Applied Scientist , Rufus Experience Science

Amazon • Seattle, WA

1d • $142,800 - $193,200 • Onsite

About The Position

Amazon Rufus Experience Science is seeking a highly motivated Scientist who is passionate about building next-generation shopping experiences. In this role, you will help create conversational shopping journeys where customers can express any shopping need—discovering products, comparing options, finding inspiration, or resolving post-purchase issues. You will collaborate closely with a multidisciplinary team of scientists, engineers, product managers, and designers to deliver these experiences across multiple Rufus customer-facing features. You will thrive in this role if you enjoy bringing latest research into everyday life—both for customers and for yourself. There’s nothing quite like realizing that a model you deployed yesterday is already improving your own shopping experience today. You will work side by side with scientists and engineers in a fast-paced environment, driving rapid model development and experimentation. You’ll also have access to Amazon’s rich datasets, AWS’s massive computational resources, and a network of world-class science and engineering leaders across the company.

Requirements

• 3+ years of building models for business application experience
• PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience
• Experience in patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals
• Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
• Experience in state-of-the-art deep learning models architecture design and deep learning training and optimization and model pruning

Nice To Haves

• Knowledge of architectural concepts and algorithms, schedule tradeoffs and new opportunities with technical team members
• PhD in computer science, electrical engineering, or related field
• Experience in building speech recognition, machine translation and natural language processing systems (e.g., commercial speech products or government speech projects)

Responsibilities

• Execute the science vision and roadmap.
• Develop data-driven solutions for the real-world, large scale problems.
• Deliver and maintain software and models in the production environment.
• Collaborate cross-functionally between product, design, and engineering.

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