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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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  • CA, ON, Toronto
    Job ID: 3188585
    (Updated 22 days ago)
    Are you interested in shaping the future of Advertising and B2B Sales? We are a growing team with an exciting AI-first charter and need your passion, innovative thinking, and creativity to help take our products to new heights. Amazon Advertising is one of Amazon's fastest growing and most profitable businesses, responsible for defining and delivering a collection of advertising products that drive discovery and sales. Our products are strategically important to our businesses driving long term growth. We break fresh ground in product and technical innovations every day! Within the Advertising Sales organization, we are building a central AI/ML team and are seeking top Applied Science talent to help us build new, science-backed services that drive success for our customers. Our goal is to transform the way account teams operate by creating actionable insights and recommendations they can share with their advertising accounts, and ingesting Generative AI throughout their end-to-end workflows to improve their work efficiency. As an Applied Scientist on the team focused on creating customer-facing recommendations related to our advertising products and budget allocations, you will bring deep expertise in quantitative modeling techniques such as Sequential Recommender Systems, Deep Learning, Reinforcement Learning or Hidden Markov Models. You have the scientific and technical skills to build and refine models that can be implemented in production, and you leverage Natural Language Processing and Generative AI models to enhance their explainability. You will contribute to chart new courses with our ad sales support technologies, and you have the communication skills necessary to explain complex technical approaches to a variety of stakeholders and customers. You will be part of a team of fellow scientists and engineers taking on iterative approaches to tackle big, long-term problems. You are fluently able to leverage the latest Generative AI systems and services to accelerate and improve your work while maintaining high quality in your work outputs. Key job responsibilities Scientific Modeling - Conceptualize and lead state-of-the-art research on new Machine Learning and Generative Artificial Intelligence solutions to optimize all aspects of the Ad Sales business - Lead the technical approach for the design and implementation of successful models and algorithms in support of expert cross-functional teams delivering on demanding projects - Run regular A/B experiments, gather data, and perform statistical analysis - Improve the scalability, efficiency and automation of large-scale data analytics, model training, deployment and serving - Publish scientific findings in reports and papers that can be shared internally and externally Product Development Support - Partner with software engineering and product management teams to support product and service development, define success metrics and measurement approaches, and help drive adoption of innovative new features for our services. - Lead requirements gathering sessions with product teams and business stakeholders - Maintain scientific documentation and knowledge for product initiatives Collaboration & Communication - Work closely with software engineers to deliver end-to-end solutions into production - Translate complex scientific findings into actionable business recommendations for stakeholders and senior management - Provide clear, compelling reports and presentations on a regular basis with respect to your models and services - Communicate with internal teams to showcase results and identify best practices. About the team Sales AI is a central science and engineering organization within Amazon Advertising Sales that powers selling motions and account team workflows via state-of-the-art of AI/ML services. Sales AI is investing in a range of sales intelligence models, including the development of advertiser insights, recommendations and Generative AI-powered applications throughout account team workflows. We are truly working on the cutting edge of innovation within Deep Learning, RL, Generative AI and Sequential Recommender Systems within the advertising and sales domains.
  • US, VA, Arlington
    Job ID: 3189653
    (Updated 31 days ago)
    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. *Povide 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.
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 3185454
    (Updated 2 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 a Senior 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.
