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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: 3179994
    (Updated 21 days ago)
    Prime Video is a first-stop entertainment destination offering customers a vast collection of premium programming in one app available across thousands of devices. Prime members can customize their viewing experience and find their favorite movies, series, documentaries, and live sports – including Amazon MGM Studios-produced series and movies; licensed fan favorites; and exclusive access to coverage of live sports. All customers regardless of whether they have a Prime membership or not, can access programming from subscriptions such as Apple TV, Peacock Premium Plus, HBO Max, FOX One, Crunchyroll and MGM+, as well as more than 900 free ad-support (FAST) Channels, rent or buy titles, and enjoy even more content for free with ads. Are you interested in shaping the future of entertainment? Prime Video's technology teams are creating best-in-class digital video experience. As a Prime Video technologist, you’ll have end-to-end ownership of the product, user experience, design, and technology required to deliver state-of-the-art experiences for our customers. You’ll get to work on projects that are fast-paced, challenging, and varied. You’ll also be able to experiment with new possibilities, take risks, and collaborate with remarkable people. We’ll look for you to bring your diverse perspectives, ideas, and skill-sets to make Prime Video even better for our customers. With global opportunities for talented technologists, you can decide where a career Prime Video Tech takes you! Interested in influencing what customers around the world see when they turn on Prime Video? The Prime Video Personalization and Discovery team matches customers with the right content at the right time, at all touch points throughout the content discovery journey. We are looking for a customer-focused, solutions-oriented Senior Data Scientist to build and guide new data-driven frameworks to understand what makes new personalization and content discovery innovations successful for users and the business. You'll be part of an embedded science team on projects that are fast-paced, challenging, and ultimately influence what millions of customers around the world see when the log into Prime Video. The ideal candidate brings strong problem-solving skills, stakeholder communication skills, and the ability to balance technical rigor with delivery speed and customer impact. You will build cross-functional support within Prime Video, assess business problems, define metrics, and support iterative scientific solutions that balance short-term delivery with long-term science roadmaps. Key job responsibilities - Use advanced statistical and machine learning techniques to extract insights from complex, large-scale data sets - Design and implement end-to-end data science workflows, from data acquisition and cleaning to model development, testing, and deployment - Support scalable, self-service data analyses by building datasets for analytics, reporting and ML use cases - Partner with product stakeholders and science peers to identify strategic data-driven opportunities to improve the customer experience - Communicate findings, conclusions, and recommendations to technical and non-technical stakeholders - Stay up-to-date on the latest data science tools, techniques, and best practices and help evangelize them across the organization
  • US, CA, Sunnyvale
    Job ID: 3180009
    (Updated 21 days ago)
    Prime Video is a first-stop entertainment destination offering customers a vast collection of premium programming in one app available across thousands of devices. Prime members can customize their viewing experience and find their favorite movies, series, documentaries, and live sports – including Amazon MGM Studios-produced series and movies; licensed fan favorites; and programming from Prime Video add-on subscriptions such as Apple TV+, Max, Crunchyroll and MGM+. All customers, regardless of whether they have a Prime membership or not, can rent or buy titles via the Prime Video Store, and can enjoy even more content for free with ads. Are you interested in shaping the future of entertainment? Prime Video's technology teams are creating best-in-class digital video experience. As a Prime Video team member, you’ll get to work on projects that are fast-paced, challenging, and varied. You’ll also be able to experiment with new possibilities, take risks, and collaborate with remarkable people. We’ll look for you to bring your diverse perspectives, ideas, and skill-sets to make Prime Video even better for our customers. We are looking for an Applied Scientist to push the envelope of AI content generation. As a scientist at Prime Video, you will contribute directly to productions using innovative tools in computer vision, deep learning, and generative AI to transform entertainment experiences. The ideal candidate has deep knowledge in one of: graphics, deep learning, generative AI and/or reinforcement learning and experience applying them real-world problems. You understand tradeoffs between business needs and model complexity, and you take calculated risks in developing rapid prototypes and iterative model improvements. You are excited to learn from and alongside seasoned scientists, engineers, and business leaders. You are an excellent communicator and effectively translate technical findings into production systems and business action (and customer delight). Key job responsibilities • Build generative AI models that create production-ready content, including movie content, localized assets, and visual marketing materials used across Prime Video's global platform. • Drive end-to-end machine learning projects that have a high degree of ambiguity, scale, complexity. • Build machine learning models, perform proof-of-concept, experiment, optimize, and deploy your models. • Run experiments, gather data, and perform statistical analysis. • Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large-scale data analysis, machine-learning model development, model validation and serving. • Research new and innovative machine learning approaches. • Share knowledge and research outcomes via internal and external conferences and journal publications A day in the life In this role, you will invent science and systems for content localization, generation, including graphics and machine learning-based modeling systems. You will work with a team of scientists and product managers to design customer-facing products, and you will work with technology teams to productize and maintain the associated solutions.
