Principal Data Scientist

Job ID: 10483586 | Amazon.com Services LLC

Amazon Prime is building the future of AI-based personalization in driving long-term value out of the Prime subscription. Join our team of Scientists and Engineers developing AI/ML models to predict the Prime customer long-term behavior and optimize the customer experience with the Prime program. This includes identifying who our customers are, modeling customer behavior, and creating personalization systems to optimize the experience. As an AI/ML expert, you will partner directly with product owners to define the vision for this space and drive the roadmap for team execution.

This is a complex personalization and optimization challenge. We sit at the intersection of massive-scale subscription and behavioral data, real-time decision systems, hundreds of millions of customers, and intersection with other shopping and benefit data across Amazon. Our vision is to enable a data-driven intelligent foundation that powers the future of Prime through scalable personalization, generation, and decisioning capabilities that serve optimal, cohesive customer experiences across all touchpoints. We build the science and infrastructure that allows Prime to know each member deeply, decide what to show them and when, generate the right content in the right format, and measure whether it worked — all optimized toward long-term member value.

As a Principal Applied Scientist, you will be the intellectual engine behind this transformation. You will define the frontier, architect the science strategy for a large, cross-cutting organization, and drive breakthroughs that reshape how Prime thinks about customers and the membership program at the deepest level.

You will pioneer next-generation Gen AI / LLM-based foundation models that build rich, evolving models of customer intent. This will include building Gen AI/transformer architectures that abstract noisy behavioral signals into high-quality latent representations of human preference. It will require thinking about real-time, multi-objective, globally scalable ranking systems that address cold start problems at billions of decisions per day. You will do all of this as a force multiplier, building foundational technology that empowers scientists and engineers, and driving teams across Prime and Amazon to deliver the best science outcomes for customers.

Come define what the Prime membership program and experience looks like in the age of AI!

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on work in predictive modeling and analysis experience
• PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related technical field
• Experience working in predictive modeling and analysis
• Experience distilling informal customer requirements into problem definitions, dealing with ambiguity and competing objectives
• Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
• Experience with leading experienced scientists as well as having a record of developing junior members from academia or industry to a career track in a business environment

Preferred Qualifications

• 10+ years of relevant work in industry or academia experience
• Knowledge of problem solving, algorithm design and complexity analysis
• Experience creating novel algorithms and advancing the state of the art
• Have peer-reviewed scientific contributions in premier journals and conferences

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also 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 .

USA, WA, Seattle - 198,900.00 - 269,000.00 USD annually