Applied Scientist II, Core Search

Overview

The Amazon Search team creates customer‑focused search solutions and technologies. Whenever a customer visits an Amazon site worldwide and types in a query or browses product categories, Amazon Product Search services go to work. Search Autocomplete and Navigation focuses on helping customers express their shopping intent and navigate search results more effectively.

• Analyze data and metrics resulting from traffic into Amazon's product search service.
• Design, build, and deploy effective and innovative ML and LLM solutions to improve search experiences.
• Evaluate proposed solutions via offline benchmark tests as well as online A/B tests in production.
• Publish and present work at internal and external scientific venues in the fields of ML/NLP/IR.

• PhD, or Master’s degree and 4+ years of CS/CE/ML or related field experience.
• Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language.
• Experience in algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, high‑performance computing.

• Experience using Unix/Linux.
• Experience in professional software development.
• Experience with state‑of‑the‑art deep learning models architecture design and deep learning training and optimization, including model pruning.
• Experience building machine learning models or developing algorithms for business application.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. The Amazon package will include sign‑on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and optional 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.

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USA, CA, Palo Alto -  -  USD annually

USA, WA, Seattle -  -  USD annually

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