Data Scientist II, Amazon Private Brands, PBI Selection Guidance

Join our Amazon Private Brands Selection Guidance organization in building science and tech solutions at scale to delight our customers with products across our leading private brands such as Amazon Basics Amazon Essentials and by Amazon.

The Selection Guidance team applies Generative AI Machine Learning Statistics and Economics solutions to drive our private brands product assortment strategic business decisions and product inputs such as title price merchandising and ordering. We are an interdisciplinary team of Scientists Economists Engineers and Product Managers incubating and building day one solutions using novel technology to solve some of the toughest business problems at Amazon.

As a Data Scientist you will investigate business problems using data invent novel solutions and prototypes and directly contribute to bringing your ideas to life through production implementation. Current research areas include named entity recognition product substitutes pricing optimization agentic AI and large language models. You will review and guide scientists across the team on their designs and implementations and raise the team bar for science research and prototypes.

This is a unique high visibility opportunity for someone who wants to develop ambitious science solutions and have direct business and customer impact.

Key job responsibilities
Partner with business stakeholders to deeply understand APB business problems and frame ambiguous business problems as science problems and solutions.
Perform data analysis and build data pipelines to drive business decisions.
Invent novel science solutions develop prototypes and deploy production software to solve business problems.
Review and guide science solutions across the team.
Publish and socialize your and the teams research across Amazon and external avenues as appropriate
Leverage industry best practices to establish repeatable applied science practices principles & processes.

- 2 years of data scientist experience
- 3 years of data querying languages (e.g. SQL) scripting languages (e.g. Python) or statistical/mathematical software (e.g. R SAS Matlab etc.) experience
- 3 years of machine learning/statistical modeling data analysis tools and techniques and parameters that affect their performance experience
- 1 years of creating or contributing to mathematical textbooks research papers or educational content experience
- Masters degree in Science Technology Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) or experience working in Science Technology Engineering or Mathematics (STEM)
- Experience applying theoretical models in an applied environment

- Knowledge of machine learning concepts and their application to reasoning and problem-solving
- Experience in Python Perl or another scripting language
- Experience in a ML or data scientist role with a large technology company
- Experience working on multi-team cross-disciplinary projects
- Experience applying quantitative analysis to solve business problems and making data-driven business decisions
- Experience effectively communicating complex concepts through written and verbal communication

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees supervisors and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees supervisors and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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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 CA San Diego - 136000.00 - 184000.00 USD annually