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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, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 10372436
    (Updated 0 days ago)
    Do you want to join an innovative team of scientists who use machine learning and statistical techniques to help Amazon provide the best customer experience by preventing eCommerce fraud? Are you excited by the prospect of analyzing and modeling terabytes of data and creating state-of-the-art algorithms 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 enjoy collaborating in a diverse team environment? If yes, then you may be a great fit to join the Amazon Selling Partner Trust & Store Integrity Science Team. We are looking for a talented scientist who is passionate to build advanced machine learning systems that help manage the safety of millions of transactions every day and scale up our operation with automation. Key job responsibilities Innovate with the latest GenAI/LLM/VLM technology to build highly automated solutions for efficient risk evaluation and automated operations Design, develop and deploy end-to-end machine learning solutions in the Amazon production environment to create impactful business value Learn, explore and experiment with the latest machine learning advancements to create the best customer experience A day in the life You will be working within a dynamic, diverse, and supportive group of scientists who share your passion for innovation and excellence. You'll be working closely with business partners 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.
  • IN, KA, Bengaluru
    Job ID: 10373887
    (Updated 24 days ago)
    Alexa+ is Amazon’s next-generation, AI-powered assistant. Building on the original Alexa, it uses generative AI to deliver a more conversational, personalized, and effective experience. The Trust CX Innovations team is looking for an Applied Scientist with strong background in Generative AI space to build solutions that help in upholding customer trust for Alexa+. A Senior Applied Scientist in Trust CX innovations, you will be at the forefront of developing innovative solutions to critical challenges in AI trust and privacy. You'll lead research in trust-preserving machine learning techniques. We are working on revolutionizing the way Amazonians work and collaborate. You will help us achieve new heights of productivity through the power of advanced generative AI technologies. We are looking for a leader with strong technical experiences a passion for building scientific driven solutions in a fast-paced environment. You should have good understanding of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Natural Language Understanding (NLU), Machine Learning (ML), Dialog Management, Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), and Audio Signal Processing where to apply them in different business cases. You will be joining a select group of people making history producing one of the most highly rated products in Amazon's history, so if you are looking for a challenging and innovative role where you can solve important problems while growing as a leader, this may be the place for you. Key job responsibilities • Lead research initiatives in generative AI, focusing on LLMs, multimodal models, and frontier AI capabilities • Develop innovative approaches for model optimization, including prompt engineering, few-shot learning, and efficient fine-tuning • Pioneer new methods for AI safety, alignment, and responsible AI development • Design and execute sophisticated experiments to evaluate model performance and behavior • Lead the development of production-ready AI solutions that scale efficiently • Collaborate with product teams to translate research innovations into practical applications • Guide engineering teams in implementing AI models and systems at scale • Author technical papers for top-tier conferences • File patents for novel AI technologies and applications A day in the life You will be working with a group of talented scientists on researching algorithm and running experiments to test scientific proposal/solutions to improve our trust-preserving experiences. This will involve collaboration with partner teams including engineering, PMs, data annotators, and other scientists to discuss data quality, policy, and model development. You work closely with partner teams across Alexa to deliver platform features that require cross-team leadership. About the team Who We Are: Trust CX Innovations is a strategic innovation team within Amazon Devices & Services that focuses on advancing AI technology while prioritizing customer trust and experience. Our team operates at the intersection of artificial intelligence, privacy engineering and customer-centric design.
  • US, VA, Arlington
    Job ID: 10374121
    (Updated 4 days ago)
    Application deadline: Apr 17, 2026 Applied Scientists in AWS Science of Security are dedicated to making AWS the best computing service in the world for customers who require advanced and rigorous solutions for security, privacy, and sovereignty. Key job responsibilities The successful candidate will: * Solve large or significantly complex problems that require deep knowledge and understanding of your domain and scientific innovation. * Own strategic problem solving, and take the lead on the design, implementation, and delivery for solutions that have a long-term quantifiable impact. *Provide cross-organizational technical influence, increasing productivity and effectiveness by sharing your deep knowledge and experience. * Develop strategic plans to identify fundamentally new solutions for business problems. * Assist in the career development of others, actively mentoring individuals and the community on advanced technical issues. A day in the life This is a unique and rare opportunity to get in early on a fast-growing segment of AWS and help shape the technology, product and the business. You will have a chance to utilize your deep technical experience within a fast moving, start-up environment and make a large business and customer impact. About the team Diverse Experiences Amazon Security 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 Amazon Security? At Amazon, security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. Our organization is responsible for creating and maintaining a high bar for security across all of Amazon’s products and services. We offer talented security professionals the chance to accelerate their careers with opportunities to build experience in a wide variety of areas including cloud, devices, retail, entertainment, healthcare, operations, and physical stores. Inclusive Team Culture In Amazon Security, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Ongoing DEI events and learning experiences inspire us to continue learning and to embrace our uniqueness. Addressing the toughest security challenges requires that we seek out and celebrate a diversity of ideas, perspectives, and voices. Training & 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, training, 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 flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.
