Amazon is hiring: Applied Scientist, Amazon, Amazon in Sunnyvale
Amazon, Sunnyvale, CA, United States, 94087
Do you want to join an innovative team of scientists who use machine learning and statistical techniques to create state-of-the-art solutions for providing better value to Amazon’s customers? Do you want to build and deploy advanced ML systems that help optimize millions of transactions every day? Are you excited by the prospect of analyzing and modeling terabytes of data 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 Machine Learning team for India Consumer Businesses.
Machine Learning, Big Data and related quantitative sciences have been strategic to Amazon from the early years. Amazon has been a pioneer in areas such as recommendation engines, ecommerce fraud detection and large-scale optimization of fulfillment center operations. As Amazon has rapidly grown and diversified, the opportunity for applying machine learning has exploded. We have a very broad collection of practical problems where machine learning systems can dramatically improve the customer experience, reduce cost, and drive speed and automation. These include product bundle recommendations for millions of products, safeguarding financial transactions by building risk models, improving catalog quality via extracting product attribute values from structured/unstructured data for millions of products, and enhancing address quality by powering customer suggestions.
We are developing state-of-the-art machine learning solutions to accelerate the Amazon India growth story. Amazon India is an exciting place for a machine learning practitioner. We have the eagerness of a fresh startup to absorb machine learning solutions, and the scale of a mature firm to help support their development at the same time. As part of the India Machine Learning team, you will work alongside brilliant minds motivated to solve real-world machine learning problems that make a difference to millions of our customers. We encourage thought leadership and blue ocean thinking in ML.
Key job responsibilities
- Use machine learning and analytical techniques to create scalable solutions for business problems.
- Analyze and extract relevant information from large amounts of Amazon’s historical business data to help automate and optimize key processes.
- Design, develop, evaluate, and deploy innovative and highly scalable ML models.
- Work closely with software engineering teams to drive real-time model implementations.
- Work closely with business partners to identify problems and propose machine learning solutions.
- Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large scale data analyses, model development, model validation, and model maintenance.
- Work proactively with engineering teams and product managers to evangelize new algorithms and drive the implementation of large-scale complex ML models in production.
- Lead projects and mentor other scientists and engineers in the use of ML techniques.
About the team
The International Machine Learning Team is responsible for building novel ML solutions that address India first (and other Emerging Markets across MENA and LatAm) problems and impact the bottom-line and top-line of India business. Learn more about our team from here.
Minimum Qualifications
- 3+ years of building models for business application experience.
- PhD, or Master's 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.
- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language.
- Experience in any of the following areas: algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, high-performance computing.
- Experience using Unix/Linux.
- Experience in professional software development.