  • US, NJ, Newark
    Job ID: 3185135
    (Updated 18 days ago)
    Employer: Audible, Inc. Title: Data Scientist II Location: 1 Washington Street, Newark, NJ 07102 Duties: Independently own, design, and implement scalable and reliable solutions to support or automate decision making throughout the business. Apply a range of data science techniques and tools combined with subject matter expertise to solve difficult business problems and cases in which the approach is unclear. Acquire data by building the necessary SQL/ETL queries. Import processes through various company specific interfaces for accessing RedShift, and S3/edX storage systems. Deliver artifacts on medium size projects that affect important business decisions. Build relationships with stakeholders and counterparts, and communicate model outputs, observations, and key performance indicators (KPIs) to the management to develop sustainable and consumable products and product features. Explore and analyze data by inspecting univariate distributions and multivariate interactions, constructing appropriate transformations, and tracking down the source and meaning of anomalies. Build production-ready models using statistical modeling, mathematical modeling, econometric modeling, machine learning algorithms, network modeling, social network modeling, natural language processing, large language models and/or genetic algorithms. Validate models against alternative approaches, expected and observed outcome, and other business defined key performance indicators. Implement models that comply with evaluations of the computational demands, accuracy, and reliability of the relevant ETL processes at various stages of production. Position reports to Newark, NJ office; however, telecommuting from a home office may be allowed. Requirements: Requires a Master’s degree in Statistics, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Data Science, Machine Learning, Applied Math, Operations Research, or a related field plus two (2) years of experience as a Data Scientist or other occupation involving data processing and predictive Machine Learning modeling at scale. Experience may be gained concurrently and must include: Two (2) years in each of the following: - Utilizing specialized modelling software including Python or R - Building statistical models and machine learning models using large datasets from multiple resources - Building non-linear models including Neural Nets, Deep Learning, or Gradient Boosting. One (1) year in each of the following: - Building production-ready solutions or applications relying on Large Language Models (LLM), accessed programmatically and beyond just prompting - Evaluating LLM results at scale or fine-tuning LLMs - Building production-ready recommendation systems - Using database technologies including SQL or ETL. Alternatively, will accept a Bachelor’s degree and five (5) years of experience. Salary: $169,550 - 207,500 /year. Multiple positions. Apply online: www.amazon.jobs Job Code: ADBL175.
  • US, CA, San Francisco
    Job ID: 3184510
    (Updated 10 days ago)
    Amazon AGI Autonomy develops foundational capabilities for useful AI agents. We are the research lab behind Amazon Nova Act, a state-of-the-art computer-use agent. Our work combines Large Language Models (LLMs) with Reinforcement Learning (RL) to solve reasoning, planning, and world modeling in the virtual world. We are a small, talent-dense lab with the autonomy to move fast and the long-term commitment to pursue high-risk, high-payoff research. Come be a part of our journey! -- About the team: We are a research engineering team responsible for data ingestion and research tooling that support model development across the lab. The lab’s ability to train state-of-the-art models depends on generating high-quality training data and having useful tools for understanding experimental outcomes. We accelerate research work across the lab while maintaining the operational reliability expected of critical infrastructure. About the role: As a software engineer on the team, you will build the research tools platform that enables data creation, evaluation, and experimentation across the lab. Your work will be used daily by annotators, engineers, and researchers. This is a hands-on technical leadership role. You will ship a lot of code while defining system architecture, shared abstractions, and UI systems across the platform. We are looking for someone with strong engineering fundamentals, sound product judgment, and the ability to build polished UIs in a fast-moving research environment. Key job responsibilities - Be highly productive in the codebase and drive the team’s engineering velocity. - Define and evolve architecture for a research tooling platform with multiple independently evolving tools. - Design and implement reusable UI components, frontend infrastructure, and APIs. - Collaborate directly with Research, Human Feedback, Product Engineering, and other teams to understand workflows and define requirements. - Write technical RFCs to communicate design decisions and tradeoffs across teams. - Own projects end to end, from technical design through implementation, rollout, and long-term maintenance. - Raise the team’s technical bar through thoughtful code reviews, architectural guidance, and mentorship.
  • US, CA, San Francisco
    Job ID: 3184511
    (Updated 10 days ago)
    Amazon AGI Autonomy develops foundational capabilities for useful AI agents. We are the research lab behind Amazon Nova Act, a state-of-the-art computer-use agent. Our work combines Large Language Models (LLMs) with Reinforcement Learning (RL) to solve reasoning, planning, and world modeling in the virtual world. We are a small, talent-dense lab with the autonomy to move fast and the long-term commitment to pursue high-risk, high-payoff research. Come be a part of our journey! -- About the team: We are a research engineering team responsible for data ingestion and research tooling that support model development across the lab. The lab’s ability to train state-of-the-art models depends on generating high-quality training data and having useful tools for understanding experimental outcomes. We accelerate research work across the lab while maintaining the operational reliability expected of critical infrastructure. -- About the role: As a backend engineer on the team, you will build and operate core services that ingest, process, and distribute large-scale, multi-modal datasets to internal tools and data pipelines across the lab. This is a hands-on technical leadership role. You will ship a lot of code while defining backend architecture and operational standards across the platform. The platform is built primarily in TypeScript today, with plans to introduce Python services in the future. We are looking for someone who can balance rapid experimentation with operational rigor to build reliable services in a fast-moving research environment. Key job responsibilities - Be highly productive in the codebase and drive the team’s engineering velocity. - Design and evolve backend architecture and interfaces for core services. - Define and own standards for production health, performance, and observability. - Collaborate directly with Research, Human Feedback, Product Engineering, and other teams to understand workflows and define requirements. - Write technical RFCs to communicate design decisions and tradeoffs across teams. - Own projects end to end, from technical design through long-term maintenance. - Raise the team’s technical bar through thoughtful code reviews, architectural guidance, and mentorship.
