Applied Scientist, Pricing and Promotion Optimization

2 days ago

Seattle WA United States Amazon Full time
Applied Scientist, Pricing and Promotion Optimization

Amazon's Pricing & Promotions Science is seeking a driven Applied Scientist to harness planet scale multi-modal datasets, and navigate a continuously evolving competitor landscape, in order to regularly generate fresh customer-relevant prices on billions of Amazon and Third Party Seller products worldwide.

We are looking for a talented, organized, and customer-focused applied researcher to join our Pricing and Promotions Optimization science group, with a charter to measure, refine, and launch customer-obsessed improvements to our algorithmic pricing and promotion models across all products listed on Amazon.

This role requires an individual with exceptional machine learning and reinforcement learning modeling expertise, excellent cross-functional collaboration skills, outstanding business acumen, and an entrepreneurial spirit. We are looking for an experienced innovator, who is a self-starter, comfortable with ambiguity, demonstrates strong attention to detail, and has the ability to work in a fast-paced and ever-changing environment.

Key job responsibilities
  1. See the big picture. Understand and influence the long term vision for Amazon's science-based competitive, perception-preserving pricing techniques.
  2. Build strong collaborations. Partner with product, engineering, and science teams within Pricing & Promotions to deploy machine learning price estimation and error correction solutions at Amazon scale.
  3. Stay informed. Establish mechanisms to stay up to date on latest scientific advancements in machine learning, neural networks, natural language processing, probabilistic forecasting, and multi-objective optimization techniques. Identify opportunities to apply them to relevant Pricing & Promotions business problems.
  4. Keep innovating for our customers. Foster an environment that promotes rapid experimentation, continuous learning, and incremental value delivery.
  5. Successfully execute & deliver. Apply your exceptional technical machine learning expertise to incrementally move the needle on some of our hardest pricing problems.
A day in the life

We are hiring an applied scientist to drive our pricing optimization initiatives. The Price Optimization science team drives cross-domain and cross-system improvements through:

  • Inventing and delivering price optimization, simulation, and competitiveness tools for Sellers.
  • Shaping and extending our RL optimization platform - a pricing centric tool that automates the optimization of various system parameters and price inputs.
  • Promotion optimization initiatives exploring CX, discount amount, and cross-product optimization opportunities.
  • Identifying opportunities to optimally price across systems and contexts (marketplaces, request types, event periods).

Price is a highly relevant input into many partner-team architectures, and is highly relevant to the customer, therefore this role creates the opportunity to drive extremely large impact (measured in Bs not Ms), but demands careful thought and clear communication.

About the team

The Pricing Discovery and Optimization team within P2 Science owns price quality, discovery and discount optimization initiatives, including criteria for internal price matching, price discovery into search, p13N and SP, pricing bandits, and Promotion type optimization. We leverage planet scale data on billions of Amazon and external competitor products to build advanced optimization models for pricing, elasticity estimation, product substitutability, and optimization. We preserve long term customer trust by ensuring Amazon's prices are always competitive and error free.

Minimum Qualifications
  • PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience.
  • Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language.
  • Experience in any of the following areas: algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, high-performance computing.
  • 2+ years of hands-on predictive modeling and large data analysis experience.
  • Experience in solving business problems through machine learning, data mining and statistical algorithms.
Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience building machine learning models or developing algorithms for business application.
  • Experience in patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals.
  • Reinforcement Learning and Optimization systems.

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 .

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $136,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $222,200/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.

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