Senior Applied Scientist, Alexa for Shopping (Rufus)
Role overview
Amazon Alexa for Shopping (Rufus) Experience Science team is seeking a highly motivated Scientist who is passionate about building next-generation agentic shopping experiences. In this role, you will be developing Agentic Language Models to unlock new shopping experiences. Prior experiences with LLM Post-training techniques, Reinforcement Learning (RL) Training and business specific RL gym creation is preferred. You will collaborate closely with a multidisciplinary team of scientists, engineers, product managers, and designers to deliver these experiences across multiple Rufus customer-facing features. You will thrive in this role if you enjoy bringing latest LLM post-training research into everyday life—both for customers and for yourself. There’s nothing quite like realizing that a model you deployed yesterday is already improving your own shopping experience today. You will work side by side with scientists and engineers in a fast-paced environment, driving rapid model development and experimentation. You’ll also have access to Amazon’s rich datasets, AWS’s massive computational resources, and a network of world-class science and engineering leaders across the company.
Basic qualifications
- PhD, or Master's degree and 6+ years of applied research experience
- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
- Experience with neural deep learning methods and machine learning
- Experience in patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences (e.g. ICLR, ICML, Neurips) or journals
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.
Benefits
- check_circle The base salary range for this position is listed below.
- check_circle Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs).
- check_circle Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location.
- check_circle Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.
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Amazon is looking for an AI Content Expert II to help with annotations, content generation, and data analysis. As part of the Data Team, you will be responsible for delivering high-quality training data to improve and expand AGI's Large Language Models' (LLMs) capabilities. Key job responsibilities As an AI Content Expert, you will be responsible for creating training data that are complex in nature and will require you to make informed and high judgement decisions in each case. You wi...
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