Sr. Applied Scientist

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

RSUs

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon Science in Seattle is seeking a highly skilled Applied Scientist to develop and deploy large-scale machine learning models that tailor on-site recommendations and improve customer experience. You will work with researchers and software engineers to build state-of-the-art models, evaluate them with rigorous experiments, and mentor junior team members in a fast-paced, data-driven environment.

Experience with distributed systems, ML tooling, and scalable data pipelines will be a plus as we

Qualifications

• 4+ years building ML models for business applications.
• PhD or Master's with 4+ years of applied research is preferred.
• Proficiency in Java, C++, and Python for model development.

Responsibilities

• Develop state-of-the-art ML models to improve customer-facing recommendations.
• Collaborate with scientists and engineers to deploy models at scale.
• Mentor junior team members and contribute to the ML community.

Skills

Java

C++

Python

Deep learning

Education

PhD or Master's in a relevant field

Tools

R

scikit-learn

Spark MLLib

MxNet

TensorFlow

NumPy

SciPy

Hadoop

Spark

Job description

Description

How can we improve the customer experience by tailoring what we display on our pages based on available data? How do we build models that help us innovate in different ways to enhance customer experience? What is the relationship between what customers do on the site vs. what they actually buy? How do we do all of this without asking the customer a single question?

How can we improve the customer experience by tailoring what we display on our pages based on available data? How do we build models that help us innovate in different ways to enhance customer experience? What is the relationship between what customers do on the site vs. what they actually buy? How do we do all of this without asking the customer a single question?

Our team's stated missions is to "grow each customer’s relationship with Amazon by leveraging our deep understanding of them to provide relevant and timely product, program, and content recommendations." Recommendations at Amazon is a way to help customers discover products. Our team strives to better understand how customers shop on Amazon (and elsewhere) and build recommendations models to streamline customers' shopping experience by showing the right products at the right time. Understanding the complexities of customers' shopping needs and helping them explore the depth and breadth of Amazon's catalog is a challenge we take on everyday. Using Amazon’s large-scale computing resources, you will ask research questions about customer behavior, build state-of-the-art models to generate recommendations, and run these models directly on the retail website. You will participate in the Amazon ML community and mentor Applied Scientists and software development engineers with a strong interest in and knowledge of ML. Your work will directly benefit customers and the retail business and you will measure the impact using scientific tools. We are looking for a passionate, hard-working, and talented Applied Scientist who has experience building mission critical, high volume applications that customers love. You will have an opportunity to make an enormous impact on the design, architecture, and implementation of cutting edge products used everyday by people you know.

Basic Qualifications

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

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with modeling tools such as R, scikit-learn, Spark MLLib, MxNet, Tensorflow, numpy, scipy etc.
• Experience with large scale distributed systems such as Hadoop, Spark etc.
• Experience in building machine learning models for business application
• Experience with large scale machine learning systems such as profiling and debugging and understanding of system performance and scalability

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, WA, Seattle - 167,100.00 - 226,100.00 USD annually