Applied Science Manager

The Amazon India ML team is developing state-of-the-art, large-scale Machine Learning methods and applications involving terabytes of data. The group focuses on Deep Learning problems in a) Sponsored Products - the group will be responsible for growing Ads business through semantic matching of customer query to products, automated bidding for sellers and matching Ads to customer videos on MiniTV b) Personalisation - the group will be developing state-of-the-art ML models for targeting and automating marketing campaigns to customers with the goal of growing the category business in India.

Key job responsibilities

You will be responsible for building a team of scientists who are experienced in taking an idea to reality - from prototype to a customer-facing product, their career development, as well as the road map definition and prioritization for the organization. You will be expected to be heavily entrepreneurial in style and be experienced to develop a business plan as well as dive deep in the scientific and technical details of the technology your team is building. This team also publish our research in the best venues internationally.

As part of this team, you will take on challenging, novel problems every day and collaborate with cross-functional teams. You'll need to be comfortable with a degree of ambiguity that's higher than most projects and love the idea of solving problems that have never been solved before. You will provide ML thought leadership to technical and business leaders, and have a demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 3+ years of scientists or machine learning engineers management experience
- Knowledge of ML, NLP, Information Retrieval and Analytics

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience building machine learning models or developing algorithms for business application
- Experience building complex software systems, especially involving deep learning, machine learning and computer vision, that have been successfully delivered to customers

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