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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, CA, San Francisco
    Job ID: 3131622
    (Updated 19 days ago)
    Are you interested in a unique opportunity to advance the accuracy and efficiency of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) systems? If so, you're at the right place! We are the AGI Autonomy organization, and we are looking for a driven and talented Member of Technical Staff to join us to build state-of-the art agents. AGI Autonomy is focused on developing new foundational capabilities for useful AI agents that can take actions in the digital and physical worlds. In other words, we’re enabling practical AI that can actually do things for us and make our customers more productive, empowered, and fulfilled. In this role, you will work closely with research teams to design, build, and maintain systems for training and evaluating state-of-the-art agent models. Our team works inside the Amazon AGI SF Lab, an environment designed to empower AI researchers and engineers to work with speed and focus. Our philosophy combines the agility of a startup with the resources of Amazon. Key job responsibilities * Evaluate performance of the training infrastructure, diagnose problems and address any gaps that exist. * Develop reliable infrastructure to schedule training and model evaluation jobs across clusters. * Work closely with researchers to create new techniques, infrastructure, and tooling around emerging research capabilities and evaluating models to meet customer needs. * Manage project prioritization, deliverables, timelines, and stakeholder communication. * Illuminate trade-offs, educate the team on best practices, and influence technical strategy. * Operate in a dynamic environment to deliver high quality software. About the team The Amazon AGI SF Lab is focused on developing new foundational capabilities for enabling useful AI agents that can take actions in the digital and physical worlds. In other words, we’re enabling practical AI that can actually do things for us and make our customers more productive, empowered, and fulfilled. The lab is designed to empower AI researchers and engineers to make major breakthroughs with speed and focus toward this goal. Our philosophy combines the agility of a startup with the resources of Amazon. By keeping the team lean, we’re able to maximize the amount of compute per person. Each team in the lab has the autonomy to move fast and the long-term commitment to pursue high-risk, high-payoff research.
  • IN, TS, Hyderabad
    Job ID: 3134728
    (Updated 12 days ago)
    Do you want to join an innovative team of scientists who leverage machine learning and statistical techniques to revolutionize how businesses discover and purchase products on Amazon? Are you passionate about building intelligent systems that understand and predict complex B2B customer needs? The Amazon Business team is looking for exceptional Applied Science to help shape the future of B2B commerce. Amazon Business is one of Amazon's fastest-growing initiatives focused on serving business customers, from individual professionals to large institutions, with unique and complex purchasing needs. Our customers require sophisticated solutions that go beyond traditional B2C experiences, including bulk purchasing, approval workflows, and business-grade service support. The AB-MSET Applied Science team focuses on building intelligent systems for delivering personalized, contextual service experiences throughout the customer lifecycle. We apply advanced machine learning techniques to develop sophisticated intent detection models for business customer service needs, create intelligent matching algorithms for optimal service routing based on multiple variables including customer value, maturity, effort, and issue complexity, build predictive models to enable proactive service interventions, design recommendation systems for self-service solutions, and develop ML models for automated service resolution. As an Applied Scientist on the team, you will design and develop state-of-the-art ML models for service intent classification, routing optimization, and customer experience personalization. You will analyze large-scale business customer interaction data to identify patterns and opportunities for automation, create scalable solutions for complex B2B service scenarios using advanced ML techniques, and work closely with engineering teams to implement and deploy models in production. You will collaborate with business stakeholders to identify opportunities for ML applications, establish automated processes for model development, validation, and maintenance, lead research initiatives to advance the state-of-the-art in B2B service science, and mentor other scientists and engineers in applying ML techniques to business problems.
