Amazon
Principal Applied Scientist, Personalization
Seattle, Washington, USA · Principal
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PythonJavaC++AlgorithmsMachine LearningNLPLLMsMLOpsStatisticsOnboardingResearchCollaborationMentoring
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About the role
- Our mission is to delight every Amazon customer with a personalized shopping experience tailed to their intent.
- We achieve our mission through investments in Science, UX, and central systems with the purpose of delivering the future of shopping on Amazon.
Requirements
- Strong programming skills in Python, Java, C++, or related languages with ability to write production-quality code.
- Experience mentoring junior scientists and engineers.
- Experience distilling informal customer requirements into problem definitions, dealing with ambiguity and competing objectives
Nice to have
- Experience creating novel algorithms and advancing the state of the art.
- Publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR, ICCV, KDD, RecSys) or patents demonstrating technical innovation
- Track record of successful production ML deployments at scale with measurable business impact
- Strategic thinking combined with strong execution capability and bias for action
- Experience bridging research with practical engineering implementation
Skills
- Reinventing How the World Shops!
- This is a complex personalization challenge.
- Your work will be felt, not just measured.
- The feedback loop between your science and real human delight is immediate.
- Come define what shopping looks like in the age of AI!
- Key job responsibilities - Innovate new features and models that have huge impact on the customer experience.
Company info
- We sit at the intersection of massive-scale language understanding, real-time decision systems, hundreds of millions of customers, and billions of products.
- About the team Our mission is to delight every Amazon customer with a personalized shopping experience tailed to their intent.
- We are seeking a Principal Applied Scientist to lead the science charter across the recommendations and intent identification space.
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