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  • (Updated 0 days ago)
    At Frontier AI & Robotics, we're not just advancing robotics – we're reimagining it from the ground up. Our team is building the future of intelligent robotics through frontier foundation models and end-to-end learned systems. We tackle some of the most challenging problems in AI and robotics, from developing sophisticated perception systems to creating adaptive manipulation strategies that work in complex, real-world scenarios. What sets us apart is our unique combination of ambitious research vision and practical impact. We leverage Amazon's computational infrastructure and rich real-world datasets to train and deploy state-of-the-art foundation models. Our work spans the full spectrum of robotics intelligence – from multimodal perception using images, videos, and sensor data, to sophisticated manipulation strategies that can handle diverse real-world scenarios. We're building systems that don't just work in the lab, but scale to meet the demands of Amazon's global operations. Join us if you're excited about pushing the boundaries of what's possible in robotics, working with world-class researchers, and seeing your innovations deployed at unprecedented scale. As a Senior Research Engineer embedded in our science team, you'll be instrumental in transforming innovative research into high-performance production systems. You'll collaborate directly with scientists to build and optimize large-scale transformer models for robotics applications. In this role, you'll balance deep technical optimization work with strategic input on model architecture decisions, ensuring our innovative robotics models are designed with performance in mind from the ground up. You'll leverage PyTorch and NVIDIA's acceleration stack and other compilation techniques to tackle ambitious performance targets, working at the intersection of large language models and real-world robotics applications. Key job responsibilities - Design, implement, and optimize distributed training systems that scale across thousands of GPUs and nodes for large-scale training workloads. - Develop high-performance optimizations to maximize throughput and efficiency. - Develop reusable frameworks and libraries to improve training reproducibility, reliability, and scalability for new model architectures. - Establish standards for reliability, maintainability, and security, ensuring systems are robust under rapid iteration. - Collaborate with researchers to influence model architectures for optimal hardware utilization - Develop comprehensive benchmarking frameworks to measure and optimize model performance A day in the life In this role, you will: - Optimize transformer blocks using custom CUDA kernels and TensorRT optimization techniques - Partner with scientists to analyze model architectures and propose efficiency improvements - Implement and benchmark various optimization strategies for large-scale models - Debug performance bottlenecks using NVIDIA profiling tools - Participate in technical discussions about new model architectures with the science team - Manage pre/post training runs and continue improve system stability and throughput - Prototype new acceleration approaches using emerging compilation frameworks
  • US, MD, Annapolis Junction
    Job ID: 10435024
    (Updated 0 days ago)
    As a Data Scientist on our team, you will leverage advanced analytics and machine learning to protect our cloud infrastructure from security threats. You'll develop and deploy sophisticated anomaly detection models, predictive algorithms, and real-time analysis systems that identify and help automate the mitigation of cyber threats across Amazon's infrastructure. Your expertise in statistical analysis, machine learning, and big data processing will be crucial in building scalable security solutions. You'll collaborate with software engineers, security engineers, and fellow data scientists to: - Analyze large-scale security data using statistical methods and data mining techniques - Create automated systems for real-time pattern recognition and risk assessment - Build data pipelines and ETL processes to handle massive security datasets - Translate complex analytical findings into actionable security insights We use the full power of AWS technologies, including Amazon SageMaker, EMR, and other ML/AI services to protect every AWS customer from security threats. Experience with Python and a strong background in statistical analysis and machine learning are essential. We're looking for a new teammate who is enthusiastic, empathetic, curious, motivated, reliable, and able to work effectively with a diverse team of peers. We want someone who will help us amplify the positive & inclusive team culture we've been building. We understand that life is dynamic and we have a flexible work environment that enables individuals to adjust their work schedule to accommodate personal needs. Our team is distributed, though most of the team is located in Maryland and Virginia. We generally keep core business hours of 10:00 AM EST - 3:00 PM EST, while allowing flexibility as needed. At AWS Security, it’s not about clocking hours, it’s about delivering results. On-Call Responsibility This position involves on-call responsibilities, typically for one week every two months. We don’t like getting paged in the middle of the night or on the weekend, so we work to ensure that our systems are fault tolerant. When we do get paged, we work together to resolve the root cause so that we don’t get paged for the same issue twice. Key job responsibilities - Running experiments to assess potential risk of security responses. - Expanding our existing LLM agent pipelines - Analyzing post mortems to understand what data signals could have prevented the occurence About the team Diverse Experiences Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying. Why Amazon Security? At Amazon, security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. Our organization is responsible for creating and maintaining a high bar for security across all of Amazon’s products and services. We offer talented security professionals the chance to accelerate their careers with opportunities to build experience in a wide variety of areas including cloud, devices, retail, entertainment, healthcare, operations, and physical stores. Inclusive Team Culture In Amazon Security, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Ongoing DEI events and learning experiences inspire us to continue learning and to embrace our uniqueness. Addressing the toughest security challenges requires that we seek out and celebrate a diversity of ideas, perspectives, and voices. Training & Career Growth We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, training, and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional. Work/Life Balance We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.