  • (Updated 6 days ago)
    Have you ever wondered what it takes to transform millions of manual network planning decisions into AI-powered precision? Network Planning Solutions is looking for scientific innovators obsessed with building the AI/ML intelligence that makes orchestrating complex global operations feel effortless. Here, you'll do more than just build models; you'll create 'delight' by discovering and deploying the science that delivers exactly what our customers need, right when they need it. If you're ready to transform complex data patterns into breakthrough AI capabilities that power intuitive human experiences, you've found your team. Network Planning Solutions architects and orchestrates Amazon's customer service network of the future. By building AI-native solutions that continuously learn, predict and optimize, we deliver seamless customer experiences and empower associates with high-value work—driving measurable business impact at a global scale. As a Sr. Manager, Applied Science, you will own the scientific innovation and research initiatives that make this vision possible. You will lead a team of applied scientists and collaborate with cross-functional partners to develop and implement breakthrough scientific solutions that redefine our global network. Key job responsibilities Lead AI/ML Innovation for Network Planning Solutions: - Develop and deploy production-ready demand forecasting algorithms that continuously sense and predict customer demand using real-time signals - Build network optimization algorithms that automatically adjust staffing as conditions evolve across the service network - Architect scalable AI/ML infrastructure supporting automated forecasting and network optimization capabilities across the system Drive Scientific Excellence: - Build and mentor a team of applied scientists to deliver breakthrough AI/ML solutions - Design rigorous experiments to validate hypotheses and quantify business impact - Establish scientific excellence mechanisms including evaluation metrics and peer review processes Enable Strategic Transformation: - Drive scientific innovation from research to production - Design and validate next-generation AI-native models while ensuring robust performance, explainability, and seamless integration with existing systems. - Partner with Engineering, Product, and Operations teams to translate AI/ML capabilities into measurable business outcomes - Navigate ambiguity through experimentation while balancing innovation with operational constraints - Influence senior leadership through scientific rigor, translating complex algorithms into clear business value A day in the life Your day will be a dynamic blend of scientific innovation and strategic problem-solving. You'll collaborate with cross-functional teams, design AI algorithms, and translate complex data patterns into intuitive solutions that drive meaningful business impact. About the team We are Network Planning Solutions, a team of scientific innovators dedicated to reshaping how global service networks operate. Our mission is to create AI-native solutions that continuously learn, predict, and optimize customer experiences. We empower our associates to tackle high-value challenges and drive transformative change at a global scale.
  • (Updated 14 days ago)
    Customer Experience and Business Trends (CXBT) is looking for an Applied Scientist to join their team. CXBT's mission is to create best-in-class AI agents that seamlessly integrate multimodal inputs like speech, images, and video, enabling natural, empathetic, and adaptive interactions. We leverage advanced architectures, cross-modal learning, interpretability, and responsible AI techniques to provide coherent, context-aware responses augmented by real-time knowledge retrieval. The ideal candidate will have expertise in Large Language Models (LLMs), speech, audio, Natural Language processing (NLP) or multimodal learning to pioneer innovations in data simulation, representation, generation, reasoning, retrieval, and evaluation. Key job responsibilities - Build scalable solutions for real-time conversational experiences, including multilingual support, customizable personalities, and conversational turn-taking. - Develop data simulation approaches that mimic real-world speech interactions. - Research and implement novel algorithms and modeling techniques. - Acquire and curate diverse datasets while ensuring user privacy. - Create robust evaluation metrics and test sets to assess language model performance. - Integrate human feedback to improve data selection and model performance. - Innovate in data representation and model training techniques. - Apply responsible AI practices throughout the development process. A day in the life Our team is dedicated to improving Amazon's products and services through evaluation of the end-to-end customer experience using both internal and external processes and technology. Our mission is to deeply understand our customers' experiences, challenge the status quo, and provide insights that drive innovation to improve that experience. Through our analysis and insights, we inform business decisions that directly impact customer experience as customers of new GenAI and LLM technologies. About the team Customer Experience and Business Trends (CXBT) is an organization made up of a diverse suite of functions dedicated to deeply understanding and improving customer experience, globally. We are a team of builders that develop products, services, ideas, and various ways of leveraging data to influence product and service offerings – for almost every business at Amazon – for every customer (e.g., consumers, developers, sellers/brands, employees, investors, streamers, gamers). Our approach is based on determining the customer need, along with problem solving, and we work backwards from there. We use technical and non-technical approaches and stay aware of industry and business trends. We are a global team, made up of a diverse set of profiles, skills, and backgrounds – including: Product Managers, Software Developers, Computer Vision experts, Solutions Architects, Data Scientists, Business Intelligence Engineers, Business Analysts, Risk Managers, and more.
