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Applied Scientist, EU INTech Consumer Selection Discovery, EU InTech Consumer Selection Discovery

Amazon is hiring an Applied Scientist, EU INTech Consumer Selection Discovery, EU InTech Consumer Selection Discovery in Madrid, Spain. Level rates it ; you can apply on Amazon.

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  • Level rates this applied scientist role Builds AI ●●●●: the job is building AI systems.
  • The posting mentions Python, Java and C among its tools and skills.
  • Level classes it as a senior role.
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Design, develop and deliver state-of-the-art machine learning models for customer discovery and search experiences at global scale.

PythonJavaCLinux
computer-visionmachine-learningrecommendation-systemsalgorithmsdistributed-computing
Amazon's International Technology org in EU (EU INTech) is creating new ways for Amazon customers discovering Amazon catalog through new and innovative Customer experiences. Our vision is to provide the most relevant content and CX for their shopping mission. We are responsible for building the software and machine learning models to surface high quality and relevant content to the Amazon customers worldwide across the site.

The team, mainly located in Madrid Technical Hub, London and Luxembourg, comprises Software Developer and ML Engineers, Applied Scientists, Product Managers, Technical Product Managers and UX Designers who are experts on several areas of ranking, computer vision, recommendations systems, Search as well as CX. Are you interested on how the experiences that fuel Catalog and Search are built to scale to customers WW? Are interesting on how we use state of the art AI to generate and provide the most relevant content?


Key job responsibilities
We are looking for Applied Scientists who are passionate to solve highly ambiguous and challenging problems at global scale. You will be responsible for major science challenges for our team, including working with text to image and image to text state of the art models to scale to enable new Customer Experiences WW. You will design, develop, deliver and support a variety of models in collaboration with a variety of roles and partner teams around the world. You will influence scientific direction and best practices and maintain quality on team deliverables.

Basic qualifications

- PhD, or a Master's degree and experience in CS, CE, ML or related field
- Experience in building models for business application
- Experience in patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals
- 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

Preferred qualifications

- Experience using Unix/Linux
- Experience in professional software development

Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Amazon. Please consult our Privacy Notice (https://www.amazon.jobs/en/privacy_page) to know more about how we collect, use and transfer the personal data of our candidates.

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How we rate this

Applied Scientist, EU INTech Consumer Selection Discovery, EU InTech Consumer Selection Discovery at Amazon rates 95 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Builds AI (AI Level 4 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Builds AI. The job is building AI systems.

  1. ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
  2. ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
  3. ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
  4. ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

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Skills and AI tools this role asks for

Computer visionMachine learningRecommendation SystemsAlgorithmsDistributed ComputingPythonJavaC

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Questions you could be asked

  1. Walk me through a computer vision problem you solved, from raw data to a deployed model.
  2. Tell me about a project where machine learning was part of your work. What did you do?
  3. Tell me about a project where recommendation systems was part of your work. What did you do?
  4. Tell me about a project where algorithms was part of your work. What did you do?
  5. Tell me about a project where distributed computing was part of your work. What did you do?

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