Applied Scientist Manager, Tax Engine

Description

Amazon’s Tax engine organisation is looking for a passionate and innovative science leader to take its science initiatives to new heights.

Amazon Tax Engine platform backs all of the orders placed across Amazon e-commerce. We serve Amazon customers and sellers by correctly computing and collecting the tax amounts when an Amazon order is placed globally. We are responsible for correctly attributing products to the correct Tax categories applicable for the specific country, state and county, providing core calculation services that calculate taxes (sales tax and VAT) for all Amazon sales, physical and digital. Our challenges include staying on top of the complex and ever-changing global tax legislations as well as computing calculations correctly and quickly, thousands of times a second, with accuracy close to 100%.

We use language models at scale for Tax classification of the diverse products in Amazon catalogue. We have a growing portfolio of...