Senior Applied Scientist

At Audible, we believe stories have the power to transform lives. It’s why we work with some of the world’s leading creators to produce and share audio storytelling with our millions of global listeners. We are dreamers and inventors who come from a wide range of backgrounds and experiences to empower and inspire each other. Imagine your future with us.ABOUT THIS ROLEThe playback team at Audible owns the core playback logic end-to-end. All our services, systems and players are invoked each time customers click play (or download a title for offline playback) to enjoy the best playback experience. Specifically we own 1) Core playback logic on players such as Android, iOS and Web, 2) Playback services related to content delivery infrastructure, security & digital rights management, and processing / synchronization of listening data across devices, 3) listening statistics that power royalties, returns, creator metrics, and more, 4) Playback metrics, insights and platform, obsessing over the core playback metrics and trends that represent the service health of Audible Playback and delivery, 5) Unified Audible Playback SDK, that can be shared with both 3P and 1P customers, 6) Player optimizations related to QoE, ABR and Quality/CDN selection across Android, iOS and web, Server optimizations to segment the customer data and tune playback parameters in real-time, 7) all of the efforts around quality of experience monitoring which enable timely, accurate and automated detection of QoS performance degradations and identify opportunities to improve playback experience, 8) automated ML based review and sentiment analysis system that will proactively analyze posts across social media feeds, customer reviews to automatically establish relational models to identify and cross correlate issues detected by tools such as Anomaly detection, and finally, 9) Driving Audible’s playback initiatives to establish faculty collaborations to advance state of the art in Internet Audio.ABOUT YOUAs an applied scientist on our team, you will wear many hats and work in a highly collaborative environment that’s more startup than big company. You'll need to tackle complex problems that span a variety of domains: Machine learning, Artificial intelligence, Natural Language processing, real-time and distributed systems and help us build services and systems from the ground up which scale and serve billions of requests per day, with obsessively high reliability and low operational overhead. You'll have an opportunity to explore, innovate, invent and simplify various Playback state-of-art services and algorithms which leverage both custom and Industry proven Machine Learning, Natural Language processing and Artificial Intelligence technologies. Your work will focus on training and evaluating models and deploying them to production where we continuously monitor and evaluate. You'll work on large engineering efforts that solve significantly complex problems facing global customers. You'll be trusted to operate with independence and are often assigned to focus on areas with significant impact on audience satisfaction. You must be equally comfortable digging in to customer requirements as you are drilling into design with development teams and developing production ready learning models. You consistently bring strong, data-driven business and technical judgment to decisions. We experiment a lot and it is a must to learn and be curios. You'll be encouraged to see the big picture, be innovative, and positively impact millions of customers.As a Senior Applied Scientist, you will...- Understand large complex use cases across the Playback org and design scalable, efficient, and automated solutions- Design, develop, and deploy state-of-art Optimization services & algorithms and novel adaptive bitrate algorithms- Partner closely with other Amazon scientists focused on streaming insights and optimization use cases - Work closely with teams of scientists and software engineers to drive real-time model implementations and deliver novel and highly impactful features- Push the boundary of innovation- Mentor and grow the scientists in the team and across Amazon ABOUT AUDIBLEAudible is the leading producer and provider of audio storytelling. We spark listeners’ imaginations, offering immersive, cinematic experiences full of inspiration and insight to enrich our customers daily lives. We are a global company with an entrepreneurial spirit. We are dreamers and inventors who are passionate about the positive impact Audible can make for our customers and our neighbors. This spirit courses throughout Audible, supporting a culture of creativity and inclusion built on our People Principles and our mission to build more equitable communities in the cities we call home.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 5+ years of industry experience in Deep learning, Natural Language Processing/Understanding, Reinforcement learning and Speech processing- PhD in one of the following disciplines: Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, Data Science, Applied Math, Operational Research or a related quantitative field- Fluency in Python, SQL or similar scripting languages and skilled at Java, C++, or other programing languages- Experience in algorithm development- Depth and breadth in state-of-the-art machine learning technologies- Machine Learning Pipeline orchestration with AWS (SageMaker, Batch, Lambda, Step Functions) or similar cloud-platforms- Big Data Engineering with Spark / AWS EMR & Glue ...

Applied Scientist, Shopping Conversation Foundation

Our team's mission is to improve Shopping experience for customers interacting with Amazon devices via voice. We research and develop advanced state-of-the-art speech and language modeling technologies. Do you want to be part of the team developing the latest technology that impacts the customer experience of ground-breaking products? Then come join us and make history.Key job responsibilitiesWe are looking for a passionate, talented, and inventive Applied Scientist with a background in Machine Learning to help build industry-leading Speech and Language technology.As an Applied Scientist at Amazon you will work with talented peers to develop novel algorithms and modelling techniques to drive the state of the art in speech synthesis.Position Responsibilities:* Participate in the design, development, evaluation, deployment and updating of data-driven models for Speech and Language applications.* Participate in research activities including the application and evaluation of Speech and Language techniques for novel applications.* Research and implement novel ML and statistical approaches to add value to the business.* Mentor junior engineers and scientists.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- Experience developing experimental and analytic plans for data modeling processes, use of strong baselines, ability to accurately determine cause and effect relations- PhD- Experience in Python, Perl, or another scripting language ...

