Senior Applied Scientist Alexa Daily Essentials Ade Science jobs at Amazon in Canada, Vancouver

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- 8+ years of relevant systems engineering, or systems administration experience using Operating Systems, networking, and storage systems
- 5+ years of Systems Engineering, DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) or Enterprise Production experience in Windows / Linux or similar environments
- 3+ years' experience operating in a 24/7 production environment.
- 3+ years experience with a scripting language: Perl, Python, Ruby, PowerShell or similar languages

- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Information Systems, Computer Engineering or a related discipline
- 6+ years of networking experience
- 6+ years' experience with support procedures and methodologies for production computing environments.
- Development of systems automation in a scripting language: Perl, Python, Ruby, PowerShell or similar languages
- Experience with Agile engineering practices (Scrum, continuous delivery, etc)

Key job responsibilities
As an experienced technology professional, you will be expected to:2. Lead internal initiatives to deliver quantifiable impact
3. Develop strategic relationships with internal and external leaders
4. Design and implement complex, scalable, and secure AWS solutions tailored to customer needs
5. Enable and engage delivery partners in project delivery
6. Provide mentorship and coaching to develop others
Diverse Experiences: AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job below, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.
Mentorship & Career Growth - We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

- 5+ years of experience in cloud architecture and implementation
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, related field, or equivalent experience
- 3+ year(s) of experience in IT security, compliance, or risk management
- 5+ years experience in technology automation, implementation, integration, and/or deployment

- AWS experience preferred, with proficiency in a wide range of AWS services (e.g. EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, IAM, VPC, CloudFormation)
- AWS Professional level certifications (e.g. Solutions Architect Professional, DevOps Engineer Professional) preferred
- Experience with automation and scripting (e.g. Terraform, Python)
- Knowledge of security and compliance standards (e.g. HIPAA, GDPR)
- Strong communication skills with the ability to explain technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Work experience in any of the following industries: financial services (banking, capital markets, payments, insurance, or other segments), automotive, telecommunications, healthcare, life sciences, energy, media & entertainment, or manufacturing.
- Hands-on technical expertise in building security capabilities in code, deploying infrastructure as code, and implementing enterprise security solutions (e.g. WAF, IPS, Anti-DDOS, SIEM)

Key job responsibilities
- Design, implement, and deploy high-quality, scalable, and reliable services for our automation platform.- Utilize your problem-solving skills to tackle technical challenges in a large-scale distributed environment.- Participate in the full software development lifecycle, including design reviews, code reviews, and operational support, while adhering to engineering best practices.

- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- 3+ years of Video Games Industry (supporting title Development, Release, or Live Ops) experience
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language

- 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

In this role, you will take a pragmatic and iterative approach to building software: You will simplify and get things done while experimenting on rapid iterations on the new concepts. You will need to be a focused and thoughtful leader of your team who works effectively with external and internal partners.Key job responsibilities
As a SDE, you will be responsible for designing, developing, testing, and deploying solutions for Alexa Smart Properties and enterprise customers world-wide customer. In this, you will collaborate closely with Alexa/AWS/Solution Architects and many other teams and functions to influence our overall strategy and define the team’s road map. You will also drive the system architecture, spearhead best practices that enable a quality product, and help coach and develop junior engineers. A successful candidate will have an established background in engineering large scale software systems, a strong technical ability, great communication skills, and a motivation to achieve results in a fast paced environment.A day in the life- Design and develop micro-services to create new core software services.- Build service architectures that have rock solid availability and performance.
We work on expanding Alexa's use case by creating features and core Alexa system functionality that allows Alexa to be use by business enterprises (as opposed to personal homes). You will be writing code to deliver these pieces of functionality.

- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language

- 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

As an Sr. Applied Scientist, you'll work alongside domain experts, engineers, and other scientists to understand business problems, propose scientific solutions, and deploy them to production. You'll work on scientific initiatives for accelerating reconciliation, standardization, and onboarding. This includes:
- Leveraging GenAI/LLMs to build agentic solutions to accelerate accounting-related research/tasks and produce proactive insights.
- Building AI trust and safety in the financial domain.
- Establishing scalable, efficient, automated processes for large-scale data analysis, machine learning model development, model validation, and serving.
- Developing training/evaluation datasets for model fine-tuning.
You will need to have a start-up like mindset, as you will be working an in a highly iterative and collaborative environment with SDEs, Product Managers, and Accounting stakeholders to propose ideas, experiment, and scale rapidly. You should have a keen eye for what a good user experience should look like, possess excellent written and verbal communication, and have a keen interest in learning about accounting and financial processes.

- 3+ years of building machine learning models for business application experience
- PhD, or Master's degree and 6+ years of applied research experience
- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
- Experience with neural deep learning methods and machine learning

- 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.

Key job responsibilities
- Producing written recommendations and insights for key stakeholders that will help shape effective metric development and reporting.
- Continuously invent, simplify, and automate your products, tools, services, and methodologies.
- Improving back-end data sources for increased accuracy and simplicity.
- Recognizing and adopting best practices in reporting, analyses, data quality and modeling.

- 10+ years of professional or military experience
- 5+ years of SQL experience
- Experience with AWS technologies
- Experience programming to extract, transform and clean large (multi-TB) data sets
- Experience with theory and practice of information retrieval, data science, machine learning and data mining
- Experience in scripting for automation (e.g. Python) and advanced SQL skills.
- Experience with theory and practice of design of experiments and statistical analysis of results

A successful candidate will be a self-starter comfortable with ambiguity, strong attention to detail, and the ability to work in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment. As an Applied Science Intern, you will own the design and development of end-to-end systems. You’ll have the opportunity to create technical roadmaps, and drive production level projects that will support Amazon Science. You will work closely with Amazon scientists, and other science interns to develop solutions and deploy them into production. The ideal scientist must have the ability to work with diverse groups of people and cross-functional teams to solve complex business problems.

- Are enrolled in a PhD
- Are 18 years of age or older
- Work 40 hours/week minimum and commit to 12 week internship maximum
- Can relocate to where the internship is based
- Experience programming or scripting language like Python, Java, C or C++

- Have publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals
- Are enrolled in a academic program that is physically located in Canada