  • (Updated 24 days ago)
    Passionate about books? The Amazon Books team is looking for a talented Applied Scientist II to help invent, design, and deliver science solutions to make it easier for millions of customers to find the next book they will love. In this role, you will - Be a part of a growing team of scientists, economists, engineers, analysts, and business partners. - Use Amazon’s large-scale computing and data resources to generate deep understandings of our customers and products. - Build highly accurate models (and/or agentic systems) to enhance the book reading & discovery experiences. - Design, implement, and deliver novel solutions to some of Amazon’s oldest problems. Key job responsibilities - Inspect science initiatives across Amazon to identify opportunities for application and scaling within book reading and discovery experiences. - Participate in team design, scoping, and prioritization discussions while mapping business goals to scientific problems and aligning business metrics with technical metrics. - Spearhead the design and implementation of new features through thorough research and collaboration with cross-functional teams. - Initiate the design, development, execution, and implementation of project components with input and guidance from team members. - Work with Software Development Engineers (SDEs) to deliver production-ready solutions that benefit customers and business operations. - Invent, refine, and develop solutions to ensure they meet customer needs and team objectives. - Demonstrate ability to use reasonable assumptions, data analysis, and customer requirements to solve complex problems. - Write secure, stable, testable, and maintainable code with minimal defects while taking full responsibility for your components. - Possess strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, model evaluation techniques, performance optimization, and trade-off analysis. - Follow engineering and scientific method best practices, including design reviews, model validation, and comprehensive testing. - Maintain current knowledge of research trends in your field and apply rigorous scrutiny to results and methodologies. A day in the life In this role, you will address complex Books customer challenges by developing innovative solutions that leverage the advancements in science. Working alongside a talented team of scientists, you will conduct research and execute experiments designed to enhance the Books reading and shopping experience. Your responsibilities will encompass close collaboration with cross-functional partner teams, including engineering, product management, and fellow scientists, to ensure optimal data quality, robust model development, and successful productionization of scientific solutions. Additionally, you will provide mentorship to other scientists, conduct reviews of their work, and contribute to the development of team roadmaps. About the team The team consists of a collaborative group of scientists, product leaders, and dedicated engineering teams. We work with multiple partner teams to leverage our systems to drive a diverse array of customer experiences, owned both by ourselves and others, that enable shoppers to easily find their perfect next read and enable delightful reading experiences that would make Kindle the best place to read.
  • CA, BC, Vancouver
    Job ID: 10380716
    (Updated 0 days ago)
    Are you interested in changing the way accounting and finance works at Amazon? We are a science and engineering team leveraging ML models and GenAI/LLMs to solve real-world problems faced by accountants and financial analysts. We are part of the Amazon Financials Foundation Services (AFFS) organization. AFFS is responsible for processing and managing billions of financially relevant transactions sent globally from across Amazon each day, including orders, shipments, payments, and inventory movements. AFFS is at the center of Amazon's key initiatives and fuels the growth of Amazon's businesses worldwide by ensuring that businesses can easily integrate with our services and that accountants and financial analysts have the right tools to use our data. As an Applied Scientist, you'll work alongside domain experts, engineers, and other scientists to understand business problems, propose scientific solutions, and deploy them to production. You'll work on scientific initiatives for accelerating reconciliation, standardization, and onboarding. This includes: - Leveraging GenAI/LLMs to build agentic solutions to accelerate accounting-related research/tasks and produce proactive insights. - Building AI trust and safety in the financial domain. - Establishing scalable, efficient, automated processes for large-scale data analysis, machine learning model development, model validation, and serving. - Developing training/evaluation datasets for model fine-tuning. - Collaborating with engineering to productionalize research. Specific examples of this work include developing anomaly detection models to identify deviations in payments, building multi-agent systems to perform financial research or onboard new businesses, and fine-tuning LLMs to provide recommendations on next steps. As an interdisciplinary team, we maintain a balance between scientific research and productionalization. This means, you'll get a unique opportunity to influence the global scientific community by publishing papers externally and internally while also seeing your work used across Amazon. You will need to have a start-up like mindset, as you will be working an in a highly iterative and collaborative environment with SDEs, Product Managers, and Accounting stakeholders to propose ideas, experiment, and scale rapidly. You should have a keen eye for what a good user experience should look like, possess excellent written and verbal communication, and have a keen interest in learning about accounting and financial processes.
