Data Scientist

Job description

DESCRIPTION

Help create the future of advertising and digital entertainment with Amazon! It’s an exciting time to be on the Video Shopping Experience (VSE) team. Our team builds the front end user interface and back end systems to power shopping videos across the Amazon site. We’re looking for an extremely customer-focused Data Scientist who can help us connect customers with high-quality, relevant video content from our content providers to improve the customer shopping journey. This person will contribute creative solutions to the many opportunities that the video commerce and advertising business has to offer. If you love being customer centric, like to be creative, and are deeply analytical, this is the position for you.

As a Data Scientist with Video Shopping Experience team, you will apply scientific principles and develop innovative techniques to answer business questions related to video performance and customer engagement. Specific responsibilities include:
· Analyze complex datasets to make decisions
· Conduct scientific research projects
· Create vizualizations to drive data insights and describe an end-to-end system
· Develop scalable algorithms and models for ongoing measurement and analysis

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

· PhD in Quantitative field (CS, ML, Mathematics, Statistics, Physics)
· Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to effectively advocate technical solutions to engineering teams and business audiences
· Experience in processing, filtering, and presenting large quantities (Millions to Billions of rows) of data
· Demonstrable track record of dealing well with ambiguity, prioritizing needs, and delivering results in a dynamic environment
· Experience working with advertising, retail, or e-commerce data

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

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Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

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· MS with 4+ years of industry experience or Bachelors with 7+ years of experience in Quantitative field (CS, ML, Mathematics, Statistics, Physics)
· 4+ years of experience with data querying languages (e.g. SQL), scripting languages (e.g. Python), or statistical/mathematical software (e.g. R, SAS, Matlab)
· Experience in creating data driven visualizations to describe an end-to-end system
· Highly skilled in data and math/statistical methods (i.e. modeling, algorithms)
· Evidence of using of relevant statistical measures such as confidence intervals, significance of error measurements, development and evaluation data sets, etc. in data analysis projects