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Amazon’s Customer Behavior Analytics org is looking for an Applied Scientist to spearhead the rapid growth of our Marketing Measurement solutions. The team focuses on building scalable ML and causal inference solutions to estimate the effectiveness of Amazon marketing efforts and provide actionable insights to the various marketing teams within Amazon. This is a high-impact role with opportunities to develop systems that affect investments to the size of billions of dollars. We work closely with business stakeholders and strive to continuously produce tangible impact on the company’s strategic and tactical planning and operations. A successful candidate will be a self-starter, comfortable with ambiguity, able to think big and be creative, while still paying careful attention to detail. You should be able to translate how data represents the customer journey, be comfortable dealing with large and complex data sets, and have experience using machine/deep learning at scale to solve business problems. You should have strong analytical and communication skills, be able to work with product managers and software teams to define key business questions and work with the analytics team to solve them. You will apply your expertise in ML/DL, statistics, and data-wrangling to identify opportunities for further research and to provide insights that drive larger initiatives. You will join a highly collaborative and diverse working environment that will empower you to shape the future of Amazon marketing, as well allow you to be part of the large science community within the Customer Behavior Analytics (CBA) organization. Key job responsibilities The main responsibilities for this position include: - Apply your expertise in Transformer models, LLMs, ML/DL and statistical modeling to develop solutions and systems that describe how Amazon’s marketing campaigns impact customers’ actions - Own the end-to-end development of novel causal inference models that address the most pressing needs of our business stakeholders and help guide their future actions - Improve upon and simplify our existing solutions and frameworks - Review and audit modeling processes and results from other scientists, both junior and senior - Work with marketing leadership to align our measurement plan with business strategy - Formalize assumptions about how our models are expected to behave and explain why they are reasonable - Identify new opportunities that are suggested by the data insights - Bring a department-wide perspective into decision making - Develop and document scientific research to be shared with the greater science community at Amazon About the team The Customer Behavior Analytics (CBA) organization owns Amazon’s insights pipeline, from data collection to deep analytics. We aspire to be the place where Amazon teams come for answers, a trusted source for data and insights that empower our systems and business leaders to make better decisions. Our outputs shape Amazon product and marketing teams’ decisions and thus how Amazon customers see, use, and value their experience.

As part of IRR (Inventory Routing and Replenishment) organization within SCOT-Inbound systems, Applied Scientists own algorithms powering inventory routing, replenishment, and modeling / simulation of Amazon's fulfillment network utilizing optimization and machine learning toolsets. We are looking for a talented applied scientist with a passion for designing and implementing efficient and elegant scientific solutions for Amazon-scale supply chain problems. Key job responsibilities - Design and develop advanced mathematical optimization and machine learning solutions in the domains of inventory optimization, distribution optimization, network design, and control theory. - Use methods in learned and model-based online and offline control techniques and algorithms to design efficient exact or heuristic solution methodologies to be used by in-house decision support tools and software. - Research, prototype, simulate, and experiment with these models using programming languages such as Java and Python; participate in the production level deployment. - Closely work with software engineering teams and write well-tested production Java/Python code for science modules within engineering-managed services. Provide time-sensitive on-call support and high-severity issue support when bugs are identified in production code. Improve code quality of legacy scientific production code. - Create, enhance, and maintain technical documentation and science designs. - Present to other Scientists, Product, and Software Engineering teams, as well as Stakeholders. - Lead project plans from a scientific perspective by managing product features, technical risks, milestones and launch plans. - Influence organization's long-term roadmap and resourcing, onboard new technologies onto Science team's toolbox, mentor other Scientists. A day in the life - Engage with customers to understand their problems. - Collaborate with product partners and peers to design and deliver algorithmic solutions to these problems. - Implement these solutions in java within engineering systems through close collaboration with engineering partners achieving high code quality. - Deploy and measure impact of implementations. - Support customers and stakeholders whenever deep-dives and enhancements are needed as they relate to scientific products the team owns. - Contribute to product roadmap through new innovations on behalf of customers. - Publish work in internal and external scientific community. About the team IRR Science team under SCOT Inbound Systems is comprised of applied scientists with strong optimization & ML science depth. Given the scale of problems we solve for our customers and mission-critical nature of our solutions, systems thinking driven approach, with attention to algorithmic complexity, solution quality, simplicity, and extensibility are of critical importance. We collaborate with engineering teams closely and deliver clean code following software design patterns. We build solutions that must consistently improve customer experience with maximum transparency and explainability of decisions made by such solutions. We strive for every member of the team to be knowledgeable about every product that the team owns to enable meaningful collaboration within the team. We seek to publish our work at internal and external scientific communities when they produce novel solutions.

