Amazon

Are you excited about leveraging state-of-the-art Deep Learning, Recommender Systems, Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing algorithms on large datasets to solve real-world problems?

As an Applied Scientist Intern, you will be working in the closest Amazon offices to you (Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane) in a fast-paced, cross-disciplinary team of experienced R&D scientists. You will take on complex problems, work on solutions that leverage existing academic and industrial research, and utilize your own out-of-the-box pragmatic thinking. In addition to coming up with novel solutions and prototypes, you may even deliver these to production in customer facing products.

Key job responsibilities

• Develop novel solutions and build prototypes
• Work on complex problems in Machine Learning and Information Retrieval
• Contribute to research that could significantly impact Amazon operations
• Collaborate with a diverse team of experts in a fast-paced environment
• Collaborate with scientists on writing and submitting papers to top conferences, e.g. NeurIPS, ICML, KDD, SIGIR
• Present your research findings to both technical and non-technical audiences 

Key Opportunities:

• Work in a team of ML scientists to solve recommender systems problems at the scale of Amazon
• Access to Amazon services and hardware
• Become a disruptor, innovator, and problem solver in the field of information retrieval and recommender systems
• Potentially deliver solutions to production in customer-facing applications
• Opportunities to be hired full-time after the internship

Join us in shaping the future of AI at Amazon. Apply now and turn your research into real-world solutions!

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Currently enrolled in a PhD program in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, or related field, with specialization in Information Retrieval, Recommender Systems, or Machine Learning
• Strong programming skills, e.g. Python and DL frameworks

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Research experience in Deep Learning, Recommender Systems, Information Retrieval, or broader Machine Learning.
• Publications in top-tier conferences, e.g. NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, KDD, SIGIR, RecSys
• Experience with handling large datasets and distributed computing, e.g. Spark

Please note that recruitment for Amazon’s Applied Science internship takes place all year round. Internships start monthly and last 6 months.

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