Are you passionate about automation, knowledge extraction, and artificial intelligence through the use of Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Recommender systems, Computer Vision, and Optimization? We have a team of experienced scientists with a critical business mission making revolutionary leaps forward in these spaces. On this team you will work with an immense and diverse corpus of text, image, and audio to build generative and discriminative models, analyze and model customer reading behavior to measure engagement and detect risks, study and optimize manufacturing and fulfillment processes, and build AI-based systems for helping indie authors with marketing their books. This will involve combining methods from several science domains with domain knowledge across multiple businesses into sophisticated ML workflows. Our team has mature areas and green-field opportunities. We offer scientific autonomy, value end-to-end ownership, and have a strong customer-focused culture.
Come join us as we revolutionize the book industry and deliver an amazing experience to our Kindle authors and readers.
Key job responsibilities
As a Machine Learning Scientist at Amazon, you will connect with world leaders in your field working on similar problems. You will be working with large distributed systems of data and providing technical leadership to the product managers, teams, and organizations building machine learning solutions. You will be tackling Machine Learning challenges in Supervised, Unsupervised, and Semi-supervised Learning; utilizing modern methods such as deep learning and classical methods from statistical learning theory, detection, estimation. MLS’s are specialists with the knowledge to help drive the scientific vision for our products. They are externally aware of the state-of-the-art in their respective field of expertise and are constantly focused on advancing that state-of-the-art for improving Amazon’s products and services.
Great candidates for this position will have experience in the areas of data science, machine learning, NLP, optimization, computer vision, or statistics. You will have hands-on experience with multiple science initiatives as well as be able to balance technical strength with business judgment to make decisions about technology, models and methodological choices. You will strive for simplicity, and demonstrate significant creativity and high judgment.
About the team
Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) and Print-On-Demand (POD) have empowered a new wave of self-motivated creators, tearing down barriers that once blocked writers from reaching readers. Our team builds rich applications that empower anyone to realize their dream of becoming an author. We strive to provide an experience that is powerful, simple, and accessible to all. We build tools that enable authors to design high quality digital and print books, reaching readers all around the world. This role will help ensure we maintain the trust of both our Authors and Readers by ensuring all books published to Amazon meet our standards.
Come join us as we revolutionize the book industry and deliver an amazing experience to our Kindle authors and readers.
Key job responsibilities
As a Machine Learning Scientist at Amazon, you will connect with world leaders in your field working on similar problems. You will be working with large distributed systems of data and providing technical leadership to the product managers, teams, and organizations building machine learning solutions. You will be tackling Machine Learning challenges in Supervised, Unsupervised, and Semi-supervised Learning; utilizing modern methods such as deep learning and classical methods from statistical learning theory, detection, estimation. MLS’s are specialists with the knowledge to help drive the scientific vision for our products. They are externally aware of the state-of-the-art in their respective field of expertise and are constantly focused on advancing that state-of-the-art for improving Amazon’s products and services.
Great candidates for this position will have experience in the areas of data science, machine learning, NLP, optimization, computer vision, or statistics. You will have hands-on experience with multiple science initiatives as well as be able to balance technical strength with business judgment to make decisions about technology, models and methodological choices. You will strive for simplicity, and demonstrate significant creativity and high judgment.
About the team
Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) and Print-On-Demand (POD) have empowered a new wave of self-motivated creators, tearing down barriers that once blocked writers from reaching readers. Our team builds rich applications that empower anyone to realize their dream of becoming an author. We strive to provide an experience that is powerful, simple, and accessible to all. We build tools that enable authors to design high quality digital and print books, reaching readers all around the world. This role will help ensure we maintain the trust of both our Authors and Readers by ensuring all books published to Amazon meet our standards.