Applied Scientist, Speed + AI

Why this job is awesome
- This is SUPER high-visibility work: Our mission is to provide consistent accurate and relevant delivery information to every single page on every Amazon-owned site.
- MILLIONS of customers will be impacted by your contributions: The changes we make directly impact the customer experience on every Amazon site. This is a great position for someone who likes to leverage Machine learning technologies to solve the real customer problems and also wants to see and measure their direct impact on customers.
- We are a cross-functional team that owns the ENTIRE delivery experience for customers: From the business requirements to the technical systems that allow us to directly affect the on-site experience from a central service business and technical team members are integrated so everyone is involved through the entire development process.
- You will have a chance to develop the state-of-art machine learning including deep learning and reinforcement learning models to build targeting recommendation and optimization services to impact millions of Amazon customers.
- Do you want to join an innovative team of scientists and engineers who use machine learning and statistical techniques to deliver the best delivery experience on every Amazon-owned site
- Are you excited by the prospect of analyzing and modeling terabytes of data on the cloud and create state-of-art algorithms to solve real world problems
- Do you like to own end-to-end business problems/metrics and directly impact the profitability of the company
- Do you like to innovate and simplify

If yes then you may be a great fit to join the Speed AI team.






Key job responsibilities

Research and implement machine learning and GenAI techniques to create scalable and effective models in Delivery Experience (DEX) systems
Solve business problems and identify business opportunities to provide the best delivery experience on all Amazon-owned sites.
Design and develop highly innovative machine learning and deep learning models for big data.
Build state-of-art ranking and recommendations models and apply to Amazon search engine.
Analyze and understand large amounts of Amazons historical business data to detect patterns to analyze trends and to identify correlations and causalities
Establish scalable efficient automated processes for large scale data analyses model development model validation and model implementation

- Experience programming in Java C Python or related language
- Experience with SQL and an RDBMS (e.g. Oracle) or Data Warehouse

- Experience implementing algorithms using both toolkits and self-developed code
- Have publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals

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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 Bellevue - 136000.00 - 184000.00 USD annually