Amazon · 5 days ago
Principal Applied Scientist, Personalization
Seattle, WA
Full-time
Hybrid
Lead/Staff
$179K/yr - $309K/yrAmazon is building the next generation of personalized shopping experiences through deep understanding of customer intent and product catalog. As a Principal Applied Scientist, you will lead science innovation, develop advanced machine learning techniques, and mentor applied scientists while improving the customer shopping experience.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)DeliveryE-CommerceFoundational AIRetail
Responsibilities
Innovate new features and models that have huge impact on the customer experience. Help customers find the right products and content on their shopping journey. Leverage the use of advanced machine learning to create customer shopping experience at Amazon's scale - for all Amazon customers across all countries in realtime
Be a key leader on a multidisciplinary team across science, product, design, and engineering to see through ideas from inception, prototype, to launch in the hands of all Amazon's customers
Drive the science roadmap across multiple teams, helping coordinate a cohesive science agenda across the org
Mentoring applied scientists across the org, growing their skills and careers
Qualification
Required
Experience working in predictive modeling and analysis
Experience distilling informal customer requirements into problem definitions, dealing with ambiguity and competing objectives
Preferred
Experience creating novel algorithms and advancing the state of the art
Benefits
Equity
Sign-on payments
Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits
Company
Amazon
Amazon is a tech firm with a focus on e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence.
Founded in 1994
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$8.11BKey Investors
AmazonKleiner Perkins
2023-01-03Post Ipo Debt· $8B
2001-07-24Post Ipo Equity· $100M
1997-05-15IPO
Leadership Team
Douglas J. Herrington
CEO, Worldwide Amazon Stores
Werner Vogels
VP & CTO
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