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At Amazon, we believe that scientific innovation is essential to being the most customer-centric company in the world. Our scientists' ability to have an impact at scale allows us to attract some of the brightest minds across diverse fields including artificial intelligence, robotics, computer vision, economics, and sustainability. Join us in pioneering solutions to complex challenges that not only delight our customers but also help define the future of technology.
  • The program is designed for academics from universities around the globe who want to work on large-scale technical challenges while continuing to teach and conduct research at their universities.
  • The program offers recent PhD graduates an opportunity to advance research while working alongside experienced scientists with backgrounds in industry and academia.
  • Our internship roles span research areas to provide hands-on experience working alongside world-class scientists and engineers to advance the state of the art in your field.
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  • (Updated 8 days ago)
    AWS is seeking an exceptional Principal Data Scientist to join our Agentic AI ProServe Experience (APEX) team. This role calls for an individual ready to tackle large-scale agentic AI challenges and drive innovative ML/AI practices that transform professional services delivery and address real-world customer needs. Reporting directly to the leader of APEX, this position is essential for revolutionizing AWS Professional Services' delivery capabilities through advanced agent-based AI systems. In addition to building ProServe Agents, you will driving their adoption across the ProServe builder community, enabling transformative customer engagements and partner enablement through AWS tools and services such as Kiro, AWS Transform, Strands, Bedrock, and Agentcore. The ideal candidate will possess extensive experience in agentic AI systems, multi-agent architectures, and complex data science environments, developing solutions that advance the state-of-the-art in agent-based professional services delivery. Proficiency with Machine Learning, Large Language Models, reinforcement learning, and advanced analytics techniques is essential, along with the ability to convey these technical concepts in simple terms to diverse stakeholders. The role demands both deep technical expertise and exceptional communication skills to drive adoption across the ProServe organization and partner ecosystem. Key job responsibilities Scientific Leadership * Define and drive the scientific vision and roadmap for ProServe Agents and the agentic AI professional services portfolio * Lead research and development initiatives to advance the state-of-the-art in agent-based AI systems for professional services workflows * Collaborate with senior scientists across AWS to pioneer novel approaches to agent learning, reasoning, and interaction * Publish innovative research at top-tier conferences and influence the broader scientific community * Evaluate emerging research and identify opportunities to integrate techniques into ProServe Agent architecture Technical Excellence * Architect complex multi-agent systems that can effectively understand, reason about, and execute professional services workflows at enterprise scale * Lead the integration of Gen AI and ML-based methods across ProServe delivery practices, spearheading AI-driven agent development and adoption initiatives * Establish rigorous evaluation frameworks and metrics for measuring agent effectiveness, safety, and business impact * Develop production-ready agentic solutions leveraging AWS tools including Kiro, AWS Transform, Strands, Bedrock, and Bedrock AgentCore Customer & Business Impact * Translate complex technical concepts into clear business value propositions for ProServe builders, customers, and partners * Lead high-visibility technical delivery for strategic customers, demonstrating ProServe Agent capabilities * Drive adoption of ProServe Agents across the AWS Professional Services builder community, transforming delivery methodologies * Enable AWS partners on agentic delivery mechanisms and best practices * Analyze complex enterprise problems and design AI agent solutions that deliver measurable business outcomes * Collaborate effectively with ProServe delivery teams, product, engineering, and design teams to create and launch innovative agent-based solutions Communicate complex agentic AI concepts clearly to diverse audiences across ProServe, customers, and partners Leadership & Mentorship * Provide thought leadership and technical direction on agentic AI strategies and their applications in professional services * Drive innovation by sharing new technical solutions and product ideas across AWS teams * Mentor and guide the data science, ML engineering, and ProServe builder communities * Foster collaboration with key stakeholders to enhance the AWS ProServe experience
  • (Updated 36 days ago)
