SDE, India Machine Learning - Seattle office

Job summary
Do you want to join an innovative team of SDEs and scientists who use machine learning and statistical techniques to create state-of-the-art solutions for providing better value to Amazon's customers? Do you want to build advanced algorithmic systems that help optimize millions of transactions every day? Are you excited by the prospect of analyzing and modeling terabytes of data to solve real world problems? Do you like to own end-to-end business problems/metrics and directly impact the profitability of the company? Do you like to innovate and simplify? If yes, then you may be a great fit to join the Machine Learning team for our India Consumer Businesses.
If you have an entrepreneurial spirit, know how to deliver, love to work with data, are deeply technical, highly innovative and long for the opportunity to build solutions to challenging problems that directly impact the company's bottom-line, we want to talk to you.
Major responsibilities

• Software development to create scalable solutions for business problems
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• Analyze and extract relevant information from large amounts of Amazon's historical business data to help automate and optimize key processes
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• Design, development and evaluation of highly innovative models, system/service for predictive learning
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• Work closely with applied scientist to drive real-time model implementations and new feature creations
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• Work closely with operations staff to optimize various business operations,
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• Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large scale data analyses, model development, model validation and model implementation
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• Track general business activity and provide clear, compelling management reporting on a regular basis
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• Research and implement novel machine learning and statistical approaches

Basic Qualifications

• 1+ years of experience contributing to the system design or architecture (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems.
• 2+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• Programming experience with at least one software programming language.

• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent combination of technical education and work experience;
• 3+ years of Software Development experience;
• Strong, object-oriented design and coding skills (C/C++ and/or Java on a UNIX or Linux platform)
• Solid software development background including design patterns, data structures, test driven development
• Experience with distributed (multi-tiered) systems, algorithms, and relational databases
• Software development experience in Java, JSP, Spring, building web services and highly scalable applications
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in implementing deep learning algorithms or systems especially computer vision and NLP - Strong Problem solving ability
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• Communication and data presentation skills
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• Experience with distributed systems for processing large data is a plus
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• Familiar with Hadoop, Spark, Hive/Pig will be a plus.

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