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

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

We are seeking a Sr. Applied Scientist to focus on Robot Navigation. In this role, you'll research and develop advanced navigation systems that enable robots to move reliably and safely through complex, dynamic environments. You'll work across a broad spectrum of navigation approaches—from classical methods to learning-based techniques and foundation models—to build robust solutions for autonomous robot navigation. Key job responsibilities - Develop and implement robust navigation systems that enable reliable autonomous operation in complex, dynamic indoor environments with static and dynamic obstacles - Build simulation-based and on-device evaluation frameworks with comprehensive benchmarks and metrics for systematic comparison of navigation methods - Conduct sim-to-real transfer experiments, analyzing performance gaps and developing techniques to ensure reliable real-world navigation performance - Collaborate with world model, manipulation, and other teams to ensure seamless integration of navigation capabilities into the full robot system - Stay current with the latest advances in robot navigation, spatial reasoning, and related fields, and apply relevant findings to improve system performance - Mentor fellow scientists and engineers while maintaining strong individual technical contributions 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.

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

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

At Audible, we believe stories have the power to transform lives. It’s why we work with some of the world’s leading creators to produce and share audio storytelling with our millions of global listeners. We are dreamers and inventors who come from a wide range of backgrounds and experiences to empower and inspire each other. Imagine your future with us. ABOUT THIS ROLE As an Applied Scientist, you will solve large complex real-world problems at scale, draw inspiration from the latest science and technology to empower undefined/untapped business use cases, delve into customer requirements, collaborate with tech and product teams on design, and create production-ready models that span various domains, including Machine Learning (ML), Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Generative AI, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Reinforcement Learning (RL), real-time and distributed systems. ABOUT YOU Your work will focus on inventing or adapting scientific approaches, models, and algorithms driven by customer needs at the project level. You will develop components and/or end-to-end solutions that are deployed into production or directly support production systems, delivering consistently high-quality work that meets both scientific and engineering best practices. You will develop reusable science components and services that resolve architecture deficiencies and customers’ pain points, while making technical trade-offs for long-term/short- term. You will work semi-autonomously to deliver solutions, contribute to research papers at peer-reviewed venues when appropriate, and document your work thoroughly to enable others to understand and reproduce it. Your decision-making will consistently incorporate robust, data-driven business and technical judgment. You will collaborate with other scientists to raise the bar of both scientific and engineering complexity for the team and to foster valuable scientific partnership opportunities to help/guide science decisions. We work in a highly collaborative, fast-paced environment where scientists, engineers, and product managers work to test and build scalable foundational capabilities, as well as customer facing experiences. You will have the opportunity to innovate and think big within your projects scope, implement optimization services and algorithms, and influence the experiences of millions of customers. We are looking for a results-oriented Applied Scientist with deep knowledge in ML, NLP, Deep Learning, GenAI, and/or large-scale distributed computation. As an Applied Scientist, you will... - Understand use cases across the business and adopt/extend/design/invent solutions/models that are scalable, efficient, and automated for difficult problems that are not well defined - Work closely with fellow scientists and software engineers (at Audible and Amazon) to build and productionize models, deliver novel and highly impactful features - Review models of peers for the purpose of reducing and managing risk to the business, while improving customer experience - Design, develop, and deploy modeling techniques and solutions for Content Understanding, Recommendations, GenAI-based product features, by employing a wide range of methodologies, working from simple to complex - Contribute to initiatives that employ the most recent advances in ML/AI in a fast-paced, experimental environment - Push the boundary of innovation ABOUT AUDIBLE Audible is the leading producer and provider of audio storytelling. We spark listeners’ imaginations, offering immersive, cinematic experiences full of inspiration and insight to enrich our customers daily lives. We are a global company with an entrepreneurial spirit. We are dreamers and inventors who are passionate about the positive impact Audible can make for our customers and our neighbors. This spirit courses throughout Audible, supporting a culture of creativity and inclusion built on our People Principles and our mission to build more equitable communities in the cities we call home.

Innovators wanted! Are you an entrepreneur? A builder? A dreamer? This role is part of an Amazon Special Projects team that takes the company’s Think Big leadership principle to the extreme. We focus on creating entirely new products and services with a goal of positively impacting the lives of our customers. No industries or subject areas are out of bounds. If you’re interested in innovating at scale to address big challenges in the world, this is the team for you. Here at Amazon, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have thirteen employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We are constantly learning through programs that are local, regional, and global. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 16 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust. Our team highly values work-life balance, mentorship and career growth. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects and offer training that will challenge you to become your best. Key job responsibilities - Lead and execute complex, ambiguous research projects from ideation to production deployment - Drive technical strategy and roadmap decisions for ML/AI initiatives - Collaborate cross-functionally with product, engineering, and business teams to translate research into scalable products - Publish research findings at top-tier conferences and contribute to the broader scientific community - Establish best practices for ML experimentation, evaluation, and deployment

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

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

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