Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Amazon
$134.5-261.5k
Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided
Office located in Palo Alto, CA
The largest online retailer and technology provider
Job no longer available
The largest online retailer and technology provider
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$134.5-261.5k
Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided
Office located in Palo Alto, CA
1001+ employees
Company mission
To be Earth's most customer-centric company.
Role
Who you are
- Strong technical foundations, unwavering focus on customer obsession, proven business acumen, and remarkable product vision are necessary to succeed in this role
- Ability to understand Machine Learning and NLP concepts would benefit immensely when collaborating with Applied Scientists in Search and partner team
- The ideal candidate has experience through multiple complete consumer product or service development cycles, and possesses superior analytical abilities and product judgment
- 10+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 7+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team
Desirable
- 5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- Master's degree in computer science or equivalent
- Deep knowledge of programming (including C/C++, Java, Scala, and REST services) and automated build processes
- Experience in developing platforms with robust extensibility architecture
- Demonstrated experience in building, delivering, and operating services in a consumer-centric space
- Strong verbal/written communication and interpersonal skills
What the job involves
- We are seeking a Senior Software engineer to drive innovation in this space
- In this role, you will work closely with seasoned technologists, scientists and engineering leaders to advance the state-of-the-art search engine that fundamentally changes how customers discover and find products on Amazon
- In addition, you will form strong partnerships with various business teams across Amazon to understand their evolving needs in the core data model, leveraging sound judgement on common core features to implement matching and ranking algorithms
- Product development scope for the role includes core system design, companion services, and operational and open-source excellence
- The role requires delivery of a complex product at a very high quality bar in a fast-paced environment
- Key to success in this position is an equal passion for delivering new features as well as operating the current applications at the highest level of quality, ensuring that our customers have a world-class experience
- Drive end-to-end Machine Learning projects that have a high degree of ambiguity, scale, complexity
- Perform hands-on analysis and modeling of enormous data sets to develop insights that increase traffic monetization and merchandise sales, without compromising the shopper experience
- Build machine learning models and deploy your models into production; work closely with software engineers to assist in productionizing your ML models
- Run A/B experiments, gather data, and perform statistical analysis
- Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large-scale data analysis, machine-learning model development, model validation and serving
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.
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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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