Amazon's Compliance Shared Service (CoSS) Team is looking for a smart, energetic, and creative senior Applied Scientist to apply and extend state-of-the-art research in NLP, multi-modal modeling, domain adaptation, continuous learning and large language model to join the Applied Science team in Seattle.
At Amazon, we are working to be the most customer-centric company on earth. Millions of customers trust us to ensure a safe shopping experience.
This is an exciting and challenging position to drive research that will shape new ML solutions for product compliance and safety around the globe in order to achieve best-in-class, company-wide standards around product assurance.
You will research on large amounts of tabular, textual, and product image data from product detail pages, selling partner details and customer feedback, evaluate state-of-the-art algorithms and frameworks, and develop new algorithms to improve safety and compliance mechanisms.
You will partner with engineers, technical program managers and product managers to design new ML solutions implemented across the entire Amazon product catalog.
Key job responsibilities
- Research on and Evaluate state-of-the-art algorithms in NLP, multi-modal modeling, domain adaptation, continuous learning and large language model.
- Design new algorithms that improve on the state-of-the-art to drive business impact, such as synthetic data generation, active learning, grounding LLMs for business use cases
- Lead and collaborate with product, and tech partners to implement new product features in production.
- Design and plan collection of new labels and audit mechanisms to develop better approaches that will further improve product assurance and customer trust.
- Analyze and convey results to stakeholders and contribute to the research and product roadmap.
- Publish research publications at internal and external venues.
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations :
Seattle, WA, USA
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 3+ years of building machine learning models for business application experience
- PhD, or Master's degree and 3+ years of applied research experience
- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
- Experience with neural deep learning methods and machine learning
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- PhD in engineering, technology, computer science, machine learning, robotics, operations research, statistics, mathematics or equivalent quantitative field
- 5+ years of building machine learning models or developing algorithms for business application experience
- Experience with modeling tools such as R, scikit-learn, Spark MLLib, MxNet, Tensorflow, numpy, scipy etc.
- Experience in patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals
- Experience in Large Language Models : Improving the state-of-the-art methods in in-context prompting, fine-tuning, multi-modal modeling etc.
- Experience defining organizational research and development roadmap and practices in industry
- Ability to work on a diverse team or with a diverse range of coworkers