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US, WA, Seattle
Job summaryAmazon is looking for an outstanding Data Scientist to join the AWS Product Analytics Data Science team. This is your opportunity to be a core part of the team that has direct impact on affecting the long-term roadmap of the AWS Product Team. This role is within a larger Data science, Business Intelligence & Data engineering team that focuses on broad data exploration, quantitative methodology, and statistical modeling to drive actionable data intelligence in AWS. Since early 2006, AWS has provided companies of all sizes with an infrastructure platform in the cloud. AWS is a high-growth, fast-moving division within Amazon with a start-up mentality where new and diverse challenges arise every day.On the AWS Product Analytics team, you will be surrounded by people that are exceptionally talented, bright, and driven, and believe that world class BI is critical to our success. To help build this growing team, you must be highly analytical and possess a strong passion for analytics and accountability, set high standards with a focus on superior business success.We take working hard, having fun, and making history seriously. AWS sets the standard for functionality, cost, and performance for many cloud-based services, but it’s still early days for cloud computing, and there are boundless opportunities to continue to redefine the world of cloud computing - come help us make history!Key job responsibilitiesAs a Senior Data Scientist, you will discover and solve real world problems by analyzing large amounts of business data, defining new metrics and business cases, designing simulations and experiments, creating models, and collaborating with colleagues in business, software, and research. You will get the exciting opportunity to work on some of the world’s largest and diverse datasets. The successful candidate will have a strong quantitative background and can thrive in an environment that leverages statistics, machine learning, operations research, econometrics, and business analysis.About the teamInclusive Team CultureHere at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 14 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.Work/Life BalanceOur team puts a high value on work-life balance. It isn’t about how many hours you spend at home or at work; it’s about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment. We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal lives.This position involves on-call responsibilities, typically for one week every two months. We don’t like getting paged in the middle of the night or on the weekend, so we work to ensure that our systems are fault tolerant. When we do get paged, we work together to resolve the root cause so that we don’t get paged for the same issue twice.Mentorship & Career GrowthOur team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. Our senior members enjoy one-on-one mentoring and thorough, but kind, code reviews. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded engineer and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.
US, WA, Seattle
Job summaryThe F3 (Fresh, Food, Fast) organization leads the innovation of Amazon’s ultra-fast grocery product initiatives including fresh groceries, household essentials, and its most popular products from Amazon.com. In this space Amazon aims to delight customers by delivering orders faster than ever before. With programs like Amazon Fresh and Prime Now, Prime members can now skip a trip to the store by shopping on the Amazon app and website for products like grocery staples, paper towels, shampoo, books, toys, batteries and more with orders delivered right to their door as quick as an hour.The Grocery Management Science team in F3 is looking for a research scientist to work on strategic and innovative initiatives in the ultra-fast fulfillment space that powers Amazon Fresh, Prime Now, and Whole Foods Market. The scientist will work to optimize task assignment and workflows to more efficiently get grocery orders packed and out to customers. A successful candidate will be able to partner effectively with both business and technical teams, including clear communication of results and the ability to influence a variety of stakeholders. The candidate will be responsible for quantitative data analysis, building models and prototypes, and developing state-of-the-art optimization algorithms to scale. This team plays a significant role in various stages of the innovation pipeline from identifying business needs, developing new algorithms, prototyping/simulation, to implementation by working closely with colleagues in engineering, product management, operations, retail and finance.Key job responsibilities· Interact with engineering, operations, science and business teams to develop an understanding and domain knowledge of processes, system structures, and business requirements· Apply domain knowledge and business judgment to identify opportunities, align research direction to business requirements, and make the right judgment on research project prioritization· Develop scalable mathematical models to derive optimal or near-optimal solutions to existing and new order fulfillment challenges· Create prototypes and simulations to test devised solutions· Advocate technical solutions to business stakeholders, engineering teams, as well as executive-level decision makers· Work closely with engineers to integrate prototypes into production system· Evaluate performance of your developed solutions
US, MA, North Reading
Job summaryThe Research and Advanced Development team at Amazon Robotics is seeking innovative, hands-on, senior and experienced scientists to work on cutting edge algorithms to power automation in Amazon’s order fulfillment and transportation network. Our multi-disciplinary team includes scientists with backgrounds in AI planning and scheduling, robotic grasping and manipulation, machine learning, and operations research. We work on problems such as:· Dynamic allocation and scheduling of tasks to thousands of robots· Learning how to manipulate all the products that Amazon sells· Planning and coordinating the paths of thousands of robots· Co-design of robotic logistics processes and the algorithms to optimize themThe ideal candidate for this position will be an experienced scientist familiar with planning or learning algorithms at both the theoretical and implementation levels. You will have the chance to solve complex scientific problems and see your solutions come to life in Amazon’s warehouses!Inclusive Team CultureHere at Amazon, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have 12 affinity groups (employee resource groups) with more than 87,000 employees across hundreds of chapters around the world. We have innovative benefit offerings, and host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 14 Leadership Principles, which reminds team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.FlexibilityIt isn’t about which hours you spend at home or at work; it’s about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life. We offer flexibility and encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal lives.Mentorship & Career GrowthWe care about your career growth too. Whether your goals are to explore new technologies, take on bigger opportunities, or get to the next level, we'll help you get there. Our business is growing fast and our people will grow with it.
