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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 15 days ago)
    The Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) Science team is looking for a passionate, curious, and creative Senior Research Scientist with deep expertise in statistical modeling, machine learning, and large language models (LLMs), and a proven record of solving complex forecasting problems at scale. Our team sits at the intersection of supply chain science, seller behavior modeling, and policy analytics — building the forecasting backbone that powers FBA's shipment creation, inbound arrival planning, and inventory management. We develop science solutions that predict seller shipment creation patterns, model inbound arrival timing and quantity, and forecast inventory levels across Amazon's fulfillment network. A key challenge we tackle is understanding how seller behavior changes — driven by market dynamics, FBA policy updates, and incentive structures — and how these behavioral shifts propagate into forecasting signals. We aim to build forecasting systems that are not only accurate but also explainable and actionable for both internal stakeholders and sellers. To do so, we build and innovate science solutions at the intersection of statistical learning, machine learning, econometrics, operations research, and generative AI. As a Senior Research Scientist, you will propose and deploy solutions drawing from a range of scientific areas including time-series forecasting, causal inference, Bayesian methods, LLMs, and deep learning. This role has high visibility to senior Amazon business leaders and involves close collaboration with scientists, engineers, and product teams to integrate scientific work into production systems. Key job responsibilities - As a senior member of the FBA Science forecasting team, play an integral role in building and advancing Amazon's FBA shipment creation, inbound arrival, and inventory forecasting systems. - Research and develop statistical models, ML models, and LLM-based solutions to forecast seller shipment creation behavior, inbound arrival patterns, and downstream inventory levels across the FBA network. - Model and quantify the impact of seller behavior changes and FBA policy updates (e.g., capacity limits, fee structures, inbound placement policies) on forecasting accuracy, and develop robust forecasting approaches that adapt to these dynamics. - Build explainability frameworks for forecasting models — enabling science teams, product managers, and business stakeholders to understand model drivers, diagnose forecast errors, and trust model outputs. - Define a long-term science vision and roadmap for the forecasting team, driven fundamentally by customer and seller needs, translating those directions into specific plans for research and applied scientists, as well as engineering and product teams. - Drive and execute forecasting science projects end-to-end: from ideation, analysis, and prototyping through to development, deployment, metrics definition, and monitoring. - Review and audit modeling processes and results for other scientists, both junior and senior. - Advocate the right science solutions to business stakeholders, engineering teams, and executive-level decision makers. A day in the life In this role, you will be a technical leader in forecasting science with significant scope, impact, and high visibility. Your solutions will directly influence billions of dollars in inventory decisions, inbound logistics planning, and seller experience across Amazon's global fulfillment network. As a senior scientist on the team, you will be involved in every aspect of the process — from idea generation, business analysis, and scientific research, through to development and deployment of advanced forecasting models — giving you a real sense of ownership. From day one, you will work with experienced scientists, engineers, and product designers who are passionate about what they do. You are expected to make decisions about modeling methodology, technology choices, and explainability approaches. You will strive for simplicity and demonstrate judgment backed by mathematical rigor. You will also collaborate with the broader decision and research science community at Amazon to broaden the horizon of your work, and mentor engineers and scientists. We are seeking someone who wants to lead projects requiring innovative thinking and deep technical problem-solving skills to create production-ready forecasting solutions. The candidate will need to be entrepreneurial, wear many hats, and work in a fast-paced, high-energy, highly collaborative environment. About the team Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) is a service that allows sellers to outsource order fulfillment to Amazon, enabling them to leverage Amazon's world-class fulfillment infrastructure to deliver on the Prime promise. FBA ships more than half of all products offered on Amazon, and our science team is at the heart of making that possible. The FBA Science forecasting team focuses on predicting seller shipment creation, inbound arrival, and inventory dynamics — providing the signals that drive capacity planning, inbound logistics, and inventory positioning across the network. We work full-stack, from foundational forecasting models to seller-facing explainability tools. Our culture is centered on rapid prototyping, rigorous experimentation, and data-driven decision-making.
