Applied Scientist, Regulatory, Intelligence, Safety and Compliance (RISC)
Description
RISC's vision is to make Amazon Earth’s most trusted shopping destination for safe and compliant products. We do this by protecting customers from products that are unsafe, illegal, illegally marketed, controversial or otherwise in violation of Amazon's policies while enabling our Selling Partners (SPs) to offer their broadest selection of safe and compliant products. We are seeking an exceptional Applied Scientist to join a team of experts in the field of agentic AI, GenAI, Machine Learning, Software Engineers, and work together to tackle challenging problems across diverse compliance domains.
Key job responsibilities
Design and evaluate state-of-the-art algorithms and approaches in content generation, multi-modal classification, global product taxonomy, intent detection, information retrieval, anomaly and fraud detection, agentic AI, generative AI and multi-agent system.
Translate product and CX requirements into measurable science problems and metrics.
Collaborate with product and tech partners and customers to validate hypothesis, drive adoption, and increase business impact.
Author in writing high quality scientific papers in internal and external peer-reviewed conferences.
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 building machine learning models or developing algorithms for business applications.
Experience in state-of-the-art deep learning models architecture design and deep learning training and optimization and model pruning.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
Experience in building speech recognition, machine translation and natural language processing systems (e.g., commercial speech products or government speech projects).
Experience in professional software development.