Senior Data Scientist, Amazon

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SQL
AWS
Docker
Python
Spark
Sagemaker
Senior and Expert level
New York

Office located in Newark, NJ

Amazon

The largest online retailer and technology provider

Job no longer available

Amazon

The largest online retailer and technology provider

1001+ employees

B2CB2BMarketplaceCloud ComputingeCommerce

Job no longer available

Salary not provided
SQL
AWS
Docker
Python
Spark
Sagemaker
Senior and Expert level
New York

Office located in Newark, NJ

1001+ employees

B2CB2BMarketplaceCloud ComputingeCommerce

Company mission

Amazon aims to be Earth’s most customer centric company. Their mission is to continually raise the bar of the customer experience by using the internet and technology to help consumers find, discover and buy anything, and empower businesses and content creators to maximise their success.

Role

Who you are

  • We are looking for a motivated, results-oriented Data Scientist with strong rigor and demonstrable skills in ML, CI, NLP, data mining and/or large-scale distributed computation
  • Modeling, research design experience and exposure to cutting-edge algorithms
  • MS in one of the following disciplines: Computer Science, Statistics, Data Science, Economics, Applied Math, Operational Research or a related quantitative field and 6+ years relevant experience; or, PhD and 3+ years relevant experience
  • Experience with methods for causal inference using longitudinal data and more generally (panel, regression, diff-in-diff, etc.)
  • Fluency in English, both written and spoken
  • Fluent in SQL, Python
  • Exposure to software engineering environments (version control, command line...)
  • Machine Learning Pipeline orchestration with AWS (SageMaker, Batch, Lambda, Step Functions)
  • Experience with Docker Container Platform
  • Experience with machine learning methods for Bayesian estimation and inference
  • Experience with Agile Software Development

Desirable

  • Domain knowledge of comparable products (marketing, digital, retail)
  • Big Data Engineering with Spark / AWS EMR & Glue

What the job involves

  • As Senior Data Scientist, you will build scalable solutions and models to support our business functions (Marketing, Product, Content)
  • Leveraging a range of methods including machine learning and simulation, you will explain, quantify, predict and prescribe in support of informing critical business decisions
  • You will translate business goals into agile, insightful analytics
  • You will seek to create value for both stakeholders and customers and inform findings in a clear, actionable way to managers and senior leaders
  • Audible data science team partners with marketing, content, product, and technology teams to solve business and technology problems using scientific approaches to build product and services that surprise and delight our customers
  • We employ scalable cutting-edge machine learning (ML), causal inference (CI) and GenAI / Natural Language Processing (NLP) knowledge to better target customers and prospects, understand and personalize the content, and context needed to optimize their book-listening experience
  • We operate in an agile environment in which we own and collaborate on the life cycle of research, design, and model development of relevant projects
  • Develop and validate models to optimize the Who, When, Where and How of all our interactions with customers
  • Develop Amazon-scale data engineering pipelines
  • Imagine and invent before the business asks, and create groundbreaking applications using cutting-edge approaches
  • Develop compelling data visualizations
  • Work closely with other data scientists, ML experts, engineers as well as business across globe, and on cross-disciplinary efforts with other scientists within Amazon
  • Contribute to the growth of the Audible Data Science team by sharing your ideas, intellectual property and learning from others

Our take

Amazon is the world's largest online retailer, and is well-known for its disruption of well-established industries. The company is present in numerous verticals, including cloud computing with Amazon Web Services, AI with its range of Alexa devices and a global marketplace more commonly referred to as 'the everything store'. Acquisitions include Ring, Twitch, Whole Foods Market, and IMDb.

More recently, Amazon has been focused on leading the "third wave in digital advertising". Many businesses are now shifting ad dollars to retailers, which before would have been spent with online media platforms. Amazon's seen great success in the space, with its revenue from advertising now higher than its Amazon Prime membership scheme, audiobooks and digital music combined. This growth is particularly impressive considering its digital ad rivals (like Snap, Alphabet, and Meta) have suffered declines due to wider macroeconomic factors and Apple's iOS privacy changes.

Despite its dominant market position, Amazon will continue to be challenged over the next decade, including sustaining AWS's cloud dominance in the face of Google and Microsoft. On top of this, the company's e-commerce division is facing profitability problems despite its 2023 post-IPO debt funding of 8 billion. It will need to find new ways to stay above their competitors.

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Company

Company benefits

  • Employees have opportunities to own Amazon stock, participate in 401(k) plans with company match, and enroll in paid life and accident insurance
  • Financial counseling and estate planning services are also available, plus paid short-term and long-term disability if needed
  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage to all our regular full-time employees, regardless of their level, tenure, or position
  • Amazon employees have free access to a network of more than 2 million caregivers, including nannies, babysitters and special-needs caretakers
  • Employees receive discounts on certain day care centers, and Amazon provides a variety of free resources for parents of children with autism, ADHD and developmental disabilities
  • Adoption assistance for qualified domestic and international adoption expenses including attorney fees, court costs, and travel
  • Leave Share program allows employees to give six weeks of paid parental leave to a spouse or partner who isn’t eligible for parental leave from their employer
  • Amazon Care's virtual services are available in all 50 states, and in-person care is active in Seattle, Washington, D.C., Arlington, Baltimore, Boston, Dallas, Austin, and Los Angeles, with 20+ more markets coming online in 2022 alone
  • 20 weeks of paid leave to birthing mothers and six weeks for parents who adopt

Company values

  • Customer obsession rather than competitor focus
  • Passion for invention
  • Commitment to operational excellence
  • Long-term thinking

Company HQ

South Lake Union, Seattle, WA

Founders

Jeff Bezos

(Executive Chairman)

Jeff is an American business magnate, media proprietor, and investor. As well as founding Amazon, Jeff founded Blue Origin, an aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company and also owns The Washington Post.

Andy Jassy

(President & CEO (not founder))

Joined Amazon as a Marketing Manager in 1997. Developed AWS with Jeff Bezos, and became CEO of Amazon in 2021.

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