  • IN, KA, Bengaluru
    Job ID: 3199686
    (Updated 23 days ago)
    The Kindle team is seeking innovative Applied Scientists for improving the reading experience. Our team is dedicated to enhancing the book reading experience using advancements in Science to improve the book reading experience for Kindle customers. Key job responsibilities - Inspect science initiatives across Amazon to identify how these can be applied and scaled to book reading experience. - Participate in team design, scoping and prioritization discussions. You must be able to map a business goal to a scientific problem, and map business metrics to technical metrics. - Spearhead the design and implementation of new features and algorithms based on thorough research and collaboration with cross-functional teams. - You have expertise in one of the applied science disciplines, such as machine learning, natural language processing, computer vision, Deep learning - You are able to use reasonable assumptions, data, and customer requirements to solve problems. - You initiate the design, development, execution, and implementation of smaller components with input and guidance from team members. - You work with SDEs to deliver solutions into production to benefit customers or an area of the business. - You assume responsibility for the code in your components. You write secure, stable, testable, maintainable code with minimal defects. - You understand basic data structures, algorithms, model evaluation techniques, performance, and optimality tradeoffs. - You follow engineering and scientific method best practices. You get your designs, models, and code reviewed. You test your code and models thoroughly - You participate in team design, scoping and prioritization discussions. You are able to map a business goal to a scientific problem and map business metrics to technical metrics. - You invent, refine and develop your solutions to ensure they are meeting customer needs and team goals. - You keep current with research trends in your area of expertise and scrutinize your results. A day in the life You will solve customer problems through innovative solutions that leverage the advancements in science. You will work with a group of talented scientists on researching algorithm and running experiments to test solutions to improve our experience. This will involve collaboration with partner teams including engineering, PMs, and other scientists to discuss data quality, model development and productionizing the same. You will mentor other scientists, review and guide their work, help develop roadmaps for the team.
  • (Updated 20 days ago)
    Amazon Advertising is one of Amazon's fastest growing and most profitable businesses. Amazon's advertising portfolio helps merchants, retail vendors, and brand owners succeed via native advertising, which grows incremental sales of their products sold through Amazon. The primary goals are to help shoppers discover new products they love, be the most efficient way for advertisers to meet their business objectives, and build a sustainable business that continuously innovates on behalf of customers. Our products and solutions are strategically important to enable our Retail and Marketplace businesses to drive long-term growth. We deliver billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks and break fresh ground in product and technical innovations every day! The ADSP Forecasting team's vision is to build the best in class forecasting products offered by any DSP to allow advertisers to forecast campaign outcomes across the full market funnel. Our goal is to empower advertisers using Amazon demand side platform to make informed decisions by providing predictions and recommendations of supply and ad-performance. Our forecasting models and analytical solutions will also help internal teams (sales, PSC, supply desk etc) to gain insights into forecasted supply, demand and ad performance to make the best business decisions. The team comprises scientists and engineers who own end-to-end projects - data collection, analysis, ideation, and prototyping, to development, metrics and monitoring. The models and services are integrated directly with Amazon's Ads eco system and the forecasts are used to drive key business decisions at the VP/SVP level. We are a team of Applied Scientists and Engineers, who are passionate about solving technical problems in the Ad Forecasting space with models using Machine Learning, Bayesian Statistics, etc. You will join a group of highly talented PhDs with diverse background to design, prototype, and implement models to deliver impact directly to customers. You will have the opportunity to present your work in science communities and to leadership As a 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. Why you will love this opportunity: Amazon is investing heavily in building a world-class advertising business. This team defines and delivers a collection of advertising products that drive discovery and sales. Our solutions generate billions in revenue and drive long-term growth for Amazon’s Retail and Marketplace businesses. We deliver billions of ad impressions, millions of clicks daily, and break fresh ground to create world-class products. We are a highly motivated, collaborative, and fun-loving team with an entrepreneurial spirit - with a broad mandate to experiment and innovate. Impact and Career Growth: You will invent new experiences and influence customer-facing shopping experiences to help suppliers grow their retail business and the auction dynamics that leverage native advertising; this is your opportunity to work within the fastest-growing businesses across all of Amazon! Define a long-term science vision for our advertising business, driven from our customers' needs, 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. Team video https://youtu.be/zD_6Lzw8raE
  • US, WA, Bellevue
    Job ID: 3204828
    (Updated 19 days ago)
    We are looking for detail-oriented, organized, and responsible individuals who are eager to learn how to apply their causal inference skillsets to solve real world problems. The intern will work in the area of Returns & ReCommerce and develop methods to validate and contextualize causal inference estimates. Our PhD Economist Internship Program offers hands-on experience in applied economics, supported by mentorship, structured feedback, and professional development. Interns work on real business and research problems, building skills that prepare them for full-time economist roles at Amazon and beyond. You will learn how to build data sets and perform applied econometric analysis collaborating with economists, scientists, and product managers. These skills will translate well into writing applied chapters in your dissertation and provide you with work experience that may help you with placement. These are full-time positions at 40 hours per week, with compensation being awarded on an hourly basis. About the team The Returns & ReCommerce Economics Intelligence (RREI) team brings together economists, data scientists, data analysts, and business intelligence engineers to deliver innovative research and products that discover and surface returns-influencing behavior, trends and their root causes. We leverage a range of scientific approaches such as causal modeling, structural and choice modeling, time series, ML, and optimization models to yield tangible insights targeted at reducing the cost of returns and concessions without slowing down the Amazon flywheel.
