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Employer: Amazon Web Services, Inc. Position: Data Scientist II Location: Mountain View, CA Multiple Positions Available: Design and implement scalable and reliable approaches to support or automate decision making throughout the business. Apply a range of data science techniques and tools combined with subject matter expertise to solve difficult business problems and cases in which the solution approach is unclear. Acquire data by building the necessary SQL / ETL queries. Import processes through various company specific interfaces for accessing Oracle, RedShift, and Spark storage systems. Build relationships with stakeholders and counterparts. Analyze data for trends and input validity by inspecting univariate distributions, exploring bivariate relationships, constructing appropriate transformations, and tracking down the source and meaning of anomalies. Build models using statistical modeling, mathematical modeling, econometric modeling, network modeling, social network modeling, natural language processing, machine learning algorithms, genetic algorithms, and neural networks. Validate models against alternative approaches, expected and observed outcome, and other business defined key performance indicators. Implement models that comply with evaluations of the computational demands, accuracy, and reliability of the relevant ETL processes at various stages of production. (40 hours / week, 8:00am-5:00pm, Salary Range $157300 - $212800) Amazon.com is an Equal Opportunity – Affirmative Action Employer – Minority / Female / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation

We are seeking a scientist with deep programmatic and Ads experience to further the development and application of analytics methods to examine the complex data flows of the entre Amazon Ads system, and to translate deep-dives into actionable insights for our product teams. In this role you will develop new tools to analyze our advertising data to help improve the performance of our bidding algorithms, targeting and relevance systems, help advance our 3rd party and O&O supply strategy, and evaluate the adoption and impact of feature releases. Key job responsibilities • Analyze data trends regarding supply, optimization, ad load, and advertising mix effects that affect advertiser performance and contribute to achieving advertiser goals. • Present papers to senior leaders on issues like feature development impact on identity recognition rates, and changes of ad selection systems to improve fill rate highlighting insights that will inform our business development and engineering roadmaps. • Formalize our analytics approach to the DSP auctions by analyzing bid spreads, auction depth, and simulating impacts of potential auction structure changes. • Identify, standardize, and operationalize KPIs to effectively measure the performance of all systems involved in ad serving, and use trend insights to inform business priorities. • Partner with engineering teams to define data logging requirements and getting these prioritized in engineering roadmaps. • Validate financial models through analysis. • Develop and own ad revenue and supply intelligence analytics decks that provide ongoing deep-dives. A day in the life The DSP Analytics Leader will work closely with business leaders and engineers on developing common data architecture that will optimize our data logging at different grains, and will allow data interoperability from bid flow to optimization to campaign delivery. The candidate will then analyze the data and present papers and ongoing reports on actionable insights. About the team The DSP Ads Product Analytics Team's Mission: Work alongside those who need product data to apply objective perspective and business logic to uncover insights, advise strategic decisions, and adjust to industry changes.

Amazon's Customer Service (CS) is undergoing a major transformation leveraging agentic AI techniques to investigate why customers experience defects and how to prevent them in the future. We're looking for scientists to help drive the quality and capabilities of these agentic systems. Amazon's Customer Experience Improvement (CXI Tech) team is looking for a scientists to help drive rigorous development in the agentic era. We seek to identify and eliminate unsatisfactory purchasing experiences that may cause customers to return items or not return to Amazon. This role requires you to re-imagine the way we leverage customer interactions/feedback for defect identification and the actions we take for reliable downstream defect resolution for an improved customer experience throughout the consumer business. Driven by the vision that no defect need ever impact customers twice, we work to develop rigorously tested AI systems to investigate what caused individual defects experienced by customers, and identify the needed changes to ensure they do not occur again. In particular, we are seeking scientists with a proven track record of making efficient use of human annotations to evaluate AI systems. Come help Amazon ensure the best possible experience for our customers! Key job responsibilities - Develop evaluation techniques for agentic solutions that operate at Amazon scale developing techniques to make efficient use of human annotations to establish rigorous performance of agentic systems. - Develop tools and patterns that improve the performance of agentic investigation systems. - Create standalone ML powered models when needed to support automated investigation of customer defects. A day in the life - Develop techniques to measure and improve the performance of agentic systems, even when the performance of those systems exceed the existing human benchmark - Interface closely with Engineering and Product partners to align the direction of scientific development with needs of the greater business - Publish techniques internally and externally (when possible) to promote greater rigor in agentic development About the team CXI Tech team owns building technology products to drive defect elimination across Amazon and at scale to safeguard and improve the customer experience across all interactions with Amazon.

