Machine Learning Scientist - Recruiting Technology Scotland, Edinburgh

Job description

DESCRIPTION

Do you want to make a real difference to real people's lives? Want to design and build fair systems which automate recruitment processes across Amazon? Come be part of a team that develop new machine learning (ML) technologies, which help Amazon scale for it's customers by recruiting diverse teams.

You will work as a ML scientist using the latest technologies including Python and Java services in a serverless and mircoservices architecture, AWS, DynamoDB, SageMaker, and MXNet. You will want to be coding and contributing regularly. This is a hands on role with the expectation of 50% of your time spent on the code.

You will work as part of a sustainable paced agile team and will play a technical hands on leadership role in your team giving you the responsibility and authority and autonomy to ensure success. You will have a system-wide, architectural view of the solutions that you build. You will be involved in every aspect of the process - from idea generation, business analysis and technical design through to software development using the latest technologies and design patterns. Your systems will meet remarkably high standards of performance and reliability, and will operate at massive scale, 24x7.

Come join a team full talented people who come from all over the world. Enjoy the chance to work in a relaxed setting with a good social life. The team based in Edinburgh, Scotland is rapidly expanding. Successful candidates will have strong technical ability, a focus on the customer experience, great teamwork and communication skills, and a motivation to achieve results in a fast-paced environment.

We are looking for ML scientists who can delight our customers by continually learning and inventing. Our ideal candidate is an experienced ML scientist who has a track-record of performing analysis and applying statistical techniques to solve real business problems, who has great leadership and communication skills, and who is motivated to achieve results in a fast-paced environment. The position offers an exceptional opportunity to grow your technical and non-technical skills and make a real difference to Amazon recruitment

The position offers exceptional opportunities for every candidate to grow their technical and non-technical skills. If you are selected, you have the opportunity to really make a difference to our business by inventing, enhancing and building world class systems, delivering results, working on exciting and challenging projects.

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· Strong computer science grounding in a broad range of algorithms and data-structures.
· Proficiency in a programming language (C++, Java, C#, C, Python etc.)
· Proficiency with at least one mathematical programming environment (Numpy/Scipy, MXNet, TensorFlow, R, Matlab, SAS, etc.)
· Programming skills sufficient to extract, transform, and clean large data sets in a Unix/Linux environment.
· Excellent critical thinking skills, combined with the ability to present your ideas clearly and compellingly in both verbal and written form.
· Strong written and verbal English communication skills.