Senior Data Scientist, PubTech Data, Insights & Analytics

Amazon is continuing to invest in its Advertising business to tap into the growing online advertising market. The Publisher Technologies team builds and operates extensible services that empower 1P Publishers to improve the monetization of their customer experiences, along with the experiences themselves. We bias toward standards-based and flexible designs that allow Publishers the ability to invent on top of our solutions and to interoperate well with other advertising technology providers; both internal and external.The Publisher Technology Data, Insights, and Analytics team enables faster data-driven decision making for Publishers and Monetization teams by providing them with near real time data, data management tools, actionable insights, and an easy-to-use reporting experience. Our data products provide Publishers and Monetization teams with the capabilities necessary to better understand the performance of their Advertising products along with supporting machine learning at scale.In this role, you will join a team whose data products and services empower hundreds of teams across Amazon with near real time data to support big data analytics, insights, and machine learning at scale. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and implement advanced data tools, predictive models, and machine learning algorithms to support Advertising strategies and optimize revenue streams. You will analyze large-scale data to identify patterns and trends, and design and run A/B experiments to improve Publisher and advertiser experiences. Key job responsibilities- Design and lead large projects and experiments from beginning to end, and drive solutions to complex or ambiguous problems- Create tools and solve challenges using statistical modeling, machine learning, optimization, and/or other approaches for quantifiable impact on the business- Use broad expertise to recommend the right strategies, methodologies, and best practices, teaching and mentoring others- Key influencer of your team’s business strategy and of related teams’ strategies- Communication and documentation of methodologies, insights, and recommendations for senior leaders with various levels of technical knowledgeBASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 5+ years of data querying languages (e.g. SQL), scripting languages (e.g. Python) or statistical/mathematical software (e.g. R, SAS, Matlab, etc.) experience- 4+ years of data scientist experience- Prior experience in advertising or digital marketing, with an understanding of programmatic advertising and the digital advertising ecosystem ...

Data Engineer II, HWEng Data Science & Analytics team

AWS Hardware Engineering is looking for an experienced, innovative Data Engineer to join their Data Science and Analytics team. You will be part of a group of talented engineers and scientists that builds data products and services to turn hardware monitoring data into insights using advanced analytics and machine learning.As a Data Engineer, you will provide technical leadership, lead data engineering initiatives, and build end-to-end analytical solutions that are highly available, scalable, stable, secure, and cost-effective. You strive for simplicity, demonstrate creativity and sound judgement. You deliver data solutions that are customer focused, easy to consume and create business impact.You are passionate about working with huge datasets and have experience with the organization and curation of data for analytics. You have a strategic and long-term view on architecting advanced data ecosystem. You are experienced in building efficient and scalable data services and can integrate data systems with AWS tools and services to support a variety of customer use cases/applications.In this role, you can:Design, implement and operate large-scale, high-volume, high-performance data structures for analytics and data science.Implement data ingestion routines both real time and batch using best practices in data modeling, ETL/ELT processes by leveraging AWS technologies and big data tools.Gather business and functional requirements and translate these requirements into robust, scalable, operable solutions with a flexible and adaptable data architecture.Collaborate with engineers to help adopt best practices in data system creation, data integrity, test design, analysis, validation, and documentation.Collaborate with scientists to create fast and efficient algorithms that exploit our rich data sets for optimization, statistical analysis, prediction, clustering, and machine learning.Help continually improve ongoing reporting and analysis processes, automating or simplifying self-service modeling and production support for customers.This role falls within the broader AWS Infrastructure Services (AIS) organization, which owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. In other words, we’re the people who keep the cloud running. We support all AWS data centers and all the servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling equipment that ensure our customers have continual access to the innovation they rely on. We work on the most challenging problems, with thousands of variables impacting the supply chain — and we’re looking for talented people who want to help.You’ll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles. You’ll collaborate with people across AWS to help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost for our customers. And you’ll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.About the teamAmazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all the preferred 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.We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.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.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- A Bachelor's degree in a quantitative/technical field (e.g. Computer Science, Statistics, Engineering) or equivalent industry experience- 3+ years of experience with demonstrated strength in ETL/ELT, data modeling, data warehouse technical architecture, infrastructure components and reporting/analytic tools- 3+ years of hands-on experience in writing complex, highly-optimized SQL queries across large data sets.- 3+ years of experience in scripting languages like Python etc. ...

Data Scientist II, Customer Engagment Technologies

The Data Scientist in NLP within Customer Engagement Tech, Self-Service and Automation team will work on the research, design, and implementation of solutions to key challenges in developing, evaluating and deploying solutions based on large pretrained language models into conversational AI systems that can understand and communicate with customers in a natural and contextually appropriate manner. This involves model development in areas such as multi-turn dialogue management, knowledge grounding, and open-ended generation and assessment of dialogue quality and style of the conversational model.Key job responsibilities• Define and implement robust HITL strategies to effectively expedite LLM models scaling process.• Collaborate with human annotators and subject matter experts to establish clear guidelines and quality control measures.• Analyze feedback loops and iterate on model performance to ensure continuous improvement.• Conduct in-depth analysis of large-scale conversational datasets to identify patterns, trends, and potential challenges.• Independently document methodologies, findings, and results in a clear and concise manner, ensuring reproducibility and knowledge sharing.• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including applied scientists, software engineers, and product managers, to integrate LLM-based solutions into Amazon's customer service platforms. • Develop and implement strategies for data collection, annotation, and model training to ensure high-quality and robust performance of the chatbots.• Conduct experiments and evaluations to measure the performance of the developed models and systems, and identify areas for improvement. Stay up-to-date with the latest advancements in NLP, LLMs, and conversational AI, and explore opportunities to incorporate new techniques and technologies into Amazon's customer service solutions.A day in the lifeWe thrive on solving challenging problems to innovate for our customers. By pushing the boundaries of technology, we create unparalleled experiences that enable us to rapidly adapt in a dynamic environment. Our decisions are guided by data, and we collaborate with engineering, science, and product teams to foster an innovative learning environmentIf you are not sure that every qualification on the list above describes you exactly, we'd still love to hear from you! At Amazon, we value people with unique backgrounds, experiences, and skillsets. If you’re passionate about this role and want to make an impact on a global scale, please apply!Benefits Summary: Amazon offers a full range of benefits that support you and eligible family members, including domestic partners and their children. Benefits can vary by location, the number of regularly scheduled hours you work, length of employment, and job status such as seasonal or temporary employment. The benefits that generally apply to regular, full-time employees include: 1. Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage 2. Maternity and Parental Leave Options 3. Paid Time Off (PTO) 4. 401(k) PlanAbout the teamJoin our team of scientists and engineers who develop and deploy LLM-based Conversational AI systems to enhance Amazon's customer service experience and effectiveness. We work on innovative solutions that help customers solve their issues and get their questions answered efficiently, and associate-facing products that support our customer service associate workforce.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 3+ years of data scientist experience- 3+ years of data querying languages (e.g. SQL), scripting languages (e.g. Python) or statistical/mathematical software (e.g. R, SAS, Matlab, etc.) experience- 3+ years of machine learning/statistical modeling data analysis tools and techniques, and parameters that affect their performance experience- Experience applying theoretical models in an applied environment- Master's degree in a quantitative field such as statistics, mathematics, data science, business analytics, economics, finance, engineering, or computer science ...

Sr Data Scientist, Talent Management Measurement & Insights

Are you passionate about using science to build disruptive solutions that challenge the status-quo? Do you want to fundamentally redefine talent management and development for one of the largest and most complex workforce in the world? If you are, we want to talk to you.Key job responsibilitiesWe are looking for a Data Scientist generalist who can work with senior leadership and also partner with technical experts to deliver deliver best-in-class data science solutions for Amazon Talent. The Data Scientist will be comfortable leading statistical and ML projects from conception to production, including understanding business needs, transforming and exploring data, building and validating ML models, and deploying completed models on the AWS cloud. Finally, this person will be an expert at synthesizing and communicating insights and recommendations to audiences of varying levels of technical sophistication.A day in the lifeIn this role you will closely partner with Amazon WW Stores, Finance, and HR leadership teams, and with various engineering, data, and science teams across the company. Your goal will be to discover best in class approaches to help better understand and forecast talent movement and enable your customers to derive actionable insights to inform talent strategies. You will develop scientific solutions grounded in rigorous experimentation and measurement to support the growth and mobilization of our workforce, and strategic organizational planning to ensure our talent is optimally positioned to capitalize on emerging business opportunities.About the teamThe Measurement & Insights team serves as the analytical backbone of Amazon Stores Talent Management, ensuring that Amazon Stores remains at the cutting edge of data-driven talent optimization in the rapidly evolving retail and e-commerce landscape. We focus on providing scientific insights to solve durable customer problems relating to talent optimization, organizational structure, and operating mechanisms. Our interdisciplinary science team with expertise in psychometric measurement, experimental and quasi-experimental research design, statistics, and machine learning, guide the metric design and scientific approaches, uncover blind spots, and provide proactive insights to address potential challenges and opportunities.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 5+ years of data querying languages (e.g. SQL), scripting languages (e.g. Python) or statistical/mathematical software (e.g. R, SAS, Matlab, etc.) experience- 4+ years of data scientist experience- Experience with statistical models e.g. multinomial logistic regression ...

Data Engineer, Content Analysis & Strategy (CAST)

Amazon Music is an immersive audio entertainment service that deepens connections between fans, artists, and creators. From personalized music playlists to exclusive podcasts, concert livestreams to artist merch, Amazon Music is innovating at some of the most exciting intersections of music and culture. We offer experiences that serve all listeners with our different tiers of service: Prime members get access to all the music in shuffle mode, and top ad-free podcasts, included with their membership; customers can upgrade to Amazon Music Unlimited for unlimited, on-demand access to 100 million songs, including millions in HD, Ultra HD, and spatial audio; and anyone can listen for free by downloading the Amazon Music app or via Alexa-enabled devices. Join us for the opportunity to influence how Amazon Music engages fans, artists, and creators on a global scale. Learn more at https://www.amazon.com/music.Amazon Music is awash in data! To help make sense of it all, the CAST team within DISCO (Data, Insights, Science & Optimization) team accelerates and facilitates content analytics and provides independence to generate valuable insights in a fast, agile, and accurate way. This domain provides analytical support for the below topics within Amazon Music: Programming / Label Relations / PR / Stations / Livesports / Originals / Case & CAM. The CAST team enables repeatable, easy, in depth analysis of music customer behaviors. Our goal is to empower all teams at Amazon Music to make data driven decisions and effectively measure their results by providing high quality, high availability data, and democratized data access through self-service tools.If you love the challenges that come with big data and devops, then this role is for you. We collect billions of events a day, manage petabyte scale data on Redshift and S3, and develop data pipelines using Spark/Scala EMR, SQL based ETL, Airflow and Java services.We are looking for a talented, curious, enthusiastic, and detail-oriented Data Engineer, who knows how to take on big data challenges in an agile way. Duties include big data design and analysis, data modeling, and development, deployment, and operations of big data pipelines. The CAST team develops data specifically for a set of key business domains like personalization, playlist programming, merch, artists, and provides and protects a robust self-service core data experience for all internal customers. We deal in AWS technologies like Redshift, S3, EMR, EC2, DynamoDB, and Lambda. Key job responsibilities* Writing scripts, building microservices in AWS to increase team efficiency* Building and managing ETL pipelines in AWS to ingest data from external vendors* Assist the BIs on the team in managing our existing environment that consists of Redshift and SQL based pipelines. The activities around these systems will largely be well-defined via standard operation procedures (SOP) and typically involve approving data access requests, subscribing or adding new data to the environment, but there will be cases where creative problem-solving is required* SQL data pipeline management (creating or updating existing pipelines) and maintenance tasks on the Redshift cluster* Assist the team with the management of our next-generation AWS infrastructure. Tasks includes infrastructure monitoring via CloudWatch alarms, infrastructure maintenance through code changes or enhancements, and troubleshooting/root cause analysis infrastructure issues that arise, and in some cases this resource may also be asked to submit code changes based on infrastructure issues that arise.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 1+ years of data engineering experience- Experience as a data engineer or related specialty (e.g., software engineer, business intelligence engineer, data scientist) with a track record of manipulating, processing, and extracting value from large datasets- Experience writing and optimizing SQL queries with large-scale, complex datasets- Experience with one or more scripting language (e.g., Python, KornShell, Scala) ...

