Applied Scientist
Bend, Oregon
Applied Scientists are specialists with deep expertise in at least one scientific discipline that applies to harpin AI’s business challenges. They also have a broad knowledge in data structures and algorithms and understand algorithmic and implementation tradeoffs.
As an Applied Scientist you will:
- Analyze complex datasets used to make decisions regarding real-world applications
- Drive the design, development, and execution of scientific research projects and data models
- Implement models and algorithms to improve the performance of existing systems, processes, and products
- Perform data analysis and provide visualizations
- Use modeling, simulation, and optimization to design processes, algorithms, and prediction/classification systems
- Investigate the applicability of new approaches to business problems and products by combining theory and experimentation
- Quantify business impact and influence go/no-go decisions on corporate initiatives
- Solve analysis problems that improve Amazon’s products and advance our scientific knowledge
- Write software code that is built and deployed in production systems
Desired qualities and experience:
- Very strong coding ability (any backend language)
- Strong core CS fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, architecting systems)
- 6+ years of industry experience
- Experience building Machine Learning tooling or platforms, in particular when applied to large scale problems, is a big plus
- Experience with Python or Spark is a plus
- Experience working in high-growth startup atmosphere is a plus
- A passion for quality and excellence, and the ability to temper it when necessary to ship