The Mission Experience team is responsible for Amazon’s content optimization platform. We build the systems and algorithms that decide what content to show to a given customer and how to show it. We are a team of engineers and ML scientists, working on one of the largest scale machine learning systems in the company, building real-time, low-latency recommender and ranking systems. We work on cutting edge technologies including deep learning, reinforcement learning, and multi-armed bandits, applying it to domains including content/page layout optimization, customer understanding and targeting, generating recommendations content, advertising and more. We build highly scalable, highly available systems, that help drive Amazon’s core shopping experiences. We are uniquely positioned in the company to have large direct impact, driving billions of dollars of new revenue per year. If you are excited at working on massive data pipelines, designing new algorithms and machine learning models, working
· Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field · Strong CS fundamentals in object-oriented design, data structures and algorithms · Proficiency in at least one modern programming language such as Java, C, C++, C# · Familiarity with machine learning · Excellent problem solving skills · Excellent written and oral communication skills· Masters degree in computer science or a related field · Industry experience building scalable machine learning systems · Experience with distributed computing including tools such as EMR/Hadoop/Spark · Highly motivated self-starter with bias for innovative