Applied Scientist - Safety ML

If you are interested in this position, please apply on Twitch's Career site https://www.twitch.tv/jobs/en/About Us:Twitch is the world’s biggest live streaming service, with global communities built around gaming, entertainment, music, sports, cooking, and more. It is where thousands of communities come together for whatever, every day.We’re about community, inside and out. You’ll find coworkers who are eager to team up, collaborate, and smash (or elegantly solve) problems together. We’re on a quest to empower live communities, so if this sounds good to you, see what we’re up to on LinkedIn and X, and discover the projects we’re solving on our Blog. Be sure to explore our Interviewing Guide to learn how to ace our interview process.About the RoleWe are looking for applied scientists to solve challenging and open-ended problems in the domain of user and content safety. As an applied scientist on Twitch's Community team, you will use machine learning to develop data products tackling problems such as harassment, spam, and illegal content. You will use a wide toolbox of ML tools to handle multiple types of data, including user behavior, metadata, and user generated content such as text and video. You will collaborate with a team of passionate scientists and engineers to develop these models and put them into production, where they can help Twitch's creators and viewers succeed and build communities.You will report to our Senior Applied Science Manager. This position is located in San Francisco, CA.You Will-Build machine learning products to protect Twitch and its users from abusive behavior such as harassment, spam, and violent or illegal content.-Work backwards from customer problems to develop the right solution for the job, whether a classical ML model or a state-of-the-art one.-Collaborate with Community Health's engineering and product management team to productionize your models into flexible data pipelines and ML-based services.-Continue to learn and experiment with new techniques in ML, software engineering, or safety so that we can better help communities on Twitch grow and stay safe.Perks- Medical, Dental, Vision & Disability Insurance- 401(k)- Maternity & Parental Leave- Flexible PTO- Amazon Employee DiscountBASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 2+ years of hands-on industry experience building models for NLP, deep learning, bot detection, anomaly detection or in another practical ML domain.- 2+ years experience writing high quality code to ship those models in production systems.- PhD / MSc Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, Engineering, or similar quantitative field OR equivalent hands on experience.- Expertise with: Python and SQL, modern open source ML libraries (Pytorch, Tensorflow, etc.). Familiarity with operating in AWS or similar cloud-computing services. ...

Data Engineer II, Seller Insights & Planning

The Seller Insights and Planning team’s mission is to make FBA the best place for sellers to both thrive and delight customers. We achieve this through identifying opportunities to address seller pain points, optimizing our services to reduce seller effort, eliminating the defects that lead to seller costs, and orchestrating initiatives across business, technology and operations that simplify the seller experience.As a Data Engineer in this role, you’ll have an opportunity to design, develop, and maintain a data lake that supports engineering, product, and business teams internationally within the Worldwide FBA business. Achieving this will require developing scalable data pipelines and systems that enable efficient and reliable data processing and integration from multiple sources owned by teams distributed internationally. Collaborating closely with cross-functional teams, you will need to determine engineering requirements and implement solutions that support our business intelligence and analytics initiatives, particularly focused on Worldwide FBA performance. The ideal candidate will be technically proficient (at the Data Engineering Coding bar), possess a strong background in data engineering, and have a deep understanding of data architecture. Key job responsibilitiesDesign, build, and maintain scalable and robust data pipelines for extracting, transforming, and loading (ETL) data from various structured and unstructured sources.Develop solutions to integrate data from multiple internal and external sources, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and reliability. Manage data storage solutions to optimize performance and cost-efficiencyDesign and implement efficient data models and schemas for business intelligence, analytics, and reporting. Ensure these models are optimized for performance, scalability, and accessibilityCollaborate with data analysts, BI engineers, software developers, and other stakeholders to understand data needs and provide solutions aligned with business requirements. Engage in cross-functional projects to support WW FBA initiativesImplement and maintain data validation processes to ensure high data quality and integrity. Establish data governance frameworks to enforce data security, privacy, and compliance standardsMaintain comprehensive documentation of data architecture, pipeline designs, and data models. Promote and enforce best practices for data engineering within the teamBASIC QUALIFICATIONS- Bachelor's degree in quantitative study such as Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or equivalent experience- 3+ years of data engineering experience- 3+ years of writing advanced SQL queries- Experience with data modeling, warehousing, and building ETL pipelines- Experience in at least one modern scripting or programming language, such as Python, Java, Scala, R, or NodeJS- Proficiency in written and verbal communication skills including comfortability communicating and presenting to senior leadership ...

Data Scientist II, Alexa Communications Experience Analytics, Alexa Communications

The vision for Alexa is to be the world’s best personal assistant. Such an assistant will play a vital role in managing the communication lives of customers, from drafting communications to coordinating with people on behalf of customers. At Alexa Communications, we’re leveraging Generative AI to bring this vision to life.If you’re passionate about building magical experiences for customers, while solving hard, complex technical problems, then this role is for you. You will operate at the intersection of large language models, real time communications, voice and graphical user interfaces, and mixed reality to deliver cutting-edge features for end users.Come join us to invent the future of how millions of customers will communicate with and through their virtual AI assistants.Key job responsibilitiesThe Comms Experience Insights (CXI) team is looking for an experienced, self-driven, analytical, and strategic Data Scientist II. We are looking for an individual who is passionate about tying together huge amounts of data to answer complex stakeholder questions. You should have deep expertise in translating data into meaningful insights through collaboration with Data Engineers and Business Analysts. You should also have extensive experience in model fitting and explaining how the insights derived from those models impact a business. In this role, you will take data curated by a dedicated team of Data Engineers to conduct deep statistical analysis on usage trends.The right candidate will possess excellent business and communication skills, be able to work with business owners to develop and define key business questions, and be able to collaborate with Data Engineers and Business Analysts to analyze data that will answer those questions. The right candidate should have a solid understanding of how to curate the right datasets that can be used to train data models, and the desire to learn and implement new technologies and services to further a scalable, self-service model.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 3+ years of data querying languages (e.g. SQL), scripting languages (e.g. Python) or statistical/mathematical software (e.g. R, SAS, Matlab, etc.) experience- 2+ years of data scientist experience- 3+ years of machine learning/statistical modeling data analysis tools and techniques, and parameters that affect their performance experience- Bachelor's degree- Experience applying theoretical models in an applied environment ...

