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Applied Scientist II, Search Ranking

Palo Alto, California, United States💼 Full-time💰 $171,600–$222,200🗓 2026-08-10 → 2026-09-26

Core

Invent universally applicable signals and algorithms for training machine-learned ranking models to improve search quality for Amazon's product search service.

Role type

Applied Scientist II, Search Ranking

Builds

High performance, fault-tolerant distributed search systems and production-level ranking components

Domain

E-commerce, Search, Machine Learning

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

algorithms and data structures, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, high-performance computing, Java, C++, Python

Preferred skills

deep learning model architecture design, deep learning training and optimization, model pruning, MXNet, TensorFlow, Caffe, PyTorch, Unix/Linux, professional software development

Responsibilities

Analyze data and metrics from product search traffic, design and deploy innovative ML solutions for search ranking, evaluate solutions via offline benchmarks and online A/B tests, publish and present work at scientific venues

Seniority

Mid-Senior, hands-on IC

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