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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 in artificial intelligence and related fields.
  • 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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  • US, CA, Sunnyvale
    Job ID: 3136281
    (Updated 2 days ago)
    Passionate about creating visual customer experiences that push the boundaries at the forefront of GenAI? The North America Stores GenAI Evaluation Media (GEM) team is seeking an experienced Applied Science Manager to help shape the future of visual shopping experiences. We're building CXs and foundational capabilities to understand, enhance, and generate real-time GenAI imagery, videos and CXs that inspire customers and drive purchase confidence, towards our vision to be the leader in visual media. Specifically, the charter will focus on visual agentic experiences, multi-modal personalization, vision language models, and real-time image/video generation, looking ahead as customer shopping continues to inspirational assistant-driven experiences. The Applied Science Manager will lead a team of Applied Scientists and Machine Learning Engineers, and drive the technical vision and execution of agentic AI capabilities that inform and guide the customer’s shopping journey through visuals. This includes developing core science primitives for multimodal understanding, visual content generation and editing, personalized virtual try-on, and automated quality assurance. Your team will build the foundational capabilities that enable customers to express and discover styles through multimodal conversation and receive personalized, visual responses that bring their ideas to life. The scientific approach emphasizes accurate, real-time visual understanding and generation, contextual understanding, and scalable personalization, enabling agentic AI to actively collaborate with customers to achieve their style goals. Your team will bring together computer vision, natural language processing, generative AI, and human-centered design to create agentic shopping experiences that are as intuitive as talking to a human specialist with a deep domain knowledge base. Success requires establishing robust metrics, working with multiple partners in cross-team collaboration, validating asset effectiveness across diverse customer touch points, and navigating rapid advances in AI technology to maintain competitive advantage. The ideal candidate will combine deep technical expertise in Computer Vision, Generative AI, or related fields with strong business acumen and strategic leadership skills. You will partner with stakeholders across Amazon to align priorities, drive innovation, and build a culture of scientific excellence and customer obsession. This role requires both strategic thinking and technical depth, with a focus on delivering practical solutions that scale. This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of visual commerce through applied AI research, leading a team that will define how hundreds of millions of customers discover and evaluate products and styles through visual experiences. Key job responsibilities Technical & Strategic Leadership • Drive the technical vision and roadmap, aligning with business goals and customer needs • Lead development of core science primitives for vision and language understanding, visual content generation and editing, virtual try-on, and automated quality assurance via state-of-art computer vision, machine learning, generative AI • Design and implement visual agentic systems, balancing visual quality, relevance, latency, and cost • Establish metrics and success criteria for scientific initiatives, ensuring rigorous validation across customer touch points Team Leadership • Lead and develop a high-performing team of Applied Scientists and Machine Learning Engineers • Foster a culture of scientific excellence, innovation, and customer obsession • Recruit and retain top talent in computer vision, machine learning, and generative AI • Mentor and grow future technical leaders • Partner with multiple teams within Amazon • Facilitate learning and knowledge sharing within the team via presentations at internal and external science forums Execution & Innovation • Drive development and deployment of scalable agentic systems for visual content understanding and generation • Own end-to-end delivery of multiple concurrent research initiatives • Establish and maintain high scientific and engineering standards across the team • Stay current with latest advances in ML/AI and identify opportunities to apply them • Guide technical direction for complex problems while maintaining practical focus on customer value Cross-functional Leadership • Partner with product and engineering teams to deliver customer-facing features • Drive alignment across teams on technical approaches and resource allocation
  • US, CA, San Francisco
    Job ID: 3128808
    (Updated 17 days ago)
    The Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) team is looking for a passionate, talented, and inventive Principal Applied Scientist with a strong deep learning and generative AI background, to focus on the development of software development skills of Nova foundational models. As a Principal Applied Scientist, you are a trusted part of the technical leadership. You bring business and industry context to science and technology decisions. You set the standard for scientific excellence and make decisions that affect the way we build and integrate algorithms. You solicit differing views across the organization and are willing to change your mind as you learn more. Your artifacts are exemplary and often used as reference across organization. You are a hands-on scientific leader. Your solutions are exemplary in terms of algorithm design, clarity, model structure, efficiency, and extensibility. You tackle intrinsically hard problems, acquiring expertise as needed. You decompose complex problems into straightforward solutions. You amplify your impact by leading scientific reviews within your organization or at your location. You scrutinize and review experimental design, modeling, verification and other research procedures. You probe assumptions, illuminate pitfalls, and foster shared understanding. You align teams toward coherent strategies. You educate, keeping the scientific community up to date on advanced techniques, state of the art approaches, the latest technologies, and trends. You help managers guide the career growth of other scientists by mentoring and play a significant role in hiring and developing scientists and leads. Key job responsibilities You will be responsible for defining key research directions, adopting or inventing new machine learning techniques, conducting rigorous experiments, publishing results, and ensuring that research is translated into practice. You will develop long-term strategies, persuade teams to adopt those strategies, propose goals and deliver on them. You will also participate in organizational planning, hiring, mentorship and leadership development. You will be technically strong and with a passion for building scalable science and engineering solutions. You will serve as a key scientific resource in full-cycle development (conception, design, implementation, testing to documentation, delivery, and maintenance).
