Applied Scientist, Tablets

About the role

The Amazon Tablet team is a world-class team that delivers high-quality, innovative products that are loved by our customers. Our team focuses on spinning many of Amazon’s flywheels with bar-raising mobile experiences on our tablets. Over the last 12 years, we have built 4.0+ star rated products, and we continue to look for ways to scale our business.

Responsibilities

• Using Amazon’s large-scale computing resources, you will design and deploy state-of-the-art recommendation models.
• You will ask research questions about customer behavior, design state-of-the-art models that help customers discover content, and deploy these models to production alongside other engineers.
• You will participate in the Amazon ML community and mentor other engineers with a strong interest in and knowledge of ML and generative AI.
• Your work will directly benefit customers!

Qualifications

• 3+ years of building models for business applications 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