Amazon Principal Applied Scientist Amazon 

United States, California, Palo Alto 

148235725

Key job responsibilities
As a Principal Applied Scientist in the team, you will:
* Mentor and guide the applied scientists in our organization and hold us to a high standard of technical rigor and excellence in ML.
* Design and lead organization wide ML roadmaps to help our Amazon shoppers have a delightful shopping experience while creating long term value for our sellers.
* Work with our engineering partners and draw upon your experience to meet latency and other system constraints.
* Identify untapped, high-risk technical and scientific directions, and simulate new research directions that you will drive to completion and deliver.
* Be responsible for communicating our ML innovations to the broader internal & external scientific community.

* PhD in Computer Science, Statistics or related field.
* 8+ years of applied ML experience in deploying ML solutions to customer facing products.
* 2+ years hands-on experience leading multiple ML teams to design products that satisfy a customer need.
* Track record of delivering large-scale and high-quality ML solutions.
* Experience in taking on & using ML to deliver on business goals.

* Experience in shipping large-scale deep learning models for online recommendation, personalization, or search.
* Experience partnering with engineering teams to ensure deep learning solutions meet latency requirements.
* Experience in building GenAI-based product strategy.
* Evidence of producing internal or external publications that motivate new lines of research.
* Excellent verbal and written communication.