Applied Scientist II, Digital Acceleration
Amazon
2 - 5 years
Chennai
Posted: 19/11/2024
Job Description
The Digital Acceleration (DA) team in India is seeking a talented, self
- driven Applied Scientist to work on prototyping, optimizing, and deploying ML algorithms for solving Digital business problems.
Key job responsibilities:
- Research, experiment and build Proof Of Concepts advancing the state of the art in AI & ML.
- Work cross
- functionally across engineering, product, and business teams to understand customer needs, scope science work, and drive science solutions from conception to customer delivery.
- Thrive in dynamic environments, adapting quickly to evolving technical requirements.
- Engage in effective technical communication (written & spoken) with coordination across teams.
- Conduct thorough documentation of algorithms, methodologies, and findings for transparency and reproducibility.
- Publish research papers in internal and external venues of repute
- Support on
- call activities for critical issues
Basic Qualifications:
- Experience building machine learning models or developing algorithms for business application
- PhD, or a Master's degree and experience in CS, CE, ML or related field
- Rapidly prototype ML/LLM solutions, evaluate feasibility, and drive projects to production deployment
- Knowledge of programming languages such as C/C++, Python, Java or Perl
- Experience in any of the following areas: algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, high
- performance computing
- Proficiency in coding and software development, with a strong focus on machine learning frameworks.
- Understanding of relevant statistical measures such as confidence intervals, significance of error measurements, development and evaluation data sets, etc.
- Excellent communication skills (written & spoken) and ability to collaborate effectively in a distributed, cross
- functional team setting.
Preferred Qualifications
- 3+ years of building machine learning models or developing algorithms for business application experience
- Have publications at top
- tier peer
- reviewed conferences or journals
- Track record of diving into data to discover hidden patterns and conducting error/deviation analysis
- Ability to develop experimental and analytic plans for data modeling processes, use of strong baselines, ability to accurately determine cause and effect relations
- Comfortable working in a fast paced, highly collaborative, dynamic work environment
Basic Qualifications
- 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 Qualifications
- Experience using Unix/Linux
- Experience in professional software development
About Company
Amazon is a multinational technology and e-commerce company founded by Jeff Bezos in 1994. Initially focused on selling books online, it quickly expanded into a broad range of products and services, including electronics, cloud computing (via Amazon Web Services), streaming, and artificial intelligence. Amazon has revolutionized online shopping with fast delivery, personalized recommendations, and a subscription service called Amazon Prime. It is one of the world's largest and most valuable companies, with a significant impact on retail, technology, and logistics.
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