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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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  • US, MA, N.reading
    Job ID: 3173326
    (Updated 1 days ago)
    Amazon 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 cutting-edge 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 an unprecedented scale, working with world-class teams pushing the boundaries of what's possible in robotic dexterous 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. At Amazon Industrial Robotics Group, we leverage advanced robotics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence to solve complex operational challenges at an 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 dexterous manipulation system that: - Enables unprecedented generalization across diverse tasks - Enables contact-rich manipulation in different environments - Seamlessly integrates low-level skills and high-level behaviors - Leverage mechanical intelligence, multi-modal sensor feedback and advanced control techniques. 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. Key job responsibilities - Design and implement methods for dexterous manipulation - Design and implement methods for use of dexterous end effectors with force and tactile sensing - Develop a hierarchical system that combines low-level control with high-level planning - Utilize state-of-the-art manipulation models and optimal control techniques
  • (Updated 34 days ago)
    Alexa+ is Amazon’s next-generation, AI-powered virtual assistant. Building on the original Alexa, it uses generative AI to deliver a more conversational, personalized, and effective experience. As an Applied Scientist II on the Alexa Sensitive Content Intelligence (ASCI) team, you'll be part of an elite group developing industry-leading technologies in attribute extraction and sensitive content detection that work seamlessly across all languages and countries. In this role, you'll join a team of exceptional scientists pushing the boundaries of Natural Language Processing. Working in our dynamic, fast-paced environment, you'll develop novel algorithms and modeling techniques that advance the state of the art in NLP. Your innovations will directly shape how millions of customers interact with Amazon Echo, Echo Dot, Echo Show, and Fire TV devices every day. What makes this role exciting is the unique blend of scientific innovation and real-world impact. You'll be at the intersection of theoretical research and practical application, working alongside talented engineers and product managers to transform breakthrough ideas into customer-facing experiences. Your work will be crucial in ensuring Alexa remains at the forefront of AI technology while maintaining the highest standards of trust and safety. We're looking for a passionate innovator who combines strong technical expertise with creative problem-solving skills. Your deep understanding of NLP models (including LSTM and transformer-based architectures) will be essential in tackling complex challenges and identifying novel solutions. You'll leverage your exceptional technical knowledge, strong Computer Science fundamentals, and experience with large-scale distributed systems to create reliable, scalable, and high-performance products that delight our customers. Key job responsibilities In this dynamic role, you'll design and implement GenAI solutions that define the future of AI interaction. You'll pioneer novel algorithms, conduct ground breaking experiments, and optimize user experiences through innovative approaches to sensitive content detection and mitigation. Working alongside exceptional engineers and scientists, you'll transform theoretical breakthroughs into practical, scalable solutions that strengthen user trust in Alexa globally. You'll also have the opportunity to mentor rising talent, contributing to Amazon's culture of scientific excellence while helping build high-performing teams that deliver swift, impactful results. A day in the life Imagine starting your day collaborating with brilliant minds on advancing state-of-the-art NLP algorithms, then moving on to analyze experiment results that could reshape how Alexa understands and responds to users. You'll partner with cross-functional teams - from engineers to product managers - to ensure data quality, refine policies, and enhance model performance. Your expertise will guide technical discussions, shape roadmaps, and influence key platform features that require cross-team leadership. About the team The Alexa Sensitive Content Intelligence (ASCI) team owns the Responsible AI and customer feedback charters in Alexa+ and Classic Alexa across all device endpoints, modalities and languages. The mission of our team is to (1) minimize negative surprises to customers caused by sensitive content, (2) detect and prevent potential brand-damaging interactions, (3) build customer trust through generating appropriate interactions on sensitive topics, and (4) analyze customer feedback to gain insight and drive continuous improvement loops. The term “sensitive content” includes within its scope a wide range of categories of content such as offensive content (e.g., hate speech, racist speech), profanity, content that is suitable only for certain age groups, politically polarizing content, and religiously polarizing content. The term “content” refers to any material that is exposed to customers by Alexa (including both 1P and 3P experiences) and includes text, speech, audio, and video.