  • US, CA, San Diego
    Job ID: 10387350
    (Updated 7 days ago)
    Amazon.com’s Buyer Risk Prevention's (BRP) mission is to make Amazon the safest and most trusted place worldwide to transact online. BRP safeguards every financial transaction across all Amazon sites. As such, BRP designs and builds the software systems, risk models, and operational processes that minimize risk and maximize trust in Amazon.com. The BRP organization is looking for an Applied Scientist for the Buyer Abuse team, whose mission is to combine advanced analytics with investigator insight to create mechanisms to proactively and reactively reduce the impact of abuse across Amazon. Key job responsibilities As an Applied Scientist, you will be responsible for modeling complex problems, discovering insights, and building cutting edge risk algorithms that identify opportunities through statistical models, machine learning, and visualization techniques to improve operational efficiency and reduce monetary losses and improve customer trust. You will need to collaborate effectively with business and product leaders within BRP and cross-functional teams to build scalable solutions against high organizational standards. The candidate should be able to apply a breadth of tools, data sources, and ML techniques to answer a wide range of high-impact business questions and proactively present new insights in concise and effective manner. The candidate should be an effective communicator capable of independently driving issues to resolution and communicating insights to non-technical audiences. This is a high impact role with goals that directly impacts the bottom line of the business. Responsibilities: - Invent, implement, and deploy state of the art machine learning algorithms and systems - Build prototypes and explore conceptually new solutions - Define and conduct experiments to validate/reject hypotheses, and communicate insights and recommendations to Product and Tech teams - Take ownership of how ML solutions impact Amazon resources and Customer experience - Develop efficient data querying infrastructure for both offline and online use cases - Collaborate with cross-functional teams from multidisciplinary science, engineering and business backgrounds to enhance current automation processes - Learn and understand a broad range of Amazon’s data resources and know when, how, and which to use and which not to use. - Research and implement novel machine learning and statistical approaches - Maintain technical document and communicate results to diverse audiences with effective writing, visualizations, and presentations Please visit https://www.amazon.science for more information
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 10372619
    (Updated 23 days ago)
    At Amazon Selection and Catalog Systems (ASCS), our mission is to power the online buying experience for customers worldwide so they can find, discover, and buy any product they want. We innovate on behalf of our customers to ensure uniqueness and consistency of product identity and to infer relationships between products in Amazon Catalog to drive the selection gateway for the search and browse experiences on the website. We're solving a fundamental AI challenge: establishing product identity and relationships at unprecedented scale. Using Generative AI, Visual Language Models (VLMs), and multimodal reasoning, we determine what makes each product unique and how products relate to one another across Amazon's catalog. The scale is staggering: billions of products, petabytes of multimodal data, millions of sellers, dozens of languages, and infinite product diversity—from electronics to groceries to digital content. The research challenges are immense. GenAI and VLMs hold transformative promise for catalog understanding, but we operate where traditional methods fail: ambiguous problem spaces, incomplete and noisy data, inherent uncertainty, reasoning across both images and textual data, and explaining decisions at scale. Establishing product identities and groupings requires sophisticated models that reason across text, images, and structured data—while maintaining accuracy and trust for high-stakes business decisions affecting millions of customers daily. Amazon's Item and Relationship Platform group is looking for an innovative and customer-focused applied scientist to help us make the world's best product catalog even better. In this role, you will partner with technology and business leaders to build new state-of-the-art algorithms, models, and services to infer product-to-product relationships that matter to our customers. You will pioneer advanced GenAI solutions that power next-generation agentic shopping experiences, working in a