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Principal Applied Scientist, Price Understanding, Estimation, and Validation at Amazon.com Services LLC

Required Skills

pythonmachine learningneural networksnatural language processingprobabilistic forecastingmulti-objective optimizationalgorithm designpredictive modeling

About the Role

Principal Applied Scientist role at Amazon's Price Perception and Evaluation team. Responsible for building a self-learning price estimation system using multi-modal data and machine learning. Leads a team to develop neural product relationships and probabilistic price ranges at scale.

Key Responsibilities

  • Develop and mentor a team of applied machine learning scientists
  • Shape long-term vision for science-based competitive pricing techniques
  • Partner with product, engineering, and science teams to deploy ML solutions
  • Stay updated on ML, NLP, probabilistic forecasting, and optimization advancements
  • Develop, deploy, and scale Amazon's next-generation price estimation system

Required Skills & Qualifications

Must Have:

  • 5+ years of hands-on predictive modeling and analysis experience
  • PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, or related technical field
  • Experience distilling customer requirements into problem definitions
  • Experience programming in Java, C++, Python, or related language

Nice to Have:

  • 10+ years of relevant work in industry or academia
  • Knowledge of problem solving, algorithm design, and complexity analysis
  • Experience creating novel algorithms and advancing state of the art

Benefits & Perks

  • Medical, financial, and other benefits
  • Equity and sign-on payments may be provided
  • Inclusive culture with workplace accommodations