  • (Updated 2 days ago)
    The NASC & TOM Science team owns Operations Research, Machine Learning, and AI projects across the North America Sort Center (NASC) and Transportation Operations Management (TOM) planning and operations organizations. We turn complex network, labor, and capacity problems into deployed models that drive multi-million-dollar planning decisions every day. As a Data Scientist II, you will own the end-to-end Machine learning Operation cycle: Design, build, and ship machine learning and/or optimization models that directly shape Amazon's middle miles planning decisions. You will own end-to-end delivery — from problem framing with business partners, through modeling and validation, to deployment in internal model hosting platform and integration with downstream planning tools. You will work on problems such as: - Long- and short-horizon forecasting - Network and capacity optimization - GenAI / agentic systems - Defect prevention and adaptive planning You will partner closely with Engineering, Product, Engineering, and stakeholders to translate ambiguous operational pain points into measurable model outcomes. Key job responsibilities - Design and implement complex ML and optimization solutions (forecasting, MIP/LP, simulation, Deep learning / foundation model); - Drive end-to-end delivery of scalable models — from data exploration and feature engineering through training, evaluation, deployment, and post-launch monitoring; - Develop new modeling patterns and analytical frameworks for forecasting (multivariate, hierarchical, causal-DAG, model-chaining) and optimization; - Build robust model validation, backtesting, and monitoring pipelines; identify and eliminate sources of leakage, bias, and silent failure; - Define and own model performance metrics (e.g., WAPE) tied to business outcomes; - Partner with Data Engineering and Software Development to productionize models and define I/O contracts, packaging, and model CI/CD; - Excellent communication to present findings, tradeoffs, and recommendations clearly to stakeholders and senior leadership.
  • IN, KA, Bengaluru
    Job ID: 10432407
    (Updated 2 days ago)
    Join Amazon Pharmacy as the founding engineering leader for our Supply Chain technology team in Bangalore. You will build and lead a team of engineers responsible for the systems that determine what medications to buy, where to place inventory, and how to plan capacity across Amazon Pharmacy's fulfillment network. This is a greenfield opportunity to architect ML-driven supply chain systems from the ground up, leveraging Amazon's cloud-native infrastructure, proven supply chain optimization patterns, and operations research best practices at Amazon scale. You will own the full supply chain stack for Amazon Pharmacy: demand forecasting, procurement optimization, inventory placement, resource planning, and Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP). Your systems will directly determine whether a patient's medication is in stock, at the right facility, at the right time. The stakes are high: pharmacy supply chains operate under regulatory constraints, drug expiry windows, and prescription-driven demand signals that make this one of the most technically interesting supply chain problems at Amazon. We are building an AI-native engineering organization. You will operate with a flat structure, leading senior ICs directly, and leveraging AI-augmented development workflows (code generation, automated testing, ML-driven monitoring) to move fast with a lean team. If you are energized by building ML-intensive systems, leading from the front technically, and setting the culture for a high-autonomy engineering team, this is your role. Key job responsibilities A. Engineering Leadership & Team Building • Lead a team of engineers building ML-driven and optimization-based supply chain systems • Hire engineers who can operate at the intersection of software engineering and quantitative methods • Define the technical and science roadmap: identify high-impact modeling opportunities across demand forecasting, procurement, placement, and planning • Set the bar for scientific rigor: reproducibility, offline evaluation, backtesting, and experiment design • Mentor engineers on translating quantitative methods into production-ready systems • Manage the team's portfolio of work, balancing near-term production improvements with longer-term capability building B. Applied Science & Operations Research • Design demand forecasting systems: time series methods, probabilistic forecasting, hierarchical models that handle sparse pharmacy SKU-level demand • Develop optimization models for procurement: cost minimization under lead time uncertainty, expiry constraints, supplier capacity, and regulatory requirements • Design placement and allocation algorithms: multi-facility inventory optimization, safety stock computation, transfer policies • Apply operations research techniques: linear and integer programming, stochastic optimization, dynamic programming, simulation, multi-objective optimization • Develop capacity and resource planning models: labor demand forecasting, throughput optimization, shift planning • Translate scientific methods