Do you want to transform the way people shop at Amazon? We are looking for stellar applied scientists to be part of our multi-disciplinary team. We are re-imagining the future of the Amazon shopping experience for customers through tailoring it to their current intent. We understand what customers are interested in shopping for, and guide them to discover what they need as they shop. If you love building new technology that helps customers solve their problems, this is your opportunity to impact millions of customers. Come help us build the future of personalized shopping at Amazon! As a Applied Science Manager on the team, you will be responsible for science innovation in our space across a large multidisciplinary team. You will have a breadth of problems to work on, ranging from developing state of the art LLM-based techniques to reason about customers and products, developing deep learned transformer-based models to understand and abstract customer intent signals and representations, building large-scale real-time multi-task ranking systems, and more. You will build technology employed by teams across the company, while also having a direct connection to millions of customers through our own customer facing features every day. Come join us in the journey! Key job responsibilities * Innovate new features and models that have huge impact on the customer experience. Help customers find the right products and content on their shopping journey. Leverage the use of advanced machine learning to create customer shopping experience at Amazon's scale - for all Amazon customers across all countries in realtime * Be a key leader on a multidisciplinary team across science, product, design, and engineering to see through ideas from inception, prototype, to launch in the hands of all Amazon's customers * Drive the science roadmap across multiple teams, helping coordinate a cohesive science agenda across the org. * Mentoring applied scientists across the org, growing their skills and careers. About the team Our vision is to build the next generation of shopping experience at Amazon through personalization and understanding the customer's intent. We imagine our core experiences to work together as a talented personal shopping assistant would — a partner that is knowledgeable, understands your preferences, and helps you find the right solution for your needs. We aim for the quality of personalization to be a core reason customers choose Amazon, on par with Earth’s largest selection, low prices, and fast and free shipping. Our team is part of Amazon’s Personalization organization, a high-performing group that leverages Amazon’s expertise in machine learning, big data, distributed systems, and user experience design to deliver the best shopping experiences for our customers. We run global experiments and our work has revolutionized e-commerce with features such as "Keep shopping for ...", “Customers who bought this item also bought”, and “Frequently bought together”. Amazon’s internal surveys regularly recognize us as one of the best engineering organizations to work for in the company, with visible high-impact work, low operational load, respectful work-life balance, and continual opportunity to learn and grow.

The Japan Prime & Marketing team drives customer growth and engagement for Amazon Japan. Our applied science team combine advanced machine learning with deep business understanding to deliver experiences that delight customers and grow the Prime membership base in one of Amazon's most dynamic and competitive marketplaces. We are seeking a Senior Applied Scientist to lead the science for personalization and customer growth initiatives across Japan Points, promotional campaigns, and Prime membership engagement. You will own end-to-end science solutions — from problem formulation and data analysis through model development, A/B testing, and production deployment — that directly impact millions of Japanese customers. This is a high-visibility role where you will define the science roadmap, influence business strategy with data-driven insights, and collaborate with product, engineering, economics, and marketing teams across Japan and globally. Key job responsibilities - Define and execute the science roadmap for personalization, points optimization, promotions targeting, and customer growth within Japan Prime & Marketing - Design and develop machine learning models for customer segmentation, lifetime value prediction, churn propensity, and next-best-action recommendation to drive Prime acquisition and retention - Build optimization frameworks for Japan Points allocation, promotional offer targeting, and budget efficiency that maximize long-term customer value rather than short-term engagement - Apply causal inference, experimentation design, and econometric methods to measure the incremental impact of points, promotions, and marketing interventions - Develop personalization systems that tailor offers, messaging, and incentive structures to individual customer preferences and lifecycle stages - Lead the design and analysis of large-scale A/B tests and quasi-experimental studies to validate model performance and business impact - Collaborate with engineering teams to integrate models into production systems with millisecond-level latency requirements serving millions of daily active customers - Influence senior leadership through clear communication of scientific findings, trade-offs, and strategic recommendations - Mentor junior scientists and raise the scientific bar across the team through code reviews, design reviews, and knowledge sharing - Contribute to the broader scientific community through internal and external publications at peer-reviewed venues

MULTIPLE POSITIONS AVAILABLE Employer: AMAZON.COM SERVICES LLC Offered Position: Applied Scientist II Job Location: San Diego, California Job Number: AMZ9890756 Position Responsibilities: Participate in the design, development, evaluation, deployment and updating of data-driven models and analytical solutions for machine learning (ML) and/or natural language (NL) applications. Develop and/or apply statistical modeling techniques (e.g. Bayesian models and deep neural networks), optimization methods, and other ML techniques to different applications in business and engineering. Routinely build and deploy ML models on available data. Research and implement novel ML and statistical approaches to add value to the business. Mentor junior engineers and scientists. 40 hours / week, 8:00am-5:00pm, Salary Range: $142,800/year to $193,200/year.   Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, visit: https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. Amazon.com is an Equal Opportunity-Affirmative Action Employer – Minority / Female / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation.#0000

