About the job
Are you a scientist interested in pushing the state of the art in Information Retrieval, Large Language Models and Recommendation Systems? Are you interested in innovating on behalf of millions of customers, helping them accomplish their every day goals? Do you wish you had access to large datasets and tremendous computational resources? Do you want to join a team of capable scientist and engineers, building the future of e-commerce? Answer yes to any of these questions, and you will be a great fit for our team at Amazon.
Responsibilities
As an Applied Scientist in our team, you will be responsible for the research, design, and development of new AI technologies for personalization. You will adopt or invent new machine learning and analytical techniques in the realm of recommendations, information retrieval and large language models. You will collaborate with scientists, engineers, and product partners locally and abroad. Your work will include inventing, experimenting with, and launching new features, products and systems.
Qualifications
Minimum
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
Preferred
Experience using Unix/Linux
Experience in professional software development