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 3130794
    (Updated 2 days ago)
    Are you looking for an opportunity to own a large-scale technology problem? Do you enjoy finding patterns and pushing the boundaries of current possibilities? Are you interested in building reliable and scalable systems that support Amazon's growth? If so, Amazon Devices and Services Finance Technology (FinTech) is the perfect place for you! ABOUT THIS ROLE The Amazon Devices and Services FinTech team is expanding our data science team that is building forecasting solutions and advanced analytics platforms for the Amazon Devices and Services Finance organization, and we are looking for a Data Scientist to join us. As a data scientist, you will dive deep into data from across Amazon's finance organization, extract new insights, drive investigations and algorithm development, and interface with technical and non-technical customers. You will leverage your data science expertise and communication skills to pivot between delivering science solutions, translating knowledge of finance and operational processes into forecasting models, building product analytics for our AI systems, and communicating insights and recommendations to audiences of varying levels of technical sophistication in support of specific business questions, root cause analysis, planning, and innovation for the future. Key job responsibilities - Create various forecasts, including but not limited to Operational Expenses, and drive adoption of these forecasts by various teams within Amazon for financial and operations planning - Build product metrics, monitoring pipelines, and analytics tools for our AI assistant to track performance, user engagement, and system reliability - Continuously innovate through research and the application of the latest machine learning techniques to drive forecasting accuracy improvement and AI system optimization - Perform exploratory data analysis to identify business opportunities and develop plans to address them across both financial forecasting and AI product development - Communicate verbally and in writing to business customers with various levels of technical knowledge, educating them about our systems, as well as sharing insights and recommendations - Build customer-facing reporting tools and dashboards to provide insights and metrics which track forecast performance, AI assistant effectiveness, and explain variance - Utilize code (Python, R, Scala, SQL, etc.) for analyzing data and building statistical and machine/deep learning models for both financial forecasting and AI product analytics A day in the life As a data scientist at Amazon Devices and Services FinTech, you'll dive into complex datasets using advanced analytics and machine learning to build accurate forecasting models for problems like Operational Expense forecasting. You'll also develop product metrics and monitoring pipelines for our AI assistant, analyzing user engagement and system performance. Collaboration with business and engineering teams is essential as you translate insights into actionable recommendations. Throughout the day, you'll innovate by adapting new forecasting methods and AI analytics approaches, ensuring solutions are scalable and reliable. Your communication skills help you solve unstructured problems in our fast-paced, dynamic environment. About the team Amazon Devices and Services FinTech is the global team that designs and builds the financial planning and analysis tools for a wide variety of Devices' new and established organizations. From Kindle to Ring and even new and exciting companies like Kuiper (our new interstellar satellite play), this team enjoys a wide variety of complex and interesting problem spaces. We also own and operate the organization's AI assistant, making us true FinTech innovators embedded within Amazon.
  • US, MA, Boston
    Job ID: 3128324
    (Updated 17 days ago)
    The Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) team is looking for a passionate, talented, and inventive Senior Applied Science Manager who will play a key role in the next generation of AI powered foundation models. Key job responsibilities Lead and manage a team of applied and research scientists, and language engineers, data linguists responsible for building foundation models. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure that Amazon’s AI models are aligned with human preferences. Identify and prioritize research opportunities that have the potential to significantly impact our AI systems. Mentor and guide team members to achieve their career goals and objectives. Communicate research findings and progress to senior leadership and stakeholders.
