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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 in artificial intelligence and related fields.
  • 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, Santa Clara
    Job ID: 3124785
    (Updated 8 days ago)
    Amazon Web Services (AWS) is assembling an elite team of world-class scientists and engineers to pioneer the next generation of AI-driven development tools. Join the Amazon Kiro LLM-Training team and help create groundbreaking generative AI technologies including Kiro IDE and Amazon Q Developer that are transforming the software development landscape. Key job responsibilities As a key member of our team, you'll be at the forefront of innovation, where cutting-edge research meets real-world application: - Push the boundaries of reinforcement learning and post-training methodologies for large language models specialized in code intelligence - Invent and implement state-of-the-art machine learning solutions that operate at unprecedented Amazon scale - Deploy revolutionary products that directly impact the daily workflows of millions of developers worldwide - Break new ground in AI and machine learning, challenging what's possible in intelligent code assistance - Publish and present your pioneering work at premier ML and NLP conferences (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR , ACL, EMNLP) - Accelerate innovation by working directly with customers to rapidly transition research breakthroughs into production systems About the team The AWS Developer Agents and Experiences (DAE) team is reimagining the builder experience through generative AI and foundation models. We're leveraging the latest advances in AI to transform how engineers work from IDE environments to web-based tools and services, empowering developers to tackle projects of any scale with unprecedented efficiency. Broadly, AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations — from foundational services such as Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWS’s services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization, you’ll support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Internet of Things (Iot), Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS. Within AWS UC, Amazon Dedicated Cloud (ADC) roles engage with AWS customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services. Why AWS? Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses. Inclusive Team Culture Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness. Mentorship & 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, mentorship 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 we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud. Hybrid Work We value innovation and recognize this sometimes requires uninterrupted time to focus on a build. We also value in-person collaboration and time spent face-to-face. Our team affords employees options to work in the office every day or in a flexible, hybrid work model near one of our U.S. Amazon offices.
  • (Updated 23 days ago)
    The Generative AI Innovation Center (GenAIIC) at AWS helps AWS customers accelerate the use of generative AI and realize transformational business opportunities. This is a cross-functional team of ML scientists, engineers, architects, and strategists working step-by-step with customers and partners to build bespoke solutions that harness the power of generative AI. The team is looking for an experienced and talented Senior Applied Scientist who brings a strong blend of experience in machine learning, generative and agentic AI, and experience building scalable AI/ML solutions using cloud computing. The successful candidate will possess both technical and customer-facing skills that will allow you to be the technical “face” of GenAIIC with our customers. You will be able to drive discussions with technical and business leaders within customers and partners. You will possess technical background that enables you to interact with and give guidance to data/research/applied scientists and software engineers on the team. The ideal candidate will have think strategically about business, product, and technical issues. Key job responsibilities • Collaborate with AI/ML scientists and architects to research, design, develop, and evaluate generative AI solutions to address real-world challenges • Interact with customers directly to understand their business problems, aid them in implementation of generative AI solutions, brief customers and guide them on adoption patterns and paths to production • Help customers optimize their solutions through approaches such as model selection, training or tuning, right-sizing, distillation, and hardware optimization • Help customers develop scalable, secure and effective agentic workflows • Provide customer and market feedback to product and engineering teams to help define product direction
  • CA, ON, Toronto
    Job ID: 3115262
    (Updated 22 days ago)
    Are you a passionate scientist in the computer vision area who is aspired to apply your skills to bring value to millions of customers? Here at Ring, we have a unique opportunity to innovate and see how the results of our work improve the lives of millions of people and make neighborhoods safer. As a Principal Applied Scientist, you will work with talented peers pushing the frontier of computer vision and machine learning technology to deliver the best experience for our neighbors. This is a great opportunity for you to innovate in this space by developing highly optimized algorithms that will work at scale. This position requires experience with developing Computer Vision, Multi-modal LLMs and/or Vision Language Models. You will collaborate with different Amazon teams to make informed decisions on the best practices in machine learning to build highly-optimized integrated hardware and software platforms. Key job responsibilities - You will be responsible for defining key research directions in Multimodal LLMs and Computer Vision, adopting or inventing new techniques, conducting rigorous experiments, publishing results, and ensuring that research is translated into practice. - You will develop long-term strategies, persuade teams to adopt those strategies, propose goals and deliver on them. - You will also participate in organizational planning, hiring, mentorship and leadership development. - You will serve as a key scientific resource in full-cycle development (conception, design, implementation, testing to documentation, delivery, and maintenance).
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 3115029
    (Updated 0 days ago)
    Global Talent Management (GTM) owns a suite of products which help drive career development for hundreds of thousands of Amazonians globally. GTM Science utilizes a wide array of data sources to conduct analytics and create predictive models that fuel recommendations, actions, and insights within the software systems that support Amazonians throughout their employee journeys. The team itself is composed of scientists and engineers with diverse backgrounds and expertise, coming together to create innovative solutions to the problems faced by the one of the world’s largest and fastest growing workforces. This role will support the advancement of key workforce planning products owned by the team. You’ll lead a small team focused on forecasting inputs and outputs of the workforce planning process, helping leaders better understand the trajectory of Amazon’s workforce. You will do this by building econometric models, using world class data systems, and directly applying economic theory to solving business problems in a fast moving environment. You’ll work with other Scientists at Amazon developing new techniques, processing large data sets, addressing quantitative problems, and contributing to the design of automated systems around the company. If you’re interested in seeing your research and models get used regularly by thousands of Amazonians, and working in a large inter-disciplinary science team that helps to inform talent management decisions, this role is for you.