  • (Updated 15 days ago)
    Amazon's advertising business has grown exponentially over the past years, helping connect sellers and vendors to shoppers who may be interested in their products. Our ad 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 that leverage state of the art AI technologies. The Sponsored Products and Brands team is seeking a Principal Applied Scientist to lead the development and implementation of generative AI solutions for ad allocation and ranking on Amazon search pages. This role will be instrumental in revolutionizing how we match ads with customer intent and shopping behavior. Key job responsibilities * Design and develop novel generative AI architectures for real-time ad allocation, focusing on both efficiency and effectiveness at massive scale * Lead research initiatives in applying large language models and multimodal AI to understand deep semantic relationships between ads, queries, and user behavior * Create innovative approaches to leverage GenAI for dynamic ad placement optimization while maintaining strict latency requirements * Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate GenAI solutions into existing advertising systems * Author research papers and technical documentation, contributing to the broader scientific community
  • IN, KA, Bengaluru
    Job ID: 3200567
    (Updated 21 days ago)
    Are you passionate about applying machine learning and advanced statistical techniques to protect one of the world's largest online marketplaces? Do you want to be at the forefront of developing innovative solutions that improve Amazon's customers experience? Do you thrive in a collaborative environment where diverse perspectives drive breakthrough solutions? If yes, we invite you to join the Amazon Customer Fulfillment & Prime analytics team. We're seeking an exceptional scientist who can revolutionize how we delight our customers. As a key member of our team, you'll develop and deploy machine learning systems that analyze millions of customer interactions daily, ensuring state of art experience for customers across 10 countries. Your work will directly impact the shopping experience for hundreds of millions of customers worldwide. Key job responsibilities • Use machine learning and statistical techniques to create scalable abuse detection solutions that identify fraudulent customer behavior, rings of accounts, identity change, holistic customer risk and marketplace manipulation schemes • Innovate with the latest GenAI technology to build highly automated solutions for efficient customer promotions • Design, develop and deploy end-to-end machine learning solutions in the Amazon production environment to delight Amazon customers • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop comprehensive ML/statistical models that can scale to millions of customers and 10+ countries About the team You'll be working closely with business partners, science and engineering teams to create end-to-end scalable machine learning solutions that address real-world problems. You will build scalable, efficient, and automated processes for large-scale data analyses, model development, model validation, and model implementation. You will also be providing clear and compelling reports for your solutions and contributing to the ongoing innovation and knowledge-sharing that are central to the team's success.
  • (Updated 14 days ago)
    The Mission Build AI safety systems that protect millions of Alexa customers every day. As conversational AI evolves, you'll solve challenging problems in Responsible AI by ensuring LLMs provide safe, trustworthy responses, building AI systems that understand nuanced human values across cultures, and maintaining customer trust at scale. What You'll Build You'll pioneer breakthrough solutions in Responsible AI at Amazon's scale. Imagine training models that set new safety standards, designing automated testing systems that hunt for vulnerabilities before they surface, and certifying the systems that power millions of daily conversations. You'll create intelligent evaluation systems that judge responses with human-level insight, build models that truly understand what makes interactions safe and delightful, and craft feedback mechanisms that help Alexa+ grasp the nuances of complex customer conversations. Here's where it gets even more exciting: you'll build AI agents that act as your team's safety net—automatically detecting and fixing production issues in real-time, often before anyone notices there was a problem. Your innovations won't just improve Alexa+; they'll fundamentally shape how it learns, evolves, and earns customer trust. As Alexa+ continues to delight customers, your work ensures it becomes more trustworthy, safer, and deeply aligned with customer needs and expectations. Your work directly protects customer trust at Amazon's scale. Every innovation you create—from novel safety mechanisms to sophisticated evaluation techniques—shapes how millions of people interact with AI confidently. You're not just building products; you're defining industry standards for responsible AI. This is frontier research with immediate real-world impact. You'll tackle problems that require innovative solutions: training models that remain truthful and grounded across diverse contexts, building reward models that capture the nuanced spectrum of human values across cultures and languages, and creating automated systems that continuously discover and address potential issues before customers encounter them. You'll collaborate with world-class scientists, product managers, and engineers to transform state-of-the-art ideas into production systems serving millions. What We're Looking For * Deep expertise in state-of-the-art NLP and Large Language Models * Track record of building scalable ML systems * Passion for impactful research—where frontier science meets real-world responsibility at scale * Excitement about solving problems that will shape the future of AI Ready to work on AI safety challenges that define the industry? Join us. Key job responsibilities This is where you'll make your mark. You'll architect breakthrough Responsible AI solutions that become industry benchmarks, pioneering algorithms that eliminate false information, designing frameworks that hunt down vulnerabilities before bad actors find them, and developing models that understand human values across every culture we serve. Working with world-class engineers and scientists, you'll push the boundaries of model training—transforming bold research into production systems that protect millions of customers daily while withstanding attacks and delivering exceptional experiences. But here's what makes this role truly special: you'll shape the future. You'll lead certification processes, advance optimization techniques, build evaluation systems that reason like humans, and mentor the next generation of AI safety experts. Every innovation you drive will set new standards for trustworthy AI at the world's largest scale. A day in the life As a Responsible AI Scientist, you're at the frontier of AI safety—experimenting with breakthrough techniques that push the boundaries of what's possible. You partner with engineering to transform research into production-ready solutions, tackling complex optimization challenges. You brainstorm with Product teams, translating ambitious visions into concrete objectives that drive real impact. Your expertise shapes critical deployment decisions as you review impactful work and guide go/no-go calls. You mentor the next generation of AI safety leaders, watching ideas spark and capabilities grow. This is where science meets impact—building AI that's not just intelligent, but trustworthy and aligned with human values. About the team Our team pioneers Responsible AI for conversational assistants. We ensure Alexa delivers safe, trustworthy experiences across all devices, modalities, and languages worldwide. We work on frontier AI safety challenges—and we're looking for scientists who want to help shape the future of trustworthy AI.