into engineering designs that your team can build, test, and deploy C. Production & Experimentation • Own the full system lifecycle: development, offline evaluation, online experimentation, deployment, and production monitoring • Design experimentation frameworks for supply chain interventions where traditional A/B testing is difficult (counterfactual evaluation, synthetic controls, switchback experiments) • Build backtesting and simulation infrastructure to evaluate model performance against historical data before deployment • Define APIs, latency requirements, failure modes, and monitoring dashboards for your team's systems • Establish performance metrics and review cadence to ensure systems improve over time and degrade gracefully D. Collaboration & Influence • Partner with peer SDMs across the supply chain org to align on architecture, interfaces, and priorities • Work with product managers to translate business problems into well-defined optimization objectives • Collaborate across time zones with US-based science and product teams on priorities and research direction • Represent the team in technical and science reviews • Influence the broader supply chain engineering roadmap through data-driven insights and scientific recommendations
  • (Updated 7 days ago)
    Are you passionate about solving complex business problems at scale through Generative AI? Do you want to build intelligent systems that reason, act, and learn from minimal supervision? Are you excited about taking innovative AI solutions from proof-of-concept to production? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you on Amazon's Trustworthy Shopping Experience (TSE) team. At TSE, our vision is to guarantee customers a worry-free shopping experience by earning their trust that the products they buy are safe, authentic, and compliant with regulations and policy. We give customers confidence that Amazon stands behind every product and will make it right in the rare chance anything goes wrong. We do this in close partnership with our selling partners and empower them with best-in-class tools and expertise required to offer a high-quality selection of compliant products that customers trust. As an Applied Scientist, you will lead the development of next Gen AI solutions to automate complex manual investigation processes at Amazon scale. You will work on some of the most fascinating challenges in applied AI—building systems that reason and act autonomously, learn rich representations from structured and relational data without extensive labels, adapt rapidly from limited examples, improve through feedback and interaction, seamlessly connect visual and textual understanding, and compress complex model capabilities into efficient, deployable systems. Your innovations will deliver significant impact to cost-of-serving customers while maintaining the highest standards of trust and safety. This role offers end-to-end ownership—from initial research and proof-of-concept through production deployment. You will see your innovations serving hundreds of millions of customers within months, not years. Key job responsibilities • Design and build expertise deep agentic AI systems with multi-step reasoning, autonomous task execution, and multimodal intelligence with capabilities to handle feedback with long term as well as short term memory mechanisms. • Design and build expertise agentic AI systems with multi-step reasoning, autonomous task execution, and multimodal intelligence with capabilities to handle feedback with long term as well as short term memory mechanisms. • Productionize large scale models built on top of SFT (Supervised Finetuning) and RFT (Reinforced fine tuning) approaches (GRPO with RLVR, Process/Outcome Reward Models), few shot approaches (Contrastive, Prototypical) based on multimodal datasets • Enhance on existing Automatic prompt optimization techniques (GEPA & beyond) towards agentic optimization given the ground truth datasets to improve agentic planning. • Build novel production ready Finetuned transformer architectures (using LORA/Q-LORA/LLM-JEPA etc) and conventional supervised & unsupervised ML solutions to aid the multiple potential automation requirements • Identify customer and business problems at project level; invent or extend state-of-the-art approaches for complex LLM workflows involving unstructured text, documents, images, and relational data • Author or co-author research papers for peer-reviewed venues; serve as PC member at conferences when aligned with business needs • Prototype rapidly, iterate based on feedback, and deliver components at SDE 1+ level that integrate directly into production-scale systems • Engineer efficient systems balancing model capability, deployment cost, and resource usage; write significant code demonstrating technical excellence and maintainability • Scrutinize algorithm and software performance for improvements; resolve root causes leaving systems more maintainable • Contribute to tactical and strategic planning—team goals, priorities, and roadmaps—while providing architectural guidance for AI systems • Participate in engineering best practices with rigorous peer reviews; communicate design decisions clearly and participate in science reviews • Train new teammates & interns on component construction and integration; mentor less experienced scientists and participate in hiring processes About the team Investigation technology Product team in TSE is responsible for the human-in-the-loop products and technology used in the risk investigations at Amazon. The team is also responsible for reducing the cost of performing the investigations, by automating wherever possible and optimizing the experience where manual interventions are needed. The team leverages state-of-the art technology and GenAI to deliver the products and associated goals.
