Amazon
Applied Scientist II
$143K–$193K
Arlington, VA · Full-time · Posted Oct 26, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years of building models for business application experience.
- Education
- Preferred: Master's degree or above in econometrics, statistics, industrial engineering, operations research, optimization, data mining, analytics, or equivalent quantitative field.
About the job
Build optimization models and AI/ML systems that improve global hourly hiring and recruitment processes under cost, capacity, and regulatory constraints.
What you'll do
- Design optimization algorithms and models for job posting timing, candidate management, and recruitment coordination.
- Develop conversion models, demand forecasts, and optimization frameworks; run experiments to evaluate their impact.
- Implement models in production-quality Python code and collaborate on integrating them into automated hiring pipelines.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of building models for business application experience.
- Programming experience in Java, C++, Python or a related language.
- Experience building machine learning models or developing algorithms for business application, and solving business problems with machine learning, data mining, and statistical algorithms.
- Experience designing experiments and statistically analyzing results; experience with deep learning architecture design, training, optimization, and model pruning.
Nice to have
- Experience in professional software development.
- Master's degree or above in a listed quantitative field, or equivalent quantitative field; experience applying theoretical models in an applied environment.
Pay
142,800.00 - 193,200.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
Java, C++, Python, machine learning, survival analysis, causal inference, stochastic dynamic programming, A/B test
AI focus
Develop AI/ML and optimization systems for hiring demand forecasting, candidate management, recruitment coordination, and automated hiring pipelines.
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