Senior Applied Scientist: Global Optima for Stores

Amazon; 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

RSUs

Job summary

Amazon's Stores Economics and Science (SEAS) team is seeking an Applied Scientist III to advance optimization and machine learning across Stores problems at scale. You will work with researchers and engineers to translate supply chain and marketplace challenges into mathematical formulations and deploy models that improve cost-to-serve and customer experience.

You will lead large-scale projects from research to production, mentor colleagues, and collaborate with product teams.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of building machine learning models for business applications.
• 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

• Lead large-scale science initiatives from research through production, translating supply chain and marketplace problems into mathematical frameworks and deploying algorithms that delight Amazon customers.
• Design and implement machine learning and statistical models - choosing the right method for each problem rather than defaulting to a single paradigm - and take ownership of their performance in production.
• Drive your team's scientific agenda by identifying new research opportunities, proposing initiatives, and aligning with technical leadership on priorities.
• Collaborate with scientists, engineers, and product teams across Amazon's Stores organization to prototype, validate, and scale solutions that accelerate partner teams' progress.
• Mentor and coach fellow scientists through code reviews, design reviews, and authoring of internal technical documents and external publications.

Skills

ML model building

Deep learning

Programming: Java/C++/Python

Education

PhD

Master's degree

Tools

R

scikit-learn

Spark MLLib

MxNet

TensorFlow

NumPy

SciPy

Job description

Amazon's Stores Economics and Science (SEAS) team is seeking an Applied Scientist III to advance optimization and machine learning across Stores problems at scale. You will work with researchers and engineers to translate supply chain and marketplace challenges into mathematical formulations and deploy models that improve cost-to-serve and customer experience.

You will lead large-scale projects from research to production, mentor colleagues, and collaborate with product teams.