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About Amazon

Amazon teams in India work on complex business challenges to innovate and create efficient solutions that enable various Amazon businesses, including Amazon websites across the world, and support Payments, Transportation, and Digital products and services like the Kindle family of tablets, e-readers, and the store.

Your role

As an Applied  Scientist, you will bring statistical modeling and machine learning advancements to data analytics for customer-facing solutions in complex industrial settings.

• You will be working in a fast-paced, cross-disciplinary team of researchers.
• You will take on challenging problems, distill real requirements, and then deliver solutions leveraging existing academic and industrial research or utilizing your out-of-the-box pragmatic thinking.
• In addition to coming up with novel solutions and prototypes, you may even need to deliver these to production in customer-facing products.

Training and development 

Amazon is committed to empowering employees to do their best work – and to do your best work you need to be constantly learning, growing, and becoming a better version of yourself. With the support of the team, Amazon helps you to reach your potential through a variety of offerings, such as:

• A performance philosophy geared toward development, not ratings
• Constantly have to learn. When surrounded by extremely smart people
• Learn what customer-centric means.
• Job rotation programs designed to reignite and broaden your work experience
• Yearly education and training reimbursement to keep your skillset sharp
• Subscriptions to the leading online training platforms for technical and business acumen
• POD (Power of Difference) communities to network, mentor, and grow as leaders

Salary & benefits

The salary for this role in India can range from INR 23.3 to INR 33.3 LPA with the following benefits :

• Office cab/shuttle
• Office gym
• Free Lunch or Snacks
• Job Training & Tuition
• Cafeteria
• Education Assistance
• Soft Skill Training

Career progression

The Career Choice program is uniquely designed for associates interested in learning about and pursuing a future at Amazon or elsewhere. It helps fund college tuition for associates looking to complete a high school diploma, GED, Bachelor's degree, and English as a Second Language (ESL) proficiency certifications. Career Choice also provides funding for employees studying aircraft mechanics, welding, medical billing, nursing, and other fields. Associates can participate in the Career Choice opportunities after 90 days of employment and can participate for as many years as they work at Amazon.

Work-life balance

• Work days will usually be from Monday to Friday. They have flexible work timings.
• This role is considered flexible and will be a mix of working from the local Amazon office and home depending on your preferences and the arrangements determined with your future manager.

Culture & vibe

Amazon's work environment is very relaxed but still professional. The dress code is casual, but jeans will not be allowed on Fridays. Employees will be encouraged to wear whatever they feel most comfortable in, as long as it's business casual. They also have an onsite gym for employees that includes yoga classes.

About you

To apply for this role the following eligibility criteria: 

Basic Qualifications

• Currently enrolled in a degree program (Bachelor's or MS or Ph.D.) in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or related field with specialization in machine learning, NLP, ASR, deep learning, computer vision, data science, or related fields.
• Strong working knowledge of programming languages such as C/C++, Java, or Python (SciPy, RPy2, etc).
• Practical machine learning experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Research experience related to machine learning, deep learning, NLP, computer vision, data science
• Published and presented papers at ICASSP, ICML, NIPS, KDD, CVPR, or similar top-tier conferences and events

How to apply

To apply for this role, click on the "Apply on employer site" button, which navigates to the career section where the application can be filled out and submitted directly.

Sources

The following sources were used in researching this page:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bkb25YJeFg&t=62s
• https://www.ambitionbox.com/benefits/amazon-benefits/Intern
• https://www.ambitionbox.com/salaries/amazon-salaries/applied-data-scientist