Amazon Development Center
Machine Learning Science, Applied Science, Retail
AppliedScienceManager,Personalization
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“Applied Science Manager, Personalization at Amazon Development Center. Skills: Machine Learning, Generative AI, Personalization systems, LLM. Lead a team of scientists. Define scientific direction”
What You'll Achieve.
Deliver measurable customer impact; Deliver measurable business impact
Industry & Context.
Translating ambiguous business problems
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Master's degree and 6+ years of applied research experience, 3+ years of experience managing Applied Scientists or ML Engineers, Experience leading teams that own ML solutions end to end, Proven track record of translating ambiguous business problems into ML solutions, Experience setting scientific direction, Hands-on experience applying modern machine learning techniques, Experience leading cross-team initiatives, Communication skills
Nice to Have
PhD preferred, Experience with Large Language Models, Experience in Recommendation Systems, Experience in Information Retrieval, Experience in NLP, Experience in personalization systems at scale, Experience with sequential recommendation, Experience with user intent or mission modeling, Experience with behavioral modeling
What You'll Do.
Lead a team of scientists
Define scientific direction
Extract customer knowledge
Validate customer knowledge
Apply customer knowledge in production systems
Own end-to-end delivery of ML solutions
Conduct offline experimentation
Conduct online experimentation
Deploy to production at scale
Ensure delivery of high-quality systems
Ensure delivery of scalable systems
Power customer-facing experiences
Drive work across fact extraction
Drive work across memory quality
Drive work across memory lifecycle
Drive work across temporal reasoning
Drive work across grounded personalization
Navigate tradeoffs between quality
Foster culture of ownership
Foster culture of rigor
Partner with engineering teams
Partner with product teams
Translate research into customer impact
Represent team's work to senior leadership
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Partner closely with engineering; Partner closely with product teams; Influence partner teams; Drive alignment across teams
Communication Scope
Influence senior leadership; Drive alignment
Process & Methodology
Roadmaps
Full Job Description
We are seeking an Applied Science Manager to lead a team building Amazon’s next-generation customer memory and personalization systems. Are you interested in building systems that move beyond reacting to customer behavior, to actually understanding and remembering it over time? Our team is building Amazon’s customer memory layer – a system that extracts, curates, and reasons over customer knowledge to power next-generation personalization. This includes transforming noisy, unstructured signals into durable, high-quality representations of customer preferences, intents, and life events, and using them in real time to improve customer experiences. We are part of Amazon’s Personalization organization, a high-performing group that leverages large-scale machine learning, generative AI, and distributed systems to deliver highly relevant customer experiences. We tackle challenging problems at the intersection of information extraction, knowledge representation, LLM reasoning, and recommendation systems. Our systems operate under real-world constraints of scale, latency, and quality, requiring careful tradeoffs between precision, recall, and responsiveness. This team plays a central role in defining how Amazon understands its customers, and how that understanding is applied across the shopping experience. As an Applied Science Manager, you will lead a team of scientists working on LLM-powered memory and personalization systems. You will define the scientific direction for how customer knowledge is extracted, validated, and applied in production systems. Key job responsibilities As an Applied Science Manager, you will lead a team of scientists working on LLM-powered memory and personalization systems. You will define the scientific direction for how customer knowledge is extracted, validated, and applied in production systems. You will own the end-to-end delivery of ML solutions, from problem formulation and modeling to offline and online experimentation, and production depl
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