Senior Applied Scientist, Amazon

• If you're fired up about being part of a dynamic, driven team and are ready to make a lasting impact on the future of AI-powered shopping, we invite you to join us on this exciting journey to reshape shopping
• 3+ years of building machine learning models for business application experience
• PhD, or Master's degree and 5+ years of applied research experience
• Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
• Experience with neural deep learning methods and machine learning

Desirable

• The Community Data & Science team is looking for a passionate, talented, and inventive Senior Applied Scientist with a background in AI, Gen AI, Machine Learning, and NLP to help build LLM solutions for Community Feedback
• You'll be working with talented scientists and engineers to innovate on behalf of our customers
• As a Senior Applied Scientist, you will work on state-of-the-art technologies that will result in published papers
• However, you will not only theorize about the algorithms but also have the opportunity to implement them and see how they perform in the field
• Our team works on a variety of projects, including state-of-the-art generative AI, LLM fine-tuning, alignment, prompt engineering, and benchmarking solutions
• You will be also mentoring junior scientists on the team
• The Community Data & Science team focusses on analyzing, understanding, structuring and presenting customer-generated content (in the form of ratings, text, images and videos) to help customers use the wisdom of the community to make unregretted purchase decisions
• We build and own ML models that help with i) shaping the community content corpus both in terms of quantity and quality, ii) extracting insights from the content and iii) presenting the content and insights to shoppers to eventually influence purchase decisions
• Today, our ML models support experiences like content solicitation, submission, moderation, ranking, and summarization