This role involves working closely with Sr Data Scientist, Principal engineer, and engineering team to build ML and AL based solutions in meeting our north start vision.
Key job responsibilities
• Implement statistical methods to solve specific business problems utilizing code (Python, Scala, etc.).
• Improve upon existing methodologies by developing new data sources, testing model enhancements, and fine-tuning model parameters.
• Collaborate with program management, product management, software developers, data engineering, and business leaders to provide science support, and communicate feedback; develop, test and deploy a wide range of statistical, econometric, and machine learning models.
• Build customer-facing reporting tools to provide insights and metrics which track model performance and explain variance.
• Communicate verbally and in writing to business customers with various levels of technical knowledge, educating them about our solutions, as well as sharing insights and recommendations.
• Earn the trust of your customers by continuing to constantly obsess over their needs and helping them solve their problems by leveraging technology
• Excellent prompt engineering skillset with a deep knowledge of LLMs, embeddings, transformer models.
• Work with distributed machine learning and statistical algorithms to harness enormous volumes of data at scale to serve our customers
About the team
In Appstore, “We entertain, and delight, hundreds of millions of people across devices with a vast selection of relevant apps, games, and services by making it trivially easy for developers to deliver”. Appstore team enables the customer and developer flywheel on devices by enabling developers to seamlessly launch and manage their apps/ in-app content on Amazon. It helps customers discover, buy and engage with these apps on Fire TV, Fire Tablets and mobile devices. The technologies we build on vary from device software, to high scale services, to efficient tools for developers.
- 4+ years of data scientist experience
- 4+ years of machine learning/statistical modeling data analysis tools and techniques, and parameters that affect their performance experience
- 5+ years of data querying languages (e.g. SQL), scripting languages (e.g. Python) or statistical/mathematical software (e.g. R, SAS, Matlab, etc.) experience
- Experience applying theoretical models in an applied environment
- Experience in Python, Perl, or another scripting language
- Experience in a ML or data scientist role with a large technology company
- Master's degree in a quantitative field such as statistics, mathematics, data science, business analytics, economics, finance, engineering, or computer science, or Bachelor's degree