Applied Scientist II, WW Sustainability

About the role

Join us at the Amazon's sustainability initiatives to work on environmental and social advancements to support Amazon's long term worldwide sustainability strategy. At Amazon, we're working to be the most customer-centric company on earth. To get there, we need exceptionally talented, bright, and driven people.

Responsibilities

• Implementing, and maintaining data and AI/ML infrastructure to support a wide variety of large and complex data sets, ensuring high performance, availability, and integrity.
• Identifying and solving data needs for Gen AI and benchmarking for tasks across the sustainability domain.
• Developing and optimizing robust data pipelines for internal data from sources such as Product Lifecycle Management tools, Product Details (images, text, and structured data), Inventory Management Platforms, and financial systems.
• Implement web-scale data collection for images, text, structured data across locations and sustainability domains.
• Develop comprehensive monitoring, alarming, and data quality controls for all of the above.
• Partnering with Scientists and Software Engineers to create our data collection strategy and ML Ops best practices.

Requirements

• 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

Qualifications

• Diverse Experiences: World Wide Sustainability values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.
• Inclusive Team Culture: It’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empowers us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (inclusive diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.
• Mentorship & Career Growth: We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
• Work/Life Balance: We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.

Benefits

• Base salary range: $142,800.00 - $193,200.00 USD annually
• Sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs)
• Comprehensive benefits including health insurance, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave

Pay

$142,800.00 - $193,200.00 USD annually

Schedule

Full-time