TRAFFIC Western Cape

Applied Scientist II, RBS Tech

Amazon

Job Description

RBS (Retail Business Services) Tech team works towards enhancing the customer experience (CX) and their trust in product data by providing technologies to find and fix Amazon CX defects at scale. Our platforms help in improving the CX in all phases of customer journey, including selection, discoverability & fulfilment, buying experience and post-buying experience (product quality and customer returns). The team also develops GenAI platforms for automation of Amazon Stores Operations.

As a Sciences team in RBS Tech, we focus on foundational ML research and develop scalable state of the art ML solutions to solve the problems covering customer experience (CX) and Selling partner experience (SPX). We work to solve problems related to multi modal understanding (text and images), task automation through multi-modal LLM Agents, supervised and unsupervised techniques, multi task learning, multi label classification, aspect and topic extraction for Customer Anecdote Mining, image and text similarity and retrieval using NLP and Computer Vision for product groupings and identifying duplicate listings in product search results.

Key Job Responsibilities
  • Design and deploy scalable GenAI, NLP and Computer Vision solutions that will impact the content visible to millions of customers and solve key customer experience issues.
  • Develop novel LLM, deep learning and statistical techniques for task automation, text processing, image processing, pattern recognition, and anomaly detection problems.
  • Define the research and experiments strategy with an iterative execution approach to develop AI/ML models and progressively improve the results over time.
  • Partner with business and engineering teams to identify and solve large and significantly complex problems that require scientific innovation.
  • Help the team leverage your expertise by coaching and mentoring; contribute to professional development of colleagues, improving their technical knowledge and engineering practices.
  • Independently as well as guide the team to file for patents and/or publish research work where opportunities arise.
  • Impact large product strategy, identify new business opportunities, and provide strategic direction for the ML team driving resolution to organization-level problems.
Basic Qualifications
  • PhD, or Master's degree.
  • 1 year of relevant applied research experience with PhD or 3+ years of applied research experience with a Masters' degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or related field with specialization in Machine Learning, NLP, Computer Vision, Deep Learning, or GenAI related fields.
  • Expert in either Computer Vision or NLP and a good understanding of the other.
  • Excellent communication skills.
Preferred Qualifications
  • Post Graduate degree (MS or PhD) in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics or Physics with specialization in ML, NLP or Computer Vision.
  • Strong verbal/written communication skills, including an ability to effectively collaborate with both research and technical teams.
  • Scientific thinking and the ability to invent, a track record of thought leadership and contributions that have advanced the field.
  • Solid understanding of machine learning, deep learning algorithms and computational complexity.
  • Strong CS fundamentals in data structures, problem solving, algorithm design and complexity analysis.

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About This Role

Career insights for Bioinformatics Technicians positions

Salary Benchmark
R22,844/month
R15,769 to R29,294/month
Source: WageIndicator ZAR data
Job Outlook
This career will grow rapidly in the next few years.
Key Skills for This Role
Reading Comprehension Active Learning Active Listening Complex Problem Solving Critical Thinking
Common Technologies
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Job Overview

Date Posted
10 May 2026
Location
Western Cape, South Africa

Bioinformatics Technicians Insights

Median Salary (ZAR)
R22,844/month
Job Outlook
This career will grow rapidly in the next few years.

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