DESCRIPTION

Employer: Audible, Inc.
Title: Data Scientist II
Location: One Washington Park, Newark, NJ, 07102

Duties: Design and implement scalable and reliable approaches to support or automate decision making throughout the business. Apply a range of data science techniques and tools combined with subject matter expertise to solve difficult business problems and cases in which the solution approach is unclear. Acquire data by building the necessary SQL / ETL queries. Import processes through various company specific interfaces for accessing RedShift, and S3 / edX storage systems. Build relationships with stakeholders and counterparts, and communicate model outputs, observations, and key performance indicators (KPIs) to the management to develop sustainable and consumable products. Explore and analyze data by inspecting univariate distributions and multivariate interactions, constructing appropriate transformations, and tracking down the source and meaning of anomalies. Build production-ready models using statistical modeling, mathematical modeling, econometric modeling, machine learning algorithms, network modeling, social network modeling, natural language processing, or genetic algorithms. Validate models against alternative approaches, expected and observed outcome, and other business defined key performance indicators. Implement models that comply with evaluations of the computational demands, accuracy, and reliability of the relevant ETL processes at various stages of production. Position reports into Newark, NJ office; however, telecommuting from a home office may be allowed.

Requirements: Requires a Master’s in Statistics, Computer Science, Data Science, Machine Learning, Applied Math, Operations Research, Economics, or a related field plus two (2) years of experience as a Data Scientist, Data Engineer, or other occupation/position/job title involving research and data analysis.

Experience may be gained concurrently and must include one (1) year in each of the following:
- Building statistical models and machine learning models using large datasets from multiple resources
- Working with Customer, Content, or Product data modeling and extraction
- Using database technologies such as SQL or ETL
- Applying specialized modelling software including Python, R, SAS, MATLAB, or Stata.

Alternatively, will accept a Bachelor's and four (4) years of experience.

Multiple positions. Apply online: www.amazon.jobs Job Code: ADBL157.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Newark, NJ, USA