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Applied Scientist, Personalization
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Design and develop large-scale machine learning and generative AI technologies for personalization and recommendations as an Applied Scientist.
Our team is part of Amazon’s Personalization organization, a high-performing group that leverages Amazon’s expertise in machine learning, generative AI, large-scale data systems, and user experience design to deliver the best shopping experiences for our customers. Our team builds large-scale machine-learning solutions that delight customers with personalized and up-to-date recommendations that are related to their interests. We are a team uniquely placed within Amazon, to have a direct window of opportunity to influence how customers will think about their shopping journey in the future.
As an Applied Scientist in our team, you will be responsible for the research, design, and development of new AI technologies for personalization. You will adopt or invent new machine learning and analytical techniques in the realm of recommendations, information retrieval and large language models. You will collaborate with scientists, engineers, and product partners locally and abroad. Your work will include inventing, experimenting with, and launching new features, products and systems.
Please visit https://www.amazon.science for more information.
Basic qualifications
- Master's degree or above in computer science, electrical engineering, or related field
- Knowledge of computer science fundamentals in data structures, algorithm design, and problem solving
- Experience in patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals
- Experience communicating with a wide range of stakeholders, including colleagues and leadership
- Hands-on Experience with bringing LLM systems to production
- Excellent coding and design skills, proficiency with Python
Preferred qualifications
- Experience in building machine learning models for business application
- Experience with big data technologies such as AWS, Hadoop, Spark, Pig, Hive etc.
- Experience with information retrieval, recommender systems, natural language processing, and/or personalization algorithms
- Publications at top Web, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing conferences such as KDD, ICML, NeurIPS, ACL, EMNLP, etc.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
How we rate this
Applied Scientist, Personalization at Amazon rates 90 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.
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- ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
- ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
- ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39
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- What NLP problem have you worked on, and how did you measure whether it actually worked?
- Tell me about a project where machine learning was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where generative ai was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where information retrieval was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where recommender systems was part of your work. What did you do?
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- Lead with what you built, trained or shipped — this role is judged on the AI system itself, not the tools around it.
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