Economist - Lending

Amazon
Seattle - United States
S: Competitive

Job Description
Amazon.com strives to be Earth's most customer-centric company where people can find and discover anything they want to buy online. We hire the world's brightest minds, offering them a fast paced, technologically sophisticated and friendly work environment.

Economists at Amazon will be expected to work directly with the chief economist and senior management on key business problems faced in retail, international retail, cloud computing, third party merchants, search, Kindle and operations. Amazon economists will apply the frontier of economic thinking to market design, pricing, forecasting, online advertising and other areas. You will build econometric models, using our world class data systems, and apply economic theory to solve business problems in a fast moving environment. In addition, economists at Amazon will be expected to maintain an independent and active research agenda, publishing in leading academic journals.

Basic Qualifications
A PhD in Economics by August of 2014
Proven ability to relate and solve business problems to/through machine learning and statistics.
3+ years of hands-on experience developing and implementing machine learning algorithms and/or statistical models.
Programming, prototyping and scripting skills (Oracle, SQL, Hive, Pig, SAS, R, Weka, Python).
Communication and data presentation skills.

Preferred Qualifications
A strong track record of innovating in machine learning and statistical algorithms and their applications.
Strong demonstrated skills implementing and deploying large scale machine learning applications and tools.
Strong skills and experience with programming in SQL, Hive, Pig, R, SAS macros and familiarity/experience with AWS.
Business experience outside of academia

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