Applied Scientist II, Amazon Profiles
DESCRIPTION
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 leveraging the latest advances in generative AI, and Amazon’s tremendous computational resources. What do you get? An unparalleled opportunity to deliver transformational experiences that impact customers everyday lives.
Are you passionate about working on disruptive ideas? Are you obsessed with finding and building the most innovative and customer-friendly user experiences? Have you built and launched new experiences that impact shoppers all around the world? This is a unique full-stack opportunity that combines the ability to build exciting, new user experiences for Amazon's customers with the opportunity to work with Generative AI and other advanced techniques to provide the best personalized experience for hundreds of millions of Amazon customers.
Key job responsibilities
As an Applied Scientist in the Amazon Profiles team in Personalization, your work delivers transformational, AI-powered end-to-end experiences to seek to understand each customer uniquely and deeply. You will use the latest ML and generative AI-powered methods to power new personalized experiences. Amazon Profiles represents a highly-visible charter, with exposure and sponsorship at the S-Team level. We leverage our understanding of each customer to personalize the moments that matter along the Shopping journey, while making it easy for customers to tell us when we get it wrong. We leverage generative AI to use this deep customer insight to help our customers more confidently navigate their shopping journey. We partner closely with teams across Amazon to deliver a unified and cohesive experiences. Come join us as we transform Amazon into a deeply personal and relevant store!
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 3+ years of building models for business application experience
- PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience
- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
- Experience in any of the following areas: algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, high-performance computing
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience using Unix/Linux
- Experience in professional software development
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $136,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $222,200/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.