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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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  • JP, 13, Tokyo
    Job ID: 10471831
    (Updated 10 days ago)
    We are seeking an exceptional Applied Scientist to join our JP Seller Services team, where you will reimagine how science analysis and modeling are conducted across the organization through an AI-native approach. In this role, you will design and build intelligent systems that enable any team member to validate business hypotheses with scientific rigor in hours rather than months. You will architect production-grade platforms spanning multi-agent AI frameworks, causal inference automation, generative AI, and simulation engines that democratize advanced analytics at scale. Your work will fundamentally transform how the teams generate, test, and deploy data-driven recommendations, scaling rigorous science solutions for every decision-maker to solve customer problems. The ideal candidate combines deep expertise in scientific analysis such as causal inference, machine learning, and AI system design with the vision to rethink the entire science lifecycle from hypothesis to deployment. At Amazon, you'll work alongside the latest AI and GenAI tools that are increasingly woven into how teams operate: from AI-powered capabilities that accelerate decision-making, to Generative AI that helps you focus on work that truly matters. You'll have opportunities and resources to develop AI fluency at your own pace, with continuous learning built into the culture. Key job responsibilities - Lead the design and development of AI-native science platforms that automate the end-to-end lifecycle from hypothesis formulation through causal analysis, model validation, and deployment into production systems. - Design and build shared knowledge infrastructure (feature stores, experiment registries, model leaderboards) that enables cumulative organizational learning, where every validated insight accelerates future analyses. - Design and implement evaluation frameworks, including Seller simulations, that enable teams to validate model quality and test interventions against synthetic populations before live deployment. - Drive integration with downstream systems to close the gap between validated insights and seller-facing actions, ensuring science outputs reach the people and systems that serve customers. - Collaborate with cross-functional partners (product managers, category leaders, marketing managers, economists, and data scientists) to identify high-impact business problems and translate them into scalable scientific solutions.
  • US, NY, New York
    Job ID: 10468196
    (Updated 13 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. Amazon Ads Response Prediction team is your choice, if you want to join a highly motivated, collaborative, and fun-loving team with a strong entrepreneurial spirit and bias for action. We are seeking an experienced and motivated Machine Learning Applied Scientist who loves to innovate at the intersection of customer experience, deep learning, and high-scale machine-learning systems. Amazon Advertising operates at the intersection of eCommerce and advertising, and is investing heavily in building a world-class advertising business. We are defining and delivering a collection of self-service performance advertising products that drive discovery and sales. Our products are strategically important to our Retail and Marketplace businesses driving long-term growth. We deliver billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks daily and are breaking fresh ground to create world-class products to improve both shopper and advertiser experience. With a broad mandate to experiment and innovate, we grow at an unprecedented rate with a seemingly endless range of new opportunities. We are looking for a talented Machine Learning Applied Scientist for our Amazon Ads Response Prediction team to grow the business. We are providing advanced real-time machine learning services to connect shoppers with right ads on all platforms and surfaces worldwide. Through the deep understanding of both shoppers and products, we help shoppers discover new products they love, be the most efficient way for advertisers to meet their customers, and helps Amazon continuously innovate on behalf of all customers. Key job responsibilities * Conduct deep data analysis to derive insights to the business, and identify gaps and new opportunities * Develop scalable and effective machine-learning models and optimization strategies to solve business problems * Run regular A/B experiments, gather data, and perform statistical analysis * Work closely with software engineers to deliver end-to-end solutions into production * Improve the scalability, efficiency and automation of large-scale data analytics, model training, deployment and serving * Conduct research on new machine-learning modeling to optimize all aspects of Sponsored Products and Brands business
  • US, CA, Santa Clara
