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  • GB, London
    Job ID: 2622692
    (Updated 0 days ago)
    Economic Decision Science is a central science team working across a variety of topics in the EU Stores business and beyond. We work closely EU business leaders to drive change at Amazon. We focus on solving long-term, ambiguous and challenging problems, while providing advisory support to help solve short-term business pain points. Key topics include pricing, product selection, delivery speed, profitability, and customer experience. We tackle these issues by building novel econometric models, machine learning systems, and high-impact experiments which we integrate into business, financial, and system-level decision making. Our work is highly collaborative and we regularly partner with EU- and US-based interdisciplinary teams. We are looking for a Senior Economist who is able to provide structure around complex business problems, hone those complex problems into specific, scientific questions, and test those questions to generate insights. The ideal candidate will work with various science, engineering, operations and analytics teams to estimate models and algorithms on large scale data, design pilots and measure their impact, and transform successful prototypes into improved policies and programs at scale. If you have an entrepreneurial spirit, you know how to deliver results fast, and you have a deeply quantitative, highly innovative approach to solving problems, and long for the opportunity to build pioneering solutions to challenging problems, we want to talk to you. Key job responsibilities - Provide data-driven guidance and recommendations on strategic questions facing the EU Retail leadership - Scope, design and implement version-zero (V0) models and experiments to kickstart new initiatives, thinking, and drive system-level changes across Amazon - Build a long-term research agenda to understand, break down, and tackle the most stubborn and ambiguous business challenges - Influence business leaders and work closely with other scientists at Amazon to deliver measurable progress and change We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations: London, GBR
  • GB, Cambridge
    Job ID: 2621060
    (Updated 1 days ago)
    The Artificial General Intelligence team (AGI) has an exciting position for an Applied Scientist with a strong background NLP and Large Language Models to help us develop state-of-the-art conversational systems. As part of this team, you will collaborate with talented scientists and software engineers to enable conversational assistants capabilities to support the use of external tools and sources of information, and develop novel reasoning capabilities to revolutionise the user experience for millions of Alexa customers. Key job responsibilities As an Applied Scientist, you will develop innovative solutions to complex problems to extend the functionalities of conversational assistants . You will use your technical expertise to research and implement novel algorithms and modelling solutions in collaboration with other scientists and engineers. You will analyse customer behaviours and define metrics to enable the identification of actionable insights and measure improvements in customer experience. You will communicate results and insights to both technical and non-technical audiences through written reports, presentations and external publications. We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations: Cambridge, GBR | London, GBR
  • GB, London
    Job ID: 2617583
    (Updated 6 days ago)
    Amazon Advertising is looking for an Applied Scientist to join its initiative that powers Amazon’s contextual advertising products. Advertising at Amazon is a fast-growing multi-billion dollar business that spans across desktop, mobile and connected devices; encompasses ads on Amazon and a vast network of hundreds of thousands of third party publishers; and extends across US, EU and an increasing number of international geographies.The Supply Quality organization has the charter to solve optimization problems for ad-programs in Amazon and ensure high-quality ad-impressions. We develop advanced algorithms and infrastructure systems to optimize performance for our advertisers and publishers. We are focused on solving a wide variety of problems in computational advertising like Contextual data processing and classification, traffic quality prediction (robot and fraud detection), Security forensics and research, Viewability prediction, Brand Safety and experimentation. Our team includes experts in the areas of distributed computing, machine learning, statistics, optimization, text mining, information theory and big data systems. We are looking for a dynamic, innovative and accomplished Applied Scientist to work on machine learning and data science initiatives for contextual data processing and classification that power our contextual advertising solutions. Are you excited by the prospect of analyzing terabytes of data and leveraging state-of-the-art data science and machine learning techniques to solve real world problems? Do you like to own business problems/metrics of high ambiguity where yo get to define the path forward for success of a new initiative? As an applied scientist, you will invent ML based solutions to power our contextual classification technology. As this is a new initiative, you will get an opportunity to act as a thought leader, work backwards from the customer needs, dive deep into data to understand the issues, conceptualize and build algorithms and collaborate with multiple cross-functional teams. Key job responsibilities * Design, prototype and test many possible hypotheses in a high-ambiguity environment, making use of both analysis and business judgment. * Collaborate with software engineering teams to integrate successful experiments into large-scale, highly complex Amazon production systems. * Promote the culture of experimentation and applied science at Amazon. * Demonstrated ability to meet deadlines while managing multiple projects. * Excellent communication and presentation skills working with multiple peer groups and different levels of management * Influence and continuously improve a sustainable team culture that exemplifies Amazon’s leadership principles. We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations: London, GBR
  • GB, Cambridge
    Job ID: 2613767
    (Updated 7 days ago)
