Sr. Applied Scientist, Classification and Policy Platform

Amazon
Seattle, Washington, USA2025-12-01ONSITE

About the job

Ever wonder how you can keep the world’s largest selection also the world’s safest and legally compliant selection? Then come join a team with the charter to monitor and classify the billions of items in the Amazon catalog to ensure compliance with various legal regulations. The Classification and Policy Platform team is looking for Applied Scientists to build technology to automatically monitor the billions of products on the Amazon platform. The software and processes built by this team are a critical component of building a catalog that our customers trust.

Responsibilities

Designing and implementing new features and machine learned models, including the application of state-of-art deep learning to solve search matching and ranking problems, including filtering, new content indexing, and apply document understanding

Conducting and coordinating process development leading to improved and streamlined processes for model development. Strong customer focus is essential

Working closely with Product Managers to expand depth of our product insights with data, create a variety of experiments, and determine the highest-impact projects to include in planning roadmaps

Providing technical and scientific guidance to your team members

Communicating effectively with senior management as well as with colleagues from science, engineering, and business backgrounds

Being a cultural leader that ensures teams are collecting, understanding, and using data to inform every decision that impacts our customers

Qualifications

Minimum

4+ years of applied research experience

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

The successful candidate will have an established background in developing customer-facing experiences, a strong technical ability, a start-up mentality, excellent project management skills, and great communication skills.