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Sr. Applied Scientist, Books Core Recommendations

Amazon Stores

Seattle, WA
24 days ago
$150,400 - $260,000

Job Description

Join Amazon's Books personalization team as a Senior Applied Scientist to create innovative recommendation solutions for millions of customers. Collaborate with a dynamic team while leveraging large-scale data to enhance the book discovery experience.

Key Responsibilities

  • Research and develop models that power customer-facing recommendations
  • Design and implement A/B test experiments
  • Collaborate with engineers, product, and other scientists to get machine learning solutions into production
  • Build recommendation model pipelines
  • Identify technical opportunities within complex deep learning-based recommendation models

Required Qualifications

  • 4+ years of applied research experience
  • 3+ years of building machine learning models for business applications
  • PhD or Master's degree and 6+ years of applied research experience
  • Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
  • Experience with modeling tools such as R, scikit-learn, Spark MLLib, MxNet, Tensorflow, numpy, scipy

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with popular deep learning frameworks such as MxNet and TensorFlow
  • Experience with large scale distributed systems such as Hadoop, Spark
  • Experience in applied research

Benefits & Perks

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