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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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  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 10584232
    (Updated 22 days ago)
    Amazon's eCommerce Foundation (eCF) organization provides the core technologies that drive and power Amazon's Stores, Digital, and Other (SDO) businesses. Millions of customer page views and orders per day are enabled by the systems eCF builds from the ground up. CloudTune, within eCF, empowers growth and business agility needs by automatically and efficiently managing AWS capacity and business processes needed to safely meet Amazon's customer demand. CloudTune serves its primary customers, internal software teams, through forecast-driven automation of cost controllership, capacity management, and scaling. We predict expected load, and drive procurement and allocation of AWS capacity for new product launches and high-velocity events like Prime Day and Cyber Monday. CloudTune is looking for a Data Scientist to join our forecasting and optimization team. The team develops sophisticated algorithms that combine machine learning-based demand forecasting with mathematical optimization to solve large-scale capacity planning problems under uncertainty. We work with massive datasets — spanning thousands of availability zone and instance family combinations across global regions — to determine optimal resource allocation strategies that balance infrastructure holding costs against service availability requirements. These models directly inform multi-million dollar capacity investment decisions and drive automated procurement, retention, and release policies across Amazon's compute infrastructure. As a Data Scientist in CloudTune, you will work with other scientists, software engineers, data engineers, and product managers on a variety of important research problems in the areas of stochastic optimization, time series modeling, and operations research. You will work on statistical problems with a high level of ambiguity. You will analyze and process large amounts of data, develop new algorithms and improve existing approaches based on statistical models, machine learning algorithms and big data solutions to automatically scale Amazon’s compute infrastructure, optimizing the balance between availability risk and cost efficiency for all of Amazon businesses. Key job responsibilities - Process and analyze large data sets, mining additional data sources as needed - Build statistical models and drive scalable solutions for multi-year capacity demand forecasting horizons - Create, enhance, and maintain technical documentation, and present to other scientists and business leaders - Process and analyze large-scale operational data to identify patterns and inform model development - Create, enhance, and maintain technical documentation, and present research findings to scientists, engineering teams, and senior leadership
  • US, MA, N.reading
    Job ID: 10585203
    (Updated 19 days ago)
    Amazon is seeking exceptional talent to help develop the next generation of advanced robotics systems that will transform automation at Amazon's scale. We're building revolutionary robotic systems that combine cutting-edge AI, sophisticated control systems, and advanced mechanical design to create adaptable automation solutions capable of working safely alongside humans in dynamic environments. This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of robotics and automation at an unprecedented scale, working with world-class teams pushing the boundaries of what's possible in robotic dexterous manipulation, locomotion, and human-robot interaction. This role presents an opportunity to shape the future of robotics through innovative applications of deep learning and large language models. At Amazon we leverage advanced robotics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence to solve complex operational challenges at an unprecedented scale. Our fleet of robots operates across hundreds of facilities worldwide, working in sophisticated coordination to fulfill our mission of customer excellence. The ideal candidate will contribute to research that bridges the gap between theoretical advancement and practical implementation in robotics. You will be part of a team that's revolutionizing how robots learn, adapt, and interact with their environment. Join us in building the next generation of intelligent robotics systems that will transform the future of automation and human-robot collaboration.
  • (Updated 5 days ago)
    Application deadline: Nov 16, 2026 The AWS Data Center Services team is hiring a Principal Applied Scientist to innovate and advance the science behind solutions to problems in the rapidly growing AWS data center space. These problems range from bespoke computer vision models to support our physical infrastructure functions such as repair activities, to increasing the certainty of decisions made by our generative AI service without sacrificing latency or performance. For example, when a data center technician is triaging a critical electrical event at 2am and alarms cascade in seconds, our AI service has to cross-reference topology, live readings, maintenance history, and design documents within minutes - work that today takes an order of magnitude more time and intervention from a senior engineer. As a Principal Applied Scientist, you will work backwards from these problems and partner with software development teams to deliver solutions. You will work on problems ranging from selecting, training and evolving computer vision models for targeted activities on AWS infrastructure inside our data centers; to building smart retrieval algorithms, reduce model hallucination on safety-critical outcomes, continually improve latency and performance, and ensure our generative AI service's knowledgeable stays current and the service is constantly getting smarter beyond just knowledge retrieval. A day in the life You start the morning reviewing traces from last night’s incident triage. The agent correctly walked the topology to the upstream breaker but missed a recent maintenance change that was the real cause — so you design an experiment: does feeding work-order history into the traversal improve accuracy? You test it against historical incident data. Mid-morning, you review verification traces and catch the agent missing a spec deep in a submittal. After lunch, a field engineer walks you through manually cross-referencing five systems during an incident and you turn their scenario into a new benchmark. In the afternoon, you prototype cross-discipline reasoning: when a cascade spans electrical and cooling, can the lead agent delegate scoped investigations and still hold one coherent hypothesis? You publish results and draft a paper. You own the full lifecycle — research through production deployment. About the team Data Center Services is part of AWS Infrastructure Services that owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. In other words, we’re the people who keep the cloud running. We support all AWS data centers and all of the servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling equipment that ensure our customers have continual access to the innovation they rely on. We work on the most challenging problems, with thousands of variables impacting the supply chain - and we’re looking for talented people who want to help. You’ll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles. You’ll collaborate with people across AWS to help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost for our customers. And you’ll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.