  • (Updated 23 days ago)
    Amazon Advertising is one of Amazon's fastest growing 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 (audio, images, videos, text) by building AI-driven solutions for advertisers. To accomplish this, we are investing in understanding how best users can leverage Generative AI methods such as latent-diffusion models, large language models (LLM), generative audio (music and speech synthesis), computer vision (CV), reinforced learning (RL) and related. As an Applied Scientist you will be part of a close-knit team of other applied scientists and product managers, UX and engineers who are highly collaborative and at the top of their respective fields. We are looking for talented Applied Scientists who are adept at a variety of skills, especially at the development and use of multi-modal Generative AI and can use state-of-the-art generative music and 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 SOTA research to raise the bar within the team. As an Applied Scientist on this team, you will: - Drive the invention and development of novel multi-modal agentic architectures and models for the use of Generative AI methods in advertising. - Work closely and integrate end-to-end proof-of-concept Machine Learning projects that have a high degree of ambiguity, scale and complexity. - Build interface-oriented systems that use Machine Learning models, perform proof-of-concept, experiment, optimize, and deploy your models into production; work closely with software engineers to assist in productionizing your ML models. - Curate relevant multi-modal datasets. - Perform hands-on analysis and modeling of experiments with human-in-the-loop that eg increase traffic monetization and merchandise sales, without compromising the shopper experience. - Run A/B experiments, gather data, and perform statistical analysis. - Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large-scale data analysis, machine-learning model development, model validation and serving. - Mentor and help recruit Applied Scientists to the team. - Present results and explain methods to senior leadership. - Willingness to publish research at internal and external top scientific venues. - Write and pursue IP submissions. Key job responsibilities This role is focused on developing new multi-modal Generative AI methods to augment generative imagery and videos. You will develop new multi-modal paradigms, models, datasets and agentic architectures that will be at the core of advertising-facing tools that we are launching. You may also work on development of ML and GenAI models suitable for advertising. You will conduct literature reviews to stay on the SOTA of the field. You will regularly engage with product managers, UX designers and engineers who will partner with you to productize your work. For reference see our products: Enhanced Video Generator, Creative Agent and Creative Studio. A day in the life On a day-to-day basis, you will be doing your independent research and work to develop models, you will participate in sprint planning, collaborative sessions with your peers, and demo new models and share results with peers, other partner teams and leadership. About the team The team is a dynamic team of applied scientists, UX researchers, engineers and product leaders. We reside in the Creative X organization, which focuses on creating products for advertisers that will improve the quality of the creatives within Amazon Ads. We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations: UK (London), USA (Seattle).
