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CIKM 2022
October 17 - 21, 2022
Atlanta, GA

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The Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) provides an international forum for presentation and discussion of research on information and knowledge management, as well as recent advances on data and knowledge bases. The purpose of the conference is to identify challenging problems facing the development of future knowledge and information systems, and to shape future directions of research by soliciting and reviewing high quality, applied and theoretical research findings.

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US, NY, New York
We are looking for detail-oriented, organized, and responsible individuals who are eager to learn how to work with large and complicated data sets. Some knowledge of econometrics, as well as basic familiarity with Python is necessary, and experience with SQL and UNIX would be a plus. These are full-time positions at 40 hours per week, with compensation being awarded on an hourly basis. You will learn how to build data sets and perform applied econometric analysis at Internet speed collaborating with economists, scientists, and product managers. These skills will translate well into writing applied chapters in your dissertation and provide you with work experience that may help you with placement. Roughly 85% of previous cohorts have converted to full time economics employment at Amazon. If you are interested, please send your CV to our mailing list at econ-internship@amazon.com.
Sr. Manager, EU Supply Chain Optimization, EU Supply Chain Science
FR, Clichy
The role can be based in any of our EU offices. Amazon Supply Chain forms the backbone of the fastest growing e-commerce business in the world. The sheer growth of the business and the company's mission "to be Earth’s most customer-centric company” makes the customer fulfillment business bigger and more complex with each passing year. The EU SC Science Optimization team is looking for a Science leader to tackle complex and ambiguous forecasting and optimization problems for our EU fulfillment network. The team owns the optimization of our Supply Chain from our suppliers to our customers. We are also responsible for analyzing the performance of our Supply Chain end-to-end and deploying Statistics, Econometrics, Operations Research and Machine Learning models to improve decision making within our organization, including forecasting, planning and executing our network. We work closely with Supply Chain Optimization Technology (SCOT) teams, who own the systems and the inputs we rely on to plan our networks, the worldwide scientific community, and with our internal EU stakeholders within Supply Chain, Transportation, Store and Finance. The ideal candidate has a well-rounded-technical/science background as well as a history of leading large projects end-to-end, and is comfortable in developing long term research strategy while ensuring the delivery of incremental results in an ever-changing operational environment. As a Sr. Science Manager, you will lead and grow a high-performing team of data and research scientists, technical program managers and business intelligence engineers. You will partner with operations, finance, store, science and engineering leadership to identify opportunities to drive efficiency improvement in our Fulfillment Center network flows via optimization and scalable execution. As a science leader, you will not only develop optimization solutions, but also influence strategy and outcomes across multiple partner science teams such as forecasting, transportation network design, or modelling teams. You will identify new areas of investment and research and work to align roadmaps to deliver on these opportunities. This role is inherently cross-functional and requires an ability to communicate, influence and earn the trust of science, technical, operations and business leadership.
Intern - Economics, SCOT AIM
US, WA, Bellevue
We are looking for detail-oriented, organized, and responsible individuals who are eager to learn how to work with large and complicated data sets. Some knowledge of econometrics, as well as basic familiarity with Python is necessary, and experience with SQL and UNIX would be a plus. These are full-time positions at 40 hours per week, with compensation being awarded on an hourly basis. You will learn how to build data sets and perform applied econometric analysis at Internet speed collaborating with economists, scientists, and product managers. These skills will translate well into writing applied chapters in your dissertation and provide you with work experience that may help you with placement. Roughly 85% of previous cohorts have converted to full time economics employment at Amazon. If you are interested, please send your CV to our mailing list at econ-internship@amazon.com. Key job responsibilities Estimate econometric models using large datasets. Must know SQL and Matlab.
Applied Scientist II
US, WA, Seattle
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Senior Applied Scientist, Prime Video
US, WA, Seattle
Amazon Prime Video is changing the way millions of customers enjoy digital content. Prime Video delivers premium content to customers through purchase and rental of movies and TV shows, unlimited on-demand streaming through Amazon Prime subscriptions, add-on channels like Showtime and HBO, and live concerts and sporting events like NFL Thursday Night Football. In total, Prime Video offers nearly 200,000 titles and is available across a wide variety of platforms, including PCs and Macs, Android and iOS mobile devices, Fire Tablets and Fire TV, Smart TVs, game consoles, Blu-ray players, set-top-boxes, and video-enabled Alexa devices. Amazon believes so strongly in the future of video that we've launched our own Amazon Studios to produce original movies and TV shows, many of which have already earned critical acclaim and top awards, including Oscars, Emmys and Golden Globes. The Global Consumer Engagement team within Amazon Prime Video builds product and technology solutions that drive customer activation and engagement across all our supported devices and global footprint. We obsess over finding effective, programmatic and scalable ways to reach customers via a broad portfolio of both in-app and out-of-app experiences. We would love to have you join us to build models that can classify and detect content available on Prime Video. We need you to analyze the video, audio and textual signal streams and improve state-of-art solutions while being scalable to Amazon size data. We need to solve problems across many cultures and languages, working alongside an operations team generating labels across many languages to help us achieve these goals. Our team consistently strives to innovate, and holds several novel patents and inventions in the motion picture and television industry. We are highly motivated to extend the state of the art. As a member of our team, you will apply your deep knowledge of Computer Vision and Machine Learning to concrete problems that have broad cross-organizational, global, and technology impact. Your work will focus on addressing fundamental computer vision models like video understanding and video summarization in addition to building appropriate large scale datasets. You will work on large engineering efforts that solve significantly complex problems facing global customers. You will be trusted to operate with independence and are often assigned to focus on areas with significant impact on audience satisfaction. You must be equally comfortable with digging in to customer requirements as you are drilling into design with development teams and developing production ready learning models. You consistently bring strong, data-driven business and technical judgment to decisions. You will work with internal and external stakeholders, cross-functional partners, and end-users around the world at all levels. Our team makes a big impact because nothing is more important to us than pleasing our customers, continually earning their trust, and thinking long term. You are empowered to bring new technologies and deep learning approaches to your solutions. We embrace the challenges of a fast paced market and evolving technologies, paving the way to universal availability of content. You will be encouraged to see the big picture, be innovative, and positively impact millions of customers. This is a young and evolving business where creativity and drive will have a lasting impact on the way video is enjoyed worldwide.
