Senior Applied Scientist, Global Classification Platform

Amazon Science; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 167,000 - 226,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon Science in Seattle is seeking Sr. Applied Scientists to build models that monitor and classify items at scale and ensure compliance with regulations. You will work on deep learning for search matching and ranking, processing huge datasets on AWS, and collaborate across backend, data engineering, and product teams.

The role emphasizes customer impact, technical leadership, and delivering scalable, observable ML systems. A PhD or MS with research experience is preferred.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of applied research experience.
• 3+ years of building machine learning models for business application experience.
• PhD, or Master's degree and 6+ years of applied research experience.
• Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language.
• Experience with neural deep learning methods and machine learning.

Responsibilities

• Designing and implementing new features and machine learned models, including the application of state-of-art deep learning to solve search matching and ranking problems, including filtering, new content indexing, and apply document understanding
• Conducting and coordinating process development leading to improved and streamlined processes for model development. Strong customer focus is essential
• Working closely with Product Managers to expand depth of our product insights with data, create a variety of experiments, and determine the highest-impact projects to include in planning roadmaps
• Providing technical and scientific guidance to your team members
• Communicating effectively with senior management as well as with colleagues from science, engineering, and business backgrounds
• Being a cultural leader that ensures teams are collecting, understanding, and using data to inform every decision that impacts our customers

Skills

Java

C++

Python

Neural networks

Machine learning

Education

PhD or Master''s with 6+ years of experience

Tools

R

scikit-learn

Spark MLLib

MxNet

TensorFlow

NumPy

SciPy

Job description

Amazon Science in Seattle is seeking Sr. Applied Scientists to build models that monitor and classify items at scale and ensure compliance with regulations. You will work on deep learning for search matching and ranking, processing huge datasets on AWS, and collaborate across backend, data engineering, and product teams.

The role emphasizes customer impact, technical leadership, and delivering scalable, observable ML systems. A PhD or MS with research experience is preferred.