DESCRIPTION

Are you excited about the prospect of making it easier for builders to innovate and create great software? If so, Amazon Software Builder Experience (ASBX) may be the place for you. Created in 2022, ASBX has the mission of creating the world’s best builder experience across tens of thousands of software engineers across both Amazon and AWS.
Builder Insights works at the core of ASBX, shaping what it means to create the world’s best software builder experience. How do we reduce friction and toil for builders, enabling them to have more time to build features and capabilities that will delight Amazon’s customer? Where should we invest in tooling, automation, knowledge discovery, training, etc. to create the biggest benefits for builders? How do we inform managers what “good” looks like compared to teams similar to them? These are just a few of the challenges we are tackling right now.

We are looking for a passionate and hardworking scientist to use data to discover insights and turn those insights into actionable recommendations and products that improve the experience of builders across Amazon. As a data scientist on the Builder Insights team, you will help conduct rigorous science for the organization, with a focus on discovery, research, and application of generated insights into science-enabled products and features. You will have exposure to senior leadership as we communicate results and provide scientific guidance to the business. This role will also collaborate with scientists across organizations to influence science roadmaps and disseminate research.

You will work with engineers to onboard data, perform scientifically rigorous insight discovery and research, and develop the right statistical and machine learning model-based solutions to deliver impact for builders. You will solve ambiguous problems, working with stakeholders to determine the right questions to ask and developing the roadmap for delivering results. You will apply analytical abilities, business understanding, and technical expertise to identify specific and actionable opportunities to solve existing business problems and look around corners for future opportunities. You will synthesize and communicate insights and recommendations to audiences of varying levels of technical sophistication to influence investment into builder experience improvements through data-backed solutions.

Key job responsibilities
• Lead projects, requiring both business and technical domain knowledge, and drive solutions to complex or ambiguous problems with limited guidance.
• Create models and analyses that affect important business decisions.
• Review analyses of other scientists and provide feedback.
• Employ scientifically rigorous standards across multiple data science disciplines, knowing what trade-offs to make to deliver results.
• Build models using Python, R, etc. (and ability to access data using Spark, SQL, or similar)
• Proficiently use at least one common data science language to develop models (Python, R, etc.) and process data (Spark, SQL, etc.).
• Communicate verbally and in writing to business customers with various levels of technical knowledge, educating them about our systems, as well as sharing insights and recommendations



About the team
The data science team in Builder Insights believes Are Right, A Lot means listening to diverse points of view and building a culture of inclusivity where every team member can contribute. It's only when we work together and include everyone that the best ideas can shine through, and that's when we have the most impact for our customers. You can let your Ownership shine on this team! - we wear different hats, getting involved with product strategy, building infrastructure, and everything in between. We have an innate desire to Learn & Be Curious and Dive Deep as engineers and scientists.