US, WA, Seattle
Job summaryWould you like to help us build the next-generation cloud services that will power the largest managed infrastructure in the world? We’re hiring a Data Scientist for AWS Compute Optimizer team within Amazon AWS EC2. Our service uses large amounts of data combined with machine learning (ML) and push the boundaries of scale, availability, and performance, while maintaining the highest standards for security and operational excellence.AWS Compute Optimizer helps you choose optimal configurations for three types of AWS resources: Amazon EC2 instances, Amazon EBS volumes, and AWS Lambda functions, based on your utilization data. By applying the knowledge drawn from Amazon’s own experience running diverse workloads in the cloud, Compute Optimizer identifies workload patterns and recommends optimal AWS resources. Compute Optimizer analyzes the configuration and resource utilization of your workload to identify dozens of defining characteristics, for example, if a workload is CPU-intensive, if it exhibits a daily pattern, or if a workload accesses local storage frequently. The service processes these characteristics and identifies the hardware resource required by the workload. Compute Optimizer infers how the workload would have performed on various hardware platforms (e.g. Amazon EC2 instances types) or using different configurations (e.g. Amazon EBS volume IOPS settings, and AWS Lambda function memory sizes) to offer recommendations.You will take on challenges in providing recommendations based on billions of metric records available for various customers and their use cases. You will be empowered to think big, invent on behalf of our customers, make judgment calls and find elegant solutions to hard problems.Position Responsibilities: - Build statistical and ML recommendation models· Drive collaborative research and creative problem solving across science and engineering team· Analyze complex datasets to drive insight· Propose and validate hypothesis to deliver and direct our product road map· Work with engineers to deliver low latency model predictions to production· Constructively critique peer research and mentor junior scientists and engineersRead more about AWS Compute Optimizer https://aws.amazon.com/compute-optimizer/About UsInclusive Team CultureHere at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 14 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.Work/Life BalanceOur team puts a high value on work-life balance. It isn’t about how many hours you spend at home or at work; it’s about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment. We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal lives.This position involves on-call responsibilities, typically for one week every two months. We don’t like getting paged in the middle of the night or on the weekend, so we work to ensure that our systems are fault tolerant. When we do get paged, we work together to resolve the root cause so that we don’t get paged for the same issue twice.Mentorship & Career GrowthOur team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. Our senior members enjoy one-on-one mentoring and thorough, but kind, code reviews. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded engineer and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.
US, CA, Sunnyvale
Job summaryAmazon Lab126 is an inventive research and development company that designs and engineers high-profile consumer electronics. Lab126 began in 2004 as a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc., originally creating the best-selling Kindle family of products. Since then, we have produced groundbreaking devices like Fire tablets, Fire TV, and Amazon Echo. What will you help us create?The Role:“If you do not work on an important problem, it's unlikely you'll do important work.” – Richard HammingWe have important problems to solve. There are great, world-changing products that should exist, but do not, because the technology to enable them does not exist. Yet. That’s where you come in.We are a focused team of engineers and scientists that work passionately to apply cutting-edge advances in solving real-world challenges.Key responsibilities will be to conduct research and development in algorithms and to collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams, including Amazon Robotics, to put the concepts you develop into production. You will determine where commercially available solution and academic research can be applied to solve Amazon business problems, as well as identify opportunities for innovation. You will use a large amount of data to train and test algorithms to bring them up to production level quality.If this describes you, come join our team at Lab126 in the heart of Silicon Valley. An Applied Scientist on this team will translate business and functional requirements into working code. Comfort with a high degree of ambiguity and ability to solve problems that haven’t been solved to scale before are essential.Key job responsibilities· Research, design, implement and evaluate novel algorithms· Work on large-scale datasets, focusing on creating robust, scalable and accurate systems in versatile application fields· Collaborate closely with team members on developing systems from prototyping to production level· Work closely with engineering teams to drive scalable, real-time implementations· Provide clear, compelling management reports on a regular basis, influencing the direction of current and future workAbout the teamAmazon Lab126 is an inventive research and development company that designs and engineers high-profile consumer electronics. Lab126 began in 2004 as a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc., originally creating the best-selling Kindle family of products. Since then, we have produced groundbreaking devices like Fire tablets, Fire TV, and Amazon Echo. What will you help us create?
