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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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  • IN, KA, Bengaluru
    Job ID: 3089323
    (Updated 38 days ago)
    Do you want to join an innovative team of scientists who use machine learning and statistical techniques to create state-of-the-art solutions for providing better value to Amazon’s customers? Do you want to build and deploy advanced algorithmic systems that help optimize millions of transactions every day? Are you excited by the prospect of analyzing and modeling terabytes of data to solve real world problems? Do you like to own end-to-end business problems/metrics and directly impact the profitability of the company? Do you like to innovate and simplify? If yes, then you may be a great fit to join the Machine Learning and team for India Consumer Businesses. If you have an entrepreneurial spirit, know how to deliver, love to work with data, are deeply technical, highly innovative and long for the opportunity to build solutions to challenging problems that directly impact the company's bottom-line, we want to talk to you. Major responsibilities - Use machine learning and analytical techniques to create scalable solutions for business problems - Analyze and extract relevant information from large amounts of Amazon’s historical business data to help automate and optimize key processes - Design, development, evaluate and deploy innovative and highly scalable models for predictive learning - Research and implement novel machine learning and statistical approaches - Work closely with software engineering teams to drive real-time model implementations and new feature creations - Work closely with business owners and operations staff to optimize various business operations - Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large scale data analyses, model development, model validation and model implementation - Mentor other scientists and engineers in the use of ML techniques About the team The India Machine Learning team works closely with the business and engineering teams in building ML solutions that create an impact for Amazon's IN businesses. This is a great opportunity to leverage your machine learning and data mining skills to create a direct impact on consumers and end users.
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 3088487
    (Updated 28 days ago)
    We are looking for a Senior Applied Scientist who will lead the technical vision and innovation in revolutionizing how product managers, program managers, and business analysts work with artificial intelligence. You will be part of the Amazon AI at Work (AIW) team building the next generation of AI agents that transform how business professionals operate and reshape the future of hybrid (AI + human) work. As a Senior Applied Scientist, you are a recognized technical leader who drives the scientific strategy, mentors team members, and partners with cross-functional teams to deliver complex end-to-end AI solutions. Your work focuses on identifying and framing new research challenges in ambiguous problem areas where both the business problem and solution approach need to be defined. The problems you tackle require significant scientific innovation at the product level. Key job responsibilities • Design and architect complex AI agent systems for business and product management workflows at scale • Define and lead research initiatives in human-AI collaboration frameworks across multiple teams • Drive end-to-end delivery of novel AI solutions from inception to production, ensuring system-level technical requirements are met • Lead technical discovery and innovation through rapid experimentation while maintaining high standards • Mentor junior scientists and influence adoption of scientific best practices across teams • Author technical documentation and research papers that advance the field of AI agents The ideal candidate combines deep technical expertise with strong business acumen and thrives in ambiguous, fast-paced environments. You should be passionate about creating AI solutions that enhance human capabilities and comfortable working in a startup-like atmosphere while maintaining high standards for responsible AI development. A day in the life You take ownership of the long-term scientific vision, product roadmaps, and technologies, defining how they should evolve. You build consensus through thoughtful discussions with stakeholders, engineers, and scientist peers across multiple teams. You bring deep expertise to provide context for current and future technology choices and make strategic recommendations on modeling approaches and system architecture to achieve transformative business outcomes and user experiences. About the team As part of the AWS Applied AI Solutions organization, we have a vision to provide business applications, leveraging Amazon's unique experience and expertise, that are used by millions of companies worldwide to manage day-to-day operations. We will accomplish this by accelerating our customers' businesses through delivery of intuitive and differentiated technology solutions that solve enduring business challenges. We blend vision with curiosity and Amazon's real-world experience to build opinionated, turnkey solutions. Where customers prefer to buy over build, we become their trusted partner with solutions that are no-brainers to buy and easy to use. Diverse Experiences AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying. Why AWS? Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses. Inclusive Team Culture Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness. Mentorship & Career Growth We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional. Work/Life Balance We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 3088493
    (Updated 28 days ago)
