Applied Scientist III, AWS Central Economics and Science

We are hiring an Applied Scientist for a crossfunctional team that builds MLbased products to help AWS sellers understand customers and optimize sales strategies. This scientist will help develop and maintain a suite of ML models that identify the most valuable opportunities and customers for AWS sellers to engage and the types of actions they should take to optimize those engagements.

Key job responsibilities
This applied scientist role partners with AWS business leaders across the organization to develop and deliver models and evidence to guide strategic decision and planning. The successful candidate will be a problem solver who enjoys diving into data is excited by difficult modeling challenges and ambiguous starting points and possesses strong communication skills to effectively interface and collaborate with product finance and business teams.

A day in the life
Our team takes big swings and works on hard cross organizational problems where the optimal success rate is not 100%. We also ask people to grow their skills and stretch and make sure we do it in a supportive and fun environment. Its about empirically measured impact advancement and fun on our team. We work hard during work hours but we also dont encourage working at nights or on weekends except in very rare high stakes cases. Burn out isnt a successful long run strategy. Because we invest in the long run success of our group its important to have hobbies relax and then come to work refreshed and excited. It makes for bigger impact faster skill accrual and thus career advancement.

About the team
Our group is technically rigorous and encourages ongoing academic conference participation and publication. Our leaders are here for you and to enable you to be successful. We believe in being servant leaders focused on influence: good data work has little value if it doesnt translate into actionable insights that are rolled out and impact the real economy. We are communication centric since being able to explain what we do ensures high success rates and lowers administrative churn. Also: we laugh a lot. If its not fun whats the point

3 years of building machine learning models for business application experience
PhD or Masters degree and 6 years of applied research experience
Experience programming in Java C Python or related language
Experience with neural deep learning methods and machine learning

Experience with modeling tools such as R scikitlearn 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.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees supervisors and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees supervisors and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $150400/year in our lowest geographic market up to $260000/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on jobrelated knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity signon 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.