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  • US, WA, Bellevue
    Job ID: 2742838
    (Updated 34 days ago)
    We are a part of Amazon Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) organization where our mission is “delight customers through contextual and personalized proactive experiences that keep customers informed, engaged, and productive without cognitive burden”. We are developing advanced systems to deliver engaging, intuitive, and adaptive content recommendations across all Amazon surfaces. We aim to facilitate seamless reasoning and customer experiences, surpassing the capabilities of previous machine learning models. We are looking for a passionate, talented, and resourceful Senior Applied Scientist in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP), Large Language Model (LLM), Recommender Systems and/or Information Retrieval, to invent and build scalable solutions for a state-of-the-art context-aware personal assistant. A successful candidate will have strong machine learning background and a desire to push the envelope in one or more of the above areas. The ideal candidate would also enjoy operating in dynamic environments, be self-motivated to take on challenging problems to deliver big customer impact, shipping solutions via rapid experimentation and then iterating on user feedback and interactions. Key job responsibilities As a Senior Applied Scientist, you will leverage your technical expertise and experience to demonstrate leadership in tackling large complex problems, setting the direction and collaborating with applied scientists and engineers to develop novel algorithms and modeling techniques to enable timely, relevant and delightful recommendations and conversations. Your work will directly impact our customers in the form of products and services that make use of various machine learing, deep learning and language model technologies. You will leverage Amazon’s heterogeneous data sources and large-scale computing resources to accelerate advances in the state of art.
  • US, WA, Bellevue
    Job ID: 2742859
    (Updated 34 days ago)
    We are a part of Amazon Alexa Devices organization with the mission “delight customers through contextual and personalized proactive experiences that keep customers informed, engaged, and productive without cognitive burden”. We are developing an advanced system using Large Language Model (LLM) technologies to deliver engaging, intuitive, and adaptive content recommendations across all Amazon surfaces. We aim to facilitate seamless reasoning and customer experiences, surpassing the capabilities of previous machine learning models. We are looking for a passionate, talented, and resourceful Applied Scientist in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP), Recommender Systems and/or Information Retrieval, to invent and build scalable solutions for a state-of-the-art context-aware speech assistant. A successful candidate will have strong machine learning background and a desire to push the envelope in one or more of the above areas. The ideal candidate would also enjoy operating in dynamic environments, be self-motivated to take on challenging problems to deliver big customer impact, shipping solutions via rapid experimentation and then iterating on user feedback and interactions. Key job responsibilities As an Applied Scientist on the team, you will collaborate with other applied scientists and engineers to develop novel algorithms to enable timely, relevant and delightful recommendations and conversations. Your work will directly impact our customers in the form of products and services that make use of various machine learning, deep learning and language model technologies. You will leverage Amazon’s heterogeneous data sources and large-scale computing resources to accelerate advances in the state of art.