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 3193523
    (Updated 26 days ago)
    Amazon's Pricing Science is seeking a driven Applied Scientist to harness planet scale multi-modal datasets, and navigate a continuously evolving competitor landscape, in order to regularly generate fresh customer-relevant prices on billions of Amazon products worldwide. We are looking for a talented, organized, and customer-focused applied researchers to join our Pricing Optimization science group, with a charter to measure, refine, and launch customer-obsessed improvements to our pricing algorithms across all products listed on Amazon. This role requires an individual with exceptional machine learning and predictive modeling skills, causal and experimental evaluation experience, excellent cross-functional collaboration skills and business acumen, and an entrepreneurial spirit. We are looking for an experienced innovator, who is a self-starter, comfortable with ambiguity, demonstrates strong attention to detail, and has the ability to work independently to deliver business impact. Key job responsibilities - See the big picture. Understand and develop science to influence the long term vision for Amazon's science-based competitive, perception-preserving pricing techniques - Build strong collaborations. Partner with product, engineering, and data teams within Pricing & Promotions to deploy models at Amazon scale - Stay informed. Establish mechanisms to stay up to date on latest scientific advancements in machine learning, reinforcement learning, causal ML, and multi-objective optimization techniques. Identify opportunities to apply them to relevant Pricing & Promotions business problems - Keep innovating for our customers. Foster an environment that promotes rapid experimentation, continuous learning, and incremental value delivery. - Successfully execute & deliver. Apply your exceptional technical machine learning expertise to incrementally move the needle on some of our hardest pricing problems. A day in the life We are hiring an applied scientist to drive our pricing optimization initiatives. The Price Optimization science team drives cross-domain and cross-system improvements through: * invent and deliver price optimization, simulation, and competitiveness tools for Sellers. * shape and extend our RL optimization platform - a pricing centric tool that automates the optimization of various system parameters and price inputs. * Promotion optimization initiatives exploring CX, discount amount, and cross-product optimization opportunities. * Identifying opportunities to optimally price across systems and contexts (marketplaces, request types, event periods) Price is a highly relevant input into many partner-team architectures, and is highly relevant to the customer, therefore this role creates the opportunity to drive extremely large impact (measured in Bs not Ms), but demands careful thought and clear communication. About the team About the team: the Pricing Discovery and Optimization team within P2 Science owns price quality, discovery and discount optimization initiatives, including criteria for internal price matching, price discovery into search, p13N and SP, pricing bandits, and Promotion type optimization. We leverage planet scale data on billions of Amazon and external competitor products to build advanced optimization models for pricing, elasticity estimation, product substitutability, and optimization. We preserve long term customer trust by ensuring Amazon's prices are always competitive and error free.
  • (Updated 39 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, 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, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, UAE, and UK). Please note these are not remote internships.