Senior Data Scientist, International Product Management

Amazon Web Services (“AWS”) is looking for an outstanding Senior Data Scientist to join the AWS International Product Management and Expansion Strategy team. This is your opportunity to be a core part of the AWS team that has a direct impact on global strategic planning and decision-making.Today, AWS serves customers globally from over 190 countries through multiple infrastructure Regions. From these Regions, AWS offers over 200 fully featured cloud services which redefine business agility, reduce the cost of IT infrastructure, and elevate the role of IT as an enabler of business organizations. As a Senior Data Scientist on this team, you will get an exciting opportunity to structure and solve challenging business problems that help develop long-term growth strategies for AWS’s international business. We are looking for a seasoned professional with strong experience with operations research and/or AI/machine learning especially those with experience in seeking deep insights around customer adoption patterns globally. In this role, you will study patterns and structure models to quickly approach ambiguous problems with mathematical models that drive the adoption of AWS long-term to meaningfully impact AWS’s growth. To support their proposals, candidates should be able to mine large data sets independently, analyze patterns with any necessary programming and statistical techniques in a fast-paced environment. You will work closely with the business and technical teams to analyze many non-standard and unique business problems, and innovate with creative-problem solving to deliver actionable output to stakeholders. A successful candidate will be a self-starter, comfortable with ambiguity, with a working knowledge of cloud technology, with strong attention to detail, an ability to work in a fast-paced and ever-changing environment, a penchant to explain findings backed by sound statistical techniques, synthesize the business impact of findings, and have an ability to collaborate as well as effectively influence cross-functional teams. Come help us make history!Key job responsibilitiesThe key strategic objectives of this role include, but are not limited to:• Lead logical thinking to quickly turn high level ambiguous business problems into mathematical models • Help identify causal elements behind business trends to drive solution approaches that will let AWS expand faster internationally • Provide thought leadership to identify new correlations between emerging technology trends and global customer adoption to establish intuitive, but authoritative models that forecast or estimate impact to the business • Answer complex business questions around downstream impact and customer adoption patterns with statistical techniques/business rigor • Work with regional strategy managers to distill business trends unique to geographies • Develop Excel/Python/AWS AI/ML tool-based models to provide user friendly insights for business stakeholders and provide short- or long-term business projections that reflect cloud computing adoptionAbout the teamAbout AWSDiverse ExperiencesAWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred 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.Why AWS?Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.Inclusive Team CultureHere at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.Mentorship & Career GrowthWe’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 BalanceWe value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- Master's degree in econometrics, statistics, industrial engineering, operations research, optimization, data mining, analytics, or equivalent quantitative field- 5+ years of data scientist or similar role involving data extraction, analysis, statistical modeling and communication experience- 2+ years of demonstrated experience with problem solving, algorithm design and complexity analysis- 5+ years of recent experience in scripting languages like Python, Perl, Rust ...

Applied Scientist, Translation Services

Have you ever wondered how Amazon launches and maintains a consistent customer experience across hundreds of countries and languages it serves its customers? Are you passionate about data and mathematics, and hope to impact the experience of millions of customers? Are you obsessed with designing simple algorithmic solutions to very challenging problems? If so, we look forward to hearing from you!At Amazon, we strive to be Earth's most customer-centric company, where both internal and external customers can find and discover anything they want in their own language of preference. Our Translations Services (TS) team plays a pivotal role in expanding the reach of our marketplace worldwide and enables thousands of developers and other stakeholders (Product Managers, Program Managers, Linguists) in developing locale specific solutions.Amazon Translations Services (TS) is seeking an Applied Scientist to be based in our Seattle office. As a key member of the Science and Engineering team of TS, this person will be responsible for designing algorithmic solutions based on data and mathematics for translating billions of words annually across 130+ and expanding set of locales. The successful applicant will ensure that there is minimal human touch involved in any language translation and accurate translated text is available to our worldwide customers in a streamlined and optimized manner. With access to vast amounts of data, cutting-edge technology, and a diverse community of talented individuals, you will have the opportunity to make a meaningful impact on the way customers and stakeholders engage with Amazon and our platform worldwide. Together, we will drive innovation, solve complex problems, and shape the future of e-commerce.Key job responsibilities* Apply your knowledge of LLM models to contribute to the development and implementation of machine learning solutions that address language translation-related challenges in the eCommerce space.* Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including senior scientists, software engineers, and product managers, to understand project requirements, map business goals to scientific problems, and help deliver high-quality solutions.* Conduct data analysis to identify patterns and insights, using reasonable assumptions and customer requirements to solve well-defined problems related to seller performance and customer experiences across international marketplaces.* Stay updated on current modeling techniques and methodologies, applying them under guidance to improve the accuracy and efficiency of language translation-related systems.* Communicate technical concepts clearly to team members and stakeholders, participating in discussions on proposed solutions and their potential impact.About the teamWe are a start-up mindset team. As the long-term technical strategy is still taking shape, there is a lot of opportunity for this fresh Science team to innovate by leveraging Gen AI technoligies to build scalable solutions from scratch.Our Vision: Language will not stand in the way of anyone on earth using Amazon products and services.Our Mission: We are the enablers and guardians of translation for Amazon's customers. We do this by offering hands-off-the-wheel service to all Amazon teams, optimizing translation quality and speed at the lowest cost possible.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language- Experience with SQL and an RDBMS (e.g., Oracle) or Data Warehouse ...

