Senior Applied Science Manager, Alexa for Shopping (Rufus)
Core
Managing a team to build and align Large Language Models (LLM) and Vision-Language Models (VLM) for Amazon's AI-powered shopping assistant, ensuring personalized and proactive customer experiences.
Role type
Senior Applied Science Manager (LLM/VLM)
Builds
AI shopping assistant features for Amazon customers
Domain
E-commerce, Large Language Models, Vision-Language Models
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Large-scale ML/AI solution building, team management, problem definition from ambiguous requirements, LLM/VLM post-training and alignment
Preferred skills
PhD in CS/ML/AI/Statistics, 10+ years ML application experience, LLM post-training (SFT and RL) experience
Technologies
LLM, VLM, SFT, RL
Responsibilities
Set roadmap and vision for science investments, optimize existing AI shopping experiences, manage a team of scientists and engineers
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with management responsibilities