    Alexa+ is Amazon’s next-generation, AI-powered virtual assistant. Building on the original Alexa, it uses generative AI to deliver a more conversational, personalised, and effective experience. Alexa Sensitive Content Intelligence (ASCI) team is developing responsible AI (RAI) solutions for Alexa+, empowering it to provide useful information responsibly. The team is currently looking for Senior Applied Scientists with a strong background in NLP and/or CV to design and develop ML solutions in the RAI space using generative AI across all languages and countries. A Senior Applied Scientist will be a tech lead for a team of exceptional scientists to develop novel algorithms and modeling techniques to advance the state of the art in NLP or CV related tasks. You will work in a hybrid, fast-paced organization where scientists, engineers, and product managers work together to build customer facing experiences. You will collaborate with and mentor other scientists to raise the bar of scientific research in Amazon. Your work will directly impact our customers in the form of products and services that make use of speech, language, and computer vision technologies. We are looking for a leader with strong technical experiences a passion for building scientific driven solutions in a fast-paced environment. You should have good understanding of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Natural Language Understanding (NLU), Machine Learning (ML), Dialog Management, Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), and Audio Signal Processing where to apply them in different business cases. You leverage your exceptional technical expertise, a sound understanding of the fundamentals of Computer Science, and practical experience of building large-scale distributed systems to creating reliable, scalable, and high-performance products. In addition to technical depth, you must possess exceptional communication skills and understand how to influence key stakeholders. You will be joining a select group of people making history producing one of the most highly rated products in Amazon's history, so if you are looking for a challenging and innovative role where you can solve important problems while growing as a leader, this may be the place for you. Key job responsibilities You'll lead the science solution design, run experiments, research new algorithms, and find new ways of optimizing customer experience. You set examples for the team on good science practice and standards. Besides theoretical analysis and innovation, you will work closely with talented engineers and ML scientists to put your algorithms and models into practice. Your work will directly impact the trust customers place in Alexa, globally. You contribute directly to our growth by hiring smart and motivated Scientists to establish teams that can deliver swiftly and predictably, adjusting in an agile fashion to deliver what our customers need. A day in the life You will be working with a group of talented scientists on researching algorithm and running experiments to test scientific proposal/solutions to improve our sensitive contents detection and mitigation. This will involve collaboration with partner teams including engineering, PMs, data annotators, and other scientists to discuss data quality, policy, and model development. You will mentor other scientists, review and guide their work, help develop roadmaps for the team. You work closely with partner teams across Alexa to deliver platform features that require cross-team leadership. About the hiring group About the team The mission of the Alexa Sensitive Content Intelligence (ASCI) team is to (1) minimize negative surprises to customers caused by sensitive content, (2) detect and prevent potential brand-damaging interactions, and (3) build customer trust through appropriate interactions on sensitive topics. The term “sensitive content” includes within its scope a wide range of categories of content such as offensive content (e.g., hate speech, racist speech), profanity, content that is suitable only for certain age groups, politically polarizing content, and religiously polarizing content. The term “content” refers to any material that is exposed to customers by Alexa (including both 1P and 3P experiences) and includes text, speech, audio, and video.
  • (Updated 1 days ago)
    AWS Deep Science for Systems & Services is looking for a Sr. Manager, Applied Science who will lead a team of world class scientists to work on foundation models, large-scale representation learning, and distributed learning methods and systems. At AWS Deep Science for Systems & ServicesL you lead a team inventing, implementing, and deploying state of the art machine learning algorithms and systems. You will build prototypes and innovate on new representation learning solutions, interact closely with our customers and with the academic and research communities. You will be at the heart of a growing and exciting focus area for AWS and work with other acclaimed engineers and world famous scientists. Large-scale foundation models have been the powerhouse in many of the recent advancements in computer vision, natural language processing, automatic speech recognition, recommendation systems, and time series modeling. Developing such models requires not only skillful modeling in individual modalities, but also understanding of how to synergistically combine them, and how to scale the modeling methods to learn with huge models and on large datasets. Join us to work as an integral part of a team that has diverse experiences in this space. We actively work on these areas: - Hardware-informed efficient model architecture, training objective and curriculum design - Distributed training, accelerated optimization methods - Continual learning, multi-task/meta learning - Reasoning, interactive learning, reinforcement learning - Robustness, privacy, model watermarking - Model compression, distillation, pruning, sparsification, quantization