  • US, VA, Arlington
    Job ID: 10588628
    (Updated 16 days ago)
    Every year, Amazon's operations depend on hiring hundreds of thousands of hourly associates across the globe, and your work will determine how efficiently and effectively that happens. We are looking for a curious, resourceful Applied Scientist to tackle multi-objective optimization problems worldwide. In this role, you will build mathematical models and AI/ML systems that optimize recruitment processes under real-world cost, capacity, and regulatory constraints across North America and beyond. This is a particularly exciting time to join because we are expanding into new countries, building AI-native capabilities, and beginning to externalize our solutions so that teams beyond our own can benefit from the tools we create. You will partner with economists, machine learning engineers, and analytics engineers to turn theory-based decision models into production systems that improve candidate experience and business outcomes at a scale few teams can offer. Key job responsibilities - Design and implement optimization algorithms and mathematical models that determine optimal job posting timing, candidate management strategies, and recruitment coordination across multiple countries and markets. - Develop and maintain conversion models, demand forecasting systems, and multi-objective optimization frameworks using machine learning, survival analysis, and causal inference techniques. - Plan and run controlled experiments to validate new recruitment mechanisms, measure their impact, and iterate on model performance using real-world data. - Write production-quality code in Python, applying optimal data structures and algorithms while making practical tradeoffs between complexity, memory efficiency, and maintainability. - Collaborate with generation, hiring event, and coordination teams to integrate your models into automated hiring pipelines, and contribute to the team's scientific agenda through peer reviews, mentorship, and publications. A day in the life You might start your morning reviewing model performance dashboards and conversion metrics, then refine a stochastic dynamic programming model that balances hiring demand against cost constraints for an upcoming peak period. After lunch, you could be designing an A/B test for a new candidate management strategy or pairing with another scientist to incorporate local market regulations into an optimization framework. You will regularly present findings in science reviews and help shape the team's research roadmap. About the team Our team sits within Amazon's operations organization and owns the science behind converting job applicants into hired associates at a global scale. We support leadership teams across North America and beyond, building the optimization and ML systems that keep fulfillment centers staffed and ready to serve customers. Right now we are investing in AI-native automation, expanding our models to additional countries, and making our tools available to partner teams across the organization. The team is a multidisciplinary group of scientists, economists, machine learning engineers, and analytics engineers who collaborate closely to solve problems that span economic theory, statistical modeling, and large-scale engineering. We value rigorous experimentation, collaborative problem-solving, and a shared commitment to improving both business outcomes and the candidate experience.
  • US, NY, New York
    Job ID: 10592454
    (Updated 13 days ago)
    Amazon Advertising is one of Amazon's fastest growing and most profitable businesses. Our products are used daily to surface new selection and provide customers a wider set of product choices along their shopping journeys. The business is focused on generating value for shoppers as well as advertisers. Our team uses a combination of econometrics, machine learning, and data science to build disruptive products for all our Advertising products. We also generate insights to guide Amazon Advertising strategy, providing direct support to senior leadership. We are looking for an experienced Economist with a deep passion for building econometric solutions and the ability to communicate data insights and scientific vision to execute on strategic projects. Key job responsibilities - Leverage econometrics and ML models to optimize advertising strategies on behalf of our customers. - Influence key business and product decisions based on insights from models you develop. - Perform hands-on analysis and modeling with enormous data sets to develop insights that increase traffic monetization and merchandise sales without compromising shopper experience. - Work closely with software engineers on detailed requirements to productionize the models you build. - Run A/B experiments that affect hundreds of millions of customers, evaluate the impact of your optimizations and communicate your results to various business stakeholders. - Work with other scientists, software developers, and product partners to implement your solutions.
