Sr. Applied Scientist, Search Relevance

4 weeks ago


Palo Alto, California, United States Amazon Full time
The Amazon Search team creates powerful, customer-focused search solutions and technologies.

Whenever a customer visits an Amazon site worldwide and types in a query or browses through product categories, Amazon Product Search services go to work.

We design, develop, and deploy high performance, fault-tolerant distributed search systems used by millions of Amazon customers every day.

Our Search Relevance team works to maximize the quality and effectiveness of the search experience for visitors to Amazon websites worldwide.

The Search Relevance team focuses on several technical areas for improving search quality. In this role, you will invent universally applicable signals and algorithms for training machine-learned ranking models.

The relevance improvements you make will help millions of customers discover the products they want from a catalog containing millions of products.

You will work on problems such as predicting the popularity of new products, developing new ranking features and algorithms that capture unique characteristics, and analyzing the differences in behavior of different categories of customers.

The work will span the whole development pipeline, including data analysis, prototyping, A/B testing, and creating production-level components.


Joining this team, you'll experience the benefits of working in a dynamic, entrepreneurial environment, while leveraging the resources of (AMZN), one of the world's leading Internet companies.

We provide a highly customer-centric, team-oriented environment in our offices located in Palo Alto, California.

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BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

  • Master's degree
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

  • PhD
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace.

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets.

The base pay for this position ranges from $150,400/year in our lowest geographic market up to $260,000/year in our highest geographic market.

Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Amazon is a total compensation company.

Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits.

For more information, please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

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