US, WA, Seattle
Job summaryCore AI is an interdisciplinary team on the cutting edge of economics, statistical analysis, and machine learning whose mission is to solve AI and ML problems that have high risk with abnormally high returns. Our team leverages the strengths of our engineers and scientists to build solutions for some of the toughest business problems here at Amazon.We are looking for a seasoned economist who is able to provide structure, including sourcing, defining, and leveling, around complex and varied business problems. We seek creative thinkers who can combine a strong economic toolbox with a desire to learn from others, and who know how to execute and deliver on big ideas.This role will be to work within Core AI to help support research and development on rapid proofs of concept for high-impact projects. The economist will have access to engineering and econometric tools, as well as Amazon's Scholar Residency Program, which consists of world-class academic scientists and researchers collaborating with internal partner teams to facilitate the delivery of Scholar led science into engineering systemsResponsibilities:* Work within Core AI teams to consult with internal partner terms on collaboration opportunities and to assess potential for impact.* Own the development of economic models and manage the data analysis, modeling, and experimentation necessary to validate your model.* Effectively communicate econometric models to business teams and incorporate feedback into project analysis/modeling.
US, WA, Seattle
Job summaryAmazon is looking for an outstanding Sr. Data Scientist - Marketing Science & Analytics to uncover insights around Marketing and its effects on customer behavior on Prime Video.Prime Video is shaping the future of video entertainment, by offering customers a wide and eclectic catalog, including an ever-increasing slate of Amazon Originals. Our mission is to build the widest selection of digital video content and make it trivially easy for customers to enjoy great content wherever and whenever they want.To help fulfill this mission, the Marketing Science and Analytics team aims to drive decision-making on marketing efforts by delivering sophisticated models and frameworks. As a Sr. Data Scientist on the team, you will work closely with our business and finance stakeholders, as well as the other members of our team, to understand key questions and provide recommendations through your models.Key job responsibilities· Build machine learning models to quantify the impact of above-the-line (ATL) marketing actions on customer viewership and acquisition.· Create models and frameworks that allow an optimization of our marketing budget across titles and territories.· Identify new internal and external data sources that can widen our understanding of customer behavior.· Collaborate with other Scientists and Economists on our team to enhance our existing suite of models and get smarter about marketing decision-making.
US, CA, Culver City
Job summaryPrime Video is an industry leading, high-growth business and a critical driver of Amazon Prime subscriptions, which contribute to customer loyalty and lifetime value. Prime Video is used daily by a massive audience on Amazon's websites and through a variety of devices including the Kindle Fire, game consoles, smart TVs and Blu-ray players. Prime Video is a digital video streaming and download service that offers Amazon customers the ability to rent, purchase or subscribe to a huge catalog of videos. Movies range from new releases to classic favorites, and Prime Video offers major television episodes, entire seasons, or even day after air TV.The Video Content Research team uses machine learning, econometrics, and data science to optimize Amazon’s streaming-video catalogue, driving customer engagement and Prime member acquisition. We generate insights to guide Amazon’s digital-video strategy, and we provide direct support to the content-acquisition process. We use detailed customer behavioral data (e.g. streaming history) and detailed information about content (e.g. IMDb-sourced characteristics) to predict and understand what customers like to watch.We are looking for a leader to build innovative systems for predicting content performance to support Amazon Studios and the global Prime Video business. Key responsibilities of this role include the following:· Building scaled machine-learning models for forecasting customer engagement· Coordinating with worldwide content and marketing teams to support high-stakes business decisions· Collaborating with software and engineering teams to build data products from science models· Providing technical leadership to a diverse group of scientists and data experts· Creating and tracking accuracy and performance metrics
US, WA, Seattle
Job summaryDo you want to join Alexa Artificial Intelligence (AI) - the science team behind Amazon’s intelligence voice assistance system? Do you want to utilize cutting-edge deep-learning and machine learning algorithms to delight millions of Alexa users around the world?If your answers to these questions are “yes”, then come join us with the Alexa AI team, which is in charge of improving Alexa user satisfaction through real-time metrics monitoring and continuous closed-loop learning. The team owns the modules that reduce user perceived defects and frictions through utterance reformulation, contextual and personalized hypothesis ranking.With the Alexa AI team, you will be working alongside a team of experienced machine/deep learning scientists and engineers to create data driven machine learning models and solutions on tasks such as sequence-to-sequence query reformulation, graph feature embedding, personalized ranking, etc..Key job responsibilitiesAn Applied Scientist will be expected to:· Analyze, understand, and model user-behavior and the user-experience based on large scale data, to detect key factors causing satisfaction and dissatisfaction (SAT/DSAT).· Build and measure novel online & offline metrics for personal digital assistants and user scenarios, on diverse devices and endpoints· Create and innovate deep learning and/or machine learning based algorithms for utterance reformulation and contextual hypothesis ranking to reduce user dissatisfaction in various scenarios;· Perform model/data analysis and monitor user-experienced based metrics through online A/B testing;· Research and implement novel machine learning and deep learning algorithms and models
