Applied Scientist, Minerva
Core
Build and maintain risk detection models for Amazon's Books business (KDP, Kindle Unlimited) to prevent fraud, abuse, and harmful content.
Role type
Senior Applied Scientist (Risk Science)
Builds
Production ML models for content risk and abuse prevention
Domain
E-commerce / Books / Trust & Safety
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
model building, algorithms and data structures, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, Java, C++, Python
Preferred skills
fraud detection, abuse prevention, model monitoring, data drift detection, graph-based ML, behavioral modeling, anomaly detection, large-scale data processing, generative AI tools
Technologies
Spark, SQL
Responsibilities
Monitor production risk models and improve their quality; Design, train, and evaluate improved detection models; Build datasets, labels, and evaluation sets; Write clear readouts with recommendations for stakeholders