI solutions that prevent marketplace abuse and enable Selling Partners to grow securely. You will design, develop, and deploy scalable AI systems using large-scale multimodal data to detect abuse across the seller lifecycle.

The role emphasizes building interpretability pipelines, cross-team collaboration, and deploying models into production with robust evaluation.