Applied Scientist Manager, Tax Engine

Amazon s Tax engine organisation is looking for a passionate and innovative science leader to take its science initiatives to new heights.
Amazon Tax Engine platform backs all of the orders placed across Amazon e-commerce. We serve Amazon customers and sellers by correctly computing and collecting the tax amounts when an Amazon order is placed globally. We are responsible for correctly attributing products to the correct Tax categories applicable for the specific country state and county providing core calculation services that calculate taxes (sales tax and VAT) for all Amazon sales physical and digital. Our challenges include staying on top of the complex and ever-changing global tax legislations as well as computing calculations correctly and quickly thousands of times a second with accuracy close to 100%.

We use language models at scale for Tax classification of the diverse products in Amazon catalogue We have a growing portfolio of science problems that includes balance of predictive and generative AI -including language comprehension causal reasoning and active learning.


Key job responsibilities
- Manage and mentor a talented team of senior Appleid Scientists and SDEs.
- Improve process and methodologies pertaining to deliverables of the team.
- Strike the right balance between experimentation and delivery for sustained impact and long term gains.
- Partner with stakeholders and customers to build roadmap for new products and services.

- 3 years of scientists or machine learning engineers management experience
- Knowledge of ML NLP Information Retrieval and Analytics
- 3 years of building machine learning models or developing algorithms for business application experience

- Experience building complex software systems especially involving deep learning machine learning and computer vision that have been successfully delivered to customers
- Experience communicating with users other technical teams and management to collect requirements describe software product features and technical designs

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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 - 222800.00 - 372000.00 CAD annually