  • (Updated 28 days ago)
    This is currently a 12 month temporary contract opportunity with the possibility to extend to 24 months based on business needs. The Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) team is seeking a dedicated, skilled, and innovative Applied Scientist with a robust background in machine learning, statistics, quality assurance, auditing methodologies, and automated evaluation systems to ensure the highest standards of data quality, to build industry-leading technology with Large Language Models (LLMs) and multimodal systems. Key job responsibilities As part of the AGI team, an Applied Scientist will collaborate closely with core scientist team developing Amazon Nova models. They will lead the development of comprehensive quality strategies and auditing frameworks that safeguard the integrity of data collection workflows. This includes designing auditing strategies with detailed SOPs, quality metrics, and sampling methodologies that help Nova improve performances on benchmarks. The Applied Scientist will perform expert-level manual audits, conduct meta-audits to evaluate auditor performance, and provide targeted coaching to uplift overall quality capabilities. A critical aspect of this role involves developing and maintaining LLM-as-a-Judge systems, including designing judge architectures, creating evaluation rubrics, and building machine learning models for automated quality assessment. The Applied Scientist will also set up the configuration of data collection workflows and communicate quality feedback to stakeholders. An Applied Scientist will also have a direct impact on enhancing customer experiences through high-quality training and evaluation data that powers state-of-the-art LLM products and services. A day in the life An Applied Scientist with the AGI team will support quality solution design, conduct root cause analysis on data quality issues, research new auditing methodologies, and find innovative ways of optimizing data quality while setting examples for the team on quality assurance best practices and standards. Besides theoretical analysis and quality framework development, an Applied Scientist will also work closely with talented engineers, domain experts, and vendor teams to put quality strategies and automated judging systems into practice.
  • (Updated 28 days ago)
    This is currently a 12 month temporary contract opportunity with the possibility to extend to 24 months based on business needs. The Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) team is seeking a dedicated, skilled, and innovative Applied Scientist with a robust background in machine learning, statistics, quality assurance, auditing methodologies, and automated evaluation systems to ensure the highest standards of data quality, to build industry-leading technology with Large Language Models (LLMs) and multimodal systems. Key job responsibilities As part of the AGI team, an Applied Scientist will collaborate closely with core scientist team developing Amazon Nova models. They will lead the development of comprehensive quality strategies and auditing frameworks that safeguard the integrity of data collection workflows. This includes designing auditing strategies with detailed SOPs, quality metrics, and sampling methodologies that help Nova improve performances on benchmarks. The Applied Scientist will perform expert-level manual audits, conduct meta-audits to evaluate auditor performance, and provide targeted coaching to uplift overall quality capabilities. A critical aspect of this role involves developing and maintaining LLM-as-a-Judge systems, including designing judge architectures, creating evaluation rubrics, and building machine learning models for automated quality assessment. The Applied Scientist will also set up the configuration of data collection workflows and communicate quality feedback to stakeholders. An Applied Scientist will also have a direct impact on enhancing customer experiences through high-quality training and evaluation data that powers state-of-the-art LLM products and services. A day in the life An Applied Scientist with the AGI team will support quality solution design, conduct root cause analysis on data quality issues, research new auditing methodologies, and find innovative ways of optimizing data quality while setting examples for the team on quality assurance best practices and standards. Besides theoretical analysis and quality framework development, an Applied Scientist will also work closely with talented engineers, domain experts, and vendor teams to put quality strategies and automated judging systems into practice.
