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Description

Are you excited about joining a team of scientists building lasting solutions for Amazon customers from the ground up? Our team is using machine learning, and statistical methods to take Amazon’s unique customer obsession culture to another level by designing solutions that change customers behavior when it comes to product search, discovery, and purchase. In order to achieve this, we need scientists who will help us build advanced algorithms that deliver first-rate user experience during customers’ shopping journeys on Amazon. These algorithms will utilize advances in Natural Language Understanding, and Computer Vision to source and understand content that customers trust, and furnish customers with the content in a way that meets their needs at any stage of their shopping journey.

Key job responsibilities

As a Sr. Applied Scientist, you are able to use a range of science methodologies in NLP/CV to solve challenging business problems when the solution is unclear. For example, you may lead the development of reinforcement learning models such as MAB to rank content to be shown to customers based on their queries. You have a combination of business acumen, broad knowledge of statistics, deep understanding of ML algorithms, and an analytical mindset. You thrive in a collaborative environment, and are passionate about learning.

Our team utilizes a variety of AWS tools such as SageMaker, S3, and EC2 with a variety of skillsets in ML models, particularly using NLP and CV. You will bring knowledge in many of these domains along with your own specialties and skillset.

Major responsibilities:

- Use statistical and machine learning techniques to create scalable and lasting systems.

- Analyze and understand large amounts of Amazon’s historical business data for Recommender/Matching algorithms

- Design, develop and evaluate highly innovative models for NLP/CV.

- Work closely with teams of scientists and software engineers to drive real-time model implementations and new feature creations.

- Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large scale data analyses, model development, model validation and implementation.

- Research and implement novel machine learning and statistical approaches, including NLP and Computer Vision

A day in the life

In this role, you’ll be utilizing your NLP or CV skills, and creative and critical problem-solving skills to drive new projects from ideation to implementation. Your science expertise will be leveraged to research and deliver often novel solutions to existing problems, explore emerging problems spaces, and create or organize knowledge around them.

Basic Qualifications

- PhD, or Master's degree and 6+ years of applied research experience

- 3+ years of building machine learning models for business application experience

- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language

- Experience with neural deep learning methods and machine learning

- 4+ years of applied research experience

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.

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

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $150,400/year in our lowest geographic market up to $260,000/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 https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits . This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.