Amazon · 1 week ago
Applied Scientist, Personalization
Will County, IL
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
5+ years expAmazon is a leading company in e-commerce and technology, seeking an Applied Scientist to innovate in the field of personalization. The role involves researching, designing, and developing new AI technologies to enhance customer shopping experiences through personalized recommendations.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)DeliveryE-CommerceFoundational AIRetail
Responsibilities
Research, design, and develop new AI technologies for personalization
Adopt or invent new machine learning and analytical techniques in the realm of recommendations, information retrieval and large language models
Collaborate with scientists, engineers, and product partners locally and abroad
Invent, experiment with, and launch new features, products and systems
Qualification
Required
PhD in CS/EE or related field, or MSc and 5+ years of applied research experience
Strong CS foundations (data structures and algorithms)
Hands-on Experience with bringing LLM systems to production
Excellent coding and design skills, proficiency with Python
Several publications at top-tier peer-reviewed research conferences or journals
Strong communication and collaboration skills
Preferred
Experience in building and launching deep learning and machine learning models for business applications
Solid knowledge of big data and cloud technologies (e.g., Spark, AWS, etc.)
Experience with information retrieval, recommender systems, natural language processing, and/or personalization algorithms
Publications at top Web, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing conferences such as KDD, ICML, NeurIPS, ACL, EMNLP, etc
Company
Amazon
Amazon is a tech firm with a focus on e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence.
10001+ employees
H1B Sponsorship
Amazon has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not
guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your
reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
Distribution of Different Job Fields Receiving Sponsorship
Represents job field similar to this job
Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (22803)
2024 (21175)
2023 (19057)
2022 (24088)
2021 (12233)
2020 (14881)
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
Recent News
2026-01-18
Springfield Business Journal
2026-01-18
2026-01-18
Company data provided by crunchbase