Applied Scientist, Alexa for Shopping (Rufus) Experience Science

Amazon Alexa for Shopping (Rufus) Experience Science team is seeking a highly motivated Scientist who is passionate about building next-generation agentic shopping this role you will be developing Agentic Language Models to unlock new shopping experiences. Prior experiences with LLM Post-training techniques Reinforcement Learning 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 lifeboth for customers and for yourself. Theres 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. Youll also have access to Amazons rich datasets AWSs massive computational resources and a network of world-class science and engineering leaders across the company.

Key job responsibilities
Execute the science vision and data-driven solutions for the real-world large scale problems in alexa for and maintain software and models in the production cross-functionally between product design and engineering.

- 3 years of building models for business application experience
- PhD or Masters degree and 4 years of CS CE ML or related field experience
- Experience in patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals
- Experience programming in Java C Python or related language
- Experience in any of the following areas: algorithms and data structures parsing numerical optimization data mining parallel and distributed computing high-performance computing

- Experience using Unix/Linux
- Experience in professional software development
- Knowledge of architectural concepts and algorithms schedule tradeoffs and new opportunities with technical team members

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. 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. Learn more about our benefits at WA Seattle - 142800.00 - 193200.00 USD annually