Applied Scientist, Marketplace Risk & Abuse Prevention

Socket.dev; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 143,000 - 193,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance (medical, dental, etc

RSUs

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon in Seattle, WA is seeking an Applied Scientist to lead the development of advanced AI solutions for Seller Abuse Prevention and risk detection across the global marketplace.

You will design, develop, and deploy scalable AI models that detect bad actors while enabling Selling Partners to grow safely; work with large multi-modal data, evaluate models, and collaborate with engineering teams to put solutions into production.

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, 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 Natural Language Processing including LLMs and agents to proactively 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, actionable explanations for model decisions to support enforcement and seller experience
• Work with risk programs across the seller lifecycle to define detection strategies, translate operational investigation 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

Data structures

Numerical optimization

Data mining

Parallel computing

Distributed computing

High-performance computing

Unix/Linux

Software development

Education

PhD or MS + 4+ years CS/CE/ML

Job description

Amazon in Seattle, WA is seeking an Applied Scientist to lead the development of advanced AI solutions for Seller Abuse Prevention and risk detection across the global marketplace.

You will design, develop, and deploy scalable AI models that detect bad actors while enabling Selling Partners to grow safely; work with large multi-modal data, evaluate models, and collaborate with engineering teams to put solutions into production.