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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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  • (Updated 1 days ago)
    Are you passionate about applying machine learning and advanced statistical techniques to protect one of the world's largest online marketplaces? Do you want to be at the forefront of developing innovative solutions that safeguard Amazon's customers and legitimate sellers while ensuring a fair and trusted shopping experience? Do you thrive in a collaborative environment where diverse perspectives drive breakthrough solutions? If yes, we invite you to join the Amazon Risk Intelligence Science Team. We're seeking an exceptional scientist who can revolutionize how we protect our marketplace through intelligent automation. As a key member of our team, you'll develop and deploy state-of-the-art machine learning systems that analyze millions of seller interactions daily, ensuring the integrity and trustworthiness of Amazon's marketplace while scaling our operations to new heights. Your work will directly impact the safety and security of the shopping experience for hundreds of millions of customers worldwide, while supporting the growth of honest entrepreneurs and businesses. Key job responsibilities • Use machine learning and statistical techniques to create scalable abuse detection solutions that identify fraudulent seller behavior, account takeovers, and marketplace manipulation schemes • Innovate with the latest GenAI technology to build highly automated solutions for efficient seller verification, transaction monitoring, and risk assessment • Design, develop and deploy end-to-end machine learning solutions in the Amazon production environment to prevent and detect sophisticated abuse patterns across the marketplace • Learn, explore and experiment with the latest machine learning advancements to protect customer trust and maintain marketplace integrity while supporting legitimate selling partners • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop comprehensive risk models that can adapt to evolving abuse patterns and emerging threats About the team 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.
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 3168875
    (Updated 9 days ago)
    Are you passionate about leveraging data to deliver actionable insights that impact daily marketing activities at Amazon? The Customer Targeting team in Amazon is seeking an Applied Scientist to join our team to develop models for optimizing the performance of Amazon’s marketing initiatives across channels and advertising formats. You have experience applying modern machine learning methods to answer key business questions, make strategic and tactical recommendations for change, and work with business leaders to drive these to production. You are entrepreneurial and able to work in a highly collaborative environment. This role requires an individual with strong quantitative modeling skills and experience using statistical methods. The successful candidate will be a self-starter comfortable with ambiguity, with strong attention to detail, an ability to work in a fast-paced and ever-changing environment. You will be expected to: - Leverage knowledge of statistics and optimization to frame decision-making problems for determining marketing spends across channels. - Predict future customer behavior and business conditions through machine learning and predictive modeling. - Use analytical and predictive techniques to build models for optimizing targeting. - Present proposals and results in a clear manner backed by data and coupled with actionable conclusions.
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 3169664
    (Updated 8 days ago)
    Amazon Stores Ads Science team is looking for a Senior Applied Scientist to help translate state-of-the-art causal inference and machine learning research into production solutions. The individual will have the opportunity to shape the technical and strategic vision of a highly ambiguous problem space at the intersection of Amazon’s Stores and Advertising businesses, and deliver measurable business impacts via cross-team and cross-functional collaboration. Amazon is investing heavily in building a world-class advertising business. Our advertising products are strategically important to Amazon’s Retail and Marketplace businesses for driving the long-term growth. The mission of the Stores Ads Science team is to identify opportunities to jointly optimize Amazon’s Stores and Advertising business, by enhancing the usage of advertising signals in Stores’ decision-making and vice versa to drive the long-term economic value to shoppers, sellers/vendors, and Amazon. Some of our work include measuring ads impact and shopping content incrementality to improve shopper experience, developing the science of explaining seller/vendor inter-related decisions between Stores and Ads (e.g.: pricing, Sponsored Ads participation) to optimize fees and incentives, and making Stores’ traffic acquisition strategies aware of shoppers’ and advertisers’ onsite advertising behavior. We partner closely with tech and product teams across Stores and Advertising, and are constantly advancing experimentation methodology to accelerate science development and quantify business impacts. We are highly motivated, collaborative, and fun-loving with an entrepreneurial spirit and bias for action.
