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  • US, WA, Bellevue
    Job ID: 10393439
    (Updated 0 days ago)
    Alexa International is looking for a passionate, talented, and inventive Applied Scientist to help build industry-leading technology with Large Language Models (LLMs) and multimodal systems, requiring strong deep learning and generative models knowledge. You will contribute to developing novel solutions and deliver high-quality results that impact Alexa's international products and services. Key job responsibilities As an Applied Scientist with the Alexa International team, you will work with talented peers to develop novel algorithms and modeling techniques to advance the state of the art with LLMs. Your work will directly impact our international customers in the form of products and services that make use of digital assistant technology. You will leverage Amazon's heterogeneous data sources, unique and diverse international customer nuances and large-scale computing resources to accelerate advances in text, voice, and vision domains in a multimodal setup. The ideal candidate possesses a solid understanding of machine learning, natural language understanding, modern LLM architectures, LLM evaluation & tooling, and a passion for pushing boundaries in this vast and quickly evolving field. They thrive in fast-paced environments to tackle complex challenges, excel at swiftly delivering impactful solutions while iterating based on user feedback, and collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams. A day in the life * Analyze, understand, and model customer behavior and the customer experience based on large-scale data. * Build novel online & offline evaluation metrics and methodologies for multimodal personal digital assistants. * Fine-tune/post-train LLMs using techniques like SFT, DPO, RLHF, and RLAIF. * Set up experimentation frameworks for agile model analysis and A/B testing. * Collaborate with partner teams on LLM evaluation frameworks and post-training methodologies. * Contribute to end-to-end delivery of solutions from research to production, including reusable science components. * Communicate solutions clearly to partners and stakeholders. * Contribute to the scientific community through publications and community engagement.
  • US, WA, Bellevue
    Job ID: 10393440
    (Updated 7 days ago)
    Alexa International is looking for a passionate, talented, and inventive Applied Scientist to help build industry-leading technology with Large Language Models (LLMs) and multimodal systems, requiring strong deep learning and generative models knowledge. You will contribute to developing novel solutions and deliver high-quality results that impact Alexa's international products and services. Key job responsibilities As an Applied Scientist with the Alexa International team, you will work with talented peers to develop novel algorithms and modeling techniques to advance the state of the art with LLMs. Your work will directly impact our international customers in the form of products and services that make use of digital assistant technology. You will leverage Amazon's heterogeneous data sources, unique and diverse international customer nuances and large-scale computing resources to accelerate advances in text, voice, and vision domains in a multimodal setup. The ideal candidate possesses a solid understanding of machine learning, natural language understanding, modern LLM architectures, LLM evaluation & tooling, and a passion for pushing boundaries in this vast and quickly evolving field. They thrive in fast-paced environments to tackle complex challenges, excel at swiftly delivering impactful solutions while iterating based on user feedback, and collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams. A day in the life * Analyze, understand, and model customer behavior and the customer experience based on large-scale data. * Build novel online & offline evaluation metrics and methodologies for multimodal personal digital assistants. * Fine-tune/post-train LLMs using techniques like SFT, DPO, RLHF, and RLAIF. * Set up experimentation frameworks for agile model analysis and A/B testing. * Collaborate with partner teams on LLM evaluation frameworks and post-training methodologies. * Contribute to end-to-end delivery of solutions from research to production, including reusable science components. * Communicate solutions clearly to partners and stakeholders. * Contribute to the scientific community through publications and community engagement.
