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The Amazon Robotics team is seeking an experienced Applied Scientist to join our team. In this role you will apply the latest trends in research to solve real-world problems in robotics and AI. You will collaborate with a team of scientists and engineers building these applications. We holistically design, build, and deliver end-to-end robotic systems. Our team is also responsible for core infrastructure and tools that serve as the backbone of our robotic applications, enabling roboticists, machine learning scientists, software engineers, and hardware engineers to collaborate and deploy systems in the field. Key job responsibilities • Research, design, implement and evaluate complex perception, motion planning, and decision making algorithms integrating across multiple disciplines and leveraging machine learning. • Create experiments and prototype implementations of new learning algorithms and prediction techniques. • Work closely with software engineering team members to drive scalable, real-time implementations. • Collaborate with machine learning and robotic controls experts to implement and deploy algorithms, such as machine learning models. • Collaborate closely with hardware engineering team members on developing systems from prototyping to production level. • Represent Amazon in academia community through publications and scientific presentations. • Work with stakeholders across hardware, science, and operations teams to iterate on systems design and implementation. About the team Watch this video to learn more about Vulcan Pick team in Amazon Robotics: https://www.amazon.science/publications/vulcan-pick-a-robotic-system-for-picking-targeted-objects-from-fabric-pods

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 Amazon Sponsored Products and Brands is looking for a talented Sr. Applied Scientist to join the Global Optimization science team at the forefront of advertising technology innovation. We are working backwards from emerging markets to reimagine Amazon's advertising stack from the ground up, leveraging multilingual and multi-modal GenAI technologies — including semantic hash designs, LLMs, and more — to deliver solutions that scale to non-US marketplaces from day one. This is your opportunity to be part of a small, high-impact team that prototypes, invents, and ships state-of-the-art solutions that will define the future of digital advertising. The ideal candidate combines entrepreneurial drive with deep technical expertise, thriving in ambiguous, fast-moving environments where you define the path forward with minimal structure. Our team regularly goes from ideas on the whiteboard to production-grade experiments. Your Customer Obsession fuels your passion for translating science into real-world value for millions of advertisers and customers worldwide. You are consistently Right, A Lot when navigating complex technical decisions, demonstrating the rare ability to identify solutions that drive maximum impact with minimal resources. Whether you're architecting scalable GenAI systems or optimizing multi-task recommendation engines, you cut through complexity to find the solutions that deliver the most results. Your GenAI experience goes beyond theoretical knowledge—you have successfully delivered value with state-of-the-art technologies at Amazon scale, understanding both the promise and practical challenges of deploying machine learning in production environments (evaluations, etc.). You're not just a scientist or just an engineer—you're a builder who sees the bigger picture and knows how to make it reality. Key job responsibilities * Architect next-generation systems that replace legacy monolithic infrastructure with scalable, intelligent solutions that scale worldwide on day one. * Pioneer breakthrough applied science in multi-modal GenAI applications for advertising, combining text, image, and multi-lingual support. * Drive end-to-end innovation from research ideation through production deployment at Amazon scale. * Lead cross-functional collaboration with product, engineering, and business teams to translate science into customer impact. About the team You will join a newly-founded team with a broad mandate to experiment and innovate, with a focus on driving growth of sponsored products ad experiences across non-US marketplaces. This broad charter gives us the flexibility to explore and apply scientific techniques to novel product problems. You will have the satisfaction of seeing your work improve the experience of millions of Amazon shoppers worldwide while driving quantifiable revenue impact. More importantly, you will have the opportunity to broaden your technical skills, and be a science leader in an environment that thrives on creativity, experimentation, and product innovation.

