Data Scientist III

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Job DescriptionMachine learning (ML) has been strategic to Amazon from the early years. We are pioneers in areas such as recommendation engines, product search, eCommerce fraud detection, and large-scale optimization of fulfillment center operations. The ML team within AWS provides opportunities to innovate in a fast-paced organization that contributes to game-changing projects and technologies that get deployed on devices and the cloud. As an ML solutions architect/data scientist in the AWS-ML team, you'll partner with technology and business teams to build new services that surprise and delight our customers. You will be working with terabytes of text, images, and other types of data to solve real-world problems. You'll design and run experiments, research new algorithms, and find new ways of optimizing risk, profitability, and customer experience. We\u2019re looking for top ML solutions architects/data scientists capable of using ML and other techniques to design, evangelize, and implement state-of-the-art solutions for never-before-solved problems. The primary responsibilities of this role are to:

Use deep learning, machine learning and analytical techniques to create scalable solutions for business problems
Design, development and evaluation of highly innovative models for predictive learning, content ranking, and anomaly detection
Interact with customer directly to understand the business problem, help and aid them in implementation of DL/ML algorithms to solve problems
Analyze and extract relevant information from large amounts of historical data to help automate and optimize key processes
Work closely with account team, research scientist teams and product engineering teams to drive model implementations and new algorithms
This position requires travel of up to 50%.
Basic Qualifications

BS and Masters degrees in computer science, or related technical, math, or scientific field
5 years of professional experience in a business environment
3 years of relevant experience in building large scale machine learning or deep learning models and/or systems
1 year of experience specifically with deep learning (e.g., CNN, RNN, LSTM)

Preferred Qualifications

PhD degree in computer science, or related technical, math, or scientific field
Strong working knowledge of deep learning, machine learning and statistics.
Hands on experience building models with deep learning frameworks like MXNet, Tensorflow, Caffe, Torch, Theano or similar.
Experience in using Python, R or Matlab or other statistical/machine learning software
Strong communication and data presentation skills
The motivation to achieve results in a fast-paced environment.
Experience with statistical modeling / machine learning
Strong attention to detail
Comfortable working in a fast paced, highly collaborative, dynamic work environment
Ability to think creatively and solve problems

Company info

Amazon.com, Inc.
Website : http://www.amazon.com/

Company Profile
Amazon, a Fortune 500 company based in Seattle, Washington, is the global leader in e-commerce. Since Jeff Bezos started Amazon in 1995, we have significantly expanded our product offerings, international sites, and worldwide network of fulfillment and customer service centers. Today, Amazon offers everything from books and electronics to tennis rackets and diamond jewelry. We operate sites in Canada, China, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain and United Kingdom and maintain dozens of fulfillment centers around the world which encompass more than 26 million square feet.