Software Development Engineer, Personalization & Discovery, Data Science, Machine Learning at Amazon
Software Development Engineer, Personalization & Discovery, Data Science, Machine Learning Details
June 21, 2019, 4 a.m.
Software Development
Amazon.in
Seattle, Washington
full stack team In Personalization we
Consider the following problem: every day, millions of customers with unique interests and needs come to Amazon looking for products out of a catalog of over a billion items. On each page, we need to decide what content would be most helpful to customers - ranging from automated recommendations to manual merchandising to navigational or informational content, etc. What do we show to customers to help them make shopping decisions and help them discover more parts of Amazon's vast catalog? In Personalization we use state-of-the-art machine learning techniques and A/B testing to answer this question by running experiments on some of Amazon’s most prominent and valuable pages. We are a full stack team working on a diverse range of products, machine learning systems, real-time, low-latency recommendation and ranking systems, building algorithms for understanding customer behavior and generating recommendations content, and as well as building customer-facing UIs. As a member of the team, you
· 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# · Excellent problem solving skills · Excellent written and oral communication skills· Masters/PhD degree or Bachelor’s degree with equivalent experience · Proven results oriented person with a delivery focus · Ability to work well with people and be both highly motivated and motivating · Experience in development of distributed/scalable systems and high-volume transaction applications