About the job
The Shopping Convo Foundations Team - Pre-purchases Science is looking for an Senior Applied Scientist with expertise in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to drive scientific innovation that expands Amazon's product catalogue. Our goal is to leverage AI/ML solutions to enhance catalogue coverage with high precision.
Responsibilities
Lead the research and development of novel machine learning approaches to solve complex catalogue expansion and product attribute challenges.
Lead the design and develop state-of-the-art ML models, conduct rigorous experimentation, translate scientific breakthroughs into production-ready solutions, and guide a set of junior scientists.
Work closely with ML Engineers and Software Development Engineers to optimize model performance, ensure scalability, and deploy low-latency solutions at Amazon scale.
Qualifications
Minimum
3+ 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
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.