Applied Scientist II, Amazon, Amazon

About the role

We’re working to improve shopping on Amazon using the conversational capabilities of large language models, and are searching for pioneers who are passionate about technology, innovation, and customer experience.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop benchmark and evaluation frameworks to assess Large Language Model (LLM) capabilities, with a specific focus on e-commerce and shopping applications.
• Utilize these frameworks to curate high-quality training data that enhances model performance in shopping-related tasks.
• Experience with LLM benchmarking, evaluation methods, and applied reinforcement learning is preferred.
• Work with talented scientists, engineers, and technical program managers (TPM) to innovate on behalf of our customers.

Requirements

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 in patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals
• Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
• Experience in any of the following areas: algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, high-performance computing

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Experience using Unix/Linux
• Experience in professional software development

Qualifications

• Experience with LLM benchmarking, evaluation methods, and applied reinforcement learning is preferred.
• Work with talented scientists, engineers, and technical program managers (TPM) to innovate on behalf of our customers.

Skills

Basic Qualifications:

• Experience with LLM benchmarking, evaluation methods, and applied reinforcement learning is preferred.
• Work with talented scientists, engineers, and technical program managers (TPM) to innovate on behalf of our customers.

Benefits

Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

Pay

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs).

USA, CA, Palo Alto - 171,600.00 - 222,200.00 USD annually

Schedule

Not specified