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 3114685
    (Updated 16 days ago)
    The Seller Fees organization drives the monetization infrastructure powering Amazon's global marketplace, processing billions of transactions for over two million active third-party sellers worldwide. Our team owns the complete technical stack and strategic vision for fee computation systems, leveraging advanced machine learning to optimize seller experiences and maintain fee integrity at unprecedented scale. We're seeking an exceptional Applied Scientist to push the boundaries of large-scale ML systems in a business-critical domain. This role presents unique opportunities to • Architect and deploy state-of-the-art transformer-based models for fee classification and anomaly detection across hundreds of millions of products • Pioneer novel applications of multimodal LLMs to analyze product attributes, images, and seller metadata for intelligent fee determination • Build production-scale generative AI systems for fee integrity and seller communications • Advance the field of ML through novel research in high-stakes, large-scale transaction processing • Develop SOTA causal inference frameworks integrated with deep learning to understand fee impacts and optimize seller outcomes • Collaborate with world-class scientists and engineers to solve complex problems at the intersection of deep learning, economics, and large business systems. If you're passionate about advancing the state-of-the-art in applied ML/AI while tackling challenging problems at global scale, we want you on our team! Key job responsibilities Responsibilities: . Design measurable and scalable science solutions that can be adopted across stores worldwide with different languages, policy and requirements. · Integrate AI (both generative and symbolic) into compound agentic workflows to transform complex business systems into intelligent ones for both internal and external customers. · Develop large scale classification and prediction models using the rich features of text, image and customer interactions and state-of-the-art techniques. · Research and implement novel machine learning, statistical and econometrics approaches. · Write high quality code and implement scalable models within the production systems. · Stay up to date with relevant scientific publications. · Collaborate with business and software teams both within and outside of the fees organization. About the team The Seller Fees organization drives the monetization infrastructure powering Amazon's global marketplace, processing billions of transactions for over two million active third-party sellers worldwide. Our team owns the complete technical stack and strategic vision for fee computation systems, leveraging advanced machine learning to optimize seller experiences and maintain fee integrity at unprecedented scale.
  • (Updated 0 days ago)
    Amazon Leo is Amazon’s low Earth orbit satellite network. Our mission is to deliver fast, reliable internet connectivity to customers beyond the reach of existing networks. From individual households to schools, hospitals, businesses, and government agencies, Amazon Leo will serve people and organizations operating in locations without reliable connectivity. We are looking for an accomplished Applied Scientist who will deliver science applications such as anomaly detection, advanced calibration methods, space engineering simulations, and performance analytics -- to name a few. Key job responsibilities • Translate ambiguous problems into well defined mathematical problems • Prototype, test, and implement state-of-the-art algorithms for antenna pointing calibration, anomaly detection, predictive failure models, and ground terminal performance evaluation • Provide actionable recommendations for system design/definition by defining, running, and summarizing physically-accurate simulations of ground terminal functionality • Collaborate closely with engineers to deploy performant, scalable, and maintainable applications in the cloud Export Control Requirement: Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum. A day in the life In this role as an Applied Scientist, you will design, implement, optimize, and operate systems critical to the uptime and performance of Leo ground terminals. Your contributions will have a direct impact on customers around the world. About the team This role will be part of the Ground Software & Analytics team, part of Ground Systems Engineering. Our team is responsible for: • Design, development, deployment, and support of a Tier-1 Monitoring and Remediation System (MARS) needed to maintain high availability of hundreds of ground terminals deployed around the world • Ground systems integration/test (I&T) automation • Ground terminal configuration, provisioning, and acceptance automation • Systems analysis • Algorithm development (pointing/tracking/calibration/monitoring) • Software interface definition for supplier-provided hardware and development of software test automation
  • US, CA, San Francisco
    Job ID: 3115949
    (Updated 15 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. As an MTS on our team, you will design, build, and maintain a Spark-based infrastructure to process and manage large datasets critical for machine learning research. You’ll work closely with our researchers to develop data workflows and tools that streamline the preparation and analysis of massive multimodal datasets, ensuring efficiency and scalability. We operate at Amazon's large scale with the energy of a nimble start-up. If you have a learner's mindset, enjoy solving challenging problems and value an inclusive and collaborative team culture, you will thrive in this role, and we hope to hear from you. Key job responsibilities Key job responsibilities * Develop and maintain reliable infrastructure to enable large-scale data extraction and transformation. * Work closely with researchers to create tooling for emerging data-related 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.
