Amazon
Applied Scientist, Tablets
$143K–$193K
Seattle, WA · Full-time · Posted Jul 13, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years building models for business application; alternatively, a Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience is stated alongside the PhD requirement.
- Education
- PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience.
About the job
Develops and deploys recommendation models to improve content discovery and the customer experience on Amazon Tablets.
What you'll do
- Research customer behavior and design state-of-the-art recommendation models.
- Deploy models to production in collaboration with engineers.
- Participate in the Amazon ML community and mentor engineers interested in ML and generative AI.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of building models for business application experience.
- PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience.
- 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
AI focus
Design and deploy recommendation models; work involves ML and generative AI knowledge, including mentoring others in these areas.
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