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Applied Scientist II, Personalization
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A Research Scientist is responsible for designing, undertaking and analyzing information from controlled laboratory-based investigations, experiments and trials.
$161,478 / year median in Washington
Job Description
Description Do you want to transform the way people shop at Amazon? We are looking for stellar applied scientists to be part of our multi-disciplinary team. We are re-imagining the future of the Amazon shopping experience for customers through tailoring it to their current intent. We understand what customers are interested in shopping for, and guide them to discover what they need as they shop. If you love building new technology that helps customers solve their problems, this is your opportunity to impact millions of customers. Come help us build the future of personalized shopping at Amazon! As an Applied Scientist on the team, you will work on science innovation in our space across a large multidisciplinary team. You will have a breadth of problems to work on, ranging from developing state of the art LLM-based techniques to reason about customers and products, developing deep learned transformer-based models to understand and abstract customer intent signals and representations, building large-scale real-time multi-task ranking systems, and more. You will build technology employed by teams across the company, while also having a direct connection to millions of customers through our own customer facing features every day. Come join us in the journey! Key job responsibilities Key job responsibilities
- Deliver new features and models that have huge impact on the customer experience. Help customers find the right products and content on their shopping journey. Leverage the use of advanced machine learning to create customer shopping experience at Amazon's scale
- for all Amazon customers across all countries in realtime
- Be a key contributor on a multidisciplinary team across science, product, design, and engineering to see through ideas from inception, prototype, to launch in the hands of all Amazon's customers
- Propose and innovate on the science roadmap across multiple projects About the team Our vision is to build the next generation of shopping experience at Amazon through personalization and understanding the customer's intent. We imagine our core experiences to work together as a talented personal shopping assistant would
- a partner that is knowledgeable, understands your preferences, and helps you find the right solution for your needs.
- 3+ years of building models for business application experience
- PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience
- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
- Experience in any of the following areas: algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, high-performance computing Preferred Qualifications
- Experience using Unix/Linux
- Experience in professional software development 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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- 193,200.
Benefits
- Paid Time Off (PTO)
- 401(k) Plans
- Mental Health
- Health and Wellness Programs