Amazon Data Scientist People Experience Technology Central Science 

United States, Washington, Seattle 

544819238

As a Data Scientist on this team you will:
• Lead Data Science solutions from beginning to end.
• Deliver with independence on challenging problems with complexity and ambiguity.
• Write code (Python, R, Scala, SQL, etc.) to obtain, manipulate, and analyze data.
• Build Machine Learning and statistical models to solve specific business problems.
• Retrieve, synthesize, and present critical data in a format that is immediately useful to answering specific questions or improving system performance.
• Analyze historical data to identify trends and support optimal decision making.
• Work closely with other researchers to design and implement advanced causal and predictive statistical models.
• Collaborate with Engineers to build scalable solutions that align with science priorities.
• Coordinate with senior business partners and our interdisciplinary team of UX researchers, data scientists, economists, and engineers to deliver real time insights into the corporate employee experience at Amazon.
Key job responsibilities
• Lead Data Science solutions from beginning to end.
• Deliver with independence on challenging problems with complexity and ambiguity.
• Write code (Python, R, Scala, SQL, etc.) to obtain, manipulate, and analyze data.
• Build Machine Learning and statistical models to solve specific business problems.
• Retrieve, synthesize, and present critical data in a format that is immediately useful to answering specific questions or improving system performance.
• Analyze historical data to identify trends and support optimal decision making.
• Work closely with other researchers to design and implement advanced causal and predictive statistical models.
• Collaborate with Engineers to build scalable solutions that align with science priorities.
• Coordinate with senior business partners and our interdisciplinary team of UX researchers, data scientists, economists, and engineers to deliver real time insights into the corporate employee experience at Amazon.

- 1+ years of data querying languages (e.g. SQL), scripting languages (e.g. Python) or statistical/mathematical software (e.g. R, SAS, Matlab, etc.) experience
- 2+ years of data/research scientist, statistician or quantitative analyst in an internet-based company with complex and big data sources experience

- Knowledge of statistical packages and business intelligence tools such as SPSS, SAS, S-PLUS, or R
- Experience with clustered data processing (e.g., Hadoop, Spark, Map-reduce, and Hive)