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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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  • IN, KA, Bengaluru
    Job ID: 10510774
    (Updated 6 days ago)
    Can you predict which compliance risks turn into breaches before they do? What would you build with control testing results, alert data, and investigation outcomes from across Amazon's regulated entities in one place? How would you define the target variable when a breach means different things to Compliance, Assurance, and the regulator? We are seeking a Data Scientist to join the Data and Analytics team within Risk and Compliance Solutions (RCS). Our team builds the analytics and modeling layer that RCS runs on: the datasets, models, and intelligence products that tell Compliance Officers and our first line of defense (1LoD) partners where risk concentrates and which controls hold. You build the predictive side of that layer. You score which open risks and control weaknesses convert to breaches, quantify control effectiveness across regions, and put the answer in front of the people who act on it. Financial crime compliance is the first domain where we apply this, and the pattern extends across the RCS portfolio from there. Threats change faster than control sets adapt, and the intelligence that explains a control failure in one entity rarely reaches the teams running the same controls elsewhere. You close that gap with models, and you carry the approach into the next domain once it proves out. You own problems end to end: framing the question with Compliance and 1LoD partners, building and calibrating models on control, alert, and investigation data, and moving the output into production reporting. You define what counts as a breach before you model it, which means anchoring event dates to control testing cycles, designing out temporal leakage, and mapping the target variable to the taxonomy Compliance and Assurance already recognize. You work with technologies including Amazon Redshift, Amazon SageMaker, AWS Lambda, and Amazon QuickSight, and you partner with data engineers, business intelligence engineers, and software development engineers across RCS. The successful candidate reasons about causality rather than correlation, defends a model to an audience that answers to regulators, and stays comfortable in problems where defining the target variable is the hardest part of the work. Key job responsibilities • Build, deploy, and monitor predictive models that identify which risks and control weaknesses convert to breaches, and calibrate them so a score carries a defensible meaning • Define target variables and labels with Compliance and 1LoD partners so model output maps to the risk taxonomy already in use • Combine control testing results, alert and escalation data, investigation outcomes, and gross merchandise sales at risk into analysis-ready datasets • Quantify control effectiveness across regions and separate genuine control failure from shifts in underlying exposure • Design backtesting against historical events and select evaluation metrics suited to rare outcomes, including precision-recall and calibration measures • Design and evaluate the analytics behind a joint testing environment where first line and second line teams test monitoring rule and risk model changes before release • Turn model output into intelligence that reaches Compliance Officers and 1LoD teams across regions through forums, briefings, and alerting • Apply generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) where it removes manual effort in control testing, requirement translation, and reporting • Present model results, assumptions, and limitations to Compliance and business audiences, and document methodology to a standard that holds up under internal audit and external examination • Extend proven approaches from the first compliance domain to the next, so each model becomes a reusable capability rather than a one-time analysis • Learn Amazon's broad range of data resources and know how, when, and what to use About the team Risk and Compliance Solutions (RCS) serves as a crucial safeguard for Amazon's buyers, brands, and selling partners while ensuring business teams meet their regulatory obligations. Operating under the Three Lines of Defense (3LoD) model, RCS functions as the second line of defense, providing specialized oversight, monitoring, and expertise while setting policies and procedures that guide Amazon's compliance framework. RCS's mission is to apply specialist industry insights and Amazon's unique approach to scale through technology, delighting customers through tailored compliance solutions. Our work spans multiple critical areas, including: • Enabling Amazon's financial services expansion through streamlined license acquisition • Managing existing business risks across the organization • Delivering comprehensive governance, risk, and assurance services • Developing innovative solutions like Compliance as a Service (CaaS) • Transforming compliance operations into a proactive, intelligence-led framework
  • BR, SP, Sao Paulo
    Job ID: 10513220
    (Updated 7 days ago)
    Do you feel the challenge and the adrenaline kick when a huge data-set stares you in the face and you know that somewhere inside are hidden very important business insights that can fundamentally alter the way top business leaders think and act? Do you enjoy presenting strong data backed insights to business leaders; insights that can topple their long held beliefs and compel them to change their direction completely? If yes, then you are the one we are looking for. We are looking to invite passionate leaders, with expertise in generate power business insights from very large datasets, on a journey where the primary aim would be to enable needle moving business impacts through statistical analysis. We are looking for leaders who can envision the design and development of analytical infrastructure which can support strategic and tactical decision-making. Those who join this high visibility team would have to navigate through significant ambiguity in defining business problems and converting them to analytical problems. This role requires additional exposure and experience to Machine Learning. Key job responsibilities • Use machine learning and analytical techniques to create scalable solutions for business problems • Analyze and extract relevant information from large amounts of Amazon’s historical business data to help automate and optimize key processes • Design, development, evaluate and deploy innovative and highly scalable models for predictive learning • Research and implement novel machine learning and statistical approaches • Work closely with software engineering teams to drive real-time model implementations and new feature creations • Work closely with business owners and operations staff to optimize various business operations • Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large scale data analyses, model development, model validation and model implementation • Mentor other scientists and engineers in the use of ML techniques • Innovate with the latest GenAI technology to build highly automated solutions for efficient customer promotions • Design, develop and deploy end-to-end machine learning solutions in the Amazon production environment to delight Amazon customers • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop comprehensive ML/statistical models that can scale to millions of customers to multiple countries About the team Brazil Payments is part of the International Emerging Stores Payments team and focuses on supporting the launch of new payment and financial products to our customers in Brazil.
