Are you excited about leveraging state-of-the-art Deep Learning, Recommender Systems, Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing algorithms on large datasets to solve real-world problems?
As an Applied Scientist Intern, you will be working in the closest Amazon offices to you (Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane) in a fast-paced, cross-disciplinary team of experienced R&D scientists. You will take on complex problems, work on solutions that leverage existing academic and industrial research, and utilize your own out-of-the-box pragmatic thinking. In addition to coming up with novel solutions and prototypes, you may even deliver these to production in customer facing products.
Key job responsibilities
- Develop novel solutions and build prototypes
- Work on complex problems in Machine Learning and Information Retrieval
- Contribute to research that could significantly impact Amazon operations
- Collaborate with a diverse team of experts in a fast-paced environment
- Collaborate with scientists on writing and submitting papers to top conferences, e.g. NeurIPS, ICML, KDD, SIGIR
- Present your research findings to both technical and non-technical audiences
Key Opportunities:
- Work in a team of ML scientists to solve recommender systems problems at the scale of Amazon
- Access to Amazon services and hardware
- Become a disruptor, innovator, and problem solver in the field of information retrieval and recommender systems
- Potentially deliver solutions to production in customer-facing applications
- Opportunities to be hired full-time after the internship
Basic Qualifications
- Are enrolled in a PhD in computer science, machine learning, engineering, or related fields
- Experience with video and image processing and compression algorithms and standards, computer vision and/or machine learning
- Strong programming skills (Python preferred)
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience researching about machine learning, deep learning, NLP, computer vision, data science
- Publications in top-tier conferences such as CVPR, ICCV, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ECCV, etc. Please list these publications on your resume.