  • (Updated 14 days ago)
    Customer Experience and Business Trends (CXBT) is looking for an Applied Scientist to join their team. CXBT's mission is to create best-in-class AI agents that seamlessly integrate multimodal inputs like speech, images, and video, enabling natural, empathetic, and adaptive interactions. We leverage advanced architectures, cross-modal learning, interpretability, and responsible AI techniques to provide coherent, context-aware responses augmented by real-time knowledge retrieval. The ideal candidate will have expertise in Large Language Models (LLMs), speech, audio, Natural Language processing (NLP) or multimodal learning to pioneer innovations in data simulation, representation, generation, reasoning, retrieval, and evaluation. Key job responsibilities - Build scalable solutions for real-time conversational experiences, including multilingual support, customizable personalities, and conversational turn-taking. - Develop data simulation approaches that mimic real-world speech interactions. - Research and implement novel algorithms and modeling techniques. - Acquire and curate diverse datasets while ensuring user privacy. - Create robust evaluation metrics and test sets to assess language model performance. - Integrate human feedback to improve data selection and model performance. - Innovate in data representation and model training techniques. - Apply responsible AI practices throughout the development process. A day in the life Our team is dedicated to improving Amazon's products and services through evaluation of the end-to-end customer experience using both internal and external processes and technology. Our mission is to deeply understand our customers' experiences, challenge the status quo, and provide insights that drive innovation to improve that experience. Through our analysis and insights, we inform business decisions that directly impact customer experience as customers of new GenAI and LLM technologies. About the team Customer Experience and Business Trends (CXBT) is an organization made up of a diverse suite of functions dedicated to deeply understanding and improving customer experience, globally. We are a team of builders that develop products, services, ideas, and various ways of leveraging data to influence product and service offerings – for almost every business at Amazon – for every customer (e.g., consumers, developers, sellers/brands, employees, investors, streamers, gamers). Our approach is based on determining the customer need, along with problem solving, and we work backwards from there. We use technical and non-technical approaches and stay aware of industry and business trends. We are a global team, made up of a diverse set of profiles, skills, and backgrounds – including: Product Managers, Software Developers, Computer Vision experts, Solutions Architects, Data Scientists, Business Intelligence Engineers, Business Analysts, Risk Managers, and more.
  • (Updated 14 days ago)
    Are you interested in working in the exciting space of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) to build Agents that will test Amazon product experience and inform how teams across Amazon think about designing world-class products? Amazon is looking for an experienced, talented, and highly motivated Research Scientist to join our Customer Experience and Business Trends (CXBT) team. The right candidate has an unrelenting tenacity to drive business impact, strong communication skills, ability to influence through data, and is capable of breaking down and solving complex and ambiguous problems. As a Research Scientist, you have expertise in research design best practices and identifying the appropriate research methodology based on the defined business objectives. You are a self-starter who thrives in ambiguity and can creatively solve problems. You have excellent business judgment and operate with a strong sense of urgency and commitment. You will have the ability to work with and influence businesses in a global setting and drive strategic change across Amazon. You will be responsible for delivering innovative GenAI products utilizing Agents, and developing and launching novel ways to create datasets that will monitor Amazon's performance across multiple modalities (e.g., speech, text, image, video, audio) based on Amazon's breadth of product offerings. You will work closely with product managers and engineers to develop new methodologies utilizing GenAI technologies and Natural Language Processing (NLP). We are looking for a passionate, talented, and inventive Sr. Research Scientist with a background in Machine Learning (ML) and Large Language Models (LLMs) to help build industry-leading GenAI Agent and Data Generation technology. Key job responsibilities - Work with talented peers to develop novel algorithms and modeling techniques to drive the state of the art in speech synthesis. - Participate in the design, development, evaluation, deployment and updating of data-driven models for GenAI agents and data set generation applications. - Participate in research activities including the application and evaluation of Agent techniques for novel applications. - Research and implement novel ML and statistical approaches to add value to the business. - Mentor junior engineers and scientists. - Build strategic relationships with stakeholders at multiple levels of the organization. - Partner with team members including engineering, product managers, data science, and business intelligence engineers to inform solution design and ensure study success. - Contribute to a team culture of experimentation and innovation. About the team Customer Experience and Business Trends (CXBT) is an organization made up of a diverse suite of functions dedicated to deeply understanding and improving customer experience, globally. We are a team of builders that develop products, services, ideas, and various ways of leveraging data to influence product and service offerings - for almost every business at Amazon – for every customer (e.g., consumers, developers, sellers/brands, employees, investors, streamers, gamers). Our approach is based on determining the customer need, along with problem solving, and we work backwards from there. We use technical and non-technical approaches and stay aware of industry and business trends. We are a global team, made up of a diverse set of profiles, skills, and backgrounds - including: Product Managers, Software Developers, Computer Vision experts, Solutions Architects, Data Scientists, Business Intelligence Engineers, Business Analysts, Risk Managers, and more.