  • US, WA, Bellevue
    Job ID: 2749941
    (Updated 12 days ago)
    At AWS, we use Artificial Intelligence to be able to identify every need of a customer across all AWS services before they have to tell us about it and help customers adopt best practices while architecting on the cloud. We are looking for a Senior Applied scientist who will function as a science leader and drive innovation with Gen AI to bring paradigm shift to how the business operates and build “best in the world” experience that customers will love! Some of the science challenges we work on include fine-tuning Large language models, Reinforcement Learning, Auto-generating code from natural language and generating strategic insights and recommendations from very large datasets in a scalable manner. You will have an opportunity to lead, invent, and design tech that will directly impact every customer across all AWS services. We are building industry-leading technology that cuts across a wide range of ML techniques from Natural Language Processing to Deep Learning and Generative Artificial Intelligence. You will be a key driver in taking something from an idea to an experiment to a prototype and finally to a live production system. Our team packs a punch with principal level product, science, engineering, and leadership talent. We are a results focused team and you have the opportunity to lead and establish a culture for the big things to come. We combine the culture of a startup, the innovation and creativity of a R&D Lab, the work-life balance of a mature organization, and technical challenges at the scale of AWS. We offer a playground of opportunities for builders to build, have fun, and make history! AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations — from foundational services such as Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWS’s services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization, you’ll support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Internet of Things (Iot), Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS, including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services. Key job responsibilities - Deliver real world production systems at AWS scale. - Work closely with the business to understand the problem space, identify the opportunities and formulate the problems. - Use machine learning, data mining, statistical techniques, Generative AI and others to create actionable, meaningful, and scalable solutions for the business problems. - Analyze and extract relevant information from large amounts of data and derive useful insights. - Work with software engineering teams to deliver production systems with your ML models - Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large scale data analyses, model development, model validation and model implementation A day in the life Diverse Experiences AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying. Why AWS? Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses. Inclusive Team Culture Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness. Mentorship & Career Growth We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional. Work/Life Balance We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud. Hybrid Work We value innovation and recognize this sometimes requires uninterrupted time to focus on a build. We also value in-person collaboration and time spent face-to-face. Our team affords employees options to work in the office every day or in a flexible, hybrid work model near one of our U.S. Amazon offices.
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 2750184
    (Updated 12 days ago)
    The Amazon Devices & Services Demand Planning and Product Development (DePD) team is seeking an outstanding scientist with strong analytical and communication skills to help with demand forecasting and supply optimization for the entire Amazon device family of products, services and accessories. Amazon Devices represents a highly complex space with 100+ products across several product categories (e-readers [Kindle], tablets [Fire Tablets], smart speakers and audio assistants [Echo], wifi routers [eero], and video doorbells and cameras [Ring and Blink]), for sale both online and in offline retailers globally. We develop scalable and robust state-of-the-art data/analytics/ML and automation solutions that involve learning from different data sources and advanced descriptive, diagnostic, predictive prescriptive and cognitive models. With better forecasts, we drive down supply chain costs, enabling the offer of lower prices and better in-stock selection for our customers. In this role, you will have an opportunity to both develop advanced scientific solutions, and drive critical customer and business impact. You will play a key role to drive end-to-end solutions from understanding our business requirements, exploring a large amount of historical data and ML models, building prototypes and exploring conceptually new solutions, to working with partner teams for prod deployment. You will collaborate closely with scientists, engineering peers as well as business stakeholders. You will be at the heart of a growing and exciting focus area for Amazon Devices and Services. We are looking for an individual with outstanding analytical abilities, excellent communication skills, and someone who is comfortable working with cross-functional teams and systems. You will be responsible for researching, prototyping, experimenting, analyzing predictive models and developing smart automation solutions. Key job responsibilities · Research and develop new methodologies for demand forecasting, alarms, alerts and automation with advanced models and methods. · Build and maintain codebase, upholding engineering best practices · Improve upon existing methodologies by adding new data sources and implementing model enhancements. · Drive scalable and hands-off-the-wheel solutions. · Create and track accuracy and performance metrics (both technical and business metrics). · Create, enhance, and maintain technical documentation, and present to other scientists, engineers and business leaders. · Drive best practices on the team; mentor and guide junior members to achieve their career growth potential. About the team The team is a focused science team with Data and Applied Scientists looking for help with validating the technical decisions we are making and figuring out how to best solve our internal and partner’s needs. We have access to a growing science community within the org and partner with Engineering role on a daily basis.