  • (Updated 36 days ago)
    Are you a MS or PhD student interested in a 2026 internship in the field of machine learning, deep learning, generative AI, large language models and speech technology, robotics, computer vision, optimization, operations research, quantum computing, automated reasoning, or formal methods? If so, we want to hear from you! We are looking for students interested in using a variety of domain expertise to invent, design and implement state-of-the-art solutions for never-before-solved problems. You can find more information about the Amazon Science community as well as our interview process via the links below; https://www.amazon.science/ https://amazon.jobs/content/en/career-programs/university/science https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/university-roles/applied-science Key job responsibilities As an Applied Science Intern, you will own the design and development of end-to-end systems. You’ll have the opportunity to write technical white papers, create roadmaps and drive production level projects that will support Amazon Science. You will work closely with Amazon scientists and other science interns to develop solutions and deploy them into production. You will have the opportunity to design new algorithms, models, or other technical solutions whilst experiencing Amazon’s customer focused culture. The ideal intern must have the ability to work with diverse groups of people and cross-functional teams to solve complex business problems. A day in the life At Amazon, you will grow into the high impact person you know you’re ready to be. Every day will be filled with developing new skills and achieving personal growth. How often can you say that your work changes the world? At Amazon, you’ll say it often. Join us and define tomorrow. Some more benefits of an Amazon Science internship include; • All of our internships offer a competitive stipend/salary • Interns are paired with an experienced manager and mentor(s) • Interns receive invitations to different events such as intern program initiatives or site events • Interns can build their professional and personal network with other Amazon Scientists • Interns can potentially publish work at top tier conferences each year About the team Applicants will be reviewed on a rolling basis and are assigned to teams aligned with their research interests and experience prior to interviews. Start dates are available throughout the year and durations can vary in length from 3-6 months for full time internships. This role may available across multiple locations in the EMEA region (Austria, Estonia, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Spain, South Africa, UAE, and UK). Please note these are not remote internships.
  • (Updated 30 days ago)
    Amazon B2B Payments and Lending (ABPL) revolutionize financial services for businesses of all sizes, anywhere in the world, enabling them to delight their customers and make a positive impact to the communities they serve. We never stop innovating to earn their trust by leveraging our scale, insights, and technology, and raising the bar with simple, secure, and seamless solutions. ABPL organization is seeking a highly quantitative, experienced Data Scientist to drive the development of science analytics and insights capabilities. You will succeed in this role if you are an organized self-starter who can learn new technologies quickly and excel in a fast-paced environment. In this position, you will be a key contributor and sparring partner, developing analytics and insights that global executive management teams and business leaders will use to define global strategies and deep dive businesses. Our team is an Analytics team, offering a unique opportunity to build a new set of analytical experiences from the ground up. You will be part the team that is focused on developing analytical solutions for our customers/Merchants (Product/Marketing/Finance/Operations team). The position is based in India but will interact with global leaders and teams in Europe, Japan, US, and other regions. You should be highly analytical, resourceful, customer focused, team-oriented, and have an ability to work independently. You will be comfortable thinking big and diving deep. A proven track record in taking on end-to-end ownership and successfully delivering results in a fast-paced, dynamic business environment is strongly preferred. Key job responsibilities • Partner with technical and non-technical stakeholders across every step of the science project lifecycle to deliver impactful solutions • Design and deploy AI-powered analytical services that deliver automated, actionable insights through predictive and prescriptive ML solutions, enabling business teams to make data-driven decisions and accelerate growth. • Design, develop, implement, and test forecasting solutions for planning and goal-setting exercises across various payment products and programs within the ABPL organization. • Develop and implement agentic AI frameworks to streamline repetitive business operations and create intelligent, customer-facing solutions that enhance user experience and operational efficiency • Design and implement marketing analytics solutions including impact measurement, attribution modeling, and personalization models to optimize marketing effectiveness and ROI • Develop and