Applied Scientist, Na Operations

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

Applied Scientist role focused on improving employee safety and productivity within Amazon's North American Operations by building, deploying, and evaluating complex causal, forecasting, and optimization models, with an emphasis on leveraging generative AI for intelligent solutions. The role involves stakeholder interaction, end-to-end project ownership, and integration with existing Amazon systems.

What you'd actually do

  1. Interfacing with stakeholders to understand business problems and translating these into high and low-level design documents.
  2. Architecting, building, and deploying production-grade models to cloud-native environments, incorporating CI/CD best practices.
  3. Designing AI systems to provide model explainability, as well as automate customer workflows.
  4. Developing evaluation frameworks for models that identify quality regressions before customers do.

Skills

Required

  • Master's degree or above in computer science, machine learning, engineering, or related fields
  • Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
  • Experience with SQL and an RDBMS (e.g., Oracle) or Data Warehouse
  • Experience in building machine learning models for business application

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

  • production-grade models
  • evaluation frameworks
  • customer workflows
  • model explainability
  • generative AI

Other signals

  • building and deploying production-grade models
  • incorporating CI/CD best practices
  • developing evaluation frameworks for models
  • leveraging generative AI to more intelligently build for our customers