Research Scientist

Job description

DESCRIPTION

Amazon is looking for a Research Scientist in Machine Learning to join an exciting new project team working to build a completely new best in class consumer product. We are an innovative, cross-platform, customer-obsessed team, working on big-bets in an innovative environment. Our organization rewards intellectual curiosity while maintaining the direct to market product focus. Our mission is to invent and simplify large-scale solutions and bring the future to Amazon customers.

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

MSc or PhD in Statistics, Physics, Engineering, or related quantitative field
Experience with analyzing and quantifying data collected through crowd sourcing protocols
Strong experience with descriptive statistics and visualization tools
Expert in Python, or another scripting language (R, Perl); command line usage, e.g., Bash. Solid experience with SQL
Knowledge of statistical modelling / machine learning techniques
Experience with data selection methods: identify how to choose which data for which experimental set ups
Excellent communication and organizational skills with significant attention to detail