Amazon’s Frontier AI & Robotics (FAR) team is seeking a Member of Technical Staff, Infrastructure to build and scale the foundational systems that power our robotics research and development platform. In this role, you will design and operate the distributed infrastructure that enables our researchers and engineers to train foundation models, run large-scale experiments, and deploy intelligent robotic systems at Amazon scale. Join the next revolution in robotics, where you’ll work alongside world-renowned AI pioneers to push the boundaries of what’s possible in robotic intelligence. As a Member of Technical Staff focused on Infrastructure, you’ll build the critical platform layer that accelerates every aspect of FAR’s research — from high-throughput data pipelines and experiment management systems to low-latency model serving and configuration delivery for robotic deployments. This role is deeply technical and focuses on performance, scalability, and reliability at scale. You will design systems that support volumes of training data, operate with strict latency requirements, and provide the compute and data foundation that enables breakthrough research across FAR’s robotics ecosystem. Key job responsibilities • Design and build scalable compute and data infrastructure to support model training, inferencing, and eval for frontier AI/Robotics development • Lead large technical initiatives and shape the architecture of FAR’s research platform infrastructure • Develop tooling and frameworks that accelerate research workflows, including dataset management, visualization, and quality assessment systems • Optimize query performance and data availability for experimentation and analytics workflows used by research teams • Improve the performance, efficiency, and reliability of FAR’s core compute and storage infrastructure, ensuring systems remain fast and stable at scales • Build highly scalable experimentation and analytics infrastructure to support model evaluation, A/B testing, and feature performance • Collaborate directly with science and robotics teams to support research projects through both infrastructure development and hands-on technical contribution

We are seeking a Member of Technical Staff Simulation Engineer to join our AI robotics research team developing foundation models for robotics. You will rapidly develop 3D physics-based and photorealistic simulations alongside scientists to enable training large-scale machine learning models. Key job responsibilities - Develop simulations for reinforcement learning, closed-loop simulations and synthetic data generation - Implement essential robotics features, including accurate modeling of sensors, actuators, and controllers - Build real-to-sim workflows for dynamic environments and robotics tasks - Implement simulation features to minimize sim-to-real gaps through domain randomization and system identification - Create asset toolchains supporting industry-standard formats (URDF, MJCF, USD) - Collaborate closely with a team of ML researchers to enable large-scale robotics training pipelines About the team At Frontier AI & Robotics (FAR), we're not just advancing robotics – we're reimagining it from the ground up. Our team is building the future of intelligent robotics through frontier foundation models and end-to-end learned systems. We tackle some of the most challenging problems in AI and robotics, from developing sophisticated perception systems to creating adaptive manipulation strategies that work in complex, real-world scenarios. What sets us apart is our unique combination of ambitious research vision and practical impact. We leverage Amazon's massive computational infrastructure and rich real-world datasets to train and deploy state-of-the-art foundation models. Our work spans the full spectrum of robotics intelligence – from multimodal perception using images, videos, and sensor data, to sophisticated manipulation strategies that can handle diverse real-world scenarios. We're building systems that don't just work in the lab, but scale to meet the demands of Amazon's global operations. Join us if you're excited about pushing the boundaries of what's possible in robotics, working with world-class researchers, and seeing your innovations deployed at unprecedented scale.

