Senior Applied Scientist, AWS Central Economics and Science

Amazon
near one of our U.S. Amazon offices2026-04-06ONSITE

About the job

The ACES Sales Channels team is hiring an Applied Scientist (Senior or below) to advance our mission of providing rigorous, causal-inference-driven recommendations for AWS sales optimization. This role will focus on building ML systems with a causal modeling foundation, designing seller incentive mechanisms, and developing intervention strategies across the entire sales motion.

Responsibilities

Causal ML System Development: Build and deploy machine learning models that emphasize causal inference, ensuring recommendations are grounded in valid interventions

Incentive Design: Define and model incentives that drive desirable behaviors across AWS sales channels, partner programs, and reseller ecosystems

Stakeholder Collaboration: Work with business stakeholders to understand requirements, validate approaches, and ensure practical applicability of scientific solutions

Scientific Rigor: Promote findings at internal conferences and contribute to the team's reputation for methodological excellence

Qualifications

Minimum

3+ years of building machine learning models for business application experience

PhD, or Master's degree

Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language

Experience with neural deep learning methods and machine learning

Preferred

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.