Sr. Applied Scientist, Amazon Connect
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Job Location:
New York City, NY - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
11 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
The Senior Applied Scientist will lead the scientific agenda for AI systems at the product level. The role requires identifying and solving ill-defined problems where no textbook solutions exist balancing rapid innovation with reliability and compliance. You should be comfortable making decisions with incomplete information and driving solutions in ambiguous problem spaces. Youll work closely with senior technical leaders within the team and across AWS influencing across multiple teams. Were looking for scientists who can maintain high standards while moving quickly prioritizing both rapid experimentation and responsible AI development to deliver measurable customer impact.
Key job responsibilities
* Lead the design implementation and delivery of scientifically-complex production solutions that address medium-to-large business problems
* Drive your teams scientific agenda and propose new initiatives aligned with customer needs and business problems
* Invent new methodologies or paradigms when existing approaches are insufficient
* Influence across multiple teams to build consensus on technical direction and scientific approaches
* Deliver significant portions of critical-path code that meets high quality standards (efficient reproducible testable maintainable)
* Actively mentor and develop other scientists fostering a culture of scientific excellence
About the team
Amazon Connect is a highly disruptive cloud-based contact center that enables businesses to deliver engaging dynamic and personal customer service experiences. Amazon Connect is the result of the ten years of development that went into building the tools Amazon uses to provide its award winning customer service at massive scale and launching it as a publicly available AWS service. With Amazon Connect you can create your own cloud-based contact center and be taking calls in minutes. Amazon Connect leverages the power of Artificial Intelligence and the large ecosystem of AWS services such as Amazon Lex Amazon Polly AWS Lambda Amazon S3 and Amazon Kinesis to provide a truly frustration free easy-to-use extensible and natural customer experience. With this technology we are transforming an industry and the way customers interact with businesses and how agents service them.
- PhD in engineering technology computer science machine learning robotics operations research statistics mathematics or equivalent quantitative field
- 5 years of building machine learning models or developing algorithms for business application experience
- Experience programming in Java C Python or related language
- Experience in patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals
- Experience collaborating and influencing multiple teams across multiple organizations
- Experience leading mentoring and growing teams of scientists (teams of five or more scientists)
- 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.
- Experience working with engineering and product teams to define a product and bring it to market
- Knowledge of AWS or cloud computing
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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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 NY New York - 183800.00 - 248700.00 USD annually
USA WA Seattle - 167100.00 - 226100.00 USD annually
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Key Skills
- Laboratory Experience
- Immunoassays
- Machine Learning
- Biochemistry
- Assays
- Research Experience
- Spectroscopy
- Research & Development
- cGMP
- Cell Culture
- Molecular Biology
- Data Analysis Skills
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