Amazon Sr Applied Scientist Amazon Store Tech 

China, Beijing, Beijing 

497992785

As a Senior Applied Scientist, you will lead the team to create the science long-term vision and roadmap across multiple business domains. You will lead the design, implement and deliver models on Amazon site, helping millions of customers every day to find quickly what they are looking for. You will propose innovation to build ML models trained on terabytes of product and traffic data, which are evaluated using both offline metrics as well as online metrics from A/B testing. The chosen approaches for model architecture will balance business-defined performance metrics with the needs of millisecond response times.Key job responsibilities
* Designing and implementing new features and machine learned models, including the application of state-of-art deep learning to solve business problems.* Analyzing data and metrics identify new science opportunities.* Working with teams worldwide on global projects.* Recognized by internal and external peers as a thought leader in your area(s) of scientific expertise. You publish your results at top academic conferences and engage with the academic community.
A day in the life
Your benefits include:* Being part of a growing team where you can influence the team's mission, direction, and how we achieve our goals

- 3+ 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.