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Have you ever ordered a product on Amazon and when that box with the smile arrived, wondered how it got to you so fast? Wondered where it came from and how much it cost Amazon? If so, the Amazon Global Supply Chain Optimization Technology (SCOT) organization is for you. Watch this video to learn more about our organization, SCOT: http://bit.ly/amazon-scot We are the Optimal Sourcing Systems team (OSS) within SCOT and are looking for a Senior Applied Scientist to join us! OSS designs and builds systems that measure and manage Amazon’s supplier capabilities, identify and react to supply disruptions, and prioritizes inbound freight for our global network. OSS software is used by every country Amazon services, and is a critical link to ensuring Amazon offers the products our customers want, at the lowest possible cost. This team under OSS orchestrates and tracks inventory movement into Amazon's network, maintains performance feedback loops, and ensures vendor compliance. The Senior Applied Scientist, in partnership with the Product Management and Tech teams, will lead efforts in following areas: 1) Provide technical leadership and mentorship to the Science team, setting the standard for methodological rigor, peer review, and innovation across all workstreams 2) Build solutions to enable collaborative inventory planning with vendors through agent to agent collaboration or humans-in-the loop collaborative methods 3) Pioneer Gen AI solutions for dispute evaluation and vendor coaching, defining the technical approach, evaluating model performance against business outcomes, and establishing responsible AI guardrails for production deployment 4) Drive the full development cycle from whiteboarding new algorithmic approaches to production-scale deployments 5) Collaborate with SDEs to build high-performance, distributed training and inference pipelines; translate complex scientific concepts into scalable, production-grade code The ideal candidate is a seasoned scientist who thrives in ambiguous, high-impact problem spaces and brings the technical depth to independently structure and solve complex challenges across the supply chain. The successful candidate will be a person who has deep understanding about machine learning/reinforcement learning/GenAI models, enjoys and excels at diving into data to analyze root causes, and implementing long term solutions. They can translate complex business logic into scalable models and communicate insights effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Keys to success in this role include exceptional Science depth and breadth, analytics, statistics, judgment, and communication skills. Experience with supply chain optimization, operations research, or vendor management systems is a plus. Key job responsibilities Set the technical vision and drive best practices for the team's science solutions, including model evaluation frameworks, experimentation standards, code quality, and documentation Mentor junior scientists and raise the bar across the organization Lead cross-functional collaboration with product managers, science, and engineering teams to define problem frameworks, identify high-impact opportunities, and architect end-to-end model solutions for Sourcing Execution & Performance systems Design and execute rigorous studies and predictive modeling pipelines on large-scale datasets and experiments, establishing methodological standards for statistical validity, reproducibility, and business interpretability Partner with engineering to productionize science workflows driving the automation of analysis processes, building scalable measurement solutions, and ensuring models are robust, monitored, and maintainable in production environments

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! Prime Video is disrupting traditional media with an ever-increasing selection of movies, TV shows, Emmy Award-winning original content, add-on subscriptions, and live events like Thursday Night Football. Within this expanding ecosystem, Linear TV with its 24/7 scheduled broadcast-style programming has emerged as one of our fastest-growing segments, with viewership hours increasing significantly year over year. This growth demonstrates that even in the streaming era, customers deeply value the lean-back, curated experience that Linear TV provides. Key job responsibilities As an Applied Scientist on LPEX, you will be a technical owner and science leader across the following areas: * Design, develop, and deploy machine learning models for content recommendation, viewer engagement optimization, and real-time personalization at the scale of hundreds of millions of Prime Video customers. * Own the complete ML lifecycle: problem formulation, data analysis, feature engineering, model development, offline and online evaluation, and reliable production deployment. * Build and continuously optimize recommendation systems with strict real-time latency requirements, ensuring that personalization decisions are delivered at speed and scale. * Design and execute rigorous A/B and multivariate experiments to measure recommendation quality, understand causal drivers of engagement, and iterate rapidly toward customer impact. * Partner with software engineering teams to productionize ML models, defining requirements for serving infrastructure, data pipelines, and model monitoring and observability. * Collaborate with product managers and cross-functional stakeholders to translate ambiguous business problems into well-scoped, tractable science solutions. * Mentor scientists and engineers on the team, setting a high bar for scientific rigor, experimental discipline, and ML engineering best practices. A day in the life We are looking for an Applied Scientist who will own the end-to-end machine learning lifecycle from problem formulation and research through experimentation and production deployment, building systems that help millions of customers discover the right content at the right time. It's Day 1 for personalizing the linear TV experience on Prime Video, and you will be at the forefront of this innovation. About the team The Linear Personalization Experience (LPEX) team is building next-generation, AI-powered personalization and recommendation systems to enhance this natural engagement and deliver a best-in-class Linear TV experience for Prime Video customers worldwide. The LPEX team's vision is to surface the breadth and depth of Prime Video's linear selection at exactly the right moment for each customer curating the most relevant programming, tailored to individual tastes, purchase behaviors, schedules, and viewing habits, while simultaneously elevating awareness of our extensive live and linear catalog. Our mission is to anticipate and exceed viewers' expectations, fostering deeper connections with the content they love. We adapt to viewers' preferences and propensities for both live and on-demand viewing, enriching the overall entertainment journey. The team operates at the intersection of machine learning research, large-scale distributed systems, and consumer product strategy, partnering closely with product management, engineering, and business development.

