Data Scientist , Amazon Business

Come be a part of a rapidly expanding $35 billion-dollar global business. At Amazon Business a fast-growing startup passionate about building solutions we set out every day to innovate and disrupt the status quo. We stand at the intersection of tech & retail in the B2B space developing innovative purchasing and procurement solutions to help businesses and organizations thrive. At Amazon Business we strive to be the most recognized and preferred strategic partner for smart business buying. Bring your insight imagination and a healthy disregard for the impossible. Join us in building and celebrating the value of Amazon Business to buyers and sellers of all sizes and industries. Unlock your career potential.

Amazon Business Data Insights and Analytics team is looking for a Data Scientist to lead the research and thought leadership to drive our data and insights strategy for Amazon Business. This role is central in shaping the definition and execution of the long-term strategy for Amazon Business.

You will be responsible for researching experimenting and analyzing predictive and optimization models designing and implementing advanced detection systems that analyze customer behavior at registration and throughout their journey. You will work on ambiguous and complex business and research science problems with large opportunities. Youll leverage diverse data signals including customer profiles purchase patterns and network associations to identify potential abuse and fraudulent activities. You are an analytical individual who is comfortable working with cross-functional teams and systems working with state-of-the-art machine learning techniques and AWS services to build robust models that can effectively distinguish between legitimate business activities and suspicious behavior patterns You must be a self-starter and be able to learn on the go. Excellent written and verbal communication skills are required as you will work very closely with diverse teams.

Key job responsibilities
- Interact with business and software teams to understand their business requirements and operational processes
- Frame business problems into scalable solutions
- Adapt existing and invent new techniques for solutions
- Gather data required for analysis and model building
- Create and track accuracy and performance metrics
- Prototype models by using high-level modeling languages such as R or in software languages such as Python.
- Familiarity with transforming prototypes to production is preferred.
- Create enhance and maintain technical documentation

- 2 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
- 2 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

- Experience in Python Perl or another scripting language
- Experience in a ML or data scientist role with a large technology company
- Experience developing experimental and analytic plans for data modeling processes use of strong baselines ability to accurately determine cause and effect relations
- Experience implementing algorithms using both toolkits and self-developed code
- Experience in several of the following areas: machine learning statistics deep learning natural language processing or information retrieval

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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 WA Seattle - 136000.00 - 184000.00 USD annually