Applied Scientist, Private Brands Discovery

Applied Scientist, Private Brands Discovery

The Private Brands Discovery team designs innovative machine learning solutions to drive customer awareness for Amazon’s own brands and help customers discover products they love. Private Brands Discovery is an interdisciplinary team of Scientists and Engineers who incubate and build disruptive solutions using cutting‑edge technology to solve some of the toughest science problems at Amazon. To this end, the team employs methods from Natural Language Processing, Deep Learning, multi‑armed bandits and reinforcement learning, Bayesian Optimization, causal and statistical inference, and econometrics to drive discovery across the customer journey. Our solutions are crucial for the success of Amazon’s own brands and serve as a beacon for discovery solutions across Amazon.

Key Responsibilities

• Experience in causal ML and treatment effect estimation, including methods like propensity scoring, doubly robust estimators, and uplift modeling. Strong background in Python, ML pipelines, and deploying models to production with robust monitoring and evaluation.
• Drive applied science projects in machine learning end‑to‑end: from ideation over prototyping to launch. For example, starting from deep scientific thinking about new ways to support customers’ journeys through discovery, you analyze how customers discover, review and purchase Private Brands to innovate marketing and merchandising strategies.
• Propose viable ideas to advance models and algorithms, with supporting argument, experiment, and eventually preliminary results.
• Invent ways to overcome technical limitations and enable new forms of analyses to drive key technical and business decisions.
• Present results, reports, and data insights to both technical and business leadership.
• Constructively critique peer research and mentor junior scientists and engineers.
• Innovate and contribute to Amazon’s science community and external research communities.

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of building models for business application experience.
• PhD, or Master’s degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience.
• Experience in patents or publications at top‑tier peer‑reviewed conferences or journals.
• Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language.
• Experience in any of the following areas: algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, high‑performance computing.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience using Unix/Linux.
• Experience in professional software development.

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The base salary for this position ranges from $149,300/year up to $249,300/year. Salary is based on a number of factors and may vary depending on job‑related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign‑on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.