CareerPlan

Applied Scientist, Worldwide Installments

Arlington, Virginia, United StatesFull-time$143k–$193k2026-10-22 → 2026-10-24

Core

Building production machine learning models and pipelines for fraud detection and consumer financial credit risk within Amazon's Worldwide Installments business.

Role type

Senior Applied Scientist (Fraud Detection & Financial Risk)

Builds

Large-scale production ML systems for financing options and payment products

Domain

Fintech / Consumer Finance / Fraud Detection

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

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

Preferred skills

PhD in CS/ML, 5+ years ML experience, Unix/Linux, professional software development

Technologies

Java, C++, Python, Unix/Linux

Responsibilities

Develop production ML models and pipelines for fraud detection, identify business opportunities and define modeling approaches, lead implementation of production ML to mitigate financial credit and fraud risks, influence business strategy and product vision using data science, improve ML roadmap and automate processes, coordinate support across engineers and stakeholders to deliver ML pipelines and proof of concepts.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC