Data Scientist II, Amazon Currency Convertor

Data Scientist II, Amazon Currency Convertor

Job ID: 10444846 | Amazon.com Services LLC - A57

How to use the world’s richest collection of e-commerce data to improve payments experience for our customers? Amazon Payments Data Science team seeks a Data Scientist for building analytical solutions that will address increasingly complex business questions in the Amazon Currency convertor space.

Amazon.com has a culture of data-driven decision-making and demands insights that are timely, accurate, and actionable. This team provides a fast-paced environment where every day brings new challenges and new opportunities.

As a Data Scientist in this team, you will be driving the analytics roadmap and provide descriptive and predictive solutions to the Amazon currency convertor business team through a combination of Gen AI, LLM and other machine learning techniques for text analytics, segmentation and prediction. You will collaborate effectively with internal stakeholders, cross-functional teams to solve problems, create operational efficiencies, and deliver successfully against high organizational standards.

Key Job Responsibilities

• Understand the applications of causal inference models on real datasets, including assessment of marketing campaigns, online experiments, uplift analysis, etc.
• Understand the business reality behind large sets of data and develop meaningful solutions comprising of analytics as well as marketing management.
• Work closely with internal stakeholders like the business teams, engineering teams and partner teams and align them with respect to your focus area.
• Innovate by adapting new modeling techniques and procedures.
• Perform effective exploratory data analysis, and model building using industry standard regression and classification techniques such as Random Forest, XGBoost package, Keras framework.
• Demonstrate thorough technical knowledge of Fine Tuning of Amazon LLMs to handle large blocks of text, using Generative AI to solve for summarization tasks and prevent catastrophic forgetting, feature engineering of massive datasets.
• Be passionate about working with huge data sets and bring datasets together to answer business questions. Deep expertise in creation and management of datasets.
• Have experience implementing and operating stable, scalable data flow solutions from production systems into end-user facing applications/reports. These solutions will be fault tolerant, self-healing and adaptive.

Basic Qualifications

• 2+ years of data scientist experience.
• 3+ years of data querying languages (e.g. SQL), scripting languages (e.g. Python) or statistical/mathematical software (e.g. R, SAS, Matlab, etc.) experience.
• 3+ years of machine learning/statistical modeling data analysis tools and techniques, and parameters that affect their performance experience.
• Experience applying theoretical models in an applied environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in Python, Perl, or another scripting language.
• Experience in a ML or data scientist role with a large technology company.

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Location and Compensation

USA, WA, Seattle – $136,000.00 – $184,000.00 USD annually.

Benefits

Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at