Research Scientist, Amazon
Passive Monitoring
The largest online retailer and technology provider
Be an early applicant
The largest online retailer and technology provider
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
1001+ employees
Company mission
To be Earth's most customer-centric company.
Role
Who you are
- PHD or Master's degree in Computational Linguistics, Engineering, or related technical field
- 1+ years industry experience with data mining and analytics techniques
- 1+ years industry experience in programming in R, Python, SAS or similar languages
Desirable
- Graduate degree in Computational Linguistics, Engineering, Statistics or related field
- 3+ years experience in data scientist, analyst or NLP specialist role with a large technology company
- Experience in two or more of these or similar Natural Language Processing topics: word categorization and tagging, syntactic parsing, word sense disambiguation, topic modeling; contextual text mining, application of machine learning to NLP, semantic similarity, phrasal semantic analysis, text matching and similarity, word embedding, lexicon normalization, named entity recognition
- Demonstrable track record dealing well with ambiguity, prioritizing needs, and delivering results in an agile, dynamic environment
- Experience collaborating with software development teams, data scientists, business intelligence or other technical roles
What the job involves
- You’ll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles. You’ll collaborate with people across AWS to help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost for our customers
- And you’ll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion
- As a Research Scientist on the team, you will help our internal customer build passive-monitoring models using our technology and help us launch a new product across the company. You will be diving deep into the details while providing strategic inputs for the product
- Help drive the data collection, processing, and business-logic monitoring models and technology choices that enable a world-class user experience
- Utilize various metric sources to deliver rapid iterations of models
- Propose new modeling solutions and run experiments to prove their efficacy
- Collaborate with colleagues from science, engineering, and business backgrounds,
- Ensure data quality throughout all stages of acquisition and processing, including such areas as data sourcing/collection
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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