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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.
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  • US, CA, Santa Monica
    Job ID: 3072625
    (Updated 15 days ago)
    Amazon Advertising operates at the intersection of eCommerce and advertising, offering a rich array of advertising solutions with the goal of helping our customers find and discover anything they want to buy. We help advertisers reach Amazon customers on Amazon owned and operated sites, other high quality sites across the web, and on millions of TV, tablet, and mobile devices. We start with the customer and work backwards in everything we do, including advertising. If you're interested in working in a world-class organization with a relentless focus on the customer, you've come to the right place! Our team within the CreativeX organization drives engaging user experiences through content and interactivity enrichment, enabling advertisers to reach target audiences at scale. We are looking for a passionate, talented, and resourceful Senior Applied Scientist in the field of Large Language Model (LLM) and Recommender Systems to invent and build scalable solutions for more engaging and customized ads for brands of all sizes across the marketing funnel. Key job responsibilities The scientist will lead research and development for creative defect detection and content personalization, partner with engineering and product teams to execute our product vision, design and implement scalable machine learning solutions, drive innovation in content optimization and audience engagement, and demonstrate strong technical leadership and project execution skills.
  • IN, KA, Bengaluru
    Job ID: 3061093
    (Updated 31 days ago)
    The Amazon Alexa AI team in India is seeking a talented, self-driven Applied Scientist to work on prototyping, optimizing, and deploying ML algorithms within the realm of Generative AI. Key responsibilities include: - Research, experiment and build Proof Of Concepts advancing the state of the art in AI & ML for GenAI. - Collaborate with cross-functional teams to architect and execute technically rigorous AI projects. - Thrive in dynamic environments, adapting quickly to evolving technical requirements and deadlines. - Engage in effective technical communication (written & spoken) with coordination across teams. - Conduct thorough documentation of algorithms, methodologies, and findings for transparency and reproducibility. - Publish research papers in internal and external venues of repute - Support on-call activities for critical issues
  • (Updated 6 days ago)
    The Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) team is looking for a passionate, talented, and inventive Senior Applied Scientist with a strong deep learning background, to help build industry-leading technology with Large Language Models (LLMs). Key job responsibilities As a Senior Applied Scientist with the AGI team, you will work with talented peers to develop novel algorithms and modeling techniques to advance the state of the art LLM foundational models. You will leverage Amazon’s heterogeneous data sources and large-scale computing resources to accelerate development with LLMs . About the team The AGI team has a mission to advance the state of the art LLMs, in order to provide the best-possible experience for our customers.
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 3056433
    (Updated 38 days ago)
    Are you excited to help customers discover the hottest and best reviewed products? The Discovery Tech team helps customers discover and engage with new, popular and relevant products across Amazon worldwide. We do this by combining technology, science, and innovation to build new customer-facing features and experiences alongside agentic tools for marketers. You will be responsible for creating and building critical services that automatically generate, target, and optimize Amazon’s cross-category marketing and merchandising. Through the enablement of intelligent marketing campaigns that leverage machine-learning models, you will help to deliver the best possible shopping experience for Amazon’s customers all over the globe. We are looking for analytical problem solvers who enjoy diving into data, excited about data science and statistics, can multi-task, and can credibly interface between engineering teams and business stakeholders. Your analytical abilities, business understanding, and technical savvy will be used to identify specific and actionable opportunities to solve existing business problems and look around corners for future opportunities. Your domain spans the design, development, testing, and deployment of data-driven and highly scalable machine learning solutions in product recommendation. As an Applied Scientist, 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. 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. To know more about Amazon science, please visit https://www.amazon.science
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 3055821
    (Updated 22 days ago)