    The Amazon Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) team is looking for a passionate, highly skilled and inventive Senior Applied Scientist with strong machine learning background to lead the development and implementation of state-of-the-art ML systems for building large-scale, high-quality conversational assistant systems. Key job responsibilities - Use deep learning, ML and NLP techniques to create scalable solutions for creation and development of language model centric solutions for building personalized assistant systems based on a rich set of structured and unstructured contextual signals - Innovate new methods for contextual knowledge extraction and information representation, using language models in combination with other learning techniques, that allows effective grounding in context providers when considering memory, cpu, latency and quality - Collaborate with cross-functional teams of engineers, product managers, and scientists to identify and solve complex problems in personal knowledge aggregation, processing and verification - Design and execute experiments to evaluate the performance of different algorithms and models, and iterate quickly to improve results - Think Big about the arc of development of conversational assistant system personalization over a multi-year horizon, and identify new opportunities to apply these technologies to solve real-world problems - Communicate results and insights to both technical and non-technical audiences, including through presentations and written reports - Mentor and guide junior scientists and engineers, and contribute to the overall growth and development of the team A day in the life As a Senior Applied Scientist, you will play a critical role in driving the development of personalization techniques enabling conversational systems, in particular those based on large language models, to be tailored to customer needs. You will handle Amazon-scale use cases with significant impact on our customers' experiences. We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations: Cambridge, GBR | London, GBR
  • GB, Cambridge
    Job ID: 2613267
    (Updated 7 days ago)
    As a Principal Scientist in Amazon’s Artificial General Intelligence division, you will have deep subject matter expertise in the area of large language models and generative AI. You will provide thought leadership on and lead strategic efforts in the personalization of conversational assistant systems, including but not limited to retrieval augmented generation of large language models across a wide range of context providers, privacy and bias/fairness considerations in personalization, work with product, science and engineering teams to deliver short- and long-term personalization solutions that scale to millions of users and a variety of different conversational assistants. You will work with multiple teams of scientists and engineers to translate business and functional requirements into concrete deliverables. You will collaborate to design solutions and resolve issues across different organizations at Amazon (e.g. LLM foundational model training and fine-tuning teams, information providers, Amazon businesses like Audible, Kindle and Shopping) to deliver systems at Amazon scale to bring value to billions of Amazon customers. Working across academic partners and in-house experts you will be part of a cutting edge applied research team, and will help to drive this knowledge into our science community through mentoring and knowledge sharing. Key job responsibilities You will be a hands on contributor to science at Amazon. You will help raise the scientific bar by mentoring, educating, and publishing in your field. You will help build the scientific roadmap for artificial general intelligence at Amazon scale, leaning into personalization elements. As a key scientist and influencer in the company you will work on the forefront of innovation in AI to apply research to real products. You will be a technical leader in your domain. About the team The AGI Personalization team uses various contextual signals to personalize Large Language Model output for our customers while maintaining privacy and security of customer data. We work across multiple Amazon products, including Alexa, to enhance the user experience by bringing more personal value and relevance to customers interactions. We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations: Cambridge, GBR | London, GBR
  • GB, Cambridge
    Job ID: 2613728
    (Updated 7 days ago)
    The Amazon Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) team is looking for a passionate, highly skilled and inventive Senior Applied Scientist with strong machine learning background to lead the development and implementation of state-of-the-art ML systems for building large-scale, high-quality conversational assistant systems. As a Senior Applied Scientist, you will play a critical role in driving the development of personalization techniques enabling conversational systems, in particular those based on large language models, to be tailored to customer needs. You will handle Amazon-scale use cases with significant impact on our customers' experiences. Key job responsibilities - Use deep learning, ML and NLP techniques to create scalable solutions for creation and development of language model centric solutions for building personalized assistant systems based on a rich set of structured and unstructured contextual signals - Innovate new methods for contextual knowledge extraction and information representation, using language models in combination with other learning techniques, that allows effective grounding in context providers when considering memory, cpu, latency and quality - Collaborate with cross-functional teams of engineers, product managers, and scientists to identify and solve complex problems in personal knowledge aggregation, processing and verification - Design and execute experiments to evaluate the performance of different algorithms and models, and iterate quickly to improve results - Think Big about the arc of development of conversational assistant system personalization over a multi-year horizon, and identify new opportunities to apply these technologies to solve real-world problems - Communicate results and insights to both technical and non-technical audiences, including through presentations and written reports - Mentor and guide junior scientists and engineers, and contribute to the overall growth and development of the team We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations: Cambridge, GBR | London, GBR
  • (Updated 21 days ago)