  • BR, SP, Sao Paulo
    Job ID: 10513218
    (Updated 7 days ago)
    Do you feel the challenge and the adrenaline kick when a huge data-set stares you in the face and you know that somewhere inside are hidden very important business insights that can fundamentally alter the way top business leaders think and act? Do you enjoy presenting strong data backed insights to business leaders; insights that can topple their long held beliefs and compel them to change their direction completely? If yes, then you are the one we are looking for. We are looking to invite passionate leaders, with expertise in generate power business insights from very large datasets, on a journey where the primary aim would be to enable needle moving business impacts through statistical analysis. We are looking for leaders who can envision the design and development of analytical infrastructure which can support strategic and tactical decision-making. Those who join this high visibility team would have to navigate through significant ambiguity in defining business problems and converting them to analytical problems. This role requires additional exposure and experience to Machine Learning. Key job responsibilities • Use machine learning and analytical techniques to create scalable solutions for business problems • Analyze and extract relevant information from large amounts of Amazon’s historical business data to help automate and optimize key processes • Design, development, evaluate and deploy innovative and highly scalable models for predictive learning • Research and implement novel machine learning and statistical approaches • Work closely with software engineering teams to drive real-time model implementations and new feature creations • Work closely with business owners and operations staff to optimize various business operations • Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large scale data analyses, model development, model validation and model implementation • Mentor other scientists and engineers in the use of ML techniques • Innovate with the latest GenAI technology to build highly automated solutions for efficient customer promotions • Design, develop and deploy end-to-end machine learning solutions in the Amazon production environment to delight Amazon customers • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop comprehensive ML/statistical models that can scale to millions of customers to multiple countries About the team Brazil Payments is part of the International Emerging Stores Payments team and focuses on supporting the launch of new payment and financial products to our customers in Brazil.
