Applied Scientist II, Search Ranking

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 solutions to improve search ranking.
• 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 with Machine and Deep Learning toolkits such as MXNet, TensorFlow, Caffe and PyTorch