Senior Applied Scientist, Alexa Artificial Intelligence

US, WA, Seattle

Job summaryAmazon is looking for a creative Senior Applied Scientist to tackle some of the most interesting problems on the leading edge of natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning (ML) with our Alexa Artificial Intelligence (AI) team. Alexa AI aims to reinvent search and information retrieval for a voice-forward, multi-modal future. We enable customers to interact with unstructured and semi-structured content via a broad range of customer experiences including question answering, summarization, search, and multi-turn dialogues.Key job responsibilitiesIf you are looking for an opportunity to develop innovative solutions to deep technical problems having a massive customer impact, this might be the role for you! As a Senior Applied Scientist, you will work with smart, passionate colleagues in a fast-paced environment. You will develop and help deploy novel, scalable algorithms to advance the state-of-the-art in technology areas at the intersection of NLP and ML. You will keep up with relevant research in the field of NLP and publish your work in top-tier conferences. You will contribute to a multi-year research roadmap, enabling the team to focus on the right technical challenges to delight our customers.

Data Scientist II

US, NY, New York

Job summaryAmazon AI is looking for an experienced Data Scientist with abackground in the intersection of linguistics, phonetics, or NLP andstatistics/machine learning to help build industry-leading speech andlanguage processing services.As part of our AI team in Amazon Web Services, you will work alongsideapplied scientists, software engineers, and language engineers todefine data requirements for training AI services, ensure dataquality, develop suitable evaluation metrics for novel AI features andservices, and analyze systems' input/output behavior. You will be responsiblefor implementing and maintaining data analysis tools and pipelines, creatinginsightful analyses of complex production systems, and communicating resultsto scientists, product managers, and customers.Your work will directly impact millions of our customers in the formof products and services that make use of speech and languagetechnology. You will gain hands on experience with Amazon’sheterogeneous speech, text, and structured data sources, andlarge-scale computing resources to accelerate advances in spokenlanguage processing.Inclusive Team CultureHere 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 host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences.Work/Life BalanceOur team puts a high value on work-life balance. It isn’t about how many hours you spend at home or at work; it’s about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment. We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal lives.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. Our senior members enjoy one-on-one mentoring and thorough, but kind, code reviews. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded engineer and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.

Applied Scientist II

GB, Cambridge

Job summaryAmazon is looking for a creative Applied Scientist to tackle some of the most interesting problems on the leading edge of Machine Learning (ML), Natural Language Processing (NLP), and Information Retrieval (IR) with our Device Design Group (DDG). Amazon’s Device Design Group has launched revolutionary products like Echo, Fire TV, Alexa Communications, and more. Are you interested in joining the team to lead Amazon’s next innovation?The successful candidate will develop novel ML/NLP/IR/Deep Learning technologies to make Alexa smarter. They will have a true passion for working in a collaborative, cross-functional environment that encourages thinking about optimized solutions to unique problems that do not have yet a known science solution.If you are looking for an opportunity to solve deep technical problems and build innovative solutions in a fast-paced environment working within a smart and passionate team, this might be the role for you. You will develop and implement novel algorithms and modeling techniques to leverage and advance the state-of-the-art in technology areas that are found at the intersection of ML, NLP, IR, and Deep Learning. Your work will directly impact Amazon products and services that make use of speech and language technology. You will gain hands on experience with Alexa and large-scale computing resources.In this role you will:· Work collaboratively with scientists and developers to design and implement automated, scalable MT models;· Drive scalable solutions from the business, to prototyping, production testing and through engineering directly to production;· Drive best practices on the team, deal with ambiguity and competing objectives, and mentor and guide junior members to achieve their career growth potential.

Economist II - AMZ5632

US, WA, Seattle

MULTIPLE POSITIONS AVAILABLEEntity: Amazon.com Services LLC, an Amazon.com CompanyTitle: Economist IIWorksite: Seattle, WAPosition Responsibilities:Work with the economists, scientists and/or senior management on key business problems faced in retail, international retail, third party merchants, search, and/or operations. Apply the frontier of economic thinking to experiment design, forecasting, program evaluation and other areas. Build econometric models using data systems. Apply economic theory to solve business problems. Own the development of economic models and manage the data analysis, modeling and experimentation necessary to estimate and validate the models, in collaboration with scientists and engineers. Develop new techniques to process large data sets, address quantitative problems, and contribute to design of automated systems. Apply tools from applied micro-econometrics (e.g. experimental design, difference-in-difference, regression discontinuity) and forecasting (essential time series models). Leverage big data tools for data extraction. Work closely with business partners to communicate the intuition, implication and detail of economic analyses/modeling and incorporate feedback. Write up and present analysis for distribution to various levels of management at Amazon.Amazon.com is an Equal Opportunity-Affirmative Action Employer - Minority / Female / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation.#0000