US, WA, Seattle
Job summaryAWS Central Economics is an interdisciplinary team on the cutting edge of economics, statistical analysis, and machine learning whose mission is to solve problems that have high risk with abnormally high returns. Our team leverages the strengths of our scientists to build solutions for some of the toughest business problems here at Amazon AWS.We are looking for an exceptionally talented, seasoned, and motivated Principal Economist to drive the science and inform the automation of forecasting for AWS. Currently, the output of these analyses supports critical CEO, SVP, and VP-level decision making at AWS, .You will be a leader in the development of a unified and scalable science and data-drive approach to forecasting the AWS business and in deriving key insights into business drivers, risks and opportunities. You will understand the needs of the business for decisionmaking and planning along with the economic environment in which AWS operates and the impacts on the business You will apply creativity, economic thinking, and state-of-the art methods in econometrics and ML, both for prediction and causal inference to produce reliable, transparent, actionable, and scalable solutions. You will join a diverse team of economists and other scientists, benefit from the Amazon's Scholar Residency Program (which consists of world-class academic scientists and researchers), closely supervise/advise junior scientists, and leverage our data support resources. You will learn about all aspects of the cloud computing business, and you and your work will get consistent exposure to senior leadership.
US, CA, Palo Alto
Job summaryThe Amazon Search team creates powerful, customer-focused search and advertising solutions and technologies. Whenever a customer visits an Amazon site worldwide and types in a query or browses through product categories, A9 Product Search services go to work. We design, develop, and deploy high performance, fault-tolerant distributed search systems used by millions of Amazon customers every day. Our Search team works to maximize the quality and trustworthiness of the search experience for visitors to Amazon websites worldwide.Our mission is to make shopping a delightful and trustworthy experience for our customers, by developing the right science and engineering technologies. Our mission involves understanding the customer query, identifying the right attributes of the products and their clusters, identifying outliers in graphs based on behavioral patters, transfer behavior from established locales to new locales to address cold start problems. We work with large scale heterogenous graphs to identify clusters of relevant items, queries, identify untrustworthy buyers, sellers, items, and reviews. We also work on reasoning and explanaibility of graph based ML models.Our team is at the forefront of the cutting edge of research and development. We actively publish our work at leading machine learning venues, ICML, NeurIPS, AAAI, KDD, WSDM, and WWW. We partner with academic teams across the world to push the boundaries of science and technology in the space of graph neural networks, unsupervised, semi-supervised, transfer, and active learning.We identify problems that are customer trust busters at Amazon, deliver scalable and responsive solutions to these issues, and build experiences that gain customer trust using advanced machine learning methods. We carefully monitor the trustworthiness of the search results and dive deep when we see an unusual pattern. Most of the models used by our team is semi-supervised or unsupervised using small amount of labeled data.In this role you will leverage your strong statistical background to help build the next generation of our machine learning methods to discover untrustworthy search engagements, unsual patterns, and estimate a probability of risk for each item. This role requires a pragmatic technical leader comfortable with ambiguity, capable of summarizing complex data and models through clear visual and written explanations. The ideal candidate will have experience with machine learning models, graph algorithms, and information retrieval algorithms at scale. Additionally, we are seeking candidates with strong rigor in applied sciences and engineering, creativity, curiosity, and great judgment.
US, VA, Arlington
Job summaryThis new role in the ES Tech will establish world class data science/business intelligence, analytics and reporting for Amazonians as part of building the Personalization Engine for myHR. This key role will work closely with internal partners to assist in developing and managing solutions for ES Tech.Core Responsibilities:· Manage and execute entire projects or components of large projects from start to finish including data gathering and manipulation, synthesis and modeling, problem solving, and communication of insights and recommendations.· Oversee the development and implementation of data integration and analytic strategies to support population health initiatives.· Leverage big data to explore and introduce areas of analytics and technologies.· Analyze data to identify opportunities to impact populations.· Perform advanced integrated comprehensive reporting, consultative, and analytical expertise to provide healthcare cost and utilization data and translate findings into actionable information for internal and external stakeholders.· Oversee the collection of data, ensuring timelines are met, data is accurate and within established format.· Act as a data and technical resource and escalation point for data issues, ensuring they are brought to resolution.· Serve as the subject matter expert on health care benefits data modeling, system architecture, data governance, and business intelligence tools.