Applied Scientist- Search Query Recommendation, Search Assistance
US, CA, Palo Alto
Join a team working on cutting-edge science to innovate search experiences for Amazon shoppers! Amazon Search helps customers shop with ease, confidence and delight WW. We aim to transform Search from an information retrieval engine to a shopping engine. In this role, you will build models to generate and recommend search queries that can help customers fulfill their shopping missions, reduce search efforts and let them explore and discover new products. You will also build models and applications that will increase customer awareness of related products and product attributes that might be best suited to fulfill the customer needs. Key job responsibilities On a day-to-day basis, you will: Design, develop, and evaluate highly innovative, scalable models and algorithms; Design and execute experiments to determine the impact of your models and algorithms; Work with product and software engineering teams to manage the integration of successful models and algorithms in complex, real-time production systems at very large scale; Share knowledge and research outcomes via internal and external conferences and journal publications; Project manage cross-functional Machine Learning initiatives. About the team The mission of Search Assistance is to improve search feature by reducing customers’ effort to search. We achieve this through three customer-facing features: Autocomplete, Spelling Correction and Related Searches. The core capability behind the three features is backend service Query Recommendation.
Principal Applied Scientist, Sponsored Products
US, CA, Palo Alto
Amazon is investing heavily in building a world class advertising business and we are responsible for defining and delivering a collection of self-service performance advertising products that drive discovery and sales. Our products are strategically important to our Retail and Marketplace businesses driving long term growth. We deliver billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks daily and are breaking fresh ground to create world-class products. We are highly motivated, collaborative and fun-loving with an entrepreneurial spirit and bias for action. With a broad mandate to experiment and innovate, we are growing at an unprecedented rate with a seemingly endless range of new opportunities. The Ad Response Prediction team in Sponsored Products organization build advanced deep-learning models, large-scale machine-learning (ML) pipelines, and real-time serving infra to match shoppers’ intent to relevant ads on all devices, for all contexts and in all marketplaces. Through precise estimation of shoppers’ interaction with ads and their long-term value, we aim to drive optimal ads allocation and pricing, and help to deliver a relevant, engaging and delightful ads experience to Amazon shoppers. As the business and the complexity of various new initiatives we take continues to grow, we are looking for energetic, entrepreneurial, and self-driven science leaders to join the team. Key job responsibilities As a Principal Applied Scientist in the team, you will: Seek to understand in depth the Sponsored Products offering at Amazon and identify areas of opportunities to grow our business via principled ML solutions. Mentor and guide the applied scientists in our organization and hold us to a high standard of technical rigor and excellence in ML. Design and lead organization wide ML roadmaps to help our Amazon shoppers have a delightful shopping experience while creating long term value for our sellers. Work with our engineering partners and draw upon your experience to meet latency and other system constraints. Identify untapped, high-risk technical and scientific directions, and simulate new research directions that you will drive to completion and deliver. Be responsible for communicating our ML innovations to the broader internal & external scientific community.
Applied Scientist
US, CA, Palo Alto
We’re working to improve shopping on Amazon using the conversational capabilities of large language models, and are searching for pioneers who are passionate about technology, innovation, and customer experience, and are ready to make a lasting impact on the industry. You'll be working with talented scientists, engineers, and technical program managers (TPM) to innovate on behalf of our customers. If you're fired up about being part of a dynamic, driven team, then this is your moment to join us on this exciting journey!"?
Applied Scientist II, AWS AI
US, CA, Santa Clara
AWS AI/ML is looking for world class scientists and engineers to join its AI Research and Education group working on foundation models, large-scale representation learning, and distributed learning methods and systems. At AWS AI/ML you will invent, implement, and deploy state of the art machine learning algorithms and systems. You will build prototypes and innovate on new representation learning solutions. You will interact closely with our customers and with the academic and research communities. You will be at the heart of a growing and exciting focus area for AWS and work with other acclaimed engineers and world famous scientists. Large-scale foundation models have been the powerhouse in many of the recent advancements in computer vision, natural language processing, automatic speech recognition, recommendation systems, and time series modeling. Developing such models requires not only skillful modeling in individual modalities, but also understanding of how to synergistically combine them, and how to scale the modeling methods to learn with huge models and on large datasets. Join us to work as an integral part of a team that has diverse experiences in this space. We actively work on these areas: * Hardware-informed efficient model architecture, training objective and curriculum design * Distributed training, accelerated optimization methods * Continual learning, multi-task/meta learning * Reasoning, interactive learning, reinforcement learning * Robustness, privacy, model watermarking * Model compression, distillation, pruning, sparsification, quantization About Us Inclusive Team Culture Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 14 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust. Work/Life Balance Our 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 Growth Our 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.
Principal Applied Scientist, SPeXSci
US, WA, Seattle
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