Applied Scientist Ii, Amazon Compliance And Safety Services

Applied Scientist II, Amazon Compliance and Safety Services Job ID: ******* | Amazon Development Center (Romania) S.R.L.Amazon's Compliance and Safety Services (CoSS) Team is looking for a smart and creative Applied Scientist to apply and extend state-of-the-art research in NLP, multi-modal modeling, domain adaptation, continuous learning and large language model to join the Applied Science team.At Amazon, we are working to be the most customer-centric company on earth.Millions of customers trust us to ensure a safe shopping experience.This is an exciting and challenging position to drive research that will shape new ML solutions for product compliance and safety around the globe in order to achieve best-in-class, company-wide standards around product assurance.You will research on large amounts of tabular, textual, and product image data from product detail pages, selling partner details and customer feedback, evaluate state-of-the-art algorithms and frameworks, and develop new algorithms to improve safety and compliance mechanisms.You will partner with engineers, technical program managers and product managers to design new ML solutions implemented across the entire Amazon product catalog.Key job responsibilitiesAs an Applied Scientist on our team, you will:Research and Evaluate state-of-the-art algorithms in NLP, multi-modal modeling, domain adaptation, continuous learning and large language model.Design new algorithms that improve on the state-of-the-art to drive business impact, such as synthetic data generation, active learning, grounding LLMs for business use cases.Design and plan collection of new labels and audit mechanisms to develop better approaches that will further improve product assurance and customer trust.Analyze and convey results to stakeholders and contribute to the research and product roadmap.Collaborate with other scientists, engineers, product managers, and business teams to creatively solve problems, measure and estimate risks, and constructively critique peer research.Consult with engineering teams to design data and modeling pipelines which successfully interface with new and existing software.Publish research publications at internal and external venues.About the teamThe science team delivers custom state-of-the-art algorithms for image and document understanding.The team specializes in developing machine learning solutions to advance compliance capabilities.Their research contributions span multiple domains including multi-modal modeling, unstructured data matching, text extraction from visual documents, and anomaly detection, with findings regularly published in academic venues.Basic QualificationsPhD, or a Master's degree and experience in CS, CE, ML or related fieldExperience in any of the following areas: algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, high-performance computingExperience with programming languages such as Python, Java, C++3+ years of building machine learning models for business application experience5+ years with neural deep learning methods and machine learningPreferred QualificationsExperience in professional software developmentExperience implementing algorithms using both toolkits and self-developed codeExperience in patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journalsExperience working cross functionally across several teamsExperience with modeling tools such as scikit-learn, PyTorch, numpy, scipy etc.Amazon is an equal opportunities employer.We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success.We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills.We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build.Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Amazon.Please consult our Privacy Notice ( ) to know more about how we collect, use and transfer the personal data of our candidates.Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers.If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit for more information.If the country/region you're applying in isn't listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.#J-*****-Ljbffr