Sr. Applied Scientist, WW Sustainability

Join us at the Amazons sustainability initiatives to work on environmental and social advancements to support Amazons long term worldwide sustainability strategy. At Amazon were working to be the most customer-centric company on earth. To get there we need exceptionally talented bright and driven people.

The Worldwide Sustainability (WWS) organization capitalizes on Amazons scale and speed to build a more resilient and sustainable company. We manage our social and environmental impacts globally and drive solutions that enable our customers businesses and the world to become more sustainable.

Sustainability Science and Innovation (SSI) is a multi-disciplinary team within WW Sustainability combining science analytics economics statistics machine learning product development and engineering expertise. We use data across the sustainability imperatives (carbon water waste biodiversity environmental risk and more) and these skills and capabilities to identify develop experiment and scale the scientific solutions and innovations necessary for Amazon customers and partners to help them solve their hardest unmet and evolving sustainability needs and goals.

The Sustainability Science and Innovation team is looking for a Sr. Applied Scientist to collaborate closely with Economists and Environmental Scientists to build the AI/ML foundation of the future. You will define strategy and implement tooling to identify ingest harmonize store and maintain strategic models and data from both internal and external sources.
These models and datasets must cover a wide range of topics in emerging areas and applications of AI for sustainability. This AI solutions development will support Amazon-wide sustainability initiatives like carbon footprint climate risk monitoring and social responsibility through the supply chain.

These datasets must cover a wide range of topics such as geographic regions and data formats to unlock foundational AI research in emerging areas and applications. These solutions development will support Amazon-wide sustainability initiatives like carbon footprinting climate risk monitoring and social responsibility through the supply chain.

If you see yourself as a hands-on leader and innovator at the intersection of AI data and sustainability wed like to connect with you. You dont necessarily have to be an expert in sustainability and climate domains.

Key job responsibilities
- Designing implementing and maintaining data and AI/ML infrastructure to support a wide variety of large and complex data sets ensuring high performance availability and integrity.
- Identifying and solving data needs for Gen AI and foundational model training and benchmarking for tasks across the sustainability domain.
- Developing and optimizing robust data pipelines for internal data from sources such as Product Lifecycle Management tools Product Details (images text and structured data) Inventory Management Platforms and financial systems.
- Design and implement web-scale data collection for images text structured data across locations and sustainability domains.
- Develop comprehensive monitoring alarming and data quality controls for all of the above.
- Partnering with Scientists and Software Engineers to create our data collection strategy and ML Ops best practices.

About the team
Diverse Experiences:
World Wide Sustainability values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting hasnt followed a traditional path or includes alternative experiences dont let it stop you from applying.

Inclusive Team Culture:
Its in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (inclusive diversity) conferences inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Mentorship & Career Growth:
Were continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earths Best Employer. Thats why youll find endless knowledge-sharing mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Work/Life Balance:
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home which is why flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home theres nothing we cant achieve.


- 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.

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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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 CA San Francisco - 192200.00 - 260000.00 USD annually
USA WA Seattle - 167100.00 - 226100.00 USD annually