Amazon · 17 hours ago
Applied Scientist II, Amazon Payments Team
Seattle, WA
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
$143K/yr - $193K/yr
4+ years expAmazon is a leading technology company that builds systems for processing payments at a massive scale. The Applied Scientist II role involves designing and implementing AI prediction and optimization models to enhance Amazon's Payments and Customer Experience.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)DeliveryE-CommerceFoundational AIRetail
Responsibilities
Drive collaborative research and creative problem solving
Develop state of the art AI Agents that reduce operations across Payment teams
Lead research on customizing LLMs to incorporate payment context and reduce latency of LLM invocation, reduce hallucinations and compute while maintaining or increasing accuracy
Write production-grade quality code for deploying machine learning and deep learning modes
Constructively critique peer research and mentor junior scientists and engineers
Create experiments and prototype implementations of state-of-the-art AI techniques
Collaborate with engineering teams to design and implement software solutions for science problems
Contribute to progress of the Amazon and broader research communities by producing publication
Effectively collaborate in a fast paced environment with multiple teams in large organization (software development, Project Management, Build and Release, etc)
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 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
3+ years of hands-on predictive modeling and large data analysis experience
3+ years of building machine learning models or developing algorithms for business application experience
Benefits
Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
401(k) matching
Paid time off
Parental leave
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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