  • (Updated 7 days ago)
    Are you passionate about solving complex business problems at scale through Generative AI? Do you want to build intelligent systems that reason, act, and learn from minimal supervision? Are you excited about taking innovative AI solutions from proof-of-concept to production? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you on Amazon's Trustworthy Shopping Experience (TSE) team. At TSE, our vision is to guarantee customers a worry-free shopping experience by earning their trust that the products they buy are safe, authentic, and compliant with regulations and policy. We give customers confidence that Amazon stands behind every product and will make it right in the rare chance anything goes wrong. We do this in close partnership with our selling partners and empower them with best-in-class tools and expertise required to offer a high-quality selection of compliant products that customers trust. As an Applied Scientist, you will lead the development of next Gen AI solutions to automate complex manual investigation processes at Amazon scale. You will work on some of the most fascinating challenges in applied AI—building systems that reason and act autonomously, learn rich representations from structured and relational data without extensive labels, adapt rapidly from limited examples, improve through feedback and interaction, seamlessly connect visual and textual understanding, and compress complex model capabilities into efficient, deployable systems. Your innovations will deliver significant impact to cost-of-serving customers while maintaining the highest standards of trust and safety. This role offers end-to-end ownership—from initial research and proof-of-concept through production deployment. You will see your innovations serving hundreds of millions of customers within months, not years. Key job responsibilities • Design and build expertise deep agentic AI systems with multi-step reasoning, autonomous task execution, and multimodal intelligence with capabilities to handle feedback with long term as well as short term memory mechanisms. • Design and build expertise agentic AI systems with multi-step reasoning, autonomous task execution, and multimodal intelligence with capabilities to handle feedback with long term as well as short term memory mechanisms. • Productionize large scale models built on top of SFT (Supervised Finetuning) and RFT (Reinforced fine tuning) approaches (GRPO with RLVR, Process/Outcome Reward Models), few shot approaches (Contrastive, Prototypical) based on multimodal datasets • Enhance on existing Automatic prompt optimization techniques (GEPA & beyond) towards agentic optimization given the ground truth datasets to improve agentic planning. • Build novel production ready Finetuned transformer architectures (using LORA/Q-LORA/LLM-JEPA etc) and conventional supervised & unsupervised ML solutions to aid the multiple potential automation requirements • Identify customer and business problems at project level; invent or extend state-of-the-art approaches for complex LLM workflows involving unstructured text, documents, images, and relational data • Author or co-author research papers for peer-reviewed venues; serve as PC member at conferences when aligned with business needs • Prototype rapidly, iterate based on feedback, and deliver components at SDE 1+ level that integrate directly into production-scale systems • Engineer efficient systems balancing model capability, deployment cost, and resource usage; write significant code demonstrating technical excellence and maintainability • Scrutinize algorithm and software performance for improvements; resolve root causes leaving systems more maintainable • Contribute to tactical and strategic planning—team goals, priorities, and roadmaps—while providing architectural guidance for AI systems • Participate in engineering best practices with rigorous peer reviews; communicate design decisions clearly and participate in science reviews • Train new teammates & interns on component construction and integration; mentor less experienced scientists and participate in hiring processes About the team Investigation technology Product team in TSE is responsible for the human-in-the-loop products and technology used in the risk investigations at Amazon. The team is also responsible for reducing the cost of performing the investigations, by automating wherever possible and optimizing the experience where manual interventions are needed. The team leverages state-of-the art technology and GenAI to deliver the products and associated goals.
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 10426721
    (Updated 8 days ago)
    We are a passionate team applying the latest advances in technology to solve real-world challenges. As a Data Scientist working at the intersection of machine learning and advanced analytics, you will help develop innovative products that enhance customer experiences. Our team values intellectual curiosity while maintaining sharp focus on bringing products to market. Successful candidates demonstrate responsiveness, adaptability, and thrive in our open, collaborative, entrepreneurial environment. Working at the forefront of both academic and applied research, you will join a diverse team of scientists, engineers, and product managers to solve complex business and technology problems using scientific approaches. You will collaborate closely with other teams to implement innovative solutions and drive improvements. At Amazon, we cultivate an inclusive culture through our Leadership Principles, which emphasize seeking diverse perspectives, continuous learning, and building trust. Our global community includes thirteen employee-led affinity groups with 40,000 members across 190 chapters, showcasing our commitment to embracing differences and fostering continuous learning through local, regional, and global programs. We prioritize work-life balance, recognizing it as fundamental to long-term happiness and fulfillment. Our team is committed to supporting your career development through challenging projects, mentorship opportunities, and targeted training programs that help you reach your full potential. Key job responsibilities Work hands-on with complex, noisy datasets to derive actionable insights and explain/debug black-box models using interpretability and data-attribution methods (e.g., SHAP/TreeSHAP, Anchors, Integrated Gradients, counterfactuals, nearest-neighbor exemplars, influence/data attribution). Design and analyze experiments and observational studies with rigorous statistical inference, including confidence intervals, power/sample-size estimation, variance reduction, and appropriate tests (e.g., two-sample tests, permutation tests, sequential testing, and multiple-comparison control such as FDR). Benchmark models and datasets using classical and modern techniques; select ML methods based on data and operational constraints (e.g., clustering/KDE, tree ensembles, CNN/RNN/Transformers, representation learning), and evaluate with robust metrics and diagnostics (e.g., AUROC, AUPRG, proper scoring rules/losses, calibration/ECE, threshold/utility curves, slice-based evaluation, and error analysis). Apply production-grade measurement and MLOps practices, including data quality monitoring, drift/shift detection (PSI, KS, MMD/embedding drift), and A/B test design and readouts with disciplined diagnosis of metric movement (e.g., instrumentation changes, seasonality, novelty effects, sample-ratio mismatch, guardrail tradeoffs). Deliver end-to-end analyses that improve team execution and decision-making—define goal-driving metrics with stakeholders, build clear reporting (tables, dashboards, and visualizations), and communicate results that translate into concrete actions. Investigate anomalies and data integrity issues across diverse data sources using structured root-cause analysis, correlation diagnostics, significance testing, and simulation across high- and low-fidelity datasets. Partner closely with cross-functional domain experts to design experiments and interpret results, applying modern statistical methods to evaluate predictive and generative models as well as operational and process performance. Develop production-quality analytics and modeling code—write well-tested, maintainable SQL/Python scripts and analysis workflows that can be promoted into production pipelines, and continuously adopt new statistical methods and best practices as the field evolves. A day in the life New data has just landed and promoted to our datalake. You load the data and verify it's overall integrity by visualizing variation across target subsets. You realize we may have made progress toward our goals and begin to test the validity of your nominal results. At midday you grab lunch with new coworkers and learn about their fields or weird interests (there are many). You generate visualizations for the entire dataset and perform significance tests that reinforce specific findings. You meet with peers in the afternoon to discuss your findings and breakdown the remaining tasks to finalize your group report! About the team Innovators wanted! Are you an entrepreneur? A builder? A dreamer? This role is part of an Amazon Special Projects team that takes the company’s Think Big leadership principle to the limits. We focus on creating entirely new products and services with a goal of positively impacting the lives of our customers. No industries or subject areas are out of bounds. If you’re interested in innovating at scale to address big challenges in the world, this is the team for you.
  • US, NY, New York
    Job ID: 10421569
    (Updated 9 days ago)
    We are seeking a Robotics/AI Motor Control Scientist to develop cutting-edge machine learning algorithms for motor control systems in robots. In this role, you will focus on creating and optimizing intelligent motor control strategies to enable robots to perform complex, whole-body tasks. Your contributions will be essential in advancing robotics by enabling fluid, reliable, and safe interactions between robots and their environments. Key job responsibilities - Develop controllers that leverage reinforcement learning, imitation learning, or other advanced AI techniques to achieve natural, robust, and adaptive motor behaviors - Collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams to integrate motor control systems with robotic hardware, ensuring alignment with real-world constraints such as actuator dynamics and energy efficiency - Use simulation and real-world testing to refine and validate control algorithms - Stay updated on advancements in robotics, AI, and control systems to apply advanced techniques to robotic motion challenges - Lead technical projects from conception through production deployment - Mentor junior scientists and engineers - Bridge research initiatives with practical engineering implementation About the team Fauna Robotics, an Amazon company, is building capable, safe, and genuinely delightful robots for everyday life. Our goal is simple: make robots people actually want to live and interact with in everyday human spaces. We believe that future won’t arrive until building for robotics becomes far more accessible. Today, too much effort is spent reinventing the fundamentals. We’re changing that by developing tightly integrated hardware and software systems that make it faster, safer, and more intuitive to create real-world robotic products. Our work spans the full stack: mechanical design, control systems, dynamic modeling, and intelligent software. The focus is not just functionality, but experience. We’re building robots that feel responsive, expressive, and genuinely useful. At Fauna, you’ll work at the frontier of this space, helping define how robots move, manipulate, and interact with people in natural environments. It’s an opportunity to solve hard problems across hardware and software with a team focused on making robotics accessible and joyful to build. If you care about making robotics real for everyone and building systems that are as delightful as they are capable, we’re interested in hearing from you. an opportunity to solve hard problems across hardware and software with a team focused on making robotics accessible and joyful to build. If you care about making robotics real for everyone and building systems that are as delightful as they are capable, we’re interested in hearing from you.
