Amazon Development Center
E-Commerce
AppliedScientist,Personalization
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“Applied Scientist, Personalization at Amazon Development Center. Skills: Machine Learning, LLM, Personalization. Design ML and LLM-powered solutions. Build ML and LLM-powered solutions”
Industry & Context.
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Knowledge of C/C++, Python, Java or Perl, Experience in patents or publications, PhD or Master's degree, Communication and collaboration skills
Nice to Have
Experience building and launching deep learning and machine learning models, Solid knowledge of big data and cloud technologies, Experience with information retrieval, recommender systems, NLP, or personalization algorithms, Publications at top Web, ML, NLP conferences
What You'll Do.
Design ML and LLM-powered solutions
Build ML and LLM-powered solutions
Extract customer knowledge
Validate customer knowledge
Apply customer knowledge in production
Own end-to-end delivery of ML solutions
Conduct offline experimentation
Conduct online experimentation
Deploy production systems at scale
Deliver 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
Collaborate with engineering teams
Collaborate with product teams
Translate research into customer impact
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Engineering teams; Product teams
Full Job Description
We are seeking an Applied Scientist to help build 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 Scientist, you will design and build ML and LLM-powered solutions for Amazon's customer memory and personalization systems. You will work on 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 deployment at scale. You will deliver high-quality, scalable systems that power customer-facing experiences. You will drive work across areas such as fact extraction, memory quality and lifecycle, temporal reasoning, and grounded personalization, while navigating tradeoffs between quality, latency, and coverage.
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