Data Scientist, Amazon
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$153.4-207.5k
Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units
Office located in Newark, NJ
The largest online retailer and technology provider
Job no longer available
The largest online retailer and technology provider
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$153.4-207.5k
Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units
Office located in Newark, NJ
1001+ employees
Company mission
To be Earth's most customer-centric company.
Role
Who you are
- Requires a Master’s degree in Statistics, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Data Science, Machine Learning, Applied Math, Operations Research, or a related field plus two (2) years of experience as a Data Scientist or other occupation involving data processing and predictive Machine Learning modeling at scale
- Experience may be gained concurrently and must include:
- Two (2) years in each of the following:
- Utilizing specialized modelling software including Python or R
- Building statistical models and machine learning models using large datasets from multiple resources
- Building non-linear models including Neural Nets, Deep Learning, or Gradient Boosting
- One (1) year in each of the following:
- Building production-ready solutions or applications relying on Large Language Models (LLM), accessed programmatically and beyond just prompting
- Evaluating LLM results at scale or fine-tuning LLMs
- Building production-ready recommendation systems
- Using database technologies including SQL or ETL
- Alternatively, will accept a Bachelor’s degree and five (5) years of experience
What the job involves
- Independently own, design, and implement scalable and reliable solutions to support or automate decision making throughout the business
- Apply a range of data science techniques and tools combined with subject matter expertise to solve difficult business problems and cases in which the approach is unclear
- Acquire data by building the necessary SQL/ETL queries
- Import processes through various company specific interfaces for accessing RedShift, and S3/edX storage systems
- Deliver artifacts on medium size projects that affect important business decisions
- Build relationships with stakeholders and counterparts, and communicate model outputs, observations, and key performance indicators (KPIs) to the management to develop sustainable and consumable products and product features
- Explore and analyze data by inspecting univariate distributions and multivariate interactions, constructing appropriate transformations, and tracking down the source and meaning of anomalies
- Build production-ready models using statistical modeling, mathematical modeling, econometric modeling, machine learning algorithms, network modeling, social network modeling, natural language processing, large language models and/or genetic algorithms
- Validate models against alternative approaches, expected and observed outcome, and other business defined key performance indicators
- Implement models that comply with evaluations of the computational demands, accuracy, and reliability of the relevant ETL processes at various stages of production
- Position reports to Newark, NJ office; however, telecommuting from a home office may be allowed
Our take
Amazon is the world's largest online retailer, and is well-known for its disruption of well-established industries. The company is present in numerous verticals, including cloud computing with Amazon Web Services, AI with its range of Alexa devices and a global marketplace more commonly referred to as 'the everything store'. Acquisitions include Ring, Twitch, Whole Foods Market, and IMDb.
More recently, Amazon has been focused on leading the "third wave in digital advertising". Many businesses are now shifting ad dollars to retailers, which before would have been spent with online media platforms. Amazon's seen great success in the space, with its revenue from advertising now higher than its Amazon Prime membership scheme, audiobooks and digital music combined. This growth is particularly impressive considering its digital ad rivals (like Snap, Alphabet, and Meta) have suffered declines due to wider macroeconomic factors and Apple's iOS privacy changes.
Despite its dominant market position, Amazon will continue to be challenged over the next decade, including sustaining AWS's cloud dominance in the face of Google and Microsoft. On top of this, the company's e-commerce division is facing profitability problems despite its 2023 post-IPO debt funding of 8 billion. It will need to find new ways to stay above their competitors.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
South Lake Union, Seattle, WA
Leadership
Jeff Bezos
(Founder & Executive Chairman)Jeff is an American business magnate, media proprietor, and investor. As well as founding Amazon, Jeff founded Blue Origin, an aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company and also owns The Washington Post.
Andy Jassy
(President & CEO)Joined Amazon as a Marketing Manager in 1997. Developed AWS with Jeff Bezos, and became CEO of Amazon in 2021.
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