Senior Applied Scientist, Personalization & Recommendations AI

Amazon Science; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 143,000 - 193,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon Science in Seattle, WA seeks an experienced Senior Applied Scientist to lead research, design, and development of AI technologies for Personalization. You will work with large datasets and compute resources to build and ship models that improve the customer shopping experience.

Responsibilities include inventing and evaluating new ML techniques, collaborating with scientists, engineers, and product partners, and launching features and systems.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of building models for business application experience.
• PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience.
• Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language.
• Experience in algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, high-performance computing.
• Experience using Unix/Linux
• Experience in professional software development

Responsibilities

• Using Amazon’s large-scale computing resources, you will ask research questions about customer behavior, build state-of-the-art models to optimize the shopping experience, and run these models directly on the retail website.
• Develop AI solutions for Recommendation systems using Deep learning, LLMs, Reinforcement Learning, distillation, and Optimization methods.
• Work closely with engineers and product managers to design, implement and launch AI solutions end-to-end.
• Design and conduct offline and online (A/B) experiments to evaluate proposed solutions based on in-depth data analyses.
• Effectively communicate technical and non-technical ideas with teammates and stakeholders.
• Stay up-to-date with advancements and the latest modeling techniques in the field.

Job description

Amazon Science in Seattle, WA seeks an experienced Senior Applied Scientist to lead research, design, and development of AI technologies for Personalization. You will work with large datasets and compute resources to build and ship models that improve the customer shopping experience.

Responsibilities include inventing and evaluating new ML techniques, collaborating with scientists, engineers, and product partners, and launching features and systems.