Sr. Applied Scientist, Minerva

2 days ago


Sunnyvale CA United States Amazon Full time

Job ID: 2833286 | Amazon.com Services LLC

Are you passionate about automation, optimization, knowledge extraction, and artificial intelligence through the use of Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Optimization, Natural Language Processing, and Recommender systems? We have a team of experienced scientists with a critical business mission making revolutionary leaps forward in these spaces. On this team you will work with an immense and diverse corpus of text, image, audio, and machine telemetry data to build generative and discriminative models for optimizing large-scale manufacturing and fulfillment processes, analyze and model customer reading behavior to measure engagement and detect risks, and build AI-based systems for helping indie authors make their businesses successful. This will involve combining methods from several science domains with domain knowledge across multiple businesses into sophisticated ML workflows. Our team has mature areas and green-field opportunities. We offer scientific autonomy, value end-to-end ownership, and have a strong customer-focused culture.

As an Applied Scientist at Amazon, you will connect with world leaders in your field working on similar problems. You will be working with large distributed systems of data and providing technical leadership to the product managers, teams, and organizations building machine learning solutions. You will be tackling Machine Learning challenges in Supervised, Unsupervised, and Semi-supervised Learning; utilizing modern methods such as deep learning and classical methods from statistical learning theory, detection, estimation. Senior Applied Scientists are specialists with the deep expertise to drive the scientific vision for our products. They are externally aware of the state-of-the-art in their respective field of expertise and are constantly focused on advancing that state-of-the-art for improving Amazon’s products and services.

Come join us as we revolutionize the book industry and deliver an amazing experience to our Kindle authors and readers.

Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) and Print On Demand (POD) have empowered a new wave of self-motivated creators, tearing down barriers that once blocked writers from reaching readers. Our team builds rich applications and systems that empower anyone to realize their dream of becoming a published author. We strive to provide an experience that is powerful, yet simple to use and accessible to all. We focus on building tools that enable authors to design high quality digital and print books, reaching readers all around the world. This role will help ensure we maintain the trust of both our Authors and Readers by ensuring all books published to Amazon meet our standards.

Great candidates for this position will be experts in the areas of data science, machine learning, computer vision, optimization, NLP, or statistics. You will have hands-on experience with multiple science initiatives as well as be able to balance technical leadership with strong business judgment to make the right decisions about technology, models and methodological choices. You will strive for simplicity, and demonstrate significant creativity and high judgment.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
  • 3+ years of building machine learning models for business application experience
  • PhD, or Master's degree and 6+ years of applied research experience
  • Knowledge of programming languages such as C/C++, Python, Java or Perl
  • Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
  • Experience with neural deep learning methods and machine learning
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
  • Experience with modeling tools such as R, scikit-learn, Spark MLLib, MxNet, Tensorflow, numpy, scipy etc.
  • Experience with large scale distributed systems such as Hadoop, Spark etc.

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.

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. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

Posted: November 21, 2024 (Updated about 17 hours ago)

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