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  • US, VA, Arlington
    Job ID: 2543380
    (Updated 74 days ago)
    We are seeking a Data Scientist to join our analytics team. This person will own the design and implementation of scalable and reliable approaches to support or automate decision making throughout the business. You will do this by analyzing data with a variety of statistical techniques and then building, validating, and implementing models based your analysis. You will not be able to do this alone but by building partnerships across data, engineering, and business teams. Key job responsibilities - Apply a range of data science techniques and tools combined with subject matter expertise to solve difficult customer or business problems and cases in which the solution approach is unclear. - Proactively seek to identify business opportunities and insights and provide solutions to automate and optimize key internal and external products based on a broad and deep knowledge of Amazon data, industry best-practices, and work done by other teams. - Dive deep into the data and other models across the business to identify defects or inefficiencies which materially impact the customer or business, but can be mitigated through corrective actions for the AB Ops use case - Acquire this data by accessing data sources and building the necessary SQL/ETL queries or scripts. - Analyze data for trends and input validity by inspecting univariate distributions, exploring bivariate relationships, constructing appropriate transformations, and tracking down the source and meaning of anomalies. - Build models and automated tools using statistical modeling, mathematical modeling, econometric modeling, network modeling, social network modeling, natural language processing, machine learning algorithms, genetic algorithms, and neural networks. - Validate these models against alternative approaches, expected and observed outcome, and other business defined key performance indicators. - Implement these models in a manner which complies with evaluations of the computational demands, accuracy, and reliability of the relevant ETL processes at various stages of production. - Enable product engineering teams to consume your models through services which can directly power customer-facing experiences. - Inspect the key business metrics/KPIs (even if you did not create them) when your analytics work points to potential gaps or opportunities; providing clear, compelling analyses by leveraging your knowledge across the AWS suite of products to support the broader business. About the team Amazon Business (AB) launched in the United States in April 2015 with the vision of delivering a comprehensive procurement solution for business customers of all sizes. In the US, AB now serves Fortune 500 companies, hospital systems, local governments, and education organizations. To support AB's mission, the AB Operations team owns end to end customer experience for AB customers right from checkout to final mile delivery and sits under the broader Global Transportation Services (GTS). We are the Single Threaded WW Ops team driving B2B operations, developing products and programs unique to business customers, and enhancing the core Amazon delivery capabilities for commercial addresses. While Amazon has built its core operations over the last two decades mostly catered towards the end-consumer, we recognize that the business customers have unique needs and require a different set of features and services from their e-Commerce provider. We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations: Arlington, VA, USA | Bellevue, WA, USA
  • (Updated 10 days ago)
    The Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) team is looking for a passionate, talented, and inventive Senior Applied Scientist with a strong deep learning background, to help build industry-leading technology with Large Language Models (LLMs) and multimodal systems. Key job responsibilities As a Senior Applied Scientist with the AGI team, you will work with talented peers to develop novel algorithms and modeling techniques to advance the state of the art with LLMs. Your work will directly impact our customers in the form of products and services that make use of audio technology. You will leverage Amazon’s heterogeneous data sources and large-scale computing resources to accelerate advances in AGI in audio domain. About the team Our team has a mission to push the envelope of AGI in audio domain, in order to provide the best-possible experience for our customers. We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations: Bellevue, WA, USA | Boston, MA, USA
  • (Updated 59 days ago)
    The JP Retail Science team is looking for a Senior Data Scientist to lead the science development of vendor service recommendation. Amazon is providing vendors several tools and services to help vendors sell on Amazon. As the number of tools increases, we want to provide tailored solutions to each vendor. Automation through recommendation is key to work at Amazon's scale. In this position, you will be expected to review existing literature, analyze data and prototype predictive analytics/ train recommendation models for our vendor-based services. You will have access to our vast historical transaction data and vendor tools interaction to formulate hypotheses, build prototypes and train new models for vendor recommendation. You will work within an international team of scientists and engineers, all based in Tokyo, Japan. We are a team that thrives on growth, both personal and professional. Engage in academic collaborations, spark innovation in hackathons, and expand your horizons with conference visits. Key job responsibilities As a Senior Data Scientist, your responsibilities will be: - Lead the analysis, prototyping and implementation of recommendation models for amazon vendors. - Work closely with other scientists and engineers to review and improve your model design proposals. - Partner with product managers and other business stakeholders, documenting and explaining your progress in business reviews, and being the technical voice in charge of your