Applied Scientist, Amazon Autos

Amazon; New York (NY); On-site; USD 136,000 - 224,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company on an exhilarating journey to redefine the vehicle shopping experience. As an Applied Scientist, you will leverage your expertise in machine learning and generative AI to create innovative solutions that enhance customer experiences. Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team to drive impactful business outcomes while exploring new problem spaces. This role offers the chance to work at the forefront of technology, where your contributions will shape the future of automotive discovery and shopping. If you thrive on challenges and are passionate about innovation, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

Medical Benefits

401(k) Plan

Employee Discounts

Paid Time Off

Flexible Work Hours

Qualifications

• 3+ years of building models for business applications.
• Experience in patents or publications at top-tier conferences.

Responsibilities

• Shape the roadmap for applying science to solve customer problems.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define project requirements.

Skills

Machine Learning

Deep Learning

Generative AI

Reinforcement Learning

Java

Python

C++

Algorithms and Data Structures

Data Mining

Education

PhD in Computer Science

Master's in Computer Science

Tools

Unix/Linux

High-Performance Computing

Job description

Job ID: 2814976 | Amazon Advertising LLC

Interested in building something new? Join the Amazon Autos team on an exhilarating journey to redefine the vehicle shopping experience.
This is an opportunity to be part of the Amazon's new business ventures. Our goal is to create innovative automotive discovery and shopping experiences on Amazon, providing customers with greater convenience and a wider selection.
You'll work in a creative, fast-paced, and entrepreneurial environment at the center of Amazon's innovation. As a key member, you'll play a pivotal role in helping us achieve our mission. We are looking for a highly accomplished Applied Science professional drive our science strategy, foster a culture of data-driven decision-making, and drive impactful business outcomes through advanced state-of-the-art science methodologies.
If you're enthusiastic about innovating and delivering exceptional shopping experiences to customers, thrive on new challenges, and excel at solving complex problems using top-notch ML models, LLM and GenAI techniques, then you're the perfect candidate for this role. Strong business acumen and interpersonal skills are a must, as you'll work closely with business owners to understand customer needs and design scalable solutions.
Join us on this exhilarating journey and be part of redefining the vehicle shopping experience.


Key job responsibilities
As an Applied Scientist in Amazon Autos, you will:

- Shape the roadmap and strategy for applying science to solve customer problems in the Amazon AutoStore domain.
- Drive big picture innovations with clear roadmaps for intermediate delivery.
- Apply your skills in areas such as deep learning and reinforcement learning while building scalable solutions for business problems.
- Produce and deliver models that help build best-in-class customer experiences and build systems that allow us to deploy these models to production with low latency and high throughput.
- Utilize your Generative AI, time series and predictive modeling skills, and creative problem-solving skills to drive new projects from ideation to implementation.
- Interface with business customers, gathering requirements and delivering science solutions.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including software engineers, data scientists, and product managers, to define project requirements, establish success metrics, and deliver high-quality solutions.
- Effectively communicate complicated machine learning concepts to multiple partners.
- Research new and innovative machine learning approaches.



A day in the life
In this role, you will be part of a multidisciplinary team working on one of Amazon's newest business ventures. As a key member, you will collaborate closely with engineering, product, design, operations, and business development to bring innovative solutions to our customers.
Your science expertise will be leveraged to research and deliver novel solutions to existing problems, explore emerging problem spaces, and create new knowledge. You will invent and apply state-of-the-art technologies, such as large language models, machine learning, natural language processing, and computer vision, to build next-generation solutions for Amazon.
You'll publish papers, file patents, and work closely with engineers to bring your ideas to production.


About the team
This is a critical role for Amazon Autos team with a vision to create innovative automotive discovery and shopping experiences on Amazon, providing customers better convenience and more selection. We’re collaborating with other experienced teams at Amazon to define the future of how customers research and shop for cars online.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 3+ years of building models for business application experience
- PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience
- 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
- Experience building complex software systems, especially involving deep learning, machine learning and computer vision, that have been successfully delivered to customers

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $136,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223,400/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits . This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

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