Amazon Customer Service (CS) Data Intelligence builds the data and Artificial Intelligence (AI) foundations for CS to ensure Amazon delivers the best customer service possible. CS Economics sits within CS DI and contributes to the CS knowledge base and decision frameworks. CS Economics seeks economists to apply economic methods to solve business problems. The ideal candidate will work with engineers and applied scientists to design models that leverage large scale and unstructured data, design scalable agents for non-tech CS partners to understand the impact of their actions, and propose mechanism designs to robustly match customers to our services. CS Economics is looking for optimistic critical-thinkers who combine a strong technical economic toolbox with a desire to learn from other disciplines, and who know how to execute and deliver on big ideas as part of an interdisciplinary technical team. Ideal candidates enjoy working in a team setting with individuals from diverse disciplines and backgrounds. They will work with teammates to develop scientific models and conduct data analysis, modeling, and experimentation that is necessary for estimating and validating models. They will work closely with engineering teams to develop scalable data resources to support rapid insights, and take successful models and findings into production as new products and services. They will be customer-centric and will communicate scientific approaches and findings to business leaders, listening to and incorporate their feedback, and delivering successful scientific solutions. Key job responsibilities - Design and conduct rigorous evaluations of CS actions - Develop experiments to evaluate product launches - Communicate complex findings to business stakeholders in clear, actionable terms - Work with engineering teams to develop scalable tools that automate and streamline evaluation processes A day in the life Work with teammates to apply economic methods to business problems, e.g., identify the appropriate research question and identification strategy, write code to estimate heterogeneous treatment effects or conduct experiment analysis, write and present a document with findings to business leaders. We collaborate with partner teams within and outside of CS throughout the process, from understanding their challenges, to developing a research agenda that will address those challenges, to help them implement solutions. About the team Amazon Customer Service (CS) Economics provides estimates and measures of the causal impact of CS actions on costs and benefits. We build agents and guide leadership to establish processes to scale valid experimentation, causal inference, and mechanism design.

Amazon is looking for a passionate and inventive scientist to advance the science in foundational models and Agentic AI. Specifically, as part of our science team in Amazon AWS Agentic AI, you will lead the research and development of techniques for efficient and effective Agent optimization/learning, through various techniques ranging from model fine-tuning (e.g. RL) to context optimization, as a foundational layer for AWS customers to build reliable and performant Agents. You will have the opportunity to take a product from zero to one by influencing directly the product and science roadmap, and impact millions of our customers. You will also gain hands on experience with Amazon’s large-scale computing resources to accelerate advances in foundation models. Key job responsibilities * Develop short-term and long-term science roadmap for research in the broad area of Agent optimization/learning, which could range from RL reward shaping, training efficiency optimization, to automatic prompt optimization and techniques to learn from agent memory. * Develop concrete science plan, implement and validate research idea before moving it to production * Collaborate across product and engineering teams to transfer science innovations into AWS customer facing product. About the team Diverse Experiences AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying. Why 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. 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) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness. 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.

Amazon's Global Procurement Organization is on a mission to transform how procurement works at Amazon scale. We build the technology that powers billions of dollars in purchasing decisions, and We're looking for an Applied Scientist to lead the delivery of science driven solutions focused on procurement of non-inventory supplies across Amazon's global operations. This is a high-impact role at the intersection of technology, operations, and business strategy — where your work directly influences how Amazon procures and manages supplies at scale. Key job responsibilities As an Applied Scientist in our team, you will be responsible for the research, design, and development of new AI technologies for Procurement. You will adopt or invent new machine learning and analytical techniques in the realm of forecasting, information retrieval and large language models. You will collaborate with scientists, engineers, and product partners locally and abroad. Your work will include inventing, experimenting with, and launching new features, products and systems.