    MULTIPLE POSITIONS AVAILABLE Employer: AMAZON.COM SERVICES LLC Offered Position: Applied Scientist III Job Location: Seattle, Washington Job Number: AMZ9160677 Position Responsibilities: Participate in the design, development, evaluation, deployment and updating of data-driven models and analytical solutions for machine learning (ML) and/or natural language (NL) applications. Develop and/or apply statistical modeling techniques (e.g. Bayesian models and deep neural networks), optimization methods, and other ML techniques to different applications in business and engineering. Routinely build and deploy ML models on available data, and run and analyze experiments in a production environment. Identify new opportunities for research in order to meet business goals. Research and implement novel ML and statistical approaches to add value to the business. Mentor junior engineers and scientists. Position Requirements: Master’s degree or foreign equivalent degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Engineering, or a related field and two years of research or work experience in the job offered, or as a Research Scientist, Research Assistant, Software Engineer, or a related occupation. Employer will accept a Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Engineering, or a related field and five years of progressive post-baccalaureate research or work experience in the job offered or a related occupation as equivalent to the Master’s degree and two years of research or work experience. Must have one year of research or work experience in the following skill(s): (1) programming in Java, C++, Python, or equivalent programming language; and (2) conducting the analysis and development of various supervised and unsupervised machine learning models for moderately complex projects in business, science, or engineering. Amazon.com is an Equal Opportunity-Affirmative Action Employer – Minority / Female / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation. 40 hours / week, 8:00am-5:00pm, Salary Range $167,100/year to $226,100/year. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, visit: https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. #0000
  • (Updated 8 days ago)
    Amazon Lab126 is an inventive research and development company that designs and engineers high-profile consumer electronics. Lab126 began in 2004 as a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc., originally creating the best-selling Kindle family of products. Since then, we have produced innovative devices like Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and the Astro household robot. What will you help us create? As a Senior Reinforcement Learning Controls Scientist, you will be responsible for developing Reinforcement Learning models to control complex electromechanical systems. You will take responsibility for defining frameworks, performing analysis, and training models that guide and inform mechanical and electrical designs, software implementation, and other software modules that affect overall device safety and performance. You understand trade-offs between model-based and model-free approaches. You will demonstrate cross-functional collaboration and influence to accomplish your goals. You will play a role in defining processes and methods to improve the productivity of the entire team. You will interface with Amazon teams outside your immediate organization to collaborate and share knowledge. You will investigate applicable academic and industry research, prototype and test solutions to support product features, and design and validate production designs that deliver an exceptional user experience. Key job responsibilities - Produce models and simulations of complex, high degree-of-freedom dynamic electromechanical systems - Train Reinforcement Learning control policies that achieve performance targets within hardware and software constraints - Hands-on prototyping and testing of physical systems in the lab - Influence hardware and software design decisions owned by other teams to optimize system-level performance - Lead cross-functional teams (controls, firmware, perception, planning, sensors, mechanical, electrical, etc.) to solve complex system integration issues - Define key performance indicators and allocate error budgets across hardware and software modules - Perform root cause analysis of system-level failures and distinguish between hardware/software failures and hardware/software mitigations - Translate business requirements to engineering requirements and identify trade-offs and sensitivities - Mentor junior engineers in good design practice; actively participate in hiring of new team members About the team The Dynamic Systems and Control team develops models, algorithms, and code to bridge hardware and software development teams and bring robotic products to life. We contributed to Amazon Astro (https://www.amazon.com/Introducing-Amazon-Astro/dp/B078NSDFSB) and Echo Show 10 (https://www.amazon.com/echo-show-10/dp/B07VHZ41L8/), along with several new technology introductions and unannounced products currently in development.
  • CA, ON, Toronto
    Job ID: 3061580
    (Updated 3 days ago)
    Are you fueled by a passion for computer vision, machine learning and AI, and are eager to leverage your skills to enrich the lives of millions across the globe? Join us at Ring AI team, where we're not just offering a job, but an opportunity to revolutionize safety and convenience in our neighborhoods through innovations. You will be part of a dynamic team dedicated to pushing the boundaries of computer vision, machine learning and AI to deliver an unparalleled user experience for our neighbors. This position presents an exceptional opportunity for you to pioneer and innovate in AI, making a profound impact on millions of customers worldwide. You will partner with world-class AI scientists, engineers, product managers and other experts to develop industry-leading AI algorithms and systems for a diverse array of Ring and Blink products, enhancing the lives of millions of customers globally. Join us in shaping the future of AI innovation at Ring and Blink, where exciting challenges await! Key job responsibilities - Research and implement the state-of-the-art computer vision and machine learning methods to deliver high-quality artifacts that meets product specifications. - Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large-scale data analysis, machine-learning model development, model validation and gap analysis. - Provide technical leadership and research new machine learning approaches to drive continued scientific innovation. - Work in a collaborative environment with other scientists, engineers, product managers and cross-functional teams.