US, VA, Arlington
Job summaryThis new role in the ES Tech will establish world class data science/business intelligence, analytics and reporting for Amazonians as part of building the Personalization Engine for myHR. This key role will work closely with internal partners to assist in developing and managing solutions for ES Tech.Core Responsibilities:· Manage and execute entire projects or components of large projects from start to finish including data gathering and manipulation, synthesis and modeling, problem solving, and communication of insights and recommendations.· Oversee the development and implementation of data integration and analytic strategies to support population health initiatives.· Leverage big data to explore and introduce areas of analytics and technologies.· Analyze data to identify opportunities to impact populations.· Perform advanced integrated comprehensive reporting, consultative, and analytical expertise to provide healthcare cost and utilization data and translate findings into actionable information for internal and external stakeholders.· Oversee the collection of data, ensuring timelines are met, data is accurate and within established format.· Act as a data and technical resource and escalation point for data issues, ensuring they are brought to resolution.· Serve as the subject matter expert on health care benefits data modeling, system architecture, data governance, and business intelligence tools.
US, WA, Seattle
Job summaryAmazon is looking for a creative Applied Scientist to tackle some of the most interesting problems on the leading edge of natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning (ML) with our Alexa Artificial Intelligence (AI) team. Alexa AI aims to reinvent search and information retrieval for a voice-forward, multi-modal future. We enable customers to interact with unstructured and semi-structured content via a broad range of customer experiences including question answering, summarization, search, and multi-turn dialogues.Key job responsibilitiesIf you are looking for an opportunity to develop innovative solutions to deep technical problems having a massive customer impact, this might be the role for you! As an Applied Scientist, you will work with smart, passionate colleagues in a fast-paced environment. You will develop and help deploy novel, scalable algorithms to advance the state-of-the-art in technology areas at the intersection of NLP and ML. You will keep up with relevant research in the field of NLP and publish your work in top-tier conferences. You will contribute to a multi-year research roadmap, enabling the team to focus on the right technical challenges to delight our customers.
US, WA, Seattle
Job summaryAmazon’s International Seller Services organization is seeking a seasoned Data scientist with excellent hands-on experience in statistical modeling, machine learning and analytical abilities as well as data engineering skills. You are a self-starter, someone who thrives in a fast-paced and ever-changing environment, with an uncanny knack and passion for building data driven machine learning product and turning qualitative analysis and observations into diagnostics and metrics? Then you are the right candidate for our team.Please visit https://www.amazon.science for more informationIn this position, you will be a key contributor and sparring partner, building personalized recommendation engine for Amazon global selling partners, developing analytics and insights that global executive management teams and business leaders will use to define global strategies and deep dive businesses. The position is based in Seattle but will interact with global leaders and teams in Europe, Japan, China, Australia, and other regions. You will also have the opportunity to display your skills in the following areas:Be a thought leader: Interface with business partners, architect, design, implement, and support data science projects & tools that derive insights and shape important, worldwide business decisions.Dive Deep, Raise the bar and insist on high standards: Recognize and adopt best practices in analysis and reporting, data integrity, test design, analysis, validation, and documentation. Support your leadership team with deep-dives and insights that improve our performance and productivity, so we can serve our customers even better.Deliver Results: Be inspired by the motto of Customer First, use outstanding business acumen, technical and analytical skills to drive real, actionable results.Major responsibilities· Use statistical, econometric and machine learning techniques to develop recommendation models and work with software engineering team and product managers to integrate with products.· Perform A/B test to assess the performance of machine learning products and feature improvement· Analyze and extract relevant information from large amounts of Amazon's historical business data to help automate and optimize key processes.· Design, development and evaluation of highly innovative models.· Work closely with Economists and applied scientists to drive batch/real-time model implementations and new feature creations.· Work closely with operations staff to optimize various business operations.· Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large scale data analyses, model development, model validation and model implementation.
US, CA, Sunnyvale
Job summaryJoin our team of world renowned computer vision and machine learning scientists and engineers, as we continue to innovate and build new products for Alexa and Amazon! Within the Alexa Artificial Intelligence (AI) team, we take pride in solving hard problems through innovations in Deep learning, Computer Vision, Natural Language Understanding, Conversational AI and Robotics. Our scientists have been working on state-of-the art AI techniques across many different domains spanning general AI, multi-modal understanding and embodied AI.Key job responsibilitiesWe are looking for an Applied Science Manager with domain expertise in AI, Computer Vision, NLU and Machine Learning to lead development of new algorithms and E2E solutions that impact millions of customers. You will lead a team of applied scientists and will be responsible for the research, design, development and deployment of algorithms into production pipelines. As a technology leader, you will also drive publications of original work in top-tier conferences. You will be expected to deal with ambiguity!