  • IN, KA, Bengaluru
    Job ID: 10591594
    (Updated 5 days ago)
    We are looking for Applied Scientists to advance how Minerva detects and responds to risk across KDP and Kindle Unlimited, building new models and raising the bar on the ones in production. You will own a problem end to end, from framing and modeling through evaluation and production launch, working with scientists and engineers in Bengaluru and the US. Key job responsibilities - Monitor production risk models and push their quality higher: track performance and drift, improve how performance is measured, and lead the deep-dive science that turns model behavior into better detection. - Design, train, and evaluate improved detection models, and take them to production with engineering partners. - Build datasets, labels, evaluation sets, and metrics, and strengthen them as abuse patterns change. - Write clear readouts with recommendations for scientists, engineers, and policy partners. About the team Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) has empowered a new wave of self-motivated creators, tearing down barriers that once blocked writers from reaching readers. Minerva is the science and analytics organization for Amazon's Books business. We build systems for content understanding, author marketing and discovery, fraud and abuse prevention, and content risk, and we optimize manufacturing, fulfillment, and quality for Print On Demand (POD). We have mature areas and green-field opportunities, with engineering, business intelligence, and data engineering support across our areas. We are now building science teams in Bengaluru that work closely with our scientists in the US. Risk Science, a team within Minerva, keeps fraud, abuse, copyright infringement, and harmful content out of the Books catalog and programs such as Kindle Unlimited, using text, image, and behavioral data.
  • IN, KA, Bengaluru
    Job ID: 10588034
    (Updated 5 days ago)
    We are looking for an Applied Science Manager to build and lead Minerva's first Risk Science team in Bengaluru. This is a hands-on role: you will collaborate with scientists in the US to set the scientific bar and advance how we detect and respond to risk across KDP and Kindle Unlimited. Key job responsibilities - Hire, develop, and retain a high-performing team of applied scientists across levels, and set its practices for experimentation, evaluation, reviews, publishing, and patents. - Push the quality of production risk models higher: set the standard for how model performance is measured, and lead the deep-dive science that turns model behavior into better detection. - Develop new and improved detection models for fraud, abuse, copyright infringement, and harmful content, using NLP, computer vision, LLMs, and behavioral and graph-based modeling. - Partner with engineering, product, policy, and investigation teams in the US and India to turn findings into fixes, and present options, risks, and tradeoffs to senior leaders. - Work with the US science team to divide ownership clearly and share methods across Minerva. About the team Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) has empowered a new wave of self-motivated creators, tearing down barriers that once blocked writers from reaching readers. Minerva is the science and analytics organization for Amazon's Books business. We build systems for content understanding, author marketing and discovery, fraud and abuse prevention, and content risk, and we optimize manufacturing, fulfillment, and quality for Print On Demand (POD). We have mature areas and green-field opportunities, with engineering, business intelligence, and data engineering support across our areas. We are now building science teams in Bengaluru that work closely with our scientists in the US. Risk Science, a team within Minerva, keeps fraud, abuse, copyright infringement, and harmful content out of the Books catalog and programs such as Kindle Unlimited, using text, image, and behavioral data.
  • CA, BC, Vancouver
    Job ID: 10593710
    (Updated 0 days ago)
    Do you want a role with deep meaning and the ability to make a major impact? As part of Intelligent Talent Acquisition (ITA), you'll have the opportunity to reinvent the hiring process and deliver unprecedented scale, sophistication, and accuracy for Amazon Talent Acquisition operations. ITA is an industry-leading people science and technology organization made up of scientists, engineers, analysts, product professionals and more, all with the shared goal of connecting the right people to the right jobs in a way that is fair and precise. Last year we delivered over 6 million online candidate assessments, and helped Amazon deliver billions of packages around the world by making it possible to hire hundreds of thousands of workers in the right quantity, at the right location and at exactly the right time. You’ll work on state-of-the-art research, advanced software tools, new AI systems, and machine learning algorithms, leveraging Amazon's in-house tech stack to bring innovative solutions to life. Join ITA in using technologies to transform the hiring landscape and make a meaningful difference in people's lives. Together, we can solve the world's toughest hiring problems. Global Hiring Science owns and develops products and services using Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (ML) that enhance recruitment. We collaborate with scientists to build and maintain machine learning solutions for hiring, offering opportunities to both apply and develop ML engineering skills in a production environment. Key job responsibilities - Design and implement advanced AI models using the latest LLM and GenAI technologies to develop fair and accurate machine learning models for hiring. - Clearly and cogently present your work and ideas, and respond effectively to feedback. - Collaborate with cross-functional teams with Research Scientists and Software Engineers to integrate AI-driven products into Amazon’s hiring process. - Stay at the advance of AI research, continuously exploring and implementing new techniques in NLP, LLMs, and GenAI to drive innovation in hiring. - Implement advanced natural language processing models to extract insights from diverse data sources. - Ensure effective teamwork, communication, collaboration, and commitment across multiple teams with competing priorities. - Contribute to the scientific community through publications, presentations, and collaborations with academic institutions.
