Senior Applied Scientist, Featured Merchant Algorithm

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

The Senior Applied Scientist will own and innovate the offer selection algorithms for Amazon's featured merchant offerings, impacting billions of daily transactions across all surfaces. This role involves building and maintaining ML models for ranking and selection, collaborating with stakeholders, and driving the next-generation customer buying experience.

What you'd actually do

  1. Build, innovate and maintain FMA's key offer selection algorithms
  2. Collaborate with peer scientists and partner organizations to align on strategic algorithmic inputs
  3. Research and deliver innovative techniques for ranking, simulation and evaluation systems
  4. Build and maintain AI, ML and LLM integrations

Skills

Required

  • building machine learning models for business application
  • applied research
  • Java
  • C++
  • Python
  • neural deep learning methods
  • machine learning

Nice to have

  • modeling tools such as R, scikit-learn, Spark MLLib, MxNet, Tensorflow, numpy, scipy
  • large scale distributed systems such as Hadoop, Spark

What the JD emphasized

  • 3+ years of building machine learning models for business application experience
  • PhD, or Master's degree and 6+ years of applied research experience
  • Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
  • Experience with neural deep learning methods and machine learning

Other signals

  • owns the model which picks that offer
  • blends machine learning models to rank and select the best offer
  • Build, innovate and maintain FMA's key offer selection algorithms
  • Research and deliver innovative techniques for ranking, simulation and evaluation systems
  • Build and maintain AI, ML and LLM integrations