Data Scientist II, Amazon Currency Convertor

Amazon
USA, WA, SEATTLE2026-06-10ONSITE

About the job

How to use the world’s richest collection of e-commerce data to improve payments experience for our customers? Amazon Payments Data Science team seeks a Data Scientist for building analytical solutions that will address increasingly complex business questions in the Amazon Currency convertor space. Amazon.com has a culture of data-driven decision-making and demands insights that are timely, accurate, and actionable. This team provides a fast-paced environment where every day brings new challenges and new opportunities.

Responsibilities

• Understand the applications of causal inference models on real datasets, including assessment of marketing campaigns, online experiments, uplift analysis etc

• Understand the business reality behind large sets of data and develop meaningful solutions comprising of analytics as well as marketing management

• Work closely with internal stakeholders like the business teams, engineering teams and partner teams and align them with respect to your focus area

• Innovate by adapting new modeling techniques and procedures

• Effective exploratory data analysis, and model building using industry standard regression and classification techniques such as Random Forest, XGBoost package, Keras framework

• Demonstrate thorough technical knowledge Fine Tuning of Amazon LLMs to handle large blocks of text, using Generative AI to solve for summarization tasks and prevent catastrophic forgetting, feature engineering of massive datasets

• Be passionate about working with huge data sets and be someone who loves to bring datasets together to answer business questions. You should have deep expertise in creation and management of datasets

• Have exposure at implementing and operating stable, scalable data flow solutions from production systems into end-user facing applications/reports. These solutions will be fault tolerant, self-healing and adaptive

Qualifications

Minimum

2+ years of data scientist experience

3+ years of data querying languages (e.g. SQL), scripting languages (e.g. Python) or statistical/mathematical software (e.g. R, SAS, Matlab, etc.) experience

3+ years of machine learning/statistical modeling data analysis tools and techniques, and parameters that affect their performance experience

Experience applying theoretical models in an applied environment

Preferred

Experience in Python, Perl, or another scripting language

Experience in a ML or data scientist role with a large technology company