Data Scientist II
Sunnyvale, CA$175k - $212.8kfull-timePosted 1w ago
About the role
Data Scientist II position at Amazon.com Services LLC in Sunnyvale, CA. The role focuses on designing and implementing scalable, reliable data-driven solutions to support or automate decision making across the business, using a range of data science techniques, SQL/ETL data acquisition, and modeling.
Responsibilities
- 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 Oracle, RedShift, and Spark storage systems.
- Build relationships with stakeholders and counterparts.
- Analyze data for trends and input validity by inspecting univariate distributions, exploring bivariate relationships, constructing appropriate transformations, and tracking down the source and meaning of anomalies.
- Build models using statistical modeling, mathematical modeling, econometric modeling, network modeling, social network modeling, natural language processing, machine learning algorithms, genetic algorithms, and neural networks.
- 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.
Qualifications
- Master’s degree or foreign equivalent degree in Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Economics, Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field and one year of experience in the job offered or a related occupation.
- Employer will accept a Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent degree in Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Economics, Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field and five years of progressive post-baccalaureate experience in the job offered or a related occupation as equivalent to the Master’s degree and one year of experience.
- Must have one year of experience in: (1) building statistical models and machine learning models using large datasets from multiple resources; (2) writing SQL scripts for analysis and data migration; (3) applying specialized modelling software including R, Python, or MATLAB.
Skills
Required:Statistical modeling and machine learningSQLR/Python/MATLAB
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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