collaborative environment where you can experiment with massive data from the world's largest product catalog, tackle problems at the frontier of AI research, rapidly implement and deploy your algorithmic ideas at scale, across millions of customers. Key job responsibilities Key job responsibilities include: * Formulate open research problems at the intersection of GenAI, multimodal reasoning, and large-scale information retrieval—defining the scientific questions that transform ambiguous, real-world catalog challenges into publishable, high-impact research * Push the boundaries of VLMs, foundation models, and agentic architectures by designing novel approaches to product identity, relationship inference, and catalog understanding—where the problem complexity (billions of products, multimodal signals, inherent ambiguity) demands methods that don't yet exist * Advance the science of efficient model deployment—developing distillation, compression, and LLM/VLM serving optimization strategies that preserve frontier-level multimodal reasoning in compact, production-grade architectures while dramatically reducing latency, cost, and infrastructure footprint at billion-product scale * Make frontier models reliable—advancing uncertainty calibration, confidence estimation, and interpretability methods so that frontier-scale GenAI systems can be trusted for autonomous catalog decisions impacting millions of customers daily * Own the full research lifecycle from problem formulation through production deployment—designing rigorous experiments over petabytes of multimodal data, iterating on ideas rapidly, and seeing your research directly improve the shopping experience for hundreds of millions of customers * Shape the team's research vision by defining technical roadmaps that balance foundational scientific inquiry with measurable product impact * Mentor scientists and engineers on advanced ML techniques, experimental design, and scientific rigor—building deep organizational capability in GenAI and multimodal AI * Represent the team in the broader science community—publishing findings, delivering tech talks, and staying at the forefront of GenAI, VLM, and agentic system research
  • (Updated 15 days ago)
    The GRAISE team (Grocery, Retail & In-Store Experience) within Worldwide Grocery Store Tech (WWGST) builds foundational AI and machine learning systems that power Amazon's in-store grocery technologies. We develop domain-specific models that solve uniquely complex challenges in grocery — from smart shopping carts and inventory intelligence to personalization and store operations. Our mission is to create technology which makes grocery shopping more convenient, economical, personalized, and enjoyable for customers while empowering retailers with operational efficiency We are looking for a talented and motivated Applied Scientist to join our team. In this role, you will design, develop, and deploy machine learning and computer vision models and algorithms that solve real-world problems at scale. You will work closely with engineering, product, and business teams to translate ambiguous problems into rigorous scientific solutions, and you will own the end-to-end development of models from ideation through production. This is a high-impact role where your work will directly shape the intelligence layer of the Amazon grocery ecosystem. Key job responsibilities - Design and implement machine learning models (computer vision, multi-modal learning, generative AI) to solve complex grocery-domain problems. - Conduct exploratory data analysis and develop deep understanding of domain-specific data challenges. - Collaborate with software engineers to productionize models and ensure reliability at scale. - Define and track key metrics to evaluate model performance and business impact. - Communicate findings and recommendations clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders. - Stay current with the latest research and evaluate applicability to team problems. - Contribute to a culture of scientific rigor, experimentation, and continuous improvement. A day in the life As an Applied Scientist on the GRAISE team, you'll spend your days analyzing model performance from overnight experiments, collaborating with engineers to deploy computer vision models to production, and prototyping new approaches using multimodal learning with store video and sensor data. You'll present findings to product and business stakeholders, translating technical results into actionable recommendations. Throughout the day, you'll balance rigorous scientific thinking with practical engineering constraints, knowing your work directly improves the shopping experience for millions of customers in Amazon grocery stores.
