Applied Scientist II: GenAI for Personalized Learning

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

RSUs

Job summary

Amazon’s Central Learning Solutions Science team in Operations is hiring an Applied Scientist II to lead research and development of learning initiatives, mapping learner journeys, and delivering real-time personalized recommendations via chat assistants.

You will collaborate with a large team of experts to move the state of learning experience research forward, communicating science insights to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Apply science models to extract actionable information from learning feedback.
• Build recommender systems to generate personalized learning interventions for Ops employees to drive business outcomes and behavioral changes.
• Leverage GenAI/Large Language Model (LLM) technology for scaling and automating learning experience workflows.
• Design and implement metrics to evaluate the effectiveness of AI models.
• Present deep dives and analysis to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, ensuring clarity and understanding and influencing business partners.

Skills

Java

C++

Python

Algorithms & data structures

Numerical optimization

Data mining

Distributed computing

LLM / GenAI experience

Speech/NLP familiarity

Education

PhD in CS/CE/ML or related field

MS with 4+ years in CS/CE/ML

Tools

MxNet

TensorFlow

Job description

Amazon’s Central Learning Solutions Science team in Operations is hiring an Applied Scientist II to lead research and development of learning initiatives, mapping learner journeys, and delivering real-time personalized recommendations via chat assistants.

You will collaborate with a large team of experts to move the state of learning experience research forward, communicating science insights to both technical and non-technical audiences.