  • (Updated 23 days ago)
    The Generative AI Innovation Center (GenAIIC) at AWS helps AWS customers accelerate the use of generative AI and realize transformational business opportunities. This is a cross-functional team of ML scientists, engineers, architects, and strategists working step-by-step with customers and partners to build bespoke solutions that harness the power of generative AI. The team is looking for an experienced and talented Principal Data Science Manager who brings a strong blend of experience in machine learning, generative and agentic AI, effective organizational and interpersonal skills, and experience building scalable AI/ML solutions using cloud computing. The successful candidate will possess both technical and customer-facing skills that will allow you to be the technical “face” of GenAIIC with our customers. You will be able to drive discussions with senior technical and business leaders within customers and partners. You will possess technical background that enables you to interact with and give guidance to data/research/applied scientists and software engineers on the team. The ideal candidate will also have demonstrated ability to roll up their sleeves to build agentic AI solutions, think strategically about business, product, and technical issues. Finally, and of critical importance, the candidate will be an excellent technical team manager, someone who knows how to hire, develop, and retain high quality technical talent. Key job responsibilities * Collaborate with ML scientists, engineers and architects to research, design, and develop Generative and Agentic AI solutions to address real-world challenges * Interact with customers to understand business problems, help and aid them in implementation of AI solutions, deliver briefing and deep dive sessions to customers and guide customer on adoption patterns and paths to production * People management responsibilities, to include leading teams driving incubation efforts in areas such as Responsible AI, Physical AI and Agentic AI * Create and deliver best practice recommendations, blog posts, and presentations adapted to technical, business, and executive stakeholders * Provide customer and market feedback to Product and Engineering teams to help define product direction
  • (Updated 20 days ago)
    Are you looking to work at the forefront of Machine Learning and AI? Would you be excited to apply Generative AI algorithms to solve real world problems with significant impact? The Generative AI Innovation Center helps AWS customers implement Generative AI solutions and realize transformational business opportunities. This is a team of strategists, scientists, engineers, and architects working step-by-step with customers to build bespoke solutions that harness the power of generative AI. Starting in 2024, the Innovation Center launched a new Custom Model and Optimization program to help customers develop and scale highly customized generative AI solutions. The team helps customers imagine and scope bespoke use cases that will create the greatest value for their businesses, define paths to navigate technical or business challenges, develop and optimize models to power their solutions, and make plans for launching solutions at scale. The GenAI Innovation Center team provides guidance on best practices for applying generative AI responsibly and cost efficiently. You will work directly with customers and innovate in a fast-paced organization that contributes to game-changing projects and technologies. You will design and run experiments, research new algorithms, and find new ways of optimizing risk, profitability, and customer experience. We’re looking for Applied Scientists capable of using GenAI and other techniques to design, evangelize, and implement state-of-the-art solutions for never-before-solved problems. Key job responsibilities As an Applied Scientist, you will • Collaborate with AI/ML scientists and architects to research, design, develop, and evaluate generative AI solutions to address real-world challenges • Interact with customers directly to understand their business problems, aid them in implementation of generative AI solutions, brief customers and guide them on adoption patterns and paths to production • Help customers optimize their solutions through approaches such as model selection, training or tuning, right-sizing, distillation, and hardware optimization • Provide customer and market feedback to product and engineering teams to help define product direction About the team Diverse Experiences AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred 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 AWS? Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses. Inclusive Team Culture AWS values curiosity and connection. Our employee-led and company-sponsored affinity groups promote inclusion and empower our people to take pride in what makes us unique. Our inclusion events foster stronger, more collaborative teams. Our continual innovation is fueled by the bold ideas, fresh perspectives, and passionate voices our teams bring to everything we do. Mentorship & 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, mentorship 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 we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.
  • (Updated 27 days ago)
    Are you looking to work at the forefront of Machine Learning and AI? Would you be excited to apply Generative AI algorithms to solve real world problems with significant impact? The Generative AI Innovation Center helps AWS customers implement Generative AI solutions and realize transformational business opportunities. This is a team of strategists, scientists, engineers, and architects working step-by-step with customers to build bespoke solutions that harness the power of generative AI. Starting in 2024, the Innovation Center launched a new Custom Model and Optimization program to help customers develop and scale highly customized generative AI solutions. The team helps customers imagine and scope bespoke use cases that will create the greatest value for their businesses, define paths to navigate technical or business challenges, develop and optimize models to power their solutions, and make plans for launching solutions at scale. The GenAI Innovation Center team provides guidance on best practices for applying generative AI responsibly and cost efficiently. You will work directly with customers and innovate in a fast-paced organization that contributes to game-changing projects and technologies. You will design and run experiments, research new algorithms, and find new ways of optimizing risk, profitability, and customer experience. We’re looking for Applied Scientists capable of using GenAI and other techniques to design, evangelize, and implement state-of-the-art solutions for never-before-solved problems. Key job responsibilities • Collaborate with AI/ML scientists and architects to research, design, develop, and evaluate generative AI solutions to address real-world challenges • Interact with customers directly to understand their business problems, aid them in implementation of generative AI solutions, brief customers and guide them on adoption patterns and paths to production • Help customers optimize their solutions through approaches such as model selection, training or tuning, right-sizing, distillation, and hardware optimization • Provide customer and market feedback to product and engineering teams to help define product direction

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