  • US, CA, San Francisco
    Job ID: 3131558
    (Updated 26 days ago)
    Are you interested in a unique opportunity to advance the accuracy and efficiency of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) systems? If so, you're at the right place! We are the AGI Autonomy organization, and we are looking for a driven and talented Member of Technical Staff to join us to build state-of-the art agents. Our lab is a small, talent-dense team with the resources and scale of Amazon. Each team in the lab has the autonomy to move fast and the long-term commitment to pursue high-risk, high-payoff research. We’re entering an exciting new era where agents can redefine what AI makes possible. We’d love for you to join our lab and build it from the ground up! Key job responsibilities * Design and implement a modern, fast, and ergonomic development environment for AI researchers, eliminating current pain points in build times, testing workflows, and iteration speed * Build and manage CI/CD pipelines (CodePipeline, Jenkins, etc.) that support large-scale AI research workflows, including pipelines capable of orchestrating thousands of simultaneous agentic experiments * Develop tooling that bridges local development environments with remote supercomputing resources, enabling researchers to seamlessly leverage massive compute from their IDEs * Manage and optimize code repository infrastructure (GitLab, Phabricator, or similar) to support collaborative research at scale * Implement release management processes and automation to ensure reliable, repeatable deployments of research code and models * Optimize container build systems for GPU workloads, ensuring fast iteration cycles and efficient resource utilization * Work directly with researchers to understand workflow pain points and translate them into infrastructure improvements * Build monitoring and observability into development tooling to identify bottlenecks and continuously improve developer experience * Design and maintain build systems optimized for ML frameworks, CUDA code, and distributed training workloads About the team The team is shaping developer experience from the ground up. Building tools that enable researchers to move at the speed of thought: IDEs that seamlessly shell out to supercomputers, CI/CD pipelines that orchestrate thousands of agentic commands simultaneously, and build systems optimized for GPU-accelerated workflows. Your infrastructure will be the foundation that enables the next generation of AI research, directly contributing to our mission of building the most capable agents in the world.
  • US, CA, San Francisco
    Job ID: 3131559
    (Updated 26 days ago)
    Are you interested in a unique opportunity to advance the accuracy and efficiency of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) systems? If so, you're at the right place! We are the AGI Autonomy organization, and we are looking for a driven and talented Member of Technical Staff to join us to build state-of-the art agents. Our lab is a small, talent-dense team with the resources and scale of Amazon. Each team in the lab has the autonomy to move fast and the long-term commitment to pursue high-risk, high-payoff research. We’re entering an exciting new era where agents can redefine what AI makes possible. We’d love for you to join our lab and build it from the ground up! Key job responsibilities * Design, build, and maintain the compute platform that powers all AI research at the SF AI Lab, managing large-scale GPU pools and ensuring optimal resource utilization * Partner directly with research scientists to understand experimental requirements and develop infrastructure solutions that accelerate research velocity * Implement and maintain robust security controls and hardening measures while enabling researcher productivity and flexibility * Modernize and scale existing infrastructure by converting manual deployments into reproducible Infrastructure as Code using AWS CDK * Optimize system performance across multiple GPU architectures, becoming an expert in extracting maximum computational efficiency * Design and implement monitoring, orchestration, and automation solutions for GPU workloads at scale * Ensure infrastructure is compliant with Amazon security standards while creatively solving for research-specific requirements * Collaborate with AWS teams to leverage and influence cloud services that support AI workloads * Build distributed systems infrastructure, including Kubernetes-based orchestration, to support multi-tenant research environments * Serve as the bridge between traditional systems engineering and ML infrastructure, bringing enterprise-grade reliability to research computing About the team This role is part of the foundational infrastructure team at the SF AI Lab, responsible for the platform that enables all research across the organization. Our team serves as the critical link between Amazon's enterprise infrastructure and the Lab's research needs. We are experts in performance optimization, systems architecture, and creative problem-solving—finding ways to push the boundaries of what's possible while maintaining security and reliability standards. We work closely with research scientists, understanding their experimental needs and translating them into robust, scalable infrastructure solutions. Our team has deep expertise in ML framework internals and GPU optimization, but we're also pragmatic systems engineers who build traditional infrastructure with enterprise-grade quality. We value engineers who can balance research velocity with operational excellence, who bring curiosity about ML while maintaining strong fundamentals in systems engineering. This is a small, high-impact team where your work directly enables breakthrough AI research. You'll have the opportunity to work with some of the most advanced AI infrastructure in the world while building the skills that define the future of ML systems engineering.
  • (Updated 26 days ago)
    The Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) team is looking for a passionate, talented, and inventive Senior Applied Scientist with a strong deep learning background, to build industry-leading technology with Large Language Models (LLMs) and multimodal systems. Key job responsibilities As a Senior Applied Scientist with the AGI team, you will work with talented peers to lead the development of novel algorithms and modeling techniques, to advance the state of the art with LLMs. Your work will directly impact our customers in the form of products and services that make use of speech and language technology. You will leverage Amazon’s heterogeneous data sources and large-scale computing resources to accelerate advances in generative artificial intelligence (GenAI). About the team The AGI team has a mission to push the envelope in LLMs and multimodal systems, in order to provide the best-possible experience for our customers.