Data Scientist Co-op - January-June 2022

US, MA, North Reading

Job summaryAre you inspired by invention? Is problem solving through teamwork in your DNA? Do you like the idea of seeing how your work impacts the bigger picture? Answer yes to any of these and you’ll fit right in here at Amazon Robotics. We are a smart team of doers that work passionately to apply cutting edge advances in robotics and software to solve real-world challenges that will transform our customers’ experiences in ways we can’t even image yet. We invent new improvements every day. We are Amazon Robotics and we will give you the tools and support you need to invent with us in ways that are rewarding, fulfilling and fun.We seek a talented and motivated engineer to tackle broad challenges in system-level analysis. You will work in a small team to quantify system performance at scale and to expand the breadth and depth of our analysis (e.g. increase the range of software components and warehouse processes covered by our models, develop our library of key performance indicators, construct experiments that efficiently root cause emergent behaviors). You will engage with growing teams of software development and warehouse design engineers to drive evolution of the AR system and of the simulation engine that supports our work.This role is a 6 month co-op to join AR full time (40 hours/week) from January-June 2022. Come join us in North Reading, MA, or in our newly expanded innovation hub in Westborough, MA!Both campuses provide a unique opportunity for co-ops to have direct access to robotics testing labs and manufacturing facilities.

Applied Scientist, Alexa Monetization Services

US, WA, Seattle

Job summaryWe are constantly making Alexa the best voice assistant in the world. Amazon’s Alexa cloud service and Echo devices are used every day, by people you know, in and about their homes. The Alexa Monetization team is hiring talented and experienced Sr. Applied Scientists to help building the next generation products for Alexa across multiple channels and domains. We are seeking an experienced, entrepreneurial, big thinker for a confidential new initiative within Alexa. You will be joining a team doing innovative work, making a direct impact to customers, showing measurable success, and building with the latest natural language processing systems. If you are holding out for an opportunity to:Make a huge impact as an individual· Be part of a team of smart and passionate professionals who will challenge you to grow every day· Solve difficult challenges using your expertise in coding elegant and practical solutions· Create applications at a massive scale used by millions of people· Work with machine learning systems to deliver real experiences, not just researchAnd you are experienced with…· Drive applied science (machine learning) projects end-to-end ~ from ideation, analysis, prototyping, development, metrics, and monitoring· Conduct deep analyses on massive user and contextual data sets· Propose viable modeling ideas to advance optimization or efficiency, with supporting argument, data, or, preferably, preliminary results· Design, develop, and maintain scalable, Machine Learning models with automated training, validation, monitoring and reporting· Stay familiar with the field and apply state-of-the-art Machine Learning techniques to NLP and related optimization problems· Produce peer-reviewed scientific paper in top journals and conferencesAnd you constantly look for opportunities to…· Innovate, simplify, reduce waste, and increase efficiencies· Use data to make decisions and validate assumptions· Automate processes otherwise performed by humans· Learn from others and help grow those around you...then we would love to chat!In 2021, we have the opportunity to build new products and features from the ground up and we are looking for strong, bias for action engineering leaders who are not afraid of taking bold bets and trying new things to improve customer experience for Alexa.As part of a new and growing team, you will be iterating on new features and products to help drive innovation and expansion. You will work on cross-functional and cross-domain opportunities; tackle challenging projects aim to accelerate experimentations in Alexa; and build out operating mechanisms and technology to enable novel customer experiences. You will be instrumental in setting the team culture, quality bar, engineering best practices, and norms. Mentoring and growing the team around you will be one of the primary ways you measure your own success. You will have the opportunity to contribute and develop deep expertise in the areas of distributed systems, machine learning, conversational technologies, user interfaces (including voice and natural user interfaces), data storage and data pipelines.This role is exciting for scientists who love to apply startup mindset to their day-to-day, enjoy working cross-functionally to master both business and technology knowledge, and are passionate about building engineering best practices. If you are looking for opportunity to learn, grow and lead, this is the position for you.

