Senior Applied Scientist, Featured Merchant Algorithm

4 weeks ago


Vancouver, Canada Amazon Full time
h3>Senior Applied Scientist, Featured Merchant Algorithm (FMA)

Job ID: 2641860 | Amazon.com Services LLC

Does innovating and delivering the world's best shopping offer evaluation experience excite you? Can you imagine delighting millions of shoppers (with unique shopping intents) with competitive, attractive offers in one of the most visited ecommerce sites? Are you looking forward to solving hard problems that combine business, scientific, and engineering challenges? Join us, and you'll help millions of worldwide Amazon shoppers make informed purchase decisions from a multi-billion product selection

Key job responsibilities
  1. Utilize artificial intelligence, statistics, econometrics, and creative problem-solving skills to improve one of the most significant ecommerce algorithms that impacts millions of shoppers and sellers in the planet.
  2. Partner closely with engineers to put your research and ideas into production on Amazon.com.
  3. Leverage your science expertise to research and deliver novel solutions to explore emerging problem spaces, and create or organize knowledge around them.
  4. Publish papers and file patents to contribute to the machine learning community.
About the team

The Featured Merchant Algorithm (FMA) vision is to provide the world’s best offer evaluation experience, ensuring that Amazon customers see the best and most relevant offers – regardless of seller, brand, store, fulfillment channel, or shopping format – for any item at any point in the shopping journey. We operate in a diverse space that includes modeling of customer purchase behavior, advanced simulation, experimentation, evaluation, and compliance. We employ a variety of ML, statistics, reasoning, and econometric techniques.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
  1. 3+ years of building machine learning models for business application experience
  2. PhD, or Master's degree and 6+ years of applied research experience
  3. Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
  1. Experience with modeling tools such as R, scikit-learn, Spark MLLib, MxNet, Tensorflow, numpy, scipy etc.
  2. Experience in applied research

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit here.

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. 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.


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