Applied Scientist Manager, Tax Engine

Amazon Amazon · Big Tech · CA, BC +1 · Data Science

Manage and mentor a team of scientists and engineers focused on applying AI/ML, including language models, for tax classification and calculation within Amazon's global Tax Engine platform. The role involves improving team processes, balancing experimentation with delivery, and partnering with stakeholders to build roadmaps for new products and services, with a focus on predictive and generative AI applications.

What you'd actually do

  1. Manage and mentor a talented team of senior Appleid Scientists and SDEs.
  2. Improve process and methodologies pertaining to deliverables of the team.
  3. Strike the right balance between experimentation and delivery for sustained impact and long term gains.
  4. Partner with stakeholders and customers to build roadmap for new products and services.

Skills

Required

  • ML
  • NLP
  • Information Retrieval
  • Analytics
  • building machine learning models
  • developing algorithms

Nice to have

  • deep learning
  • computer vision

What the JD emphasized

  • 3+ years of scientists or machine learning engineers management experience
  • 3+ years of building machine learning models or developing algorithms for business application experience

Other signals

  • use language models at scale for Tax classification
  • growing portfolio of science problems that includes balance of predictive and generative AI
  • language comprehension, causal reasoning and active learning