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 3159215
    (Updated 0 days ago)
    We are seeking an Applied Scientist to join our Generate AI Visual Media - Core Experiences Science team. This organization drives significant business value by revolutionizing how customers interact with product imagery and videos across Amazon. Working at the intersection of Computer Vision and Generative AI, you will help customers make confident purchase decisions through optimized visual content. Our goal is to transform shopping into a personalized journey of inspiration, discovery, and evaluation by helping customers evaluate how products will fit and flatter their unique self before they ship. In this role, you will be responsible for building scalable computer vision and machine learning (CVML) models, and automating their application and expansion to power customer-facing features. We are seeking domain expertise specifically in 3D Generative AI and Inverse Rendering. Relevant topics include Neural Fields, Implicit 3D Representations, NeRFs, Differentiable Rendering/Simulation, and Physically Based Rendering (PBR) Materials. We expect strong expertise at the intersection of Computer Graphics, Computer Vision, and Deep Learning. An inclination towards Generative AI, such as GANs, VQ-VAE/GAN, and Diffusion Models, is essential. Additionally, experience in application-specific domains such as Neural Avatars, Parametric Body Models, and Differentiable Rendering/Simulation will be highly advantageous. Key job responsibilities - Explore, collect, and process data - Frame and transform ambiguous business challenges into science hypotheses. Design and implement offline and online experiments to evaluate them - Develop prototypes to test new concepts/proposals for models and algorithms - Design and build automated, scalable pipelines to train and deploy ML models
  • US, NJ, Newark
    Job ID: 3144333
    (Updated 36 days ago)
    At Audible, we believe stories have the power to transform lives. It’s why we work with some of the world’s leading creators to produce and share audio storytelling with our millions of global listeners. We are dreamers and inventors who come from a wide range of backgrounds and experiences to empower and inspire each other. Imagine your future with us. ABOUT THIS ROLE As an Applied Scientist, you will solve large complex real-world problems at scale, draw inspiration from the latest science and technology to empower undefined/untapped business use cases, delve into customer requirements, collaborate with tech and product teams on design, and create production-ready models that span various domains, including Machine Learning (ML), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Natural Language Processing (NLP), Reinforcement Learning (RL), real-time and distributed systems. As an Applied Scientist on our AI Acceleration Team, you will be at the forefront of transforming how Audible harnesses the power of AI to enhance productivity, unlock new value, and reimagine how we work. In this unique role, you'll apply ML/AI approaches to solve complex real-world problems while helping build the blueprint for how Audible works with AI. ABOUT YOU You are passionate about applying scientific approaches to real business challenges, with deep expertise in Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, GenAI, and large language models. You thrive in collaborative environments where you can both build solutions and empower others to leverage AI effectively. You have a track record of developing production-ready models that balance scientific excellence with practical implementation. You're excited about not just building AI solutions, but also creating frameworks, evaluation methodologies, and knowledge management systems that elevate how entire organizations work with AI. As an Applied Scientist, you will... - Design and implement innovative AI solutions across our three pillars: driving internal productivity, building the blueprint for how Audible works with AI, and unlocking new value through ML & AI-powered product features - Develop machine learning models, frameworks, and evaluation methodologies that help teams streamline workflows, automate repetitive tasks, and leverage collective knowledge - Enable self-service workflow automation by developing tools that allow non-technical teams to implement their own solutions - Collaborate with product, design and engineering teams to rapidly prototype new product ideas that could unlock new audiences and revenue streams - Build evaluation frameworks to measure AI system quality, effectiveness, and business impact - Mentor and educate colleagues on AI best practices, helping raise the AI fluency across the organization ABOUT AUDIBLE Audible is the leading producer and provider of audio storytelling. We spark listeners’ imaginations, offering immersive, cinematic experiences full of inspiration and insight to enrich our customers daily lives. We are a global company with an entrepreneurial spirit. We are dreamers and inventors who are passionate about the positive impact Audible can make for our customers and our neighbors. This spirit courses throughout Audible, supporting a culture of creativity and inclusion built on our People Principles and our mission to build more equitable communities in the cities we call home.
