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Data Scientist II, Alexa Communications Experience Analytics, Alexa Communications
Amazon
Marketing & Communications, Data Science
Seattle, WA, USA
Posted on Nov 19, 2024
DESCRIPTION
The vision for Alexa is to be the world’s best personal assistant. Such an assistant will play a vital role in managing the communication lives of customers, from drafting communications to coordinating with people on behalf of customers. At Alexa Communications, we’re leveraging Generative AI to bring this vision to life.
If you’re passionate about building magical experiences for customers, while solving hard, complex technical problems, then this role is for you. You will operate at the intersection of large language models, real time communications, voice and graphical user interfaces, and mixed reality to deliver cutting-edge features for end users.
Come join us to invent the future of how millions of customers will communicate with and through their virtual AI assistants.
Key job responsibilities
The Comms Experience Insights (CXI) team is looking for an experienced, self-driven, analytical, and strategic Data Scientist II. We are looking for an individual who is passionate about tying together huge amounts of data to answer complex stakeholder questions. You should have deep expertise in translating data into meaningful insights through collaboration with Data Engineers and Business Analysts. You should also have extensive experience in model fitting and explaining how the insights derived from those models impact a business. In this role, you will take data curated by a dedicated team of Data Engineers to conduct deep statistical analysis on usage trends.
The right candidate will possess excellent business and communication skills, be able to work with business owners to develop and define key business questions, and be able to collaborate with Data Engineers and Business Analysts to analyze data that will answer those questions. The right candidate should have a solid understanding of how to curate the right datasets that can be used to train data models, and the desire to learn and implement new technologies and services to further a scalable, self-service model.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 3+ years of data querying languages (e.g. SQL), scripting languages (e.g. Python) or statistical/mathematical software (e.g. R, SAS, Matlab, etc.) experience
- 2+ years of data scientist experience
- 3+ years of machine learning/statistical modeling data analysis tools and techniques, and parameters that affect their performance experience
- Bachelor's degree
- Experience applying theoretical models in an applied environment
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience in Python, Perl, or another scripting language
- Experience in a ML or data scientist role with a large technology company
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $125,500/year in our lowest geographic market up to $212,800/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.