Applied Scientist - Delivery Experience

US, WA, Seattle

Job summaryWhy this job is awesome?· This is SUPER high-visibility work: Our mission is to provide consistent, accurate, and relevant delivery information to every single page on every Amazon-owned site.· MILLIONS of customers will be impacted by your contributions: The changes we make directly impact the customer experience on every Amazon site. This is a great position for someone who likes to leverage Machine learning technologies to solve the real customer problems, and also wants to see and measure their direct impact on customers.· We are a cross-functional team that owns the ENTIRE delivery experience for customers: From the business requirements to the technical systems that allow us to directly affect the on-site experience from a central service, business and technical team members are integrated so everyone is involved through the entire development process.· You will help the Delivery Experience organization to build causal inference framework and analyze the long-term effect on business· Your work will support the Amazon leadership to make visionary business decisions.· Do you want to join an innovative team of scientists and engineers who use machine learning and statistical inference techniques to deliver the best delivery experience on every Amazon-owned site?· · Are you excited by the prospect of analyzing and modeling terabytes of data on the cloud and create state-of-art algorithms to solve real world problems?· · Do you like to own end-to-end business problems/metrics and directly impact the profitability of the company?· · Do you like to innovate and simplify?If yes, then you may be a great fit to join the Delivery Experience Machine Learning team.Major responsibilities:· Research and implement causal inference techniques to create scalable and effective models in Delivery Experience (DEX) systems· Solve business problems and identify business opportunities to provide the best delivery experience on all Amazon-owned sites.· Design and develop machine learning framework to measure the long-term effect of all models in DEX systems· Design and develop search ranking, recommendation and personalization models to improve Amazon customer experience· Analyze and understand large amounts of Amazon’s historical business data to detect patterns, to analyze trends and to identify correlations and causalities· Establishing scalable, efficient, automated processes for large scale data analysis and causal inference

Data Scientist

US, CA, Santa Monica

Amazon is investing in building a customer centric, world class advertising business across its many unique audio, video, and display surfaces. In this role, you will be on the cutting edge of developing monetization solutions for Live TV, Connected TV and streaming Audio.Our team is seeking a self-driven data science with broad technical and data management skills who will identify and onboard new data sources, conduct analytics using SQL and Python, and build lightweight tools and methods for others to replicate and scale their work. You should have expertise in the design, creation, management, and business use of large datasets. Your solutions are testable, maintainable, and mindful of resource usage. You should be able to apply statistical methods (e.g. regression) to difficult business problems and understand these methods’ assumptions and limitations. You will need excellent business and communication skills to work with product managers and business owners on ambiguous problems in a fast paced environment to develop and define key business questions and requirements.KEY RESPONSIBILITIES· Engage with leadership and diversified customer groups to understand the needs and recommend business intelligence solutions.· Partner with Data engineering team to define the data elements and data structure that the team should leverage to enable capabilities.· Design, implement, and support platforms that provide business teams ad-hoc access to large datasets (eg data visualization tools for non-tech business users)· Own the design, development, and maintenance of ongoing metrics, reports, analyses, dashboards, etc. to drive key business decisions.· Understand data resources and know how, when, and which to use (and which not to use). Write quality code to retrieve and analyze data.· Use advanced analytical techniques to solve business problems· Communicate analysis results and techniques, both verbally and in writing, clearly and confidently to peers and business partners.

Sr Applied Science Manager - Alexa Communications, Alexa Communications AI

US, WA, Seattle

Job summaryAmazon Alexa Comunications (connecting people to family and friends) is looking for a Senior Applied Science Manager to lead the development of next generation Spoken Language Understanding, Recommendation, and other understanding and intelligent response systems that revolutionize multi-modal (voice and GUI) communication for Alexa's customers. In this role, you will manage teams of passionate, talented, and inventive scientists, to develop industry-leading natural language understanding (NLU), automatic speech recognition (ASR), recommendation, and other inference and response systems and drive them successfully to production for the benefit of millions of Alexa users. Your mission is to push the envelope in order to provide the industry-leading, best-possible experience for our customers.As a Senior Applied Science Manager, you will identify research directions, create roadmaps for forward-looking research and communicate them to senior leadership, and work closely with engineering teams to bring research to production. You will work with teams of talented scientists, and fill the ranks by attracting the best scientists in SLU, dialog and other Communication-related signal processing systems by representing Amazon Alexa at international science conferences. You will work with talented peers and leverage Amazon’s heterogeneous data sources and large-scale computing resources.

