Amazon Applied Scientist Pricing Promotion Optimization 

United States, Washington, Seattle 

129064532

Key job responsibilities- 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
- invent and deliver price optimization, simulation, and competitiveness tools for Sellers.
- shape and extend 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)

- 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