Drimva

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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First seen Oct 15, 2026 · Last verified Nov 6, 2026 (UTC)