Senior Data Scientist, Community Intelligence & AI

Amazon; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 159,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) plan

Paid time off

Job summary

Amazon's Community Intelligence Science & Engineering team seeks a Senior Data Scientist to advance AI-driven forecasting and causal inference that informs operations. You'll partner across Last Mile to WA and other orgs to translate research into production systems.

You will design scalable ML pipelines, mentor teammates, and contribute to publications, while leveraging AWS services and diverse data sources to drive business impact in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of data querying languages (e.g. SQL) or scripting languages (e.g. Python) or statistical software (e.g. R, SAS, Matlab).
• 4+ years of data scientist experience.
• Experience with statistical models such as multinomial logistic regression.
• Knowledge of AWS tech stack (e.g., Redshift, S3, EC2, Glue).
• Experience working with scientists, economists, software developers, or product managers.

Responsibilities

• Design and deploy production ML forecasting systems with extended prediction horizons.
• Build and scale AI-powered analytics platforms processing large volumes of unstructured data.
• Collaborate with operational science teams to integrate insights into models and decision systems.
• Build automated causal discovery systems using knowledge graphs, LLMs, and document understanding.
• Develop NLP and GenAI applications including event detection and sentiment analysis.
• Partner with engineering teams to productionize models using AWS services with clear handoff criteria.
• Mentor junior scientists and contribute to a research culture with high-risk, high-reward innovation.
• Author internal and external scientific publications and technical documents.

Skills

SQL

Python

R

SAS

Matlab

AWS Redshift

S3

EC2

Glue

Statistical modeling

Causal inference

NLP

GenAI

ML forecasting

Tools

SageMaker

EMR

Lambda

Kinesis

Cloud services

Job description

Amazon's Community Intelligence Science & Engineering team seeks a Senior Data Scientist to advance AI-driven forecasting and causal inference that informs operations. You'll partner across Last Mile to WA and other orgs to translate research into production systems.

You will design scalable ML pipelines, mentor teammates, and contribute to publications, while leveraging AWS services and diverse data sources to drive business impact in a fast-paced environment.