Sr. Applied Scientist, C360

Description

Are you a scientist passionate about advancing Information Retrieval, NLP, and Large Language Models? Do you want access to massive datasets, world-class compute, and a team of top scientists and engineers building the future of e-commerce? If so, you'll be a great fit for our team at Amazon. We build large-scale ML solutions that deliver personalized, up-to-date recommendations to millions of customers. Our team is uniquely positioned to shape how customers think about their shopping journey. We're looking for scientists with deep LLM expertise to build our next generation of models. The team focuses on post-training—instruction tuning, reward modeling, reinforcement learning, and multi-modal alignment. You'll design and run large-scale experiments, analyze model behavior, and develop training recipes that improve core capabilities like reasoning, personalization, and other frontier paradigms.

Key job responsibilities

• Own the scientific roadmap for personalization initiatives, identifying high-impact research directions and translating ambiguous business problems into well-defined ML formulations
• Design and lead end-to-end systems spanning recommendations, information retrieval, and LLM fine-tuning, from problem framing through offline experimentation to production
• Drive technical decisions on model architecture, training methodology, and evaluation frameworks, balancing scientific rigor with business impact and operational constraints
• Mentor and raise the bar for the science team through design reviews, paper discussions, and establishing best practices for experimentation and reproducibility
• Influence cross-functional strategy by partnering with engineering, product, and leadership to define the product vision informed by what's technically feasible and scientifically novel

About The Team

The team values innovations and offers a safe place to try, fail and learn while fostering a culture of continuous improvement. Everyone is a leader and owner for everything we do as a team. Our team offers creative space with entrepreneurial work environment focusing on customer obsession.

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of building machine learning models for business application experience
• PhD, or Master's degree and 6+ years of applied research experience
• Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
• Experience with neural deep learning methods and machine learning

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience with modeling tools such as R, scikit-learn, Spark MLLib, MxNet, Tensorflow, numpy, scipy etc.
• Experience with large scale distributed systems such as Hadoop, Spark etc.