  • IL, Tel Aviv
    Job ID: 3144807
    (Updated 2 days ago)
    We are looking for a Data Scientist to join our Prime Video team in Israel, focusing on personalizing customer experiences through Search and Recommendations. Our team leverages Machine Learning (ML) to deliver tailored content discovery, helping millions of customers find the entertainment they love. You will work on large-scale experimentation, measurement frameworks, and data-driven decision-making that directly shapes how customers interact with Prime Video. Key job responsibilities - Design metrics frameworks and evaluation systems to measure the quality, performance, and reliability of algorithmic solutions - Lead the design, execution, and analysis of A/B tests to validate product hypotheses and quantify customer impact - Communicate analytical findings and recommendations clearly to both technical teams and business stakeholders, driving data-informed decisions - Partner with Applied Scientists, Software Engineers, and Product Managers to define requirements, evaluate models, and drive data-informed product decisions - Act as the subject matter expert for data structures, metrics definitions, and analytical best practices - Identify opportunities for improving customer experience through deep-dive analyses of user behavior and algorithm performance
  • IL, Haifa
    Job ID: 3144872
    (Updated 2 days ago)
    Are you a scientist interested in pushing the state of the art in Information Retrieval, Large Language Models and Recommendation Systems? Are you interested in innovating on behalf of millions of customers, helping them accomplish their every day goals? Do you wish you had access to large datasets and tremendous computational resources? Do you want to join a team of capable scientist and engineers, building the future of e-commerce? Answer yes to any of these questions, and you will be a great fit for our team at Amazon. Our team is part of Amazon’s Personalization organization, a high-performing group that leverages Amazon’s expertise in machine learning, generative AI, large-scale data systems, and user experience design to deliver the best shopping experiences for our customers. Our team is building next-generation personalization systems powered by Large Language Models. We are tackling novel research challenges to help customers discover products they'll love - at Amazon scale and latency requirements. We are a team uniquely placed within Amazon, to have a direct window of opportunity to influence how customers will think about their shopping journey in the future. As an Applied Science Manager, you will lead a team of scientists working at the frontier of LLM-based personalization. You will set the technical vision, drive the research agenda, and ensure your team delivers production-ready solutions. You will hire, mentor, and develop world-class scientists while fostering a culture of innovation and scientific rigor. You will partner closely with engineering and product teams to translate ambitious research into customer-facing impact, and represent your team's work to senior leadership. Please visit https://www.amazon.science for more information.
  • (Updated 8 days ago)
    Amazon Advertising is one of Amazon's fastest growing and most profitable businesses, responsible for defining and delivering a collection of advertising solutions that drive product discovery and sales. We deliver billions of ad impressions every single day on behalf of our advertisers. You'll work with us to help our Advertising teams make sense of the torrent of data produced by the advertising lifecycle. We are using SOTA generative AI to help teams generate insights faster based on our massive data lake. You will need to invent new techniques for metrics retrieval and SQL generation to ensure we're retrieving accurate and trusted data. You'll create feedback loops to ensure our solution is constantly evaluating itself and improving. Being that this is for a conversational AI position, here is what our bot replied when we prompted it for a job description of who should help build it: Role Overview: We are looking for an exceptional applied scientist to join our team building SpektrBot, a conversational AI assistant that helps data engineers and analysts with their workflows. You will work closely with engineers and product managers to design, implement, and optimize natural language processing models like intent classification, named entity recognition, question answering, etc. that enable our Ads chatbot to understand user requests and have natural conversations. Responsibilities: Study and understand data engineering and analytics workflows to design the right conversational experiences Research, design, and develop NLP/NLU models for intent classification, entity extraction, sentiment analysis etc. Continuously improve models through techniques like active learning, transfer learning etc. Optimize models for metrics like precision, recall, latency, interpretability etc. Implement models within overall bot architecture and integrate with backend systems Collaborate with engineers to productionize and monitor models Stay up-to-date on latest advancements in conversational AI research, specifically in LLMs (multi-agent, chain of thought, autonomous agents) Be familiar with optimizing retrievers in RAG architectures. Key job responsibilities You will test multiple foundational models and fine tune when appropriate. You will create feedback loops that will evaluate performance and improve our systems. You will optimize prompts for better responses from our LLMs. You will build tools to auto-curate metadata using LLMs. A day in the life You will invent new experiences and influence customer-facing shopping experiences to help suppliers grow their retail business and the auction dynamics that leverage native advertising; this is your opportunity to work within the fastest-growing businesses across all of Amazon! Define a long-term science vision for our advertising business, driven from our customers' needs, translating that direction into specific plans for research and applied scientists, as well as engineering and product teams. This role combines science leadership, organizational ability, technical strength, product focus, and business understanding. About the team We have a small scrappy team carved out from a large Ads wide data lake team. We are swimming in petabytes of data that we help the organization make sense of. Our team's mission is to help anyone in the Ads org find the data they need using only natural language. We are a supportive and collaborative team who iterates quickly and shares in each others' successes.
