Responsibilities

• Conduct deep data analysis to derive insights to the business, and identify gaps and new opportunities
• Develop scalable and effective machine-learning models and optimization strategies to solve business problems
• Run regular A/B experiments, gather data, and perform statistical analysis
• Work closely with software engineers to deliver end-to-end solutions into production
• Improve the scalability, efficiency and automation of large-scale data analytics, model training, deployment and serving
• Conduct research on new machine-learning modeling to optimize all aspects of Sponsored Products and Brands business

Requirements

• 3+ years of building machine learning models for business application experience
• PhD, or Master's degree and 6+ years of applied research experience
• Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
• Experience with neural deep learning methods and machine learning

Preferred

• Experience with modeling tools such as R, scikit-learn, Spark MLLib, MxNet, Tensorflow, numpy, scipy etc.
• Experience with large scale distributed systems such as Hadoop, Spark etc.

Benefits

• Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.