  • JP, 13, Tokyo
    Job ID: 10395524
    (Updated 3 days ago)
    日本の大学で機械学習や関連領域の研究に従事している学生の皆様に向けたフェローシッププログラムのご案内です。Amazon JapanのRetail Scienceチームでは、何百万人もの顧客にインパクトを与える価値あるテクノロジーに繋がるような、新しいプロトタイプやコンセプトを開発するプロジェクトに従事していただく学生を募集しています。プログラムは1ヶ月から3ヶ月の短期間のプロジェクトになります。 プロジェクトの対象となるテーマには、自然言語処理、表現学習、レコメンデーションシステム、因果推論といった領域が含まれますが、これらに限定されるわけではありません。プロジェクトは、チームのシニアサイエンティスト1名または複数名のガイダンスのもとで定義、遂行され、プロジェクト中は他のサイエンティストもメンターとしてフォローします。 学生の皆様が新しいモデルを考案したり、新しいテクノロジーを活用し実験する時間を最大化できるようにすることが目標です。そのため、プロジェクトではエンジニアリングやスケーリングよりも、プロトタイピングを行い具体的に概念実証を行うことに集中します。 また、Amazonでは論文出版も推奨しています。従事した研究開発活動の成果物として出版される論文には著者として参加することになります。 フェローシッププログラムは目黒の東京オフィスで、他のチームと一緒に行われます。Amazonは、プログラム期間中に必要なIT機器(ラップトップなど)、給与と通勤費を支給します。 Are you a current PhD student enrolled in a Japanese university researching Statistics, Machine Learning, Economics, or a related discipline? The Japan Retail Science team is looking for Fellows for short term (1-3 months) projects to develop new prototypes and concepts that can then be translated into meaningful technologies impacting millions of customers. In this position, you will be assigned a project to carry out from areas including but not limited to natural language processing, representation learning, recommender systems, or causal inference. The project will be defined and carried out under the supervision of one or more of our senior scientists, and you will be assigned another scientist as a mentor to follow you during the project. Our goal is to maximize the time you spend on inventing new models and experimenting with new techniques, so the work will concentrate on prototyping and creating a tangible proof of concept, rather than engineering and scaling. Amazon encourages publications, and you will be included as an author of any published manuscript. The fellowship will be carried out from our Tokyo office in Meguro together with the rest of the team. Amazon will provide the necessary IT equipment (laptop, etc.) for the duration of the fellowship, a salary, and commuting expenses. Key job responsibilities このフェローシップは、エージェント型ショッピングの影響を研究することに関するものです。業界は、AIエージェントが消費者に代わって購買決定をますます仲介する近未来に収束しつつあります。最近の分析では、エージェントが2030年までに世界の消費者商取引において3〜5兆ドルを仲介する可能性があると予測されています。これらのエージェントは、人間と同じカタログ、検索結果、商品ページをナビゲートしますが、同じ決定を下すわけではありません。 AIエージェントは、人間のバイアスとは根本的に異なる体系的なバイアスを商品選択にもたらします。構造化され解析可能な属性を過度に重視し、より一貫して価格合理的であり、視覚的または感情的なシグナルを処理できず、基盤となるLLMから継承された位置効果や冗長性効果を示します。その結果、検索クエリのセットが同一であっても、エージェント仲介型ショッピングはカタログ全体で異なる購買分布を生み出し、収益、利益率、需要集中に直接的な影響を及ぼします。 現在、私たちはこれらのバイアスが何であるか、どの程度大きいか、どの商品カテゴリが最も脆弱か、またそれに対して何ができるかについて、体系的な理解を持っていません。このプロジェクトは、エージェントと人間の意思決定の乖離を測定する統制実験を実施し、私たちの管理下にある修正(商品タイトル、説明、構造化属性、推奨シグナル)を通じてエージェントの行動に影響を与えることができる対策をテストすることで、そのギャップを埋めることを提案します。 This fellowship is about studying the implications of agentic shopping. The industry is converging on a near-term future where AI agents increasingly mediate purchase decisions on behalf of consumers. Recent analyses project that agents could mediate $3–5 trillion in global consumer commerce by 2030. These agents will navigate the same catalogs, search results, and product pages that humans do, but they will not make the same decisions. AI agents bring systematic biases to product selection that differ fundamentally from human biases. They over-index on structured and parseable attributes, are more consistently price-rational, cannot process visual or emotional signals, and exhibit position and verbosity effects inherited from the underlying LLMs. The consequence is that even if the set of search queries remains identical, agent-mediated shopping will produce a different distribution of purchases across the