  • US, WA, Redmond
    Job ID: 3161193
    (Updated 21 days ago)
    Amazon Leo is Amazon’s low Earth orbit satellite network. Our mission is to deliver fast, reliable internet connectivity to customers beyond the reach of existing networks. From individual households to schools, hospitals, businesses, and government agencies, Amazon Leo will serve people and organizations operating in locations without reliable connectivity. Export Control Requirement: Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum. This position is part of the Satellite Attitude Determination and Control team. You will design and analyze the control system and algorithms, support development of our flight hardware and software, help integrate the satellite in our labs, participate in flight operations, and see a constellation of satellites flow through the production line in the building next door. Key job responsibilities - Design and analyze algorithms for estimation, flight control, and precise pointing using linear methods and simulation. - Develop and apply models and simulations, with various levels of fidelity, of the satellite and our constellation. - Component level environmental testing, functional and performance checkout, subsystem integration, satellite integration, and in space operations. - Manage the spacecraft constellation as it grows and evolves. - Continuously improve our ability to serve customers by maximizing payload operations time. - Develop autonomy for Fault Detection and Isolation on board the spacecraft. A day in the life This is an opportunity to play a significant role in the design of an entirely new satellite system with challenging performance requirements. The large, integrated constellation brings opportunities for advanced capabilities that need investigation and development. The constellation size also puts emphasis on engineering excellence so our tools and methods, from conceptualization through manufacturing and all phases of test, will be state of the art as will the satellite and supporting infrastructure on the ground. You will find that Amazon Leo's mission is compelling, so our program is staffed with some of the top engineers in the industry. Our daily collaboration with other teams on the program brings constant opportunity for discovery, learning, and growth. About the team Our team has lots of experience with various satellite systems and many other flight vehicles. We have bench strength in both our mission and core GNC disciplines. We design, prototype, test, iterate and learn together. Because GNC is central to safe flight, we tend to drive Concepts of Operation and many system level analyses.
  • US, CA, San Francisco
    Job ID: 3161224
    (Updated 21 days ago)
    If you are interested in this position, please apply on Twitch's Career site https://www.twitch.tv/jobs/en/ About Us: Twitch is the world’s biggest live streaming service, with global communities built around gaming, entertainment, music, sports, cooking, and more. It is where thousands of communities come together for whatever, every day. We’re about community, inside and out. You’ll find coworkers who are eager to team up, collaborate, and smash (or elegantly solve) problems together. We’re on a quest to empower live communities, so if this sounds good to you, see what we’re up to on LinkedIn and X, and discover the projects we’re solving on our Blog. Be sure to explore our Interviewing Guide to learn how to ace our interview process. About the Role We are looking for applied scientists to solve challenging and open-ended problems in the domain of user and content safety. As an applied scientist on Twitch's Community team, you will use machine learning to develop data products tackling problems such as harassment, spam, and illegal content. You will use a wide toolbox of ML tools to handle multiple types of data, including user behavior, metadata, and user generated content such as text and video. You will collaborate with a team of passionate scientists and engineers to develop these models and put them into production, where they can help Twitch's creators and viewers succeed and build communities. You will report to our Senior Applied Science Manager in San Francisco, CA. You can work from San Francisco, CA or Seattle, WA. You Will - Build machine learning products to protect Twitch and its users from abusive behavior such as harassment, spam, and violent or illegal content. - Work backwards from customer problems to develop the right solution for the job, whether a classical ML model or a state-of-the-art one. - Collaborate with Community Health's engineering and product management team to productionize your models into flexible data pipelines and ML-based services. - Continue to learn and experiment with new techniques in ML, software engineering, or safety so that we can better help communities on Twitch grow and stay safe. Perks * Medical, Dental, Vision & Disability Insurance * 401(k) * Maternity & Parental Leave * Flexible PTO * Amazon Employee Discount
  • (Updated 15 days ago)
    The Sponsored Products and Brands team 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. The Demand Utilization team with Sponsored Products and Brands owns finding the appropriate ads to surface to customers when they search for products on Amazon. We strive to understand our customers’ intent and identify relevant ads which enable them to discover new and alternate products. This also enables sellers on Amazon to showcase their products to customers, which may at times be buried deeper in the search results. Our systems and algorithms operate on one of the world's largest product catalogs, matching shoppers with products - with a high relevance bar and strict latency constraints. We are a team of machine learning scientists and software engineers working on complex solutions to understand the customer intent and present them with ads that are not only relevant to their actual shopping experience, but also non-obtrusive. This area is of strategic importance to Amazon Retail and Marketplace business, driving long term-growth. We are looking for an Applied Scientist III, with a background in Machine Learning to optimize serving ads on billions of product pages. The solutions you create would drive step increases in coverage of sponsored ads across the retail website and ensure relevant ads are served to Amazon's customers. You will directly impact our customers’ shopping experience while helping our sellers get the maximum ROI from advertising on Amazon. You will be expected to demonstrate strong ownership and should be curious to learn and leverage the rich