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Original Job Post

Amazon · 1 week ago

Data Scientist II

Seattle, WA

Full-time

Onsite

Mid Level

$126K/yr - $213K/yr

2+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Implement statistical methods to solve specific business problems utilizing code (Python, R, Scala, etc.).

Drive design and development of user classification models and other predictive models to enable a personalized experience for a user.

Improve upon existing methodologies by developing new data sources, testing model enhancements, and fine-tuning model parameters.

Collaborate with program management, product management, software developers, data engineering, and business leaders to provide science support, and communicate feedback; develop, test and deploy a wide range of statistical, econometric, and machine learning models.

Build customer-facing reporting tools to provide insights and metrics which track model performance and explain variance.

Communicate verbally and in writing to business customers with various levels of technical knowledge, educating them about our solutions, as well as sharing insights and recommendations.

Earn the trust of your customers by continuing to constantly obsess over their needs and helping them solve their problems by leveraging technology

Qualification

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Data ExtractionStatistical ModelingData QueryingSQLPythonRSASMatlabMachine LearningData AnalysisTheoretical ModelsStatistical AnalysisData Evaluation

Required

Master's degree in a quantitative field, or Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of a quantitative field such as statistics, mathematics, data science, business analytics, economics, finance, engineering, or computer science experience

2+ years of data scientist experience involving data extraction, analysis, statistical modeling

3+ years of data querying languages (e.g. SQL), scripting languages (e.g. Python) or statistical/mathematical software (e.g. R, SAS, Matlab, etc.) experience

3+ years of machine learning/statistical modeling data analysis tools and techniques, and parameters that affect their performance experience

Experience applying theoretical models in an applied environment

Preferred

Master's degree in a quantitative field

Knowledge of relevant statistical measures such as confidence intervals, significance of error measurements, development and evaluation data sets, etc.

Benefits

Equity

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Full range of medical benefits

Full range of financial benefits

Company

Amazon

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Amazon is a global tech firm with a focus on e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence.

Founded in 1994

Seattle, Washington, USA

10,001+ employees

https://amazon.com

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