Sr. Applied Scientist, Amazon Auto Store

Interested in building something new? Join the Amazon Autos team on an exhilarating journey to redefine the vehicle shopping experience.

This is an opportunity to be part of the ground floor team for one of Amazon's new business ventures. As a key member, you'll lead the science strategy and play a pivotal role in helping us achieve our mission. Our goal is to create innovative automotive discovery and shopping experiences on Amazon, providing customers with greater convenience and a wider selection.

If you're enthusiastic about innovating and delivering exceptional shopping experiences to customers, thrive on new challenges, and excel at solving complex problems using top-notch ML models, LLM and GenAI techniques, then you're the perfect candidate for this role. Strong business acumen and interpersonal skills are a must, as you'll work closely with business owners to understand customer needs and design scalable solutions.

Join us on this exhilarating journey and be part of redefining the vehicle shopping experience.

Key job responsibilities

As Senior Applied Scientist in Amazon Autos, you will:

- Lead the roadmap and strategy for applying science to solve customer problems in the Amazon AutoStore domain.

- Drive big picture innovations with clear roadmaps for intermediate delivery.

- Determine which areas of research to invest in.

- Effectively communicate complicated machine learnings concepts to multiple partners.

- Identify when to leverage existing technology versus innovate a new technology.

- Work closely with partners to identify problems from the customer's perspective.

- Interface with business customers, gathering requirements and delivering science solutions.

- Apply your skills in areas such as deep learning and reinforcement learning while building scalable solutions for business problems.

- Produce and deliver models that help build best-in-class customer experiences and build systems that allow us to deploy these models to production with low latency and high throughput.

- Utilize your Generative AI, time series and predictive modeling skills, and creative problem-solving skills to drive new projects from ideation to implementation.

- Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large scale data analyses, model development, validation and implementation.

We are looking for a Senior Applied Scientist who loves working with big data and is passionate about improving the customer shopping experience.

A day in the life

In this role, you will be part of a multidisciplinary team working on one of Amazon's newest business ventures. As a key member, you will collaborate closely with engineering, product, design, operations, and business development to bring innovative solutions to our customers.

Your science expertise will be leveraged to research and deliver novel solutions to existing problems, explore emerging problem spaces, and create new knowledge. You will invent and apply state-of-the-art technologies, such as large language models, machine learning, natural language processing, and computer vision, to build next-generation solutions for Amazon.

You'll publish papers, file patents, and work closely with engineers to bring your ideas to production. Additionally, you will mentor Applied Scientists and Software Development Engineers with an interest in machine learning.

This is an opportunity to make a significant impact, working in partnership with teams across Amazon to create enormous benefits for our customers through cutting-edge products.

About the team

This is a critical role for a newly formed team with a vision to create innovative automotive discovery and shopping experiences on Amazon, providing customers better convenience and more selection. We're collaborating with other experienced teams at Amazon to define the future of how customers research and shop for cars online.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 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

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience with modeling tools such as R, scikit-learn, Spark MLLib, MxNet, Tensorflow, numpy, scipy etc.

- Experience with large scale distributed systems such as Hadoop, Spark etc.

- Experience with model and data quality evaluation techniques, generating labelled datasets, and fine-tuning models. Experience with large language models such as OpenAI, Claude, BERT, and vector database technologies

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $150,400/year in our lowest geographic market up to $260,000/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

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