Amazon Applied Scientist AGI Info - Web Information Systems 

United States, California, Sunnyvale 

614962790

If you are looking for an opportunity to develop innovative solutions to deep technical problems in web-scale IR, having a massive customer impact, this might be the role for you! As a Applied Scientist, you will work with smart, passionate colleagues in a fast-paced environment. You will invent, develop, and help deploy novel, scalable algorithms to advance the state-of-the-art in our IR stack. You will keep up with relevant research in the field of IR and publish your work in top-tier conferences. You will develop and help lead the execution of multi-year research roadmaps, enabling the team to focus on the right technical challenges to delight our customers.Key job responsibilities

- 3+ years of building models for business application experience
- PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience
- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
- Experience in any of the following areas: algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, high-performance computing
- Experience building machine learning models or developing algorithms for business application

- Experience using Unix/Linux
- Experience in professional software development
- - PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or Mathematics with specialties in information retrieval, natural language processing, or machine learning
- - 3+ years experience in building ML-based search or recommendation systems at scale
- - Publications at peer-reviewed conferences (e.g. SIGIR, WWW, CIKM, ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, NeurIPS, ICLR)