Applied Scientist, Tablets — Shape Tablet Discovery with ML

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

Job summary

Amazon Tablet team is seeking an Applied Scientist to shape the customer experience on our tablets. You will design and deploy state-of-the-art recommendation models at scale, using large-scale computing resources and collaborating with other engineers.

You will explore questions about customer behavior, productionize models, participate in the ML community, and mentor colleagues with strong interests in ML and generative AI. Your work directly benefits customers.

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 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 deploy state-of-the-art recommendation models.
• Ask research questions about customer behavior and design models to help customers discover content.
• Deploy models to production alongside other engineers.
• Mentor other engineers with a strong interest in ML and generative AI.

Skills

ML model development

Production deployment

Java

C++

Python

Education

PhD

Master's degree

Tools

Unix/Linux

Software development

Job description

Amazon Tablet team is seeking an Applied Scientist to shape the customer experience on our tablets. You will design and deploy state-of-the-art recommendation models at scale, using large-scale computing resources and collaborating with other engineers.

You will explore questions about customer behavior, productionize models, participate in the ML community, and mentor colleagues with strong interests in ML and generative AI. Your work directly benefits customers.