Data Scientist, Payment Risk Machine Learning
Data Scientist, Payment Risk Machine Learning
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Job Description
Buyer Risk Prevention (BRP) mission is to make Amazon the safest and most trusted place worldwide to transact online. Amazon runs one of the most dynamic e-commerce marketplaces in the world with nearly 2 million sellers worldwide selling hundreds of millions of items in ten countries. BRP safeguards every financial transaction across all Amazon sites. As such BRP designs and builds the software systems risk models and operational processes that minimize risk and maximize trust in .
The BRP organization is looking for a data scientist for its Risk Mining Analytics (RMA) team whose mission is to combine advanced analytics with investigator insight to detect negative customer experiences improve system effectiveness and prevent bad debt across Amazon.
As a data scientist in risk mining you will be responsible for modeling complex problems discovering insights and building risk algorithms that identify opportunities through statistical models machine learning and visualization techniques to improve operational efficiency and reduce bad debt.
You will need to collaborate effectively with business and product leaders within BRP and cross-functional teams to build scalable solutions against high organizational standards. The candidate should be able to apply a breadth of tools data sources and data science techniques to answer a wide range of high-impact business questions and proactively present new insights in a concise and effective manner.
The candidate should be an effective communicator capable of independently driving issues to resolution and communicating insights to non-technical audiences. This is a high-impact role with goals that directly impact the bottom line of the business.
Internal job description
Basic qualifications
2 years of data scientist experience
3 years of data querying languages (e.g. SQL) scripting languages (e.g. Python) or statistical/mathematical software (e.g. R SAS Matlab etc.) experience
3 years of machine learning/statistical modeling data analysis tools and techniques and parameters that affect their performance experience
Experience applying theoretical models in an applied environment
Preferred qualifications
Experience in a ML or data scientist role with a large technology company
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 for more information. If the country/region youre applying in isnt listed please contact your Recruiting Partner.
Key job responsibilities
Analyze terabytes of data to define and deliver on complex analytical deep dives to unlock insights and build scalable solutions through Data Science to ensure security of Amazons platform and transactions
Build Machine Learning and/or statistical models that evaluate the transaction legitimacy and track impact over time
Ensure data quality throughout all stages of acquisition and processing including data sourcing/collection ground truth generation normalization transformation and cross-lingual alignment/mapping
Define and conduct experiments to validate/reject hypotheses and communicate insights and recommendations to Product and Tech teams
Develop efficient data querying infrastructure for both offline and online use cases
Collaborate with cross-functional teams from multidisciplinary science engineering and business backgrounds to enhance current automation processes
Learn and understand a broad range of Amazons data resources and know when how and which to use and which not to use.
Maintain technical document and communicate results to diverse audiences with effective writing visualizations and presentations
- 3 years of data querying languages (e.g. SQL) scripting languages (e.g. Python) or statistical/mathematical software (e.g. R SAS Matlab etc.) experience
- 2 years of data scientist experience
- 3 years of machine learning/statistical modeling data analysis tools and techniques and parameters that affect their performance experience
- Bachelors degree
- Experience applying theoretical models in an applied environment
- Experience in a ML or data scientist role with a large technology company
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 for more information. If the country/region youre applying in isnt 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 $125500/year in our lowest geographic market up to $212800/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 This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
The BRP organization is looking for a data scientist for its Risk Mining Analytics (RMA) team whose mission is to combine advanced analytics with investigator insight to detect negative customer experiences improve system effectiveness and prevent bad debt across Amazon.
As a data scientist in risk mining you will be responsible for modeling complex problems discovering insights and building risk algorithms that identify opportunities through statistical models machine learning and visualization techniques to improve operational efficiency and reduce bad debt.
You will need to collaborate effectively with business and product leaders within BRP and cross-functional teams to build scalable solutions against high organizational standards. The candidate should be able to apply a breadth of tools data sources and data science techniques to answer a wide range of high-impact business questions and proactively present new insights in a concise and effective manner.
The candidate should be an effective communicator capable of independently driving issues to resolution and communicating insights to non-technical audiences. This is a high-impact role with goals that directly impact the bottom line of the business.
Internal job description
Basic qualifications
2 years of data scientist experience
3 years of data querying languages (e.g. SQL) scripting languages (e.g. Python) or statistical/mathematical software (e.g. R SAS Matlab etc.) experience
3 years of machine learning/statistical modeling data analysis tools and techniques and parameters that affect their performance experience
Experience applying theoretical models in an applied environment
Preferred qualifications
Experience in a ML or data scientist role with a large technology company
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 for more information. If the country/region youre applying in isnt listed please contact your Recruiting Partner.
Key job responsibilities
Analyze terabytes of data to define and deliver on complex analytical deep dives to unlock insights and build scalable solutions through Data Science to ensure security of Amazons platform and transactions
Build Machine Learning and/or statistical models that evaluate the transaction legitimacy and track impact over time
Ensure data quality throughout all stages of acquisition and processing including data sourcing/collection ground truth generation normalization transformation and cross-lingual alignment/mapping
Define and conduct experiments to validate/reject hypotheses and communicate insights and recommendations to Product and Tech teams
Develop efficient data querying infrastructure for both offline and online use cases
Collaborate with cross-functional teams from multidisciplinary science engineering and business backgrounds to enhance current automation processes
Learn and understand a broad range of Amazons data resources and know when how and which to use and which not to use.
Maintain technical document and communicate results to diverse audiences with effective writing visualizations and presentations
- 3 years of data querying languages (e.g. SQL) scripting languages (e.g. Python) or statistical/mathematical software (e.g. R SAS Matlab etc.) experience
- 2 years of data scientist experience
- 3 years of machine learning/statistical modeling data analysis tools and techniques and parameters that affect their performance experience
- Bachelors degree
- Experience applying theoretical models in an applied environment
- Experience in a ML or data scientist role with a large technology company
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 for more information. If the country/region youre applying in isnt 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 $125500/year in our lowest geographic market up to $212800/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 This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
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