Applied Scientist II, Cross Border Science and Analytics
Technology, Data & Digital · Data, AI & Analytics · Data Science · Machine Learning · Artificial Intelligence
In short
Amazon is seeking an Applied Scientist II for its Cross-Border Science and Analytics team in Bengaluru, India. This role involves designing, developing, and deploying machine learning models to enhance the international shopping experience, impacting millions of customers. The position requires a PhD or Master's degree with 3+ years of experience in building models for business applications and proficiency in programming languages like Python.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and deploy machine learning models and algorithms to improve cross-border shopping experience.
- Analyze large-scale datasets to identify patterns, formulate hypotheses, and design experiments.
- Develop and iterate on ML models including deep learning, NLP, ranking, and causal inference.
- Design and run A/B experiments on live traffic.
- Write production-quality code (Python, Java/Scala) and deploy models into real-time and batch inference pipelines.
- Build end-to-end ML pipelines from data ingestion to online serving.
- Own model monitoring, performance debugging, and iterative improvements post-launch.
- Translate business problems into science problems and communicate results to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Contribute to technical documentation.
- Present at internal ML paper reading sessions and science forums.
- Mentor junior scientists and interns.
- Publish findings in top-tier venues and file patents.
Requirements
- 3+ years of building models for business application experience.
- PhD, or Master's degree.
- Experience in patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals.
- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language.
- Experience in algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, high-performance computing.
Desired Qualifications
- Experience using Unix/Linux.
- Experience in professional software development.
Benefits
- Directly impacts millions in annualized business value.
- Work on challenging, ambiguous problems with significant autonomy and end-to-end ownership.
- High-visibility role.
- Collaborate with world-class scientists and engineers.
- See work go live across Amazon's global marketplaces.
- Inclusive culture.
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