  • US, CA, San Diego
    Job ID: 2748370
    (Updated 41 days ago)
    Amazon.com Buyer Risk Prevention (BRP) mission is to make Amazon the safest and most trusted place worldwide to transact online. BRP safeguards every financial transaction across all Amazon sites. As such, BRP designs and builds the software systems, risk models, and operational processes that minimize risk and maximize trust in Amazon.com. The BRP organization is looking for an Applied Scientist for the Buyer Abuse team, whose mission is to combine advanced analytics with investigator insight to create mechanisms to proactively reduce the impact of abuse across Amazon. Please visit https://www.amazon.science for more information on customer obsession science. Key job responsibilities As an Applied Scientist, you will be responsible for modeling complex problems, discovering insights, and building cutting edge risk algorithms that identify opportunities through statistical models, machine learning, and visualization techniques to improve operational efficiency and reduce monetary losses and improve customer trust. You will need to collaborate effectively with business and product leaders within BRP and cross-functional teams to build scalable solutions against high organizational standards. The candidate should be able to apply a breadth of tools, data sources, and ML techniques to answer a wide range of high-impact business questions and proactively present new insights in concise and effective manner. The candidate should be an effective communicator capable of independently driving issues to resolution and communicating insights to non-technical audiences. This is a high impact role with goals that directly impacts the bottom line of the business. A day in the life - Invent, implement, and deploy state of the art machine learning algorithms and systems - Build prototypes and explore conceptually new solutions - Define and conduct experiments to validate/reject hypotheses, and communicate insights and recommendations to Product and Tech teams - Take ownership of how ML solutions impact Amazon resources and Customer experience - Develop efficient data querying infrastructure for both offline and online use cases - Collaborate with cross-functional teams from multidisciplinary science, engineering and business backgrounds to enhance current automation processes - Learn and understand a broad range of Amazon’s data resources and know when, how, and which to use and which not to use. - Research and implement novel machine learning and statistical approaches - Maintain technical document and communicate results to diverse audiences with effective writing, visualizations, and presentations
  • US, VA, Arlington
    Job ID: 2747702
    (Updated 12 days ago)
    Amazon Advertising is one of Amazon's fastest growing and most profitable businesses, responsible for defining and delivering a collection of advertising products that drive discovery and sales. As a core product offering within our advertising portfolio, Sponsored Products (SP) helps merchants, retail vendors, and brand owners succeed via native advertising, which grows incremental sales of their products sold through Amazon. We deliver billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks and break fresh ground in product and technical innovations every day! The Books Advertising team owns the worldwide advertising business for books, including advertiser and shopper experiences. They develop long-term vision and drive improvements for category relevance, auction dynamics, and ad serving. Additionally, they drive advertiser engagement, represent advertisers' voice, and provide operational support for our programs. This means the team owns all book-specific experiences for Sponsored Products, Sponsored Brands, Sponsored Display, Lock Screen Advertising, the Ads Console, and the Public API. As an Applied Scientist on this team, you will: - Participate in end-to-end Machine Learning projects that have a high degree of ambiguity, scale, complexity. - Effectively perform hands-on analysis and research of large data sets to develop insights that increase traffic monetization and merchandise sales, without compromising the shopper experience. - Contribute to build machine learning models, perform proof-of-concept, experiment, optimize, and deploy your models into production; work closely with software engineers to assist in productionizing your ML models. - Run A/B experiments, gather data, and perform statistical analysis. - Help establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large-scale data analysis, machine-learning model development, model validation and serving. - Research new and innovative machine learning approaches. Why you will love this opportunity: Amazon is investing heavily in building a world-class advertising business. This team defines and delivers a collection of advertising products that drive discovery and sales. Our solutions generate billions in revenue and drive long-term growth for Amazon’s Retail and Marketplace businesses. We deliver billions of ad impressions, millions of clicks daily, and break fresh ground to create world-class products. We are a highly motivated, collaborative, and fun-loving team with an entrepreneurial spirit - with a broad mandate to experiment and innovate. Impact and Career Growth: You will invent new experiences and influence customer-facing shopping experiences to help suppliers grow their retail business and the auction dynamics that leverage native advertising; this is your opportunity to work within the fastest-growing businesses across all of Amazon! Define a long-term science vision for our advertising business, driven from our customers' needs, translating that direction into specific plans for research and applied scientists, as well as engineering and product teams. This role combines science leadership, organizational ability, technical strength, product focus, and business understanding. Team video https://youtu.be/zD_6Lzw8raE ** Candidates can be based within proximity of Arlington County/Virginia (HQ2) **
  • (Updated 50 days ago)
    We have an exciting opportunity to lead a team of scientists to research design, build and deploy methods to measure the relative contribution of disparate ad spending across products, channels and inventories. Examples of such solutions include media mix models (MMM) and multi-touch attribution (MTA). Our goal is to provide our advertisers with the information they need to optimally allocate their ad spending across products. A day in the life The team you will lead solves real-world problems by getting and analyzing large amounts of data, generate business insights and opportunities, design simulations and experiments, and develop statistical and ML models. The team is driven by business needs, which requires collaboration with other Scientists, Engineers, and Product Managers across the advertising organization. You will prepare written and verbal presentations to share insights to audiences of varying levels of technical sophistication. About the team Amazon Advertising is one of Amazon's fastest growing and most profitable businesses, responsible for defining and delivering a collection of advertising products that drive discovery and sales. Our products are strategically important to our Retail and Marketplace businesses driving long term growth. We deliver billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks and break fresh ground in product and technical innovations every day!
