Applied Scientist, Minerva

About the role

Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) has empowered a new wave of self-motivated creators, tearing down barriers that once blocked writers from reaching readers. Minerva is the science and analytics organization for Amazon's Books business. We have mature areas and green-field opportunities, with engineering, business intelligence, and data engineering support across our areas.

What you'll do

• Own a problem end to end, from framing and modeling through evaluation and production launch, working with scientists and engineers in Bengaluru and the US
• Monitor production risk models and push their quality higher: track performance and drift, improve how performance is measured
• Design, train, and evaluate improved detection models, and take them to production with engineering partners
• Build datasets, labels, evaluation sets, and metrics, and strengthen them as abuse patterns change
• Write clear readouts with recommendations for scientists, engineers, and policy partners

What you need

• 3–6 years in data science & ai
• Machine learning
• Python
• Data structures
• C++
• Java
• PhD or B.Tech or B.E.

Good to have

• SQL
• LLMs
• Spark
• IPR