Amazon Principal Applied Scientist Optimal Sourcing Systems 

United States, New York, New York 

16369513

Key job responsibilities
Key job responsibilities include:- Design, implement and evaluate models, agents and software prototypes
- Technical leadership for a group of highly motivated and talented scientists
- Engage key business stakeholders and scientists to surface opportunities for improvement and identify business requirements
- Raise the bar of scientific research by innovating and publishingA day in the life

- PhD in one of the following disciplines: Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, Operations Research or a related quantitative field
- 7+ years of relevant, broad research experience after PhD
- Have production coding experience in one of the object-oriented programming languages such as Java, Python, C++, etc.
- Strong algorithm development experience
- Depth and breadth in state-of-the-art machine learning and Optimization technologies
- 7+ years of hands-on experience in building machine learning or optimization models in business environment
- Strong prior experience with mentorship and/or management of senior scientists and engineers

- Knowledge of the latest trends in related areas in Machine Learning
- Expertise in Machine Learning or Reinforcement Learning
- Proven track record of innovation in creating novel algorithms and advancing the state of the art