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Edinburgh - UK

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Not Disclosed

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Salary Not Disclosed

Vacancy

1 Vacancy

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Do you want a role with deep meaning and the ability to make a massive impact Hiring top talent is not only critical to Amazons successit can literally change the world. It took a lot of great hires to deliver innovations like AWS Prime and Alexa which make life better for millions of customers around the world every day. As part of the Intelligent Talent Acquisition (ITA) team youll have the opportunity to reinvent the hiring process and deliver unprecedented scale sophistication and accuracy that Amazons Talent Acquisition operations need.

ITA is an industryleading people science and technology organization made up of scientists engineers analysts product professionals and more. Our shared goal is to fairly and precisely connect the right people to the right jobs. Last year we delivered over 6 million online candidate assessments replacing the game of chance with a meritbased approach that gives candidates the chance to showcase their true skills. Each year we help Amazon deliver billions of packages around the world by making it possible to hire hundreds of thousands of associates in the right quantity at the right location and at exactly the right time. Youll work on stateoftheart research advanced software tools new AI systems and machine learning algorithms to solve complex hiring challenges. Leveraging Amazons inhouse tech stack built on AWS youll have the autonomy and flexibility to bring innovative solutions to life. One day we can bring these solutions to the rest of the world. Join ITA in using cuttingedge technologies to transform the hiring landscape and make a meaningful difference in peoples lives. Together we can solve the worlds toughest hiring problems.

You will work as an Applied Scientist in a team of other scientists and software developers. You will primarily be writing solutions in Python and will be using the latest technologies including AWS (e.g. Sagemaker). You will be contributing regularly to the code base as this is an applied role with the expectation of 50 of your time spent on the code. Your solutions will meet remarkably high standards of performance and reliability and will operate at massive scale.

You will work as part of a sustainably paced agile team. You will play a hands on lead role in your team giving you the responsibility authority and autonomy to ensure success. You will be involved in every aspect of the process from idea generation customer engagement business analysis and scientific design through to software development and operations.

Join a team full of talented people who come from all over the world. Enjoy the chance to work in a relaxed setting with a good social life. The team primarily based in Edinburgh Scotland is rapidly expanding.

Our ideal candidate is an experienced Applied Scientist who has a trackrecord of statistical analysis and building models to solve real business problems has great leadership and communication skills and has a passion for fairness and explainability in ML systems.

The role offers an exceptional opportunity for growth and to make a real difference to Amazon recruitment. If you are selected you have the opportunity to really impact our business by inventing improving and building world class systems delivering results working on exciting and challenging projects.

PhD or a Masters degree and experience in CS CE ML or related field
Experience in patents or publications at toptier peerreviewed conferences or journals
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 highperformance computing
Experience in building machine learning models for business application

Experience using Unix/Linux
Experience in professional software development

Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover invent simplify and build. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Amazon. Please consult our Privacy Notice to know more about how we collect use and transfer the personal data of our candidates.

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race national origin gender gender identity sexual orientation protected veteran status disability age 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
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