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Passionate about leveraging data and state-of-the-art AI/ML models to drive impact to one of the fastest growing businesses at Amazon? How about working with one of the largest fraud prevention systems in the world? Do you enjoy building flexible, performant, and global solutions? If so, here is a great opportunity to consider!

Amazon Business Payments and Lending (ABPL) is looking for a Sr. Applied Scientist to drive the development of proactive and reactive fraud management strategies across different payment methods while balancing loss rates and customer experience.

The ideal candidates are comfortable working independently in a fast paced, technical, and high energy environment. They are critical thinkers, analytical, innovative, and resourceful, with a history of solving complex and ambiguous problems.

They utilize their deep knowledge of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, their problem solving and analytical skills, and their excellent communication to deliver customer value, at-scale.

Key job responsibilities

As a Sr Applied Scientist working in ABPL Fraud Science, your key job responsibilities will include:

1- Extending existing fraud detection scientific techniques, inventing new ones that address customers’ needs or business problems at a product level. Being the leading author for internal or external publications that validate novelty and are cited by other scientists. Being sought out by scientists as subject matter experts.

2- Partnering with engineering teams to solve complex technical problems. Defining system-level technical requirements, developing implementation plans, guiding adaptation of techniques to meet production requirements, and ensuring consideration of appropriate tradeoffs at system level.

3- Working tactically and strategically. Delivering end-to-end solutions, including scientific contributions. Developing reusable science components and services that resolve architecture deficiencies and customers’ pain points. Making technical trade-offs for long-term/short-term invention.

4- Taking the lead on ambitious business goals. Working on large-scale scientific projects and systems. Delivering significant benefits to customers and business.

About the team

Our team (Science for Fraud Detection & Marketing Personalization) is part of ABPL (Amazon Business Payments & Lending) and enables best-in-class Science to: 1) develop fraud management strategies that balance loss rates and customer experience across multiple products, 2) target future/current customers with personalized recommendations for B2B financial products. We targets long-term projects with high impact for our customers and for Amazon. We utilize state of-the-art AI/ML to drive business results with a very large customer base across ABPL. We leverage our ML-ready production environment to increase flexibility and reduce time-to-market.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Seattle, WA, USA

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

  • 4+ years of building machine learning models for business application experience
  • PhD, or Master's degree and 6+ years of applied research experience
  • Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
  • Excellent communication skills, capable of discussing technical details with a variety of audiences and influencing decision-making processes

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

  • Expertise in machine learning, statistical analysis, and algorithmic solutions related to fraud and abuse prevention, particularly in Generative AI, Graph-based ML, Behavioral Modeling, and Real-Time Detection
  • Experience with large scale distributed systems such as Hadoop, Spark, etc.
  • Experience with modeling tools such as R, scikit-learn, Spark MLLib, MxNet, Tensorflow, numpy, scipy, etc.

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 https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $136,000/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. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

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