Senior Applied Scientist, Translation Services

Have you ever wondered how Amazon launches and maintains a consistent customer experience across hundreds of countries and languages it serves its customers? Are you passionate about data and mathematics, and hope to impact the experience of millions of customers? Are you obsessed with designing simple algorithmic solutions to very challenging problems? If so, we look forward to hearing from you!At Amazon, we strive to be Earth's most customer-centric company, where both internal and external customers can find and discover anything they want in their own language of preference. Our Translations Services (TS) team plays a pivotal role in expanding the reach of our marketplace worldwide and enables thousands of developers and other stakeholders (Product Managers, Program Managers, Linguists) in developing locale specific solutions.Amazon Translations Services (TS) is seeking a Senior Applied Scientist to be based in our Seattle office. As a key member of the Science and Engineering team of TS, this person will be responsible for designing algorithmic solutions based on data and mathematics for translating billions of words annually across 130+ and expanding set of locales. The successful applicant will ensure that there is minimal human touch involved in any language translation and accurate translated text is available to our worldwide customers in a streamlined and optimized manner. With access to vast amounts of data, cutting-edge technology, and a diverse community of talented individuals, you will have the opportunity to make a meaningful impact on the way customers and stakeholders engage with Amazon and our platform worldwide. Together, we will drive innovation, solve complex problems, and shape the future of e-commerce.Key job responsibilities* Lead and innovate in applying advanced NLP and LLM techniques to solve complex language translation challenges in e-commerce, driving product-level improvements for our international marketplaces.* Architect and implement novel, scalable machine learning solutions that enhance translation quality evaluation and improve translation pipeline efficiency across multiple teams and systems.* Spearhead cross-functional collaborations to define strategic project requirements, establish organization-wide success metrics, and deliver high-impact solutions aligning with broader business objectives.* Drive comprehensive data analysis to uncover non-obvious insights in multilingual data, relaying findings into actionable strategies that influence product roadmaps and capabilities for language technologies.* Pioneer and implement cutting-edge modeling techniques for machine translation quality assessment and pipeline optimization, leading the team's scientific agenda. Invent new methodologies when existing approaches fall short, advancing the state-of-the-art.* Serve as a recognized expert in LLM applications for e-commerce translation, communicating complex concepts to diverse stakeholders including senior leadership. Influence organization-wide adoption of innovative approaches in language translation technologies.* Actively mentor team members, elevating scientific capabilities and fostering a culture of innovation and rigorous inquiry in machine translation and evaluation.About the teamWe are a start-up mindset team. As the long-term technical strategy is still taking shape, there is a lot of opportunity for this fresh Science team to innovate by leveraging Gen AI technoligies to build scalable solutions from scratch.Our Vision: Language will not stand in the way of anyone on earth using Amazon products and services.Our Mission: We are the enablers and guardians of translation for Amazon's customers. We do this by offering hands-off-the-wheel service to all Amazon teams, optimizing translation quality and speed at the lowest cost possible.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 ...

Manager, Data Science, Amazon Advertising

Amazon Advertising is one of Amazon's fastest growing and most profitable businesses, responsible for defining and delivering a collection of advertising products that drive discovery and sales. Our products and solutions are strategically important to enable our Retail and Marketplace businesses to drive long-term growth. We deliver billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks and break fresh ground in product and technical innovations every day!As the Data Science Manager on this team, you will: - Lead of team of scientists, business intelligence engineers, etc., on solving science problems with a high degree of complexity and ambiguity.- Develop science roadmaps, run annual planning, and foster cross-team collaboration to execute complex projects.- Perform hands-on data analysis, build machine-learning models, run regular A/B tests, and communicate the impact to senior management.- Hire and develop top talent, provide technical and career development guidance to scientists and engineers in the organization.- Analyze historical data to identify trends and support optimal decision making.- Apply statistical and machine learning knowledge to specific business problems and data.- Formalize assumptions about how our systems should work, create statistical definitions of outliers, and develop methods to systematically identify outliers. Work out why such examples are outliers and define if any actions needed.- Given anecdotes about anomalies or generate automatic scripts to define anomalies, deep dive to explain why they happen, and identify fixes.- Build decision-making models and propose effective solutions for the business problems you define.- Conduct written and verbal presentations to share insights to audiences of varying levels of technical sophistication.Why you will love this opportunity: Amazon has invested heavily in building a world-class advertising business. This team defines and delivers a collection of advertising products that drive discovery and sales. Our solutions generate billions in revenue and drive long-term growth for Amazon’s Retail and Marketplace businesses. We deliver billions of ad impressions, millions of clicks daily, and break fresh ground to create world-class products. We are a highly motivated, collaborative, and fun-loving team with an entrepreneurial spirit - with a broad mandate to experiment and innovate.Impact and Career Growth: You will invent new experiences and influence customer-facing shopping experiences to help suppliers grow their retail business and the auction dynamics that leverage native advertising; this is your opportunity to work within the fastest-growing businesses across all of Amazon! Define a long-term science vision for our advertising business, driven from our customers' needs, translating that direction into specific plans for research and applied scientists, as well as engineering and product teams. This role combines science leadership, organizational ability, technical strength, product focus, and business understanding.Team video ~ https://youtu.be/zD_6Lzw8raEBASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 5+ years of building quantitative solutions as a scientist or science manager experience- 2+ years of scientists or machine learning engineers management experience- 5+ years of applying statistical models for large-scale application and building automated analytical systems experience- PhD in computer science, mathematics, statistics, machine learning or equivalent quantitative field- Knowledge of Python or R or other scripting language ...

Applied Scientist II, Amazon

We’re working to improve shopping on Amazon using the conversational capabilities of LLMs, and are searching for pioneers who are passionate about technology, innovation, and customer experience, and are ready to make a lasting impact on the industry.In this role you will influence our team’s science and business strategy with your analyses. You will be expected to identify and solve ambiguous problems and science deficiencies, and to provide informed solutions based on state of the art machine learning research.You will be owner of the solutions that you create, you will lead junior members of the team, and you will work closely with Software Development Engineers to deploy the models into production.Your solutions will drive the technology behind agentic solutions, automated evaluations, and sophisticated RAG at Amazon.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 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 ...

