Amazon Senior Applied Scientist Amazon Devices Device Science Data Technology 

United States, Colorado, Denver 

471176912

As a Sr. Applied Scientist, you will design, evangelize, and implement state-of-the-art solutions for never-before-solved problems, helping Amazon Devices to provide great products. This role will be a key member of a Science and Data technology team based in Denver, CO. You will work closely with other scientists, machine learning experts, and engineers to design and run experiments, research new algorithms, and find new ways to improve Amazon Device Services & Software products. You will partner with technology and product leaders to solve business and technology problems using scientific approaches to build new services that surprise and delight our customers. Our scientists work closely with software engineers to put algorithms into practice. They also work on cross-disciplinary efforts with other scientists within Amazon.Key job responsibilities- Drive actions at scale using scientific methods and decision-making- Design experiments, test hypotheses, and build actionable models
- Prototype these models by using modeling languages such as R or in software languages such as Python.

- 5+ 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.