catalog, with direct repercussions on revenue, margins, and demand concentration. We currently have no systematic understanding of what these biases are, how large they are, which product categories are most vulnerable, or what we can do about them. This project proposes to fill that gap by running controlled experiments that measure agent-human decision divergence and testing countermeasures that can influence agent behavior through modifications within our control — product titles, descriptions, structured attributes, and recommendation signals. A day in the life チームの多くのメンバーは、午前9時くらいから10時半くらいまでの間に仕事を始め、夕方6時から7時には仕事を終えています。出席が必要なミーティングに参加していれば、勤務時間は自由に決められます。 パートタイムを希望する場合、勤務時間数は採用担当者とともに決定します。フルタイムの場合、労働時間は通常の契約通り週40時間となります。 The majority of the team starts working between 9 and 10.30am until 18-19. You will have complete flexibility to determine your working hours as long as you are present for the meetings where your attendance is required. Number of working hours will be agreed together with the hiring manager in case you want to pursue the Fellowship part-time. In case of full-time, working hours will be 40/week as per a standard contract. About the team 私たちのチームは、日本および世界のすべてのAmazonのベンダー企業に提供されるソリューションを支える製品を発明し、開発しています。私たちは、プロダクトマネージャーやビジネス関係者と協力し、科学的なモデルを開発し、インパクトのあるアプリケーションに繋げることで、Amazonのベンダー企業がより速く成長し、顧客により良いサービスを提供できるようにします。 私たちは、科学者同士のコラボレーションが重要であり、孤立した状態で仕事をしても、幸せなチームにはならないと考えています。私たちは、科学者が専門性を高め、最先端の技術についていけるよう、社内の仕組みを通じて継続的に学ぶことに重きを置いています。私たちの目標は、世界中のAmazonのベンダーソリューションの主要なサイエンスチームとなることです。 Our team invents and develops products powering the solutions offered to all Amazon vendors, in Japan and worldwide. We interact with Product Managers and Business stakeholders to develop rigorous science models that are linked to impactful applications helping Amazon vendors grow faster and better serving their customers. We believe that collaboration between scientists is paramount, and working in isolation does not lead to a happy team. We place strong emphasis on continuous learning through internal mechanisms for our scientists to keep on growing their expertise and keep up with the state of the art. Our goal is to be primary science team for vendor solutions in Amazon, worldwide.
  • JP, 13, Tokyo
    Job ID: 10395526
    (Updated 3 days ago)
    日本の大学で機械学習や関連領域の研究に従事している学生の皆様に向けたフェローシッププログラムのご案内です。Amazon JapanのRetail Scienceチームでは、何百万人もの顧客にインパクトを与える価値あるテクノロジーに繋がるような、新しいプロトタイプやコンセプトを開発するプロジェクトに従事していただく学生を募集しています。プログラムは1ヶ月から3ヶ月の短期間のプロジェクトになります。 プロジェクトの対象となるテーマには、自然言語処理、表現学習、レコメンデーションシステム、因果推論といった領域が含まれますが、これらに限定されるわけではありません。プロジェクトは、チームのシニアサイエンティスト1名または複数名のガイダンスのもとで定義、遂行され、プロジェクト中は他のサイエンティストもメンターとしてフォローします。 学生の皆様が新しいモデルを考案したり、新しいテクノロジーを活用し実験する時間を最大化できるようにすることが目標です。そのため、プロジェクトではエンジニアリングやスケーリングよりも、プロトタイピングを行い具体的に概念実証を行うことに集中します。 また、Amazonでは論文出版も推奨しています。従事した研究開発活動の成果物として出版される論文には著者として参加することになります。 フェローシッププログラムは目黒の東京オフィスで、他のチームと一緒に行われます。Amazonは、プログラム期間中に必要なIT機器(ラップトップなど)、給与と通勤費を支給します。 Are you a current PhD student enrolled in a Japanese university researching Statistics, Machine Learning, Economics, or a related discipline? The Japan Retail Science team is looking for Fellows for short term (1-3 months) projects to develop new prototypes and concepts that can then be translated into meaningful technologies impacting millions of customers. In this position, you will be assigned a project to carry out from areas including but not limited to natural language processing, representation learning, recommender systems, or causal inference. The project will be defined and carried out under the supervision of one or more of our senior scientists, and you will be assigned