Senior Data Scientist, Maple - Recommender System

Amazon Amazon · Big Tech · IN, KA, Bengaluru · Data Science

Develops and deploys data-driven models for shopping personalization and recommendation systems, leveraging GenAI techniques and causal machine learning. Focuses on improving customer experience through supervised and uplift learning, A/B testing, and harnessing large-scale data. The role involves publishing research and mentoring junior scientists.

What you'd actually do

  1. Participate in the design, development, evaluation, deployment and updating of data-driven models for shopping personalization.
  2. Develop and test new signals for improving recommendation models
  3. Use supervised and uplift learning algorithms to improve customer experience
  4. Design A/B tests and conduct statistical analysis on their results
  5. Work with distributed machine learning and statistical algorithms to harness enormous volumes of data at scale to serve our customers

Skills

Required

  • data querying languages (e.g. SQL)
  • scripting languages (e.g. Python)
  • statistical/mathematical software (e.g. R, SAS, Matlab, etc.)
  • data scientist experience
  • statistical models e.g. multinomial logistic regression
  • causal machine learning

Nice to have

  • data visualization using AWS QuickSight, Tableau, R Shiny, etc.
  • managing data pipelines
  • leader and mentor on a data science team

What the JD emphasized

  • state-of-the-art recommendation system modeling
  • GenAI techniques
  • publishing research
  • 5+ years of data querying languages
  • 4+ years of data scientist experience
  • 2+ years experience in causal machine learning

Other signals

  • recommendation systems
  • personalization
  • GenAI techniques
  • data-driven models