Applied Scientist, US Prime And Marketing Tech

Discovery Tech Applied Scientist

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. 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.

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

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 $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 https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits .