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Amazon Industrial Robotics is seeking exceptional applied science talent to develop AI and machine learning systems that will enable the next generation of advanced manufacturing capabilities at unprecedented scale. We're building revolutionary software infrastructure that combines cutting-edge AI, large-scale optimization, and advanced manufacturing processes to create adaptive production control systems. As a Senior Applied Scientist, you will develop and improve machine learning systems that enable real-time manufacturing flow decisions. You will leverage state-of-the-art optimization and ML techniques, evaluate them against representative manufacturing scenarios, and adapt them to meet the robustness, reliability, and performance needs of production environments. You will invent new algorithms where gaps exist. You'll collaborate closely with software engineering, manufacturing engineering, robotics simulation, and operations teams, and your outputs will directly power the systems that determine what to build next, where to allocate resources, and how to maximize throughput. The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in optimization and machine learning, with a proven track record of delivering scientifically complex solutions into production. You are hands-on, writing significant portions of critical-path scientific code while driving your team's scientific agenda. If you're passionate about inventing the intelligent manufacturing systems of tomorrow rather than optimizing those of today, this role offers the chance to make a lasting impact on the future of automation. Key job responsibilities - Identify and devise new scientific approaches for constraint identification, dispatch optimization, WIP release control, and predictive flow intelligence when the problem is ill-defined and new methodologies need to be invented - Lead the design, implementation, and successful delivery of scientifically complex solutions for real-time manufacturing flow optimization in production - Design and build ML models and optimization algorithms including constraint prediction, starvation risk forecasting, and dispatch optimization - Write a significant portion of critical-path scientific code with solutions that are inventive, maintainable, scalable, and extensible - Execute rapid, rigorous experimentation with reproducible results, closing the gap between simulation and real manufacturing environments - Build evaluation benchmarks that measure model performance against manufacturing outcomes including constraint utilization and throughput rather than traditional ML metrics alone - Influence your team's science and business strategy through insightful contributions to roadmaps, goals, and priorities - Partner with manufacturing engineering, robotics simulation, and applied intelligence teams to ensure scientific approaches are grounded in operational reality - Drive your team's scientific agenda and role model publishing of research results at peer-reviewed venues when appropriate and not precluded by business considerations - Actively participate in hiring and mentor other scientists, improving their skills and ability to deliver - Write clear narratives and documentation describing scientific solutions and design choices

We're looking for an Applied Scientist to develop computer vision and machine learning models that keep Amazon's workforce safe. Your research and models will be deployed across hundreds of operations facilities globally, helping to reduce safety incidents for over 1.5 million people. You'll join a team where science meets real-world impact. You'll design and train models for tasks like activity recognition, anomaly detection, object detection, and risk prediction using video, image, and sensor data from Amazon's operational environments. You'll work closely with software engineers to take your models from experimentation through production deployment at scale. If you're excited about applying advanced ML research to a problem that genuinely improves people's lives, and you thrive in an environment where your work ships to production, not just to a paper, this is the role for you. Key job responsibilities - Design, develop, and deploy computer vision and machine learning models for workplace safety applications (e.g., activity recognition, anomaly detection, pose estimation, object detection) - Develop and iterate on model architectures using deep learning frameworks, running experiments on large-scale video, image, and sensor datasets - Collaborate with software engineers to productionize models - optimizing for inference latency, accuracy, and reliability in edge and cloud environments - Analyze operational data to identify patterns and signals indicating safety risks, and translate findings into actionable model improvements - Stay current with the latest research in computer vision, deep learning, and related fields, and evaluate applicability to safety use cases - Communicate findings and technical approaches clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders through documents, presentations, and design reviews - Contribute to the team's scientific culture through code reviews, knowledge sharing, and mentorship About the team Amazon's Workplace Health & Safety (WHS) organization is responsible for keeping over 1.5 million employees safe across our global retail operations. Within WHS, our technology team builds the science and engineering capabilities that power Amazon's safety strategy at scale. We're a cross-functional group of applied scientists, software engineers, data engineers, and technical program managers developing computer vision systems, generative AI applications, sensor and IoT solutions, and analytics platforms - all aimed at reducing workplace injuries. As an applied scientist here, you'll partner directly with engineers who build the production infrastructure for your models, and with safety domain experts who ground your work in real operational needs. Our culture values scientific rigor, fast iteration, and shipping models that create measurable safety outcomes.

About Sponsored Products and Brands: The Sponsored Products and Brands (SPB) organization at Amazon Ads is re-imagining the advertising landscape through industry leading generative AI technologies, revolutionizing how millions of customers discover products and engage with brands across Amazon.com and beyond. We are at the forefront of re-inventing advertising experiences, bridging human creativity with artificial intelligence to transform every aspect of the advertising lifecycle from ad creation and optimization to performance analysis and customer insights. We are a passionate group of innovators dedicated to developing responsible and intelligent AI technologies that balance the needs of advertisers, enhance the shopping experience, and strengthen the marketplace. If you're energized by solving complex challenges and pushing the boundaries of what's possible with AI, join us in shaping the future of advertising. About Our Team: The Brand Beacon team is responsible for inventing impressions offerings for brands to increase share of voice via premium experiences, helping brands get discovered, acquire new customers and sustainably grow customer lifetime value. We build end-to-end solutions that enable brands to drive discovery, visibility and share of voice. This includes building advertiser controls, shopper experiences, monetization strategies and optimization features. We succeed when (1) shoppers discover, engage and build affinity with brands and (2) brands can grow their business at scale with our advertising products. About This Role: As a Senior Scientist for the team, you will have the opportunity to apply your deep subject matter expertise in the area of ML, LLM and GenAI models. You will invent new product experiences that enable novel advertiser and shopper experiences. This role will liaise with internal Amazon partners and work on bringing state-of-the-art GenAI models to production, and stay abreast of the latest developments in the space of GenAI and identify opportunities to improve the efficiency and productivity of the team. Additionally, you will define a long-term science vision for our advertising business, driven by our customer’s needs, and translate it into actionable plans for our team of applied scientists and engineers. This role will play a critical role in elevating the team’s scientific and technical rigor, identifying and implementing best-in-class algorithms, methodologies, and infrastructure that enable rapid experimentation and scaling. You will communicate learnings to leadership and mentor and grow Applied AI talent across org. * Develop AI solutions for advertiser and shopper experiences. Build monetization and optimization systems that leverage generative models to value and improve campaign performance. * Define a long-term science vision and roadmap for our advertising business, driven from our customers' needs, translating that direction into specific plans for applied scientists and engineering teams. This role combines science leadership, organizational ability, technical strength, product focus, and business understanding. * Design and conduct A/B experiments to evaluate proposed solutions based on in-depth data analyses. * Effectively communicate technical and non-technical ideas with teammates and stakeholders. * Stay up-to-date with advancements and the latest modeling techniques in the field. * Think big about the arc of development of Gen AI over a multi-year horizon and identify new opportunities to apply these technologies to solve real-world problems. #GenAI

This position is based in Bangalore, India The Last Mile team helps get packages from delivery stations to a customer’s doorstep. To provide new innovations for customers, awe are inventing the next-generation smart delivery operation. We are combining innovative mobile and IoT technologies, data streams (video, vehicle telematics, location, and presence), together with machine learning models and algorithms – all to create solutions that allow us to deliver faster, and with more confidence. Playing a key role in the Last Mile Driver Experience team, as a Applied Scientist you will be responsible for building machine learning models and algorithms in areas including mapping and location, pattern detection in sensor data, and computer vision. Using your research, you will work with your engineering and product management peers to drive designs from ideation through development and into production. You will bring your experience of research for similar products and solutions, preferably in consumer or industrial verticals. This role requires autonomy and an ability to deliver results, often within the ambiguity of building a v1 product. You will need to work efficiently to build the right things with limited guidance, raising the bar to create an amazing experience for our customers.

Do you want to join an innovative team of scientists who use machine learning and statistical techniques to help Amazon provide the best customer experience by preventing eCommerce fraud? Are you excited by the prospect of analyzing and modeling terabytes of data and creating state-of-the-art algorithms to solve real world problems? Do you like to own end-to-end business problems/metrics and directly impact the profitability of the company? Do you enjoy collaborating in a diverse team environment? If yes, then you may be a great fit to join the Amazon Selling Partner Trust & Store Integrity Science Team. We are looking for a talented scientist who is passionate to build advanced machine learning systems that help manage the safety of millions of transactions every day and scale up our operation with automation. Key job responsibilities Innovate with the latest GenAI/LLM/VLM technology to build highly automated solutions for efficient risk evaluation and automated operations Design, develop and deploy end-to-end machine learning solutions in the Amazon production environment to create impactful business value Learn, explore and experiment with the latest machine learning advancements to create the best customer experience A day in the life You will be working within a dynamic, diverse, and supportive group of scientists who share your passion for innovation and excellence. You'll be working closely with business partners and engineering teams to create end-to-end scalable machine learning solutions that address real-world problems. You will build scalable, efficient, and automated processes for large-scale data analyses, model development, model validation, and model implementation. You will also be providing clear and compelling reports for your solutions and contributing to the ongoing innovation and knowledge-sharing that are central to the team's success.

Amazon Search is building a first-of-its-kind AI-powered visual search experience that lets customers describe products they're imagining, instantly see AI-generated images in response, and tap those images to search for matching products to shop. We are transforming the search engine into a shopping engine by leveraging advances in generative AI and multimodal understanding. We are seeking an Applied Scientist II to join the Visual Search Science team and push the boundaries of generative AI and multimodal retrieval at Amazon scale. You will work at the intersection of diffusion models, large language models (LLMs), and multimodal search to build systems that generate product visualizations in real time and connect them to Amazon's billions-scale catalog. The ideal candidate has deep expertise in one or more of the following areas: text-to-image generation, multimodal retrieval, LLM-based classification, AI safety and content moderation, or retrieval-conditioned generation. You will operate with startup-level autonomy backed by the resources of Amazon Search, serving hundreds of millions of customers worldwide through GPU-distributed inference systems that generate and rank results in real time. Key job responsibilities You will design, train, and optimize generative AI models for real-time product image generation, ensuring outputs meet strict latency requirements while maintaining high visual quality and query alignment. You will develop multimodal retrieval systems that connect AI-generated images to Amazon's billions-scale product catalog, optimizing for recall and ranking relevance across product categories. A core part of the role involves building LLM-based classifiers for visual intent detection, query understanding, and safety filtering within real-time latency budgets. You will advance AI safety science through defense-in-depth approaches including embedding-space classifiers, adversarial data engines, and post-generation content moderation. You will design and execute large-scale online experiments to measure impact on customer engagement, search success, and business metrics, defining evaluation frameworks that combine automated metrics with human judgment. You will collaborate with engineering, product, and design teams to architect GPU-intensive inference pipelines serving real-time traffic at scale, and contribute to Amazon's scientific community through publications and patents. About the team The Visual Search Science team is pioneering generative AI for shopping within Amazon Search. We sit at the intersection of computer vision, natural language processing, and information retrieval building systems that help customers visualize what they're looking for and seamlessly discover matching products. Our team operates with speed and autonomy while leveraging Amazon's massive scale, GPU infrastructure, and product catalog. We are a tight-knit group of scientists and engineers who value rigorous experimentation, creative problem-solving, and shipping innovations that customers love. We collaborate closely with partner teams across Search organization.

Join Amazon's Global FP&A Technology (GFT) team as a Data Scientist, where you'll shape the future of FP&A operations by building the forecasting and AI capabilities behind Amazon's financial planning. As part of GFT's mission to streamline, optimize, and drive financial excellence through technology, you'll work closely with Corporate FP&A teams and cross-functional stakeholders to develop scalable data science solutions that support strategic finance objectives. Your work will contribute directly to enhancing reporting, planning, cost allocations, and business enablement tools that empower finance teams across the organization. The models you build here ship to production and directly influence how Amazon plans its finances. Our forecasts drive stock-based compensation — a P&L expense of over $20B a year — and the headcount outlook spanning Amazon's ~1.5M employees, feeding the OP1, OP2, and Board-level planning cycles. A growing part of our charter is building AI capabilities that take on repetitive work in finance. Today this work takes many manual hours per cycle, spans disconnected tools and relies on repeated handoffs. This is the forward-looking edge of GFT, and a space where you can build agents and AI systems that finance teams use directly. We are looking for a results-driven scientist to join our team in Seattle. You will work with FP&A teams, product managers, software engineers, data engineers, UX designers, and front-end engineers to understand key requirements, and you'll lead the design and development of data science products and services. The ideal candidate brings strong problem-solving skills, stakeholder communication skills, and the ability to balance technical rigor with delivery speed and customer impact. This is a great opportunity for someone looking to drive the next generation of data science architecture, design, and development that scales to support Amazon's business growth and the FP&A function. Key job responsibilities 1. Apply a range of data science methodologies — statistical modeling, machine learning, and time series analysis — to solve complex forecasting challenges. 2. Lead the end-to-end lifecycle of forecasting models — from research and experimentation through production launch — including defining success metrics, obtaining stakeholder sign-off, and managing rollout in collaboration with software and data engineering. 3. Run large-scale exploratory data analysis and rigorous experiments at scale to uncover patterns, evaluate models, and improve performance. 4. Partner with finance stakeholders, engineers, and other scientists to understand customer needs and deliver solutions that meet them. 5. Translate complex research findings into clear, factually correct documents and explain technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences. About the team GFT team is a Finance Technology team within Corp FP&A. On our team, we enjoy a unique vantage point into everything happening within Amazon. As part of that, this role would be part of a team that is responsible for Company’s enterprise-wide financial planning & analytics environment. The data flowing through our platform directly contributes to decision-making by our CFO and all levels of finance leadership. If you’re passionate about building tools that enhance productivity, improve financial accuracy, reduce waste, and improve work-life harmony for a large and rapidly growing finance user base, come join us!

Do you want a role with deep meaning and the ability to make a major impact? As part of Intelligent Talent Acquisition (ITA), you'll have the opportunity to reinvent the hiring process and deliver unprecedented scale, sophistication, and accuracy for Amazon Talent Acquisition operations. ITA is an industry-leading people science and technology organization made up of scientists, engineers, analysts, product professionals and more, all with the shared goal of connecting the right people to the right jobs in a way that is fair and precise. Last year we delivered over 6 million online candidate assessments, and helped Amazon deliver billions of packages around the world by making it possible to hire hundreds of thousands of workers in the right quantity, at the right location and at exactly the right time. You’ll work on state-of-the-art research, advanced software tools, new AI systems, and machine learning algorithms, leveraging Amazon's in-house tech stack to bring innovative solutions to life. Join ITA in using technologies to transform the hiring landscape and make a meaningful difference in people's lives. Together, we can solve the world's toughest hiring problems. Key job responsibilities The Applied Scientist serves as key contributor supporting recruiting program managers, recruiters, and AUTA leadership while providing technical guidance to demand planning, school strategy, and supply forecasting teams. • Own science models that power target school recommendations, talent supply projections, and school-to-requisition matching across Amazon's global campus recruiting footprint. • Create data-driven models that optimize school sourcing strategies and recruiter decision-making while considering diversity requirements, data privacy thresholds, and institution-specific characteristics. • Develop and maintain supply forecasting models, school ranking algorithms, and multi-objective optimization systems using time-series forecasting, machine learning, survival analysis, and causal inference techniques. • Lead development of AI systems to automate school identification, supply-demand gap analysis, and strategy recommendations while ensuring transparency and alignment with recruiting objectives. • Plan and implement controlled experiments to test new recommendation mechanisms, validate supply projection accuracy, and optimize school engagement strategies across different markets and role families. • Partner with recruiting program managers, recruiters, and downstream engineering teams to translate ambiguous talent supply challenges into well-defined scientific formulations with measurable outcomes. About the team Our team focuses on understanding and improving the experience of both job seekers and the recruiters who support them. You'll be at the intersection of people, data, and technology—solving fascinating problems that directly impact how we hire the best talent globally.