  • US, NY, New York
    Job ID: 2746431
    (Updated 64 days ago)
    Amazon is investing heavily in building a world class advertising business and developing a collection of self-service performance advertising products that drive discovery and sales. Our products are strategically important to our Retail and Marketplace businesses for driving long-term growth. We deliver billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks daily and are breaking fresh ground to create world-class products. We are highly motivated, collaborative and fun-loving with an entrepreneurial spirit and bias for action. With a broad mandate to experiment and innovate, we are growing at an unprecedented rate with a seemingly endless range of new opportunities. We are seeking a technical leader for our Supply Science team. This team is within the Sponsored Product team, and works on complex engineering, optimization, econometric, and user-experience problems in order to deliver relevant product ads on Amazon search and detail pages world-wide. The team operates with the dual objective of enhancing the experience of Amazon shoppers and enabling the monetization of our online and mobile page properties. Our work spans ML and Data science across predictive modeling, reinforcement learning (Bandits), adaptive experimentation, causal inference, data engineering. Key job responsibilities Search Supply and Experiences, within Sponsored Products, is seeking a Senior Applied Scientist to join a fast growing team with the mandate of creating new ads experience that elevates the shopping experience for our hundreds of millions customers worldwide. We are looking for a top analytical mind capable of understanding our complex ecosystem of advertisers participating in a pay-per-click model– and leveraging this knowledge to help turn the flywheel of the business. As a Senior Applied Scientist on this team you will: --Act as the technical leader in Machine Learning and drive full life-cycle Machine Learning projects. --Lead technical efforts within this team and across other teams. --Build machine learning models, perform proof-of-concept, experiment, optimize, and deploy your models into production. --Run A/B experiments, gather data, and perform statistical analysis. --Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large-scale data analysis, machine-learning model development, model validation and serving. --Work closely with software engineers to assist in productionizing your ML models. --Research new machine learning approaches. --Recruit Applied Scientists to the team and act as a mentor to other scientists on the team. A day in the life The successful candidate will be a self-starter comfortable with ambiguity, with strong attention to detail, and with an ability to work in a fast-paced, high-energy and ever-changing environment. The drive and capability to shape the direction is a must. About the team We are a customer-obsessed team of engineers, technologists, product leaders, and scientists. We are focused on continuous exploration of contexts and creatives where advertising delivers value to customers and advertisers. We specifically work on new ads experiences globally with the goal of helping shoppers make the most informed purchase decision. We obsess about our customers and we are continuously innovating on their behalf to enrich their shopping experience on Amazon
  • DE, BE, Berlin
    Job ID: 2748520
    (Updated 14 days ago)
    At Audible, we believe stories have the power to transform lives. It’s why we work with some of the world’s leading creators to produce and share audio storytelling with our millions of global listeners. We are dreamers and inventors who come from a wide range of backgrounds and experiences to empower and inspire each other. Imagine your future with us. ABOUT THIS ROLE In this role, you will build scalable solutions and models to support our business functions (Content, Marketing, Product). Leveraging a range of methods including machine learning and simulation, you will explain, quantify, predict and prescribe in support of informing critical business decisions. You will translate business goals into agile, insightful analytics. You will seek to create value for both stakeholders and customers and inform findings in a clear, actionable way to managers and senior leaders. This position is for a 24 month contract. ABOUT THE TEAM Audible's Data Science team partners with marketing, content, product, and