Senior Applied Scientist, Personalization
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Job Location:
Seattle, OR - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
2 days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
As a Senior Applied Scientist on the team you will help lead 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
* Innovate 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 Amazons scale - for all Amazon customers across all countries in realtime
* Be a key leader on a multidisciplinary team across science product design and engineering to see through ideas from inception prototype to launch in the hands of all Amazons customers
* Drive the science roadmap across multiple teams helping coordinate a cohesive science agenda across the org.
* Mentoring applied scientists across the org growing their skills and careers.
About the team
Our vision is to build the next generation of shopping experience at Amazon through personalization and understanding the customers 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. We aim for the quality of personalization to be a core reason customers choose Amazon on par with Earths largest selection low prices and fast and free shipping.
About our organization:
Our team is part of Amazons Personalization organization a high-performing group that leverages Amazons expertise in machine learning big data distributed systems and user experience design to deliver the best shopping experiences for our customers. We run global experiments and our work has revolutionized e-commerce with features such as Keep shopping for ... Customers who bought this item also bought and Frequently bought together. Amazons internal surveys regularly recognize us as one of the best engineering organizations to work for in the company with visible high-impact work low operational load respectful work-life balance and continual opportunity to learn and grow.
- 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 scikit-learn 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.
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.
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at WA Seattle - 167100.00 - 226100.00 USD annually
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Key Skills
- Laboratory Experience
- Mammalian Cell Culture
- Biochemistry
- Assays
- Protein Purification
- Research Experience
- Next Generation Sequencing
- Research & Development
- cGMP
- Cell Culture
- Molecular Biology
- Flow Cytometry
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