Applied Scientist - Algorithms and Optimization, ATS EU Research Science

LU, Luxembourg

Job summaryHave you ever wondered how Amazon delivers timely and reliably hundreds of millions of packages to customer’s doorsteps? Are you passionate about data and mathematics, and hope to impact the experience of millions of customers? Are you obsessed with designing algorithmic solutions to very challenging problems?If so, we look forward to hearing from you!Amazon Transportation Services is seeking an Applied Scientist specialized in Operations Research & Machine Learning to be based in the EU Headquarters in Luxembourg. As a key member of the Research Science Team, this person will be responsible for designing algorithmic solutions based on data and mathematics for optimizing the middle-mile Amazon Transportation Network. The successful applicant will ensure that our end-to-end strategies in terms of customer demand fulfillment, routing, consolidation locations, linehaul/airhaul/sea options and last-mile transportation are streamlined and optimized.This critical role requires an aptitude for independent initiative and decision-making, the ability to drive innovation in modelling and optimization across Amazon’s expanding European network and linking into global initiatives and expansion strategies. Key job responsibilities• Partner with the planning, linehaul/airhaul and sort center operations teams, while working closely with last-mile, supply chain, and global delivery departments for modeling and optimizing the transportation network of EU.• Design and prototype algorithmic solutions for standardized processes.• Lead complex time-bound, long-term as well as ad-hoc transportation modelling analyses to help management in decision making.• Communicate to leadership results from business analysis, strategies and tactics.• Drive large-scale projects to scale and enhance Amazon’s EU transportation network.

Data Science Manager

IN, TS, Hyderabad

Are you interested in applying your strong quantitative analysis and big data skills to world-changing problems? Are you interested in driving the development of methods, models and systems for strategy planning, transportation and fulfillment network? If so, then this is the job for you.Our team is responsible for creating core analytics tech capabilities, platforms development and data engineering. We develop scalable analytics applications and research modeling to optimize operation processes. We standardize and optimize data sources and visualization efforts across geographies, builds up and maintains the online BI services and data mart. You will work with professional software development managers, data engineers, scientists, business intelligence engineers and product managers using rigorous quantitative approaches to ensure high quality data tech products for our customers around the world, including India, Australia, Brazil, Mexico, Singapore and Middle East.We are looking for experienced hands-on Manager of Data Science to join us and lead science programs and developments for Amazon global.Amazon is growing rapidly and because we are driven by faster delivery to customers, a more efficient supply chain network, and lower cost of operations, our main focus is in the development of analytics tech services and applications fed by our massive amounts of available data. You will be responsible for building these models/tools that improve the economics of Amazon’s worldwide fulfillment networks in emerging countries as Amazon increases the speed and decreases the cost to deliver products to customers. You will identify and evaluate opportunities to reduce variable costs by improving fulfillment center processes, transportation operations and scheduling, and the execution to operational plans. You will also improve the efficiency of capital investment by helping the fulfillment centers to improve storage utilization and the effective use of automation. Finally, you will help create the metrics to quantify improvements to the fulfillment costs (e.g., transportation and labor costs) resulting from the application of these optimization models.Major responsibilities of the team include:· Translating business questions and concerns into specific analytical questions that can be answered with available data using statistical methods.· Apply Statistical and Machine Learning methods to specific business problems and data.· Ensure data quality throughout all stages of acquisition and processing, including such areas as data sourcing/collection, ground truth generation, normalization, transformation, cross-lingual alignment/mapping, etc.· Communicate proposals and results in a clear manner backed by data and coupled with actionable conclusions to drive business decisions.· Collaborate with colleagues from multidisciplinary science, engineering and business backgrounds.· Work with engineers to develop efficient data querying and modeling infrastructure.· Manage your own process. Prioritize and execute on high impact projects, triage external requests, and ensure to deliver projects in time.· Utilizing code (Python, R, Scala, etc.) for analyzing data and building statistical models.