implement real-time anomaly detection mechanisms and early-warning systems to proactively identify business risks and opportunities • Partner with product, tech teams, BIE/DE to build robust and scalable science solutions integrated with in-house reporting and BI tools using SQL, Python, and Spark • Lead training and informational sessions to educate stakeholders on science capabilities and methodologies • Create, share, and present comprehensive documents summarizing findings and recommendations to all levels of the organization • Drive thought leadership in data science by staying at the forefront of emerging research, identifying breakthrough methodologies, and shaping the team's long-term technical roadmap through innovative problem-solving approaches. • Communicate effectively with cross-functional teams including product, business, technology, and other science teams About the team
  • US, CA, Sunnyvale
    Job ID: 3177446
    (Updated 29 days ago)
    Join the Personal Robotics Group at Amazon, where you'll help pioneer intelligent robotic products that deliver meaningful customer experiences. As a Senior Applied Scientist, you'll lead the development of advanced control systems that enable robots to operate naturally, safely, and intelligently in complex real-world environments. You'll drive technical excellence in areas such as RL-based locomotion policies, whole-body manipulation, sim-to-real transfer, vision-aided control, and safe human-robot interaction. In this role, you'll combine hands-on technical work with scientific leadership, developing robust control solutions that enable robots to perform complex loco-manipulation tasks in dynamic environments. You'll leverage Amazon's computational resources and robotics infrastructure to tackle ambitious robotics problems. Key job responsibilities - Lead technical initiatives in whole-body control and locomotion, driving breakthrough approaches through hands-on research and development in areas including policy learning, natural motion generation, vision-aided locomotion, and loco-manipulation - Design and implement novel RL architectures and training paradigms for robust whole-body control that enables complex tasks across diverse scenarios - Develop sim-to-real transfer techniques that enable policies trained in simulation to perform reliably on physical hardware - Guide technical direction for locomotion and control projects from research through deployment, ensuring robust performance in real-world environments - Collaborate with navigation, manipulation, and hardware teams to ensure seamless integration of whole-body control with perception and planning systems - Mentor fellow scientists and engineers while maintaining strong individual technical contributions - Establish benchmarks and evaluation frameworks for measuring locomotion and whole-body control performance across simulation and on-device testing About the team The Personal Robotics Group is pioneering intelligent robotic products that deliver meaningful customer experiences. We're building the next generation of robotic systems that will redefine how customers interact with technology. This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of personal robotics working with world-class teams pushing the boundaries of what's possible in robotic manipulation, locomotion, and human-robot interaction. Join us if you’re passionate about creating the future of personal robotics, solving complex challenges at the intersection of hardware and software, and seeing your innovation deliver transformative customer experiences.
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 3175641
    (Updated 0 days ago)
    Are you passionate to join an innovative team of scientists and engineers who use machine learning and AI techniques to create state-of-the-art solutions to help seller succeed on Amazon? The Selling Partner Growth org is looking for a Senior Applied Scientist to lead us on our mission to understand demand side signals on Amazon, and empower sellers to grow their business and provide a great customer experience. As a Senior Applied Scientist on our team of scientists and engineers, you will have opportunities to create significant impact on our systems, our business and most importantly, our customers as we take on challenges that can revolutionize the e-commerce industry. You will identify specific and actionable opportunities to solve business problems, propose state-of-the-art solutions and collaborate with engineering, and business teams for future innovation. You need to be a great translation between ambiguous business domains and rigorous scientific solutions, an expert at inventing and simplify, and a good communicator to surface insights and recommendations to audiences of varying levels of technical sophistication. Major responsibilities - Use machine learning and AI techniques to create scalable seller-facing solutions - Analyze and extract relevant information from large amounts of Amazon's historical business data to help automate and optimize key processes - Design, development and evaluation of highly innovative models - Work closely with software engineering teams to drive real-time model implementations and new feature creations To know more about Amazon science, Please visit https://www.amazon.science
  • IN, HR, Gurugram
    Job ID: 3172602