    Job ID: 10467950
    (Updated 15 days ago)
    Join the next science and engineering revolution at Amazon's Delivery Foundation Model team, where you'll work alongside world-class scientists and engineers to pioneer the next frontier of logistics through advanced AI and foundation models. We are seeking an exceptional Senior Applied Scientist to help develop innovative foundation models that enable delivery of billions of packages worldwide. In this role, you'll combine highly technical work with scientific leadership, ensuring the team delivers robust solutions for dynamic real-world environments. Your team will leverage Amazon's vast data and computational resources to tackle ambitious problems across a diverse set of Amazon delivery use cases. Key job responsibilities - Design and implement novel deep learning architectures combining a multitude of modalities, including image, video, and geospatial data. - Solve computational problems to train foundation models on vast amounts of Amazon data and infer at Amazon scale, taking advantage of latest developments in hardware and deep learning libraries. - As a foundation model developer, collaborate with multiple science and engineering teams to help build adaptations that power use cases across Amazon Last Mile deliveries, improving experience and safety of a delivery driver, an Amazon customer, and improving efficiency of Amazon delivery network. - Guide technical direction for specific research initiatives, ensuring robust performance in production environments. - Mentor fellow scientists while maintaining strong individual technical contributions. A day in the life As a member of the Delivery Foundation Model team, you’ll spend your day on the following: - Develop and implement novel foundation model architectures, working hands-on with data and our extensive training and evaluation infrastructure - Guide and support fellow scientists in solving complex technical challenges, from trajectory planning to efficient multi-task learning - Guide and support fellow engineers in building scalable and reusable infra to support model training, evaluation, and inference - Lead focused technical initiatives from conception through deployment, ensuring successful integration with production systems- Drive technical discussions within the team and and key stakeholders - Conduct experiments and prototype new ideas - Mentor team members while maintaining significant hands-on contribution to technical solutions About the team The Delivery Foundation Model team combines ambitious research vision with real-world impact. Our foundation models provide generative reasoning capabilities required to meet the demands of Amazon's global Last Mile delivery network. We leverage Amazon's unparalleled computational infrastructure and extensive datasets to deploy state-of-the-art foundation models to improve the safety, quality, and efficiency of Amazon deliveries. Our work spans the full spectrum of foundation model development, from multimodal training using images, videos, and sensor data, to sophisticated modeling strategies that can handle diverse real-world scenarios. We build everything end to end, from data preparation to model training and evaluation to inference, along with all the tooling needed to understand and analyze model performance. Join us if you're excited about pushing the boundaries of what's possible in logistics, working with world-class scientists and engineers, and seeing your innovations deployed at unprecedented scale.
  • US, CA, Sunnyvale
    Job ID: 10468876
    (Updated 22 days ago)
    Ring & Blink is looking for a Senior Applied Science Manager to lead the AI development. In this role, you will be the leader of our passionate, talented, and inventive scientists, to develop industry-leading Multimodal AI, Research Infra, and scaling them successfully to production for the benefit of millions of Amazon Devices users. This is a unique, high visibility opportunity for a leader who wants to have business impact, and dive deep into computer vision problems. We are particularly interested in candidates with experience productizing edge-based computer vision systems. Key job responsibilities As a Senior Manager, Applied Science, you bring structure to ambiguous business problems and use science, logic, and practical experience to decompose them into straightforward, scalable solutions. You set the standard for scientific excellence and make decisions that affect the way we build and integrate algorithms. Your solutions are exemplary in terms of algorithm design, clarity, model structure, efficiency, and extensibility. You tackle intrinsically hard problems; you're interested in learning; and you acquire skills and expertise as needed. The ideal candidate is a strong, creative and highly-motivated Scientist/Engineers with hands-on experience in leading multiple research and engineering initiatives. You balance technical leadership with strong business judgment to make the right decisions about technology, tools, and methodologies.