textual, image, and other contextual signals. This role will challenge you to utilize innovative machine learning techniques in the domain of predictive modeling, natural language processing (NLP), deep learning, reinforcement learning, query understanding, vector search (kNN) and image recognition to deliver significant impact for the business. Ideal candidates will be able to work cross functionally across multiple stakeholders, synthesize the science needs of our business partners, develop models to solve business needs, and implement solutions in production. In addition to being a strongly motivated IC, you will also be responsible for mentoring junior scientists and guiding them to deliver high impacting products and services for Amazon customers and sellers. Why you will love this opportunity: Amazon is investing heavily in building a world-class advertising business. This team defines and delivers a collection of advertising products that drive discovery and sales. Our solutions generate billions in revenue and drive long-term growth for Amazon’s Retail and Marketplace businesses. We deliver billions of ad impressions, millions of clicks daily, and break fresh ground to create world-class products. We are a highly motivated, collaborative, and fun-loving team with an entrepreneurial spirit - with a broad mandate to experiment and innovate. Impact and Career Growth: You will invent new experiences and influence customer-facing shopping experiences to help suppliers grow their retail business and the auction dynamics that leverage native advertising; this is your opportunity to work within the fastest-growing businesses across all of Amazon! Define a long-term science vision for our advertising business, driven from our customers' needs, translating that direction into specific plans for research and applied scientists, as well as engineering and product teams. This role combines science leadership, organizational ability, technical strength, product focus, and business understanding. Team video https://youtu.be/zD_6Lzw8raE Key job responsibilities As an Applied Scientist III on this team, you will: - Drive end-to-end Machine Learning projects that have a high degree of ambiguity, scale, complexity. - Perform hands-on analysis and modeling of enormous data sets to develop insights that increase traffic monetization and merchandise sales, without compromising the shopper experience. - Build machine learning models, perform proof-of-concept, experiment, optimize, and deploy your models into production; work closely with software engineers to assist in deploying your ML models. - Run A/B experiments, gather data, and perform statistical analysis. - Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large-scale data analysis, machine-learning model development, model validation and serving. - Research new and innovative machine learning approaches.
  • (Updated 21 days ago)
    As a Guidance, Navigation & Control Hardware Engineer, you will directly contribute to the planning, selection, development, and acceptance of Guidance, Navigation & Control hardware for Amazon Leo's constellation of satellites. Specializing in critical satellite hardware components including reaction wheels, star trackers, magnetometers, sun sensors, and other spacecraft sensors and actuators, you will play a crucial role in the integration and support of these precision systems. You will work closely with internal Amazon Leo hardware teams who develop these components, as well as Guidance, Navigation & Control engineers, software teams, systems engineering, configuration & data management, and Assembly, Integration & Test teams. A key aspect of your role will be actively resolving hardware issues discovered during both factory testing phases and operational space missions, working hand-in-hand with internal Amazon Leo hardware development teams to implement solutions and ensure optimal satellite performance. Export Control Requirement: Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum. Key job responsibilities * Planning and coordination of resources necessary to successfully accept and integrate satellite Guidance, Navigation & Control components including reaction wheels, star trackers, magnetometers, and sun sensors provided by internal Amazon Leo teams * Partner with internal Amazon Leo hardware teams to develop and refine spacecraft actuator and sensor solutions, ensuring they meet requirements and providing technical guidance for future satellite designs * Collaborate with internal Amazon Leo hardware development teams to resolve issues discovered during both factory test phases and operational space missions, implementing corrective actions and design improvements * Work with internal Amazon Leo teams to ensure state-of-the-art satellite hardware technologies including precision pointing systems, attitude determination sensors, and spacecraft actuators meet mission requirements * Lead verification and testing activities, ensuring satellite Guidance, Navigation & Control hardware components meet stringent space-qualified requirements * Drive implementation of hardware-in-the-loop testing for satellite systems, coordinating with internal Amazon Leo hardware engineers to validate component performance in simulated space environments * Troubleshoot and resolve complex hardware integration issues working directly with internal Amazon Leo hardware development teams
  • IN, KA, Bengaluru
    Job ID: 3161968
    (Updated 17 days ago)
    Do you want to join an innovative team of scientists who use machine learning and statistical techniques to create state-of-the-art solutions for providing better value to Amazon’s customers? Do you want to build and deploy advanced algorithmic systems that help optimize millions of transactions every day? Are you excited by the prospect of analyzing and modeling terabytes of data 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 like to innovate and simplify? If yes, then you may be a great fit to join the Machine Learning and Data Sciences team for India Consumer Businesses. If you have an entrepreneurial spirit, know how to deliver, love to work with data, are deeply technical, highly innovative and long for the opportunity to build solutions to challenging problems that directly impact the company's bottom-line, we want to talk to you. Major 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
  • (Updated 9 days ago)
