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Description

Amazon's Price Perception and Evaluation team is seeking a driven Principal Applied Scientist to harness planet scale multi-modal datasets, and navigate a continuously evolving competitor landscape, in order to build and scale an advanced self-learning scientific price estimation and product understanding system, regularly generating fresh customer-relevant prices on billions of Amazon and Third Party Seller products worldwide.

We are looking for a talented, organized, and customer-focused technical leader with a charter to derive deep neural product relationships, quantify substitution and complementarity effects, and publish trust-preserving probabilistic price ranges on all products listed on Amazon.

This role requires an individual with excellent scientific modeling and system design skills, bar-raising business acumen, and an entrepreneurial spirit. We are looking for an experienced leader who is a self-starter comfortable with ambiguity, demonstrates strong attention to detail, and has the ability to work in a fast-paced and ever-changing environment.

Key job responsibilities
- Develop the team. Mentor a highly talented group of applied machine learning scientists & researchers.
- See the big picture. Shape long term vision for Amazon's science-based competitive, perception-preserving pricing techniques
- Build strong collaborations. Partner with product, engineering, and science teams within Pricing & Promotions to deploy machine learning price estimation and error correction solutions at Amazon scale
- Stay informed. Establish mechanisms to stay up to date on latest scientific advancements in machine learning, neural networks, natural language processing, probabilistic forecasting, and multi-objective optimization techniques. Identify opportunities to apply them to relevant Pricing & Promotions business problems
- Keep innovating for our customers. Foster an environment that promotes rapid experimentation, continuous learning, and incremental value delivery.
- Deliver Impact. Develop, Deploy, and Scale Amazon's next generation foundational price estimation and understanding system