Amazon
Principal Data Scientist, Core Shopping Data Science
$189K–$295K
Seattle, WA +1 · Principal · Full-time · Posted Aug 3, 2026
- Location
- Seattle, WA
Palo Alto, CA - Experience
- Substantial industry experience as a data scientist; no number of years stated.
- Education
- Graduate degree in a quantitative field (such as statistics, computer science, economics, or operations research), or equivalent depth built through experience.
About the job
Own the analytical validation and cross-organization alignment of Amazon shopping quality metrics, using evidence and tooling to make quality judgments more reliable and enforceable.
What you'll do
- Validate metric definitions, audit LLM implementations, and assess judgment accuracy across shopping quality dimensions.
- Identify gaps between Organic and Ads treatments and align Stores and Ads stakeholders using evidence-backed deep dives.
- Build repeatable validation tools, including store-walk bots, experiment inspection, and customer-feedback loops.
What they ask for
- Graduate degree in a quantitative field or equivalent depth built through experience.
- Substantial industry experience as a data scientist, including technical leadership on ambiguous, high-visibility problems.
- Fluency in statistical inference, experimental design, and sampling methodology.
- Production-quality coding in Python and SQL; experience owning and defending metrics used by other organizations.
Nice to have
- Experience evaluating LLMs as judges or annotators, or aligning measurement across organizations with competing incentives.
- Experience in e-commerce search, recommendations, or advertising quality; reproducible analysis tooling or senior-executive communications.
Pay
217,800.00 - 294,700.00 USD annually (base salary); 189,400.00 - 256,200.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
LLMs, Python, SQL, Gecko
AI focus
Audit LLM implementations and evaluate their judgment accuracy for shopping quality; build tooling, including agents that inspect the store as a customer would.
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