Research Scientist, DSI - Seattle, United States - Amazon Services LLC

Description

Are you seeking an environment where you can drive innovation? Do you want to apply learning techniques and advanced mathematical modeling to solve real world problems? This job for you The Consumer Behavior Analytics (CBA) team is looking for motivated individuals with strong analytical skills to develop approaches for estimating the value of Amazon programs.

The CBA team is responsible for the architecture, design, implementation of tools used to understand customer behavior and estimate the value generated by different Amazon programs.

Amazon's CBA team is looking for Research Scientists, who can work at the intersection of machine learning, statistics and economics; and leverage the power of big data to solve complex problems like long-term causal effect estimation.

As a research scientist, you will bring statistical modeling and machine learning advancements to analyze data and develop customer-facing solutions in complex industrial settings.

You will take on challenging problems, distill real requirements, and then deliver solutions that either leverage existing academic and industrial research, or utilize your own out-of-the-box pragmatic thinking.

• Understand and mine the large amount of data, prototype and implement new learning algorithms and prediction techniques to improve longterm causal estimation approaches.
• Collaborate with product managers and engineering teams to design and implement solutions for Amazon problems

• PhD in a quantitative field, or MS degree and 1+ years of quantitative field research experience
• Experience investigating the feasibility of applying scientific principles and concepts to business problems and products
• Experience with data analysis package (R, SAS, Matlab, etc.)

• PhD in operations research, applied mathematics, theoretical computer science, or equivalent
• Experience applying forecasting and data mining techniques