Are you passionate about leveraging your applied science skills to deliver actionable insights that impact daily business decisions? Do you like using ML, GenAI, Causal Inference, Reinforcement Learning and Experimentation to answer challenging product and customer behavior questions? Do you want to be a technical leader and build flexible and global solutions for complex financial services/payments, risk, and causal problems? If so, here is a great opportunity to consider! Amazon B2B Payments & Lending is seeking an Applied Scientist II who will combine their technical expertise with business acumen to generate critical insights that will set the strategic direction of the business. You will be a thought leader on the team, help set the team's strategic focus and roadmaps, and design and build systems/solutions that support financial products, working closely with business/product partners and engineers. You will utilize ML/GenAI/Causal Inference/Reinforcement Learning/Experimentation methodologies, data and coding skills, problem solving and analytical skills, and excellent communication to deliver customer value. Amazon offers a full range of benefits that support you and eligible family members, including domestic partners and their children. Benefits can vary by location, the number of regularly scheduled hours you work, length of employment, and job status such as seasonal or temporary employment. The benefits that generally apply to regular, full-time employees include: 1. Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage 2. Maternity and Parental Leave Options 3. Paid Time Off (PTO) 4. 401(k) Plan. If you are not sure that every qualification on the list above describes you exactly, we'd still love to hear from you! At Amazon, we value people with unique backgrounds, experiences, and skillsets. If you’re passionate about this role and want to make an impact on a global scale, please apply!

At Amazon Selection and Catalog Systems (ASCS), our mission is to power the online buying experience for customers worldwide so they can find, discover, and buy any product they want. We innovate on behalf of our customers to ensure uniqueness and consistency of product identity and to infer relationships between products in Amazon Catalog to drive the selection gateway for the search and browse experiences on the website. We're solving a fundamental AI challenge: establishing product relevant information at unprecedented scale with Frontier Models and Agents. The scale is staggering: billions of products, petabytes of multimodal data, millions of sellers, dozens of languages, and infinite product diversity ranging from electronics to groceries to digital content. The research challenges are immense. GenAI and VLMs hold transformative promise for catalog understanding, but we operate where traditional methods fail: ambiguous problem spaces, incomplete and noisy data, inherent uncertainty, reasoning across both images and textual data, and explaining decisions at scale. Enriching product information requires sophisticated models that reason across text, images, and structured data, all while maintaining accuracy and trust for high-stakes business decisions affecting millions of customers daily. Amazon's Catalog System Services Science team is looking for an innovative and customer-focused applied scientist to help us make the world's best product catalog even better. In this role, you will partner with technology and business leaders to build new state-of-the-art algorithms, models, and services. You will pioneer advanced GenAI solutions that power next-generation agentic shopping experiences, working in a collaborative environment where you can experiment with massive data from the world's largest product catalog, tackle problems at the frontier of AI research, rapidly implement and deploy your algorithmic ideas at scale, across millions of customers. Key job responsibilities * Formulate novel research problems at the intersection of GenAI, multimodal learning, and large-scale information retrieval. In essence, translating ambiguous business challenges into tractable scientific frameworks * Design and implement leading models leveraging frontier models, and agentic architectures to enrich catalog information at billion-product scale * Pioneer explainable AI methodologies that balance model performance with scalability requirements for production systems impacting millions of daily customer decisions * Own end-to-end ML pipelines from research ideation to production deployment, processing petabytes of multimodal data with rigorous evaluation frameworks * Define research roadmaps aligned with business priorities, balancing foundational research with incremental product improvements * Mentor peer scientists and engineers on advanced ML techniques, experimental design, and scientific rigor, building organizational capability in GenAI and multimodal AI * Represent the team in the broader science community - publishing findings, delivering tech talks, and staying at the forefront of GenAI, VLM, and agentic system research

