Senior Software Development Engineer - Personalization, Recommendations, Machine Learning, Data Science Amazon
Seattle, WA

Job Description

How can we improve the customer experience by tailoring what we display on our pages based on available data? How do we build various data models that helps us innovate different ways to enhance customer experience? What is the relationship to what the customer actually does on the site vs., what they actually buy? How do we do all of this without asking the customer a single question? Sound fun?

Our team's stated missions is to "grow each customer's relationship with Amazon by leveraging our deep understanding of them to provide relevant and timely product, program, and content recommendations". Recommendations at Amazon is a way to help customers discover products. Our team strives to better understand how customers shop on Amazon (and elsewhere) and build recommendations models to streamline customers' shopping experience by showing the right products at the right time. Understanding the complexities of customers' shopping needs and helping them explore the depth and breadth of Amazon's catalog is a challenge we take on every day.

Using Amazon's large-scale computing resources you will ask research questions about customer behavior, build models to generate recommendations, and run these models directly on the retail website. You will participate in the Amazon ML community and work with applied scientists as well as software development engineers with a strong interest in and knowledge of ML. Your work will directly benefit customers and the retail business and you will measure the impact using scientific tools. We are looking for passionate, hard-working, and talented software development engineer who have experience building mission critical, high volume applications that customers love. You will have an enormous opportunity to make a large impact on the design, architecture, and implementation of cutting edge products used every day, by people you know.

Amazon is an Equal Opportunity-Affirmative Action Employer - Minority / Female / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation.