Find out what it means to be a data scientist at Amazon! Their salaries, roles and required experience, types of data positions, and interview process.

Amazon.com, Inc. is the largest internet company in the world, and unique in its focus on the “customers’ desire for lower prices, better selection, and convenient services.” Amazon is the world’s largest online retailer, and that’s in addition to its products in AI Assistant technology, streaming services, and cloud computing. Founded by Jeff Bezos in his garage in 1994, Amazon now has nearly 1.3 million employees across the world, after adding around half a million in 2020 alone.

Amazon has over 200 million subscribers on its two-day delivery services, Amazon Prime, as well as over 150 million mobile users on the Amazon app, with the Amazon Marketplace moving more than $300 billion worth of products over the course of 2020. That’s not to mention Amazon owning almost half of the world’s public cloud infrastructure market through its subsidiary, Amazon Web Services (AWS), through which it earned over $380 billion in net sales revenues.

On top of this, all is Amazon’s “customer-obsessed” business model, pushing Amazon Data Scientists to leverage its data to create the best experience for all of its users across Amazon’s various platforms.

Data roles at Amazon do some of the most cutting-edge research in artificial intelligence and machine learning to create forecasts and optimize algorithms for their customers.

Find out more information about working at Amazon on their Amazon Jobs page. Find current open Amazon data scientist positions here. Be sure to also check out Amazon’s Career FAQs.

Amazon Data Scientist Salaries​

Here’s a quick overview of the types of data positions at Amazon and their respective salaries, with a comparison to the national average.

Total compensation at Amazon also includes health & dental insurance, life insurance, 401k with company match, company RSUs, and bonuses. Check out levels.fyi for a deeper dive on Amazon salaries and benefits.

Let’s take a look at additional qualifications for these roles.

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