Amazon Principal Applied Scientist SP Insights 

United States, Washington, Seattle 

402186522

This role requires advising directors/VPs on using causal and impact estimation models to inform key decisions such as whether to maintain support for a feature, or double down on a SP-facing product. This leader must be innovative, determining the right set of techniques to solve the unique scientific challenges, and designing and implementing scalable solutions. The role requires solving problems of significant scientific and technical complexity (often with incomplete data) that necessitates the use and understanding of methodologies across multiple science and econometrics sub-disciplines. This scientist must apply high-judgement to balance the scientific innovation achieving required model accuracy and will often be required to make trade-offs between speed of delivery, breadth of use cases, accuracy of models, clarity of performance metrics, explainability, and other factors.Key job responsibilities
- Hire and develop top talents, provide technical and career development guidance to both scientists and engineers in the organization.
- Leverage industry best practices to establish repeatable applied science practices, principles & processes.

- MS degree (or equivalent) in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, or related technical field
- 5+ years of industrial/academic product experience, such as formal verification, program analysis, constraint-solving, and theorem proving
- 5+ years of technical management experience
- 5+ years of professional software engineering practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations

- Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, or related technical field
- Demonstrated track record of project delivery for large, cross-functional projects with evolving requirements
- Excellent written and verbal technical communication with an ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to a variety of audiences
- Exceptional customer relationship skills including the ability to discover the true requirements underlying feature requests, recommend alternative technical and business approaches, and lead engineering efforts to meet aggressive timelines with optimal solutions