Senior Applied Scientist

US, WA, Seattle

Job summaryAmazon Advertising is one of Amazon's fastest growing and most profitable businesses. As a core product offering within our advertising portfolio, Sponsored Products (SP) helps merchants, retail vendors, and brand owners succeed via native advertising, which grows incremental sales of their products sold through Amazon. The SP team's primary goals are to help shoppers discover new products they love, be the most efficient way for advertisers to meet their business objectives, and build a sustainable business that continuously innovates on behalf of customers. 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 a Senior Applied Scientist on this team, you will:Be a technical leader in Machine Learning and drive full life-cycle Machine Learning projects.Lead technical efforts within this team and across other teams.Build machine learning models, perform proof-of-concept, experiment, optimize, and deploy your models into production.Run A/B experiments, gather data, and perform statistical analysis.Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large-scale data analysis, machine-learning model development, model validation and serving.Work closely with software engineers to assist in productionizing your ML models.Research new and innovative machine learning approaches.Recruit Applied Scientists to the team and mentor scientists on the team.Why you will love this opportunity: Amazon is investing 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_6Lzw8raE

Research Scientist

US, WA, Seattle

The GSF (Global Specialty Fulfillment) organization leads the innovation of Amazon’s ultra-fast fulfillment initiatives. We are an Operations org that hires and manages associates for ultra-fast businesses such as online grocery delivery, sub-same day delivery etc. GSFTech sits within GSF with the mission to build world-class automated Science-Tech products that enable ultra-fast delivery speeds for Amazon customers and job market opportunities for Amazon associates. Our key vision is to transform the online experience. We’re growing in scale and volume, by orders of magnitude. We are a team of passionate tech builders who work endlessly to make life better for our associates through amazing, thoughtful, and creative new scheduling experiences. To succeed, we need senior technical leaders to forge a path into the future by building innovative, maintainable, and scalable systems.At Amazon, we are constantly inventing and re-inventing to be the most associate-centric company in the world. To get there, we need exceptionally talented, bright, and driven people. Amazon is one of the most recognizable brand names in the world and we distribute millions of products each year to our loyal customers.We are looking for an Operational Research Scientist who will be driving optimization initiatives, responsible for building models and prototypes for labor planning systems, and will require close collaboration with other scientists on the team that are developing state-of-the-art ML and forecasting algorithms to scale. Common questions include: when to post shifts given changing demand and associate acceptance? How to optimally assign shifts to associates? This team plays a significant role in various stages of the innovation pipeline from identifying business needs, developing new algorithms, prototyping/simulation, to implementation by working closely with colleagues in engineering, product management, operations, retail and finance.As a Senior member of the scientist team, you will play an integral part on our Operations org with the following technical and leadership responsibilities:· Interact with engineering, operations, science and business teams to develop an understanding and domain knowledge of processes, system structures, and business requirements· Apply domain knowledge and business judgment to identify opportunities and quantify the impact aligning research direction to business requirements and make the right judgment on research project prioritization· Develop scalable models to derive optimal or near-optimal solutions to existing and new scheduling challenges· Create prototypes and simulations to test devised solutions· Advocate technical solutions to business stakeholders, engineering teams, as well as executive-level decision makers· Work closely with engineers to integrate prototypes into production system· Create policy evaluation methods to track the actual performance of devised solutions in production systems, identify areas with potential for improvement and work with internal teams to improve the solution with new features· Mentor and supervise the work of junior scientists on the team for technical development and their career development and growth· Present business cases and document models, analyses, and their results in order to influence important decisions