  • US, NY, New York
    Job ID: 3136853
    (Updated 17 days ago)
    Amazon Advertising is one of Amazon's fastest growing and most profitable businesses, responsible for defining and delivering a collection of advertising products that drive discovery and sales. 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! Our team owns personalization, guidance and experimentation science and is placed centrally in the organization which owns the Amazon Advertising Console from UX design to components and services. We leverage a breadth of state-of-the-art techniques such as deep learning, reinforcement learning, LLMs, long term causal modeling as well as sophisticated A/B testing to develop personalized experiences with directly quantifiable business and advertiser success outcomes. We are looking for an accomplished machine learning expert to lead the Applied Science strategy for our recommendation creation and recommendation personalziation program. In this role, you will work closely with business leaders, stakeholders and cross-functional teams to drive program success through ML-driven solutions. You will shape the applied science roadmap, promote a culture of data-driven decision-making, and deliver significant business impact for millions of advertisers worldwide and the company using advanced data techniques and applied science methodologies. Key job responsibilities As an Applied Scientist on this team, you will - Serve as the technical leader in Machine Learning, driving collaboration between scientists and engineers, guiding efforts within the team and collaborating with other teams. - Conduct hands-on analysis and modeling of large-scale data to generate insights that boost ads revenue while maintaining a positive advertiser and shopper experience. - Lead end-to-end Machine Learning projects that involve high levels of ambiguity, scale, and complexity. - Build, experiment, optimize, and deploy machine learning models, collaborating with software engineers to bring your models into production. - Run A/B experiments, gather data, and perform statistical analysis to validate your models. - Develop scalable and automated processes for large-scale data analysis, model development, validation, and serving. - Explore and research innovative machine learning approaches to push the boundaries of what’s possible.
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 3134610
    (Updated 17 days ago)
    The Selling Partner Experience (SPX) organization strives to make Amazon the best place for Selling Partners to do business. The SPX AI Lab team is building the AI capabilities powering the Selling Assistant, Amazon's conversational assistant experience for Selling Partners. The Selling Assistant is a trusted partner and a seasoned advisor that’s always available to enable our partners to thrive in Amazon’s stores. It takes away the cognitive load of selling on Amazon by providing a single interface to handle a diverse set of selling needs. The assistant always stays by the seller's side, talks to them in their language, enables them to capitalize on opportunities, and helps them accomplish their business goals with ease. It is powered by the latest advances in Generative AI, going beyond a typical chatbot to provide an intuitive, intelligent, and personalized experience to sellers running real businesses, large and small. Do you want to join an innovative group of scientists, engineers, and product managers who use state-of-the-art Generative AI and Machine Learning technologies to help Amazon create a delightful Selling Partner experience? Do you want to build solutions to real business problems by automatically understanding and addressing sellers’ challenges, needs and opportunities? Are you excited by the prospect of contributing to one of Amazon’s most strategic Generative AI initiatives? If yes, then you may be a great fit to join the SPX AI Lab team. Key job responsibilities - Use state-of-the-art Machine Learning and Generative AI techniques to create the next generation of the tools that empower Amazon's Selling Partners to succeed. - Design, develop and deploy highly innovative models to interact with Sellers and delight them with solutions. - Work closely with teams of scientists and software engineers to drive real-time model implementations and deliver novel and highly impactful features. - Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large scale data analyses, model benchmarking, model validation and model implementation. - Research and implement novel machine learning and statistical approaches. - Participate in strategic initiatives to employ the most recent advances in ML in a fast-paced, experimental environment. About the team SPX AI Lab is a growing team of scientists driving the research and development of the next generation of GenAI experiences that empower Amazon's Selling Partners to succeed. We draw from many science domains, from Natural Language Processing to Computer Vision to Optimization to Economics, to create solutions that seamlessly and automatically engage with Sellers, solve their problems, and help them grow. We strive to radically simplify the seller experience, lowering the cognitive burden of selling on Amazon by making it easy to accomplish critical tasks such as launching new products, understanding and complying with Amazon’s policies and taking actions to grow their business.
