Applied Scientist, Pricing and Promotion Optimization

Amazon
Seattle, WA, USA2026-02-17ONSITE

About the job

Amazon's Pricing & Promotions Science is seeking a driven Applied Scientist to harness planet scale multi-modal datasets, and navigate a continuously evolving competitor landscape, in order to regularly generate fresh customer-relevant prices on billions of Amazon and Third Party Seller products worldwide. We are looking for a talented, organized, and customer-focused applied researchers to join our Pricing and Promotions Optimization science group, with a charter to measure, refine, and launch customer-obsessed improvements to our algorithmic pricing and promotion models across all products listed on Amazon.

Responsibilities

See the big picture. Understand and influence the long term vision for Amazon's science-based competitive, perception-preserving pricing techniques

Build strong collaborations. Partner with product, engineering, and science teams within Pricing & Promotions to deploy machine learning price estimation and error correction solutions at Amazon scale

Stay informed. Establish mechanisms to stay up to date on latest scientific advancements in machine learning, neural networks, natural language processing, probabilistic forecasting, and multi-objective optimization techniques. Identify opportunities to apply them to relevant Pricing & Promotions business problems

Keep innovating for our customers. Foster an environment that promotes rapid experimentation, continuous learning, and incremental value delivery.

Successfully execute & deliver. Apply your exceptional technical machine learning expertise to incrementally move the needle on some of our hardest pricing problems.

Qualifications

Minimum

PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience

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

Preferred

Experience building machine learning models or developing algorithms for business application

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

Experience with training and deploying machine learning systems to solve large-scale optimizations