  • US, WA, Bellevue
    Job ID: 10470490
    (Updated 20 days ago)
    The WW DSP Analytics team is a centralized analytics organization within Amazon's Last Mile Delivery Service Partner (DSP) program. We build best-in-class solutions that enable data-driven decision making across our global DSP ecosystem. Our team partners with internal stakeholders, DSP owners, and cross-functional teams to deliver insights that drive operational excellence, business growth, and the success of small business owners in Last Mile delivery. Our work directly impacts customer experience, driver and station associate experience, DSP success, and Amazon's sustainable growth. The goal of Amazon’s DSP organization is to exceed the expectations of our customers by ensuring that their orders, no matter how large or small, are delivered as quickly, accurately, and cost effectively as possible. To meet this goal, Amazon is continually striving to innovate and provide best in class delivery experience through the introduction of pioneering new products and services in the last mile delivery space. Come join us and help us make history! We are seeking a passionate Data Scientist with deep expertise in optimization and causal inference to join our team. You will work on some of the most challenging problems in DSP delivery planning and the business health space, applying data science rigor to improve how decisions are made and drive outcomes at scale. Key job responsibilities Develop Science Solutions for DSP Capacity Planning & Business Health: Design and implement data science solutions that optimize Delivery Service Partner (DSP) capacity allocation and business health measurement across the global DSP network. Leverage deep expertise in mathematical optimization and causal inference to identify opportunities for improving capacity planning models, volume share calibration methodologies, and business health measurement systems that drive partner sustainability. Analyze Sentiment Risks & Business Health Metrics: Analyze sentiment risks and enhance algorithms that support DSP program management, including business health indicators, capacity reliability models, and partner viability frameworks that inform intervention strategies. Translate Business Requirements into Mathematical Models: Demonstrate strategic thinking by translating high-level DSP capacity planning and business health improvement requirements into optimization formulations and predictive models, and applying them to quantify return on investment for policy changes and network interventions. Build Production-Scale Analytics: Contribute to the development and deployment of scalable data models, dashboards, and automated reporting systems that enable self-service analytics for DSP stakeholders and surface business health signals at scale. Accelerate GenAI Footprint: Partner with Data Engineers to expand our GenAI tools and improve developer productivity, while raising the bar on data quality and enabling intelligent automation across capacity planning workflows. Conduct Independent Data Analysis: Mine and analyze complex datasets across multiple domains, business health metrics, financial data, capacity signals, and operational data, using programming and statistical tools to generate actionable insights. Thrive in a Collaborative Environment: Excel in a fast-paced analytics organization that encourages collaborative and creative problem-solving. Measure and communicate analytical risks, constructively critique peer work, and align research focuses with DSP capacity planning strategic needs. Partner Cross-Functionally: Work closely with Business Intelligence Engineers, capacity planning teams, and DSP stakeholders to define KPIs, validate analytical approaches, and ensure insights drive meaningful outcomes. About the team We are the WW DSP Analytics team with the vision to enable data, insights and science driven decision-making. We have exceptionally talented and fun loving team members. In our team, you will have the opportunity to dive deep into complex business and data problems, drive large scale technical solutions and raise the bar for operational excellence. We love to share ideas and learning with each other. We believe in promoting and using ideas to disrupt the status quo.
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 10473207
    (Updated 14 days ago)
    Are you excited to play a strategic role in defining the customer experience on Tablets? Come join a dynamic, customer-obsessed, world-class science team to completely reshape the customer experience on our tablets. Key job responsibilities Using Amazon’s large-scale computing resources, you will design and deploy state-of-the-art recommendation models. You will ask research questions about customer behavior, design state-of-the-art models that help customers discover content, and deploy these models to production alongside other engineers. You will participate in the Amazon ML community and mentor other engineers with a strong interest in and knowledge of ML and generative AI. Your work will directly benefit customers! A day in the life We are looking for a passionate, hard-working, and talented Applied Scientist who has experience developing state-of-the-art models and deploying them to production. You will have an opportunity to make an enormous impact on the design, architecture, and implementation of products used everyday by real customers! About the team The Amazon Tablet team is a world-class team that delivers high-quality, innovative products that are loved by our customers. Our team focuses on spinning many of Amazon’s flywheels with bar-raising mobile experiences on our tablets. Over the last 12 years, we have built 4.0+ star rated products, and we continue to look for ways to scale our business. Join us as we continue our ambitious journey which will give you the opportunity to deliver disruptive products with global impact.
