Data Scientist II, Amazon Stores Security

Are you passionate about solving complex business problem using data science and machine learning Does the prospect of solving high impact problems at Amazon scale excite you

Stores Compliance engineering team builds solutions that keep Amazon systems and data secure on behalf of the Amazon customer. Our customers range from security engineers who need a comprehensive understanding of Amazon systems and their security state to service teams who need solutions that make it easy to build and operate secure systems to third party vendors who do business with Amazon. We use the latest technology to solve security problems at Amazon scale. We employ automation and machine learning to reduce or eliminate manual effort to help our internal customers raise the security bar. We have bold goals to stay ahead of the curve on security and delight our customers with great products.

Your responsibilities will include developing prototyping and productionizing innovative models using a range of techniques (Supervised/Unsupervised/Reinforcement). We are also looking for innovators capable of using generative AI to design evangelize and implement state-of-the-art solutions for never-before-solved problems.

Key job responsibilities
- Demonstrate thorough technical knowledge on feature engineering of massive datasets effective exploratory data analysis and model building using industry standard AI/ML models and working with Large Language Models
- With your broad expertise in a variety of data science disciplines recommend the right data science strategy and drive solution to complex or ambiguous problems
- Work closely with internal stakeholders like the business teams engineering teams and partner teams influence their strategies to align with your focus area
- Innovate by adapting new modeling techniques and procedures
- Passionate about working with huge data sets ( training/fine tuning) and be someone who loves to bring datasets together to answer business questions. You should have deep expertise in creation and management of datasets
- Exposure at implementing and operating stable scalable data flow solutions from production systems into end-user facing applications/reports. These solutions will be fault tolerant self-healing and adaptive.
- Show good judgment when making trade-offs between short-term customer market or research needs and long-term operations or technology needs.

About the team
About Amazon Security

Diverse Experiences
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- 2 years of data scientist experience
- 3 years of data querying languages (e.g. SQL) scripting languages (e.g. Python) or statistical/mathematical software (e.g. R SAS Matlab etc.) experience
- 3 years of machine learning/statistical modeling data analysis tools and techniques and parameters that affect their performance experience

- Ph.D. in Science Technology Engineering or Mathematics (STEM)
- Experience in Python Perl or another scripting language
- Experience effectively communicating complex concepts through written and verbal communication

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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