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Interested in modeling and understanding customer behavior through machine learning, artificial intelligence, and data mining over TB scale data with huge business impact on millions of customers? Join our team of Scientists and Engineers developing models to predict customer behavior and optimize the customer experience with Amazon Prime. This includes identifying who our customers are and providing them with personalized relevant content. As an ML expert, you will partner directly with product owners to intake, build, and directly apply your modeling solutions.There are numerous scientific and technical challenges you will get to tackle in this role, such as global scalability of models, combinatorial optimization, cold start problem, accelerated experimentation, short/long term goals modeling, cohort identification in a semi-supervised setting, and multi-step optimization leading to reinforcement learning of the customer journey. We employ techniques from supervised learning, bandits, optimization, and RL.As the central science team within Prime, our expertise gets routinely called upon to weigh in on a variety of topics. We also emphasize the need and value of scientific research and have developed a strong publication and patent record (internally/externally) which you will be a part of.You will also utilize and be exposed to the latest in ML technologies and infrastructure: AWS technologies (EMR/Spark, Redshift, Sagemaker, DynamoDB, S3, ...), various ML algorithms and techniques (XGBoost, Random Forests, Neural Networks, supervised/unsupervised/semi-supervised/reinforcement learning), and statistical modeling techniques.Major responsibilities· · Build and develop machine learning models and supporting infrastructure at TB scale, in coordination with software engineering teams.· · Leverage Bandits and Reinforcement Learning for Recommendation Systems.· · Develop offline policy estimation tools and integrate with reporting systems.· · Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large scale data analyses, model development, model validation and model implementation.· · Analyze and extract relevant information from large amounts of Amazon’s historical business data to help automate and optimize key processes.· · Work closely with the business to understand their problem space, identify the opportunities and formulate the problems.· · Use machine learning, data mining, statistical techniques and others to create actionable, meaningful, and scalable solutions for the business problems.· · Design, develop and evaluate highly innovative models and statistical approaches to understand and predict customer behavior and to solve business problems.

Are you excited about powering Amazon’s physical stores’ expansion through the application of Machine Learning and Big Data technologies? Do you thrive in a fast-moving, innovative environment that values data-driven decision making, scalable solutions, and sound scientific practices? We are looking for experienced scientists to build the next level of intelligence that will help Amazon physical stores grow and succeed.Our team is responsible for building the core intelligence, insights, and algorithms that support the real estate acquisition strategies for Amazon physical stores. We are tackling cutting-edge, complex problems — such as predicting the optimal location for new Amazon stores — by bringing together numerous data assets from disparate sources inside and outside of Amazon, and using best-in-class modeling solutions to extract the most information out of them.You will have a proven track-record of delivering solutions using advanced science approaches. You will be comfortable using a variety of tools and data sources to answer high-impact business questions. You will transform one-off models into automated systems. You will be able to break down complex information and insights into clear and concise language and be comfortable presenting your findings to audiences with a broad range of backgrounds.Responsibilities:· Develop production software systems utilizing advanced algorithms to solve business problems.· Analyze and validate data to ensure high data quality and reliable insights.· Partner with data engineering teams across multiple business lines to improve data assets, quality, metrics and insights.· Proactively identify interesting areas for deep dive investigations and future product development.· Design and execute experiments, and analyze experimental results in collaboration with Product Managers, Business Analysts, Economists, and other specialists.· Leverage industry best practices to establish repeatable applied science practices, principles & processes.

Amazon’s High Value Messaging (HVM) Analytics team (part of Customer Behavior Analytics) is looking for a Senior Applied Scientist to spearhead the rapid growth of our Marketing Measurement solutions. The team focuses on building scalable scientific models to estimate the effectiveness of Amazon marketing efforts and provide actionable insights to the various marketing teams within Amazon. We are looking for a thought leader that has an aptitude for delivering customer-focused solutions and who enjoys working on the intersection of Big-Data analytics, Machine/Deep Learning, and Causal Inference.A successful candidate will be a self-starter, comfortable with ambiguity, able to think big and be creative, while still paying careful attention to detail. You should be able to translate how data represents the customer journey, be comfortable dealing with large and complex data sets, and have experience using machine learning and econometric modeling to solve business problems. You should have strong analytical and communication skills, be able to work with product managers and software teams to define key business questions and work with the analytics team to solve them. You will join a highly collaborative and diverse working environment that will empower you to shape the future of Amazon marketing, as well as allow you to be part of the large science community within the Customer Behavior Analytics (CBA) organization.The Customer Behavior Analytics (CBA) organization owns Amazon’s insights pipeline, from data collection to deep analytics. We aspire to be the place where Amazon teams come for answers, a trusted source for data and insights that empower our systems and business leaders to make better decisions. Our outputs shape Amazon product and marketing teams’ decisions and thus how Amazon customers see, use, and value their experience.The main responsibilities for this position include:· Apply expertise in ML and causal modeling to develop systems that describe how Amazon’s marketing campaigns impact customers’ actions· Own the end-to-end development of novel scientific models that address the most pressing needs of our business stakeholders and help guide their future actions· Improve upon and simplify our existing solutions and frameworks· Review and audit modeling processes and results for other scientists, both junior and senior· Work with marketing leadership to align our measurement plan with business strategy· Formalize assumptions about how models are expected to behave, creating definitions of outliers, developing methods to systematically identify these outliers, and explaining why they are reasonable or identifying fixes for them· Identify new opportunities that are suggested by the data insights· Bring a department-wide perspective into decision making· Develop and document scientific research to be shared with the greater science community at Amazon