Senior Applied Scientist

US, WA, Seattle

The GSF (Global Specialty Fulfillment) organization leads the innovation of Amazon’s ultra-fast fulfillment initiatives. We are an Operations org that hires and manages associates for ultra-fast businesses such as online grocery delivery, sub-same day delivery etc. GSFTech sits within GSF with the mission to build world-class automated Science-Tech products that enable ultra-fast delivery speeds for Amazon customers and job market opportunities for Amazon associates. Our key vision is to transform the online experience. We’re growing in scale and volume, by orders of magnitude. We are a team of passionate tech builders who work endlessly to make life better for our associates through amazing, thoughtful, and creative new scheduling experiences. To succeed, we need senior technical leaders to forge a path into the future by building innovative, maintainable, and scalable systems.At Amazon, we are constantly inventing and re-inventing to be the most associate-centric company in the world. To get there, we need exceptionally talented, bright, and driven people. Amazon is one of the most recognizable brand names in the world and we distribute millions of products each year to our loyal customers.We are looking for a Senior Applied Scientist who will be the science lead for all key ML and forecasting initiatives, responsible for building models and prototypes for labor planning systems, and will require close collaboration with other scientists on the team that are developing state-of-the-art optimization algorithms to scale. This team plays a significant role in various stages of the innovation pipeline from identifying business needs, developing new algorithms, prototyping/simulation, to implementation by working closely with colleagues in engineering, product management, operations, retail and finance.As a Senior member of the scientist team, you will play an integral part on our Operations org with the following technical and leadership responsibilities:· Help the team define the forward looking Science roadmap and vision by helping to identify, disambiguate and seek out new opportunities· Interact with engineering, operations, science and business teams to develop an understanding and domain knowledge of processes, system structures, and business requirements· Apply domain knowledge and business judgment to identify opportunities and quantify the impact aligning research direction to business requirements and make the right judgment on research project prioritization· Develop scalable models to derive optimal or near-optimal solutions to existing and new scheduling challenges· Create prototypes and simulations to test devised solutions· Advocate technical solutions to business stakeholders, engineering teams, as well as executive-level decision makers· Work closely with engineers to integrate prototypes into production system· Create policy evaluation methods to track the actual performance of devised solutions in production systems, identify areas with potential for improvement and work with internal teams to improve the solution with new features· Mentor and supervise the work of junior scientists on the team for technical development and their career development and growth· Present business cases and document models, analyses, and their results in order to influence important decisions

Applied Scientist

CA, ON, Toronto

Job summaryAmazon Advertising is one of Amazon's fastest growing and most profitable businesses. As a core product offering within our advertising portfolio, Sponsored Products (SP) helps merchants, retail vendors, and brand owners succeed via native advertising, which grows incremental sales of their products sold through Amazon. The SP team's primary goals are to help shoppers discover new products they love, be the most efficient way for advertisers to meet their business objectives, and build a sustainable business that continuously innovates on behalf of customers. 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!Sponsored Products helps merchants, retail vendors, and brand owners succeed via native advertising that grows incremental sales of their products sold through Amazon. The Sponsored Products Ad Marketplace organization optimizes the systems and ad placements to match advertiser demand with publisher supply using a combination of machine learning, big data analytics, ultra-low latency high-volume engineering systems, and quantitative product focus. Our systems and algorithms operate on one of the world's largest product catalogs, matching shoppers with products - with a high relevance bar and strict latency constraints. Our goals are to help buyers discover new products they love, be the most efficient way for advertisers to meet their business objectives, and to build a major, sustainable business that helps Amazon continuously innovate on behalf of all customers.As an Applied Scientist for the Sponsored Products Detail Page Allocation and Pricing team, you develop systems which make the final decision on which ads to show, where to place them on the page and how many ads to place. This also includes selection of various themes that would appear in detail pages. This is a challenging technical and business problem, which requires us to balance the interests of advertisers, shoppers, and Amazon. You'll develop a data-driven product strategy to define the right quantitative measures of shopper impact, using this to evaluate decisions and opportunities. You'll balance a portfolio of pragmatic and long-term investments to drive long term growth of the ads and retail businesses. You'll develop real-time algorithms to allocate billions of ads per day in advertising auctions.As an Applied Scientist on this team you will:Build machine learning models, perform proof-of-concept, experiment, optimize, and deploy your models into production.Run A/B experiments, gather data, and perform statistical analysis.Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large-scale data analysis, machine-learning model development, model validation and serving.Work closely with software engineers to assist in productionizing your ML models.Research new machine learning approaches.Why you love this opportunityAmazon is investing heavily in building a world-class advertising business. This team is responsible for defining and delivering 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 highly motivated, collaborative, and fun-loving team with an entrepreneurial spirit - with a broad mandate to experiment and innovate.Impact and Career GrowthYou 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 fundamentally 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_6Lzw8raE