Worldwide Global Selling has been helping individuals and businesses increase sales and reach new customers around the globe. Today, more than 50% of Amazon's total unit sales come from third-party selection. The Global Selling team in China is responsible for recruiting local businesses to sell on Amazon's 19+ overseas marketplaces and supporting local Sellers' success and growth on Amazon. Our vision is to be the first choice for all types of Chinese business to go globally. The Worldwide Global Selling Analytics, Intelligence, and Technology (WWGS-AIT) team serves as the research, automation, and insight arm of the International Seller Service data hub, enabling rapid delivery of growth insights through strategic investments in regional data foundations, self-service business intelligence solutions, and artificial intelligence tools. The WWGS-AIT team is positioned to establish AI-ready foundational capabilities across the WWGS organization while maintaining excellence in business insight generation, and self-service BI/AI application development. WWGS-AIT is looking for a Data Scientist to build reusable science capabilities that support seller growth, operational decision-making, and cross-domain innovation across Worldwide Global Selling. You will lead high-impact modeling initiatives at the intersection of graph science, machine learning, simulation, and optimization. Your initial focus will include building identity-resolution and entity-linkage capabilities that create a trusted One ID view across fragmented seller and business data; developing simulation and decision models for logistics and inventory options; and establishing reusable modeling foundations for seller lifecycle and other cross-domain use cases. You will also partner with business, product, engineering, and analytics teams to evaluate and deliver prioritized science opportunities through a common intake process. This role is ideal for a hands-on scientist who can move from ambiguous business problems to robust, production-ready models and decision systems. Key job responsibilities Lead the design, development, and productionization of graph-based identity-resolution and entity-linkage models that connect seller, account, business, logistics, and other relevant entities into a trusted One ID foundation. Develop simulation, optimization, forecasting, and decision-support models for logistics, inventory, and related operational choices; quantify trade-offs, uncertainty, and expected business impact. Establish scalable model-development practices, including feature engineering, experiment design, model validation, monitoring, reproducibility, documentation, and responsible-use controls. Translate ambiguous business questions into clear science problems, measurable hypotheses, model requirements, and decision frameworks. Partner with Data Engineering, BIE, Product, and domain teams to build reliable data pipelines, model features, evaluation datasets, and production model interfaces. Support prioritized science needs from Supply Chain, Seller Success, and other teams through the WWGS-AIT operating-planning intake and prioritization process. Define model performance, business-impact, and operational-success metrics; use offline evaluation, back-testing, simulation, and controlled experiments to continuously improve solutions. Contribute applied AI and GenAI expertise where it improves science-enabled products—for example, model evaluation, retrieval/ranking, intelligent decision support, or AI-agent capabilities grounded in trusted data and models. Influence the WWGS science roadmap by identifying opportunities to convert repeated business problems into durable, reusable data and modeling capabilities.

Amazon Leo is Amazon’s low Earth orbit satellite broadband network. Its mission is to deliver fast, reliable internet to customers and communities around the world, and we’ve designed the system with the capacity, flexibility, and performance to serve a wide range of customers, from individual households to schools, hospitals, businesses, government agencies, and other organizations operating in locations without reliable connectivity. Export Control Requirement: Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum. We are looking for an experienced Data Scientist to help architect state-of-the-art test infrastructure and lead the development of data models and analysis tools to represent the ground truth about satellite test results in order to facilitate important business decisions. Our team is responsible for core infrastructure and tools that will serve as the backbone of automated satellite testing operations to enable rapid scaling of manufacturing processes. Key job responsibilities * Work with engineering, software and manufacturing teams to understand drivers, impacts, and key influences on satellite performance * Lead the design, build and implementation of production models and make decisions in real time for satellite test results * Drive actions at scale to optimize test methodology and drive increases to satellite reliability * Analysis and modeling of satellite telemetry from test results in lab and on-orbit * Develop models and data pipelines for satellite telemetry * Create and manage datasets for continued pre-training and supervised fine-tuning of LLMs * Develop scalable visualizations for analysis of satellite performance A day in the life As Amazon Leo Data Scientist you will own the architecture definition and development of data analysis tools to to aid engineering and production teams in deciding flight-worthiness of each Amazon Leo satellite and historical traceability tools to enable simplified discovery and interpretation of past test data. You will work with multiple engineering, software and manufacturing teams across ground and space systems, to specify requirements, define data collection, interpretation strategies, data pipelines and implement data analysis and reporting tools for Integrated Vehicle tests. Your focus will be in optimizing the analysis of test results to enable Amazon Leo production plans. About the team The Automated Vehicle Testing Team is a mix of scientists and software engineers responsible for data infrastructure, tools, and research that serve as the backbone of automated satellite testing operations to enable rapid scaling of manufacturing processes.