Global Talent Management (GTM) at Amazon owns a suite of products which helps drive career development for hundreds of thousands of Amazonians across the world. GTM - Science utilizes a wide array of data sources to conduct analytics and create predictive models that fuel recommendations, actions, and insights in nearly a dozen software systems. The team itself is composed of a variety of scientists and engineers with varied backgrounds, coming together to create diverse and innovative solutions to the problems faced by the one of the world’s largest and fastest growing workforces.This role will support the advancement of key workforce planning products owned by the team. The role will be a scientific lead for forecasting in the organization and a thought leader for forecasting applications throughout HR. If you’re interested in building models used regularly by thousands of Amazonians, to inform talent management decisions, this role is for you. You will support interesting, analytical problems, in an environment where you get to learn from other experienced economists and apply econometrics at massive scale.You will build econometric models, using our world class data systems, and apply economic theory to solve business problems in a fast moving environment. Economists at Amazon will be expected to develop new techniques to process large data sets, address quantitative problems, and contribute to design of automated systems around the company.· Build and operationalize econometric and statistical models· Perform model refreshes or updates to analyses as needed· Work collaboratively with economists and research scientists to assist in the design and implementation of analysis to answer challenging HR questions· Interpret and communicate results to outside customers· Aggregate and analyze data pulled from disparate sources (HR, Finance or other business systems) and related industry and external benchmarks; provide insights and a point of view on analysis and recommendations· Assist in the design and delivery of automated, scalable analytical models to stakeholders· Report results in a manner which is both statistically rigorous and compellingly relevant

Global Talent Management (GTM) at Amazon owns a suite of products which helps drive career development for hundreds of thousands of Amazonians across the world. GTM - Science utilizes a wide array of data sources to conduct analytics and create predictive models that fuel recommendations, actions, and insights in nearly a dozen software systems. The team itself is composed of a variety of scientists and engineers with varied backgrounds, coming together to create diverse and innovative solutions to the problems faced by the one of the world’s largest and fastest growing workforces.This role will support the advancement of key workforce planning products owned by the team. The role will be a scientific lead for forecasting in the organization and a thought leader for forecasting applications throughout HR. If you’re interested in building models used regularly by thousands of Amazonians, to inform talent management decisions, this role is for you. These are exciting fast-paced businesses in which work on extremely interesting analytical problems, in an environment where you get to learn from other experienced economists and apply econometrics at massive scale.You will build econometric models, using our world class data systems, and apply economic theory to solve business problems in a fast moving environment. Economists at Amazon will be expected to develop new techniques to process large data sets, address quantitative problems, and contribute to design of automated systems around the company.· Build and operationalize econometric and statistical models· Perform model refreshes or updates to analyses as needed· Work collaboratively with economists and research scientists to assist in the design and implementation of analysis to answer challenging HR questions· Interpret and communicate results to outside customers· Aggregate and analyze data pulled from disparate sources (HR, Finance or other business systems) and related industry and external benchmarks; provide insights and a point of view on analysis and recommendations· Assist in the design and delivery of automated, scalable analytical models to stakeholders· Report results in a manner which is both statistically rigorous and compellingly relevant