  • (Updated 39 days ago)
    Amazon's Pricing & Promotions Science is seeking a driven Applied Scientist to harness planet scale multi-modal datasets, and navigate a continuously evolving competitor landscape, in order to regularly generate fresh customer-relevant prices on billions of Amazon and Third Party Seller products worldwide. We are looking for a talented, organized, and customer-focused applied researchers to join our Pricing and Promotions Optimization science group, with a charter to measure, refine, and launch customer-obsessed improvements to our algorithmic pricing and promotion models across all products listed on Amazon. This role requires an individual with exceptional machine learning and reinforcement learning modeling expertise, excellent cross-functional collaboration skills, business acumen, and an entrepreneurial spirit. We are looking for an experienced innovator, who is a self-starter, comfortable with ambiguity, demonstrates strong attention to detail, and has the ability to work in a fast-paced and ever-changing environment. Key job responsibilities - See the big picture. Understand and influence the long term vision for Amazon's science-based competitive, perception-preserving pricing techniques - Build strong collaborations. Partner with product, engineering, and science teams within Pricing & Promotions to deploy machine learning price estimation and error correction solutions at Amazon scale - Stay informed. Establish mechanisms to stay up to date on latest scientific advancements in machine learning, neural networks, natural language processing, probabilistic forecasting, and multi-objective optimization techniques. Identify opportunities to apply them to relevant Pricing & Promotions business problems - Keep innovating for our customers. Foster an environment that promotes rapid experimentation, continuous learning, and incremental value delivery. - Successfully execute & deliver. Apply your exceptional technical machine learning expertise to incrementally move the needle on some of our hardest pricing problems. A day in the life We are hiring an applied scientist to drive our pricing optimization initiatives. The Price Optimization science team drives cross-domain and cross-system improvements through: - invent and deliver price optimization, simulation, and competitiveness tools for Sellers. - shape and extend our RL optimization platform - a pricing centric tool that automates the optimization of various system parameters and price inputs. - Promotion optimization initiatives exploring CX, discount amount, and cross-product optimization opportunities. - Identifying opportunities to optimally price across systems and contexts (marketplaces, request types, event periods) Price is a highly relevant input into many partner-team architectures, and is highly relevant to the customer, therefore this role creates the opportunity to drive extremely large impact (measured in Bs not Ms), but demands careful thought and clear communication. About the team About the team: the Pricing Discovery and Optimization team within P2 Science owns price quality, discovery and discount optimization initiatives, including criteria for internal price matching, price discovery into search, p13N and SP, pricing bandits, and Promotion type optimization. We leverage planet scale data on billions of Amazon and external competitor products to build advanced optimization models for pricing, elasticity estimation, product substitutability, and optimization. We preserve long term customer trust by ensuring Amazon's prices are always competitive and error free.
  • (Updated 2 days ago)
    We are looking for a Data Scientist with a strong analytical skills who will build ML/GenAI tools and a suite of internal and external (seller) facing tools to meet the needs of fast growing Amazon Business customers. In this role, you will lead Data Science solutions from beginning to end. You will deliver with independence on challenging large-scale problems with complexity and ambiguity. You will build Machine Learning and statistical models to solve specific business problems. You will play a key role in shaping the ML/AI roadmap of our team and actively influence the world-wide roadmaps working together with a team of product managers, engineers, and scientists globally. Key job responsibilities Own end-to-end science solutions : o Translate highly ambiguous, complex business problems into clear scientific hypotheses and success metrics. o Drive projects from concept and data discovery through model development, experimentation, deployment, and post-launch monitoring. Build advanced ML / AI / GenAI models o Use statistical and machine learning techniques to create the next generation of the tools to support the growth of Amazon's third party sellers and improve productivity of internal Amazonians. o Apply causal inference, uplift modeling, and experimentation frameworks to quantify the impact of new policies, tools, and AB programs. o Leverage Generative AI and LLMs for use cases such as intelligent seller insights, automated reasoning over large datasets, and AI-assisted decision support for internal stakeholders. Shape the AI & Analytics roadmap for Amazon Business in EU o Define and drive the Analytics, Data Science, and AI strategy for AB EU 3P. o Dive deep to help drive key business decisions through data insights and improve a wide range of internal products Partner closely with engineering and data teams o Work closely with teams of scientists, BIEs, Product Managers and world-wide tech teams to drive real-time model implementations and deliver novel and highly impactful features. o Build production ready solutions or show the willingness to learn how to implement and deploy large scale production ready models Influence through narrative and storytelling o Create clear, concise documents and visualizations that “tell the story” of your findings to senior leaders and non-technical stakeholders. o Recommend actions and trade-offs, and influence roadmap and investment decisions using data. o Provide strategic technical guidance to L7+ business partners. o Build reusable experimentation and measurement frameworks for the wider FBA organization. Raise the bar for science excellence o Mentor other scientists, BIEs, and analysts on methodology, code practices, and stakeholder engagement. o Create and deliver best practice recommendations, blog posts, and presentations adapted to technical, business, and executive stakeholders. o Promote best practices in reproducible research, model governance, and documentation. A day in the life 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 business 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 third party sellers. • Meet with Engineers/Data Engineers to align on solution designs. • Own or co-own MBR documents that are reviewed with WW Amazon Business 3P leadership (at least 2 L8s) About the team Amazon Business Marketplace is a highly strategic and a fast growing business for Amazon. In this team, you will own initiatives end to end that are in early stages which will give you an opportunity to shape the direction of these programs globally. You will also have a high visibility to WW leadership/stakeholders due to the organizational structure of Amazon Business, which is a great opportunity for people who are willing to embrace a fast-paced environment, deal with ambiguity, and make an impact globally.

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