Applied Scientist, Pricing Science

Amazon • Seattle, WA

2d • $136,000 - $184,000 • Onsite

About The Position

Amazon's Pricing Science is seeking a driven Applied Scientist to harness planet scale multi-modal datasets, and navigate a continuously evolving competitor landscape, in order to regularly generate fresh customer-relevant prices on billions of Amazon products worldwide. We are looking for a talented, organized, and customer-focused applied researchers to join our Pricing Optimization science group, with a charter to measure, refine, and launch customer-obsessed improvements to our pricing algorithms across all products listed on Amazon. This role requires an individual with exceptional machine learning and predictive modeling skills, causal and experimental evaluation experience, excellent cross-functional collaboration skills and business acumen, and an entrepreneurial spirit. We are looking for an experienced innovator, who is a self-starter, comfortable with ambiguity, demonstrates strong attention to detail, and has the ability to work independently to deliver business impact.

Requirements

• Master's degree in computer science, mathematics, statistics, machine learning or equivalent quantitative field
• Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
• Experience with SQL and an RDBMS (e.g., Oracle) or Data Warehouse

Nice To Haves

• Experience implementing algorithms using both toolkits and self-developed code
• Have publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals

Responsibilities

• See the big picture. Understand and develop science to influence the long term vision for Amazon's science-based competitive, perception-preserving pricing techniques
• Build strong collaborations. Partner with product, engineering, and data teams within Pricing & Promotions to deploy models at Amazon scale
• Stay informed. Establish mechanisms to stay up to date on latest scientific advancements in machine learning, reinforcement learning, causal ML, and multi-objective optimization techniques. Identify opportunities to apply them to relevant Pricing & Promotions business problems
• Keep innovating for our customers. Foster an environment that promotes rapid experimentation, continuous learning, and incremental value delivery.
• Successfully execute & deliver. Apply your exceptional technical machine learning expertise to incrementally move the needle on some of our hardest pricing problems.
• Invent and deliver price optimization, simulation, and competitiveness tools for Sellers.
• Promotion optimization initiatives exploring CX, discount amount, and cross-product optimization opportunities.
• Identifying opportunities to optimally price across systems and contexts (marketplaces, request types, event periods)

Benefits

• health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
• 401(k) matching
• paid time off
• parental leave
• sign-on payments
• restricted stock units (RSUs)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior