Senior Applied Scientist, Home Innovation Team at Amazon
Senior Applied Scientist, Home Innovation Team Details
Feb. 19, 2019, 9:12 a.m.
Machine Learning Science
Retail Category Management: Home, Leisure and Electronics
Seattle, Washington
Pets Tech Team US 65% of
In the US 65% of households (or 79.7 million homes) own a pet. 60% of these pet owners consider their pets to be family members. We are the Pets Tech Team - a group of engineers, product managers and designers focused on helping pet owners discover and purchase the right products for their pets. Our customers care for their pets, and Amazon cares too. The business is growing fast, and most important the team is building features that impact hundreds of millions of customers! THE CHALLENGES WE WILL TACKLE As with every project within Amazon, we work backwards from our customer's needs, address the problems they meet and innovate on new technologies. Our team will tackle some tough problems such as: * Simplify the process of choosing the right products for your pet through searching, browsing, and recommendations. * Personalize customers' search and shopping experiences to help them find useful products for their pets. These preferences will be automatically inferred or directly declared
· A PhD in CS machine learning, Operational research, Statistics or in a highly quantitative field · 5+ years of hands-on experience in predictive modeling and large data analysis · 5 years SAS/R/Python/Matlab/SQL experience · 2+ years industrial experience in an analysis or research role with progressively increasing responsibility · 2+ years of experience in scripting for data analysis (Perl, Awk, Python, etc) · Eager to learn new algorithms, new application areas and new tools. · Excellent communication skills · Strong skills in problem solving, programming and computer science fundamentals