Sr. Applied Scientist, AWS Support
Cape Town, Western Cape, ZAF
Amazon.com
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As an applied scientist on our team, you will help to build the next generation of case routing using artificial intelligence to optimize business metric targets addressing the business challenge of ensuring that the right case gets worked by the right agent within the right time limit whilst meeting the target business success metric. You will develop machine learning models and pipelines, harness and explain rich data at Amazon scale, and provide automated insights to improve case routing that impact millions of customers every day. You will be a pragmatic technical leader comfortable with ambiguity, capable of summarizing complex data and models through clear visual and written explanations.
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Key job responsibilities
Deliver real world production systems at AWS scale.
Work closely with the business to understand the problem space, identify the opportunities and formulate the problems.
Use machine learning, data mining, statistical techniques, Generative AI and others to create actionable, meaningful, and scalable solutions for the business problems.
Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large scale data analyses, model development, model validation and model implementation
Analyze complex support case datasets and metrics to drive insight
Design, build, and deploy effective and innovative ML solutions to optimize case routing
Evaluate the proposed solutions via offline benchmark tests as well as online A/B tests in production.
Drive collaborative research and creative problem solving across science and software engineering team
Propose and validate hypothesis to deliver and direct our product road map
Work with engineers to deliver low latency model predictions to production
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Cape Town, ZAF
Basic Qualifications
- 6+ years of building machine learning models or developing algorithms for business application experience
- PhD, or Master's degree and 6+ years of applied research experience
- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
- Experience with neural deep learning methods and machine learning
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with modeling tools such as R, scikit-learn, Spark MLLib, MxNet, Tensorflow, numpy, scipy etc.- Experience with large scale distributed systems such as Hadoop, Spark etc.
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* Salary range is an estimate based on our AI, ML, Data Science Salary Index 💰
Tags: A/B testing AWS Chatbots Data Mining Deep Learning Distributed Systems Engineering Generative AI Hadoop Java Machine Learning ML models MXNet NumPy PhD Pipelines Python R Research Scikit-learn SciPy Spark Statistics TensorFlow
Perks/benefits: Career development Conferences Equity Flex hours Team events
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