  • (Updated 17 days ago)
    Amazon’s Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) organization is developing a next-generation web search system to support RAG applications across Amazon. Web search is a foundational capability for enabling AGI products across Amazon. We are looking for a Applied Scientist with expertise in information retrieval (IR), content understanding, and natural language processing (NLP) to join the team! If you are looking for an opportunity to develop innovative solutions to deep technical problems in web-scale IR, having a massive customer impact, this might be the role for you! As a Applied Scientist, you will work with smart, passionate colleagues in a fast-paced environment. You will invent, develop, and help deploy novel, scalable algorithms to advance the state-of-the-art in our IR stack. You will keep up with relevant research in the field of IR and publish your work in top-tier conferences. You will develop and help lead the execution of multi-year research roadmaps, enabling the team to focus on the right technical challenges to delight our customers. Key job responsibilities As an Applied Scientist, you will apply scientific rigor to your work. You will deliver incrementally, setting up and executing experiments informed by rigorous failure space analysis of prior experiments. You have a knack for writing clear, succinct and informative reports of your experiments. You collaborate and seek guidance from other scientists on your team to define the next experiments. You collaborate closely with engineers to bring your innovations into production. You will continuously with customers and stakeholders to simplify and adapt to deliver for our customers. You will develop state-of-the-art web search technology, including training novel retrieval and ranking models, scaling models and optimizing performance, partnering with engineering to deploy and debug model performance in production, and building and scaling quality training data sets.
  • US, CA, Palo Alto
    Job ID: 3131876
    (Updated 8 days ago)
    We are looking for a passionate Applied Scientist to help pioneer the next generation of agentic AI applications for Amazon advertisers. In this role, you will design agentic architectures, develop tools and datasets, and contribute to building systems that can reason, plan, and act autonomously across complex advertiser workflows. You will work at the forefront of applied AI, developing methods for fine-tuning, reinforcement learning, and preference optimization, while helping create evaluation frameworks that ensure safety, reliability, and trust at scale. You will work backwards from the needs of advertisers—delivering customer-facing products that directly help them create, optimize, and grow their campaigns. Beyond building models, you will advance the agent ecosystem by experimenting with and applying core primitives such as tool orchestration, multi-step reasoning, and adaptive preference-driven behavior. This role requires working independently on ambiguous technical problems, collaborating closely with scientists, engineers, and product managers to bring innovative solutions into production. Key job responsibilities - Design and build agents to guide advertisers in conversational and non-conversational experience. - Design and implement advanced model and agent optimization techniques, including supervised fine-tuning, instruction tuning and preference optimization (e.g., DPO/IPO). - Curate datasets and tools for MCP. - Build evaluation pipelines for agent workflows, including automated benchmarks, multi-step reasoning tests, and safety guardrails. - Develop agentic architectures (e.g., CoT, ToT, ReAct) that integrate planning, tool use, and long-horizon reasoning. - Prototype and iterate on multi-agent orchestration frameworks and workflows. - Collaborate with peers across engineering and product to bring scientific innovations into production. - Stay current with the latest research in LLMs, RL, and agent-based AI, and translate findings into practical applications. About the team The Sponsored Products and Brands team at Amazon Ads is re-imagining the advertising landscape through the latest 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 Advertiser Guidance team within Sponsored Products and Brands is focused on guiding and supporting 1.6MM advertisers to meet their advertising needs of creating and managing ad campaigns. At this scale, the complexity of diverse advertiser goals, campaign types, and market dynamics creates both a massive technical challenge and a transformative opportunity: even small improvements in guidance systems can have outsized impact on advertiser success and Amazon’s retail ecosystem. Our vision is to build a highly personalized, context-aware agentic advertiser guidance system that leverages LLMs together with tools such as auction simulations, ML models, and optimization algorithms. This agentic framework, will operate across both chat and non-chat experiences in the ad console, scaling to natural language queries as well as proactively delivering guidance based on deep understanding of the advertiser. To execute this vision, we collaborate closely with stakeholders across Ad Console, Sales, and Marketing to identify opportunities—from high-level product guidance down to granular keyword recommendations—and deliver them through a tailored, personalized experience. Our work is grounded in state-of-the-art agent architectures, tool integration, reasoning frameworks, and model customization approaches (including tuning, MCP, and preference optimization), ensuring our systems are both scalable and adaptive.
  • US, MA, N.reading
    Job ID: 3131920
    (Updated 1 days ago)
    Amazon Industrial Robotics 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 Industrial Robotics 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. Key job responsibilities - Design and implement whole body control methods for balance, locomotion, and dexterous manipulation - Utilize state-of-the-art in methods in learned and model-based control - Create robust and safe behaviors for different terrains and tasks - Implement real-time controllers with stability guarantees - Collaborate effectively with multi-disciplinary teams to co-design hardware and algorithms for loco-manipulation - Mentor junior engineer and scientists

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