Amazon.com is looking for a Research Scientist – Search in Seattle, WA. The description of the ideal candidate states, “You’re a scientist looking for a career where you’ll be able to lead, to deliver, and to influence. You look at problems holistically, and thrive on the intricate complexity of designing multi-factor experiments and analyzing large quantities of data. You want to work on projects where you are implementing creative solutions to real problems and develop deep understanding of the problem space. You challenge yourself and others to constantly come up with better solutions. You’re a thought leader, and you back up your ideas with data. You want to create value and impact the direction of entire industries.” Read more

Amazon is looking for a Data Scientist in Seattle, WA. The post states, “Are you a data analysis ninja? can you seamlessly transition between OLAP/Relational, Graph/RDF and Hive/EMR without breaking a sweat? want to dive deep into the world’s largest financial/contract transaction system and help formalize our ability to make it automatically actionable for our mission critical LOB systems? This is a new effort within Vendor Systems that requires the ability to work independently and efficiently and come up with solutions that are sustainable and efficient and directly impact Amazon’s bottom line, if you want to leave a mark on the future of Amazon, this is your chance.” Read more

Amazon.com is searching for a Software Development Engineer: Semantic Knowledge and Discovery in Seattle, WA. The post states, “The Amazon’s Semantic Knowledge team is solving challenging practical problems. We use semantic knowledge to power next-generation product discovery systems on the web and mobile devices. Bring your love for machine learning, data analysis, natural language processing, Bayesian inference, Big Data, semantic web, or massively scalable systems. Add your ability to solve practical problems with agile coding. Web development skills will be put to good use building new experiences for customers. We’re inventing new forms of product discovery for mobile devices, so don’t forget about passion for new technologies such as the Kindle.” Read more

Amazon is still searching for Software Development Engineers of Semantic Web/Information Retrieval in Seattle, WA. According to the post, “Amazon.com’s External Content Team is looking for exceptional software engineers who want to work on incredibly complex problems and come up with solutions that will change the world. As a member of the team, you will have a great opportunity to build platform level features and systems for integrating with authoritative content like Wikipedia, IMDB, DPReview, etc, extracting semantic information and mapping them to products on Amazon.com. Read more

Amazon is looking for Software Development Engineers, Semantic Web & Information Retrieval in Seattle, WA. According to the post, “Amazon.com’s External Content Team is looking for exceptional software engineers who want to work on incredibly complex problems and come up with solutions that will change the world. As a member of the team, you will have a great opportunity to build platform level features and systems for integrating with authoritative content like Wikipedia, IMDB, DPReview, etc, extracting semantic information and mapping them to products on Amazon.com. In this role, you will be driving the analytics and mining of content so that we can surface them in the most relevant way on the site as well as build algorithms to match Amazon destinations (e.g. products, entities, search queries) to the content.” Learn more and apply here. Read more