Amazon
Applied Scientist, Seller Partner Trust and Store Integrity Science - Global Risk Intelligence and Prevention
$143K–$193K
Seattle, WA · Full-time · Posted Jul 15, 2026
- Experience
- 4+ years with a Master's degree; PhD is an alternative.
- Education
- PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of relevant experience.
About the job
Develops and deploys AI risk-detection systems to identify bad actors and prevent marketplace abuse across the seller lifecycle.
What you'll do
- Build predictive risk models, including graph-based and network analysis methods, and determine actions for different risk levels.
- Develop interpretable explanations for model decisions and translate investigation patterns into automated detection strategies.
- Partner with engineering, operations, and verification teams to deploy models and measure detection effectiveness.
What they ask for
- PhD, or a Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML, or related field experience.
- Programming experience in Java, C++, Python, or a related language; and experience in at least one listed area such as algorithms, data mining, or distributed computing.
- Experience with Machine Learning and Large Language Model fundamentals, including architecture, training/inference lifecycles, and model execution optimization, or development experience in the last 3 years.
- Knowledge of deep learning, machine learning, and statistics; track record translating ambiguous business problems into well-defined ML solutions.
Nice to have
- Professional software development experience; PhD.
- Experience with adversarial ML, fraud or abuse prevention, graph-based learning, temporal or sequential data, or multi-modal data modeling.
Pay
142,800.00 - 193,200.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
Java, C++, Python, Machine Learning, Large Language Model
AI focus
Build AI and machine-learning systems to detect seller risk and marketplace abuse, including compromised accounts, fraudulent ownership transfers, identity manipulation, and coordinated bad-actor networks.
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