Applied Scientist
DESCRIPTION
Do you want to define the future of Internet commerce?
Are you a top-notch software engineer with a creative flare, strong problem-solving skills, the drive to build and ship products often, a solid computer science foundation, and the desire to build Amazon's next generation Internet-facing technology? Come talk with us about joining our team to help our tax teams serve customers better.
Are you ready to create systems to expand one of the world’s largest e-commerce engines?
If so, come be a member of Amazon’s Taskless Technology team. Taskless Tech builds software systems that ensure compliance for Amazon businesses and its subsidiaries and makes it easy for for millions of Amazon vendors including publishers, app developers, game developers, marketplace sellers, associates and others to comply for tens of billions of dollars in transactions. We're constantly looking for opportunities to expand capabilities in new geographies and new lines of business.
Can you work at the scale of the biggest Internet companies?
We are looking for Applied Scientists with strong analytical and problem solving skills, who will participate in the full development cycle from design and implementation to documentation and maintenance.
In this role, you will build machine learning (deep learning) models to ensure tax correctness for sellers/vendors of Amazon, for a wide range of business requirements, ranging from document parsing, fraud detection, anomaly detection in large data sets, etc. You will collaborate with engineers to build, train and deploy these models.You will focus on unearthing customer problems and coming up with novel ways to solve these. You will propose hypotheses, validate these offline and run A/B tests to validate them online. As part of these activities, you will develop production level code that runs on global ordering data.
Amazon is a premier place to build, deploy and operate Internet-scale services.
Join our development team to work hard, have fun and make history. You will join a highly technical and entrepreneurial culture defining and building a selling experience to complement Amazon’s world-class websites.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 3+ years of building models for business application experience
- Experience in patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals
- 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
- Master's degree