Manager, Applied Science, 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

• Collaborate with scientists in the US to set the scientific bar and advance how we detect and respond to risk across KDP and Kindle Unlimited
• Develop new and improved detection models for fraud, abuse, copyright infringement, and harmful content, using NLP, computer vision, LLMs
• Partner with engineering, product, policy, and investigation teams in the US and India to turn findings into fixes, and present options, risks
• Work with the US science team to divide ownership clearly and share methods across Minerva

What you need

• 6–11 years in data science & ai
• Machine learning
• Python
• NLP
• Computer vision
• LLMs
• IPR
• PhD

Good to have

• Statistics