We are looking for a talented, organized, and customer-focused applied researchers to join our Pricing Optimization science group, with a charter to measure, refine, and launch customer-obsessed improvements to our algorithmic pricing and promotion models across all products listed on Amazon.
This role requires an individual with exceptional machine learning modeling and architecture expertise, excellent cross-functional collaboration skills, business acumen, and an entrepreneurial spirit.
We are looking for an experienced innovator, who is a self-starter, comfortable with ambiguity, demonstrates strong attention to detail, and has the ability to work in a fast-paced and ever-changing environment.

• Key job responsibilities
• See the big picture. Understand and influence the long term vision for Amazon's science-based competitive, perception-preserving pricing techniques
• Build strong collaborations. Partner with product, engineering, and science teams within Pricing & Promotions to deploy machine learning price estimation and error correction solutions at Amazon scale
• Stay informed. Establish mechanisms to stay up to date on latest scientific advancements in machine learning, neural networks, natural language processing, probabilistic forecasting, and multi-objective optimization techniques. Identify opportunities to apply them to relevant Pricing & Promotions business problems
• Keep innovating for our customers. Foster an environment that promotes rapid experimentation, continuous learning, and incremental value delivery.
• Successfully execute & deliver. Apply your exceptional technical machine learning expertise to incrementally move the needle on some of our hardest pricing problems.
  A day in the life
  We are hiring a Sr. Applied Scientist to drive our pricing optimization initiatives. We drive cross-domain and cross-system improvements through:
• shape and extend our RL optimization platform - a pricing centric tool that automates the optimization of various system parameters and price inputs.
• Error detection and price quality guardrails at scale.
• Identifying opportunities to optimally price across systems and contexts (marketplaces, request types, event periods)
  Price is a highly relevant input into Stores architectures; this role creates the opportunity to drive extremely large impact (measured in Bs not Ms), but demands careful thought and clear communication.

Basic Qualifications

• 4+ years of applied research experience
• 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 related language
• Experience with neural deep learning methods and machine learning

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with modeling tools such as R, scikit-learn, Spark MLLib, Mx Net, Tensorflow, numpy, scipy etc.
• Experience with large scale distributed systems such as Hadoop, Spark etc.
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  Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $150,400/year in our lowest geographic market up to $260,000/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.