Amazon Postdoctoral Scientist, Pricing Systems

This is a unique opportunity for a postdoc to work on research projects that investigate state of the art NLP, IR, and LLM approaches for understanding retail products and their pricing. This will include working with billion-scale datasets and investigating how the world knowledge captured by LLMs reflects real world prices, and investigating more advanced prompting and reasoning techniques to construct large knowledge graphs that are specialized for various pricing use cases such as probabilistic price estimation, as well as error detection and correction.

Key job responsibilities
In this role you will:
• Work closely with a senior science advisor, collaborate with other scientists and engineers, and be part of Amazon’s vibrant and diverse global science community.
• Publish your innovation in top-tier academic venues and hone your presentation skills.
• Be inspired by challenges and opportunities to invent cutting-edge techniques in your area(s) of expertise.

About the team
The retail pricing science team is a centralized diverse team of STEM scientists that develop statistical, ML, RL, optimization and economic models that drive pricing for products sold by Amazon worldwide, as well as monitoring of prices and experimentations in pricing. The team has a dual focus on competitiveness and long term financial optimality.

Basic Qualifications

Basic qualifications include:
- PhD in a relevant field, received within 2 years of starting the program
- Proven publication record in Operation Research, Management Science, Statistics, Machine Learning, Computer Science, Econ, or other related technical fields
- Experience in data science and quantitative research
- Proficiency in technologies relevant to the subfield

Preferred Qualifications

Postdocs demonstrate the following preferred job qualifications:
- Ability to independently deliver results in a fast-paced environment
- Publications at top-tier, peer-reviewed conferences and/or journals
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
- Expert knowledge in modeling and performance, operationalization, and scalability of scientific techniques and establishing decision strategies
Required application materials:
- CV, which lists all peer-reviewed publications and conferences,
- Research statement that outlines your research achievements and future research interests, and
- A journal article or book chapter that demonstrates your domain expertise.


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