Applied Scientist II, Customer360

About the role

Are you a scientist passionate about advancing Information Retrieval, NLP, and Large Language Models? Are you interested in innovating on behalf of millions of customers, helping them discover what they need in the moments that matter? Do you want access to massive datasets, world-class compute, and the freedom to reason from first principles on novel problems? If so, you'll be a great fit for our team at Amazon.

Key job responsibilities

• Responsible for the research, design, and development of new AI technologies for personalization.
• Adopt or invent new machine learning and analytical techniques in the realm of recommendations, information retrieval, and large language models.
• Collaborate with scientists, engineers, and product partners locally and abroad.
• Invent, experiment with, and launch new features, products, and systems.

About the team

The team values innovation and offers a safe place to try, fail, and learn while fostering continuous improvement. Everyone is a leader and owner for everything we do as a team. Our team offers creative space with an entrepreneurial work environment focusing on customer obsession.

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 programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
• Experience building machine learning models or developing algorithms for business application
• 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