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At Amazon, we believe that scientific innovation is essential to being the most customer-centric company in the world. Our scientists' ability to have an impact at scale allows us to attract some of the brightest minds across diverse fields including artificial intelligence, robotics, computer vision, economics, and sustainability. Join us in pioneering solutions to complex challenges that not only delight our customers but also help define the future of technology.
  • The program is designed for academics from universities around the globe who want to work on large-scale technical challenges while continuing to teach and conduct research at their universities.
  • The program offers recent PhD graduates an opportunity to advance research while working alongside experienced scientists with backgrounds in industry and academia.
  • Our internship roles span research areas to provide hands-on experience working alongside world-class scientists and engineers to advance the state of the art in your field.
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  • (Updated 12 days ago)
    We are looking for a talented Applied Scientist to join our team. In this role, you will design, develop, and deploy machine learning and computer vision models that solve real-world problems at scale in the Amazon grocery domain. You will work closely with engineering, product, and business teams to turn complex technical challenges into production-ready solutions, and own the model development lifecycle from experimentation through deployment. You will bring scientific rigor to every stage — from data analysis and model design to evaluation and iteration. This is a high-impact role where your models will directly improve the shopping experience for millions of customers in Amazon grocery stores. Key job responsibilities Design, train, and evaluate computer vision and machine learning models for complex grocery-domain problems including product identification, shelf perception, and in-store scene understanding — iterating rapidly from prototype to production-quality solutions Conduct rigorous exploratory data analysis to characterize domain-specific challenges (image variability, catalog gaps, label noise) and translate findings into actionable modeling decisions Own the model development lifecycle from experimentation through deployment — collaborating with software and ML engineers to ensure models meet latency, throughput, and reliability requirements at production scale Design and execute offline and online evaluation frameworks — defining metrics that capture both model performance and downstream business impact, and diagnosing failure modes to prioritize improvements Build and improve data pipelines and annotation workflows that feed model training, including active learning strategies to maximize label efficiency Communicate technical results, trade-offs, and recommendations clearly to engineering, product, and business stakeholders — connecting model behavior to customer experience outcomes Stay current with state-of-the-art research in computer vision, multimodal learning, and representation learning — evaluating and adapting promising techniques to team-specific problems Contribute to a culture of scientific rigor through reproducible experimentation, thorough documentation, peer code and design reviews, and raising the quality bar for the team A day in the life As an Applied Scientist on the GRAISE team, you'll spend your days analyzing model performance from overnight experiments, collaborating with engineers to deploy computer vision models to production, and prototyping new approaches using multimodal learning with store video and sensor data. You'll present findings to product and business stakeholders, translating technical results into actionable recommendations. Throughout the day, you'll balance rigorous scientific thinking with practical engineering constraints, knowing your work directly improves the shopping experience for millions of customers in Amazon grocery stores. About the team The GRAISE team (Grocery, Retail & In-Store Experience) within World Wide Grocery Store Tech (WWGST) builds foundational AI and machine learning systems that power Amazon's in-store grocery technologies. We develop domain-specific models that solve uniquely complex challenges in grocery — from smart shopping carts and inventory intelligence to personalization and store operations. Our mission is to create technology which makes grocery shopping more convenient, economical, personalized, and enjoyable for customers while empowering retailers with operational efficiency
  • (Updated 6 days ago)
    Amazon.com is seeking an exceptional Senior Economist to join our Advertising Finance team. As a tech lead of the Adpt Finance Econ and Science team, you will play a pivotal role in answering critical questions that drive the long-term strategy of our advertising business. These questions include: - What are the long-term impacts of our initiatives? - Where will Advertising’s growth come from in the next year? - How big will the Advertising business become over the next three years? - What are the interactions between consumers and the Ads business? At Amazon, we're always finding answers that redefine industries. In this Senior Economist role, you'll have the unique opportunity to collaborate with top-tier talent, influence senior leadership, and make a tangible impact on the future of advertising. If you're passionate about pushing the boundaries of economic research, thrive on challenging modeling puzzles, and crave a dynamic environment where your insights directly shape business strategy, this is the role for you. Key job responsibilities - Lead causal analysis projects as the primary technical expert, guiding the team in applying advanced economic methodologies to solve complex business challenges. - Collaborate closely with economists, data scientists, financial managers, and business leaders to define product requirements, offer scientific support, and effectively communicate feedback throughout project lifecycles. - Utilize programming languages such as Python, R, Scala, etc., to implement sophisticated economics methods tailored to address specific business problems, ensuring robustness and scalability. - Drive continuous improvement by innovating existing methodologies, including developing new data sources, rigorously testing model enhancements, and fine-tuning model parameters to optimize performance and accuracy. - Present data and insights in a clear, actionable format, enabling stakeholders to make informed decisions and address critical business questions with confidence.
