Amazon.com Services LLC
Applied Science, north america stores
AppliedScientist,WWPromotionsScience
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“Applied Scientist, WW Promotions Science at Amazon.com Services LLC. Skills: Causal inference, Machine learning, Forecasting, Optimization. Invent new scientific approaches. Adapt new scientific approaches”
What You'll Achieve.
Improve strategic business decision-making; Forecast customer demand; Optimize promotions strategies; Drive business decision making at scale; Launch decisions of new pricing algorithms; Launch decisions of new promotion strategies; Understand short-term value; Understand long-term value; Define innovative price guardrails; Define innovative incentives
Industry & Context.
Solve complex business problems; Solve core business problems
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Master's degree and 4+ years experience, 3+ years building models, 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, Experience building machine learning models, Experience developing algorithms for business application, Experience investigating, designing, prototyping, and delivering system solutions
Nice to Have
PhD preferred, Experience implementing algorithms using toolkits, Experience implementing algorithms using self-developed code, Experience in designing experiments, Experience in statistical analysis of results, Experience in deep learning models architecture design, Experience in deep learning training and optimization, Experience in model pruning
What You'll Do.
Invent new scientific approaches
Adapt new scientific approaches
Produce research papers
Contribute to operational excellence
Analyze method performance
Analyze model performance
Propose solutions to improve
Champion adoption of scientific advancements
Help new teammates ramp up
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Collaboration across teams; Collaboration across functions; Work with teammates; Work with partners; Work with stakeholders
Full Job Description
Amazon's Worldwide Pricing & Promotions organization is seeking a strong Applied Scientist to help solve complex business problems involving promotional strategies at a global scale. This Applied Scientist will operate in a team of other scientists and economists. Our team applies causal inference, statistics, machine learning, forecasting, optimization, economics, and experimentation to drive actionable insights and to improve strategic business decision-making. This is an individual contributor role that requires collaboration across teams and functions to solve core business problems for the company around setting promotional strategies. The work is part of significant scientific investments in promotions intelligence systems that forecast customer demand and optimize promotions strategies across different surfaces. Key job responsibilities * Invent or adapt new scientific approaches, models, or algorithms inspired and driven by customers' needs and benefits * Produce research papers and reports that have the same level of correctness, scholarship, usefulness, completeness, depth, rigor, and originality as a top-tier external publication * Implement solutions that will be deployed into production or directly support production systems * Write clear, useful documentation describing algorithms and design choices in your components to make it possible for others to understand and reproduce your work * Contribute to operational excellence in the team's deliverable * Analyze the performance of your methods and models to understand the gaps, and iteratively propose solutions to improve * Champion the adoption of scientific advancements in the team * Help new teammates ramp up and understand who our customers are, what their needs are, how the team's solutions work, and how scientific components fit in those solutions A day in the life As an Applied Scientist on the WW Promotions Science team, you invent or adapt new scientific approaches, models, or algorithms to solve
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