US, WA, Seattle
The Sustainability Science & Innovation (SSI) team is both the scientific authority for sustainability at Amazon and its sustainability research and development (R&D) team. SSI provides the direction to lead our company to sustainable practices. Our models and metrics inform Amazon’s most senior leaders on Think Big opportunities and critical sustainability issues facing Amazon so that they may place big bets in a variety of sustainability topics (energy, materials, water, waste, products, social responsibility, etc.) to take care of the planet, benefit customers, and enable continued business growth. Our primary customer is senior leadership setting the vision for the company, but we also work closely with decision-makers in the sustainability team and business teams around the company to understand and implement that vision.We are looking for an experienced hands-on technical leader to join our organization and grow a team of Economists. This team will build and maintain data infrastructure, simplify data access and unlock self-service insights. Through data analysis and statistical modeling, this team will create feedback loops to continuously improve the sustainability decisions Amazon makes on behalf of its customers. The ideal candidate will have strong data engineering fundamentals and able to hire and grow individuals focused on building datasets and surfacing metrics to help SSI advance its mandate of automated modeling. They will partner with key stakeholders, including Software Development Managers, Product Managers, and Scientists within SSI and its parent World Wide Sustainability (WWS) organization, to define analytics strategy and ensure it’s aligned with the data architecture and business strategy. The ideal candidate will challenge assumptions and turn conjectures and anecdotes into data-supported facts to inform SSI’s product vision and establish data-first culture.Key Responsibilities include:· Manage sustainability-related data projects through all stages: ideation, modeling, data collection, data analysis, data visualization, and reporting.· Develop tools and methods to harvest and continuously update data to provide sustainability insights at scale.· Respond to time-critical questions from multiple business teams.· Professionally communicate to senior business leaders.· Lead the early investigative / inception phase of strategic sustainability initiatives and effectively influence, negotiate, and communicate with stakeholders to enable hand off of those projects for implementation.
US, WA, Seattle
Job summaryThe Amazon Global Workforce Staffing Organization is key to delivering our customer experiences around the globe. With 1M hourly associates hired annually, and growing to more than 1m in the next 24 months, it is a key operational mechanism to ensure we deliver our customer experiences globally.The Amazon Workforce Staffing Candidate Services (WFS CS) team is one branch of the Global Workforce Staffing Organization. WFS CS provides email, SMS, chat and phone support across more than five different languages to candidates applying for jobs with Amazon. This customer service for candidates removes technical barriers in the hiring process. Our call center agents will resolve issues so that candidates who contact our call centers end up hired, which we call a Day 1 Start (D1S). Our job is to “convert” these candidates into a D1S, hence increasing our Conversion Rate.The ideal candidate will be an expert in the areas of science, machine learning and statics, having hands-on experience with multiple improvement initiatives. As part of this role, you will build s to improve the candidate experience. The candidate needs experience with science/business intelligence, analytics, and reporting systems while striving for simplicity, and demonstrating significant creativity and high judgment backed by statistical proof.This role requires working closely with business, engineering and other cross functional teams within Workforce Staffing to deliver results. You will lead high visibility and high impact programs collaborating with various teams.Key job responsibilities• Building and automating quality and conversion rate reports for internal consumption and distributing them to vendors.• Own the design of experiments such as A/B testing in order to assess new enhancements, pilot ideas, and validate their impact.• Define, create and invent metrics and Key Performance Identifiers (KPIs) to measure the impacts of WFS decisions on candidate hiring experiences• Be a storyteller and communicate the needs of candidates, associates and staffing coordinators to WFS stakeholders using candidate insights• Ability to perform/own reoccurring and ad-hoc business intelligence projects
US, WA, Seattle
Job summaryFBA Inventory team is looking for a passionate, talented, and motivated Senior Economist who is a Reduced Form Causal Analysis expert to join our top-notch cross-domain science team to proactively identify new opportunities to improve the profitability of our third-party Sellers. The position offers an opportunity to apply the frontier of econometrics and economic theory to market design, pricing, forecasting, program evaluation, online advertising and other areas. You will build causal estimation models, using our world class data systems, and apply econometric theory to solve business problems in a fast-moving environment. Your will lead the science effort to learn more about Seller behaviors, estimate the effects of policies and incentives on Seller responses, design experiments to measure program impact, develop new econometric techniques, and implement science products and services to help Sellers to improve their inventory efficiency and long-term value from both Amazon’s and sellers’ perspectives by using innovative and scalable science solutions based on interdisciplinary research of operations research, machine learning, market design, econometrics, causal analysis, and data analytics. This role has high visibility to senior Amazon business leaders and involves working with other scientists, and partnering with engineering and product teams to integrate these models into production systems.Key job responsibilitiesAs a member of the science team, you will play an integral part in Amazon's FBA inventory management with the following technical and leadership responsibilities:· Apply expertise in causal modeling to develop econometric/machine learning models and design experiments to measure the value of the business and its many features· Reviews and audits modeling processes and results for other scientists, both junior and senior.