Applied Scientist

Amazon Amazon · Big Tech · Seattle, WA · Applied Science

Internship role for MS or PhD students in Speech, Robotics, Computer Vision, or Machine Learning/Deep Learning. Focuses on building large-scale ML systems using large datasets and translating business requirements into prototypes. Involves analyzing and modeling terabytes of text, images, and other data.

What you'd actually do

  1. As an Applied Scientist, you will have access to large datasets with billions of images and video to build large-scale machine learning systems.
  2. Additionally, you will analyze and model terabytes of text, images, and other types of data to solve real-world problems and translate business and functional requirements into quick prototypes or proofs of concept.
  3. We are looking for smart scientists capable of using a variety of domain expertise combined with machine learning and statistical techniques to invent, design, evangelize, and implement state-of-the-art solutions for never-before-solved problems.

Skills

Required

  • Master's degree in computer science, mathematics, statistics, machine learning or equivalent quantitative field
  • Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
  • Experience with SQL and an RDBMS (e.g., Oracle) or Data Warehouse

Nice to have

  • Experience implementing algorithms using both toolkits and self-developed code
  • Have publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals

What the JD emphasized

  • MS or PhD student

Other signals

  • large-scale machine learning systems
  • analyze and model terabytes of text, images, and other types of data
  • invent, design, evangelize, and implement state-of-the-art solutions