  • (Updated 5 days ago)
    Welcome to the Worldwide Returns & ReCommerce team (WWR&R) at Amazon.com. WWR&R is an agile, innovative organization dedicated to ‘making zero happen’ to benefit our customers, our company, and the environment. Our goal is to achieve the three zeroes: zero cost of returns, zero waste, and zero defects. We do this by developing groundbreaking products and driving truly innovative operational excellence to help customers keep what they buy, recover returned and damaged product value, keep thousands of tons of waste from landfills, and create the best customer returns experience in the world. We have an eye to the future – we create long-term value at Amazon by focusing not just on the bottom line, but on the planet. We are building the most sustainable re-use channel we can by driving multiple aspects of the Circular Economy for Amazon – Returns & ReCommerce. Amazon WWR&R is comprised of business, product, operational, program, software engineering and data teams that manage the life of a returned or damaged product from a customer to the warehouse and on to its next best use. Our work is broad and deep: we train machine learning models to automate routing and find signals to optimize re-use; we invent new channels to give products a second life; we develop highly respected product support to help customers love what they buy; we pilot smarter product evaluations; we work from the customer backward to find ways to make the return experience remarkably delightful and easy; and we do it all while scrutinizing our business with laser focus. You will help create everything from customer-facing and vendor-facing websites to the internal software and tools behind the reverse-logistics process. You can develop scalable, high-availability solutions to solve complex and broad business problems. We are a group that has fun at work while driving incredible customer, business, and environmental impact. We are backed by a strong leadership group dedicated to operational excellence that empowers a reasonable work-life balance. As an established, experienced team, we offer the scope and support needed for substantial career growth. Amazon is earth’s most customer-centric company and through WWR&R, the earth is our customer too. Come join us and innovate with the Amazon Worldwide Returns & ReCommerce team! Key job responsibilities * Design, develop, and evaluate highly innovative models for our Natural Language Understanding (NLU) and Large Language Model (LLM) models * Use SQL to query and analyze the data. * Use Python, Jupyter notebook, and Pytorch to train/test/deploy NLU/LLM/GenAI models. * Use machine learning and analytical techniques to create scalable solutions for business problems. * Research and implement novel machine learning and statistical approaches. * Mentor interns. * Work closely with data & software engineering teams to build model implementations and integrate successful models and algorithms in production systems at very large scale. A day in the life If you are not sure that every qualification on the list above describes you exactly, we'd still love to hear from you! At Amazon, we value people with unique backgrounds, experiences, and skillsets. If you’re passionate about this role and want to make an impact on a global scale, please apply! Benefits: Amazon offers a full range of benefits that support you and eligible family members, including domestic partners and their children. Benefits can vary by location, the number of regularly scheduled hours you work, length of employment, and job status such as seasonal or temporary employment. The benefits that generally apply to regular, full-time employees include: 1. Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage 2. Maternity and Parental Leave Options 3. Paid Time Off (PTO) 4. 401(k) Plan Learn more about our benefits here: https://amazon.jobs/en/internal/benefits/us-benefits-and-stock About the team When a customer returns a package to Amazon, the request and package will be passed through our WWRR machine learning (ML) systems so that we could improve the customer experience, identify return root cause, optimize re-use, and evaluate the returned package. Our problems touch multiple modalities spanning from: textual, categorical, image, to speech data. We operate at large scale and rely on state-of-the-art modeling techniques to power our ML models: XGBoost, BERT, Vision Transformers, Large Language Models.
  • LU, Luxembourg
    Job ID: 10522151
    (Updated 1 days ago)
    How does Amazon decide which fulfillment center ships your order, which truck carries it, and how to keep promise, across hundreds of millions of packages daily? SCOT Fulfillment Optimization (FO) owns the science behind these decisions. We are seeking Applied Scientists to join the FO Science & Tech team in Luxembourg (alternatively: Barcelona, or London). You will design and build optimization models that power Amazon's fulfillment decisions at scale from real-time order assignment and multi-objective cost-speed tradeoffs to capacity-aware control systems that steer millions of shipments per hour toward operational plans. Basic qualifications * PhD in Operations Research, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, or related field (or equivalent experience) * Strong programming skills (Python preferred; experience with optimization solvers a plus) * Research experience in one or more: * Large-scale mathematical programming (LP, MIP, decomposition methods) * Combinatorial optimization (assignment, scheduling, network flows) * Multi-objective optimization and control Preferred qualifications * Experience building optimization systems that run in production at scale * Being comfortable with ambiguity and fast iteration cycles * Publications in relevant venues Key job responsibilities Design and implement optimization models (MIP, heuristics, decomposition) that solve large-scale fulfillment problems, from order assignment to network flow control. Build research prototypes end-to-end: from problem formulation through scalable implementation to production validation. Analyse complex tradeoffs (cost, speed, capacity) and translate findings into actionable recommendations for leadership and operations teams. Collaborate with engineers to bring science solutions into production systems serving millions of customer orders daily. A day in the life You formulate an optimization problem on a whiteboard with teammates, then prototype it in Python with real data by the afternoon. You run experiments against production-scale datasets, iterate on the model, and present results to stakeholders who will use them to make network decisions next week. Some days you dive deep into solver performance; other days you're explaining a Pareto frontier to an operations leader. You collaborate with large engineering and product teams to bring your solutions into systems serving millions of customers. Alongside fast-turnaround prototypes, you own long-term research bets, the kind that reshape how Amazon's fulfillment network operates at scale. Your work goes live. About the team SCOT Fulfillment Optimization Science & Tech (FO SnT) is the applied research team behind Amazon's fulfillment decision-making systems. We decide how orders get assigned to warehouses, how capacity is allocated across the network, and how cost and speed tradeoffs are managed in real time, at global scale. Our models influence billions of euros in annual operational spend. They protect sites from overload during peak, reduce transportation costs and CO2 emissions, and ensure customers receive their packages when promised. Leadership relies on our science to make investment decisions worth hundreds of millions. We are practitioners of large-scale optimization: MIP formulations, decomposition methods, approximation algorithms, and parallelisation. We use machine learning where it sharpens our decisions, including forecasting, learned heuristics, and multi-armed bandits. We pick the right tool for the problem, not the fashionable one. You will work alongside Senior and Principal scientists, and collaborate with Amazon Scholars and academic partners who bring frontier research into our applied problems. We code our prototypes to be production-ready and collaborate with large engineering teams to ship systems, not papers. Above all, we have fun solving hard real-world problems at real-world speed, failing, learning, and shipping along the way.
