Data Scientist II, Amazon Currency Convertor

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

RSUs

Paid time off

401(k) matching

Job summary

Amazon Payments Data Science team seeks a Data Scientist to build analytical solutions for the Currency convertor space. You will drive the analytics roadmap, delivering descriptive and predictive insights using Gen AI, LLMs, and traditional ML techniques.

Collaboration with internal stakeholders and cross-functional teams will be essential to solve problems and raise operational efficiency. You will work with large datasets, perform text analytics, segmentation, and forecasting, and contribute

Qualifications

• 2+ years of data scientist experience.
• 3+ years of data querying languages (e.g. SQL), scripting languages (e.g. Python) or statistical/mathematical software (e.g. R, SAS, Matlab, etc.) experience.
• 3+ years of machine learning/statistical modeling data analysis tools and techniques, and parameters that affect their performance experience.
• Experience applying theoretical models in an applied environment.

Responsibilities

• Understand the applications of causal inference models on real datasets.
• Understand the business reality behind large sets of data and develop meaningful solutions comprising analytics as well as marketing management.
• Work closely with internal stakeholders like business teams, engineering teams and partner teams and align them with respect to your focus area.
• Innovate by adapting new modeling techniques and procedures.
• Effective exploratory data analysis and model building using regression and classification techniques (Random Forest, XGBoost, Keras).
• Fine tuning of Amazon LLMs to handle large blocks of text and use Generative AI for summarization tasks.

Skills

SQL

Python

R/SAS/Matlab

Machine Learning

Data Analysis

Tools

Random Forest

XGBoost

Keras

Job description

How to use the world’s richest collection of e-commerce data to improve payments experience for our customers? Amazon Payments Data Science team seeks a Data Scientist for building analytical solutions that will address increasingly complex business questions in the Amazon Currency convertor space.

Amazon.comhas a culture of data-driven decision-making and demands insights that are timely, accurate, and actionable. This team provides a fast-paced environment where every day brings new challenges and new opportunities.

As a Data Scientist in this team, you will be driving the analytics roadmap and will provide descriptive and predictive solutions to the Amazon currency convertor business team through a combination of Gen AI, LLM and other machine learning techniques for text analytics, segmentation and prediction. You will need to collaborate effectively with internal stakeholders, cross-functional teams to solve problems, create operational efficiencies, and deliver successfully against high organizational standards.

Key job responsibilities

• Understand the applications of causal inference models on real datasets, including assessment of marketing campaigns, online experiments, uplift analysis etc
• Understand the business reality behind large sets of data and develop meaningful solutions comprising of analytics as well as marketing management
• Work closely with internal stakeholders like the business teams, engineering teams and partner teams and align them with respect to your focus are
• Innovate by adapting new modeling techniques and procedures
• Effective exploratory data analysis, and model building using industry standard regression and classification techniques such as Random Forest, XGBoost package, Keras framework
• Demonstrate thorough technical knowledge Fine Tuning of Amazon LLMs to handle large blocks of text, using Generative AI to solve for summarization tasks and prevent catastrophic forgetting, feature engineering of massive datasets,
• Be passionate about working with huge data sets and be someone who loves to bring datasets together to answer business questions. You should have deep expertise in creation and management of datasets
• Have exposure at implementing and operating stable, scalable data flow solutions from production systems into end-user facing applications/reports. These solutions will be fault tolerant, self-healing and adaptive

Basic Qualifications

• 2+ years of data scientist experience
• 3+ years of data querying languages (e.g. SQL), scripting languages (e.g. Python) or statistical/mathematical software (e.g. R, SAS, Matlab, etc.) experience
• 3+ years of machine learning/statistical modeling data analysis tools and techniques, and parameters that affect their performance experience
• Experience applying theoretical models in an applied environment

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in Python, Perl, or another scripting language
• Experience in a ML or data scientist role with a large technology company

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, WA, SEATTLE - 136,000.00 - 184,000.00 USD annually

USA, WA, Seattle - 136,000.00 - 184,000.00 USD annually