Senior Data Scientist, NAS Discovery and Returns

Amazon
Sunnyvale, CA, USA / Seattle, WA, USA2026-08-12ONSITE

About the job

We are looking for an experienced Senior Data Scientist to lead high visibility science initiatives that guide the business and ensure quality of our shopping intelligence signals. This role will focus on Data Science and Analytics related to signal quality evaluation, impact measurement, and delivering business insights. The role requires deep technical skills, strong business acumen and a deep analytical background to provide actionable data-driven insights and decision support. As a member of this team, the role will dive deep into our data and leverage their strong skills in measurement science, LLMs, predictive and prescriptive models, data ETLs, dashboards and visualization to support business strategy and deliver goals with executive visibility.

Responsibilities

• Leverage state-of-the-art measurement science approaches, including LLMs, to develop evaluation frameworks for a variety of signals and customer experiences.

• Support the development of continuously-evolving business analytics and data models, own the quantitative analysis of the performance of our features.

• Continually develop new ways of using data to look around the corners and guide the development of shopping intelligence signals.

• Use LLMs, machine learning, data mining, and statistical techniques to design/run experiments that solve complex business problems.

• Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large scale data analyses, model development, model validation and model implementation.

• Develop a deep understanding of e-commerce metrics, reporting tools, and data structures in order to identify and drive resolution of issues, provide actionable intelligence with existing metrics or identify, develop, and propose new metrics, dashboards, scorecards or new tools.

• Develop relationships and processes with partner teams, PMs/TPMs, engineers, and other functional teams to identify and address reporting issues.

• Manage and develop advanced analytical tools that align, and simplify, monthly business reviews, annual planning, operations and forecasting processes, based on the needs of the business and stakeholders.

Qualifications

Minimum

• 5+ years of data querying languages (e.g. SQL), scripting languages (e.g. Python) or statistical/mathematical software (e.g. R, SAS, Matlab, etc.) experience

• 4+ years of data scientist experience

• Experience with statistical models e.g. multinomial logistic regression

• Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field such as statistics, mathematics, data science, business analytics, economics, finance, engineering, or computer science

• Experience communicating complex information and solutions to senior stakeholders and influencing decisions, or experience communicating results to senior leadership

Preferred

• 2+ years of data visualization using AWS QuickSight, Tableau, R Shiny, etc. experience

• Experience managing data pipelines

• Experience as a leader and mentor on a data science team

• Experience with unstructured textual data

• Experience in defining and creating benchmarks for assessing GenAI model performance