Applied Scientist, Worldwide Returns & Recommerce

Welcome to Amazons Worldwide Returns & ReCommerce (WWR&R) Team

At WWR&R, were revolutionizing returns management through our innovative "Zero Initiative, " focusing on eliminating return costs, waste, and defects. Our mission extends beyond conventional business metrics to create lasting value for our customers, company, and environment.

As pioneers in Amazons circular economy, were transforming how returns are handled through edge technology and operational excellence. Our approach combines sophisticated machine learning, automated routing systems, and innovative reuse channels to create seamless experiences for our customers while significantly reducing environmental impact.

Our diverse team of experts in business, technology, and operations works collaboratively to manage the complete lifecycle of returned and damaged products. Were developing next-generation solutions that streamline the returns process, enhance product support, and create sustainable reuse opportunities.

Join us in building scalable, high-impact solutions that shape the future of sustainable commerce while delivering exceptional customer experiences. At WWR&R, youll be part of an innovative team thats committed to transforming returns management while contributing to a more sustainable future.

Key job responsibilities
* Design, develop, and evaluate highly innovative models for Natural Language Programming (NLP), Large Language Model (LLM), or Large Computer Vision Models.
* Use SQL to query and analyze the data.
* Use Python, Jupyter notebook, and Pytorch to train/test/deploy ML models.
* Use machine learning and analytical techniques to create scalable solutions for business problems.
* Research and implement novel machine learning and statistical approaches.
* Mentor interns.
* Work closely with data & software engineering teams to build model implementations and integrate successful models and algorithms in production systems at very large scale.

A day in the life
If you re passionate about this role and want to make an impact on a global scale, please apply!



About the team
When a customer returns a package to Amazon, the request and package will be passed through our WWRR machine learning (ML) systems so that we could improve the customer experience, identify return root cause, optimize re-use, and evaluate the returned package. Our problems touch multiple modalities spanning from: textual, categorical, image, to speech data.
We operate at large scale and rely on state-of-the-art modeling techniques to power our ML models
- 2+ years of building models for business application experience
- Experience in patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals
- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
- Experience in any of the following areas: algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, high-performance computing
- Experience with popular deep learning frameworks such as MxNet and Tensor Flow