Applied Scientist, NA Stores Expansion

Amazon
USA, WA, Seattle2026-06-11ONSITE

About the job

Amazon brings buyers and sellers together. Our retail customers depend on us to give them access to every product at the best possible price. Our sellers depend on us to give them a platform to launch their business into every home and marketplace. Making this happen is the mission of every scientist in North America Stores (NAS) organization.

Responsibilities

Develop workflows that combine ML models with optimization engines, similarity search, and human-in-the-loop capabilities to automate complex business processes

Build scalable data and inference pipelines using AWS services (SageMaker, Bedrock, FAISS, Andes) to process 100M+ ASINs and serve real-time predictions in production

Design and execute rigorous experimentation frameworks including weblabs, IPC labs, and causal inference methods to validate model impact and drive launch decisions

Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, product, and business teams to translate ambiguous business problems into well-scoped science solutions with clear success metrics

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 in patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals

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

Usage of generative AI tools to enhance workflow efficiency, with a willingness to learn effective prompting and evaluation practices.

Ability to recognize opportunities where generative AI could enhance products, workflows, or customer experiences.