Machine learning (ML) has been strategic to Amazon from the early years. We are pioneers in areas such as recommendation engines, product search, eCommerce fraud detection, and large-scale optimization of fulfillment center operations.The Amazon ML Solutions Lab team helps AWS customers accelerate the use of machine learning to solve business and operational challenges and promote innovation in their organization. In this role, you will be designing and developing advanced ML models to solve diverse challenges and opportunities. You will be working with terabytes of text, images, and other types of data to solve real-world problems. You'll design and run experiments, research new algorithms, and find new ways of optimizing risk, profitability, and customer experience.We’re looking for talented data scientists capable of applying classical ML algorithms and cutting-edge deep learning (DL) and reinforcement learning approaches to areas such as drug discovery, customer segmentation, fraud prevention, capacity planning, predictive maintenance, pricing optimization, call center analytics, player pose estimation, event detection, and virtual assistant among others.The primary responsibilities of this role are to:· Design, develop, and evaluate innovative ML/DL models to solve diverse challenges and opportunities across industries· Interact with customer directly to understand their business problems, and help them with defining and implementing scalable ML/DL solutions to solve them· Work closely with account teams, research scientist teams, and product engineering teams to drive model implementations and new algorithmsThis position requires travel of up to 25%.Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and we 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 14 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.

Do you want to join an innovative team of scientists who use machine learning and statistical techniques to help Amazon provide the best customer experience by protecting Amazon customers from hackers and bad actors? Do you want to build advanced algorithmic systems that help manage the trust and safety of millions of customer every day? Are you excited by the prospect of analyzing and modeling terabytes of data and create state-of-art algorithms to solve real world problems? Do you like to innovate and simplify? If yes, then you may be a great fit to join the Amazon Account Integrity team.The Amazon Account Integrity team works to ensure that customers are protected from bad actors trying to access their accounts. Our greatest challenge is protecting customer trust without unjustly harming good customers. To strike the right balance, we invest in mechanisms which allow us to accurately identify and mitigate risk, and to quickly correct and learn from our mistakes. This strategy includes continuously evolving enforcement policies, iterating our Machine Learning risk models, and exercising high‐judgement decision‐making where we cannot apply automation.

Do you want to join an innovative team of scientists who use machine learning and statistical techniques to help Amazon provide the best customer experience by protecting Amazon customers from hackers and bad actors? Do you want to build advanced algorithmic systems that help manage the trust and safety of millions of customer every day? Are you excited by the prospect of analyzing and modeling terabytes of data and create state-of-art algorithms to solve real world problems? Do you like to innovate and simplify? If yes, then you may be a great fit to join the Amazon Account Integrity team.The Amazon Account Integrity team works to ensure that customers are protected from bad actors trying to access their accounts. Our greatest challenge is protecting customer trust without unjustly harming good customers. To strike the right balance, we invest in mechanisms which allow us to accurately identify and mitigate risk, and to quickly correct and learn from our mistakes. This strategy includes continuously evolving enforcement policies, iterating our Machine Learning risk models, and exercising high‐judgement decision‐making where we cannot apply automation.

LOCATION: San Francisco, CAMULTIPLE POSITIONS AVAILABLE1. Analyze real user data (search query logs) using SQL or equivalent data query language.2. Train machine learning / deep learning based models using ML platforms and libraries such as Tensorflow, Pytorch, Pyspark etc.3. Apply natural language processing techniques to improve ranking of search results and develop new ranking features and techniques building upon the latest results from the academic research community4. Boost search conversion by classifying user search queries and recommending relevant content5. Contribute to operational excellence in search team's scientific features, constructively identifying inefficient processes and proposing solutions6. Experiment with different models, analyze results using statistical methods and iterate on improving the results7. Propose and validate hypotheses to direct our business and product road map. Work with engineers to make low latency model predictions and scale the throughput of the system.8. Design, develop, and implement production level code that serves millions of search requests. Own the full development cycle: design, development, impact assessment, A/B testing (including interpretation of results) and production deployment.9. Telecommuting benefits available#0000

LOCATION: Pasadena, CAMULTIPLE POSITIONS AVAILABLE1. Assist large enterprises with researching and learning about new technologies in cloud computing. Understand their business needs in different industries and guide them to a solution using AWS Services.2. Develop approaches to industry problems in optimization, simulation and machine learning and execute customer projects and cases studies end-to-end.3. Develop a deep understanding of emerging technologies and innovate in co-designing novel algorithms on these platforms.4. Collaborate with AWS Services and research teams to continually improve the customer experience.5. Collaborate across the entire AWS organization to bring access to product and service teams, get the right solutions delivered and drive feature innovation based upon customer needs.6. Influence a team of scientists who are working on procedures to build quantum computers more reliably and develop methods to benchmark the performance of quantum hardware.7. Lead the exploratory research and prototyping of new schemes and simulation software for error correction resource estimates and benchmarking.8. Publish in scientific journals, create white papers, write blogs, and build demos and other reusable collateral that can be used by customers.9. Lead research and publication efforts focused on quantum error correction and quantum bench marking.10. Domestic and some international travel may be required up to 25% of the time.11. Telecommuting benefits available.#0000