The R2L team is responsible for building the next generation supply chain for Amazon's world-class ultra-fast customer experiences including Amazon Fresh groceries, Sub-Same Day, Amazon Now, and other soon-to-launch exciting new businesses. Join us and you'll be taking part in serving our customers in as fast as 30 minutes! The R2L Science & AI team is the centralized data science and AI function serving all R2L business verticals. We drive data informed decision making and build AI-powered products that optimize every stage of R2L's operational pipeline from supply chain planning through last-mile delivery. We are looking for a customer-focused, solutions-oriented Senior Manager, Data Science to lead and scale the data science function within the R2L organization. In this role, you will build and manage a high-performing team of Data Scientists and BI Engineers while owning the AI technical roadmap for R2L. You will be responsible for delivering data science and AI solutions that drive measurable operational improvements across R2L's end-to-end network including Supply Chain, Operations, Delivery, Operational Excellence, and Finance. This is a people leadership role with deep technical expectations. You will set the technical vision, hire and develop talent, and partner with senior leaders across R2L and external stakeholders to ensure data science and AI investments are aligned with business priorities and deliver outsized impact. Key job responsibilities - Build and manage a team of Data Scientists and BI Engineers - Define and drive the multi-year vision for Science and AI roadmap for R2L, aligning investments with business priorities to deliver measurable efficiency and customer experience improvements - Define and execute the Gen AI strategy for R2L, identifying high-impact use cases for LLMs, agentic AI, and automation across operational workflows - Influence VP and Director-level leaders through data-driven narratives, technical deep dives, and business impact framing - Educate senior leaders about and advocate for high-quality measurement as an input to data-driven decisions - Raise the technical bar across the organization through mentorship, artifact reviews, and establishing best practices for experimentation, model development, and deployment - Stay up-to-date on the latest data science, measurability, AI tools, techniques, and best practices and help evangelize them across the organization A day in the life Amazon offers a full range of benefits that support you and eligible family members, including domestic partners and their children. Benefits can vary by location, the number of regularly scheduled hours you work, length of employment, and job status such as seasonal or temporary employment. The benefits that generally apply to regular, full-time employees include: - Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage - Maternity and Parental Leave Options - Paid Time Off (PTO) - 401(k) Plan If you are not sure that every qualification on the list above describes you exactly, we'd still love to hear from you! At Amazon, we value people with unique backgrounds, experiences, and skillsets. If you’re passionate about this role and want to make an impact on a global scale, please apply!

Amazon Alexa for Shopping (Rufus) Experience Science team is seeking a highly motivated Scientist who is passionate about building next-generation agentic shopping experiences. In this role, you will be developing Agentic Language Models to unlock new shopping experiences. Prior experiences with LLM Post-training techniques, Reinforcement Learning (RL) Training and business specific RL gym creation is preferred. You will collaborate closely with a multidisciplinary team of scientists, engineers, product managers, and designers to deliver these experiences across multiple Rufus customer-facing features. You will thrive in this role if you enjoy bringing latest LLM post-training research into everyday life—both for customers and for yourself. There’s nothing quite like realizing that a model you deployed yesterday is already improving your own shopping experience today. You will work side by side with scientists and engineers in a fast-paced environment, driving rapid model development and experimentation. You’ll also have access to Amazon’s rich datasets, AWS’s massive computational resources, and a network of world-class science and engineering leaders across the company.

We are Amazon's central Responsible AI team. Our mission is to advance the science and practice of Responsible AI (RAI) to enable Amazon's tens of thousands of builders to build and deploy AI solutions to the high standards that our customers and society expect. As a scientist on this team, you will: - understand in depth the technical and scientific issues related to RAI, including controllability, security, privacy, safety, veracity, robustness, fairness, explainability, transparency, and governance - help define the strategies, priorities and metrics for RAI - solve open problems in RAI to unblock traditional, generative and/or agentic AI use cases and solutions, publishing as appropriate - help develop our team - liase with internal and external stakeholders, including the academic community, on issues related to RAI About the team Diverse Experiences Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the 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. Why Amazon Security? At Amazon, security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. Our organization is responsible for creating and maintaining a high bar for security across all of Amazon’s products and services. We offer talented security professionals the chance to accelerate their careers with opportunities to build experience in a wide variety of areas including cloud, devices, retail, entertainment, healthcare, operations, and physical stores. Inclusive Team Culture In Amazon Security, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Ongoing DEI events and learning experiences inspire us to continue learning and to embrace our uniqueness. Addressing the toughest security challenges requires that we seek out and celebrate a diversity of ideas, perspectives, and voices. Training & 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, training, and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional. 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 flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.