  • US, CA, San Francisco
    Job ID: 10468971
    (Updated 8 days ago)
    If you are interested in this position, please apply on Twitch's Career site https://www.twitch.tv/jobs/en/ About Us: Twitch is the world’s biggest live streaming service, with global communities built around gaming, entertainment, music, sports, cooking, and more. It is where thousands of communities come together for whatever, every day. We’re about community, inside and out. You’ll find coworkers who are eager to team up, collaborate, and smash (or elegantly solve) problems together. We’re on a quest to empower live communities, so if this sounds good to you, see what we’re up to on LinkedIn and X, and discover the projects we’re solving on our Blog. Be sure to explore our Interviewing Guide to learn how to ace our interview process. About the Role Join the Monetization team at Twitch, where we build the products that help creators make a living on the platform. You'll work on products like Subscriptions, Bits, and Gifting, and the pricing and packaging decisions behind them. You'll partner closely with product, engineering, finance, and data teams to measure the impact of new features, design and analyze experiments, and apply causal inference methods to inform decisions where A/B testing isn't possible. The work ranges from high-velocity experimentation on consumer-facing products to deeper pricing, policy, and segmentation analyses where causal identification is the central challenge. This role is well-suited for someone with a strong economics or causal ML foundation who wants to apply rigorous statistical thinking to real product decisions at scale. You'll need to be comfortable writing SQL, working with imperfect data, and partnering with stakeholders to turn analysis into product impact. Our team is based at Twitch HQ in San Francisco, CA. You can work in San Francisco, CA; New York, NY; or Seattle, WA You Will - Apply causal inference methods where experimentation isn't feasible - Develop models and analyses that inform pricing, segmentation, and revenue optimization - Design, run, and analyze A/B experiments - Partner with product, engineering, and finance to translate ambiguous business questions into measurement frameworks - Build and maintain dashboards, reporting, and analytical tooling that support ongoing decision-making Perks - Medical, Dental, Vision & Disability Insurance - 401(k) - Maternity & Parental Leave - Flexible PTO - Amazon Employee Discount
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 10474602
    (Updated 8 days ago)
    Reinventing How the World Shops! We are building the future of human-AI collaboration in commerce. We are creating an AI-native shopping partner that truly understands what customers mean, what they need, and what they haven't yet realized they want—rivaling the intuition of the best human experts, operating at a scale no human ever could. This is a complex personalization challenge. We sit at the intersection of massive-scale language understanding, real-time decision systems, hundreds of millions of customers, and billions of products. Our mission is to collapse the distance between intent and discovery—to make the leap from "searching for products" to "being understood as a person." As a Principal Applied Scientist, you will be the intellectual engine behind this transformation. You will define the frontier, architect the science strategy for a large, multidisciplinary organization, and drive breakthroughs that reshape how Amazon thinks about customers and products at the deepest level. The problems you'll solve don't have textbook answers. You will pioneer next-generation LLM-based reasoning systems that build rich, evolving models of customer intent. You will design transformer architectures that abstract noisy behavioral signals into high-quality latent representations of human preference. You will invent real-time, multi-objective ranking systems that balance exploration, personalization, and serendipity at billions of decisions per day. And you will do all of this as a force multiplier, building foundational technology that empowers teams across Amazon to deliver experiences that feel almost magical. Your work will be felt, not just measured. Every model you build ships directly to hundreds of millions of customers. The feedback loop between your science and real human delight is immediate. This role offers a rare combination of intellectual depth, technical ambition, and tangible impact. Come define what shopping looks like in the age of AI! Key job responsibilities - Innovate new features and models that have huge impact on the customer experience. Help customers find the right products and content on their shopping journey. - Leverage the use of advanced machine learning to create customer shopping experience at Amazon's scale - for all Amazon customers across all countries in realtime - Be a key leader on a multidisciplinary team across science, product, design, and engineering to see through ideas from inception, prototype, to launch in the hands of all Amazon's customers - Drive the science roadmap across multiple teams, helping coordinate a cohesive science agenda across the org. - Mentoring applied scientists across the org, growing their skills and careers. About the team Our mission is to delight every Amazon customer with a personalized shopping experience tailed to their intent. We achieve our mission through investments in Science, UX, and central systems with the purpose of delivering the future of shopping on Amazon. We are seeking a Principal Applied Scientist to lead the science charter across the recommendations and intent identification space.
  • (Updated 8 days ago)
    We are looking for an Applied Scientist to join the Robotics Simulation team at Amazon Robotics. In this role you will design, build, and validate the simulation environments and policy training pipelines that enable robots to learn manipulation and mobility skills in simulation and transfer them to real hardware. You will work at the intersection of robotics simulation science and modern Physical AI: building GPU-accelerated RL environments, implementing imitation learning workflows, characterizing sim-to-real gaps, tuning physics parameters against real-world data, and evaluating learned policies both in simulation and on physical robots. You will collaborate closely with SDEs who build platform infrastructure, Technical Artists who create simulation assets, and partner science teams who consume your environments and pipelines for their model development. This is a hands-on, execution-focused role. You will own specific simulation science deliverables end-to-end, from environment design through policy evaluation, with increasing scope and independence over time. You will contribute to technical design discussions, propose improvements to the team's simulation fidelity and training methodology, and help establish best practices for robot learning in simulation. Key job responsibilities * Design and implement GPU-accelerated reinforcement learning and imitation learning environments in NVIDIA Isaac Lab for manipulation and mobility tasks. * Build and maintain policy training pipelines supporting diverse model architectures (diffusion policies, VLAs, behavior cloning, actor-critic RL) and evaluate trained policies in simulation. * Characterize and reduce sim-to-real gaps through systematic validation: compare simulated sensor outputs, kinematics, and dynamics against real-world robot data, then implement targeted improvements. * Implement domain randomization strategies (visual, physics, geometric) to improve policy robustness and transfer to real hardware. * Develop sim-to-real transfer techniques including system identification, physics parameter calibration, and visual domain adaptation. * Create robot embodiment validation tests (joint kinematics, actuator response, contact behavior) to ensure digital twins are faithful to real hardware. * Build data pipelines for recording, replaying, and augmenting demonstration data (from teleoperation or automated trajectory generation) to scale training data volume. * Contribute to end-effector modeling and contact dynamics tuning, ensuring physically plausible gripper and tool interactions in simulation. * Author design documents for new simulation science capabilities and contribute to technical reviews. * Collaborate with partner science teams to understand their model architectures and ensure simulation environments meet their training requirements. A day in the life Amazon offers a full range of benefits that support you and eligible family members, including domestic partners and their children. Benefits can vary by location, the number of regularly scheduled hours you work, length of employment, and job status such as seasonal or temporary employment. The benefits that generally apply to regular, full-time employees include: 1. Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage 2. Maternity and Parental Leave Options 3. Paid Time Off (PTO) 4. 401(k) Plan If you are not sure that every qualification on the list above describes you exactly, we'd still love to hear from you! At Amazon, we value people with unique backgrounds, experiences, and skillsets. If you’re passionate about this role and want to make an impact on a global scale, please apply! About the team The Robotics Simulation team is a multidisciplinary organization of SDEs, Applied Scientists, and Technical Artists at Amazon Robotics. We build the simulation infrastructure that powers Physical AI development, from photorealistic synthetic data to GPU-accelerated training environments. Our simulation stack enables robots to be designed, trained, and validated entirely in simulation before physical hardware exists, compressing development timelines and de-risking robotics programs across Amazon. The team delivers end-to-end simulation stacks for Amazon's robotics programs, including high-fidelity robot digital twins, teleoperation data collection infrastructure, scalable synthetic demonstration generation, policy training and inference pipelines (RL, imitation learning, VLAs), domain randomization for sim-to-real transfer, and model validation in simulation. We partner closely with hardware teams, science organizations, and robotics program leads across Amazon Robotics.
  • (Updated 16 days ago)
    Have you ever ordered a product on Amazon and when that box with the smile arrived you wondered how it got to you so fast? Have you wondered where it came from and how much it cost Amazon to deliver it to you? We are looking for a Research Scientist who will be responsible to develop cutting-edge scientific solutions to optimize our fulfillment strategy across multiple regions of the world (EU, JP, IN and more), to maximize our Customer Experience and minimize our cost and carbon footprint. You will partner with the worldwide scientific community to help design the optimal fulfillment strategy for Amazon. You will also collaborate with technical teams to develop optimization tools for network flow planning and execution systems. Finally, you will also work with business and operational stakeholders to influence their strategy and gather inputs to solve problems. To be successful in the role, you will need deep analytical skills and a strong scientific background. The role also requires excellent communication skills, and an ability to influence across business functions at different levels. You will work in a fast-paced environment that requires you to be detail-oriented and comfortable in working with technical, business and technical teams.
  • US, NY, New York
    Job ID: 10471615
    (Updated 3 days ago)
    The Sponsored Products and Brands team at Amazon Ads is re-imagining the advertising landscape through cutting-edge generative AI technologies, revolutionizing how millions of customers discover products and engage with brands across Amazon.com and beyond. We are at the forefront of re-inventing advertising experiences, bridging human creativity with artificial intelligence to transform every aspect of the advertising lifecycle from ad creation and optimization to performance analysis and customer insights. We are a passionate group of innovators dedicated to developing responsible and intelligent AI technologies that balance the needs of advertisers, enhance the shopping experience, and strengthen the marketplace. If you're energized by solving complex challenges and pushing the boundaries of what's possible with AI, join us in shaping the future of advertising. Key job responsibilities - Define and lead science initiatives from problem framing through production deployment in a high-ambiguity environment - Develop and deploy models spanning computer vision, language, and search and retrieval that operate on multimodal inputs at scale - Design and analyze large-scale online experiments to measure impact on shopper and advertiser outcomes - Collaborate with engineering, product, and design to ship science into production A day in the life As an Applied Scientist on the Sponsored Videos team, you will tackle problems at the intersection of computer vision, generative AI, search and retrieval, and personalization. You'll own the full science lifecycle from research and experimentation through online testing and production deployment, working closely with engineering, product, and design partners to bring ideas to market. You should be comfortable working with multimodal signals, building models that operate at scale, and measuring impact through rigorous experimentation. Your work will directly influence the experience of hundreds of millions of shoppers and the outcomes of tens of thousands of advertisers. About the team The Sponsored Videos team within Sponsored Products and Brands develops the science and systems behind video advertising experiences that connect advertisers and shoppers across Amazon. We are on a mission to make Amazon the best-in-class destination for shoppers to discover, engage with, and build affinity with brands through videos.
  • JP, 13, Tokyo
    Job ID: 10471831
    (Updated 5 days ago)
    We are seeking an exceptional Applied Scientist to join our JP Seller Services team, where you will reimagine how science analysis and modeling are conducted across the organization through an AI-native approach. In this role, you will design and build intelligent systems that enable any team member to validate business hypotheses with scientific rigor in hours rather than months. You will architect production-grade platforms spanning multi-agent AI frameworks, causal inference automation, generative AI, and simulation engines that democratize advanced analytics at scale. Your work will fundamentally transform how the teams generate, test, and deploy data-driven recommendations, scaling rigorous science solutions for every decision-maker to solve customer problems. The ideal candidate combines deep expertise in scientific analysis such as causal inference, machine learning, and AI system design with the vision to rethink the entire science lifecycle from hypothesis to deployment. At Amazon, you'll work alongside the latest AI and GenAI tools that are increasingly woven into how teams operate: from AI-powered capabilities that accelerate decision-making, to Generative AI that helps you focus on work that truly matters. You'll have opportunities and resources to develop AI fluency at your own pace, with continuous learning built into the culture. Key job responsibilities - Lead the design and development of AI-native science platforms that automate the end-to-end lifecycle from hypothesis formulation through causal analysis, model validation, and deployment into production systems. - Design and build shared knowledge infrastructure (feature stores, experiment registries, model leaderboards) that enables cumulative organizational learning, where every validated insight accelerates future analyses. - Design and implement evaluation frameworks, including Seller simulations, that enable teams to validate model quality and test interventions against synthetic populations before live deployment. - Drive integration with downstream systems to close the gap between validated insights and seller-facing actions, ensuring science outputs reach the people and systems that serve customers. - Collaborate with cross-functional partners (product managers, category leaders, marketing managers, economists, and data scientists) to identify high-impact business problems and translate them into scalable scientific solutions.
  • IN, KA, Bengaluru
    Job ID: 10466404
    (Updated 4 days ago)
    We are seeking a stellar Machine Learning scientist who has experience developing and shipping large scale ML products with visible customer impact. We would prefer if your previous work has been in developing scalable Agentic, RL or forecasting systems. Strong academic background in Statistics, Machine Learning & Deep Learning is required with Tier -1 publications being a plus. • Master’s degree in CS or ML related fields • Scientist/Tech Lead creating and shipping impactful ML products. • Ability to write clear, structured and modularized code in Python. • Expertise in Deep Learning frameworks such as Tensorflow, Keras and Pytorch & Agentic frameworks such as LangChain, Crew AI etc. • Industry experience designing complex scalable AI systems. • Experience and technical expertise across various science domains. Crucial ones being statistics, deep & machine learning. • Experience creating data pipelines & proficient in querying data from Spark/HIVE/Redshift/other large scale data warehousing platforms. • Expert in distilling informal customer requirements into problem definitions, dealing with ambiguity and formulating ML products to solve these problems. Key job responsibilities In this position, you will be a key contributor (with direct leadership visibility) building, productionizing (real & batch) and measuring impact of state of the art personalized Gen AI systems for Amazon global selling partners and contribute to Amazon wide research in this area in the form of publications and white papers. You will work with global leaders and teams across time zones on a regular basis. About the team Millions of Sellers list their products for sale on the Amazon Marketplace. Sellers are a critical part of Amazon’s ecosystem to deliver on our vision of offering the Earth’s largest selection and lowest prices. In this ecosystem our team plays a critical role in enabling Sellers across EU5, China, Japan, Australia, Brazil and Turkey to make their Selection available to customers globally and deliver the experience they have come to expect from Amazon. We help independent sellers compete against our first-party business by investing in and offering them the very best selling tools we could imagine and build. We are pushing the boundaries of these machine learning tools in areas of Agentic, recommendation and forecasting systems to help our sellers sell more and across borders.
  • US, CA, Santa Clara
    Job ID: 10467950
    (Updated 10 days ago)
    Join the next science and engineering revolution at Amazon's Delivery Foundation Model team, where you'll work alongside world-class scientists and engineers to pioneer the next frontier of logistics through advanced AI and foundation models. We are seeking an exceptional Senior Applied Scientist to help develop innovative foundation models that enable delivery of billions of packages worldwide. In this role, you'll combine highly technical work with scientific leadership, ensuring the team delivers robust solutions for dynamic real-world environments. Your team will leverage Amazon's vast data and computational resources to tackle ambitious problems across a diverse set of Amazon delivery use cases. Key job responsibilities - Design and implement novel deep learning architectures combining a multitude of modalities, including image, video, and geospatial data. - Solve computational problems to train foundation models on vast amounts of Amazon data and infer at Amazon scale, taking advantage of latest developments in hardware and deep learning libraries. - As a foundation model developer, collaborate with multiple science and engineering teams to help build adaptations that power use cases across Amazon Last Mile deliveries, improving experience and safety of a delivery driver, an Amazon customer, and improving efficiency of Amazon delivery network. - Guide technical direction for specific research initiatives, ensuring robust performance in production environments. - Mentor fellow scientists while maintaining strong individual technical contributions. A day in the life As a member of the Delivery Foundation Model team, you’ll spend your day on the following: - Develop and implement novel foundation model architectures, working hands-on with data and our extensive training and evaluation infrastructure - Guide and support fellow scientists in solving complex technical challenges, from trajectory planning to efficient multi-task learning - Guide and support fellow engineers in building scalable and reusable infra to support model training, evaluation, and inference - Lead focused technical initiatives from conception through deployment, ensuring successful integration with production systems- Drive technical discussions within the team and and key stakeholders - Conduct experiments and prototype new ideas - Mentor team members while maintaining significant hands-on contribution to technical solutions About the team The Delivery Foundation Model team combines ambitious research vision with real-world impact. Our foundation models provide generative reasoning capabilities required to meet the demands of Amazon's global Last Mile delivery network. We leverage Amazon's unparalleled computational infrastructure and extensive datasets to deploy state-of-the-art foundation models to improve the safety, quality, and efficiency of Amazon deliveries. Our work spans the full spectrum of foundation model development, from multimodal training using images, videos, and sensor data, to sophisticated modeling strategies that can handle diverse real-world scenarios. We build everything end to end, from data preparation to model training and evaluation to inference, along with all the tooling needed to understand and analyze model performance. Join us if you're excited about pushing the boundaries of what's possible in logistics, working with world-class scientists and engineers, and seeing your innovations deployed at unprecedented scale.

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