Applied Scientist, Financial Insights and Actions
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Job Summary
We are part of the Amazon Financials Foundation Services (AFFS) organization. AFFS is responsible for processing and managing billions of financially relevant transactions sent globally from across Amazon each day including orders shipments payments and inventory movements. AFFS is at the center of Amazons key initiatives and fuels the growth of Amazons businesses worldwide by ensuring that businesses can easily integrate with our services and that accountants and financial analysts have the right tools to use our data.
As an Applied Scientist youll work alongside domain experts engineers and other scientists to understand business problems propose scientific solutions and deploy them to production. Youll work on scientific initiatives for accelerating reconciliation standardization and onboarding. This includes:
- Leveraging GenAI/LLMs to build agentic solutions to accelerate accounting-related research/tasks and produce proactive insights.
- Building AI trust and safety in the financial domain.
- Establishing scalable efficient automated processes for large-scale data analysis machine learning model development model validation and serving.
- Developing training/evaluation datasets for model fine-tuning.
- Collaborating with engineering to productionalize research.
Specific examples of this work include developing anomaly detection models to identify deviations in payments building multi-agent systems to perform financial research or onboard new businesses and fine-tuning LLMs to provide recommendations on next steps.
As an interdisciplinary team we maintain a balance between scientific research and productionalization. This means youll get a unique opportunity to influence the global scientific community by publishing papers externally and internally while also seeing your work used across Amazon.
You will need to have a start-up like mindset as you will be working an in a highly iterative and collaborative environment with SDEs Product Managers and Accounting stakeholders to propose ideas experiment and scale rapidly. You should have a keen eye for what a good user experience should look like possess excellent written and verbal communication and have a keen interest in learning about accounting and financial processes.
- 3 years of solving business problems through machine learning data mining and statistical algorithms experience
- PhD or Masters degree and 4 years of CS CE ML or related field experience
- Experience in patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals
- 3 years of programming in Java C Python or related language experience
- Experience in any of the following areas: algorithms and data structures parsing numerical optimization data mining parallel and distributed computing high-performance computing
- Experience applying theoretical models in an applied environment
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. As a total compensation company Amazons package may include other elements such as sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription basic life & AD&D insurance) Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) Deferred Profit Sharing Plan (DPSP) paid time off and other resources to improve health and well-being. We thank all applicants for their interest however only those interviewed will be advised as to hiring status.
CAN BC Vancouver - 149300.00 - 249300.00 CAD annually
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