Applied Scientist II, MENA Tech

About the job

Are you interested in building the next-generation services that will redefine shopping in the Middle East? We are disrupting the local shopping experience and looking for a talented applied scientist to design and build a new product from the ground up. We are looking for an applied scientist with 5+ years of solid experience in solving complex problems using machine learning and science. As an applied scientist, you will provide machine learning expertise that helps accelerate the business. You will build various data and machine learning models that help us innovate different ways to enhance customer experience. You will need to be entrepreneurial, wear many hats, and work in a highly collaborative environment. We like to move fast, experiment, iterate, and then scale quickly, thoughtfully balancing speed and quality. There will be additional complexity, which will come to tune ML models as per local language compatible, considering multiple language support on our websites. Other programs in our pipelines are related to abuse detection happening on websites related to payments, inventory hold, and rejections by fraud customers. Your role will require you to demonstrate Think Big and Invent and Simplify, as we believe in building solutions that are reusable across markets and scalable as data grows. The models will help these markets to improve profitability and customer retention rates with improved deliveries.

Key job responsibilities

• Leverage knowledge of statistics and optimization to frame decision-making problems for the MENA region
• Build statistical models required to measure the impact of each system and platform
• Predict future customer behavior and business conditions through machine learning and predictive modeling
• Use analytical and predictive techniques to build models for optimizing and targeting specific products
• Translate prototype models to production quality, large-scale software systems
• Present proposals and results in a clear manner backed by data and coupled with actionable conclusions

Basic Qualifications

• PhD or Master's degree
• 4+ years of experience in building models for business applications
• Experience in patents or publications in top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals
• Experience programming in Java, C++, Python, or related languages
• Experience in algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, high-performance computing

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in state-of-the-art deep learning models architecture design and deep learning training and optimization and model pruning
• Knowledge of architectural concepts and algorithms, schedule tradeoffs, and new opportunities with technical team members
• Experience in professional software development

Company - Amazon Middle East and North Africa FZ-LLC
Job ID: A2702109