product. - Spot opportunities for innovation and scientific publications, and publish to internal or external conferences. - Be active in the community, participating in science education/growth activities. - Keep up to date with scientific development in the field. About the team JP Retail Science is a team of Scientists, Science Managers, and Business Intelligence Engineers. The team's charter is to develop science-based models to help all Amazon vendors to maximize their growth. From our base office in Tokyo, Japan, we build for all vendors worldwide, and collaborate with other science teams in Europe and US. Because we are not tied to a specific technology, such as Search or Alexa, our projects and the science required change dynamically depending on the vendor needs. In the past we have worked on initiatives drawing from multiple disciplines, including causal inference, LLM, forecasting, and optimization. A large fraction of the team consists of former academic researchers, and we maintain that culture through collaboration with universities, exchange programs, and conference participation. We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations: Tokyo, 13, JPN
  • LU, Luxembourg
    Job ID: 2552787
    (Updated 38 days ago)
    Have you ever ordered a product on Amazon and when that box with the smile arrived you wondered how it got to you so fast? Have you wondered where it came from and how much it cost Amazon to deliver it to you? We are looking for a Data Scientist who will be responsible to develop cutting-edge scientific solutions to optimize our Pan-European fulfillment strategy, to maximize our Customer Experience and minimize our cost and carbon footprint. You will partner with the worldwide scientific community to help design the optimal fulfillment strategy for Amazon. You will also collaborate with technical teams to develop optimization tools for network flow planning and execution systems. Finally, you will also work with business and operational stakeholders to influence their strategy and gather inputs to solve problems. To be successful in the role, you will need deep analytical skills and a strong scientific background. The role also requires excellent communication skills, and an ability to influence across business functions at different levels. You will work in a fast-paced environment that requires you to be detail-oriented and comfortable in working with technical, business and technical teams. Key job responsibilities - Design and develop mathematical models to optimize inventory placement and product flows. - Design and develop statistical and optimization models for planning Supply Chain under uncertainty. - Manage several, high impact projects simultaneously. - Consult and collaborate with business and technical stakeholders across multiple teams to define new opportunities to optimize our Supply Chain. - Communicate data-driven insights and recommendations to diverse senior stakeholders through technical and/or business papers. We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations: Luxembourg, LUX
  • (Updated 96 days ago)
    The Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) team is looking for a passionate, talented, and inventive Senior Applied Scientist with a strong deep learning background, to build industry-leading technology with Large Language Models (LLMs) and multimodal systems. Key job responsibilities As a Senior Applied Scientist with the AGI team, you will work with talented peers to lead the development of novel algorithms and modeling techniques, to advance the state of the art with LLMs. Your work will directly impact our customers in the form of products and services that make use of language technology. You will leverage Amazon’s heterogeneous data sources and large-scale computing resources to accelerate advances in LLMs and multimodal systems. About the team The AGI team has a mission to push the envelope in LLMs and multimodal systems, in order to provide the best-possible experience for our customers. We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations: Bellevue, WA, USA | Cambridge, MA, USA | New York, NY, USA | Seattle, WA, USA | Sunnyvale, CA, USA
  • US, CA, San Diego
    Job ID: 2547688
    (Updated 21 days ago)
    Are you passionate about automation, knowledge extraction, and artificial intelligence through the use of Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Recommender systems, Computer Vision, and Optimization? We have a team of experienced scientists with a critical business mission making revolutionary leaps forward in these spaces. On this team you will work with an immense and diverse corpus of text, image, and audio to build generative and discriminative models, analyze and model customer reading behavior to measure engagement and detect risks, study and optimize manufacturing and fulfillment processes, and build AI-based systems for helping indie authors with marketing their books. This will involve combining methods from several science domains with domain knowledge across multiple businesses into sophisticated ML workflows. Our team has mature areas and green-field opportunities. We offer scientific autonomy, value end-to-end ownership, and have a strong customer-focused culture. Key job responsibilities As a Machine Learning Scientist at Amazon, you will connect with world leaders in your field working on similar problems. You will be working with large distributed systems of data and providing technical leadership to the product managers, teams, and organizations building machine learning solutions. You will be tackling Machine Learning challenges in Supervised, Unsupervised, and Semi-supervised Learning; utilizing modern methods such as deep learning and classical methods from statistical learning theory, detection, estimation. MLS’s are specialists with the knowledge to help drive the scientific vision for our products. They are externally aware of the state-of-the-art in their respective field of expertise and are constantly focused on advancing that state-of-the-art for improving Amazon’s products and services. Come join us as we revolutionize the book industry and deliver an amazing experience to our Kindle authors and readers. About the team Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) and Print On Demand (POD) have empowered a new wave of self-motivated creators, tearing down barriers that once blocked writers from reaching readers. Our team builds rich applications and systems that empower anyone to realize their dream of becoming a published author. We strive to provide an experience that is powerful, yet simple to use and accessible to all. We focus on building tools that enable authors to design high quality digital and print books, reaching readers all around the world. This role will help ensure we maintain the trust of both our Authors and Readers by ensuring all books published to Amazon meet our standards. We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations: San Diego, CA, USA
