Senior Applied Scientist, Personalization at Amazon
Senior Applied Scientist, Personalization Details
March 13, 2019, 7:07 a.m.
Machine Learning Science
Seattle, Washington
Amazon’s Personalization team Amazon’s Personalization team
Want to help invent next generation technologies in recommender systems? Are you looking for roles that impact millions of customers a day, with opportunities to drive billions of dollars in impact? We’ve got the perfect job for you. Amazon’s Personalization team is looking for an Applied Scientist to work on the core website optimization systems for all of Amazon. You will be part of a multidisciplinary team, working on one of the largest scale machine learning systems in the company. You will hone your skills in areas such as deep learning, multi-armed bandits, and reinforcement learning while building scalable industrial systems. As a member of a highly leveraged team of talented engineers and ML scientists, you will have a unique opportunity to help determine what content gets shown to every customer on Amazon. As a member of the team, you will use machine learning and analytical techniques to create scalable solutions for business problems. You will propose and run live experiments
· PhD in Computer Science, ML, Statistics or related field · 7+ years of industry experience · Extensive experience building predictive and optimization models · Expert knowledge and practical experience in several of the following areas: machine learning, statistics, deep learning, natural language processing, informational retrieval · Proficiency in at least one modern programming language such as Java, C, C++, C#, Python · Excellent problem solving skills · Excellent written and oral communication skills· Significant peer reviewed scientific contributions in premier journals and conferences