another scientist as a mentor to follow you during the project. Our goal is to maximize the time you spend on inventing new models and experimenting with new techniques, so the work will concentrate on prototyping and creating a tangible proof of concept, rather than engineering and scaling. Amazon encourages publications, and you will be included as an author of any published manuscript. The fellowship will be carried out from our Tokyo office in Meguro together with the rest of the team. Amazon will provide the necessary IT equipment (laptop, etc.) for the duration of the fellowship, a salary, and commuting expenses. Key job responsibilities このフェローシップは、顧客のデジタルツインの作成に関するものです。私たちは、過去の取引データから販売業者の顧客のデジタルレプリカ(実際の顧客行動に統計的に忠実な合成エージェント)を訓練することを提案します。これらは2つのモードで使用できます。シミュレーションモードでは、数千のツインをインスタンス化し、仮想シナリオ(価格変更、新製品発売、プロモーション戦略)を通じてモンテカルロ方式で実行し、コストのかかる実世界の実験にコミットする前に、信頼区間を持つ集計結果を予測します。対話型フォーカスグループモードでは、各ツインはLLMに基づく自然言語ペルソナによってサポートされ、会話形式でクエリを実行できます。例えば、代表的な顧客になぜ離脱したのか、またはより頻繁に購入するために何が必要かを尋ねることができ、その回答は推測ではなく、その顧客の実際の行動プロファイルと履歴に基づいています。 This fellowship is about the creation of digital twins for customers. We propose training digital replicas of a vendor's customers from historical transaction data — synthetic agents that are statistically faithful to real customer behavior and can be used in two modes. In simulation mode, we instantiate thousands of twins and run them through hypothetical scenarios (pricing changes, new product launches, promotion strategies) in a Monte Carlo fashion to project aggregate outcomes with confidence intervals before committing to costly real-world experiments. In interrogation/focus group mode, each twin is backed by an LLM-grounded natural language persona and can be queried conversationally — for example, asking a representative customer why they churned or what would make them buy more frequently — with responses grounded in that customer's actual behavioral profile and history rather than speculation. A day in the life チームの多くのメンバーは、午前9時くらいから10時半くらいまでの間に仕事を始め、夕方6時から7時には仕事を終えています。出席が必要なミーティングに参加していれば、勤務時間は自由に決められます。 パートタイムを希望する場合、勤務時間数は採用担当者とともに決定します。フルタイムの場合、労働時間は通常の契約通り週40時間となります。 The majority of the team starts working between 9 and 10.30am until 18-19. You will have complete flexibility to determine your working hours as long as you are present for the meetings where your attendance is required. Number of working hours will be agreed together with the hiring manager in case you want to pursue the Fellowship part-time. In case of full-time, working hours will be 40/week as per a standard contract. About the team 私たちのチームは、日本および世界のすべてのAmazonのベンダー企業に提供されるソリューションを支える製品を発明し、開発しています。私たちは、プロダクトマネージャーやビジネス関係者と協力し、科学的なモデルを開発し、インパクトのあるアプリケーションに繋げることで、Amazonのベンダー企業がより速く成長し、顧客により良いサービスを提供できるようにします。 私たちは、科学者同士のコラボレーションが重要であり、孤立した状態で仕事をしても、幸せなチームにはならないと考えています。私たちは、科学者が専門性を高め、最先端の技術についていけるよう、社内の仕組みを通じて継続的に学ぶことに重きを置いています。私たちの目標は、世界中のAmazonのベンダーソリューションの主要なサイエンスチームとなることです。 Our team invents and develops products powering the solutions offered to all Amazon vendors, in Japan and worldwide. We interact with Product Managers and Business stakeholders to develop rigorous science models that are linked to impactful applications helping Amazon vendors grow faster and better serving their customers. We believe that collaboration between scientists is paramount, and working in isolation does not lead to a happy team. We place strong emphasis on continuous learning through internal mechanisms for our scientists to keep on growing their expertise and keep up with the state of the art. Our goal is to be primary science team for vendor solutions in Amazon, worldwide.