  • DE, BE, Berlin
    Job ID: 10524281
    (Updated 0 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. We are seeking a highly skilled and analytical Data Scientist. You will play an integral part in the measurement and optimization of Amazon Music marketing activities. You will have the opportunity to work with a rich marketing dataset together with the marketing managers. This role will focus on developing and implementing models that aids in audience segmentation, AI-enablement in data/reporting, and assessing randomized controlled trials to rate marketing effectiveness. This role is suitable for candidates with strong background in cohort analysis, causal inference, statistical analysis, and data-driven problem-solving, with the ability to translate complex data into actionable insights. As a key member of our team, you will work closely with cross-functional partners to optimize marketing strategies and drive business growth. Key job responsibilities Develop Causal & Predictive Models Build and validate causal and predictive models that quantify how marketing and lifecycle programs affect customer retention, engagement, and subscriber growth for Amazon Music. Own the team's models end to end. Statistical Analysis at Scale Analyze large customer datasets using SQL and Python or R to interpret results and uncover meaningful patterns, grounding your work in trusted, well-governed data. Enable Data-Driven Decisions Partner with marketing and finance stakeholders to deliver recommendations that improve retention and return on investment. Prioritize the work with the greatest impact on customer growth, and present findings clearly to both technical and executive audiences. Bring AI into Self-Service Tools Partner with product managers and engineers to incorporate AI and machine learning into the team's self-service analytics tools, so stakeholders can answer their own questions faster and at greater scale. Cross-Functional Problem Solving Work across marketing, product, and engineering teams to frame key business questions and build credible analytical solutions. Innovate & Document Track emerging methods and apply them to improve measurement; maintain reproducible documentation and clear reporting for non-technical audiences.
  • DE, BE, Berlin
    Job ID: 10504073
    (Updated 1 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. We are seeking a highly skilled and analytical senior economist. You will play an integral part in the measurement and optimization of Amazon Music marketing activities. You will have the opportunity to work with a rich marketing dataset together with the marketing managers. This role will focus on developing and implementing causal models and randomized controlled trials to assess marketing effectiveness and inform strategic decision-making. This role is suitable for candidates with strong background in consumer research, survey data models, causal inference, statistical analysis, and data-driven problem-solving, with the ability to translate complex data into actionable insights. As a key member of our team, you will work closely with cross-functional partners to optimize marketing strategies and drive business growth. Key job responsibilities Develop Causal Models Design, build, and validate causal models to evaluate the impact of marketing campaigns and initiatives. Leverage advanced statistical methods to identify and quantify causal relationships. Conduct Randomized Controlled Trials Design and implement randomized controlled trials (RCTs) to rigorously test the effectiveness of marketing strategies. Ensure robust experimental design and proper execution to derive credible insights. Statistical Analysis and Inference Perform complex statistical analyses to interpret data from experiments and observational studies. Use statistical software and programming languages to analyze large datasets and extract meaningful patterns. Data-Driven Decision Making Collaborate with marketing teams to provide data-driven recommendations that enhance campaign performance and ROI. Present findings and insights to stakeholders in a clear and actionable manner. Collaborative Problem Solving Work closely with cross-functional teams, including marketing, product, and engineering, to identify key business questions and develop analytical solutions. Foster a culture of data-informed decision-making across the organization. Stay Current with Industry Trends Keep abreast of the latest developments in data science, causal inference, and marketing analytics. Apply new methodologies and technologies to improve the accuracy and efficiency of marketing measurement. Documentation and Reporting Maintain comprehensive documentation of models, experiments, and analytical processes. Prepare reports and presentations that effectively communicate complex analyses to non-technical audiences. About the team 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. DISCO M&G is the science and analytics team that supports the entire Marketing & Growth Org.
