Applied Scientist, US Prime and Marketing Tech

    • Amazon Stores
  • Seattle, WA
  • Posted 15 days ago | Updated 10 hours ago

Overview

On Site
USD 136,000.00 per year
Full Time

Skills

Marketing
Innovation
Customer Facing
Real-time
Statistical Models
Data Science
Multitasking
Analytical Skill
Development Testing
Clarity
Science
Mathematics
Statistics
Scripting Language
Python
Java
C
C++
Apache MXNet
TensorFlow
Machine Learning (ML)
Data Mining
Algorithms
Art
Deep Learning
Training
Optimization
SAP BASIS
Onboarding
Recruiting
Amazon Web Services
Payments
Forms
Finance

Job Details

Are you excited to help customers discover the hottest and best reviewed products? The Discovery Tech organization helps customers discover and engage with new, popular and relevant products across Amazon worldwide. We do this by combining technology, science, and innovation to build new customer-facing features and experiences.

You will join the Recommendations team, and will be responsible for creating and building critical services that automatically generate, in real time, personalized product recommendations presented to Amazon customers worldwide. You will leverage machine-learning and statistical models to deliver the best possible shopping experience.

We are looking for analytical problem solvers who enjoy diving into data, excited about data science and statistics, can multi-task, and can credibly interface between engineering teams and business stakeholders. Your analytical abilities, business understanding, and technical savvy will be used to identify specific and actionable opportunities to solve existing business problems and look around corners for future opportunities. Your domain spans the design, development, testing, and deployment of data-driven and highly scalable machine learning solutions in product recommendation.

As an Applied Scientist, you bring business and industry context to science and technology decisions. You set the standard for scientific excellence and make decisions that affect the way we build and integrate algorithms. Your solutions are exemplary in terms of algorithm design, clarity, model structure, efficiency, and extensibility. You tackle intrinsically hard problems, acquiring expertise as needed. You decompose complex problems into straightforward solutions.

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BASIC QUALIFICATIONS - PhD in math/statistics/engineering or other equivalent quantitative discipline
- Experience programming or scripting language like Python, Java, C or C++
- Experience with popular deep learning frameworks such as MxNet and Tensor Flow
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS - Experience in solving business problems through machine learning, data mining and statistical algorithms
- Experience in state-of-the-art deep learning models architecture design and deep learning training and optimization and model pruning

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $136,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223,400/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit . This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
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