At Amazon, we are working to be the most customer-centric company on earth, where customers can find and discover anything they might want to buy online. Our Supply Chain organization spans the entire Amazon fulfillment network, from inventory placement and capacity planning through middle mile and last mile delivery. Our goal is to build a world class, end-to-end supply chain that exceeds the expectations of our customers by ensuring their orders are delivered as quickly, accurately, and cost effectively as possible. We are now looking to hire a passionate, innovative and customer-obsessed candidate to support our end-to-end network planning and optimization across the Amazon supply chain. As an Applied Scientist, you will work with software engineers, product managers and business teams to understand the requirements and current challenges, distill that understanding to elegantly define the problem, and develop innovative solutions that integrate planning and execution across the entire fulfillment pipe. A central part of this mission is harnessing recent advances in Artificial Intelligence, including machine learning, large language models, and generative AI, to transform how we optimize the network and make decisions at scale. Key job responsibilities • Solve complex optimization and machine learning problems using scalable algorithmic techniques. • Apply modern AI methods, including generative and foundation models, to improve optimization, forecasting, and automated decision making across the supply chain. • Design and develop efficient research prototypes that address real-world problems across Amazon's end-to-end supply chain operations. • Lead complex time-bound, long-term as well as ad-hoc analyses to assist decision making. • Communicate to leadership results from business analysis, strategies and tactics, including how AI-driven approaches change the way decisions are made. A day in the life The role will own the approval from senior functional leaders to enable strategies that improve processes and performance across the supply chain. You will be a natural self-starter who is comfortable supporting complex cross functional projects and action plans. You will have a true hands-on approach, the ability to generate solutions, strong process management skills, and be an effective communicator.

We are seeking a Sr. Applied Scientist to develop and optimize Visual Inertial Odometry (VIO) and sensor fusion systems for our intelligent robots. In this role, you will design, implement, and deploy state estimation and tracking algorithms that enable robots to understand their position and motion in real time, even in challenging and dynamic environments. You will own the full pipeline from algorithm development through embedded deployment, ensuring that perception systems run efficiently on resource-constrained robotic hardware. You will also leverage modern machine learning approaches to push the boundaries of classical perception methods, combining learned representations with geometric techniques to achieve robust, real-time performance. This is a deeply hands-on role. You will work directly with sensors, hardware, and real-world data, while prototyping, testing, and iterating in physical environments. The ideal candidate has strong foundations in VIO and sensor fusion, practical experience optimizing algorithms for embedded platforms, and familiarity with how modern deep learning is transforming perception. Key job responsibilities - Design and implement Visual Inertial Odometry algorithms for robust real-time state estimation on robotic platforms like Sprout - Develop multi-sensor fusion pipelines integrating cameras, IMUs, and other sensing modalities for accurate pose tracking - Optimize perception and tracking algorithms for deployment on embedded hardware (e.g., ARM, GPU-accelerated edge devices) under strict latency and power constraints - Apply modern ML-based perception techniques (learned features, depth estimation, neural odometry) to complement and improve classical geometric approaches - Build and maintain calibration, evaluation, and benchmarking infrastructure for perception systems - Collaborate with hardware, controls, and navigation teams to integrate perception outputs into the robot’s autonomy stack - Lead technical projects from research prototyping through production deployment

Within Amazon's North American Operations, we are tackling mission-critical problems that center on improving employee safety and productivity. We build complex causal, forecasting, and optimization models to understand, predict, and optimize our network operations. We are seeking an Applied Scientist to drive the operational excellence of these models, deeply integrate across Amazon systems, and leverage generative AI to more intelligently build for our customers. Key job responsibilities - Interfacing with stakeholders to understand business problems and translating these into high and low-level design documents. - Architecting, building, and deploying production-grade models to cloud-native environments, incorporating CI/CD best practices. - Designing AI systems to provide model explainability, as well as automate customer workflows. - Developing evaluation frameworks for models that identify quality regressions before customers do. A day in the life You will be a single-threaded owner of projects within Amazon Operations, owning project scoping, stakeholder engagement, data enablement, model development, and production launches. Your work will be directly consumed by partner teams throughout Operations and Finance, and hence a strong sense of ownership is required to educate both technical and non-technical stakeholders on developed science solutions. About the team Our team is comprised of Data Scientists, Applied Scientists, and Economists, and are trusted to make data-driven solutions that power operations decision making. We strive to build consensus on divisive topics through clear presentation of problem statements paired with deep analyses that gain visibility throughout all levels of the organization from operators to executives.