Applied Scientist, Alexa AI, Alexa AI

US, WA, Seattle

Job summaryDo you want to join the Alexa Artificial Intelligence (AI) team - the science team behind Amazon’s intelligence voice assistance system? Do you want to utilize cutting-edge deep-learning and machine learning algorithms to delight millions of Alexa users around the world?If your answers to these questions are “yes”, then come join the Alexa AI team, which is in charge of improving Alexa user satisfaction through continuous closed-loop self-learning. The team owns the modules that reduce user perceived defects through automatic defect detection and label generation.Key job responsibilitiesYou will be expected to:· Analyze, understand, and model dialogue context based on large scale speech and dialogue data;· Create and innovate deep learning and/or NLP based algorithms for improving accuracy of Alexa's speech recognition and natural language understanding through contextual modeling;· Perform model/data analysis and monitor user-experienced based metrics through online A/B testing;· Research and implement novel deep learning and NLP algorithms and models.A day in the life· Work collaboratively with scientists and developers to design and implement automated, scalable NLP/ML/IR models for accessing and presenting information· Drive scalable solutions from the business, to prototyping, production testing and through engineering directly to production· Drive best practices on the team, deal with ambiguity and competing objectives, and mentor and guide junior members to achieve their career growth potential.About the teamThe Alexa AI team is in charge of improving Alexa user satisfaction through continuous closed-loop self-learning. The team owns the modules that reduce user perceived defects through automatic defect detection and label generation.You will be working alongside a team of experienced deep learning and NLP scientists and engineers to create deep neural network based contextual dialogue modeling on tasks such as speech translation, natural language understanding, etc.

Sr. Applied Scientist , Prime Video Automated Reasoning

GB, London

Job summaryCome build the future of entertainment with us. Are you interested in shaping the future of movies and television? Do you want to define the next generation of how and what Amazon customers are watching?Prime Video is a premium streaming service that offers customers a vast collection of TV shows and movies - all with the ease of finding what they love to watch in one place. We offer customers thousands of popular movies and TV shows from Originals and Exclusive content to exciting live sports events. We also offer our members the opportunity to subscribe to add-on channels which they can cancel at anytime and to rent or buy new release movies and TV box sets on the Prime Video Store. Prime Video is a fast-paced, growth business - available in over 240 countries and territories worldwide. The team works in a dynamic environment where innovating on behalf of our customers is at the heart of everything we do. If this sounds exciting to you, please read on.As part of the Prime Video Automated Excellence organization, the Automated Reasoning team applies deep and cutting-edge automated reasoning techniques to detect defects automatically in Prime Video’s core systems and device-level code. The tools we build are mission-critical to the software development and release cycle of many Prime Video engineering organizations, and will represent a huge step forward in the sophistication of our approach to automated software quality. Your work on this team will help us address a new dimension of scale our business faces as we deliver our applications on an ever-expanding set of client devices.Key job responsibilitiesYou will have the opportunity to apply your deep knowledge of automated reasoning techniques, such as static analysis, formal verification, symbolic execution, etc., to concrete problems our product and engineering teams face on a daily basis. You will collaborate with team members to design and deliver enterprise-scale systems that will be used by both internal and external customers. You will have the opportunity to analyse and verify code to solve real-world problems and translate business and functional requirements into quick prototypes or proofs of concept. You will help set and continuously evolve a culture of innovation and curiosity that helps us find and solve our customers’ biggest problems.About the teamTo help a growing organization quickly deliver more features to Prime Video customers, Prime Video’s Automated Excellence organization is innovating on behalf of our global software development team consisting of thousands of engineers. We build services and utilities that make developer’s lives easier and more productive, and that help them deliver at higher levels of quality.