  • JP, 13, Tokyo
    Job ID: 10395574
    (Updated 3 days ago)
    日本の大学で機械学習や関連領域の研究に従事している学生の皆様に向けたフェローシッププログラムのご案内です。Amazon JapanのRetail Scienceチームでは、何百万人もの顧客にインパクトを与える価値あるテクノロジーに繋がるような、新しいプロトタイプやコンセプトを開発するプロジェクトに従事していただく学生を募集しています。プログラムは1ヶ月から3ヶ月の短期間のプロジェクトになります。 プロジェクトの対象となるテーマには、自然言語処理、表現学習、レコメンデーションシステム、因果推論といった領域が含まれますが、これらに限定されるわけではありません。プロジェクトは、チームのシニアサイエンティスト1名または複数名のガイダンスのもとで定義、遂行され、プロジェクト中は他のサイエンティストもメンターとしてフォローします。 学生の皆様が新しいモデルを考案したり、新しいテクノロジーを活用し実験する時間を最大化できるようにすることが目標です。そのため、プロジェクトではエンジニアリングやスケーリングよりも、プロトタイピングを行い具体的に概念実証を行うことに集中します。 また、Amazonでは論文出版も推奨しています。従事した研究開発活動の成果物として出版される論文には著者として参加することになります。 フェローシッププログラムは目黒の東京オフィスで、他のチームと一緒に行われます。Amazonは、プログラム期間中に必要なIT機器(ラップトップなど)、給与と通勤費を支給します。 Are you a current PhD student enrolled in a Japanese university researching Statistics, Machine Learning, Economics, or a related discipline? The Japan Retail Science team is looking for Fellows for short term (1-3 months) projects to develop new prototypes and concepts that can then be translated into meaningful technologies impacting millions of customers. In this position, you will be assigned a project to carry out from areas including but not limited to natural language processing, representation learning, recommender systems, or causal inference. The project will be defined and carried out under the supervision of one or more of our senior scientists, and you will be assigned another scientist as a mentor to follow you during the project. Our goal is to maximize the time you spend on inventing new models and experimenting with new techniques, so the work will concentrate on prototyping and creating a tangible proof of concept, rather than engineering and scaling. Amazon encourages publications, and you will be included as an author of any published manuscript. The fellowship will be carried out from our Tokyo office in Meguro together with the rest of the team. Amazon will provide the necessary IT equipment (laptop, etc.) for the duration of the fellowship, a salary, and commuting expenses. Key job responsibilities このフェローシップは、次世代のAIデータエージェントを可能にするために、大規模なデータログから自動的にセマンティックレイヤーを構築することに関するものです。私たちは、ビジネスユーザーがクエリを実行するクラスターを維持しており、そのログに完全にアクセスできます。私たちは、これらのログをマイニングして自動的にセマンティックレイヤーを構築することを提案します。これは、テーブルに何が含まれているか、それらがどのように関連しているか、ビジネスがメトリクスをどのように定義しているかについての構造化された記述です。このレイヤーがなければ、AIエージェントは曖昧な列名、重複するテーブル定義、または異なるチームが異なる方法で計算するメトリクスを区別する方法がないため、正確なSQLを確実に書くことができません。このレイヤーを手動で構築することは高コストで不完全であり、すぐに陳腐化します。私たちのアプローチは手動のキュレーションを回避します。ユーザーが時間をかけて書いたすべての結合、集計、フィルターは、列が実際に何を意味するか、テーブルがどのように接続されるか、メトリクスがどのように計算されるかについての暗黙的な知識をエンコードしています。このクエリコーパスを解析し統計的に分析することで、曖昧性解消ルール、合意されたメトリクス定義、検証済みのテーブル関係を自動的に抽出できます。セマンティックレイヤーにより、データチームはデータのオンボーディングや各変数のルールと定義の指定に帯域幅の大部分を費やす必要がなくなり、エンドカスタマーが自律的にデータをクエリするまでの時間を短縮できます。 This fellowship is about automatically constructing a semantic layer from large data logs to enable the next generation of AI data agents. We maintain clusters on which our business users run their queries, and we have full access to its logs. We propose mining those logs to automatically construct a semantic layer: a structured description of what our tables contain, how they relate, and how the business defines its metrics. Without this layer, AI agents cannot reliably write correct SQL because they have no way to distinguish between ambiguous column names, overlapping table definitions, or metrics that different teams compute differently. Building this layer manually is expensive, incomplete, and goes stale immediately. Our approach avoids manual curation: every join, aggregation, and filter our users have written over time encodes implicit knowledge about what columns actually mean, how tables connect, and how metrics are calculated. By parsing and statistically analyzing this query corpus, we can automatically extract disambiguation rules, agreed-upon metric definitions, and validated table relationships. The semantic layer will enable data teams to avoid having to spend most of their bandwidth on onboarding data and specifying the rules and definition for each variable, shortening the time for our end customers to autonomously query data. A day in the life チームの多くのメンバーは、午前9時くらいから10時半くらいまでの間に仕事を始め、夕方6時から7時には仕事を終えています。出席が必要なミーティングに参加していれば、勤務時間は自由に決められます。 パートタイムを希望する場合、勤務時間数は採用担当者とともに決定します。フルタイムの場合、労働時間は通常の契約通り週40時間となります。 The majority of the team starts working between 9 and 10.30am until 18-19. You will have complete flexibility to determine your working hours as long as you are present for the meetings where your attendance is required. Number of working hours will be agreed together with the hiring manager in case you want to pursue the Fellowship part-time. In case of full-time, working hours will be 40/week as per a standard contract. About the team 私たちのチームは、日本および世界のすべてのAmazonのベンダー企業に提供されるソリューションを支える製品を発明し、開発しています。