Software Development Manager, Enterprise Personalization--Machine Learning, Recommendations, & Data Mining

Job description

DESCRIPTION

Overview
Amazon's product recommendations are among our most popular and best-loved features and help drive customer delight by recommending relevant, serendipitous products based on each customer's unique interests.

Spanning academia, research and massive scale real world systems, the Personalization Platform team is responsible for the collection of real-time behavioral data as well as developing recommender systems for Amazon and its subsidiaries. Active research areas include mitigating the cold start problem, dealing with sparse data sets and making recommendations useful for content based sites, apparel, video games and replenishables.

Role
As a Software Development Manager (SDE) on the Personalization Platform team, you'll manager the enterprise recommender systems team, your responsibilities will include working with site owners to understand their discovery challenges and unique customer and catalog data. You'll apply traditional and non-traditional approaches to developing recommender systems, ranging from statistical to machine learning techniques for content based recommenders, contextual based recommenders, user/item based collaborative filtering as well as hybrid recommenders.

You'll stay up to date with the current state of the art by reading academic papers, attending relevant university colloquia and conferences.

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· BS in Computer Science or related technical field (MS a plus)
· Minimum of 3 years industry experience as a software developer
· Fluent in Java or C++
· Strong Computer Science fundamentals (data structures & algorithms)
· Strong Object Oriented design skills