AmazonResearch Scientist, Pricing Science
Amazon is hiring a Research Scientist, Pricing Science in Seattle, United States. It pays $136k-$184k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Amazon.
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We're looking for a Research Scientist to own causal inference at the intersection of ML and pricing experimentation. Our team has identified a real gap: the methodological bridge between econometric analysis and production-scale ML pipelines needs a practitioner who lives in both worlds. You'll build conditional average treatment effect (CATE) estimation models, design analysis workflows for pricing experiments, and develop reusable causal ML infrastructure that the broader team — including non-ML scientists — can rely on. If you're a scientist who wants to tackle hard causal identification problems in a high-stakes production environment, and who finds satisfaction in making rigorous methods accessible to a broader team, this role is for you.
Key job responsibilities
- Design, train, evaluate, and deploy end-to-end causal ML pipelines for pricing use cases, including CATE estimation models and heterogeneous treatment effect frameworks.
- Serve as the team's causal ML methodology expert — defining identification strategies, model selection criteria, evaluation standards, and the tradeoffs between econometric and ML approaches to causal estimation.
- Contribute causal analysis methodology to pricing A/B test post-analysis and build reusable tooling that economists and other non-ML scientists can adopt without requiring deep ML expertise.
- Assess emerging causal inference methods (e.g., synthetic difference-in-differences, generalized random forests, causal representation learning) for applicability to Amazon's pricing context, and author internal methodology proposals for adoption.
- Partner with senior economists on identification strategy and causal assumptions, collaborate with software and data engineering partners on production deployment, and align with product managers on experiment design requirements.
A day in the life
Your work directly shapes the prices customers see on hundreds of millions of Amazon products. In a given week you might investigate an optimization anomaly in simulation and trace it to an unmodeled market dynamic, then design an offline evaluation framework to benchmark competing approaches before committing to online testing. You'll collaborate with senior economists on identification strategy for a pricing experiment, present a science proposal for incorporating a new competitiveness signal into an optimization system, or work with the experimentation platform team on randomization design. You'll also have opportunities to write up novel scientific findings for submission to venues such as KDD, NeurIPS, or the ACM Conference on Economics and Computation.
About the team
The P2 Optimization Science team sits at the center of Amazon's pricing decisions. We build the ML systems, causal inference pipelines, and experimentation infrastructure that determine how prices are set across Amazon's global catalog. Our team brings together research scientists, economists, and engineers who collaborate closely to turn rigorous methodology into production-quality systems with measurable business impact. We value scientific rigor, clear communication across disciplines, and a culture where every team member's work is designed to be extensible and useful beyond their own project. If you want your science to directly influence how hundreds of millions of customers experience Amazon, this is the team to join.
Basic qualifications
- PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of quantitative field research experience
- Experience investigating the feasibility of applying scientific principles and concepts to business problems and products
- Experience analyzing both experimental and observational data sets
Preferred qualifications
- Knowledge of R, MATLAB, Python or similar scripting language
- Experience with agile development
- Experience building web based dashboards using common frameworks
- In depth familiarity with the literature and practice of operations management, supply chain management, inventory management, revenue management, forecasting, and/or logistics
- Prior well-established recognized academic experience, multiple publications in top-tier academic journals Programming experience using at least one modern programming language such as Python, Java, or C++
- Proficiency in model development, model validation and model implementation for large-scale applications
- Experience with developing prototypes by manipulating and analyzing complex, high-volume, high-dimensionality data from varying sources
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
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.
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including 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, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
USA, WA, Seattle - 136,000.00 - 184,000.00 USD annually
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Research Scientist, Pricing Science at Amazon rates 88 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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