  • IN, KA, Bengaluru
    Job ID: 3082179
    (Updated 6 days ago)
    Amazon Devices is an inventive research and development company that designs and engineer high-profile devices like the Kindle family of products, Fire Tablets, Fire TV, Health Wellness, Amazon Echo & Astro products. This is an exciting opportunity to join Amazon in developing state-of-the-art techniques that bring Gen AI on edge for our consumer products. We are looking for exceptional scientists to join our Applied Science team and help develop the next generation of edge models, and optimize them while doing co-designed with custom ML HW based on a revolutionary architecture. Work hard. Have Fun. Make History. Key job responsibilities Quantize, prune, distill, finetune Gen AI models to optimize for edge platforms Fundamentally understand Amazon’s underlying Neural Edge Engine to invent optimization techniques Analyze deep learning workloads and provide guidance to map them to Amazon’s Neural Edge Engine Use first principles of Information Theory, Scientific Computing, Deep Learning Theory, Non Equilibrium Thermodynamics Train custom Gen AI models that beat SOTA and paves path for developing production models Collaborate closely with compiler engineers, fellow Applied Scientists, Hardware Architects and product teams to build the best ML-centric solutions for our devices Publish in open source and present on Amazon's behalf at key ML conferences - NeurIPS, ICLR, MLSys.
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 3057453
    (Updated 0 days ago)
    Here at Amazon, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of diversity and inclusion of our teams within the organization. How do you get items to customers quickly, cost-effectively, and—most importantly—safely, in less than an hour? And how do you do it in a way that can scale? Our teams of hundreds of scientists, engineers, aerospace professionals, and futurists have been working hard to do just that! We are delivering to customers, and are excited for what’s to come. Check out more information about Prime Air on the About Amazon blog (https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/transportation/amazon-prime-air-delivery-drone-reveal-photos). If you are seeking an iterative environment where you can drive innovation, apply state-of-the-art technologies to solve real world delivery challenges, and provide benefits to customers, Prime Air is the place for you. Come work on the Amazon Prime Air Team! We're looking for an Applied Scientist with either some background or strong interest in building simulation tools and algorithms for orchestration of a fleet of autonomous delivery drones. Managing a large number of concurrent autonomous drone flights that share airspace with other autonomous or manned aircraft is a challenging problem. Be part of the team building simulation tools and algorithms to solve this at scale. This role will contribute to a portfolio of simulation tools managing concurrent airspace traffic for aviation systems. The ideal candidate is comfortable with a degree of risk taking and ambiguity and able to build consensus on the critical path. If you enjoy the process of solving real-world problems that, quite frankly, haven’t been solved at scale anywhere before, Prime Air could be the place for you. Along the way, we guarantee you’ll get opportunities to be a disruptor, prolific innovator, and a reputed problem solver and directly impact Amazon’s customer’s worldwide. About the team Prime air has ambitious goals to offer its service to an increasing number of customers and enabling a large number of concurrent flights is central to achieving this. To this end, the air traffic management team is building algorithms, tools and services for orchestration of prime air's autonomous drone fleet.
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 3056666
    (Updated 38 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 healthcare. 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. This role offers a unique opportunity to work on projects that could fundamentally transform healthcare outcomes. Key job responsibilities In this role, you will: • Design and implement novel AI/ML solutions for complex healthcare challenges • Drive advancements in machine learning and data science • Balance theoretical knowledge with practical implementation • Work closely with customers and partners to understand their requirements • Navigate ambiguity and create clarity in early-stage product development • Collaborate with cross-functional teams while fostering innovation in a collaborative work environment to deliver impactful solutions • Establish best practices for ML experimentation, evaluation, development and deployment • Partner with leadership to define roadmap and strategic initiatives You’ll need a strong background in AI/ML, proven leadership skills, and the ability to translate complex concepts into actionable plans. You’ll also need to effectively translate research findings into practical solutions. A day in the life You will solve real-world problems by getting and analyzing large amounts of data, generate insights and opportunities, design simulations and experiments, and develop statistical and ML models. The team is driven by business needs, which requires collaboration with other Scientists, Engineers, and Product Managers across the Special Projects organization. You will prepare written and verbal presentations to share insights to audiences of varying levels of technical sophistication. About the team We represent Amazon's ambitious vision to solve the world's most pressing challenges. We are exploring new approaches to enhance research practices in the healthcare space, leveraging Amazon's scale and technological expertise. We operate with the agility of a startup while backed by Amazon's resources and operational excellence. We're looking for builders who are excited about working on ambitious, undefined problems and are comfortable with ambiguity.

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