  • (Updated 34 days ago)
    Amazon Music is an immersive audio entertainment service that deepens connections between fans, artists, and creators. From personalized music playlists to exclusive podcasts, concert livestreams to artist merch, Amazon Music is innovating at some of the most exciting intersections of music and culture. We offer experiences that serve all listeners with our different tiers of service: Prime members get access to all the music in shuffle mode, and top ad-free podcasts, included with their membership; customers can upgrade to Amazon Music Unlimited for unlimited, on-demand access to 100 million songs, including millions in HD, Ultra HD, and spatial audio; and anyone can listen for free by downloading the Amazon Music app or via Alexa-enabled devices. Join us for the opportunity to influence how Amazon Music engages fans, artists, and creators on a global scale. Key job responsibilities - Work backwards from customer problems to research and develop novel machine learning solutions for music and podcast recommendations. Through A/B testing and online experiments done hand-in-hand with engineering teams, you'll implement and validate your ideas and solutions. - Advocate solutions and communicate results, insights and recommendations to stakeholders and partners. - Produce innovative research on recommender systems that shapes the field and meets the high standards of peer-reviewed publications. You'll cement your team's reputation as thought leaders pioneering new recommenders. Stay current with advancements in the field, adapting latest in literature to build efficient and scalable models A day in the life Lead innovation in AI/ML to shape Amazon Music experiences for millions. Develop state of the art models leveraging and advancing the latest developments in machine learning and genAI. Collaborate with talented engineers and scientists to guide research and build scalable models across our audio portfolio - music, podcasts, live streaming, and more. Drive experiments and rapid prototyping, leveraging Amazon's data at scale. Innovate daily alongside world-class teams to delight customers worldwide through personalization. About the team The team is responsible for models that underly Amazon Music’s recommendations content types (music, podcasts, audiobooks), sequencing models for algorithmic stations across mobile, web and Alexa, ranking models for the carousels and Page strategy on Amazon Music surfaces, and Query Understanding for conversational flow and recommendations. You will collaborate with a team of product managers, applied scientists and software engineers delivering meaningful recommendations, personalized for each of the millions of customers using Amazon Music globally. As a scientist on the team, you will be involved in every aspect of the development lifecycle, from idea generation and scientific research to development and deployment of advanced models. You will work closely with engineering to realize your scientific vision.
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 3144920
    (Updated 13 days ago)
    We are seeking a Senior Applied Scientist to join our team in developing pioneering AI research, Generative AI, Agentic AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), Diffusion and Flow Models, and other advanced Machine Learning and Deep Learning solutions for Amazon Selection and Catalog Systems, within the AI Lab Team. This role offers a unique opportunity to work on AI research and AI products that will shape the future of online shopping experiences. Our team operates at the forefront of AI research and development, working on challenges that directly impact millions of customers worldwide. We push the boundaries of AI at both the foundational and application layers. As a Senior Applied Scientist, you will have the chance to experiment with LLMs and deep learning techniques, apply your research to solve real-world problems at an unprecedented scale, and collaborate with experienced scientists to contribute to Amazon's scientific innovation. Join us in redefining the future of shopping. Your work will directly influence how customers interact with the world's largest online store. Key job responsibilities - Design and implement novel AI solutions for Amazon catalog of products - Develop and train state-of-the-art LLMs, Diffusion Models, and other Generative AI models - Build and deploy autonomous AI Agents in Amazon production ecosystem - Scale AI models to handle billions of diverse products across multiple languages and geographies - Conduct research in areas such as Autonomous AI Agents, Generative AI, Language Modeling, Multi-modality Computer Vision, Diffusion Models, Reinforcement Learning - Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate AI models into Amazon's production ecosystem - Contribute to the scientific community through publications and conference presentations

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