    We are looking for an Applied Scientist who is passionate about revolutionizing how product managers, program managers, and business analysts work with artificial intelligence. You will be part of the Amazon AI at Work (AIW) team building the next generation of AI agents that transform how business professionals operate and reshape the future of hybrid (AI + human) work. As an Applied Scientist, you are recognized for your expertise, advise team members on a range of machine learning topics, and work closely with software engineers to drive the delivery of end-to-end agentic AI solutions. Your work focuses on ambiguous problem areas where the business problem or opportunity may not yet be defined. The problems that you take on require scientific breakthroughs. You take a long-term view of the business objectives, product roadmaps, technologies, and how they should evolve. You drive mindful discussions with stakeholders, engineers, and scientist peers. You bring perspective and provide context for current technology choices and make recommendations on the right modeling and component design approach to achieve the desired business outcome and user experience. Key job responsibilities • Design and develop AI agents specifically tailored for business and product management workflows. • Create novel frameworks for automating and enhancing workplace tasks. • Lead cross-team projects to bring solutions from research to production. • Drive innovation in business process automation and decision support systems. • Communicate and document your research via publishing papers in external scientific venues. About the team As part of the AWS Applied AI Solutions organization, we have a vision to provide business applications, leveraging Amazon's unique experience and expertise, that are used by millions of companies worldwide to manage day-to-day operations. We will accomplish this by accelerating our customers' businesses through delivery of intuitive and differentiated technology solutions that solve enduring business challenges. We blend vision with curiosity and Amazon's real-world experience to build opinionated, turnkey solutions. Where customers prefer to buy over build, we become their trusted partner with solutions that are no-brainers to buy and easy to use. Diverse Experiences AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying. Why AWS? Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses. Inclusive Team Culture Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness. Mentorship & Career Growth We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional. Work/Life Balance We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.
  • US, CA, San Francisco
    Job ID: 3087457
    (Updated 39 days ago)
    Amazon has launched a new research lab in San Francisco to develop foundational capabilities for useful AI agents. We’re enabling practical AI to make our customers more productive, empowered, and fulfilled. In particular, our work combines large language models (LLMs) with reinforcement learning (RL) to solve reasoning, planning, and world modeling in both virtual and physical environments. Our research builds on that of Amazon’s broader AGI organization, which recently introduced Amazon Nova, a new generation of state-of-the-art foundation models (FMs). Our lab is a small, talent-dense team with the resources and scale of Amazon. Each team in the lab has the autonomy to move fast and the long-term commitment to pursue high-risk, high-payoff research. We’re entering an exciting new era where agents can redefine what AI makes possible. We’d love for you to join our lab and build it from the ground up! Key job responsibilities You will contribute directly to AI agent development in an applied research role, including model training, dataset design, and pre- and post-training optimization. You will be hired as a Member of Technical Staff.
  • (Updated 40 days ago)
    Prime Video is a first-stop entertainment destination offering customers a vast collection of premium programming in one app available across thousands of devices. Prime members can customize their viewing experience and find their favorite movies, series, documentaries, and live sports – including Amazon MGM Studios-produced series and movies; licensed fan favorites; and programming from Prime Video add-on subscriptions such as Apple TV+, Max, Crunchyroll and MGM+. All customers, regardless of whether they have a Prime membership or not, can rent or buy titles via the Prime Video Store, and can enjoy even more content for free with ads. Are you interested in shaping the future of entertainment? Prime Video's technology teams are creating best-in-class digital video experience. As a Prime Video technologist, you’ll have end-to-end ownership of the product, user experience, design, and technology required to deliver state-of-the-art experiences for our customers. You’ll get to work on projects that are fast-paced, challenging, and varied. You’ll also be able to experiment with new possibilities, take risks, and collaborate with remarkable people. We’ll look for you to bring your diverse perspectives, ideas, and skill-sets to make Prime Video even better for our customers. With global opportunities for talented technologists, you can decide where a career Prime Video Tech takes you! Key job responsibilities - Develop ML models for various recommendation & search systems using deep learning, online learning, and optimization methods - Work closely with other scientists, engineers and product managers to expand the depth of our product insights with data, create a variety of experiments to determine the high impact projects to include in planning roadmaps - Stay up-to-date with advancements and the latest modeling techniques in the field - Publish your research findings in top conferences and journals A day in the life We're using advanced approaches such as foundation models to connect information about our videos and customers from a variety of information sources, acquiring and processing data sets on a scale that only a few companies in the world can match. This will enable us to recommend titles effectively, even when we don't have a large behavioral signal (to tackle the cold-start title problem). It will also allow us to find our customer's niche interests, helping them discover groups of titles that they didn't even know existed. We are looking for creative & customer obsessed machine learning scientists who can apply the latest research, state of the art algorithms and ML to build highly scalable page personalization solutions. You'll be a research leader in the space and a hands-on ML practitioner, guiding and collaborating with talented teams of engineers and scientists and senior leaders in the Prime Video organization. You will also have the opportunity to publish your research at internal and external conferences.
