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Have you ever wondered how Amazon launches and maintains a consistent customer experience across hundreds of countries and languages it serves its customers? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you! Translation Services is seeking an Applied Science Manager to own the technical vision and multi-year science roadmap spanning machine translation, multimodal content (image translation, video subtitling), and automated quality evaluation. This leader will manage scientists and MLEs, define research direction for novel problem spaces with limited industry precedent, and bridge science breakthroughs into production-ready systems operating at Amazon scale. As a leader of the Science team of TS, this person will be responsible for leading their team in designing algorithmic solutions based on data and mathematics for translating billions of words annually across 130+ and expanding set of locales. The goal is to build solutions with minimal human touch involved in any language translation and ensure accurate translated text is available to our worldwide customers in a streamlined and optimized manner. With access to vast amounts of data, technology, and a diverse community of talented individuals, you will have the opportunity to make a meaningful impact on the way customers and stakeholders engage with Amazon and our platform worldwide. This role requires strong technical skills, a deep understanding of machine learning approaches, and a solid grasp on NLP and LLM techniques to solve complex language translation challenges. You must have a demonstrated ability for optimizing, developing, launching, and maintaining large-scale production systems. As a key member of the team, you will oversee all aspects of the software lifecycle: design, experimentation, implementation, and testing. You should be willing to dive deep when needed, move rapidly with a bias for action, and get things done. You should have an entrepreneurial spirit, know how to deliver, and long for the opportunity to build pioneering solutions to challenging problems. This role will demand resourcefulness and willingness to learn on both the technical and business side. Key job responsibilities In this role, you will work closely with business partners, applied scientists, software development engineers, and product managers to accelerate building solutions to expand translation capabilities. You will have significant influence on our overall strategy by helping define science and engineering strategy, define product features, drive system architecture, and spearhead the best-practices that enable a quality product. You will also influence the development processes, and develop well-rounded skills such as leadership, and effective project management. Building a strong development team and developing career plans for the scientists and engineers reporting to you will be a key responsibility. Throughout, you should possess creativity, curiosity, and excellent judgment to thrive in an environment of ambiguity. A day in the life You will spend your days collaborating with scientists, developers, customers, stakeholders, and converting the business needs into a data-driven solution. You will support a team to design and execute science products. You will dive deep into the data and balance technical execution with longer term strategy. You will grow and develop your team. About the team Translation Services is entering a phase where the problems ahead are fundamentally different from the problems we've solved. Our text translation stack is production-grade and serving 30+ language pairs across Retail. But the next frontier — image translation, video subtitle localization, long form text and automated quality evaluation — represents novel research problems at Amazon scale with limited industry precedent.

We are Amazon's central Responsible AI team. Our mission is to advance the science and practice of Responsible AI (RAI) to enable Amazon's tens of thousands of builders to build and deploy AI solutions to the high standards that our customers and society expect. As a scientist on this team, you will: - understand in depth the technical and scientific issues related to RAI, including controllability, security, privacy, safety, veracity, robustness, fairness, explainability, transparency, and governance - help define the strategies, priorities and metrics for RAI - solve open problems in RAI to unblock traditional, generative and/or agentic AI use cases and solutions, publishing as appropriate - help develop our team - liase with internal and external stakeholders, including the academic community, on issues related to RAI 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.

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

We are looking for a Senior Applied Scientist who will own the science strategy and technical direction for computer vision and machine learning within the Amazon grocery ecosystem. You will identify the highest-impact problems in ambiguous, rapidly evolving domains, frame them rigorously, and drive solutions from research through production at scale. You will lead cross-functional technical decisions with engineering, product, and business partners, shaping not just what we build but also how we invest. This is a role where your scientific judgment, architectural choices, and ability to create clarity from ambiguity will directly define the intelligence layer powering millions of grocery shopping experiences. Key job responsibilities * Own the end-to-end science strategy for computer vision and machine learning solutions in the grocery domain, navigating ambiguity to identify the highest-impact opportunities * Develop novel approaches to complex, unsolved perception and identification challenges where off-the-shelf methods are insufficient; publish findings internally or externally to advance the state of the art * Define the evaluation framework and success criteria for model performance, establishing metrics that connect scientific outcomes to measurable business impact and using these to influence roadmap prioritization * Lead cross-functional technical design with engineering, product, and operations partners, driving architecture decisions for model serving, data pipelines, and system reliability at scale rather than solely handing off models for productionization * Identify and resolve ambiguous, cross-team technical dependencies (e.g., upstream data quality, annotation infrastructure, model interoperability) that block progress across multiple workstreams; propose and drive solutions proactively * Influence technical direction beyond the immediate team mentor scientists, raise the bar in hiring, establish best practices for experimentation and model development, and represent the team's science strategy to senior leadership * Communicate complex technical trade-offs and recommendations to VP-level stakeholders, shaping investment decisions and aligning cross-org partners on science-informed product direction A day in the life As a Senior Applied Scientist on the GRAISE team, you'll own the technical strategy for how computer vision and multimodal learning come together to solve perception problems in grocery stores — many of which no one has cleanly formulated yet. On any given day, you might diagnose a surprising failure mode from overnight experiments and decide whether to pivot your approach entirely, co-architect a serving system with engineers while defining confidence thresholds and graceful degradation paths, present a precision-recall trade-off to senior leaders in terms that shape launch decisions and investment priorities, or unblock a cross-team dependency on annotation infrastructure — all while mentoring junior scientists and carving out time for deep technical work on problems the team hasn't cracked. Your scientific judgment and architectural choices will directly shape the shopping experience for millions of customers across Amazon's 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