Do you want a role with deep meaning and the ability to make a major impact? As part of Intelligent Talent Acquisition (ITA), you'll have the opportunity to reinvent the hiring process and deliver unprecedented scale, sophistication, and accuracy for Amazon Talent Acquisition operations. ITA is an industry-leading people science and technology organization made up of scientists, engineers, analysts, product professionals and more, all with the shared goal of connecting the right people to the right jobs in a way that is fair and precise. Last year we delivered over 6 million online candidate assessments, and helped Amazon deliver billions of packages around the world by making it possible to hire hundreds of thousands of workers in the right quantity, at the right location and at exactly the right time. You’ll work on state-of-the-art research, advanced software tools, new AI systems, and machine learning algorithms, leveraging Amazon's in-house tech stack to bring innovative solutions to life. Join ITA in using technologies to transform the hiring landscape and make a meaningful difference in people's lives. Together, we can solve the world's toughest hiring problems. Key job responsibilities The Applied Scientist serves as key contributor supporting recruiting program managers, recruiters, and AUTA leadership while providing technical guidance to demand planning, school strategy, and supply forecasting teams. • Own science models that power target school recommendations, talent supply projections, and school-to-requisition matching across Amazon's global campus recruiting footprint. • Create data-driven models that optimize school sourcing strategies and recruiter decision-making while considering diversity requirements, data privacy thresholds, and institution-specific characteristics. • Develop and maintain supply forecasting models, school ranking algorithms, and multi-objective optimization systems using time-series forecasting, machine learning, survival analysis, and causal inference techniques. • Lead development of AI systems to automate school identification, supply-demand gap analysis, and strategy recommendations while ensuring transparency and alignment with recruiting objectives. • Plan and implement controlled experiments to test new recommendation mechanisms, validate supply projection accuracy, and optimize school engagement strategies across different markets and role families. • Partner with recruiting program managers, recruiters, and downstream engineering teams to translate ambiguous talent supply challenges into well-defined scientific formulations with measurable outcomes. About the team Our team focuses on understanding and improving the experience of both job seekers and the recruiters who support them. You'll be at the intersection of people, data, and technology—solving fascinating problems that directly impact how we hire the best talent globally.

Alexa+ is the world’s best Generative AI powered personal assistant / agent for consumers, and is becoming the conversational AI interface for Amazon services with the launch of Alexa for Shopping on Amazon.com and Amazon mobile app. At Alexa Ads, we are creating industry's first and most advanced Agentic Advertising products to drive Agentic Commerce. We are seeking an Applied Scientist to join our newly expanding team in India focused on Alexa Agentic/Conversational Ads and Personalization. In this role, you will build machine learning models that seamlessly and naturally integrate relevant advertising into the Alexa experience while deeply personalizing user interactions. You will work closely with other scientists, engineers, and product managers to take models from conception to production. Key job responsibilities - Design, develop, and evaluate innovative machine learning and deep learning models for natural language processing (NLP), recommendation systems, and personalization. - Conduct hands-on data analysis and build scalable ML pipelines. - Design and run A/B experiments to measure the impact of new models on customer experience and ad performance. - Collaborate with software development engineers to deploy models into high-scale, real-time production environments. About the team We are building a new science team in Bangalore to solve some of the most impactful problems in computational advertising. This isn't about tweaking existing models as we are rethinking how ads are ranked, priced, and personalized across voice-first and screen-first surfaces. These are problems that don't have textbook solutions. Key points to note about the team: 🧪 Greenfield team - you are not joining a mature org with rigid processes. You will shape the science roadmap, pick the problems, and define the culture from day one. 📈 Direct business impact — your models directly drive revenue. No yearly cycles to see if your work matters. 🌏 Global scope, local autonomy — collaborate with scientists and engineers across Seattle, Sunnyvale, and Bangalore, but own your problem space end-to-end. 🎓 Ship AND Publish: We encourage top-tier publications (NeurIPS, ACL, EMNLP, KDD, ICML, WWW) while ensuring your research hits production.