Senior Data Scientist, Community Intelligence & AI

Amazon; New York (NY); On-site; USD 175,000 - 237,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) Plan

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to join its Community Intelligence Science & Engineering team in NYC. You will shape applied AI and causal inference to influence operational models across Last Mile, Middle Mile, and WW Ops; translating analytical findings into executive-level strategy.

You will partner with product teams, scientists, and technical leaders to identify opportunities where community intelligence creates multiplicative business impact, balancing rigorous research with

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Design and deploy production ML forecasting systems with extended horizons using multi-modal data.
• Build and scale AI analytics platforms processing large volumes of unstructured data from social media, traditional media, and internal systems.
• Collaborate with operational science teams to integrate analytical insights and predictive signals into existing operational models and decision-making systems.
• Build automated causal discovery systems leveraging knowledge graphs, LLMs, and document understanding to uncover relationships between business actions and outcomes.
• Develop NLP and GenAI applications including event detection, sentiment analysis, cross-platform clustering, and multilingual insight synthesis.
• Partner with engineering teams to productionize models using AWS services (SageMaker, EMR, Lambda, Kinesis, Glue) with clear POC-to-production handoff criteria.
• Mentor junior scientists and contribute to building a research culture that balances high-risk, high-reward innovation with reliable product delivery.
• Author internal and externally-facing scientific publications and technical documents.

Skills

SQL

Python

R

SAS

Matlab

Multinomial logistic regression

AWS

Tools

AWS Redshift

S3

EC2

Glue

Job description

Amazon is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to join its Community Intelligence Science & Engineering team in NYC. You will shape applied AI and causal inference to influence operational models across Last Mile, Middle Mile, and WW Ops; translating analytical findings into executive-level strategy.

You will partner with product teams, scientists, and technical leaders to identify opportunities where community intelligence creates multiplicative business impact, balancing rigorous research with