  • (Updated 2 days ago)
    Amazon is looking for an Applied Scientist to help build the next generation of sourcing and vendor experience systems. The Optimal Sourcing Systems (OSS) owns the optimization of inventory sourcing and the orchestration of inbound flows from vendors worldwide. We source inventory from thousands of vendors for millions of products globally while orchestrating the inbound flow for billions of units. Our goals are to increase reliable access to supply, improve supply chain-driven vendor experience, and reduce end-to-end supply chain costs, all in service of maximizing Long-Term Free Cash Flow (LTFCF) for Amazon. As an Applied Scientist, you will work with software engineers, product managers, and business teams to understand the business problems and requirements, distill that understanding to crisply define the problem, and design and develop innovative solutions to address them. Our team is highly cross-functional and employs a wide array of scientific tools and techniques to solve key challenges, including optimization, causal inference, and machine learning/deep learning. Some critical research areas in our space include modeling buying decisions under high uncertainty, vendors' behavior and incentives, supply risk and enhancing visibility and reliability of inbound signals. Key job responsibilities - Set the scientific strategic vision for the team. Lead problem decomposition and roadmap development. - Identify and frame research challenges in ambiguous problem areas; invent novel methodologies to address them. Distinguish between problems requiring novel solutions versus those addressable with existing approaches. - Exercise sound judgment to prioritize between short-term vs. long-term and business vs. technology needs. - Set an example with exemplary scientific analyses; maintainable, well-tested code; and simple, effective solutions. - Drive the design of scientifically-complex software solutions, personally writing critical-path code that embodies scientific novelty. Deploy novel models into production with a track record of impactful delivery. - Develop reusable science components that resolve architecture deficiencies; set standards and drive adoption of state-of-the-art techniques. - Influence team business and engineering strategies. - Communicate effectively with stakeholders to drive alignment and build consensus. - Foster collaborations between scientists across Amazon researching similar problems. Proactively resolve endemic issues where the team's technologies bottleneck other teams. - Actively engage in the development of others, both within and outside the team. - Participate in the science hiring process and engage with the broader scientific community through publications, presentations, and patents.
  • US, NY, New York
    Job ID: 10583488
    (Updated 14 days ago)
    Amazon Advertising is one of Amazon's fastest growing and most profitable businesses. Amazon's advertising portfolio helps merchants, retail vendors, and brand owners succeed via native advertising, which grows incremental sales of their products sold through Amazon. The primary goals are to help shoppers discover new products they love, be the most efficient way for advertisers to meet their business objectives, and build a sustainable business that continuously innovates on behalf of customers. Our products and solutions are strategically important to enable our Retail and Marketplace businesses to drive long-term growth. We deliver billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks and break fresh ground in product and technical innovations every day! The Creative X team within Amazon Advertising time aims to democratize access to high-quality creatives (text, audio, images, videos) by building AI-driven solutions for advertisers. To accomplish this, we are investing in latent-diffusion models, large language models (LLM), generative audio (music and speech synthesis), computer vision (CV), reinforced learning (RL) and related methods. You will be part of a close-knit team of applied scientists and product managers who are highly collaborative and at the top of their respective fields. We are looking for talented Applied Scientists who have a proven record of developing Generative AI science at the highest standards of innovation, and experience working and delivering product-ready code, are adept at a variety of skills, especially with LLMs, generative audio, computer vision, latent diffusion or related foundational models that will accelerate our plans to generate high-quality creatives on behalf of advertisers. Every member of the team is expected to build customer (advertiser) facing features, contribute to the collaborative spirit within the team, publish, patent, and bring innovation research to raise the bar within the team.

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