  • (Updated 10 days ago)
    Are you passionate about helping customers achieve business transformation through AI? Do you want to lead forward-deployed teams that embed directly into the enterprise and unlock real business outcomes? And are you ready to operate as a general manager across engineering, science, and commercial strategy in the fastest-moving space in AI and infrastructure? The AWS Generative AI Innovation Center (GenAIIC) is on a mission to accelerate enterprise AI transformation across global customers going from beyond isolated use cases to holistic, C-suite-sponsored initiatives that reshape how organizations operate. We combine deep AI expertise across science, strategy, and business transformation. We start with the customer's most critical operational challenges and work backwards, and deploy multidisciplinary teams that embed with the customer, prove impact in 45-day sprints, and expand across the enterprise. We are a fast-moving, entrepreneurial team that values leaders who can operate across technical depth and commercial breadth. As the Head of Innovation and Transformation, GenAIIC APJC Geo, you will own the end-to-end success of AI transformation engagements across the Asia Pacific, Japan, and Greater China region. You will lead a team of ML engineers, AI scientists, and AI strategists who work alongside customers to architect and deliver AI solutions that move and stay in production, realizing value. You will regularly engage with CFOs, CIOs, and C-suite executives — selling transformation, not technology. You must bring a GM mindset: equal fluency in engineering, applied science, go-to-market, and customer delivery. You are ready to roll up your sleeves alongside the team — whether that means scoping an agentic AI architecture, presenting to a board, or operationalizing a repeatable delivery motion across geos. You will partner with customers, AWS Sales, AWS service teams, AWS industry teams and AWS Professional Services delivery teams to meet the specific needs of the customer, and extend that use to other customers. Key job responsibilities Lead a high-performing, multidisciplinary team of ML engineers, AI scientists and strategists. Own the regional engagement pipeline — identify, qualify, and land C-suite-sponsored AI transformation programs with enterprise customers. Guide the team in designing, building, and deploying production AI solutions. Drive a land-and-expand motion: prove value in focused sprints, then scale across business units with executive sponsorship. Operate as a GM — balancing technical delivery, talent development, commercial outcomes, and operational excellence. Advise and influence customers on enterprise AI strategy, including architecture decisions, organizational readiness, and change management. Drive adoption of AWS generative AI services by delivering AI expertise and developing repeatable transformation playbooks. Develop new strategies and mechanisms to address evolving customer needs while increasing business velocity and impact for AWS. Influence product roadmap with service teams based on customer feedback. A day in the life Diverse Experiences AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying. Why AWS? Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses. Inclusive Team Culture AWS values curiosity and connection. Our employee-led and company-sponsored affinity groups promote inclusion and empower our people to take pride in what makes us unique. Our inclusion events foster stronger, more collaborative teams. Our continual innovation is fueled by the bold ideas, fresh perspectives, and passionate voices our teams bring to everything we do. Mentorship & Career Growth We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional. Work/Life Balance We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 10430135
    (Updated 2 days ago)
    Are you interested in big data, machine learning, LLM, and product recommendations? If so, Amazon's Personalization team might be the right place for you. About our organization: We are part of Amazon’s Personalization organization, a high-performing group with a huge impact on hundreds of millions of customers, innovating at the intersection of customer experience, machine learning, and large-scale distributed systems. We run global experiments and our work has revolutionized e-commerce with features such as "Compare with similar items", "Keep shopping for ...", “Customers who bought this item also bought”, and, “Frequently bought together” among others. Amazon’s internal surveys regularly recognize us as one of the best organizations to work for in the company, with visible high-impact work, low operational load, respectful work-life balance, and continuous opportunity to learn and grow. About you: You are an Applied Scientist who loves big data and passionate about improving customer shopping experience by inventing and applying state-of-art technologies (e.g., LLM, Machine Learning, NLP, and Computer Vision) to build the next-generation product recommendation engine for Amazon. You have an entrepreneurial spirit, know how to deliver, are deeply technical and highly innovative. You work closely with software engineers to put algorithms into production. You also work in partnership with teams across Amazon to create enormous benefits for our customers. You will have an opportunity to make an enormous impact on the design, architecture, and implementation of products used every day by people you know. Key job responsibilities Use machine learning and analytical techniques to create scalable solutions for business problems Analyze and extract relevant information from large amounts of Amazon's historical business data to help automate and optimize key processes Design, development and evaluation of highly innovative models for predictive learning Work closely with software engineering teams to drive model implementations and new feature creations Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large scale data analyses, model development, model validation and model implementation Research and implement novel machine learning and statistical approaches Mentor junior scientists; review their work and provide feedback About the team Our mission is to delight every Amazon customer with a personalized shopping experience. We achieve our mission through investments in large-scale machine learning and distributed system solutions with the purpose of delivering the future of shopping on Amazon. Our solutions help customers explore product categories, discover high quality products that meet their needs, and provide most relevant information to help customers make confident shopping decisions. We are seeking an Applied Scientist to make step function improvements in creating a delightful shopping experience.

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