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 internship sits in Amazon Japan Store Tech’s Applied Science team, which develops technology for cross-border shopping across Japan and other marketplaces. Its work covers product discovery, search relevance, personalization, and content experiences, using multi-language signals and marketplace data to improve customer-facing systems at scale.
The Applied Scientist Intern develops scalable machine-learning models and algorithms, analyzes large datasets, and designs offline and online experiments to test hypotheses and measure impact. The role contributes to GenAI and large-language-model tools, writes production-quality code, and communicates findings through documentation, presentations, and technical papers while working with software engineers to move science from prototype to production. Applicants must be enrolled in a bachelor’s or master’s program in computer science, machine learning, statistics, applied mathematics, electrical engineering, or a related quantitative field. They need programming experience in Python, Java, C++, or an equivalent language; coursework or research in machine learning or another listed quantitative area; a foundation in data structures, algorithms, and mathematical or statistical modeling; and English fluency.
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