Applied Scientist (AI)

TL;DR

Applied Scientist (AI): Researching, designing, and developing new AI technologies for personalization, with an accent on information retrieval, large language models, and recommendation systems. Focus on inventing, experimenting with, and launching new features and products at Amazon.

Location: Onsite in Tel Aviv, Israel

Company

Amazon's Personalization organization is a high-performing group leveraging machine learning, generative AI, and large-scale data systems to deliver the best shopping experiences for customers.

What you will do

• Research, design, and develop new AI technologies for personalization.
• Adopt or invent new machine learning and analytical techniques for recommendations, information retrieval, and large language models.
• Collaborate with scientists, engineers, and product partners locally and abroad.
• Invent, experiment with, and launch new features, products, and systems.

Requirements

• MSc in CS/EE or related field and 2+ years of applied research experience.
• Strong CS foundations (data structures and algorithms).
• Excellent coding and design skills, proficiency with Python.
• Publication at top-tier peer-reviewed research conferences or journals.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.

Nice to have

• Hands-on experience bringing LLM systems to production.
• Experience in building and launching deep learning and machine learning models for business applications.
• Solid knowledge of big data and cloud technologies (e.g., Spark, AWS).
• Experience with information retrieval, recommender systems, natural language processing, and/or personalization algorithms.
• Publications at top Web, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing conferences.

Culture & Benefits

• Inclusive culture empowering Amazonians.
• Opportunity to influence how customers will think about their shopping journey in the future.
• Access to large datasets and tremendous computational resources.
• Join a team of capable scientists and engineers building the future of e-commerce.