Amazon.com Services LLC

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AppliedScientist,AGIInfo

$136–223k Sunnyvale, California, United States FULL TIME
The Brief

“Applied Scientist, AGI Info at Amazon.com Services LLC. Skills: Information retrieval, NLP, Machine learning. Apply scientific rigor to work. Deliver incrementally”

What You'll Achieve.

Advance state-of-the-art in IR stack; Delight our customers

Industry & Context.

Web Search
Problems you'll solve

Solve deep technical problems; Failure space analysis

Eligibility Requirements

Work safely and cooperatively, Adhere to standards of excellence, Adhere to company policies, Exercise sound judgment, Manage stress, Exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, Safeguard business operations, Safeguard Company reputation

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

3+ years building models for business application, PhD or Master's degree and 4+ years CS, CE, ML or related field experience, Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language, Experience in algorithms and data structures, Experience in parsing, Experience in numerical optimization, Experience in data mining, Experience in parallel and distributed computing, Experience in high-performance computing, Experience building machine learning models or developing algorithms for business application

Nice to Have

Experience using Unix/Linux, Experience in professional software development, PhD in computer science, machine learning, engineering, or related fields, 3+ years building large-scale machine-learning infrastructure for online recommendation, ads ranking, personalization or search experience, Publications at peer-reviewed conferences, In-depth working knowledge of LLMs

What You'll Do.

Apply scientific rigor to work

Deliver incrementally

Analyze prior experiments

Write reports of experiments

Seek guidance from scientists

Define next experiments

Collaborate with engineers

Bring innovations into production

Continuously with customers and stakeholders

Simplify and adapt to deliver

Develop state-of-the-art web search technology

Train novel retrieval models

Train novel ranking models

Partner with engineering to deploy

Build quality training data sets

Scale quality training data sets

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Work with smart colleagues; Collaborate closely with engineers; Collaborate with customers and stakeholders; Collaborate with other scientists

Communication Scope

Write clear reports; Communicate effectively

Process & Methodology

Lead execution of multi-year research roadmaps

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