Applied Scientist II, Personalization

Amazon
Irvine, CA, USA2026-03-12ONSITE

About the job

How can we improve the shopping experience on Amazon.com by tailoring what we display on our pages based on customer interests and preferences? How do we use generative models to help us innovate in different ways to enhance the shopping experience? How do we generate personalized content that helps customers shop at scale? Our team's stated missions is to 'grow each customer’s relationship with Amazon by leveraging our deep understanding of them to provide relevant and timely product, program, and content recommendations.' Recommendations at Amazon is a way to help customers discover products. Our team strives to better understand how customers shop on Amazon (and elsewhere) and build models that streamline customers' shopping experiences by showing the right products at the right time. Understanding the complexities of customers' shopping needs and helping them explore the depth and breadth of Amazon's catalog is a challenge we take on every day. In this job you will work with other Applied Scientist and Machine Learning Engineers to build and train models in the Value and Savings space related to recommendation and ranking systems to help customers find new products that they haven't thought of before but are excited to discover and try and help them save money on products that they are interested in.

Responsibilities

Using Amazon’s large-scale computing resources, you will design and deploy state-of-the-art models that help customers shop on Amazon. You will ask research questions about customer behavior, design state-of-the-art models that help customers shop, and deploy these models to production. You will participate in the Amazon ML community and mentor Applied Scientists and software development engineers with a strong interest in and knowledge of ML and generative AI. Your work will directly benefit customers and the retail business.

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

Knowledge of standard speech and machine learning techniques