technology partners to solve business and technology problems using scientific approaches to build product and services that surprise and delight our customers. We employ scalable cutting-edge Data Science (DS), machine learning (ML), deep learning (DL), and Natural Language Processing (NLP) knowledge to better target customers and prospects, understand and personalize the content, and context needed to optimize their book-listening experience. We operate in an agile environment in which we own and collaborate on the life cycle of research, design, and model development of relevant projects. As a Data Scientist, you will... - Develop and validate models to optimize the Who, When, Where and How of all our interactions with customers - Develop Audible-wide data engineering pipelines - Imagine and invent before the business asks, and create groundbreaking applications using cutting-edge approaches - Open the Science black-box, use causal inference and develop compelling data visualizations - Work closely with other data scientists, ML experts, engineers and on cross-disciplinary efforts with other scientists within Amazon ABOUT AUDIBLE Audible is the leading producer and provider of audio storytelling. We spark listeners’ imaginations, offering immersive, cinematic experiences full of inspiration and insight to enrich our customers daily lives. We are a global company with an entrepreneurial spirit. We are dreamers and inventors who are passionate about the positive impact Audible can make for our customers and our neighbors. This spirit courses throughout Audible, supporting a culture of creativity and inclusion built on our People Principles and our mission to build more equitable communities in the cities we call home.
  • US, CA, San Diego
    Job ID: 2748770
    (Updated 22 days ago)
    Amazon.com’s Buyer Risk Prevention's (BRP) mission is to make Amazon the safest and most trusted place worldwide to transact online. BRP safeguards every financial transaction across all Amazon sites. As such, BRP designs and builds the software systems, risk models, and operational processes that minimize risk and maximize trust in Amazon.com. The BRP organization is looking for an Applied Scientist for the Buyer Abuse team, whose mission is to combine advanced analytics with investigator insight to create mechanisms to proactively and reactively reduce the impact of abuse across Amazon. Key job responsibilities As an Applied Scientist, you will be responsible for modeling complex problems, discovering insights, and building cutting edge risk algorithms that identify opportunities through statistical models, machine learning, and visualization techniques to improve operational efficiency and reduce monetary losses and improve customer trust. You will need to collaborate effectively with business and product leaders within BRP and cross-functional teams to build scalable solutions against high organizational standards. The candidate should be able to apply a breadth of tools, data sources, and ML techniques to answer a wide range of high-impact business questions and proactively present new insights in concise and effective manner. The candidate should be an effective communicator capable of independently driving issues to resolution and communicating insights to non-technical audiences. This is a high impact role with goals that directly impacts the bottom line of the business. Responsibilities: - Invent, implement, and deploy state of the art machine learning algorithms and systems - Build prototypes and explore conceptually new solutions - Define and conduct experiments to validate/reject hypotheses, and communicate insights and recommendations to Product and Tech teams - Take ownership of how ML solutions impact Amazon resources and Customer experience - Develop efficient data querying infrastructure for both offline and online use cases - Collaborate with cross-functional teams from multidisciplinary science, engineering and business backgrounds to enhance current automation processes - Learn and understand a broad range of Amazon’s data resources and know when, how, and which to use and which not to use. - Research and implement novel machine learning and statistical approaches - Maintain technical document and communicate results to diverse audiences with effective writing, visualizations, and presentations Please visit https://www.amazon.science for more information

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