Work directly with business stakeholders to translate between data and business needs, analyze results, and communicate findings to senior leadership in the Tokyo-based Japan Central Ops role.
About this role
This Applied Scientist role sits in Amazon Japan Store Tech’s Applied Science team, working on cross-border shopping across Japan and other marketplaces. It covers product discovery, search relevance, personalization, and content experiences at scale.
The work includes developing scalable machine-learning models, running offline and online experiments, analyzing large datasets, and moving solutions from prototype to production with software engineers. It also covers GenAI and LLM-powered tools, production-quality code, and communicating findings through documentation, presentations, and papers. Named areas include Python, Java, C++, NLP, computer vision, recommender systems, optimization, and experimentation.
Applicants must be enrolled in a bachelor’s or master’s program in a quantitative field and expect to graduate in 2028. Required preparation includes programming in Python, Java, C++, or an equivalent language; coursework or research in machine learning or a related area; and foundations in data structures, algorithms, and mathematical or statistical modeling.
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