Sr. Manager Applied Science, Mla

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

Lead a team of scientists to research and prototype Machine Learning applications, focusing on Agentic AI and LLM solutions for seller experience, trust, and safety. The role involves designing and implementing large-scale, end-to-end business solutions and influencing technical strategy.

What you'd actually do

  1. lead a team of scientists to research and prototype Machine Learning applications that solve strategic business problems across SPS domains
  2. collaborates with engineers and business partners to design and implement solutions at scale that are of broad benefit to SPS organizations
  3. develop large-scale solutions for high impact projects, introduce tools and other techniques that can be used to solve problems from various perspectives, and show depth and competence in more than one area
  4. influence the team’s technical strategy by making insightful contributions to the team’s priorities, approach and planning
  5. develop and introduce tools and practices that streamline the work of the team, and they mentor junior team members and participate in hiring

Skills

Required

  • MS in CS, Machine Learning, Statistics, Operations Research, or in a highly-quantitative field
  • 8+ years’ work experience in relevant science domains
  • 4+ years of managing science teams
  • 4+ years of hands-on experience in machine learning
  • deep learning
  • large data analysis
  • Superior ML breadth and strong depth
  • Proficiency with Spark/Python/Perl, or other statistical/mathematical packages
  • Experience with neural deep learning methods and machine learning

Nice to have

  • PhD in CS, Machine Learning, Statistics, Operations Research, or in a highly-quantitative field
  • 8+ years’ work experience in relevant science domains
  • 6+ years of managing science and engineering teams
  • 6+ years of hands-on experience in predictive modeling and large data analysis
  • Excellent verbal and written communication and data presentation skills
  • Expertise in large language models or demonstrated ability to develop this expertise quickly
  • Strong problem solving ability

What the JD emphasized

  • lead a team of scientists
  • managing science teams
  • hands-on experience in machine learning
  • deep learning
  • large data analysis
  • neural deep learning methods
  • machine learning
  • managing science and engineering teams
  • predictive modeling
  • large data analysis
  • large language models

Other signals

  • Agentic AI
  • LLM
  • deep learning
  • end-to-end business solutions
  • large-scale solutions