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. Amazon Music - Search Science team is seeking an experienced Applied Scientist who will join a team of experts in the field of machine learning, and work together to break new ground in the world of understanding and classifying different forms of music, and creating interactive experiences to help users find the music they are in the mood for. We work on machine learning problems for music classification, recommender systems, dialogue systems, NLP, and music information retrieval. You'll work in a collaborative environment where you can pursue applied research, with many peta-bytes of data, work on problems that haven’t been solved before, quickly implement and deploy your algorithmic ideas at scale, understand whether they succeed via statistically relevant experiments across millions of customers, and publish your research. You'll see the work you do directly improve the experience of Amazon Music customers on Alexa/Echo, mobile, and web. Key job responsibilities - Use machine learning, deep learning, LLMs and Agentic AI techniques to create scalable solutions for business problems - Analyze and extract relevant information from large amounts of Amazon's data to help automate and optimize key processes - Design, development and evaluation of AI models for predictive learning - Work closely with software engineering teams to drive model implementations and new feature creations - Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large scale data analyses, model development, model validation and model implementation - Research and implement novel machine learning and statistical approaches About the team Everyone on our team has a meaningful impact on product features, new directions in music streaming, and customer engagement. We are looking for new team members across a variety of job functions including software engineering/development, marketing, design, ops and more. Come join us as we make history by launching exciting new projects in the coming year.Our team is focused on building a personalized, curated, and seamless music experience. We want to help our customers discover up-and-coming artists, while also having access to their favorite established musicians. We build systems that are distributed on a large scale, spanning our music apps, web player, and voice-forward audio engagement on mobile and Amazon Echo devices, powered by Alexa to support our customer base. Amazon Music offerings are available in countries around the world, and our applications support our mission of delivering music to customers in new and exciting ways that enhance their day-to-day lives.

Do you want to join an innovative team of scientists who use machine learning and statistical techniques to create state-of-the-art solutions for providing better value to Amazon’s customers? Do you want to build and deploy advanced ML systems that help optimize millions of transactions every day? Are you excited by the prospect of analyzing and modeling terabytes of data to solve real-world problems? Do you like to own end-to-end business problems/metrics and directly impact the profitability of the company? Do you like to innovate and simplify? If yes, then you may be a great fit to join the Machine Learning team for India Consumer Businesses. Machine Learning, Big Data and related quantitative sciences have been strategic to Amazon from the early years. Amazon has been a pioneer in areas such as recommendation engines, ecommerce fraud detection and large-scale optimization of fulfillment center operations. As Amazon has rapidly grown and diversified, the opportunity for applying machine learning has exploded. We have a very broad collection of practical problems where machine learning systems can dramatically improve the customer experience, reduce cost, and drive speed and automation. These include product bundle recommendations for millions of products, safeguarding financial transactions across by building the risk models, improving catalog quality via extracting product attribute values from structured/unstructured data for millions of products, enhancing address quality by powering customer suggestions We are developing state-of-the-art machine learning solutions to accelerate the Amazon India growth story. Amazon India is an exciting place to be at for a machine learning practitioner. We have the eagerness of a fresh startup to absorb machine learning solutions, and the scale of a mature firm to help support their development at the same time. As part of the India Machine Learning team, you will get to work alongside brilliant minds motivated to solve real-world machine learning problems that make a difference to millions of our customers. We encourage thought leadership and blue ocean thinking in ML. Key job responsibilities Use machine learning and analytical techniques to create scalable solutions for business problems Analyze and extract relevant information from large amounts of Amazon’s historical business data to help automate and optimize key processes Design, develop, evaluate and deploy, innovative and highly scalable ML models Work closely with software engineering teams to drive real-time model implementations Work closely with business partners to identify problems and propose machine learning solutions Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large scale data analyses, model development, model validation and model maintenance Work proactively with engineering teams and product managers to evangelize new algorithms and drive the implementation of large-scale complex ML models in production Leading projects and mentoring other scientists, engineers in the use of ML techniques About the team International Machine Learning Team is responsible for building novel ML solutions that attack India first (and other Emerging Markets across MENA and LatAm) problems and impact the bottom-line and top-line of India business. Learn more about our team from https://www.amazon.science/working-at-amazon/how-rajeev-rastogis-machine-learning-team-in-india-develops-innovations-for-customers-worldwide