  • US, NY, New York
    Job ID: 3132887
    (Updated 1 days ago)
    AWS Agentic AI is looking for a world-class Applied Scientist with a strong deep learning background to help build industry-leading Agentic AI (models, systems, and applications). Our mission is to provide a delightful experience to Amazon’s customers by pushing the envelope in Natural Language Understanding (NLU), AI assisted code development, reasoning and planning with LLMs, LLM training and fine-tuning, and Applied Machine Learning (ML). As part of our AI team in Amazon AWS, you will work alongside internationally recognized experts to develop novel algorithms and modeling techniques to advance the state-of-the-art in Agentic AI. Your work will directly impact millions of our customers in the form of products and services that make use AI technology. You will gain hands on experience with Amazon’s heterogeneous text, structured data sources, and large-scale computing resources to accelerate advances in language understanding. We are looking for experienced scientists who can make complex, autonomous systems understandable and debuggable through intelligent instrumentation and simulation. Key job responsibilities - Develop technical breakthroughs in agentic infrastructure and applications - Mentor and guide junior scientists. - Manage a small team of scientists - Develop technology strategy and roadmap supporting product development - Develop prototypes for key technology, oversee the productization of the prototype, and develop critical assessment for the prototype - Write technical reports summarizing R&D progresses and communicate such progresses with stakeholders - Engage with cross-functional stakeholders to drive alignment and outcomes About the team The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Agentic AI team uses generative AI and foundation models to advance application development. In the space of software development and life cycle management, we see the application of AI anywhere: from the IDE to web-based tools and services, AI helps engineers work many applications. We explore new technologies and find creative solutions. Curiosity and an explorative mindset can find a place here to impact the life of engineers around the world. If you are excited about this space and want to enlighten your peers with new capabilities, this is the team for you.
  • (Updated 7 days ago)
    Are you a MS or PhD student interested in a 2026 internship in the field of machine learning, deep learning, generative AI, large language models, speech technology, robotics, computer vision, optimization, operations research, quantum computing, automated reasoning, or formal methods? If so, we want to hear from you! We are looking for students interested in using a variety of domain expertise to invent, design and implement state-of-the-art solutions for never-before-solved problems. You can find more information about the Amazon Science community as well as our interview process via the links below; https://www.amazon.science/ https://amazon.jobs/content/en/career-programs/university/science https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/university-roles/applied-science Key job responsibilities As an Applied Science Intern, you will own the design and development of end-to-end systems. You’ll have the opportunity to write technical white papers, create roadmaps and drive production level projects that will support Amazon Science. You will work closely with Amazon scientists and other science interns to develop solutions and deploy them into production. You will have the opportunity to design new algorithms, models, or other technical solutions whilst experiencing Amazon’s customer focused culture. The ideal intern must have the ability to work with diverse groups of people and cross-functional teams to solve complex business problems. A day in the life At Amazon, you will grow into the high impact person you know you’re ready to be. Every day will be filled with developing new skills and achieving personal growth. How often can you say that your work changes the world? At Amazon, you’ll say it often. Join us and define tomorrow. Some more benefits of an Amazon Science internship include; • All of our internships offer a competitive stipend/salary • Interns are paired with an experienced manager and mentor(s) • Interns receive invitations to different events such as intern program initiatives or site events • Interns can build their professional and personal network with other Amazon Scientists • Interns can potentially publish work at top tier conferences each year About the team Applicants will be reviewed on a rolling basis and are assigned to teams aligned with their research interests and experience prior to interviews. Start dates are available throughout the year and durations can vary in length from 3-6 months for full time internships. This role may available across multiple locations in the EMEA region (Austria, Estonia, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Spain, South Africa, UAE, and UK). Please note these are not remote internships.
  • (Updated 4 days ago)
    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. 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! 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!
