AmazonPosted 5mo ago

Senior Applied Scientist, Personalization, Personalization Strategic Initiatives Science

Senior Applied Scientist, Personalization, Personalization Strategic Initiatives Science at Amazon scores 98 out of 100 on AI centrality, which makes it AI Level 4 of 4 (Builds AI) on this board. The level measures how much of the work is AI, not seniority.

IL, Tel Avivseniorfull-time

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Are you a scientist interested in pushing the state of the art in machine learning and recommendation systems? Are you interested in working on novel ideas that can positively impact millions of customers? Do you wish you had access to large datasets and tremendous computational resources? Answer yes to any of these questions and you will be a great fit for our team at Amazon.

Our team is part of Amazon’s Personalization organization, a high-performing group that leverages Amazon’s expertise in machine learning, big data, distributed 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 personzlized content recommendations, at the right time, with the right level of explanation.

As a Senior Applied Scientist in our team, you will lead 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 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

- PhD in CS/EE or related field
- 5+ years of applied research experience post PhD, building and launching deep learning/machine learning models for business applications
- Strong CS foundations (data structures and algorithms)
- Excellent coding and design skills, proficiency with programming languages such as Java or Python
- Several publications at top-tier peer-reviewed research conferences or journals
- Strong communication and collaboration skills

Preferred qualifications

- Experience with leading and defining research and development practices in an applied science environment
- Experience with Information Retrieval, Recommender Systems and/or Personalization algorithms
- Publications at top Recommender Systems, Machine Learning, and/or Natural Language Processing conferences such as KDD, ICML, NeurIPS, ACL, EMNLP
- Service as a Program Committee member in top-tier conferences

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