Amazon Science gives you insight into the company’s approach to customer focused scientific innovation. Amazon fundamentally believes that scientific innovation is essential to being the most customer-centric company in the world. It’s the company’s ability to have an impact at scale that allows us to attract some of the brightest minds in artificial intelligence and related fields. Our scientists continue to publish, teach, and engage with the academic community, in addition to utilizing our working backwards method to enrich the way we live and work. Please visit https://www.amazon.science for more information. Are you an expert in Natural Language Processing (NLP), computer vision Large Language Models (LLM) and multi-modality? Are you interested in building Generative AI solutions on complex business problems that have significant global benefit. The Brand Protection Science team designs and builds high performance AI systems using machine learning and deep learning that identify and prevent infringement and counterfeit on behalf of brand owners worldwide. We are looking for a highly talented scientist to help build of our AI vision for Brand Protection. As a applied scientist on the team, you will use SOTA AI and ML techniques to understand and extract key information from product detail page, built automated AI solutions that thinks like human to make autonomous decisions. You will work backwards from data insights and customer feedback to build the right machine learning solutions, and resourceful in finding innovative solutions to unsolved problems. You will work closely will product team and engineering partners to launch the solution into production and own the end-to-end solution. An ideal candidate should be a self-starter comfortable with ambiguity, strong attention to detail, and the ability to work in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment. As an Applied scientist, you will own the design and development of end-to-end AI solutions, from conception to launch in a rapidly evolving environment. You’ll have the opportunity to create science roadmaps, and drive production level projects that will support Amazon Science. extensive experience driving Machine Learning initiatives, specially in NLP and LLM applications, from conception to launch in a rapidly evolving environment. You will work closely with other scientists and enigneers to develop solutions and deploy them into production. The ideal scientist must have the ability to work with diverse groups of people and cross-functional teams to solve complex business problems. Major responsibilities: - Understand business challenges by analyzing data and customer feedback - Collaborate with tech and product teams on building ML strategies, experimentation, implementation and continuous improvement - Analyze and extract relevant information from large amounts of both structured and unstructured data to design strategies to solve business problems. - Use deep learning and machine learning techniques to create scalable solutions for business problems - Create business and analytics reports and present to the senior management teams - Research and implement novel AI solutions and publish research papers Key job responsibilities Amazon Science gives insight into the company’s approach to customer-obsessed scientific innovation. Amazon fundamentally believes that scientific innovation is essential to being the most customer-centric company in the world. It’s the company’s ability to have an impact at scale that allows us to attract some of the brightest minds in artificial intelligence and related fields. Our scientists use our working backwards method to enrich the way we live and work. For more information on the Amazon Science community please visit https://www.amazon.science.