· Identify new opportunities for leveraging economic insights and models in the FBA business and translate those directions into specific plans for economists and scientists, as well as engineering and product teams.· Describes strategic importance of vision inside and outside of team. Identifies business opportunities, define the problem and roadmap to solve it.· Build scalable and state-of-the art econometric solutions using state of the art tools based on large data sets· Partner closely with senior-level Economists and Scientists at AmazonA day in the lifeIn this role, you will be a technical leader in econometric modeling with significant scope, impact, and high visibility. Your solutions may lead to billions of dollars impact on either the topline or the bottom line of Amazon business. As the senior economist in the science team, you will be involved in every aspect of the process - from idea generation, business analysis and scientific research, through to development and deployment of advanced models - giving you a real sense of ownership. From day one, you will be working with experienced scientists, engineers, and designers who love what they do. You are expected to provide structure around complex business problems, hone those complex problems into specific, scientific questions, and test those questions to generate insights. You will also collaborate with the broader decision and research science community in SCOT and Amazon to broaden the horizon of your work and mentor economists and scientists. The successful candidate will have strong quantitative modeling skills and the ability to apply econometric, statistical/machine learning, and experimental design methods to large amount of individual level data. We are seeking someone who wants to lead projects that require innovative thinking and deep technical problem-solving skills to create scalable causal inference solutions. The candidate will need to be entrepreneurial, wear many hats, and work in a fast-paced, high-energy, highly collaborative environment. We value highly technical people who know their subject matter deeply and are willing to learn new areas. We look for individuals who know how to deliver results and show a desire to develop themselves, their colleagues, and their career.About the teamSellers are a critical part of Amazon’s ecosystem to deliver on our vision of offering the Earth’s largest selection and lowest prices. Fulfillment By Amazon (FBA) enables Sellers to provide fast and efficient deliver to their customers using Amazon fulfillment services. In 2020, Sellers enjoyed strong growth using FBA shipping more than half of all products offered on Amazon. To our consumers, FBA provides a broad and diverse inventory of products from Books, Electronics and Apparel to Consumables and beyond with many of them available with 1-Day shipping. The FBA Inventory team within the Amazon Supply Chain Optimization Technology (SCOT) organization is in charge of defining and delivering fulfillment services to our Sellers by leveraging Amazon’s expertise in machine learning, inventory optimization, big data, and distributed systems to deliver the best inventory management experiences for our FBA Sellers. We work full stack, from foundational backend systems to future-forward user interfaces. Our culture is centered on rapid prototyping, rigorous experimentation, and data-driven decision-making.“Third-party sellers are kicking our first party butt. Badly. And it’s a high bar too because our first-party business has grown dramatically over that period, from $1.6 billion in 1999 to $117 billion this past year. The compound annual growth rate for our first-party business in that time period is 25%. But in that same time, third-party sales have grown from $0.1 billion to $160 billion – a compound annual growth rate of 52%. To provide an external benchmark, eBay’s gross merchandise sales in that period have grown at a compound rate of 20%, from $2.8 billion to $95 billion. Why did independent sellers do so much better selling on Amazon than they did on eBay? And why were independent sellers able to grow so much faster than Amazon’s own highly organized first-party sales organization? There isn’t one answer, but we do know one extremely important part of the answer: We helped independent sellers compete against our first-party business by investing in and offering them the very best selling tools we could imagine and build. There are many such tools, including tools that help sellers manage inventory, process payments, track shipments, create reports, and sell across borders – and we’re inventing more every year. But of great importance are Fulfillment by Amazon and the Prime membership program. In combination, these two programs meaningfully improved the customer experience of buying from independent sellers.”—Jeff Bezos, 2018 Letter to Shareholders
US, WA, Seattle
