Applied Scientist, Scot Forecasting and Labs - Civ Team

Amazon Amazon · Big Tech · Bellevue, WA · Machine Learning Science

Applied Scientist role focused on developing and prototyping new statistical, causal, and machine learning techniques for inventory availability and delivery speed estimations in Amazon's retail supply chain. The role involves collaborating with software teams for production implementation and analyzing business metrics.

What you'd actually do

  1. Developing new statistical, causal, and machine learning techniques and develop solution prototypes to drive innovation
  2. Working with technical and non-technical customers to design model improvements and communicate results
  3. Collaborating with our dedicated software team to create production implementations for large-scale data analysis
  4. Developing an understanding of key business metrics / KPIs and providing clear, compelling analysis that shapes the direction of our business
  5. Presenting research results to our internal research community

Skills

Required

  • building models for business application experience
  • PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience
  • Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
  • Experience in designing experiments and statistical analysis of results
  • Experience building machine learning models or developing algorithms for business application

Nice to have

  • Experience using Unix/Linux
  • Experience in professional software development
  • Experience in state-of-the-art deep learning models architecture design and deep learning training and optimization and model pruning

What the JD emphasized

  • building models for business application experience
  • Experience building machine learning models or developing algorithms for business application

Other signals

  • developing new statistical, causal, and machine learning techniques
  • develop solution prototypes
  • create production implementations for large-scale data analysis
  • building machine learning models or developing algorithms for business application