Applied Scientist, Amazon Shopping Personalization

About the role

As an 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.

Responsibilities

• Using Amazon’s large-scale computing resources, 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 run global experiments and our work has revolutionized e-commerce with features such as "Keep shopping for ...", “Customers who bought this item also bought”, and “Frequently bought together”.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• Master's degree in computer science, mathematics, statistics, machine learning, or equivalent quantitative field.
• Experience programming in Java, C++, Python, or related language.
• Experience with SQL and an RDBMS (e.g., Oracle) or Data Warehouse.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience implementing algorithms using both toolkits and self-developed code.
• Publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals.

Pay

USA, NY, New York - $157,300.00 - $212,800.00 USD annually. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location.

Benefits

• Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance, and option for Supplemental life plans).
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line.
• Flexible Spending Accounts.
• Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage.
• 401(k) matching.
• Paid time off and parental leave.

Learn more about our benefits at amazon.jobs/en/benefits.