  • US, CA, Santa Clara
    Job ID: 3086853
    (Updated 40 days ago)
    Want to work on frontier, world class, AI-powered experiences for health customers and health providers? The Health Science & Analytics group in Amazon's Health Store & Technology organization is looking for a Senior Manager of Applied Science to lead a group of applied scientists and engineers to work hand in hand with physicians to build the future of AI-powered healthcare experiences. We have an ambitious roadmap which includes scaling recently launched products which are already delighting products and the opportunity to build disruptive, new experiences. This role will be responsible for leading the science and technology teams driving these key innovations on behalf of our customers. Key job responsibilities - Independently manage a team of scientists and engineers to sustainably deliver science driven products. - Define the vision and long-term technical roadmap to achieve multi-year business objectives. - Maintain and raise the science bar of the team’s deliverables and keep the broader Amazon Health Services organization apprised of the latest relevant technical developments in the field. - Work across business, clinical, and technical leaders to disambiguate product requirements and socialize progress towards key goals and deliverables. - Proactively identify risks and shape the technical roadmap in anticipation of industry trends in emerging AI subfields.
  • (Updated 35 days ago)
    Are you looking to work at the forefront of Machine Learning and AI? Would you be excited to apply Generative AI algorithms to solve real world problems with significant impact? The Generative AI Innovation Center helps AWS customers implement Generative AI solutions and realize transformational business opportunities. This is a team of strategists, scientists, engineers, and architects working step-by-step with customers to build bespoke solutions that harness the power of generative AI. The team helps customers imagine and scope bespoke use cases that will create the greatest value for their businesses, define paths to navigate technical or business challenges, develop and optimize models to power their solutions, and make plans for launching solutions at scale. The GenAI Innovation Center team provides guidance on best practices for applying generative AI responsibly and cost efficiently. You will work directly with customers and innovate in a fast-paced organization that contributes to game-changing projects and technologies. You will design and run experiments, research new algorithms, and find new ways of optimizing risk, profitability, and customer experience. We’re looking for Applied Scientists capable of using GenAI and other techniques to design, evangelize, and implement state-of-the-art solutions for never-before-solved problems. Key job responsibilities As an Applied Scientist, you will • Collaborate with AI/ML scientists and architects to research, design, develop, and evaluate generative AI solutions to address real-world challenges • Interact with customers directly to understand their business problems, aid them in implementation of generative AI solutions, brief customers and guide them on adoption patterns and paths to production • Help customers optimize their solutions through approaches such as model selection, training or tuning, right-sizing, distillation, and hardware optimization • Provide customer and market feedback to product and engineering teams to help define product direction About the team Diverse Experiences AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying. Why AWS? Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses. Inclusive Team Culture Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness. Mentorship & Career Growth We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional. Work/Life Balance We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.
  • (Updated 40 days ago)
    Prime Video is a first-stop entertainment destination offering customers a vast collection of premium programming in one app available across thousands of devices. Prime members can customize their viewing experience and find their favorite movies, series, documentaries, and live sports – including Amazon MGM Studios-produced series and movies; licensed fan favorites; and programming from Prime Video add-on subscriptions such as Apple TV+, Max, Crunchyroll and MGM+. All customers, regardless of whether they have a Prime membership or not, can rent or buy titles via the Prime Video Store, and can enjoy even more content for free with ads. Are you interested in shaping the future of entertainment? Prime Video's technology teams are creating best-in-class digital video experience. As a Prime Video technologist, you’ll have end-to-end ownership of the product, user experience, design, and technology required to deliver state-of-the-art experiences for our customers. You’ll get to work on projects that are fast-paced, challenging, and varied. You’ll also be able to experiment with new possibilities, take risks, and collaborate with remarkable people. We’ll look for you to bring your diverse perspectives, ideas, and skill-sets to make Prime Video even better for our customers. With global opportunities for talented technologists, you can decide where a career Prime Video Tech takes you! We are looking for a self-motivated, passionate and resourceful Applied Scientist to bring diverse perspectives, ideas, and skill-sets to make Prime Video even better for our customers. You will spend your time as a hands-on machine learning practitioner and a research leader. You will play a key role on the team, building and guiding machine learning models from the ground up. At the end of the day, you will have the reward of seeing your contributions benefit millions of Amazon.com customers worldwide. Key job responsibilities - Develop AI solutions for various Prime Video Search systems using Deep learning, GenAI, Reinforcement Learning, and optimization methods; - Work closely with engineers and product managers to design, implement and launch AI solutions end-to-end; - Design and conduct offline and online (A/B) experiments to evaluate proposed solutions based on in-depth data analyses; - Effectively communicate technical and non-technical ideas with teammates and stakeholders; - Stay up-to-date with advancements and the latest modeling techniques in the field; - Publish your research findings in top conferences and journals. About the team Prime Video Search Science team owns science solution to power search experience on various devices, from sourcing, relevance, ranking, to name a few. We work closely with the engineering teams to launch our solutions in production.
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 3083108
    (Updated 13 days ago)
    Employer: Amazon.com Services LLC Position: Data Scientist III (multiple positions available) Location: Seattle, WA Multiple Positions Available: 1. Own the data science elements of various products to help with databased decision making, product performance optimization, and product performance tracking. 2. Work directly with product managers to help drive the design of the product. 3. Work with Technical Product Managers to help drive the build planning. 4. Translate business problems and products into data requirements and metrics. 5. Initiate the design, development, and implementation of scientific analysis projects or deliverables. 6. Own the analysis, modelling, system design, and development of data science solutions for products. 7. Write documents and make presentations that explain model/analysis results to the business. 8. Bridge the degree of uncertainty in both problem definition and data scientific solution approaches. 9. Build consensus on data, metrics, and analysis to drive business and system strategy. 10. 100% telecommuting permitted, work may be performed from anywhere in the U.S.
  • (Updated 10 days ago)
    Do you want to leverage your expertise in machine learning and data science to improve the lives and work of over a million people worldwide? If so, People eXperience Technology Central Science (PXTCS) would love to discuss how you can make that a reality. PXTCS is an interdisciplinary team that uses economics, behavioral science, statistics, and machine learning to identify products, mechanisms, and process improvements that enhance Amazonians' well-being and their ability to deliver value for Amazon's customers. We collaborate with HR teams across Amazon to make Amazon PXT the most scientific human resources organization in the world. Key job responsibilities As an Applied Scientist II, you will be responsible for developing and implementing machine learning solutions across our predictive modeling and forecasting work-streams. You will work on existing models and develop new ones that power leaders across Amazon to make decisions about their businesses. You will collaborate with scientists and engineers to deliver innovative solutions while working closely with business stakeholders to understand their needs. A day in the life You will work across different business domains (corporate, operations, safety) and analysis levels (individual, group, organizational), using various modeling approaches (linear, tree, deep neural network, and LLM-based). You will develop end-to-end ML solutions from problem formulation to deployment, while maintaining high scientific standards and technical excellence.

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