The Personalization Platform team is responsible for developing recommender systems for Amazon subsidiaries and owned and operated properties such as IMDb, Audible and Endless. Every day, our goal is to surprise and delight our customers with relevant and serendipitous product recommendations.
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The Personalization Platform team is responsible for developing recommender systems for Amazon subsidiaries and owned and operated properties such as IMDb, Audible and Endless. Every day, our goal is to surprise and delight our customers with relevant and serendipitous product recommendations.
Company: Amazon.com
Location: Seattle, WA
Web: www.amazon.com/jobs
About the team
Amazon's product recommendations are among our most popular and best-loved features and help drive customer delight by recommending relevant, serendipitous products based on each customer's unique interests.
Spanning academia, research and massive scale real world systems, the Personalization Platform team is responsible for developing recommender systems for Amazon subsidiaries and owned and operated properties such as IMDb, Audible and Endless. Active research areas include mitigating the cold start problem, dealing with sparse data sets and making recommendations useful for content based sites, apparel, video games and replenishables. Every day, our goal is to surprise and delight our customers with relevant and serendipitous product recommendations.
Role
As a Software Development Engineer (SDE) on the Personalization Platform team, your responsibilities will include working with site owners to understand their discovery challenges and unique customer and catalog data. You'll apply traditional and non-traditional approaches to developing recommender systems, ranging from statistical to machine learning techniques for content based recommenders, contextual based recommenders, user/item based collaborative filtering as well as hybrid recommenders. Additionally, you'll stay up to date with the current state of the art in recommender research by reading academic papers and attending relevant university colloquia. The ability to deal with ambiguity and innovate and simplify are critical to this role.
Requirements:
- BS in Computer Science or related technical field (MS a plus)
- Minimum of 3 years industry experience as a software developer
- Fluent in Java or C++
- Strong Object Oriented design skills
- Knowledge of scalable distributed systems and service oriented architecture
- Experience in recommender systems, data mining, machine learning, or artificial intelligence in a commercial setting is desired, but not required
- Ability to deal with ambiguity and innovate and simplify
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Excellent analytical skills
Contact
To apply, please visit
www.amazon.com/jobs
and search for job number 109571
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