Amazon Senior Applied Scientist Sponsored Products 

United States, Washington, Seattle 

667349411

Basic qualifications:
* PhD degree with 4 years of applied research experience or a Masters degree and 6+ years of experience of applied research experience
* 3+ years of experience in building machine learning models for business application
* Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related languagePreferred qualifications:
* Advanced degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, or related quantitative field.
* Published research work in academic conferences or industry circles.
* Experience in building large-scale machine-learning models and infra for online recommendation, ads ranking, personalization, or search, etc.
* Technical leadership in machine learning.
* Effective verbal and written communication skills with non-technical and technical audiences.
* Experience working with real-world data sets and building scalable models from big data.
* Thinks strategically, but stays on top of tactical execution.
* Exhibits excellent business judgment; balances business, product, and technology very well.
* Experience in computational advertising.
Key job responsibilities
As a Senior Applied Scientist on this team, you will:
* Be the technical leader in Machine Learning; lead efforts within this team and across other teams.
* Perform hands-on analysis and modeling of enormous data sets to develop insights that increase traffic monetization and merchandise sales, without compromising the shopper experience.
* Drive end-to-end Machine Learning projects that have a high degree of ambiguity, scale, complexity.
* Build machine learning models, perform proof-of-concept, experiment, optimize, and deploy your models into production; work closely with software engineers to assist in productionizing your ML models.
* Run A/B experiments, gather data, and perform statistical analysis.
* Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large-scale data analysis, machine-learning model development, model validation and serving.
* Research new and innovative machine learning approaches.
* Recruit Applied Scientists to the team and provide mentorship.

- 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 using Unix/Linux
- Experience in professional software development