Have you ever wanted to work on machine learning challenges that will make a lasting impact on society and solve key problems that impact the experience of millions of Amazon customers? Do you like to own and solve complex, ambiguous, and hard problems? We are looking for a brilliant Senior Machine Learning Scientist who has the passion to tackle tough problems to help inform a new product from the very early stages. Together with a multi-disciplinary team of scientists, engineers, economists, product managers, and subject domain experts you will work on building a product with machine learning at its core. You will define the research and experiment strategy with an iterative approach to create machine learning models and progressively improve the results over time. We are looking for candidates who thrive in a fast paced environments and want to invent the future.
· PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field · 3+ yrs. of industry experience applying fundamental machine learning algorithms to solving complex problems · 2+ yrs. experience modifying standard algorithms (e.g. changing objectives, working-out the math, implementing and scaling) · 2+ years experience in one or more major programming languages (Python, Java, C++, C, Perl/Ruby, etc.)· PhD with a focus in machine learning · Experience in the real-time processing of high-velocity time series data · Experience working with big data and relevant techniques, e.g. unsupervised learning