    Do you want to help shape the future of Amazon's physical retail presence? Worldwide Grocery Stores (WWGS), Location Strategy and Analytics team is looking for an Applied Scientist to join us in developing advanced forecasting models, optimization models, and analytical tools to support critical real estate and store planning decisions for Amazon's Worldwide Grocery business, including Whole Foods Market. Our team is responsible for developing predictive models and tools to support Real Estate and Topology analysts in making important decisions regarding our stores—including new store openings, relocations, closures, remodels, design, new formats, and more. We leverage statistical modeling, machine learning, and GenAI to build solutions for store sales forecasting, sales transfer effects, macrospace optimization, store network optimization, store network diffusion planning, and causal effects. As an Applied Scientist on our team, you will apply your technical and analytical skills to tackle complex business problems and develop innovative solutions to improve our forecasting and decision-making capabilities. You will collaborate with a diverse team of scientists, economists, and business partners to identify opportunities, develop hypotheses, build internal products, and translate analytical insights into actionable recommendations for Executive Leadership. Key job responsibilities - Design and implement forecasting models and machine learning solutions to predict store performance and optimize our retail network. - Analyze large datasets to uncover insights and patterns related to store performance, customer behavior, and market dynamics. - Develop end-to-end solutions, tools and frameworks to scale our ML model development and data analysis. - Leverage GenAI models to enhance user interaction with our solutions, improve overall user experience, and build new features. - Present research findings and recommendations to scientists, business leaders, and executives. - Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive adoption of models and insights. - Stay current on latest developments in relevant fields and propose innovative approaches. About the team We are a team of scientists passionate about leveraging data and advanced analytics to drive strategic decisions for Amazon's grocery business. Our work directly impacts Amazon's worldwide grocery store growth and development strategy. We foster a collaborative environment where team members are encouraged to think creatively, challenge assumptions, and pursue novel approaches to solving complex problems. Our team is at the forefront of applying a multitude of techniques - including GenAI - to improve our scientific solutions and products.
  • Are you passionate about robotics and research? Do you want to solve real customer problems through innovative technology? Do you enjoy working on scalable research and projects in a collaborative team environment? Do you want to see your science solutions directly impact millions of customers worldwide? At Amazon, we hire the best minds in technology to innovate and build on behalf of our customers. Customer obsession is part of our company DNA, which has made us one of the world's most beloved brands. We’re looking for current PhD students with a passion for robotic research and applications to join us as Robotics Applied Scientist II Intern/Co-ops in 2026 to shape the future of robotics and automation at an unprecedented scale across. For these positions, our Robotics teams at Amazon are looking for students with a specialization in one or more of the research areas in robotics such as: robotics, robotics manipulation (e.g., robot arm, grasping, dexterous manipulation, end of arm tools/end effector), autonomous mobile robots, mobile manipulation, movement, autonomous navigation, locomotion, motion/path planning, controls, perception, sensing, robot learning, artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer vision, large language models, human-robot interaction, robotics simulation, optimization, and more! We're looking for curious minds who think big and want to define tomorrow's technology. At Amazon, you'll grow into the high-impact engineer you know you can be, supported by a culture of learning and mentorship. Every day brings exciting new challenges and opportunities for personal growth. By applying to this role, you will be considered for Robotics Applied Scientist II Intern/Co-op (2026) opportunities across various Robotics teams at Amazon with different robotics research focus, with internship positions available for multiple locations, durations (3 to 6+ months), and year-round start dates (winter, spring, summer, fall). Amazon intern and co-op roles follow the same internship structure. "Intern/Internship" wording refers to both interns and co-ops. Amazon internships across all seasons are full-time positions, and interns should expect to work in office, Monday-Friday, up to 40 hours per week typically between 8am-5pm. Specific team norms around working hours will be communicated by your manager. Interns should not have conflicts such as classes or other employment during the Amazon work-day. Applicants should have a minimum of one quarter/semester/trimester remaining in their studies after their internship concludes. The robotics internship join dates, length, location, and prospective team will be finalized at the time of any applicable job offers. In your application, you will be able to provide your preference of research interests, start dates, internship duration, and location. While your preference will be taken into consideration, we cannot guarantee that we can meet your selection based on several factors including but not limited to the internship availability and business needs of this role. About the team The Personal Robotics Group is pioneering intelligent robotic products that deliver meaningful customer experiences. We're the team behind Amazon Astro, and we're building the next generation of robotic systems that will redefine how customers interact with technology. Our work spans the full spectrum from advanced hardware design to sophisticated software and control systems, combining mechanical innovation, software engineering, dynamic systems modeling, and intelligent algorithms to create robots that are not just functional, but delightful. This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of personal robotics working with world-class teams pushing the boundaries of what's possible in robotic manipulation, locomotion, and human-robot interaction. Join us if you're passionate about creating the future of personal robotics, solving complex challenges at the intersection of hardware and software, and seeing your innovations deliver transformative customer experiences.

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