私たちは、プロダクトマネージャーやビジネス関係者と協力し、科学的なモデルを開発し、インパクトのあるアプリケーションに繋げることで、Amazonのベンダー企業がより速く成長し、顧客により良いサービスを提供できるようにします。 私たちは、科学者同士のコラボレーションが重要であり、孤立した状態で仕事をしても、幸せなチームにはならないと考えています。私たちは、科学者が専門性を高め、最先端の技術についていけるよう、社内の仕組みを通じて継続的に学ぶことに重きを置いています。私たちの目標は、世界中のAmazonのベンダーソリューションの主要なサイエンスチームとなることです。 Our team invents and develops products powering the solutions offered to all Amazon vendors, in Japan and worldwide. We interact with Product Managers and Business stakeholders to develop rigorous science models that are linked to impactful applications helping Amazon vendors grow faster and better serving their customers. We believe that collaboration between scientists is paramount, and working in isolation does not lead to a happy team. We place strong emphasis on continuous learning through internal mechanisms for our scientists to keep on growing their expertise and keep up with the state of the art. Our goal is to be primary science team for vendor solutions in Amazon, worldwide.
  • US, CA, Mountain View
    Job ID: 10383512
    (Updated 15 days ago)
    MULTIPLE POSITIONS AVAILABLE Employer: AMAZON WEB SERVICES, INC. Offered Position: Data Scientist III Job Location: Mountain View, California Job Number: AMZ9802655 Position Responsibilities: Own the data science elements of various products to help with data-based decision making, product performance optimization, and product performance tracking. Work directly with product managers to help drive the design of the product. Work with Technical Product Managers to help drive the build planning. Translate business problems and products into data requirements and metrics. Initiate the design, development, and implementation of scientific analysis projects or deliverables. Own the analysis, modelling, system design, and development of data science solutions for products. Write documents and make presentations that explain model/analysis results to the business. Bridge the degree of uncertainty in both problem definition and data scientific solution approaches. Build consensus on data, metrics, and analysis to drive business and system strategy. 40 hours / week, 8:00am-5:00pm, Salary Range $183,000/year to $247,600/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
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    WW Amazon Stores Finance Science (ASFS) works to leverage science and economics to drive improved financial results, foster data backed decisions, and embed science within Finance. ASFS is focused on developing products that empower controllership, improve business decisions and financial planning by understanding financial drivers, and innovate science capabilities for efficiency and scale. We are looking for a data scientist to lead high visibility initiatives for forecasting Amazon Stores' financials. You will develop new science-based forecasting methodologies and build scalable models to improve financial decision making and planning for senior leadership up to VP and SVP level. You will build new ML and statistical models from the ground up that aim to transform financial planning for Amazon Stores. We prize creative problem solvers with the ability to draw on an expansive methodological toolkit to transform financial decision-making with science. The ideal candidate combines data-science acumen with strong business judgment. You have versatile modeling skills and are comfortable owning and extracting insights from data. You are excited to learn from and alongside seasoned scientists, engineers, and business leaders. You are an excellent communicator and effectively translate technical findings into business action. Key job responsibilities Demonstrating thorough technical knowledge, effective exploratory data analysis, and model building using industry standard ML models Working with technical and non-technical stakeholders across every step of science project life cycle Collaborating with finance, product, data engineering, and software engineering teams to create production implementations for large-scale ML models Innovating by adapting new modeling techniques and procedures Presenting research results to our internal research community
  • US, NY, New York
    Job ID: 10387384
    (Updated 1 days ago)