Come build the future of entertainment with us. Are you interested in shaping the future of movies and television? Do you want to define the next generation of how and what Amazon customers are watching? Prime Video is a premium streaming service that offers customers a vast collection of TV shows and movies — all with the ease of finding what they love to watch in one place. We offer customers thousands of popular movies and TV shows from Originals and Exclusive content to exciting live sports events. We also offer our members the opportunity to subscribe to add-on channels which they can cancel at anytime and to rent or buy new release movies and TV box sets on the Prime Video Store. Prime Video is a fast-paced, growth business — available in over 240 countries and territories worldwide. The team works in a dynamic environment where innovating on behalf of our customers is at the heart of everything we do. If this sounds exciting to you, please read on. Prime Video Commerce's mission is to present the right offer to the right customer at the right time — across subscriptions, channels, and transactional video in every market and on every device. Our science team replaces static business rules with ML-driven decisions that personalise the entire commerce journey, from discovery through to checkout and beyond. We operate at scale across hundreds of millions of customers, and we are now expanding into new frontiers — combining the latest advances in agentic and generative AI, behavioural simulation, and causal inference to understand the impact of our decisions before they reach customers. We are looking for an Applied Scientist with a specialism in reinforcement learning and strong machine learning skills to join the Prime Video Commerce Insights team who will work on the latest research and machine learning to build scalable personalisation solutions. You will develop and deploy customer-facing models, understand customer behaviour at scale, and explore emerging techniques that help us make better decisions faster. This is a hands-on role working with a high performing and high visibility multidisciplinary group of engineers and scientists in the London office, focused on improving the customer experience for Prime Video and the wider Amazon organization. You will contribute to the design of machine learning models that scale to large quantities of data and serve low-latency recommendations to all customers worldwide. You will embody scientific rigor in designing and executing experiments to demonstrate the technical efficacy and business value of your methods. You will work alongside a science and engineering team that embodies the customer obsession principle by developing recommendation and decision systems that raise the profile of Prime Video Commerce as a global leader in machine learning and personalisation. Successful candidates will have strong technical ability, a focus on customers by applying a customer-first approach, and excellent teamwork and communication skills. The position offers exceptional opportunities for every candidate to grow their technical and non-technical skills. Key job responsibilities - Strong reinforcement learning skills - Research, design, and implement recommendation systems that personalise across different customer experience touch points. - Collaborate with engineers to deploy and integrate successful model experiment results into large-scale, complex Amazon production systems with low latency. - Provide machine learning thought leadership to both technical and business leaders, with the ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges. - Be a subject matter expert in reinforcement learning approaches for the team and actively contribute to the science roadmap - Define the science roadmap and research agenda that aligns with the organisation's priorities and production constraints. - Work with technical product managers to work backwards from what's important to customers and deliver machine-backed solutions. - Report and share results with the team and wider scientific community by authoring documents that are both statistically rigorous and compellingly relevant, exemplifying good scientific practice in a business environment. A day in the life You will be both a research leader and a hands-on innovator within the Commerce Insights organisation. You'll collaborate with talented engineers and senior leaders to solve problems that are uniquely challenging at Amazon's scale: personalising commerce decisions across multiple business lines balancing competing objectives across offerings, and positively impacting hundreds of millions of customers worldwide. The problems here are technically deep — combining large-scale ML, causal reasoning, and behavioural modelling in a domain where every decision carries real revenue and customer experience consequences. Your research will ship to production and move metrics that matter. About the team You will join a team of great team of engineers and applied scientists with a proven track record of solving highly complex, ambiguous problems — work that has produced patents and publications at top-tier conferences. The team has direct visibility to senior Prime Video leadership, and collaborates broadly across Commerce, Content, and Platform teams to shape how customers discover, subscribe to, and engage with video content. This is a team that operates at the intersection of rigorous research and real-world impact, where your ideas move from whiteboard to production for hundreds of millions of customers.

We are looking for a Senior Applied Scientist to help establish and lead the technical direction of our newly formed team in Bangalore. In this role, you will drive the research and development of next-generation machine learning models spanning computer vision, audio processing, and multimodal semantic understanding. You will help define the science roadmap, tackle high-ambiguity problems across modalities, and deliver solutions that operate at scale. This is a rare opportunity to shape the technical vision, culture, and long-term research agenda of a greenfield site. Key job responsibilities Model Development & Technical Leadership: Architect and drive development of advanced deep learning models for CV, audio understanding, and multimodal semantic fusion — setting the technical bar and defining best practices for the team. End-to-End Ownership: Own complex ML programs end-to-end — from identifying high-impact problems, designing data strategies and evaluation frameworks, through experimentation, optimization, and deployment at production scale. Research & Innovation: Define the science roadmap for your area; drive novel research directions in multimodal learning and deliver results that advance both the product and the broader field. Publications & Thought Leadership: Maintain an active publication record at top-tier venues (e.g. CVPR, NeurIPS, ICASSP, ICCV, ACL) and represent the team externally in the research community. Mentorship & Culture Building: Mentor scientists and engineers, raise the technical bar through hiring, and play a foundational role in establishing the Bangalore site's culture, processes, and scientific identity. A day in the life An Applied Scientist with the Alexa Edge AI team will lead science solution design, run experiments, research new algorithms, and find new ways of optimizing the customer experience; while setting examples for the team on good science practice and standards. Besides theoretical analysis and innovation, a Sr. Applied Scientist will also drive cross functional collaboration with talented engineers and scientists to put algorithms and models into production. About the team The Alexa Edge AI team has a mission to deliver best in class, resource efficient multimodal AI models in support of various perception (vision, audio and speech) and semantic understanding based applications for devices like Echo Show series within Amazon.