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Location: SEATTLE, WA
Salary: $-
Job Type: Part Time

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               <td align="left"><font style="font-size: 100%;">Sr.Research Scientist-(Statistical Analysis, Design of Experiments and Data Mining)<BR><BR><BR><BR>Job ID: 162122<BR>Location: US-WA-Seattle<BR><BR>Posted Date: 7/6/2012<BR>Company: Amazon Corporate LLC<BR><BR>Position Category: Research Science <BR>Apply for This Position<BR><BR>* Apply for this position online<BR>* E-mail this position to a friend<BR>Position Details<BR>Job Description<BR>Research Scientist - Improving information quality within Amazon?s massive product catalog (Statistical Analysis, Design of Experiments and Data Mining)<BR><BR>At Amazon we take pride in providing a vast selection of products to our customers (in excess of 1 billion products in our catalog and growing fast).<BR><BR>We understand that Amazon?s long term success rests in our ability to create and sustain an information-rich product catalog. A high quality product catalog is indispensable to key features such as product search, recommendations, and for ultimately providing customers with all the information they need to make informed decisions. As a Research Scientist on this team you will be on the leading edge of understanding how quality of information within Amazon?s catalog affects our customers and help devise short term and long term strategy for improving it. You will have the ability to influence how millions of customers discover and shop for products at Amazon.<BR>Some problem spaces we?ll be working on together:<BR><BR>Measuring Data Quality Impact: Quantify business impact of data quality improvement efforts. Given that a product?s performance (ex: sales) depends on several factors like price fluctuations, seasonality, product promotions, it?s not an easy undertaking to splice the exact impact of data quality improvement efforts.<BR><BR>Predicting High Data Quality Indicators: By correlating past user behavior determining good data quality standards that will improve customer experience going forward. (Ex: what is a good title for this product?? or what features are critical for this type of product??)<BR><BR>Designing Auditing Strategies: Understand how we can leverage human auditors/mechanical turkers to audit a sample of products for data quality in the most efficient manner.<BR><BR>Major responsibilities:<BR><BR>* Analyze and extract relevant information from large amounts of Amazon?s historical business data to help automate and optimize key features and processes. Design and implement scalable and repeatable solutions along the way.<BR>* Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large scale data analyses, model development, model validation and model implementation.<BR>* Work closely with software engineering teams to drive new feature creation. Lead off with creating prototypes or design ideas as applicable.<BR>* Proactively monitor and analyze complex systems to understand, diagnose and continuously improve business and operation parameters. Produce compelling management reporting on a regular basis.<BR>* Strategic analysis, modeling and projection for new strategies, products and business directionsAbout you:<BR>You''re a scientist looki                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   </font></td>
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