Key job responsibilities
• Collaborate with seasoned Applied Scientists and propose best in class ML solutions for business requirements
• Dive deep to drive product pilots, demonstrate think big and customer obsession LPs to steer the product roadmap
• Build scalable solutions in partnership with Applied Scientists by developing technical intuition to write high quality code and develop state of the art ML models utilizing most recent research breakthroughs in academia and industry
• Coordinate design efforts between Sciences and Software teams to deliver optimized solutions
• Ability to thrive in an ambiguous, uncertain and fast moving ML usecase developments.
• Familiar with ML and LLMs models and able to work independently.


About the team
Retail Business Services Technology (RBS Tech) team develops the systems and science to accelerate Amazon’s flywheel. The team drives three core themes: 1) Find and Fix all customer and selling partner experience (CX and SPX) defects using technology, 2) Generate comprehensive insights for brand growth opportunities, and 3) Completely automate Stores tasks. We work to solve problems related to entity extraction for Catalog completeness and consistency, multi-label classification, aspect and topic extraction for Customer Anecdote Mining, image and text similarity and retrieval using NLP and Computer Vision. RBS Sciences team has grown to 11+ Applied Scientists and created multi-million dollar impact by developing foundational models for these business problems. Team has also contributed significantly in innovation space by publishing research papers (both internal Amazon and external conferences) and Patents over last 3 years.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Quantitative or STEM disciplines (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics)
- 1+ years of relevant work experience in solving real world business problems using machine learning, deep learning, data mining and statistical algorithms
- Strong hands-on programming skills in Python, SQL, Hadoop/Hive. Additional knowledge of Spark, Scala, R, Java desired but not mandatory
- Strong analytical thinking
- Ability to creatively solve business problems, innovating new approaches where required and articulating ideas to a wide range of audiences using strong data, written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to collaborate effectively across multiple teams and stakeholders, including development teams, product management and operations.