Applied Scientist, Tablets

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

Applied Scientist at Amazon Tablets responsible for designing and deploying state-of-the-art recommendation models to production, impacting customer experience on tablets. The role involves research into customer behavior, model development, and mentoring other engineers in ML and generative AI.

What you'd actually do

  1. Using Amazon’s large-scale computing resources, you will design and deploy state-of-the-art recommendation models.
  2. You will ask research questions about customer behavior, design state-of-the-art models that help customers discover content, and deploy these models to production alongside other engineers.
  3. You will participate in the Amazon ML community and mentor other engineers with a strong interest in and knowledge of ML and generative AI.

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 any of the following areas: algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, high-performance computing

Nice to have

  • Experience using Unix/Linux
  • Experience in professional software development

What the JD emphasized

  • state-of-the-art recommendation models
  • deploy these models to production
  • state-of-the-art models

Other signals

  • design and deploy state-of-the-art recommendation models
  • deploy these models to production
  • ML community and mentor other engineers