Applied Scientist

Do 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 customersDo you want to build and deploy advanced algorithmic systems that help optimize millions of transactions every dayAre you excited by the prospect of analyzing and modeling terabytes of data to solve real world problemsDo you like to own end-to-end business problems/metrics and directly impact the profitability of the companyDo you like to innovate and simplifyIf yes, then you may be a great fit to join the Machine Learning and team for India Consumer Businesses.

If you have an entrepreneurial spirit, know how to deliver, love to work with data, are deeply technical, highly innovative and long for the opportunity to build solutions to challenging problems that directly impact the companys bottom-line, we want to talk to you.

Major responsibilities:

• Use machine learning and analytical techniques to create scalable solutions for business problems.


• Analyze and extract relevant information from large amounts of Amazon s historical business data to help automate and optimize key processes.


• Design, development, evaluate and deploy innovative and highly scalable models for predictive learning.


• Research and implement novel machine learning and statistical approaches.


• Work closely with software engineering teams to drive real-time model implementations and new feature creations.


• Work closely with business owners and operations staff to optimize various business operations.


• Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large scale data analyses, model development, model validation and model implementation.


• Mentor other scientists and engineers in the use of ML techniques.

About The Team:

The India Machine Learning team works closely with the business and engineering teams in building ML solutions that create an impact for Amazons IN businesses. This is a great opportunity to leverage your machine learning and data mining skills to create a direct impact on consumers and end users.

Basic Qualifications:

• 3+ years of building models for business application experience.


• PhD, or a Masters degree and experience building machine learning models or developing algorithms for business application.


• 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 computing.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience using Unix/Linux.


• Experience in professional software development.