Amazon Development Center

Machine Learning Science, Applied Science, Retail

AppliedScienceManager,Personalization

$450–750k ~AI est. Haifa, Haifa, Israel FULL TIME
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

Neural analysis suggests this role is
optimal for Manager candidates.

The Brief

“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.

Machine Learning Science, Applied Science, Retail
Problems you'll solve

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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