  • US, WA, Bellevue
    Job ID: 10379355
    (Updated 1 days ago)
    Every day, hundreds of thousands of Amazon associates show up to fulfill the promise we make to our customers. Behind the workforce decisions that support them — staffing, retention, scheduling, development — there should be science that doesn't just describe what happened, but explains why it happened and predicts what comes next. That's the work we do. PXT Central Science (PXTCS) is Amazon's internal research organization dedicated to bringing scientific rigor to people and workforce decisions at global scale. Our team sits within the part of PXTCS that focuses on Amazon's Tier 1 hourly populations — the associates at the heart of Amazon's operations. We are a multidisciplinary group of 15 economists, data scientists, data engineers, and research scientists united by a single mission: to transform complex operational challenges into actionable insights through rigorous causal analysis and predictive modeling that empowers data-driven workforce decisions. We are building something new — causal predictive models that go beyond traditional forecasting. Our models don't just tell leaders what will happen; they reveal why it will happen and what levers they can pull to change the outcome. This is the frontier where causal inference meets modern machine learning, and we need a scientist who can help us push it forward. As a Senior Applied Scientist on this team, you will be the connective tissue between innovative research and real-world impact. You will work shoulder-to-shoulder with economists who deeply understand the causal mechanisms driving workforce dynamics and data scientists who know the operational landscape — and you will bring the technical creativity to expand what's possible. That means writing production-quality code that our partner engineering teams can implement into decision-making tools. It means exploring novel feature spaces — large language models, computer vision, and other emerging techniques — to unlock signal that traditional approaches miss. And it means doing all of this with the scientific rigor that causal claims demand. This role is built for someone who is entrepreneurial and energized by ambiguity — someone who sees a prototype model and immediately starts thinking about how to make it robust, scalable, and impactful. You will not just advance your own work; you will elevate the scientists around you. We are looking for a strong technical individual contributor who is passionate about developing peers, raising the bar across disciplines, and who sees a future path into a science manager position. If you want to do science that directly shapes how Amazon supports its workforce — not in theory, but in production systems that leaders use to make better decisions every day — we'd love to talk. Key job responsibilities Design and build causal predictive models that move beyond correlation — developing systems that forecast workforce outcomes and identify the actionable drivers behind them, enabling leaders to intervene before problems materialize Pioneer novel feature engineering by bringing creative approaches from LLMs, computer vision, and other emerging techniques into the causal modeling pipeline, unlocking signal that traditional econometric and tabular methods miss Write production-quality science code that your partner engineering team can implement directly into operational decision-making tools — your work must be clean, well-documented, and built to scale Bridge disciplines by translating between economists, data scientists, and engineers — synthesizing causal rigor with ML innovation to produce models that are both scientifically defensible and operationally useful Design and execute experiments to validate causal claims and model performance, establishing evaluation standards that the team and stakeholders trust Develop and elevate peers across the team — mentoring scientists in adjacent disciplines, sharing technical knowledge, and raising the collective bar on modeling and engineering practices Present findings to senior leadership, distilling complex causal and predictive insights into clear recommendations that drive workforce strategy for Amazon's Tier 1 hourly populations. About the team Amazon’s People Experience and Technology Central Science (PXTCS) team uses economics, behavioral science, statistics, machine learning, applied science, and Generative AI to proactively identify mechanisms and process improvements which simultaneously improve Amazon and the lives, well-being, and the value of work to Amazonians. We are an interdisciplinary team, which combines the talents of science, engineering, and UX to develop and deliver solutions that measurably achieve this goal.
  • IN, TN, Chennai
    Job ID: 10379689
    (Updated 17 days ago)
    As a Data Scientist in Alexa Connections, you will lead the end-to-end development of machine learning and data science solutions that power intelligent communication experiences across channels such as calling, messaging and email. You will partner closely with product, engineering, and business leaders to translate ambiguous problems into scalable ML models, experimentation frameworks, and data-driven product decisions. In this role, you will design and deploy advanced ML and statistical models for capabilities such as prioritization, intent detection, and proactive action recommendations. You will analyze large-scale datasets and run rigorous experiments, including A/B testing and causal analysis, to measure impact and continuously improve customer engagement and product performance. Additionally, you will shape the applied science roadmap and collaborate with global cross-functional teams to deliver AI-driven solutions that scale to millions of Alexa customers. Key job responsibilities - Partner with product, engineering, operations, and security teams to translate complex business problems into scalable, production-ready data science and ML solutions. - Own the full lifecycle of model development, including exploratory analysis, model design, deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement. - Define and track success metrics, conduct rigorous analyses, and provide insights that guide product launches, feature improvements, and data-driven decision-making. - Build data-driven business cases to prioritize science initiatives and demonstrate measurable impact of ML solutions. - Develop ML-powered systems supporting key business areas. - Lead research and analysis to understand customer interactions with Alexa, and enhance overall customer experience. - Contribute to the broader science community by mentoring analysts, improving data workflows and tooling, and publishing technical work in internal and external forums. A day in the life • Deep dive into our business metrics, analyze data, trends, and reviewing dashboards • Writing code: building packages in Python, writing SQL queries, deploying solutions for Connections experience teams to consume. • Leading or joining working sessions with Product Managers to refine problem statements new initiatives. • Exploring new features and model architectures, leveraging AWS services, documentation, and upskilling yourself to the latest technologies. • Leverage pre-trained LLMs to build applications that solve business problems for Connections experiences. • Meet with Sr. Engineers/Principal Engineers to align on solution designs. • Own or co-own MBR, WBR documents that are reviewed with Connections leadership team.

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