Research Scientist I, Consumer Payments

Job summary
Job summary

Are you excited about influencing the payment experience of millions of customers worldwide ? The moment a customer makes a payment on Amazon is when trust is established – trust that the item is delivered on time, a refund is provided quickly if needed, a digital movie purchased will play immediately, a seller receives their disbursement, and hundreds of other experiences across Amazon when a customer completes a payment. The Payment Acceptance & Experience (PAE) team, within the Consumer Payments organization, has the mission to build the most trusted, intuitive, and accessible payment experience on Earth. Applied Science & Machine Learning Engineering (PAE ASMLE) is the core machine learning team within PAE. The team has a mission to enhance customer payments experience that requires advancing the state of the art in machine learning. We work backwards from the customer to create value for them by leveraging an underlying applied science methodology. We deploy our solutions through Native AWS services that operate at Amazon scale. We strive to publish our solutions and share our findings so that the broader Amazon scientific community can benefit.

Your responsibilities include:

• Build and develop machine learning models and supporting infrastructure at TB scale, in coordination with software engineering teams.
• Leverage Bandits and Reinforcement Learning for Recommendation Systems.
• Develop offline policy estimation tools and integrate with reporting systems.
• Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large scale data analyses, model development, model validation and model implementation.
• Analyze and extract relevant information from large amounts of Amazon’s historical business data to help automate and optimize key processes.
• Work closely with the business to understand their problem space, identify the opportunities and formulate the problems.
• Use machine learning, data mining, statistical techniques and others to create actionable, meaningful, and scalable solutions for the business problems.
• Design, develop and evaluate highly innovative models and statistical approaches to understand and predict customer behavior and to solve business problems.

Your benefits include:

. Working on a high-impact, high-visibility product, with your work improving the experience of millions of customers.
. The opportunity to use (and innovate) state-of-the-art ML methods to solve real-world problems.
. Excellent opportunities, and ample support, for career growth, development, and mentorship.
. Competitive compensation, including relocation support.

The PAE ML team operates primarily out of Amazon's Seattle office. We are a new and expanding team where you will have an opportunity to influence our goals and mission. We collaborate with Software Engineering, Data Engineering, Product Management and Marketing teams within Amazon Consumer Payments to solve and deploy machine learning solutions at scale.

Please visit https://www.amazon.science for more information

Basic Qualifications

• MS in CS, Machine Learning or in a highly quantitative field.
• Hands-on experience (academic or industrial) in predictive modeling and big data analysis.Strong coding and problem-solving skills in at least one programming language such as Python, Java, Scala etc.
• Working knowledge of web-scale data processing (e.g., PySpark).
• Sound theoretical understanding of broad machine learning concepts, with deep and demonstrable expertise in at least one topic or application of machine learning.

Preferred Qualifications

• PhD in CS, Machine Learning or in a highly quantitative field.
• Prior work experience as an applied scientist or a data scientist at a consumer product company.
• Experience using an object-oriented language to write production-ready code.
• At least one record of publication in one of the following areas: information retrieval, natural language processing, recommender systems, reinforcement learning or multi-armed bandits.
• Industry experience working with anomaly detection, ranking, customer segmentation, or recommender systems.

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Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, or other legally protected status. If you would like to request an accommodation, please notify your Recruiter.