    The Ads Measurement Science team in the Measurement, Ad Tech, and Data Science (MADS) team of Amazon Ads serves a centralized role developing solutions for a multitude of performance measurement products. We create solutions which measure the comprehensive impact of advertiser's ad spend, including sales impacts both online and offline and across timescales, and provide actionable insights that enable our advertisers to optimize their media portfolios. We also own the science solutions for AI tools that unlock new insights and automate high-effort customer workflows, such as custom query and report generation based on natural language user requests. We leverage a host of scientific technologies to accomplish this mission, including Generative AI, classical ML, Causal Inference, Natural Language Processing, and Computer Vision. As an Applied Scientist on the team, you will lead measurement solutions end-to-end from inception to production. You will propose, design, analyze, and productionize models to provide novel measurement insights to our customers. Key job responsibilities Leverage deep expertise in one or more scientific disciplines to invent solutions to ambiguous ads measurement problems Disambiguate problems to propose clear evaluation frameworks and success criteria Work autonomously and write high quality technical documents Implement a significant portion of critical-path code, and partner with engineers to directly carry solutions into production Partner closely with other scientists to deliver large, multi-faceted technical projects Share and publish works with the broader scientific community through meetings and conferences Communicate clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences Contribute new ideas that shape the direction of the team's work Mentor more junior scientists and participate in the hiring process About the team We are a team of scientists across Applied, Research, Data Science and Economist disciplines. You will work with colleagues with deep expertise in ML, NLP, CV, Gen AI, and Causal Inference with a diverse range of backgrounds. We partner closely with top-notch engineers, product managers, sales leaders, and other scientists with expertise in the ads industry and on building scalable modeling and software solutions.
  • US, NY, New York
    Job ID: 10387386
    (Updated 1 days ago)
    The Ads Measurement Science team in the Measurement, Ad Tech, and Data Science (MADS) team of Amazon Ads serves a centralized role developing solutions for a multitude of performance measurement products. We create solutions which measure the comprehensive impact of advertiser's ad spend, including sales impacts both online and offline and across timescales, and provide actionable insights that enable our advertisers to optimize their media portfolios. We also own the science solutions for AI tools that unlock new insights and automate high-effort customer workflows, such as custom query and report generation based on natural language user requests. We leverage a host of scientific technologies to accomplish this mission, including Generative AI, classical ML, Causal Inference, Natural Language Processing, and Computer Vision. As a Senior Applied Scientist on the team, you will be at the forefront of innovation, developing measurement solutions end-to-end from inception to production. You will set the technical vision and innovate on behalf of our customers. You will propose, design, analyze, and productionize models to provide novel measurement insights to our customers. You will partner with engineering to deploy these solutions into production. You will work with key stakeholders from various business teams to enable advertisers to act upon those metrics. Key job responsibilities * Lead the development of ad measurement models and solutions that address the full spectrum of an advertiser's investment, focusing on scalable and efficient methodologies. * Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams including engineering, product management, and business teams to define and implement measurement solutions. * Use state-of-the-art scientific technologies including Generative AI, Classical Machine Learning, Causal Inference, Natural Language Processing, and Computer Vision to develop state of the art models that measure the impact of ad spend across multiple platforms and timescales. * Drive experimentation and the continuous improvement of ML models through iterative development, testing, and optimization. * Translate complex scientific challenges into clear and impactful solutions for business stakeholders. * Mentor and guide junior scientists, fostering a collaborative and high-performing team culture. * Foster collaborations between scientists to move faster, with broader impact. * Regularly engage with the broader scientific community with presentations, publications, and patents. A day in the life You will solve real-world problems by getting and analyzing large amounts of data, generate business insights and opportunities, design simulations and experiments, and develop statistical and ML models. The team is driven by business needs, which requires collaboration with other Scientists, Engineers, and Product Managers across the advertising organization. You will prepare written and verbal presentations to share insights to audiences of varying levels of technical sophistication. Team video https://advertising.amazon.com/help/G4LNN5YWHP6SM9TJ About the team We are a team of scientists across Applied, Research, Data Science and Economist disciplines. You will work with colleagues with deep expertise in ML, NLP, CV, Gen AI, and Causal Inference with a diverse range of backgrounds. We partner closely with top-notch engineers, product managers, sales leaders, and other scientists with expertise in the ads industry and on building scalable modeling and software solutions.