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 2546054
    (Updated 52 days ago)
    Want to work for a fast-paced, innovative team? Want to work on ground-breaking initiatives? Want to work on problems that have massive scale but also need high precision? We are seeking a strong data science leader for our Amazon shopping organization. Our team's mission is to make amazon a single stop for all customers purchasing needs irrespective of where the customers are in their shopping journey( looking for inspiration, product discovery & research, comparing products etc.). Our team has an end-to-end view of the customer’s lifecycle that enables us to directly drive customer impact and positions us to influence prioritization of the overall Shopping investment mix across the short and long-term customer impact drivers (shopping journey traffic, shopping mission success rate, and purchase conversion rate), CX quality and core infrastructure initiatives both within the Shopping organization and across partner teams. We are in the early days of forming and operationalizing our analytics and economics frameworks for better understanding and measurement of the customer behavior throughout their shopping mission(s), especially early in the shopping funnel. We are looking for a data science leader with strong business acumen and analytical thinking who can help us invent and build metrics to measure customer engagement(short & long term) , customer confidence , and value that the customers get while interacting with our CXs especially while seeking information related to their shopping missions. The person should be very innovative and should be able to work on problems with very high degree of ambiguity and influence business leaders at amazon with recommendations. This person will also by a role model in the team who will influence the analytics team and oversee the critical analytics related to shopping missions. Key job responsibilities Invent and build metrics to measure customer engagement(short & long term) , customer confidence , and value that the customers get while interacting with our CXs especially while seeking information related to their shopping missions. Be a role model and influence the analytics team and oversee the critical analytics related to shopping missions. We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations: Seattle, WA, USA
  • (Updated 92 days ago)
    Amazon's Global Fixed Marketing Campaign Measurement & Optimization (CMO) team is looking for a senior economic expert in causal inference and applied ML to advance the economic measurement, accuracy validation and optimization methodologies of Amazon's global multi-billion dollar fixed marketing spend. This is a thought leadership position to help set the long-term vision, drive methods innovation, and influence cross-org methods alignment. This role is also an expert in modeling and measuring marketing and customer value with proven capacity to innovate, scale measurement, and mentor talent. This candidate will also work closely with senior Fixed Marketing tech, product, finance and business leadership to devise science roadmaps for innovation and simplification, and adoption of insights to influence important resource allocation, fixed marketing spend and prioritization decisions. Excellent communication skills (verbal and written) are required to ensure success of this collaboration. The candidate must be passionate about advancing science for business and customer impact. Key job responsibilities - Advance measurement, accuracy validation, and optimization methodology within Fixed Marketing. - Motivate and drive data generation to size. - Develop novel, innovative and scalable marketing measurement techniques and methodologies. - Enable product and tech development to scale science solutions and approaches. A day in the life - Propose and refine economic and scientific measurement, accuracy validation, and optimization methodology to improve Fixed Marketing models, outputs and business results - Brief global fixed marketing and retails executives about FM measurement and optimization approaches, providing options to address strategic priorities. - Collaborate with and influence the broader scientific methodology community. About the team CMO's vision is to maximizing long-term free cash flow by providing reliable, accurate and useful global fixed marketing measurement and decision support. The team measures and helps optimize the incremental impact of Amazon (Stores, AWS, Devices) fixed marketing investment across TV, Digital, Social, Radio, and many other channels globally. This is a fully self supported team composed of scientists, economists, engineers, and product/program leaders with S-Team visibility. We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations: Irvine, CA, USA | San Francisco, CA, USA | Seattle, WA, USA | Sunnyvale, CA, USA
  • (Updated 15 days ago)
