Amazon · 1 week ago
Applied Scientist, Amazon Special Projects
Seattle, Washington, USA
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid, Senior Level
$136K/yr - $223K/yr
3+ years expAmazon is a leading technology company seeking innovators for their Special Projects team. As an Applied Scientist, you will focus on building state-of-the-art ML models for biology and work collaboratively with a diverse team to solve real-world problems.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)DeliveryE-CommerceFoundational AIRetail
Responsibilities
As an Applied Science, you will have access to large datasets with billions of images and video to build large-scale machine learning systems
Additionally, you will analyze and model terabytes of text, images, and other types of data to solve real-world problems and translate business and functional requirements into quick prototypes or proofs of concept
We are looking for smart scientists capable of using a variety of domain expertise combined with machine learning and statistical techniques to invent, design, evangelize, and implement state-of-the-art solutions for never-before-solved problems
Qualification
Required
3+ years of building models for business application experience
PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience
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
Experience using Unix/Linux
Experience in professional software development
Experience in patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR) or journals
Experience in deep learning models for life sciences; knowledge of protein biology
Benefits
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.
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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