Senior Applied Scientist, International Machine Learning
Technology, Data & Digital · Data, AI & Analytics · Machine Learning · Data Science
In short
Join Amazon's International Machine Learning team as a Senior Applied Scientist in Bengaluru, India. You will use machine learning and statistical techniques to create state-of-the-art solutions, analyze terabytes of data, and impact profitability. This role requires a Master's or PhD degree and 6+ years of experience in building ML models and programming in languages like Python, Java, or C++.
Responsibilities
- Use machine learning and analytical techniques to create scalable solutions for business problems.
- Analyze and extract relevant information from large amounts of Amazon’s historical business data to automate and optimize key processes.
- Design, develop, evaluate, and deploy innovative and highly scalable ML models.
- Work closely with software engineering teams to drive real-time model implementations.
- Work closely with business partners to identify problems and propose machine learning solutions.
- Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large scale data analyses, model development, model validation and model maintenance.
- Work proactively with engineering teams and product managers to evangelize new algorithms and drive the implementation of large-scale complex ML models in production.
- Lead projects and mentor other scientists and engineers in the use of ML techniques.
Requirements
- 6+ years of building machine learning models for business application experience.
- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language.
- Experience with neural deep learning methods and machine learning.
- Master's degree, or PhD.
Desired Qualifications
- Experience with modeling tools such as R, scikit-learn, Spark MLLib, MxNet, Tensorflow, numpy, scipy etc.
- Experience with large scale distributed systems such as Hadoop, Spark etc.
Benefits
- Innovative team of scientists using machine learning and statistical techniques.
- Build and deploy advanced ML systems that help optimize millions of transactions every day.
- Analyze and model terabytes of data to solve real-world problems.
- Own end-to-end business problems/metrics and directly impact the profitability of the company.
- Work alongside brilliant minds motivated to solve real-world machine learning problems that make a difference to millions of customers.
- Encouragement of thought leadership and blue ocean thinking in ML.
- Opportunity to work on 'India first' problems and impact emerging markets.
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