    The Artificial General Intelligence team (AGI) has an exciting position for a Senior Applied Scientist with a strong background Machine Learning and Large Language Models to play a critical role in driving the deployment of state-of-the-art conversational systems. As part of this team, you will collaborate with talented scientists and software engineers to enable conversational assistants capabilities to support the use of external tools and sources of information, and develop novel reasoning capabilities to revolutionise the user experience for millions of Alexa customers. Key job responsibilities As a Senior Applied Scientist, you will lead the development of innovative solutions to large and complex problems. You will use your technical expertise to develop and deploy novel algorithms and modelling solutions in collaboration with other scientists and engineers. You will analyse customer behaviours and define metrics to enable the identification of actionable insights and measure improvements in customer experience. You will communicate results and insights to both technical and non-technical audiences, including through presentations and written reports and external publications. You will mentor and guide junior scientists and contribute to the overall growth and development of the team We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations: Cambridge, GBR | London, GBR
  • GB, London
    Job ID: 2606140
    (Updated 0 days ago)
    Economic Decision Science is a central science team working across a variety of topics in the EU Stores business and beyond. We work closely EU business leaders to drive change at Amazon. We focus on solving long-term, ambiguous and challenging problems, while providing advisory support to help solve short-term business pain points. Key topics include pricing, product selection, delivery speed, profitability, and customer experience. We tackle these issues by building novel econometric models, machine learning systems, and high-impact experiments which we integrate into business, financial, and system-level decision making. Our work is highly collaborative and we regularly partner with EU- and US-based interdisciplinary teams. We are looking for a Senior Economist who is able to provide structure around complex business problems, hone those complex problems into specific, scientific questions, and test those questions to generate insights. The ideal candidate will work with various science, engineering, operations and analytics teams to estimate models and algorithms on large scale data, design pilots and measure their impact, and transform successful prototypes into improved policies and programs at scale. If you have an entrepreneurial spirit, you know how to deliver results fast, and you have a deeply quantitative, highly innovative approach to solving problems, and long for the opportunity to build pioneering solutions to challenging problems, we want to talk to you. Key job responsibilities - Provide data-driven guidance and recommendations on strategic questions facing the EU Retail leadership - Scope, design and implement version-zero (V0) models and experiments to kickstart new initiatives, thinking, and drive system-level changes across Amazon - Build a long-term research agenda to understand, break down, and tackle the most stubborn and ambiguous business challenges - Influence business leaders and work closely with other scientists at Amazon to deliver measurable progress and change We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations: London, GBR
  • GB, Cambridge
    Job ID: 2602816
    (Updated 7 days ago)
    The Artificial General Intelligence team (AGI) has an exciting position for an Applied Scientist with a strong background NLP and Large Language Models to help us develop state-of-the-art conversational systems. As part of this team, you will collaborate with talented scientists and software engineers to enable conversational assistants capabilities to support the use of external tools and sources of information, and develop novel reasoning capabilities to revolutionise the user experience for millions of Alexa customers. Key job responsibilities As an Applied Scientist, you will develop innovative solutions to complex problems to extend the functionalities of conversational assistants . You will use your technical expertise to research and implement novel algorithms and modelling solutions in collaboration with other scientists and engineers. You will analyse customer behaviours and define metrics to enable the identification of actionable insights and measure improvements in customer experience. You will communicate results and insights to both technical and non-technical audiences through written reports, presentations and external publications. We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations: Cambridge, GBR | London, GBR
  • GB, Cambridge
    Job ID: 2603401
    (Updated 7 days ago)
    Are you fueled by a passion for computer vision, machine learning and AI, and are eager to leverage your skills to enrich the lives of millions across the globe? Join us at Ring AI team, where we're not just offering a job, but an opportunity to revolutionize safety and convenience in our neighborhoods through cutting-edge innovation. You will be part of a dynamic team dedicated to pushing the boundaries of computer vision, machine learning and AI to deliver an unparalleled user experience for our neighbors. This position presents an exceptional opportunity for you to pioneer and innovate in AI, making a profound impact on millions of customers worldwide. You will partner with world-class AI scientists, engineers, product managers and other experts to develop industry-leading AI algorithms and systems for a diverse array of Ring and Blink products, enhancing the lives of millions of customers globally. Join us in shaping the future of AI innovation at Ring and Blink, where exciting challenges await! Key job responsibilities - Research and implement the state-of-the-art computer vision and machine learning methods to deliver high-quality artifacts that meets product specifications. - Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large-scale data analysis, machine-learning model development, model validation and gap analysis. - Research new machine learning approaches to drive continued scientific innovation. - Work in a collaborative environment with other scientists, engineers, product managers and cross-functional teams. We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations: Cambridge, GBR

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