Applied Scientist, WW Promotions Science

Amazon • Seattle, WA

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Amazon's Worldwide Pricing & Promotions organization is seeking a strong Applied Scientist to help solve complex business problems involving promotional strategies at a global scale. This Applied Scientist will operate in a team of other scientists and economists. Our team applies causal inference, statistics, machine learning, forecasting, optimization, economics, and experimentation to drive actionable insights and to improve strategic business decision-making.

This is an individual contributor role that requires collaboration across teams and functions to solve core business problems for the company around setting promotional strategies. The work is part of significant scientific investments in promotions intelligence systems that forecast customer demand and optimize promotions strategies across different surfaces.

Requirements

• PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience
• 3+ years of building models for business application experience
• Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
• Experience in any of the following areas: algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, high-performance computing
• Experience building machine learning models or developing algorithms for business application
• Experience in investigating, designing, prototyping, and delivering new and innovative system solutions

Nice To Haves

• Experience implementing algorithms using toolkits and self-developed code
• Experience in designing experiments and statistical analysis of results
• Experience in state-of-the-art deep learning models architecture design and deep learning training and optimization and model pruning
• Experience in patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals

Responsibilities

• Invent or adapt new scientific approaches, models, or algorithms inspired and driven by customers' needs and benefits
• Produce research papers and reports that have the same level of correctness, scholarship, usefulness, completeness, depth, rigor, and originality as a top-tier external publication
• Implement solutions that will be deployed into production or directly support production systems
• Write clear, useful documentation describing algorithms and design choices in your components to make it possible for others to understand and reproduce your work
• Contribute to operational excellence in the team's deliverable
• Analyze the performance of your methods and models to understand the gaps, and iteratively propose solutions to improve
• Champion the adoption of scientific advancements in the team
• Help new teammates ramp up and understand who our customers are, what their needs are, how the team's solutions work, and how scientific components fit in those solutions

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