Sr. Applied Scientist, WW Sustainability

Join us at the Amazon's sustainability initiatives to work on environmental and social advancements to support Amazon's long term worldwide sustainability strategy. At Amazon, we're working to be the most customer-centric company on earth. To get there, we need exceptionally talented, bright, and driven people.

The Worldwide Sustainability (WWS) organization capitalizes on Amazon’s scale and speed to build a more resilient and sustainable company. We manage our social and environmental impacts globally, and drive solutions that enable our customers, businesses, and the world to become more sustainable.

Sustainability Science and Innovation (SSI) is a multi-disciplinary team within WW Sustainability combining science, analytics, economics, statistics, machine learning, product development, and engineering expertise. We use data across the sustainability imperatives (carbon, water, waste, biodiversity, environmental risk and more) and these skills and capabilities to identify, develop, experiment, and scale the scientific solutions and innovations necessary for Amazon, customers and partners to help them solve their hardest unmet and evolving sustainability needs and goals.

The Sustainability Science and Innovation team is looking for a Sr. Applied Scientist to collaborate closely with Economists and Environmental Scientists to build the AI/ML foundation of the future. You will define strategy and implement tooling to identify, ingest, harmonize, store, and maintain strategic models and data from both internal and external sources.
These models and datasets must cover a wide range of topics in emerging areas and applications of AI for sustainability. This AI solutions development will support Amazon-wide sustainability initiatives like carbon footprint, climate risk monitoring, and social responsibility through the supply chain.

These datasets must cover a wide range of topics such as geographic regions and data formats to unlock foundational AI research in emerging areas and applications. These solutions development will support Amazon-wide sustainability initiatives like carbon footprinting, climate risk monitoring, and social responsibility through the supply chain.

If you see yourself as a hands-on leader and innovator at the intersection of AI, data, and sustainability, we'd like to connect with you. You don't necessarily have to be an expert in sustainability and climate domains.

Key job responsibilities
- Designing, implementing, and maintaining data and AI/ML infrastructure to support a wide variety of large and complex data sets, ensuring high performance, availability, and integrity.
- Identifying and solving data needs for Gen AI and foundational model training and benchmarking for tasks across the sustainability domain.
- Developing and optimizing robust data pipelines for internal data from sources such as Product Lifecycle Management tools, Product Details (images, text, and structured data), Inventory Management Platforms, and financial systems.
- Design and implement web-scale data collection for images, text, structured data across locations and sustainability domains.
- Develop comprehensive monitoring, alarming, and data quality controls for all of the above.
- Partnering with Scientists and Software Engineers to create our data collection strategy and ML Ops best practices.

About the team
Diverse Experiences:
World Wide Sustainability values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

Inclusive Team Culture:
It’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (inclusive diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Mentorship & Career Growth:
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Work/Life Balance:
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 3+ 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
- Experience with neural deep learning methods and machine learning

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience with modeling tools such as R, scikit-learn, Spark MLLib, MxNet, Tensorflow, numpy, scipy etc.
- Experience with large scale distributed systems such as Hadoop, Spark etc.

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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