Data Scientist, Analytics

If you are interested in this position, please apply on Twitch's Career site https://www.twitch.tv/jobs/en/About Us:Twitch is the world’s biggest live streaming service, with global communities built around gaming, entertainment, music, sports, cooking, and more. It is where thousands of communities come together for whatever, every day.We’re about community, inside and out. You’ll find coworkers who are eager to team up, collaborate, and smash (or elegantly solve) problems together. We’re on a quest to empower live communities, so if this sounds good to you, see what we’re up to on LinkedIn and X, and discover the projects we’re solving on our Blog. Be sure to explore our Interviewing Guide to learn how to ace our interview process.About the RoleData is central to Twitch's decision-making process, and data scientists are a critical component to evangelize data-driven decision making in all of our operations. As a data scientist at Twitch, you will be on the ground floor with your team, shaping the way product performance is measured, defining what questions should be asked, and scaling analytics methods and tools to support our growing business, leading the way for high quality, high velocity decisions for your team. For this role, we're looking for an experienced product data scientist who will help develop the strategy and evaluate/improve product initiatives within our Creator product team. You will be responsible to define and track KPIs, design experiments, evaluate A/B tests, implement data instrumentation, and inform on investment. Our ideal candidate is a "full-stack" data powerhouse who uses data to drive decision making to make the best products for our creators and their communities. Your input will be core to decision making across all major product strategies and initiatives that our team builds. You will work closely with product managers, technical program managers, engineering, data scientists, and organization leadership within and outside of the Creator organization. You Will- Inform product strategies by defining and updating core metrics for each initiative- Establish analytical framework for your team: ad-hoc analysis, automated dashboards, and self-service reporting tools to surface key data to stakeholders - Evaluate and forecast impact of product features on creators, viewers, and the entire Twitch ecosystem- Design A/B experiments to drive product direction with iterative innovation and measurement- Drive the team's analysis roadmap and prioritize the most valuable projects- Tackle complex and ambiguous analytic projects, resolve ambiguity and accurately identify the trade-offs between speed and quality and apply or route work as necessary- Dive deep into the data to understand how creator and viewer behaviors change with the evolution of our product- Act as our team's thought leader on best practices and move towards long-term vision of sustainable and thriving data processes - Own data collection and product instrumentation implementation and quality assurance- Work hand-in-hand with business, product, engineering, and design to proactively influence and inform teammates' decisions throughout the product life cycle- Distill ambiguous product or business questions, find clever ways to answer them, and to quantify the uncertaintyPerks- Medical, Dental, Vision & Disability Insurance- 401(k)- Maternity & Parental Leave- Flexible PTO- Amazon Employee DiscountAbout the teamTwitch is all about community, and our Community Team is a core pillar of what makes Twitch, Twitch. Teams within Community are responsible for a myriad of product areas impacting the creator, viewer, and moderator journeys on our platform. As a member of our team, you'll build solutions that improve g the experience of millions of daily active users on our platform and create tools that keep both streamers and viewers engaged and connected on our platform. BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- BA/BS in Analytics, Data Science, Computer Science, Mathematics, or equivalent industry experience- 3+ years of experience as a data scientist or data analyst in a high velocity, data-driven environment- 3+ years of machine learning/statistical modeling data analysis tools and techniques, and parameters that affect their performance experience- Expert SQL skills and proficiency in Python/R- Experience using data to create insight, drive business decisions and influence leadership ...

Senior Data Scientist, AIGC HR Analytics

Amazon Ads/IMDb/Grand Challenge (AIGC) HR Analytics (AHA) team is looking for a Senior Data Scientist who wants to work in a fast-paced, exciting, and growing organization.We are actively looking to hire senior scientists to lead one or more of these problem spaces. Successful candidates will have a deep knowledge of Anomaly detection and Machine Learning methods, experience in applying these methods to large-scale business problems, the ability to map models into production-worthy code in Python or Java, the communication skills necessary to explain complex technical approaches to a variety of stakeholders and customers, and the excitement to take iterative approaches to tackle big research challenges. As a member of our team, you'll work on cutting-edge projects that directly impact AIGC employees. The successful candidate will be a self-starter comfortable with ambiguity, with strong attention to detail and outstanding ability in balancing technical leadership with strong business judgment to make the right decisions about model and method choices. Successful candidates must thrive in fast-paced environments, which encourage collaborative and creative problem solving, be able to measure and estimate risks, constructively critique peer research, and align research focuses with the Amazon's strategic needs. If you enjoy innovating, thinking big and want to contribute directly to the success of a growing team, you may be a prime candidate for this position.Key job responsibilitiesIn this role you will:• Analyze, model and interpret data for AIGC employees• Build anomaly detection tools for people metrics to optimize org structure• Data analysis, modeling, network flow prediction using Excel, Pivot tables, VBA, Tableau, SQL (Amazon Redshift), R, Python• Predictive analysis using Machine Learning models at scale• Create effective data analysis reports and communicate with stakeholders• Innovate and simplify data analysis process to standardize and enable automationAbout the teamOur team communicates who we are as an employer – what it’s like to be an Amazonian, why we love innovating on behalf of customers and why people should join us. We build trust with our partners, dive deep into our data, and love to learn and be curious as we deliver results. Our job is to bring that to life.Diverse ExperiencesAmazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred 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 CultureHere at Amazon, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.Mentorship & Career GrowthWe’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 BalanceWe value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 5+ years of data querying languages (e.g. SQL), scripting languages (e.g. Python) or statistical/mathematical software (e.g. R, SAS, Matlab, etc.) experience- 6+ years of data scientist experience- Experience with statistical models e.g. multinomial logistic regression- Master's degree in a quantitative field such as statistics, mathematics, data science, business analytics, economics, finance, engineering, or computer science ...

Data Engineer , Amazon

Interested in Visual Search? Do you want to work on a team that is changing how people shop with their mobile devices? Based in Palo Alto, our team is responsible for building computer-vision based solutions for shopping - from using the phone’s camera to search for a product to previewing it in your own living space using AR. Our solutions are available in the Amazon Mobile Shopping app and used by millions of people worldwide every day. We use advanced technologies to leverage our vast catalog of images in ways that dramatically improve the experience of Amazon customers. We tackle complex problems in computer vision, computer graphics, deep learning, image search.Key job responsibilitiesIn this role, you will be member of the team that owns the Data Engineering function for the Visual Shopping org. This team manages datasets that act as the final feedback to our group on how well our features are being received by customers. You will build and maintain data pipelines that handle Amazon scale data and make it easily accessible for BIEs and Product team for querying and for generation of reports relevant to business. A great fit candidate for this role would be someone who brings experience building large scale big data systems that can handle petabytes of data.* Design, implement and support an analytical data infrastructure* Create and maintain data transformation logic, create scalable data solutions* Interface with other technology teams to extract, transform, and load data from a wide variety of data sources* Collaborate with BIEs to recognize and help adopt best practices in reporting and analysis* Explore and learn the latest AWS technologies to provide new capabilities and increase efficiency* Help continually improve ongoing data ingestion, reporting and analysis processes* Maintain internal reporting platforms/tools* Write advanced SQL queries and code to develop data solutionsBASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 3+ years of data engineering experience- Experience with data modeling, warehousing and building ETL pipelines- Solid track record of manipulating, processing, and extracting values from large datasets.- Hands-on experience and highly advanced knowledge of SQL, Data Modeling, ETL Development, and Data Warehousing.- Solid experience using big data technologies (Redshift, MapReduce, Hive, Hbase, Spark, EMR, etc.).- Strong customer focus, ownership, and ability to deliver results.- Excellent communication and collaboration skills- Effective analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills. ...