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

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.

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.

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.

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. The Sponsored Products Search Sourcing Science (SPSSS) team's mission is to retrieve all relevant sponsored products in response to shopper queries, serving billions of daily ad impressions and tens of millions of clicks, helping shoppers discover useful and contextually relevant products while enabling advertisers to reach the right shoppers in the right context. To achieve this, we build state-of-the-art capabilities spanning query, shopper, product, and advertiser understanding, as well as advanced retrieval, targeting, and ranking systems, all powered by efficient large-scale data pipelines, deep learning, natural language processing (NLP), generative AI, and multi-agent workflows. It's a high-impact, technically exciting space where science directly translates into measurable outcomes for hundreds of millions of customers and millions of advertisers. Key job responsibilities As a Senior Applied Scientist on this team, you will: - Serve as the technical leader in Machine Learning and Generative AI, driving efforts within this team and across other teams. - Lead end-to-end ML projects with high ambiguity, scale, and complexity—from problem definition to production. - Build, optimize, and deploy ML models into production, partnering with software engineers to productionize solutions. - Establish scalable, automated processes for data analysis, model development, validation, and serving. - Apply strong knowledge of LLMs (prompt engineering, fine-tuning, RAG, evaluation) to build production-grade GenAI applications. - Analyze large-scale data sets to develop insights that increase traffic monetization and merchandise sales without compromising the shopper experience. - Design and run A/B experiments, and perform statistical analysis to measure impact and guide decisions. - Research and prototype innovative ML and GenAI approaches, bringing state-of-the-art techniques into production. - Recruit, mentor, and grow Applied Scientists on the team. About the team Amazon is investing heavily in building a world-class advertising business. This team defines and delivers a collection of advertising products that drive discovery and sales. Our solutions generate billions in revenue and drive long-term growth for Amazon’s Retail and Marketplace businesses. We deliver billions of ad impressions, millions of clicks daily, and break fresh ground to create world-class products. We are a highly motivated, collaborative, and fun-loving team with an entrepreneurial spirit - with a broad mandate to experiment and innovate. The Sponsored Products Search Sourcing Science (SPSSS) team's mission is to retrieve all relevant sponsored products in response to shopper queries, serving billions of daily ad impressions and tens of millions of clicks, helping shoppers discover useful and contextually relevant products while enabling advertisers to reach the right shoppers in the right context. To achieve this, we build state-of-the-art capabilities spanning query, shopper, product, and advertiser understanding, as well as advanced retrieval, targeting, and ranking systems, all powered by efficient large-scale data pipelines, deep learning, natural language processing (NLP), generative AI, and multi-agent workflows. It's a high-impact, technically exciting space where science directly translates into measurable outcomes for hundreds of millions of customers and millions of advertisers.

Ring & Blink is looking for a Senior Applied Science Manager to lead the AI development. In this role, you will be the leader of our passionate, talented, and inventive scientists, to develop industry-leading Multimodal AI, Research Infra, and scaling them successfully to production for the benefit of millions of Amazon Devices users. This is a unique, high visibility opportunity for a leader who wants to have business impact, and dive deep into computer vision problems. We are particularly interested in candidates with experience productizing edge-based computer vision systems. Key job responsibilities As a Senior Manager, Applied Science, you bring structure to ambiguous business problems and use science, logic, and practical experience to decompose them into straightforward, scalable solutions. You set the standard for scientific excellence and make decisions that affect the way we build and integrate algorithms. Your solutions are exemplary in terms of algorithm design, clarity, model structure, efficiency, and extensibility. You tackle intrinsically hard problems; you're interested in learning; and you acquire skills and expertise as needed. The ideal candidate is a strong, creative and highly-motivated Scientist/Engineers with hands-on experience in leading multiple research and engineering initiatives. You balance technical leadership with strong business judgment to make the right decisions about technology, tools, and methodologies.