Senior Applied Scientist, International Machine Learning
Amazon is hiring a Senior Applied Scientist, International Machine Learning in Bengaluru, India. Level rates it ; you can apply on Amazon.
Level's read on this job
- On Level's scale, this applied scientist role is Builds AI ●●●●: the job is building AI systems.
- Tools and skills the posting cites include TensorFlow, scikit-learn and Python.
- Level classifies it as a senior role.
- Level lists 20,000+ other open roles at Amazon.
AI in this role
Senior Applied Scientist designing, developing, and deploying scalable machine learning solutions for Amazon's business problems.
Machine Learning, Big Data and related quantitative sciences have been strategic to Amazon from the early years. Amazon has been a pioneer in areas such as recommendation engines, ecommerce fraud detection and large-scale optimization of fulfillment center operations. As Amazon has rapidly grown and diversified, the opportunity for applying machine learning has exploded. We have a very broad collection of practical problems where machine learning systems can dramatically improve the customer experience, reduce cost, and drive speed and automation. These include product bundle recommendations for millions of products, safeguarding financial transactions across by building the risk models, improving catalog quality via extracting product attribute values from structured/unstructured data for millions of products, enhancing address quality by powering customer suggestions
We are developing state-of-the-art machine learning solutions to accelerate the Amazon India growth story. Amazon India is an exciting place to be at for a machine learning practitioner. We have the eagerness of a fresh startup to absorb machine learning solutions, and the scale of a mature firm to help support their development at the same time. As part of the India Machine Learning team, you will get to work alongside brilliant minds motivated to solve real-world machine learning problems that make a difference to millions of our customers. We encourage thought leadership and blue ocean thinking in ML.
Key job responsibilities
Use machine learning and analytical techniques to create scalable solutions for business problems
Analyze and extract relevant information from large amounts of Amazon’s historical business data to help automate and optimize key processes
Design, develop, evaluate and deploy, innovative and highly scalable ML models
Work closely with software engineering teams to drive real-time model implementations
Work closely with business partners to identify problems and propose machine learning solutions
Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large scale data analyses, model development, model validation and model maintenance
Work proactively with engineering teams and product managers to evangelize new algorithms and drive the implementation of large-scale complex ML models in production
Leading projects and mentoring other scientists, engineers in the use of ML techniques
About the team
International Machine Learning Team is responsible for building novel ML solutions that attack India first (and other Emerging Markets across MENA and LatAm) problems and impact the bottom-line and top-line of India business. Learn more about our team from https://www.amazon.science/working-at-amazon/how-rajeev-rastogis-machine-learning-team-in-india-develops-innovations-for-customers-worldwide
Basic qualifications
- 6+ years of building machine learning models for business application experience
- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
- Experience with neural deep learning methods and machine learning
- Master's degree, or PhD
Preferred qualifications
- Experience with modeling tools such as R, scikit-learn, Spark MLLib, MxNet, Tensorflow, numpy, scipy etc.
- Experience with large scale distributed systems such as Hadoop, Spark etc.
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How we rate this
Senior Applied Scientist, International Machine Learning 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.
Builds AI. The job is building AI systems.
- ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
- ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
- ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
- ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39
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- $172k
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- Walk me through how you've used scikit-learn in your day-to-day work.
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- What's a project where you used Machine learning hands-on?
- How would you decide a model or AI system is ready to ship?
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