Associate Cloud Consultant, Application Development, AWS Professional Services

Note: By applying to this position, your application will be considered for: Arlington, VA; and Seattle, WA.Are you a developer who has hands-on experience with building cloud-native applications? Would you like to work with our customers to help them architect, develop and re-engineer applications to fully leverage the AWS Cloud? Do you like to work on a variety of cutting edge, business-critical projects at the forefront of application development and cloud technology adoption?In order for applications to be fully optimized, they need to be architected to take advantage of the global scale, elasticity, automation and high availability features of the AWS cloud. On the AWS platform, services such as API Gateway, Lambda, ECS, SQS, Kinesis, AI and others provide opportunities to design and build cloud-ready applications.You will join as part of the AWS Professional Services (ProServe Associate to Consultant (A2C), which focuses on the accelerated career development of university graduates and early career professionals. Our team members work with enterprise customers locally, regionally and domestically. As such, this role has up to 75% travel associated. While many of our customers engage ProServe virtually, there is always the potential that a customer might choose to include travel in their contract.Key job responsibilitiesIn order for applications to be fully optimized, they need to be architected to take advantage of the global scale, elasticity, automation and high availability features of the AWS cloud. On the AWS platform, services such as API Gateway, Lambda, ECS, SQS, Kinesis, AI and others provide opportunities to design and build cloud-ready applications. Amazon Web Services is looking for highly talented hands-on technical developer to help accelerate our growing Professional Services business. This is an excellent opportunity to join Amazon’s world class technical teams, working with some of the best and brightest engineers while also developing your skills and furthering your career within one of the most innovative and progressive technology companies. We are looking for hands-on architects/developers who are passionate about:* Helping customers architect scalable, highly available application solutions that leverage AWS services* Architecting and developing customer applications to be cloud optimized* Working as a technical specialist alongside customer business, development and infrastructure teams* Providing deep software development knowledge with respect cloud architecture, design patterns and programming* Advising and implementing AWS best practices* Working as both an infrastructure and application development specialist* Implementing DevOps practices such as infrastructure as code, continuous integration and automated deploymentAbout the teamAWS Professional Services engage in a wide variety of projects for customers and partners, providing collective experience from across the AWS customer base and are obsessed about strong success for the Customer. Our consultants will develop and deliver proof-of-concept projects, technical workshops, and support implementation projects. Our team collaborates across the entire AWS organization to bring access to product and service teams, to get the right solution delivered and drive feature innovation based upon customer needs.You will also have the opportunity to create white papers, writing blogs, build demos and other reusable collateral that can be used by our customers. Most importantly, you will work closely with our Solution Architects, Data Scientists and Service Engineering teams. Inclusive Team CultureHere at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have thirteen employee-led affinity groups, reaching 85,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 16 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust. Work/Life BalanceOur team puts a high value on work-life harmony. Striking a healthy balance between your personal and professional life is crucial to your happiness and success here. We are a customer-obsessed organization—leaders start with the customer and work backwards. They work vigorously to earn and keep customer trust. As such, this is a customer facing role in a hybrid delivery model. Project engagements include remote delivery methods and onsite engagement that will include travel to customer locations as needed. Mentorship & Career GrowthOur team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded professional and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS* Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or a related field with a conferral date within May 2023 to May 2025 * 1+ years of hands-on experience of programming in languages such as Python, Ruby, Go, Swift, Java, .Net, C++, Node.js, or similar object-oriented language. ...

Applied Scientist, Private Brands Discovery

The Private Brands Discovery team designs innovative machine learning solutions to drive customer awareness for Amazon’s own brands and help customers discover products they love. Private Brands Discovery is an interdisciplinary team of Scientists and Engineers, who incubate and build disruptive solutions using cutting-edge technology to solve some of the toughest science problems at Amazon. To this end, the team employs methods from Natural Language Processing, Deep learning, multi-armed bandits and reinforcement learning, Bayesian Optimization, causal and statistical inference, and econometrics to drive discovery across the customer journey. Our solutions are crucial for the success of Amazon’s own brands and serve as a beacon for discovery solutions across Amazon.This is a high visibility opportunity for someone who wants to have business impact, dive deep into large-scale problems, enable measurable actions on the consumer economy, and work closely with scientists and engineers. As a scientist, you bring business and industry context to science and technology decisions. You set the standard for scientific excellence and make decisions that affect the way we build and integrate algorithms. Your solutions are exemplary in terms of algorithm design, clarity, model structure, efficiency, and extensibility. You tackle intrinsically hard problems, acquiring expertise as needed. You decompose complex problems into straightforward solutions.. With a focus on bias for action, this individual will be able to work equally well with Science, Engineering, Economics and business teams. Key job responsibilities- Drive applied science projects in machine learning end-to-end: from ideation over prototyping to launch. For example, starting from deep scientific thinking about new ways to support customers’ journeys through discovery, you analyze how customers discover, review and purchase Private Brands to innovate marketing and merchandising strategies. - Propose viable ideas to advance models and algorithms, with supporting argument, experiment, and eventually preliminary results. - Invent ways to overcome technical limitations and enable new forms of analyses to drive key technical and business decisions. - Present results, reports, and data insights to both technical and business leadership. - Constructively critique peer research and mentor junior scientists and engineers. - Innovate and contribute to Amazon’s science community and external research communities.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- PhD, or Master's degree and 2+ 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 ...