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 4+ years professional experience in software development · Expert knowledge of one of the following programming languages: Java, C and C++ · Deep understanding of distributed systems and experience building them · Strong at applying data structures and algorithms to solve challenging problems· Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent · Experience building distributed systems · Track record of building and delivering mission critical, 24x7 production software systems · Strong background and experience with machine learning and