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 10469429
    (Updated 3 days ago)
    Prime Video is a first-stop entertainment destination offering customers a vast collection of premium programming in one app available across thousands of devices. Prime members can customize their viewing experience and find their favorite movies, series, documentaries, and live sports – including Amazon MGM Studios-produced series and movies; licensed fan favorites; and programming from Prime Video add-on subscriptions such as Apple TV+, Max, Crunchyroll and MGM+. All customers, regardless of whether they have a Prime membership or not, can rent or buy titles via the Prime Video Store, and can enjoy even more content for free with ads. Are you interested in shaping the future of entertainment? Prime Video's technology teams are creating best-in-class digital video experience. As a Prime Video technologist, you’ll have end-to-end ownership of the product, user experience, design, and technology required to deliver state-of-the-art experiences for our customers. You’ll get to work on projects that are fast-paced, challenging, and varied. You’ll also be able to experiment with new possibilities, take risks, and collaborate with remarkable people. We’ll look for you to bring your diverse perspectives, ideas, and skill-sets to make Prime Video even better for our customers. With global opportunities for talented technologists, you can decide where a career Prime Video Tech takes you! Key job responsibilities - Build sequential decision-making frameworks (e.g., MDPs, multi-armed bandits, dynamic programming) to optimize marketing resource allocation over time under uncertainty. - Create predictive models to forecast marketing efficiency and aid strategic budget allocation across channels, campaigns, and markets. - Design and analyze geo-level and regional hold-out experiments to validate model predictions and establish ground truth. - Automate and scale our modeling infrastructure to improve efficiency and expand coverage across use cases and geographies. - Collaborate with leaders across business and finance teams to translate business questions into well-posed statistical and optimization problems. - Quantify uncertainty in model outputs and communicate results, limitations, and recommendations clearly to non-technical stakeholders. About the team The Marketing Science team drives decision-making on Global Prime Video marketing efforts by delivering sophisticated marketing measurement and optimization models. As an Applied Scientist on the team, you will build optimization and forecasting systems that leverage marketing effectiveness insights to deliver actionable investment recommendations. This includes sequential decision-making frameworks that adapt marketing strategy over time as customer behavior evolves. You will work closely with business and finance stakeholders, as well as other members of our science team, to shape and deliver a roadmap of models. Your frameworks will inform critical decisions for the business.
  • US, NY, New York
    Job ID: 10473791
    (Updated 16 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: 10464886
    (Updated 7 days ago)
    Employer: Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. Position: Applied Scientist III - AMZ27579.1 Location: New York, NY Multiple Positions Available: Participate in the design, development, evaluation, deployment and updating of data-driven models and analytical solutions for machine learning (ML) and/or natural language (NL) applications. Develop and/or apply statistical modeling techniques (e.g. Bayesian models and deep neural networks), optimization methods, and other ML techniques to different applications in business and engineering. Routinely build and deploy ML models on available data, and run and analyze experiments in a production environment. Identify new opportunities for research in order to meet business goals. Research and implement novel ML and statistical approaches to add value to the business. Mentor junior engineers and scientists. Telecommuting may be permitted. (40 hours / week, 8:00am-5:00pm, Salary Range $183800 - $248700) Amazon.com is an Equal Opportunity – Affirmative Action Employer – Minority / Female / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation
  • IE, D, Dublin
    Job ID: 10481177
    (Updated 7 days ago)
    As part of AI Ops Integration team we have a vision to transform Amazon Operations & Supply Chain into an AI-Native organization by delivering intuitive and differentiated AI solutions that solve enduring operational challenges. We blend vision with curiosity and Amazon's real-world experience to build rapidly AI capabilities. We accelerate our customers' businesses: internal operations teams across Amazon's global footprint through delivery of predictive analytics, LLMs and autonomous AI agents to automate decision-making across Amazon's global operations and supply chain. As an Applied Scientist you will combine state-of-the-art ML/AI techniques with emerging Agentic AI capabilities to build autonomous systems that can understand, reason about, and optimize complex supply chain operations. You will also have the opportunity to work on CV and other relevant technologies. This role combines the excitement of a startup environment with the scale of Amazon Operations. You'll research state-of-the-art open source and internal tools and will tackle highly ambiguous problems. If you thrive on ownership and dealing with ambiguity, passionate about AI and want to fundamentally influence how Amazon Operations leverages AI, this role offers an extraordinary opportunity to make your mark. Key job responsibilities - Lead the development of innovative ML and AI solutions for supply chain and operations - Rapidly prototype and validate new ideas through minimum lovable products (MLPs) - Transform promising prototypes into production-ready systems at global scale - Collaborate with business stakeholders to identify and prioritize high-value automation opportunities - Mentor junior members and promote engineering excellence in AI/ML practices About the team We work back to back to address the technical challenges of automation and intelligence across a variety of products, software, and systems. Our scientists and machine learning engineers work in synergy to solve hard problems and enrich each other's skills. Together, we are a team of worldwide specialists in bringing the potential of practical ML and AI to the max with impact on millions of Amazon customers.

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