Amazon Senior Applied Scientist CreST 

United States, Washington, Seattle 

931178265

Key job responsibilities
• Use statistical and machine learning techniques to create scalable and lasting systems.• Design, develop and evaluate highly innovative models for NLP.
• Work closely with teams of scientists and software engineers to drive real-time model implementations and new feature creations.
• Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large scale data analyses, model development, model validation and implementation.
• Research and implement novel machine learning and statistical approaches, including NLP and Computer Vision
A day in the life
In this role, you’ll be utilizing your NLP or CV skills, and creative and critical problem-solving skills to drive new projects from ideation to implementation. Your science expertise will be leveraged to research and deliver often novel solutions to existing problems, explore emerging problems spaces, and create or organize knowledge around them.

- 4+ years of applied research experience
- 5+ 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.