  • (Updated 6 days ago)
    The Amazon Fulfillment Technologies (AFT) Science team is seeking an exceptional Applied Scientist with strong operations research and optimization expertise to develop production solutions for one of the most complex systems in the world: Amazon's Fulfillment Network. At AFT Science, we design, build, and deploy optimization, statistics, machine learning, and GenAI/LLM solutions that power production systems running across Amazon Fulfillment Centers worldwide. We tackle a wide range of challenges throughout the network, including labor planning and staffing, pick scheduling, stow guidance, and capacity risk management. Our mission is to develop innovative, scalable, and reliable science-driven production solutions that exceed the published state of the art, enabling systems to run optimally and continuously (from every few minutes to every few hours) across our large-scale network. Key job responsibilities As an Applied Scientist, you will collaborate with scientists, software engineers, product managers, and operations leaders to develop optimization-driven solutions that directly impact process efficiency and associate experience in the fulfillment network. Your key responsibilities include: - Develop deep understanding and domain knowledge of operational processes, system architecture, and business requirements - Dive deep into data and code to identify opportunities for continuous improvement and disruptive new approaches - Design and develop scalable mathematical models for production systems to derive optimal or near-optimal solutions for existing and emerging challenges - Create prototypes and simulations for agile experimentation of proposed solutions - Advocate for technical solutions with business stakeholders, engineering teams, and senior leadership - Partner with software engineers to integrate prototypes into production systems - Design and execute experiments to test new or incremental solutions launched in production - Build and monitor metrics to track solution performance and business impact About the team Amazon Fulfillment Technology (AFT) designs, develops, and operates end-to-end fulfillment technology solutions for all Amazon Fulfillment Centers (FCs). We harmonize the physical and virtual worlds so Amazon customers can get what they want, when they want it. The AFT Science team brings expertise in operations research, optimization, statistics, machine learning, and GenAI/LLM, combined with deep domain knowledge of operational processes within FCs and their unique challenges. We prioritize advancements that support AFT tech teams and focus areas rather than specific fields of research or individual business partners. We influence each stage of innovation from inception to deployment, which includes both developing novel solutions and improving existing approaches. Our production systems rely on a diverse set of technologies, and our teams invest in multiple specialties as the needs of each focus area evolve.
  • (Updated 14 days ago)
    Customer Experience and Business Trends (CXBT) is looking for an Applied Scientist to join their team. CXBT's mission is to create best-in-class AI agents that seamlessly integrate multimodal inputs like speech, images, and video, enabling natural, empathetic, and adaptive interactions. We leverage advanced architectures, cross-modal learning, interpretability, and responsible AI techniques to provide coherent, context-aware responses augmented by real-time knowledge retrieval. The ideal candidate will have expertise in Large Language Models (LLMs), speech, audio, Natural Language processing (NLP) or multimodal learning to pioneer innovations in data simulation, representation, generation, reasoning, retrieval, and evaluation. Key job responsibilities - Build scalable solutions for real-time conversational experiences, including multilingual support, customizable personalities, and conversational turn-taking. - Develop data simulation approaches that mimic real-world speech interactions. - Research and implement novel algorithms and modeling techniques. - Acquire and curate diverse datasets while ensuring user privacy. - Create robust evaluation metrics and test sets to assess language model performance. - Integrate human feedback to improve data selection and model performance. - Innovate in data representation and model training techniques. - Apply responsible AI practices throughout the development process. A day in the life Our team is dedicated to improving Amazon's products and services through evaluation of the end-to-end customer experience using both internal and external processes and technology. Our mission is to deeply understand our customers' experiences, challenge the status quo, and provide insights that drive innovation to improve that experience. Through our analysis and insights, we inform business decisions that directly impact customer experience as customers of new GenAI and LLM technologies. About the team Customer Experience and Business Trends (CXBT) is an organization made up of a diverse suite of functions dedicated to deeply understanding and improving customer experience, globally. We are a team of builders that develop products, services, ideas, and various ways of leveraging data to influence product and service offerings – for almost every business at Amazon – for every customer (e.g., consumers, developers, sellers/brands, employees, investors, streamers, gamers). Our approach is based on determining the customer need, along with problem solving, and we work backwards from there. We use technical and non-technical approaches and stay aware of industry and business trends. We are a global team, made up of a diverse set of profiles, skills, and backgrounds – including: Product Managers, Software Developers, Computer Vision experts, Solutions Architects, Data Scientists, Business Intelligence Engineers, Business Analysts, Risk Managers, and more.