  • GB, London
    Job ID: 3192620
    (Updated 29 days ago)
    We are looking for an Economist to work on exciting and challenging business problems related to Amazon Retail’s worldwide product assortment. You will build innovative solutions based on econometrics, machine learning, and experimentation. You will be part of a interdisciplinary team of economists, product managers, engineers, and scientists, and your work will influence finance and business decisions affecting Amazon’s vast product assortment globally. If you have an entrepreneurial spirit, you know how to deliver results fast, and you have a deeply quantitative, highly innovative approach to solving problems, and long for the opportunity to build pioneering solutions to challenging problems, we want to talk to you. Key job responsibilities * Work on a challenging problem that has the potential to significantly impact Amazon’s business position * Develop econometric models and experiments to measure the customer and financial impact of Amazon’s product assortment * Collaborate with other scientists at Amazon to deliver measurable progress and change * Influence business leaders based on empirical findings
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 3193063
    (Updated 8 days ago)
    Innovators wanted! Are you an entrepreneur? A builder? A dreamer? This role is part of an Amazon Special Projects team that takes the company’s Think Big leadership principle to the limits. If you’re interested in innovating at scale to address big challenges in the world, this is the team for you. As an Applied Scientist on our team, you will focus on building state-of-the-art ML models for biology. Our team rewards curiosity while maintaining a laser-focus in bringing products to market. Competitive candidates are responsive, flexible, and able to succeed within an open, collaborative, entrepreneurial, startup-like environment. At the forefront of both academic and applied research in this product area, you have the opportunity to work together with a diverse and talented team of scientists, engineers, and product managers and collaborate with other teams. Key job responsibilities - Build, adapt and evaluate ML models for life sciences applications - Collaborate with a cross-functional team of ML scientists, biologists, software engineers and product managers
  • (Updated 28 days ago)
    The People eXperience and Technology Central Science (PXTCS) team uses economics, behavioral science, statistics, and machine learning to proactively identify mechanisms and process improvements which simultaneously improve Amazon and the lives, well-being, and the value of work to Amazonians. The Benefits Science team is looking for a senior economist to transform complex business challenges into actionable scientific insights. In this role, you will partner directly with business leaders to design and evaluate pilots, build models using large-scale data, and scale successful prototypes into company-wide policies and programs. We're looking for someone who can combine rigorous scientific thinking with practical business acumen and is passionate about using economics to improve employee experiences at scale. The ideal candidate will thrive in interdisciplinary environments, working alongside engineers, data scientists, and business leaders from diverse backgrounds. Key job responsibilities * Design and evaluate innovative research pilots that address critical business challenges * Develop sophisticated economic models using large-scale organizational data * Collaborate with engineers, data scientists, and business leaders to transform research insights into actionable strategies * Write and present comprehensive research findings to senior leadership * Scale successful prototypes into company-wide policies and programs A day in the life Work with teammates to apply economic methods to business problems. This might include identifying the appropriate research questions, writing code to implement a DID analysis or estimate a structural model, or writing and presenting a document with findings to business leaders. Our economists also collaborate with partner teams 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 Our Benefits Science team is a dynamic group of economists, data scientists, and business strategists committed to understanding human capital at scale. We use interdisciplinary approaches to solve complex workforce challenges, combining economics, behavioral science, and advanced analytics to create meaningful workplace improvements.

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