Amazon.com Services LLC

Applied Science, consumer engagement

AppliedScientist,Personalization&Ranking

$143–193k Seattle, Washington, United States FULL TIME
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Applied Scientist, Personalization & Ranking at Amazon.com Services LLC. Skills: Machine learning, Recommendation systems, Large language models. Ask research questions about customer behavior. Build state-of-the-art models”

What You'll Achieve.

Optimize the shopping experience

Industry & Context.

Applied Science, consumer engagement
Problems you'll solve

Research questions; Optimize shopping experience; Evaluate proposed solutions

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

3+ years building models, Master's degree and 4+ years experience, PhD degree, Experience programming in Java, C++, Python, 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

Nice to Have

Experience using Unix/Linux

What You'll Do.

Ask research questions about customer behavior

Build state-of-the-art models

Optimize the shopping experience

Run models on the retail website

Develop AI solutions for Recommendation systems

Implement AI solutions

Conduct offline experiments

Conduct online experiments

Evaluate proposed solutions

Communicate technical ideas

Communicate non-technical ideas

Stay up-to-date with advancements

Stay up-to-date with modeling techniques

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Collaborate with scientists; Collaborate with engineers; Collaborate with product partners

Communication Scope

Technical communication; Non-technical communication

Full Job Description

Are you a scientist interested in pushing the state of the art in machine learning and recommendation systems? Are you interested in working on novel ideas that can positively impact millions of customers? Do you wish you had access to large datasets and tremendous computational resources? Answer yes to any of these questions and you will be a great fit for our team at Amazon. As an Senior Applied Scientist in our team, you will be responsible for the research, design, and development of new AI technologies for Personalization. You will adopt or invent new machine learning and analytical techniques in the realm of recommendations and large language models. You will collaborate with scientists, engineers, and product partners locally and abroad. Your work will include inventing, experimenting with, and launching new features, products and systems. Key job responsibilities - Using Amazon’s large-scale computing resources, you will ask research questions about customer behavior, build state-of-the-art models to optimize the shopping experience, and run these models directly on the retail website. - Develop AI solutions for Recommendation systems using Deep learning, LLMs, Reinforcement Learning, distillation, and Optimization methods; - Work closely with engineers and product managers to design, implement and launch AI solutions end-to-end; - Design and conduct offline and online (A/B) experiments to evaluate proposed solutions based on in-depth data analyses; - Effectively communicate technical and non-technical ideas with teammates and stakeholders; - Stay up-to-date with advancements and the latest modeling techniques in the field; Basic 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 programming in Java, C++, Python or related language - Experience in any of the following areas: algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimizati

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