Amazon Research Scientist FTVX Team Whole World 

United States, California, Sunnyvale 

246243328

Key job responsibilities
- Drive new initiatives applying Machine Learning techniques to improve our recommendation, search, NLU and entity matching algorithms
- Work closely with product managers and software engineers to design experiments and implement end-to-end solutions
- Setup and monitor alarms to detect anomalous data patterns and perform root cause analyses to explain and address them- Help attract and recruit technical talent; mentor junior scientistsSunnyvale, CA, USA

- PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of quantitative field research experience
- Experience investigating the feasibility of applying scientific principles and concepts to business problems and products
- Experience analyzing both experimental and observational data sets

- Knowledge of R, MATLAB, Python or similar scripting language
- PhD in engineering, technology, computer science, machine learning, robotics, operations research, statistics, mathematics or equivalent quantitative field
- 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.
- Experience with Deep Learning for search and recommendation systems
- Experience with NLP and LLM algorithms and tools a plus
- Experience performing and interpreting A/B experiments
- Excellent verbal/written communication skills, including an ability to effectively collaborate with research and technical teams