Sr. Applied Scientist, Prime Ai/ml Science

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

This role focuses on applying AI/ML and data mining to understand and model customer behavior for Amazon Prime, optimizing personalization and customer experience. It involves building GenAI foundation models, fine-tuning LLMs, and applying techniques like deep learning, transformers, and reinforcement learning to solve business problems related to customer value, content, and subscription optimization. The role emphasizes scientific research and collaboration with product owners.

What you'd actually do

  1. Stay abreast of current literature in the field and advance/build novel science solutions leveraging SoTA solutions.
  2. Build and develop AI/ML models and supporting infrastructure at TB scale, in coordination with software engineering teams.
  3. Leverage Deep Learning and GenAI solutions for building foundation models and personalized optimization solution.
  4. Develop offline policy estimation tools and integrate with measurement systems/econometric models.
  5. Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large scale data analyses, science development, science validation and model implementation.

Skills

Required

  • building machine learning models for business application
  • 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

Nice to have

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

What the JD emphasized

  • TB scale data
  • huge business impact
  • optimize the customer experience
  • long-term value of the Prime membership program
  • personalized framework
  • optimizing/fine-tuning GenAI/LLM solutions
  • building GenAI foundation models
  • global scalability of models
  • combinatorial optimization
  • cold start problem
  • accelerated experimentation
  • short/long term goals modeling
  • multi-step optimization leading to reinforcement learning of the customer journey
  • GenAI/LLMs
  • supervised/semi-supervised learning
  • deep learning
  • transformer architectures
  • causal Econometric modeling
  • Reinforcement learning
  • scientific research
  • strong publication and patent record
  • AWS technologies
  • various AI/ML algorithms and techniques
  • statistical modeling techniques
  • building machine learning models for business application
  • applied research experience
  • neural deep learning methods
  • machine learning
  • large scale distributed systems

Other signals

  • modeling customer behavior
  • GenAI/LLM solutions for Prime personalization
  • building GenAI foundation models
  • multi-step optimization leading to reinforcement learning of the customer journey