Senior Applied Scientist, International Machine Learning

Job Title: Senior Applied Scientist, International Machine Learning Company: Amazon Job Category: Machine Learning Roles & Responsibilities: We are developing state\-of\-the\-art machine learning solutions to accelerate the Amazon India growth story. Amazon India is an exciting place to be at for a machine learning practitioner. We have the eagerness of a fresh startup to absorb machine learning solutions, and the scale of a mature firm to help support their development at the same time. As part of the India Machine Learning team, you will get to work alongside brilliant minds motivated to solve real\-world machine learning problems that make a difference to millions of our customers. We encourage thought leadership and blue ocean thinking in ML. Key job responsibilities Design, develop, evaluate and deploy, innovative and highly scalable ML models Work closely with software engineering teams to drive real\-time model implementations Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large scale data analyses, model development, model validation and model maintenance Work proactively with engineering teams and product managers to evangelize new algorithms and drive the implementation of large\-scale complex ML models in production Leading projects and mentoring other scientists, engineers in the use of ML techniques About The Team International Machine Learning Team is responsible for building novel ML solutions that attack India first (and other Emerging Markets across MENA and LatAm) problems and impact the bottom\-line and top\-line of India business. Learn more about our team from https://www.amazon.science/working\-at\-amazon/how\-rajeev\-rastogis\-machine\-learning\-team\-in\-india\-develops\-innovations\-for\-customers\-worldwide Work Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India Availability: Full time

Machine Learning, Big Data and related quantitative sciences have been strategic to Amazon from the early years. Amazon has been a pioneer in areas such as recommendation engines, ecommerce fraud detection and large\-scale optimization of fulfillment center operations. As Amazon has rapidly grown and diversified, the opportunity for applying machine learning has exploded. We have a very broad collection of practical problems where machine learning systems can dramatically improve the customer experience, reduce cost, and drive speed and automation. These include product bundle recommendations for millions of products, safeguarding financial transactions across by building the risk models, improving catalog quality via extracting product attribute values from structured/unstructured data for millions of products, enhancing address quality by powering customer suggestions Basic Qualifications * 6\+ years of building machine learning models for business application experience * Experience programming in Java, C\+\+, Python or related language * Experience with neural deep learning methods and machine learning * Master's degree, or PhD Preferred Qualifications * Experience with modeling tools such as R, scikit\-learn, Spark MLLib, MxNet, Tensorflow, numpy, scipy etc. * Experience with large scale distributed systems such as Hadoop, Spark etc. Key Skills: Machine Learning, Python, TensorFlow, NumPy Salary: Not disclosed