    Job Description ATE(Analytics Technology and Engineering) team is responsible for creating core analytics, science capabilities, platforms development and data engineering. We develop scalable analytics applications and research modeling to optimize operation processes.. You will work with professional software development managers, data engineers, data scientists, applied scientists, business intelligence engineers and product managers using rigorous quantitative approaches to ensure high quality data tech products for our customers around the world We are looking for an Applied Scientist to join our growing Science Team in Bangalore. As an Applied Scientist, you are able to use a range of science methodologies to solve challenging business problems when the solution is unclear. You will be responsible for building ML models to solve complex business problems and test them in production environment. The scope of role includes defining the charter for the project and proposing solutions which align with org's priorities and production constraints but still create impact . You will achieve this by leveraging strong leadership and communication skills, data science skills and by acquiring domain knowledge pertaining to the delivery operations systems. You will provide ML thought leadership to technical and business leaders, and possess ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges. You will also be expected to contribute to the science community by participating in science reviews and publishing in internal or external ML conferences. Our team solves a broad range of problems that can be scaled across ROW (Rest of the World including countries like India, Australia, Singapore, MENA and LATAM). Here is a glimpse of the problems that this team deals with on a regular basis: • Using real time day signals to give ahead volume forecasting for last mile and middle mile for labour planning • proactively identifying the network fraud across various Ops entities • Building graphs based algorithms to determine collusion between Customer, Seller and Ops entities • Using LLMs to automate operations processes and working with multiple WW Science teams to bring product parity. • Using machine learning models and optimization algorithms to find optimal prices for Amazon middle-mile transportation • Using OR to design Automated planner and scheduler product. It takes forecast, site constraints, CPT/CIT, vehicle availability, transit times etc. as inputs and provides vehicle departure timings, optimal route as output to optimise truck fill rate and loaded distance travelled. One of the key requirement for Coltan to provide vehicle departure time is time of day forecast. Key job responsibilities - Lead one or two large scale high-impact projects - Implement SOTA and complex ML solutions to meet the org goals - Publish work in internal and external top-tier conferences - Provide inputs in team growth and goal planning - Educate peers/team on science best practices - Expand the use of ML within the organization. As part of our team, candidate in this role will work in close collaboration with other applied scientists and cross functional teams on high visibility projects with direct exposure to the senior leadership team on regular basis. About the team This team is responsible for applying science based algo and techniques to solve the problems in operation and supply chain. Some of these problems include, volume forecasting, capacity planning, fraud detection, scenario simulation and using LLM/GenAI for process efficiency We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations: Bengaluru, KA, IND
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 2554980
    (Updated 11 days ago)
    Take Earth's most customer-centric company. Mix in hundreds of millions of shoppers spending tens of billions of dollars annually, an exciting opportunity to build next-generation shopping experiences, Amazon’s tremendous computational resources, and our extensive e-Commerce experience. What do you get? The most exciting position in the industry. About our organization: Our team is part of Amazon’s Personalization organization, a high-performing group that leverages Amazon’s expertise in machine learning, big data, distributed systems, and user experience design to deliver the best shopping experiences for our customers. We run global experiments and our work has revolutionized e-commerce with features such as "Keep shopping for ...", "Tap to explore ...", “Customers who bought this item also bought”, and, “Frequently bought together” among others. Amazon’s internal surveys regularly recognize us as one of the best organizations to work for in the company, with visible high-impact work, low operational load, respectful work-life balance, and continual opportunity to learn and grow. Key job responsibilities As a Sr. Applied Scientist on the team you will lead the roadmap and strategy for applying science to solve customer problems in the Personalization domain. This is an opportunity to come in on Day0 and lead the science strategy of one of the most interesting problem spaces at Amazon - understanding the Amazon customer to build deeply personalized and adaptive shopping experiences. You will be part of a multidisciplinary team, working on one of the largest scale machine learning systems in the company. You will apply your skills in areas such as deep learning and reinforcement learning while building scalable industrial systems. As a member of a highly leveraged team of talented engineers and ML scientists, you will have a unique opportunity to produce and deliver models that help build best-in-class customer experiences and build systems that allow us to deploy these models to production with low latency and high throughput. We are building the next generation of ML systems that power the biggest personalized shopping engine on earth, and we hope you will join us! About the team Our mission is to delight every Amazon customer with a personalized shopping experience. We achieve our mission through investments in large scale machine learning, distributed systems and user experience with the purpose of delivering the future of shopping on Amazon. We are seeking a Senior Applied Scientist to build out adaptive and deeply personalized shopping experiences tailored to the customer's shopping journey. We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations: New York, NY, USA | San Francisco, CA, USA | Seattle, WA, USA

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