  • (Updated 21 days ago)
    Sponsored Products and Brands (SPB) is at the heart of Amazon Advertising, helping millions of advertisers—from small businesses to global brands—connect with customers at the moments that matter most. Our advertising solutions enable sellers, vendors, and brand owners to grow their businesses by reaching shoppers with relevant, engaging ads across Amazon's store and beyond. We're obsessed with delivering measurable results for advertisers while creating a delightful shopping experience for customers. Are you interested in defining the science behind the future of advertising? Sponsored Products and Brands science teams are pioneering breakthrough agentic AI systems—pushing the boundaries of large language models, autonomous reasoning, planning, and decision-making to build intelligent agents that fundamentally transform how advertisers succeed on Amazon. As an SPB applied science leader, you'll have end-to-end ownership of the product and scientific vision, research agenda, model architectures, and evaluation frameworks required to deliver state-of-the-art agentic AI solutions for our advertising customers. You'll get to work on problems that are fast-paced, scientifically rich, and deeply consequential. You'll also be able to explore novel research directions, take bold bets, and collaborate with remarkable scientists, engineers, and product leaders. We'll look for you to bring your diverse perspectives, deep technical expertise, and scientific rigor to make Amazon Advertising even better for our advertisers and customers. With global opportunities for talented scientists and science leaders, you can decide where a career in Amazon Ads Science takes you! We are kicking off a new initiative within SPB to leverage agentic AI solutions to revolutionize how advertisers create, manage, and optimize their advertising campaigns. This is a unique opportunity to lead a business-critical applied science initiative from its inception—defining the scientific charter, establishing foundational research pillars, and building a multi-year science roadmap for transformative impact. As the single-threaded applied science leader, you will build and guide a dedicated team of applied scientists, research scientists, and machine learning engineers, working closely with cross-functional engineering and product partners, to research, develop, and deploy agentic AI systems that fundamentally reimagine the advertiser journey. Your charter will begin with advancing the science behind intelligent agents that simplify campaign creation, automate optimization decisions through autonomous reasoning and planning, and deliver personalized advertising strategies at scale. You will pioneer novel approaches in areas such as LLM-based agent architectures, multi-step planning and tool use, retrieval-augmented generation, reinforcement learning from human and business feedback, and robust evaluation methodologies for agentic systems. You will expand to proactively identify and tackle the next generation of AI-powered advertising experiences across the entire SPB portfolio. This high-visibility role places you as the science leader driving our strategy to democratize advertising success—making it effortless for advertisers of all sizes to achieve their business goals while delivering relevant experiences for Amazon customers. Key job responsibilities Build, mentor, and lead a new, high-performing applied science organization of applied scientists, research scientists, and engineers, fostering a culture of scientific excellence, innovation, customer obsession, and ownership. Define, own, and drive the long-term scientific and product vision and research strategy for agentic AI-powered advertising experiences across Sponsored Products and Brands—identifying the highest-impact research problems and charting a path from exploration to production. Lead the research, design, and development of novel agentic AI models and systems—including LLM-based agent architectures, multi-agent orchestration, planning and reasoning frameworks, tool-use mechanisms, and retrieval-augmented generation pipelines—that deliver measurable value for advertisers and create delightful, intuitive experiences. Establish rigorous scientific methodology and evaluation frameworks for assessing agent performance, reliability, safety, and advertiser outcomes, setting a high bar for experimentation, reproducibility, and offline-to-online consistency. Partner closely with senior business, engineering, and product leaders across Amazon Advertising to translate advertiser pain points and business opportunities into well-defined science problems, and deliver cohesive, production-ready solutions that drive advertiser success. Drive execution from research to production at scale, ensuring models and agentic systems meet high standards for quality, robustness, latency, safety, and reliability for mission-critical advertising services operating at Amazon scale. Champion a culture of scientific inquiry and technical depth that encourages bold experimentation, publication of novel research, relentless simplification, and continuous improvement. Communicate your team's scientific vision, research breakthroughs, strategy, and progress to senior leadership and key stakeholders, ensuring alignment with broader Amazon Advertising objectives and contributing to Amazon's position at the forefront of applied AI. Develop a science roadmap directly tied to advertiser outcomes, revenue growth, and business plans, delivering on commitments for high-impact research and modeling initiatives that shape the future of AI-powered digital advertising.

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