Amazon
Senior Applied Scientist, Featured Merchant Algorithm
$167K–$226K
Seattle, WA · Senior · Full-time · Posted Jul 8, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years building machine learning models for business applications; PhD, or Master's degree and 6+ years of applied research experience.
- Education
- PhD, or Master's degree and 6+ years of applied research experience.
About the job
Builds offer-selection and ranking algorithms and related customer experiences that select and display trusted merchant offers across Amazon shopping surfaces.
What you'll do
- Build, innovate, and maintain key offer-selection algorithms; collaborate with scientists and partner organizations on algorithmic strategy.
- Research and deliver techniques for ranking, simulation, and evaluation systems.
- Build and maintain AI, ML, and LLM integrations.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of building machine learning models for business application experience.
- PhD, or Master's degree and 6+ years of applied research experience.
- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python, or a related language.
- Experience with neural deep learning methods and machine learning.
Nice to have
- Experience with modeling tools such as R, scikit-learn, Spark MxNet, Tensorflow, numpy, scipy, etc.
- Experience with large-scale distributed systems such as Hadoop or Spark.
Pay
167,100.00 - 226,100.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
Java, C++, Python, R, scikit-learn, Spark MxNet, Tensorflow, Hadoop
AI focus
Develop and maintain AI, machine learning, and LLM integrations, including offer-selection, ranking, simulation, and evaluation systems.
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