Job Description
Amazon’s Customer Fulfillment and Prime analytics team (IES CFX and Prime) is hiring a data scientist in Bengaluru. The role builds ML and statistical systems that detect abuse, such as fraudulent customer behaviour, rings of linked accounts, identity changes and marketplace manipulation, across more than ten countries. It also uses generative AI to automate how customer promotions are handled.
At a glance
- Role: Data Scientist, IES CFX and Prime
- Posted: 1 July 2026
- Focus: Abuse and fraud detection, account-ring detection, GenAI for promotions
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Job ID: 10463418
- Apply: open until filled (re-checked 13 October 2026)
About the CFX and Prime data scientist role
- Build scalable abuse-detection models for fraud, linked-account rings, identity change and customer risk
- Use GenAI to automate customer promotion workflows
- Design, build and deploy end-to-end ML in Amazon’s production environment
- Work with business, science and engineering teams on models that scale to millions of customers
- Build automated processes for analysis, model development, validation and deployment
What Amazon is looking for
- At least 3 years with SQL, a scripting language such as Python, or statistical software such as R, SAS or MATLAB
- At least 3 years as a data or research scientist, statistician or quantitative analyst at an internet company with complex big data
- At least 1 year creating or contributing to mathematical textbooks, research papers or educational content
- A master’s degree in a STEM field, or equivalent STEM work experience
Nice to have
- A PhD in a STEM field
- Statistical and BI tools such as SPSS, SAS, S-PLUS or R
- Clustered data processing (Hadoop, Spark, MapReduce, Hive)
- Working with or evaluating AI systems
Pay and location
Amazon’s posting does not state a salary; pay is discussed during the hiring process. The role is based in Bengaluru, India.
How to apply
Apply through the official Amazon job posting. Amazon’s posting does not give a closing date, so the role is open until filled; ResearchJobs.in will re-check this listing on 13 October 2026. Amazon lists the minimum and preferred qualifications on the posting; read both before applying. Check the posting for location and work-authorisation details before you apply.
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Hiring institution: Amazon
Official advertisement: www.amazon.jobs
How to prepare for this application
- Graphs: account rings suggest graph methods; bring an example if you have one.
- Adversaries: abusers adapt; discuss how you would keep a model working as behaviour shifts.
- Papers count: the posting asks for research papers or educational content; list them.
- Business framing: explain results clearly to non-scientists.
- Leadership Principles: Amazon interviews lean on them; prepare two or three STAR stories for each.
About Amazon in India
Amazon runs large science and engineering teams in India, including in Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Chennai, Pune and Gurugram. Applied scientists and data scientists work on machine learning problems across retail, logistics, advertising, devices, payments and cloud services.