Scientist in Residence Contract role Amazon

Job Description

DescriptionDo you want to join an innovative team of scientists who use machine learning and statistical techniques to create state
of
the
art solutions for providing better value to Amazon

s customers
Do you want to build and deploy advanced ML systems that help optimize millions of transactions every day
Are you excited by the prospect of analyzing and modeling terabytes of data to solve real
world problems
Do you like to own end
to
end business problems
metrics and directly impact the profitability of the company
Do you like to innovate and simplify
If yes
then you may be a great fit to join the Machine Learning team for India Consumer Businesses
Machine Learning
Big Data and related quantitative sciences have been strategic to Amazon from the early years
Amazon has been a pioneer in areas such as recommendation engines
ecommerce fraud detection and large
scale optimization of fulfillment center operations
As Amazon has rapidly grown and diversified
the opportunity for applying machine learning has exploded
We have a very broad collection of practical problems where machine learning systems can dramatically improve the customer experience
reduce cost
and drive speed and automation
These include product bundle recommendations for millions of products
safeguarding financial transactions across by building the risk models
improving catalog quality via extracting product attribute values from structured
unstructured data for millions of products
enhancing address quality by powering customer suggestionsWe are developing state
of
the
art machine learning solutions to accelerate the Amazon India growth story
Amazon India is an exciting place to be at for a machine learning practitioner
We have the eagerness of a fresh startup to absorb machine learning solutions
and the scale of a mature firm to help support their development at the same time
As part of the India Machine Learning team
you will get to work alongside brilliant minds motivated to solve real
world machine learning problems that make a difference to millions of our customers
We encourage thought leadership and blue ocean thinking in ML
Key job responsibilitiesUse machine learning and analytical techniques to create scalable solutions for business problemsAnalyze and extract relevant information from large amounts of Amazon

s historical business data to help automate and optimize key processesDesign
develop
evaluate and deploy
innovative and highly scalable ML modelsWork closely with software engineering teams to drive real
time model implementationsWork closely with business partners to identify problems and propose machine learning solutionsEstablish scalable
efficient
automated processes for large scale data analyses
model development
model validation and model maintenanceWork proactively with engineering teams and product managers to evangelize new algorithms and drive the implementation of large
scale complex ML models in productionLeading projects and mentoring other scientists
engineers in the use of ML techniquesAbout The TeamInternational Machine Learning Team is responsible for building novel ML solutions that attack India first
and other Emerging Markets across MENA and LatAm
problems and impact the bottom
line and top
line of India business
Learn more about our team from https

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amazon
science
working
at
amazon
how
rajeev
rastogis
machine
learning
team
in
india
develops
innovations
for
customers
worldwideBasic Qualifications 3
years of building models for business application experience PhD
or Masters degree and 3
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 computingPreferred Qualifications Experience using Unix
Linux Experience in professional software developmentOur inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers
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including support for the interview or onboarding process
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HaryanaJob ID
A2879065