Applied Scientist II, Personalization

About the role

Do you want to transform the way people shop at Amazon? We are looking for stellar applied scientists to be part of our multi-disciplinary team. We are re-imagining the future of the Amazon shopping experience for customers through tailoring it to their current intent. We understand what customers are interested in shopping for, and guide them to discover what they need as they shop. If you love building new technology that helps customers solve their problems, this is your opportunity to impact millions of customers. Come help us build the future of personalized shopping at Amazon!

Key job responsibilities

• Deliver new features and models that have huge impact on the customer experience. Help customers find the right products and content on their shopping journey. Leverage the use of advanced machine learning to create customer shopping experience at Amazon's scale - for all Amazon customers across all countries in realtime
• Be a key contributor on a multidisciplinary team across science, product, design, and engineering to see through ideas from inception, prototype, to launch in the hands of all Amazon's customers
• Propose and innovate on the science roadmap across multiple projects

About the team

Our vision is to build the next generation of shopping experience at Amazon through personalization and understanding the customer's intent. We imagine our core experiences to work together as a talented personal shopping assistant would — a partner that is knowledgeable, understands your preferences, and helps you find the right solution for your needs. We aim for the quality of personalization to be a core reason customers choose Amazon, on par with Earth’s largest selection, low prices, and fast and free shipping.

We are 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”. Amazon’s internal surveys regularly recognize us as one of the best engineering organizations to work for in the company, with visible high-impact work, low operational load, respectful work-life balance, and continual opportunity to learn and grow.

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 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

Pay

The base salary range for this position is listed below. 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.

USA, WA, Seattle - 142,800.00 - 193,200.00 USD annually