Applied Scientist II, Core Search

Key job responsibilities

• Analyze the data and metrics resulting from traffic into Amazon's product search service.
• Design, build, and deploy effective and innovative ML and LLM solutions to improve search experiences.
• Evaluate the proposed solutions via offline benchmark tests as well as online A/B tests in production.
• Publish and present your work at internal and external scientific venues in the fields of ML/NLP/IR.

Basic Qualifications

• 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 optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, high-performance computing

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience using Unix/Linux
• Experience in professional software development
• Experience in state-of-the-art deep learning models architecture design and deep learning training and optimization and model pruning
• Experience building machine learning models or developing algorithms for business applications

Company

• Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County Applicants

Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies.

Criminal History

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Benefits

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