The Sponsored Products and Brands (SPB) team at Amazon Ads is re-imagining the advertising landscape through state-of-the-art 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. Key job responsibilities This role will be pivotal in redesigning how ads contribute to a personalized, relevant, and inspirational shopping experience, with the customer value proposition at the forefront. Key responsibilities include, but are not limited to: - Contribute to the design and development of GenAI, deep learning, multi-objective optimization and/or reinforcement learning empowered solutions to transform ad retrieval, auctions, whole-page relevance, and/or bespoke shopping experiences. - Collaborate cross-functionally with other scientists, engineers, and product managers to bring scalable, production-ready science solutions to life. - Stay abreast of industry trends in GenAI, LLMs, and related disciplines, bringing fresh and innovative concepts, ideas, and prototypes to the organization. - Contribute to the enhancement of team’s scientific and technical rigor by identifying and implementing best-in-class algorithms, methodologies, and infrastructure that enable rapid experimentation and scaling. - Mentor and grow junior scientists and engineers, cultivating a high-performing, collaborative, and intellectually curious team. A day in the life As an Applied Scientist on the Sponsored Products and Brands Off-Search team, you will contribute to the development in Generative AI (GenAI) and Large Language Models (LLMs) to revolutionize our advertising flow, backend optimization, and frontend shopping experiences. This is a rare opportunity to redefine how ads are retrieved, allocated, and/or experienced—elevating them into personalized, contextually aware, and inspiring components of the customer journey. You will have the opportunity to fundamentally transform areas such as ad retrieval, ad allocation, whole-page relevance, and differentiated recommendations through the lens of GenAI. By building novel generative models grounded in both Amazon’s rich data and the world’s collective knowledge, your work will shape how customers engage with ads, discover products, and make purchasing decisions. If you are passionate about applying frontier AI to real-world problems with massive scale and impact, this is your opportunity to define the next chapter of advertising science. About the team The Off-Search team within Sponsored Products and Brands (SPB) is focused on building delightful ad experiences across various surfaces beyond Search on Amazon—such as product detail pages, the homepage, and store-in-store pages—to drive monetization. Our vision is to deliver highly personalized, context-aware advertising that adapts to individual shopper preferences, scales across diverse page types, remains relevant to seasonal and event-driven moments, and integrates seamlessly with organic recommendations such as new arrivals, basket-building content, and fast-delivery options. To execute this vision, we work in close partnership with Amazon Stores stakeholders to lead the expansion and growth of advertising across Amazon-owned and -operated pages beyond Search. We operate full stack—from backend ads-retail edge services, ads retrieval, and ad auctions to shopper-facing experiences—all designed to deliver meaningful value. Curious about our advertising solutions? Discover more about Sponsored Products and Sponsored Brands to see how we’re helping businesses grow on Amazon.com and beyond!

We are seeking an Applied Scientist to focus on Robotics Localization, Mapping, and Geometric Reconstruction. In this role, you'll research and build advanced SLAM and World Reconstruction algorithms that enable robots to know its pose in the world and fulfill various tasks in complex and dynamic home environments. You'll work across a broad spectrum of visual inertial odometry, 3D pose estimation, mapping, and geometric reconstruction problems to build robust solutions that support autonomous decision making, task planning, navigation, and manipulation. Key job responsibilities - Develop and implement robust robot state estimation, pose estimation, mapping, and reconstruction algorithms. - Build simulation-based and on-robot evaluation frameworks with comprehensive benchmarks and metrics for systematic evaluation of our spatial intelligence stack. - Lead scientific and technical projects across the spatial intelligence team. - Collaborate with navigation, manipulation, and other teams to ensure seamless integration of localization, tracking, and mapping capabilities. - Mentor junior scientists and engineers to solve real-world robotics problems. About the team Fauna Robotics, an Amazon company, is building capable, safe, and genuinely delightful robots for everyday life. Our goal is simple: make robots people actually want to live and interact with in everyday human spaces. We believe that future won’t arrive until building for robotics becomes far more accessible. Today, too much effort is spent reinventing the fundamentals. We’re changing that by developing tightly integrated hardware and software systems that make it faster, safer, and more intuitive to create real-world robotic products. Our work spans the full stack: mechanical design, control systems, dynamic modeling, and intelligent software. The focus is not just functionality, but experience. We’re building robots that feel responsive, expressive, and genuinely useful. At Fauna, you’ll work at the frontier of this space, helping define how robots move, manipulate, and interact with people in natural environments. It’s an opportunity to solve hard problems across hardware and software with a team focused on making robotics accessible and joyful to build. If you care about making robotics real for everyone and building systems that are as delightful as they are capable, we’re interested in hearing from you.