Job summaryFulfillment by Amazon (FBA) is an Amazon service for third party sellers that enables seller inventory management, shipping and return handling through the network and underlying systems of Amazon's Fulfillment Centers. FBA Inventory optimization team defines and delivers fulfillment services to our Sellers by leveraging Amazon’s expertise in machine learning, inventory optimization, big data, and distributed systems to deliver the best inventory management experiences for our FBA Sellers.We are looking for a passionate and creative Senior Science Manager who is experienced in delivering science solutions to solve complex business problems through various science toolboxes, including but not limited to: ML, optimization, supply chain management, statistics, market design, data science, and econometrics. As the leader in the space, you will manage a team of interdisciplinary scientists developing cutting edge science solutions affecting millions of third-party Sellers at Amazon internationally. You will set the scientific culture (including scientific research, publication, and innovation), strategic research vision in the organization (in the short and long term), manage the execution of scientific projects, help business and tech partners turn the scientific results into policies, programs, and products, and influence across other businesses teams in Amazon Consumer Organization. The role has high visibility to senior Amazon business leaders and involves working with engineering and product teams to integrate science models into production systems.The ideal candidate will have a scientific as well as technical expertise, strong business intuition, and a desire to grow and develop others. It also requires excellent written and verbal communication skills to influence business direction (through VP level), frame solutions for non-technical partners, and be an advocate for science in the organization. He/she will be comfortable with ambiguity and will enjoy working in a fast-paced environment. He/she will work closely with Economists, Data / Applied Scientists, Strategy Analysts, and Software Developers.Key job responsibilities· Lead a team of scientists (Economists, Data Scientists, Applied Scientists, Research Scientists, BIEs)· Hire and develop top science talent.· Partner with Sr. Leaders across the organization to frame business problems, establish science vision, and execute roadmap. Partner with Engineering teams to bring modeling solutions to frontline applications across the business.· Set the scientific culture and leadership within the organization, advocating for science innovation and rigor at leadership level· Be a thought leader on modeling engineering, scientific research, and business strategy, be able to make trade off and executive decisions spanning the end-to-end science workflow.· Be able to translate and communicate out data and science driven results· Identify new opportunities to leverage various science techniques within the organization.· Drive and execute scientific projects/products end-to-end: from ideation, analysis, prototyping, development, metrics, and monitoring. Review and audit modeling processes and results.· Stay up to date with recent scientific publications relevant to the teamA day in the lifeIn this role, you will lead a team of economists, machine learning scientists, data scientists, and operation research scientists. You will define a multi-year science and data vision and strategy to support Seller fulfillment. In this role, you will need to provide structure around complex capacity control, seller recommendation and incentives, product selection and seller growth problems, work with scientists to estimate and validate their scientific models on large scale data. In this role, you will need to lead and guide your team in the development of models using data analysis, various scientific methods, and experimentation. You will need to work with our business partners to communicate the properties of your analysis/modeling and be able to work to incorporate their feedback and requests into your project. You will own the research agenda and prioritization for the team, and ensure that projects address the business needs. You will also collaborate with world-class economists and scientists across Amazon. You are expected to make decisions about technology, models and methodology choices. You will strive for simplicity, and demonstrate judgment backed by scientific reasoning and data analysis. You will also collaborate with the broader decision and research science community in SCOT and Amazon to broaden the horizon of your work and mentor engineers and scientists.About the teamSellers are a critical part of Amazon’s ecosystem to deliver on our vision of offering the Earth’s largest selection and lowest prices. Fulfillment By Amazon (FBA) enables Sellers to provide fast and efficient deliver to their customers using Amazon fulfillment services. In 2020, Sellers enjoyed strong growth using FBA shipping more than half of all products offered on Amazon. To our consumers, FBA provides a broad and diverse inventory of products from Books, Electronics and Apparel to Consumables and beyond with many of them available with 1-Day shipping. The FBA Inventory team within the Amazon Supply Chain Optimization Technology (SCOT) organization is in charge of defining and delivering fulfillment services to our Sellers by leveraging Amazon’s expertise in machine learning, inventory optimization, big data, and distributed systems to deliver the best inventory management experiences for our FBA Sellers. We work full stack, from foundational backend systems to future-forward user interfaces. Our culture is centered on rapid prototyping, rigorous experimentation, and data-driven decision-making. As mentioned by Jeff Bezos in his annual letter to shareholders, FBA is one of the strategic long term opportunities for the company to improve the lives of sellers and buyers while leveraging our billion dollar logistics infrastructure to generate increasing free cash flow and triple digit return on invested capital. Our long-term vision is that customers can order and receive a seller’s product the same day anywhere in the world. Inventory Planning within FBA is a core essential that serves Sellers in determining what, when, and how much to reorder, how to drive sales on existing inventory and how to optimize for best returns.