Amazon is the 4th most popular site in the US (source:http://www.alexa.com/topsites/countries/US). Our product search engine,one of the most heavily used services in the world, indexes billions of products and serves hundreds of millions of customers world-wide. We are working on a new AI-first initiative to re-architect and reinvent our search engine into a shopping engine that assists customers with their shopping missions. We’re looking at asking how we can make big, step improvements by applying advanced Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning techniques, including Deep Reinforcement Learning. This is a rare opportunity to develop cutting edge ML solutions and apply them to a search problem of this magnitude. Some exciting questions that we expect to answer over the next few years include: • Can we deeply understand customer intent and personalize their search experience even when they type broad queries such as “dress” or“espresso machine” by using deep reinforcement learning to infer
· Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field and 7+ years professional experience in software development · 5+ years of software management experience · Experience leading engineering teams to deliver products and projects on tight deadlines · Experience coordinating complex product development cycles and software development schedule· Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent and 5+ years of professional experience in software development. · 10+ years of software management experience · Experience managing science and engineering · Track record of managing and delivering mission