Data Scientist: AI Experiments & Causal Inference

Amazon; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 136,000 - 184,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon’s Prime Video Science team is seeking a Data Scientist to design and analyze randomized experiments, evaluate AI systems, and turn results into actionable business insights. You will work across statistics, ML, and causal inference to ground decisions in customer data and influence content, licensing, and investment choices.

The role requires strong communication, the ability to translate complex analyses for technical and business audiences, and comfort with ambiguity in a fast-paced

Qualifications

• Master's degree or above in statistics, mathematics, data science, economics, finance, engineering, or computer science
• 2+ years of data scientist experience
• 2+ years of data querying languages (e.g. SQL), scripting languages (e.g. Python) or statistical/mathematical software (e.g. R, SAS, Matlab, etc.) experience
• 2+ years of machine learning, statistical modeling, data mining, and analytics techniques experience
• 1+ years of working with or evaluating AI systems experience

Responsibilities

• Design and analyze randomized experiments that validate and calibrate our models and measure the impact of content and product changes.
• Build evaluations and benchmarks for the AI systems the team develops and define what 'good' looks like for them.
• Run deep‑drive analyses on model outputs, experiment results, and customer behavior to surface the story behind the numbers and catch issues before they reach stakeholders.
• Apply statistical modeling, causal inference, and data analysis to answer business questions and inform major investment decisions.
• Communicate findings to business, finance, engineering, and science stakeholders through clear written analyses and business-facing documents.

Skills

SQL

Python

Machine learning

Statistical modeling

Data analysis

Education

Master's degree or above in a quantitative field

Ph.D. in a quantitative field

Tools

R

SAS

Matlab

Job description

Amazon’s Prime Video Science team is seeking a Data Scientist to design and analyze randomized experiments, evaluate AI systems, and turn results into actionable business insights. You will work across statistics, ML, and causal inference to ground decisions in customer data and influence content, licensing, and investment choices.

The role requires strong communication, the ability to translate complex analyses for technical and business audiences, and comfort with ambiguity in a fast-paced