Sr. Data Scientist , Alexa Mobile Intelligence team

US, CA, Sunnyvale

Job summaryThe Amazon Alexa app is a companion to Alexa devices for setup, remote control, and enhanced features. The Alexa app understands a customer’s habits, preferences and delivers a personalized experience to help them manage their day by providing relevant information as customers want it. We believe voice is the most natural user interface for interacting with technology across many domains; we are inventing the future. As voice-enabled technology becomes increasingly advanced, consumers are demanding more from what their voice products can do. We’re looking for Scientists who are passionate about innovating on behalf of customers, demonstrate a high degree of product ownership, and want to have fun while they make history.As an Senior Data Scientist, you will help build a production scaled personalized recommendation and lead the team to build Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL) models to help derive business value and new insights through the adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI).Key job responsibilitiesThe successful candidate will be responsible for distilling user data insights for ML science applications and influence business decision with data-driven approach to increase Alexa mobile engagement and growth. A successful candidate will be a person who enjoys diving deep into data, doing analysis, discovering root causes, and designing long-term solutions.· Define the long-term development, science and business strategies for the team.· Expertise in the areas of data science, machine learning and statistics.· Translate business needs into advanced analytics and machine learning models and provide strong algorithm and coding execution and delivery of Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence.· Work closely with the engineers to architect and develop the best technical design and approach.· Being able to dive a ML / DL project from beginning to end, including understanding the business need, aggregating data, exploring data, building & validating predictive models, and deploying completed models to deliver business impact to the organization.· Analyze, extract, normalize, and label relevant data.· Work with Engineers to help our customers operationalize models after they are built.A day in the life· Design and review mobile experiments for growth and engagement· Build statistical models and generate data insights to understand mobile growth and retention· Feature engineering to improve ML model performance.· Analyze, extract, normalize, and label relevant data.· Work with Engineers to deploy applications to production· Work with product manager to convert business problems to science problems and define the solutions.About the teamAlexa Mobile Intelligence team is motivated to make Alexa mobile app being the best intelligent assistant and providing personalized relevant features and content by understanding customers' habits, preferences, hence will reach high growth and retention for the app.

Senior Economist , Perfect Order Experience Econ

US, CA, San Diego

Job summaryAmazon.com strives to be Earth's most customer-centric company where people can find and discover anything they want to buy online. We hire the world's brightest minds, offering them a fast paced, technologically sophisticated and friendly work environment.Economists at Amazon will be expected to work directly with senior management on key business problems faced in retail, international retail, cloud computing, third party merchants, search, Kindle, streaming video, and operations. Amazon economists will apply the frontier of economic thinking to market design, pricing, forecasting, program evaluation, online advertising and other areas. 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.Key job responsibilitiesAt Customer Trust and Partner Support, we work hard to build trust with both Amazon Customers and Selling Partners. The role offers a unique opportunity to work in a fast growing business at an intersection between Customers and Selling Partners. You will work on a central economist team focused on building scalable analytical solutions for shaping the strategies of the business.We are looking for a seasoned Economist who has a deep and broad analytic background, and is passionate about helping business to make data- and science-based decisions to make a real difference. Experience in applied analytics is essential, and you should be familiar with modern tools for data science and business analysis. We seek creative thinkers and practical doers who can think big and who can also roll up sleeves and execute on these big ideas.A day in the lifeAs a senior economist on the team, you will partner with our business and engineering partners to deliver innovative modeling solutions to help Selling partners and Brands to thrive on Amazon and to ensure a smooth and trustworthy experience for our Customers. This is an opportunity for a high-energy individual to bring economics and Machine Learning techniques into real world applications, to build scalable solutions to systematically deliver impacts to millions of Customers and Selling Partners, and to communicate insights to business and leadership.About the teamAt Selling Partner Risk Econ team, Economists and scientists create science- and data-based solutions at scale for evaluating and optimizing programs for safeguarding consumers against potentially risky sellers and products, and for designing mechanisms to encourage good behavior and deter bad behavior of Amazon sellers.

Senior Economist, Global Shipping Forecasting

US, CA, Long Beach

Amazon.com strives to be Earth's most customer-centric company where people can find and discover anything they want to buy online. We hire the world's brightest minds, offering them a fast paced, technologically sophisticated and friendly work environment.Economists at Amazon will be expected to work directly with our Chief Economists and senior management on key business problems faced in retail, international retail, cloud computing, third party merchants, search, Kindle, streaming video, and operations. Amazon economists will apply the frontier of economic thinking to market design, pricing, forecasting, program evaluation, online advertising and other areas. 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.This role will work in Global Shipping, Our vision is to become the carrier of choice for all of our Selling Partners cross-border shipping needs, offering complete set of end to end cross border solutions from key manufacturing hubs to footprint countries supporting business who use Amazon to grow their business globally.The Global Mile Business Development and strategy team are responsible for growing our global shipping product over the coming years. We have Sales and Marketing, analytical, strategy and forecasting functions and work with a large product and tech team, globally.As we expand, the need for robust demand forecasting to aid decision making on asset utilization especially where we know demand will be variable becomes vital. We are investing in enhanced data and improved modelling techniques, and are now in need of an experienced economist to lead and manage our forecasting and scenario planning function.

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