Amazon.com Services LLC

Machine Learning Science, Applied Science, consumer engagement

SeniorAppliedScientist

$184–249k New York, New York, United States FULL TIME
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HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Senior Applied Scientist at Amazon.com Services LLC. Skills: Machine learning, Recommendation systems, Large language models. Research AI technologies. Design AI technologies”

What You'll Achieve.

Optimize the shopping experience; Launch AI solutions end-to-end; Evaluate proposed solutions

Industry & Context.

Machine Learning Science, Applied Science, consumer engagement
Problems you'll solve

Research questions; Build models; Optimize shopping experience; Evaluate solutions

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

3+ years building ML models, Master's degree and 6+ years applied research, Programming in Java, C++, Python, Experience with neural deep learning, Experience with machine learning

Nice to Have

Modeling tools experience, Large scale distributed systems experience

What You'll Do.

Research AI technologies

Design AI technologies

Develop AI technologies

Adopt machine learning techniques

Invent machine learning techniques

Adopt analytical techniques

Invent analytical techniques

Experiment with new features

Experiment with new products

Experiment with new systems

Ask research questions

Build state-of-the-art models

Run models on retail website

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

Publish research findings

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Collaborate with scientists; Collaborate with engineers; Collaborate with product partners; Work closely with engineers; Work closely with product managers; Communicate with teammates

Communication Scope

Technical ideas; Non-technical ideas

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; - Publish your research findings in top conferences and journals. About the team Our team is part of Amazon’s Personalization organization, a high-performing group that leverages Amazon’s expertise in machine learning, big data, distributed systems, and user experience design to deliver the best shopping experiences for our customers. We

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