  • (Updated 18 days ago)
    Ever wonder how you can keep the world’s largest selection also the world’s safest and legally compliant selection? Then come join a team with the charter to monitor and classify the billions of items in the Amazon catalog to ensure compliance with various legal regulations. The Classification and Policy Platform team is looking for Sr. Applied Scientists to build technology to automatically monitor the billions of products on the Amazon platform. The software and processes built by this team are a critical component of building a catalog that our customers trust. You will have an opportunity to work with cutting edge machine learning algorithms on large datasets. You will need to build Amazon scale applications running on Amazon Cloud that both leverage and create new technologies to process large volumes of data that derive patterns and conclusions from the data. We are looking for highly motivated applied scientists and engineers interested in delivering the next level of innovation to product search for Amazon. As an Applied Scientist on the CPP team, you will be responsible for working across backend, client, business development, and data engineering teams to coordinate deep-dives, inform roadmaps, visualize metrics, and create predictive models to determine how we can best serve our customers. Responsibilities include: - Designing and implementing new features and machine learned models, including the application of state-of-art deep learning to solve search matching and ranking problems, including filtering, new content indexing, and apply document understanding - Conducting and coordinating process development leading to improved and streamlined processes for model development. Strong customer focus is essential - Working closely with Product Managers to expand depth of our product insights with data, create a variety of experiments, and determine the highest-impact projects to include in planning roadmaps - Providing technical and scientific guidance to your team members - Communicating effectively with senior management as well as with colleagues from science, engineering, and business backgrounds - Being a cultural leader that ensures teams are collecting, understanding, and using data to inform every decision that impacts our customers The successful candidate will have an established background in developing customer-facing experiences, a strong technical ability, a start-up mentality, excellent project management skills, and great communication skills. Amazon Science gives you insight into the company’s approach to customer-obsessed scientific innovation. Amazon fundamentally believes that scientific innovation is essential to being the most customer-centric company in the world. It’s the company’s ability to have an impact at scale that allows us to attract some of the brightest minds in artificial intelligence and related fields. Our scientists continue to publish, teach, and engage with the academic community, in addition to utilizing our working backwards method to enrich the way we live and work. Please visit https://www.amazon.science for more information.
  • US, CA, Santa Clara
    Job ID: 10506035
    (Updated 14 days ago)
    AWS Agentic AI is looking for a Principal Applied Scientist who will partner with 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 the most efficient coding agents for Kiro 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 in agentic RL space: - 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 agentic RL training recipes 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 conferences (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR ) - Accelerate innovation by working directly with customers to rapidly transition research breakthroughs into production systems About the team Kiro 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.
  • (Updated 14 days ago)
    The Central Learning Solutions (CLS) Science team in Amazon Operations builds state-of-the-art solutions for enhancing leadership and associate development across the organization. We develop technology and mechanisms to map the learner journeys, answer real-time questions through chat assistants, and drive the right interventions at the right time. As an Applied Scientist on the team, you will play a critical role in driving the design, research, and development of these science initiatives. The ideal candidate will lead the research on learning and development trends, and develop impactful learning journey roadmap that align with organizational goals and priorities. By parsing the information of different learning courses, they will utilize the latest advances in Gen AI technology to generate the personalized recommendations in real-time for the leadership and associates through chat assistants. As a part of this role, this candidate will collaborate with a large team of experts in the field and move the state of learning experience research forward. They should have the ability to communicate the science insights effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences. Key job responsibilities * Apply science models to extract actionable information from learning feedback * Build recommender systems to generate personalized learning interventions for Ops employees to drive business outcomes and behavioral changes * Leverage GenAI/Large Language Model (LLM) technology for scaling and automating learning experience workflows * Design and implement metrics to evaluate the effectiveness of AI models * Present deep dives and analysis to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, ensuring clarity and understanding and influencing business partners

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