Data Scientist, Media Insights & AI Modeling

Amazon; Seattle, Northern (WA, KY); Hybrid; USD 136,000 - 184,000; Full time

Job summary

IMDb, an Amazon company based in Seattle, seeks a Data Scientist to frame business problems as science problems, ground truth data, and deploy scalable models. You will evaluate metrics, design sampling, and collaborate with policy partners to move models into production.

The role emphasizes responsible AI, end-to-end measurement ownership, and mentoring teammates in method choice while working with engineers to productionize insights.

Qualifications

• 4+ 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 data scientist or similar role involving data extraction, analysis, statistical modelling and communication experience
• 3+ years of machine learning/statistical modelling data analysis tools and techniques, and parameters that affect their performance experience
• Bachelor’s degree
• Experience applying theoretical models in an applied environment
• Knowledge of machine learning concepts and their application to reasoning and problem-solving

Responsibilities

• Frame loosely defined business problems as science problems, and iterate on the approach with limited guidance.
• Establish ground truth. Design the sampling, set the label quality bar, and build datasets across behavioural, text, and catalog domains.
• Define precision, recall, and coverage, and report what accuracy is achievable at what cost.
• Document failure modes, quantify the cost of each error type, and set thresholds with product and policy partners before deployment.
• Deliver methodology and analysis on medium-size projects, written so other scientists and business partners can both act on the results.
• Decide whether to train in-house, fine-tune, or call a language model, and make that call on evidence.
• Use generative AI tooling to scale your own throughput rather than only to build products.
• Ship solutions another scientist can test and reproduce.
• Partner with engineers to move models into production, then define drift monitoring and retraining triggers.
• Build deep knowledge of what the team owns, and mentor teammates on method choice.

Skills

SQL / Python / R

Data analysis & statistics

Machine learning concepts

Model deployment & evaluation

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

SAS

Matlab

R

SQL

Job description

IMDb, an Amazon company based in Seattle, seeks a Data Scientist to frame business problems as science problems, ground truth data, and deploy scalable models. You will evaluate metrics, design sampling, and collaborate with policy partners to move models into production.

The role emphasizes responsible AI, end-to-end measurement ownership, and mentoring teammates in method choice while working with engineers to productionize insights.