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 10391414
    (Updated 8 days ago)
    AWS Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Capacity Org is looking for an experienced applied optimization expert. This leader will join the Optimization Science Team to design, implement, and scale decision-making algorithms to manage EC2’s virtual and physical capacity systems. EC2 Capacity owns EC2’s top-level customer satisfaction metric capacity availability and the forecasting & decision-making systems which drive significant capex investments in server ordering for AWS data centers. Optimization Science is a core team involved in the end-to-end design and implementation of various decision-making systems, which manage the trade-off between capex and capacity availability while matching demand and supply at different planning horizons. The stakeholders and partners include engineering and product management orgs within EC2 as well as the AWS Infrastructure Supply Chain (AIS) organization. We are seeking an expert with a strong background in mathematical optimization with excellent modeling skills, and expertise in the numerical solution of continuous and discrete problems using exact and and heuristic methods applied to very large-scale problems. Experience with decision-making under uncertainty; e.g., robust or stochastic optimization is an advantage. Candidates at the OR/ML interface, and particularly those who have experience applying ML / Gen AI methods to enhance and improve optimization algorithms or optimization-based decision-making systems, are encouraged to apply. The candidate will apply their knowledge to match the end-customer demand for virtual machines to physical resource supply at horizons ranging from five minutes to 13 years. The variety of problems requires principled mathematical decomposition and a good interface design between inputs and outputs at various horizons. Navigating the ambiguity of design choices across horizons is a critical component of the role. In a typical project, we analyze large volumes of data, and then develop a prescriptive optimization model with inputs from ML or statistical models and business users. Our solution approaches are validated through simulations and / or production A/B tests. Being successful requires having the scientific breadth to understand the interactions between different phases of a project from data analysis through to production, including resolving issues after rollout. As a Senior Applied Scientist on the EC2 Optimization Science team, you are critical to the speed and excellence of the end-to-end deliveries of production systems with optimization-based analytical engines. You will be hands-on with the mathematical modeling and implementation, and will also contribute to the design of the engineering system with the scalability, extensibility, maintainability, and correctness of the optimization engine in mind. You will review approaches by other scientists and engineers in terms of business relevance, technical validity, engineering / science interface, and computational performance. You will mentor and lead junior scientists by example. Communicating your results to guide the direction of the business and working with software development teams to implement your ideas in code is key to success. You will write technical, and less frequently, business documents that influence engineering investments and business direction. Collaborating with other scientists, software engineers, and product managers, you will develop creative, novel, and data-driven approaches to improve our existing cloud compute offerings and define new ones in a fast-paced and quickly changing environment, improving the experience of our customers and impacting the bottom line of EC2. About the team 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. 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. Mentorship and 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. Diverse Experiences Amazon 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.

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