    (Updated 36 days ago)
    Lead ML teams building large-scale forecasting and optimization systems that power Amazon’s global transportation network and directly impact customer experience and cost. As an Applied Science Manager, you will set scientific direction, mentor applied scientists, and partner with engineering and product leaders to deliver production-grade ML solutions at massive scale. Key job responsibilities 1. Lead and grow a high-performing team of Applied Scientists, providing technical guidance, mentorship, and career development. 2. Define and own the scientific vision and roadmap for ML solutions powering large-scale transportation planning and execution. 3. Guide model and system design across a range of techniques, including tree-based models, deep learning (LSTMs, transformers), LLMs, and reinforcement learning. 4. Ensure models are production-ready, scalable, and robust through close partnership with stakeholders. Partner with Product, Operations, and Engineering leaders to enable proactive decision-making and corrective actions. 5. Own end-to-end business metrics, directly influencing customer experience, cost optimization, and network reliability. 6. Help contribute to the broader ML community through publications, conference submissions, and internal knowledge sharing. A day in the life Your day includes reviewing model performance and business metrics, guiding technical design and experimentation, mentoring scientists, and driving roadmap execution. You’ll balance near-term delivery with long-term innovation while ensuring solutions are robust, interpretable, and scalable. Ultimately, your work helps improve delivery reliability, reduce costs, and enhance the customer experience at massive scale.
  • ES, M, Madrid
    Job ID: 3189555
    (Updated 5 days ago)
    Amazon is looking for creative Applied Scientists to tackle some of the most interesting problems in Artificial Intelligence (AI), natural language processing (NLP), knowledge graph curation, search, recommendation and related areas with our Amazon Books team. At Amazon Books we believe that reading is essential for a healthy society. As such, we aim to inspire readers by making it easy to read more and get more out of reading. We do this by creating an unmatched book discovery experience for our customers worldwide. We enable customers to discover new books, authors and genres through smart search tools, intelligent interactions and sophisticated recommendations, and we need your help to keep innovating in this space. If you are looking for an opportunity to solve deep technical problems and build innovative solutions in a fast-paced environment working within a smart and passionate team, this might be the role for you. You will develop and implement novel algorithms, agentic systems and modeling techniques to advance the state-of-the-art in technology areas at the intersection of AI, LLMs, NLP, search, and deep learning. You will innovate at scale, help move the needle for research in these exciting areas and build state-of-the-art technologies that enable delightful experiences for hundreds of millions of people. Key job responsibilities In this role you will: - Work collaboratively with other scientists and developers to design and implement scalable and reliable pipelines for ensuring our vast knowledge base of books meets the highest levels of accuracy and is aligned with how customers think about books; - set the scientific roadmap needed to sustain state-of-the-art quality and efficiency. Stay up-to-date with the latest technologies and adopt the most appropriate long-term solution to a variety of use cases. - set the standard for science rigor and quality, deal with ambiguity and competing objectives, and mentor other members to achieve their career growth potential. - Drive scalable solutions: from understanding the customer and business needs, to prototyping, production testing and through engineering directly to production. A day in the life Day-to-day work varies, but on a typical day you will: - run (or supervise) experiments. Depending on the stage or project, this may involve designing the experiments, collecting data, training models, prompt/spec engineering/optimization, error analysis, online system analysis, etc. - drive decisions by interpreting and communicating experimental results with stakeholders (managers, subject matter experts, other scientists, and engineers) and seeking/listening to their feedback. - strategic thinking: review results, identify trends and what step-changes are needed. You'll contribute to regular meetings, activities and conferences with the wider science team, organization as well as internal and external communities. About the team The team consists of a collaborative group of scientists, product leaders, and dedicated engineering teams. Our aim is to maintain the world’s most accurate and descriptive set of books metadata, where every title in our catalog is uniquely characterized via a set of high-quality, concise attributes. We believe this is a foundational capacity for any bookstore. We work with sister teams to leverage our systems to drive a diverse array of customer experiences, owned both by ourselves and others, that enable customers to easily identify their ideal next read.

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