Applied Scientist Intern

Job description

DESCRIPTION

We are looking for Master's and PhD students to join the EU Home Innovation Program for a 3-months / 6-months internship in 2019.

Our team is focused on creating the best-in-class experience for customers to discover and shop for home furnishings online, across devices. We develop innovative machine learning-based solutions in application domains like computer vision and text processing. To this end, we collaborate closely with other science and product teams across Amazon.

As part of the internship you will be a full member of our team working with other scientists, software engineers, product managers and UX specialists on completing a self-contained internship project. Specific challenges will be dealing with very large heterogeneous datasets, designing novel algorithms that are robust and reliable, and efficient implementations that can run in production. The results of your work could be seen and used by millions of Amazon customers around the world.

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· On-track for graduate or postgraduate degree in Machine Learning, Data Science, Statistics or related field.
· Hands-on experience in one or more of the following areas: deep learning, probabilistic modelling, statistical machine learning, data processing & data analytics, computer vision.
· Enthusiasm for applying machine learning to real-world problems.
· Computer science grounding in a range of algorithms, data structures, and programming languages.
· Ability to present your beliefs clearly and compellingly in both verbal and written form.