Amazon
Sr. Applied Scientist
$167K–$226K
Seattle, WA · Senior · Full-time · Posted Apr 15, 2026
- Experience
- 4+ years building machine learning models for business applications; alternatively, a PhD, or a Master’s degree and 4+ years of applied research experience.
- Education
- PhD, or Master’s degree and 4+ years of applied research experience.
About the job
Researches customer behavior and builds and deploys recommendation models on Amazon’s retail website to improve product discovery and measure customer and business impact.
What you'll do
- Investigate customer behavior and develop recommendation models using large-scale computing resources.
- Deploy recommendation models on Amazon’s retail website and measure their impact with scientific tools.
- Participate in the Amazon ML community and mentor Applied Scientists and software development engineers.
What they ask for
- 4+ years of experience building machine learning models for business applications.
- PhD, or a Master’s degree and 4+ years of applied research experience.
- Programming experience 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 MLLib, MxNet, Tensorflow, numpy, or scipy.
- Experience with large-scale distributed systems or large-scale machine learning systems.
Pay
USD 167,100.00 - 226,100.00 annually (base salary)
Tools
Java, C++, Python, R, scikit-learn, Spark MLLib, MxNet, Tensorflow
AI focus
Build and deploy machine learning and deep learning models that recommend relevant products, programs, and content based on customer behavior.
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