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Senior Applied Scientist, Search Relevance

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Job Description

The Amazon Search team is dedicated to creating powerful, customer-focused search solutions and technologies. Whenever a customer visits an Amazon site worldwide and types in a query or browses through product categories, Amazon Product Search services are activated. We design, develop, and deploy high-performance, fault-tolerant distributed search systems used by millions of Amazon customers every day. Our Search Relevance team is focused on maximizing the quality and effectiveness of the search experience for visitors to Amazon websites worldwide.

Key Responsibilities

  • Invent universally applicable signals and algorithms for training machine-learned ranking models.
  • Improve relevance to help millions of customers discover products from a catalog containing millions of products.
  • Work on predicting the popularity of new products, developing new ranking features and algorithms that capture unique characteristics, and analyzing the differences in behavior of different categories of customers.
  • Engage in the entire development pipeline, including data analysis, prototyping, A/B testing, and creating production-level components.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

  • Master's degree in a relevant field.

Preferred Qualifications

  • PhD in a relevant field.

Work Environment

Joining this team, you’ll experience the benefits of working in a dynamic, entrepreneurial environment, while leveraging the resources of Amazon.com (AMZN), one of the world’s leading Internet companies. We provide a highly customer-centric, team-oriented environment in our offices located in Palo Alto, California.

Compensation

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $150,400/year in our lowest geographic market up to $260,000/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits.

Diversity and Inclusion

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit our careers site.

How to Apply

This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

Benefits
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  • Medical benefits
  • Financial benefits
  • Equity
  • Sign-on payments

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