Applied Science Manager, Personalization

Описание

Our team is part of Amazon’s Personalization organization, a high-performing group that leverages Amazon’s expertise in machine learning, generative AI, large-scale data systems, and user experience design to deliver the best shopping experiences for our customers. Our team is building next-generation personalization systems powered by Large Language Models, tackling novel research challenges to help customers discover products they'll love.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of scientists working at the frontier of LLM-based personalization
• Set the technical vision, drive the research agenda, and ensure your team delivers production-ready solutions
• Hire, mentor, and develop world-class scientists while fostering a culture of innovation and scientific rigor
• Partner closely with engineering and product teams to translate ambitious research into customer-facing impact
• Represent your team's work to senior leadership

Requirements

• PhD or equivalent research experience, or Master's degree
• 3+ years of scientists or machine learning engineers management experience
• 3+ years of building machine learning models for business application experience
• Experience leading applied research in one or more of: Recommendation Systems, Information Retrieval, NLP, or Large Language Models
• Demonstrated ability to think strategically, communicate effectively (written and verbal) with senior leadership, and drive cross-team collaboration

Nice to have

• Experience working on recommender systems or personalization within search, e-commerce, shopping, advertising or other related fields
• Experience with LLM training, fine-tuning, or adaptation (e.g., tokenizer modification, domain adaptation)