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At Amazon, we believe that scientific innovation is essential to being the most customer-centric company in the world. Our scientists' ability to have an impact at scale allows us to attract some of the brightest minds across diverse fields including artificial intelligence, robotics, computer vision, economics, and sustainability. Join us in pioneering solutions to complex challenges that not only delight our customers but also help define the future of technology.
  • The program is designed for academics from universities around the globe who want to work on large-scale technical challenges while continuing to teach and conduct research at their universities.
  • The program offers recent PhD graduates an opportunity to advance research while working alongside experienced scientists with backgrounds in industry and academia.
  • Our internship roles span research areas to provide hands-on experience working alongside world-class scientists and engineers to advance the state of the art in your field.
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  • (Updated 1 days ago)
    Come join us! LFX team sits at the boundary of state-of-the-art speech models and a maturing AI-first product for an industry leader. We are looking for a passionate, talented, and inventive Scientist with a strong background in Machine/Deep Learning to join us. If you're looking for novel and unique challenges, this position is for you. If you want to create a whole new customer experience with your research expertise, this position is for you. If you enjoy a collaborative and multicultural environment, this position is for you. As a applied scientist, you will work with talented peers to develop novel algorithms and modelling techniques to advance the state-of-the-art in spoken word technology. Your work will directly impact our customers and change the landscape of voice technologies. You will be able to leverage our unique data sources and uniquely cross-functional team structure to experiment and iterate fast. Responsibilities: - Engage in state-of-the-art and innovative research in areas such as Speech Generation, Gen AI, model compression, and knowledge distillation - Train custom Speech Generation and Gen AI models that beat the state-of-the-art and paves path for developing production models - Collaborate with engineers to design and implement solutions for science problems - Contribute to the Amazon and broader research communities by producing publications
  • IN, KA, Bengaluru
    Job ID: 3193049
    (Updated 22 days ago)
    Do you want to join an innovative team of scientists applying machine learning and advanced statistical techniques to protect Amazon customers and enable a trusted eCommerce experience? Are you excited about modeling terabytes of data and building state-of-the-art algorithms to solve complex, real-world fraud and risk challenges? Do you enjoy owning end-to-end machine learning problems, directly influencing customer experience and company profitability, while collaborating in a diverse, high-performing team? If so, the Amazon Buyer Risk Prevention (BRP) Machine Learning team may be the right fit for you. We are seeking an Applied Scientist to design, develop, and deploy advanced algorithmic systems that safeguard millions of transactions every day. In this role, you will independently drive model development from problem formulation to production deployment, build scalable ML solutions, and leverage emerging technologies—including Generative AI and LLMs—to enhance fraud detection and next-generation risk prevention systems. Key job responsibilities Own end-to-end development of machine learning models for large-scale risk management systems Analyze large volumes of historical and real-time data to identify fraud patterns and emerging risk trends Design, develop, validate, and deploy innovative models to production environments Apply GenAI/LLM technologies to automate risk evaluation and improve operational efficiency Collaborate closely with software engineering teams to implement scalable, real-time model solutions Partner with operations and business stakeholders to translate risk insights into measurable impact Establish scalable and automated processes for data analysis, model experimentation, validation, and monitoring Track model performance and business metrics; communicate insights clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders Research and implement novel machine learning and statistical methodologies
  • (Updated 19 days ago)
    Industrial Robotics Group is seeking exceptional talent to help develop the next generation of advanced robotics systems that will transform automation at Amazon's scale. We're building revolutionary robotic systems that combine innovative AI, sophisticated control systems, and advanced mechanical design to create adaptable automation solutions capable of working safely alongside humans in dynamic environments. This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of robotics and automation at unprecedented scale, working with world-class teams pushing the boundaries of what's possible in robotic manipulation, locomotion, and human-robot interaction. This role presents an opportunity to shape the future of robotics through innovative applications of deep learning and large language models. We leverage advanced robotics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence to solve complex operational challenges at unprecedented scale. Our fleet of robots operates across hundreds of facilities worldwide, working in sophisticated coordination to fulfill our mission of customer excellence. We are pioneering the development of robotics foundation models that: - Enable unprecedented generalization across diverse tasks - Integrate multi-modal learning capabilities (visual, tactile, linguistic) - Accelerate skill acquisition through demonstration learning - Enhance robotic perception and environmental understanding - Streamline development processes through reusable capabilities The ideal candidate will contribute to research that bridges the gap between theoretical advancement and practical implementation in robotics. You will be part of a team that's revolutionizing how robots learn, adapt, and interact with their environment. Join us in building the next generation of intelligent robotics systems that will transform the future of automation and human-robot collaboration. As an Applied Scientist, you will develop and improve machine learning systems that help robots perceive, reason, and act in real-world environments. You will leverage state-of-the-art models (open source and internal research), evaluate them on representative tasks, and adapt/optimize them to meet robustness, safety, and performance needs. You will invent new algorithms where gaps exist. You’ll collaborate closely with research, controls, hardware, and product-facing teams, and your outputs will be used by downstream teams to further customize and deploy on specific robot embodiments. Key job responsibilities - Leverage state-of-the-art models for targeted tasks, environments, and robot embodiments through fine-tuning and optimization. - Execute rapid, rigorous experimentation with reproducible results and solid engineering practices, closing the gap between sim and real environments. - Build and run capability evaluations/benchmarks to clearly profile performance, generalization, and failure modes. - Contribute to the data and training workflow: collection/curation, dataset quality/provenance, and repeatable training recipes. - Write clean, maintainable, well commented and documented code, contribute to training infrastructure, create tools for model evaluation and testing, and implement necessary APIs - Stay current with latest developments in foundation models and robotics, assist in literature reviews and research documentation, prepare technical reports and presentations, and contribute to research discussions and brainstorming sessions. - Work closely with senior scientists, engineers, and leaders across multiple teams, participate in knowledge sharing, support integration efforts with robotics hardware teams, and help document best practices and methodologies.
  • IN, KA, Bengaluru
    Job ID: 3190584
    (Updated 27 days ago)
    Alexa+ is the world’s best Generative AI powered personal assistant / agent for consumers. We are seeking an experienced Applied Science Manager to build and lead a new team of scientists in India dedicated to Alexa Conversational Ads and Personalization. As the leader of this team, you will shape both the scientific roadmap and the product strategy, working closely with global product stakeholders to ensure your team is delivering high-impact, scalable solutions. Key job responsibilities - Hire, develop, and mentor a high-performing team of applied scientists. - Partner with product management and engineering leadership to define the mid-to-long-term scientific roadmap for conversational ads and personalization. - Manage the execution of complex ML projects, ensuring rigorous experimental design, high modeling standards, and on-time delivery. - Bridge the gap between science, engineering, and product, translating business metrics into scientific goals and vice versa. - Establish best practices for ML lifecycle management, code quality, and technical documentation within the team.
  • IN, KA, Bengaluru
    Job ID: 3190644
    (Updated 27 days ago)
    Alexa+ is the world’s best Generative AI powered personal assistant / agent for consumers. We are looking for a Senior Applied Scientist to provide technical leadership for our Alexa Conversational Ads and Personalization initiatives. You will be responsible for tackling our most ambiguous scientific challenges, setting the technical architecture for new ML systems, and pushing the boundaries of what is possible in voice-based advertising. Key job responsibilities - Define the scientific vision and lead the technical execution for complex, multi-quarter ML projects in conversational ads and personalization. - Architect end-to-end machine learning systems that operate at Alexa's massive scale. - Mentor and guide junior scientists on modeling techniques, experimental design, and best practices. - Partner closely with product and engineering stakeholders to translate ambiguous business requirements into rigorous scientific problem statements. - Contribute to the broader scientific community through internal technical papers and external publications.
  • IN, KA, Bengaluru
    Job ID: 3190646
    (Updated 27 days ago)
    Alexa+ is the world’s best Generative AI powered personal assistant / agent for consumers. We are seeking an Applied Scientist to join our newly expanding team in India focused on Alexa Conversational Ads and Personalization. In this role, you will build machine learning models that seamlessly and naturally integrate relevant advertising into the Alexa experience while deeply personalizing user interactions. You will work closely with other scientists, engineers, and product managers to take models from conception to production. Key job responsibilities - Design, develop, and evaluate innovative machine learning and deep learning models for natural language processing (NLP), recommendation systems, and personalization. - Conduct hands-on data analysis and build scalable ML pipelines. - Design and run A/B experiments to measure the impact of new models on customer experience and ad performance. - Collaborate with software development engineers to deploy models into high-scale, real-time production environments.
  • (Updated 22 days ago)
    The Amazon Center for Quantum Computing (CQC) is a multi-disciplinary team of scientists, engineers, and technicians, all working to innovate in quantum computing for the benefit of our customers. We are looking to hire an Applied Scientist to design and model novel superconducting quantum devices (including qubits), readout and control schemes, and advanced quantum processors. The ideal candidate will have a track record of original scientific contributions, strong engineering principles, and/or software development experience. Resourcefulness, as well as strong organizational and communication skills, is essential. About the team About the team The Amazon Center for Quantum Computing (CQC) is a multi-disciplinary team of scientists, engineers, and technicians, on a mission to develop a fault-tolerant quantum computer. Inclusive Team Culture Here at Amazon, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness. Diverse Experiences Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred 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. Mentorship & 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, mentorship 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 we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud. Export Control Requirement Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be either a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum, or be able to obtain a US export license. If you are unsure if you meet these requirements, please apply and Amazon will review your application for eligibility. Export Control Requirement: Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be either a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum, or be able to obtain a U.S export license. If you are unsure if you meet these requirements, please apply and Amazon will review your application for eligibility.
  • US, VA, Arlington
    Job ID: 3202572
    (Updated 14 days ago)
    Are you passionate about programming languages, applying formal verification, program analysis, constraint-solving, and/or theorem proving to real world problems? Do you want to create products that help customers? If so, then we have an exciting opportunity for you. In this role, you will interact with internal teams and external customers to understand their requirements. You will apply your knowledge to propose innovative solutions, create software prototypes, and productize prototypes into production systems using software development tools and methodologies. In addition, you will support and scale your solutions to meet the ever growing demand of customer use. Technical Responsibilities: - Interact with various teams to develop an understanding of their security and safety requirements. - Apply the acquired knowledge to build tools find problems, or show the absence of security/safety problems. - Implement these tools through the use of SAT, SMT, and various concepts from programming languages, theorem proving, formal verification and constraint solving. - Perform analysis of the customer systems using tools developed in-house or externally provided - Create software prototypes to verify and validate the devised solutions methodologies; integrate the prototypes into production systems using standard software development tools and methodologies. Leadership Responsibilities: - Can present and defend company-wide technical decisions to the internal technical community and represent the company effectively at technical conferences. - Functional thought leader, sought after for key tech decisions. Can successfully sell ideas to an executive level decision maker. - Mentors and trains the research scientist community on complex technical issues. AWS has the most services and more features within those services, than any other cloud provider–from infrastructure technologies like compute, storage, and databases–to emerging technologies, such as machine learning and artificial intelligence, data lakes and analytics, and Internet of Things. Whether its Identity features such as access management and sign on, cryptography, console, builder & developer tools, and even projects like automating all of our contractual billing systems, AWS Platform is always innovating with the customer in mind. The AWS Platform team sustains over 750 million transactions per second. We have a formal mentor search application that lets you find a mentor that works best for you based on location, job family, job level etc. Your manager can also help you find a mentor or two, because two is better than one. In addition to formal mentors, we work and train together so that we are always learning from one another, and we celebrate and support the career progression of our team members. Key job responsibilities Technical Responsibilities: - Interact with various teams to develop an understanding of their security and safety requirements. - Apply the acquired knowledge to build tools find problems, or show the absence of security/safety problems. - Implement these tools through the use of SAT, SMT, BDDs, and various concepts from programming languages, theorem proving, formal verification and constraint solving. - Perform analysis of the customer systems using tools developed in-house or externally provided - Create software prototypes to verify and validate the devised solutions methodologies; integrate the prototypes into production systems using standard software development tools and methodologies. Leadership Responsibilities: - Can present and defend company-wide technical decisions to the internal technical community and represent the company effectively at technical conferences. - Functional thought leader, sought after for key tech decisions. Can successfully sell ideas to an executive level decision maker. - Mentors and trains the research scientist community on complex technical issues. A day in the life You will be working on cutting edge technology related to formal methods, automated reasoning, automated testing, and adjacent areas. You will work with fellow applied scientists to solve challenging problems that provide value to customers by improving the quality of software. You will have an opportunity to publish your work. Why AWS Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses. AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations — from foundational services such as Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWS’s services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization, you’ll support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Internet of Things (Iot), Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS, including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services. Inclusive Team Culture Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness. 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 we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud. Mentorship and 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, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional. Diverse Experiences Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred 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. About the team The Automated Reasoning in Identity (ARI) team is growing fast. It works on applying automated reasoning techniques to services within AWS's Identity organization, building on initial successes of the Zelkova and Access Analyzer projects. The reach of AR within Identity is growing, with more scientists joining all the time.
  • US, CA, San Francisco
    Job ID: 3195394
    (Updated 21 days ago)
    Amazon Music is an immersive audio entertainment service that deepens connections between fans, artists, and creators. From personalized music playlists to exclusive podcasts, concert livestreams to artist merch, Amazon Music is innovating at some of the most exciting intersections of music and culture. We offer experiences that serve all listeners with our different tiers of service: Prime members get access to all the music in shuffle mode, and top ad-free podcasts, included with their membership; customers can upgrade to Amazon Music Unlimited for unlimited, on-demand access to 100 million songs, including millions in HD, Ultra HD, and spatial audio; and anyone can listen for free by downloading the Amazon Music app or via Alexa-enabled devices. Join us for the opportunity to influence how Amazon Music engages fans, artists, and creators on a global scale. Come join a team at the nexus of AI, machine learning, visual and audio technologies within Amazon Music's Artificial Intelligence & Personalization organization. We're transforming how customers experience music by creating context-rich, intelligently assembled content that powers every surface—from AI-generated playlists and insights to interactive experiences and visual storytelling. Key job responsibilities * Work backwards from customer needs to research and develop novel machine learning approaches for music and spoken word multimodal content generation * Design, develop, evaluate, and deploy scalable AI and ML solutions for customer problems including training LLMs, reasoning models, and diffusion models, agentic and RAG systems, diffusion models * Ship production quality code for models and collaborate with software engineering teams to drive implementation and experimentation in complex Amazon production systems * Improve upon existing methods by developing new data sources, testing model enhancements, and fine-tuning model parameters * Analyze and extract relevant information from large amounts of structured and unstructured, complex and interrelated datasets describing customer behavior and content * Advocate technical solutions to business stakeholders, engineering teams, as well as executive level decision makers * Communicate results, insights and recommendations to audiences of varying levels of technical sophistication * Conduct literature reviews and stay current with advancements in the field, adapting latest in literature to build efficient and scalable models * Promote the culture of experimentation and scientific rigor at Amazon * Contribute to progress of the Amazon and broader research communities by publishing papers A day in the life Lead innovation in AI/ML to shape Amazon Music experiences for millions. Develop state of the art models leveraging and advancing the latest developments in machine learning and genAI including post-training of LLMs, diffusion models. Collaborate with talented engineers and scientists to guide research and build scalable models across our audio portfolio - music, podcasts, live streaming, and more. Drive experiments and rapid prototyping, leveraging Amazon's data at scale. Innovate daily alongside world-class teams to delight customers worldwide through personalization. About the team We are a team of deeply technical Applied Scientists and Machine Learning Engineers passionate about improving CX through state of the art AI methods. We work on multimodal generation to enhance the audio listening experience on several surfaces Alexa, mobile, fireTV - from AI-generated playlists and insights to interactive experiences and visual storytelling.
  • US, NJ, Newark
    Job ID: 10373370
    (Updated 2 days ago)
    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.

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