Amazon
Applied Scientist, Global Risk Intelligence and Prevention, Seller Abuse Prevention
$143K–$193K
Seattle, WA · Full-time · Posted Aug 7, 2026
- Experience
- PhD, or Master’s degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML, or related field experience.
- Education
- PhD, or Master's degree
About the job
Develops and deploys AI-based systems to detect and prevent seller and catalog abuse across Amazon’s marketplace.
What you'll do
- Build predictive risk models and determine appropriate actions across risk levels.
- Create interpretable explanations for model decisions and translate investigation patterns into automated detection strategies.
- Partner with engineering, operations, and verification teams to deploy models and evaluate their effectiveness.
What they ask for
- PhD, or Master’s degree and 4+ years of experience in CS, CE, ML, or a related field.
- Programming experience in Java, C++, Python, or a related language.
- Experience in algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, or high-performance computing.
Nice to have
- Experience using Unix/Linux.
- Experience in professional software development.
Pay
142,800.00 - 193,200.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
Java, C++, Python, Unix/Linux, NLP, LLMs, agents, computer vision
AI focus
Uses AI, including small language models, LLMs, and agents, to detect abuse, assess risk, optimize decisions, and explain model outputs.
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