  • (Updated 23 days ago)
    Do you ever struggle to explain your work? How's this: "Do you shop at Amazon?” Every day, tens of millions of customers visit Amazon to discover, research, and buy products. Millions of interactions are processed each hour, as customers navigate and explore our vast selection of products, features, and services around the world. The Amazon Stores Ads Monetization Team’s vision is to enable customers to discover products they love from brand owners around the world. Amazon Stores are the product showroom for the “everything store”, our reach and impact uniquely positions us to innovate on behalf of our customers. The The Amazon Stores Ads Monetization Team’s partners with organizations across Amazon to drive high-quality advertising experiences across geographies, intents, missions, products and businesses; while ensuring a cohesive, lovable shopping experience. We are looking for a Principal Applied Scientist to drive the development signals to optimally blend sponsored and organic recommendations on the site. You will work with science and business leaders from Shopping and Advertising to build Machine Learning (ML) models to determine when, where, and how many ads to show depending on customer characteristics and shopping missions. You will partner with product managers, other scientists, and software engineers to implement your ideas at scale. Key job responsibilities - Partner with teams in Shopping and Ads Amazon to develop signals that let ads program know when and where to serve ads on the Amazon site - Develop ML models to improve ads monetization decisions in Amazon Stores, allowing us to personalize experiences depending on customer characteristics and shopping missions - Collaborate with product managers, scientists, economists, and software developers to incorporate models in production systems - Act as the machine learning authority for the Amazon Stores Advertising team with Amazon senior leaders and other science organizations - Help craft the multi-year science strategy for the organization About the team This role is within a brand-new organization focused on delighting customers while driving revenue. Prospective candidates should have the desire and capability to drive results from the ’ground floor’ of an impactful and important charter.
  • (Updated 29 days ago)
    About Sponsored Products and Brands 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. About our team The Amazon Brand Store team (such as www.amazon.com/lego) within Sponsored Products and Brands is a core product offering in the Amazon Advertising portfolio. The brand’s store are their dedicated place on Amazon to differentiate, grow sales, and build loyalty with millions of shoppers. Our mission is to empower brands of all sizes to tell their story in their own unique voice to consumers. We help brands create engaging shopping experiences that assist shoppers in discovering and evaluating them as part of their purchase decisions. We succeed when we are both useful to shoppers and when brands can attract and retain shopper’s attention using our products. A cool case study on brand stores can be found here: https://advertising.amazon.com/library/case-studies/nespresso-brand-store-increases-shopper-engagement. We are looking for a Senior Applied Scientist to lead the generation of data-driven insights that bring long-term value to brands, as well as the ideation and creation of personalized shopping experiences for brand stores through industry-leading generative AI technologies. In this role, you will influence our team's science and business strategy with your expertise and deep business understanding. You will be expected to identify and solve ambiguous problems and science deficiencies, and to provide informed solutions based on state-of-the-art machine learning research. Impact and Career Growth You will invent new experiences and influence customer-facing shopping experiences to help brands grow their retail businesses. This is your opportunity to work within the fastest-growing businesses across all of Amazon! You'll define a long-term science vision for AI-driven brand shopping experiences, working backwards from our customers' needs and 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. Key job responsibilities As a Senior Applied Scientist on this team, you will: - Be the technical leader in Machine Learning; lead efforts within this team and across other teams. - 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. - Drive end-to-end Machine Learning projects that have a high degree of ambiguity, scale, complexity. - Build machine learning models, perform proof-of-concept, experiment, optimize, and deploy your models into production; work closely with software engineers to assist in productionizing 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. - Recruit Applied Scientists to the team and provide mentorship.
  • US, MA, Boston
    Job ID: 3123268
    (Updated 28 days ago)
    The Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) team is looking for a highly skilled and experienced Sr. Applied Scientist, to support the development and implementation of state-of-the-art algorithms and models for supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning through human feedback and and complex reasoning; with a focus across text, image, and video modalities. As an Sr. Applied Scientist, you will play a critical role in supporting the development of Generative AI (Gen AI) technologies that can handle Amazon-scale use cases and have a significant impact on our customers' experiences. Key job responsibilities Key job responsibilities Collaborate with cross-functional teams of engineers, product managers, and scientists to identify and solve complex problems in Gen AI Design and execute experiments to evaluate the performance of different algorithms and models, and iterate quickly to improve results 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 Communicate results and insights to both technical and non-technical audiences, including through presentations and written reports About the team We are passionate scientists dedicated to pushing the boundaries of innovation in Gen AI with focus on Software Development use cases.

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