Join us at the forefront of Amazon's sustainability initiatives to work on environmental and social advancements that support Amazon's long-term worldwide sustainability strategy. At Amazon, we're working to be the most customer-centric company on earth. To get there, we need exceptionally talented, bright, and driven people. We are looking for a Senior Research Scientist to join our growing Sustainability team to drive the science behind value chain decarbonization. This role will establish Amazon's scientific methodologies for sector- and cross-sectoral decarbonization mechanisms and establish benchmarks for automated validation and risk assessment. As a Senior Research Scientist, you will be responsible for independently leading assessments of environmental issues across the full spectrum of Amazon businesses and evaluating sustainability impacts across the value chain. You will independently develop quality frameworks and methodologies that enable Amazon to scale procurement of high-quality environmental interventions while maintaining scientific rigor and environmental integrity. Key job responsibilities - Develop quality assessment frameworks for complex environmental interventions, baseline-setting approaches, and measurement methodologies - Build quantitative benchmark and statistical models that enable scalable evaluation across heterogeneous data sources - Create attribution methodologies for supply chain interventions across Amazon's diverse footprint - Develop social and environmental safeguard criteria that integrate community impact assessments - Collaborate with cross-functional teams including procurement, sustainability operations, and business units to translate scientific methodologies into operational requirements - Work under the direction of senior business leaders while acting as lead Subject Matter Expert for value chain decarbonization science, including designing and leading research, data collection, modeling, documentation, interpretation, and validation About the team Diverse Experiences: Worldwide Sustainability 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. Inclusive Team Culture: 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 (inclusive 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.

Amazon's Worldwide Grocery Stores (WWGS), Data & Science team is seeking an Applied Scientist to join our Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) and Supply Chain Science team. In this role, you will help build forecasting models that drive labor planning across the Amazon Grocery Network, where forecast misses can lead directly to staffing inefficiencies, higher costs, and degraded customer experience. You will contribute to the development and deployment of demand and labor forecasting models using Time-series, Bayesian and Structural methods, and Machine Learning. Senior scientists on the team will partner with you to scope problems and review designs, giving you room to build depth in forecasting science and production ML. You will also work directly with engineering partners, product owners, and business stakeholders, so you will see how your models change the decisions they make. Forecasts directly inform downstream labor and capacity decisions, so understanding how errors affect stakeholders is as important as improving accuracy. You will participate in design and roadmap discussions, communicate clearly with technical and non-technical partners, and develop judgment about the trade-offs in the systems you contribute to. We are investing in Generative AI to advance forecasting workflows, moving from human-in-the-loop to AI-in-the-loop decision support. Opportunities include automating forecast overrides for known events, identifying persistent bias, and augmenting planner and scientist judgment with agentic tools. Key job responsibilities - Develop, evaluate, and deploy components of our demand and labor forecasting models, including statistical time-series, Bayesian, and machine-learning models with distributional objectives, with input and guidance from senior scientists. - Translate business problems into well-defined scientific solutions with clear objectives, constraints, and success metrics, partnering with senior scientists on the more ambiguous ones. - Analyze forecast performance and downstream impact on labor planning and capacity decisions; develop metrics that reflect business outcomes, not only forecast accuracy. - Prototype and evaluate Generative AI approaches in our forecasting workflows and help productionize the ones that succeed. - Partner with engineering teams to produce models, contribute to data pipelines, and build scalable, maintainable forecasting systems. - Monitor deployed models, investigate performance issues, and continuously improve model quality and calibration. - Communicate technical concepts and recommendations clearly through documentation, presentations, and design reviews with scientists, engineers, product managers, and business leaders. - Contribute to the internal scientific community through knowledge sharing and, where appropriate, research publications.

Amazon's Compliance and Safety Services (CoSS) Team is looking for a smart and creative Applied Scientist to apply and extend state-of-the-art research in NLP, multi-modal modeling, domain adaptation, continuous learning and large language model to join the Applied Science team. At Amazon, we are working to be the most customer-centric company on earth. Millions of customers trust us to ensure a safe shopping experience. This is an exciting and challenging position to drive research that will shape new ML solutions for product compliance and safety around the globe in order to achieve best-in-class, company-wide standards around product assurance. You will research on large amounts of tabular, textual, and product image data from product detail pages, selling partner details and customer feedback, evaluate state-of-the-art algorithms and frameworks, and develop new algorithms to improve safety and compliance mechanisms. You will partner with engineers, technical program managers and product managers to design new ML solutions implemented across the entire Amazon product catalog. Key job responsibilities As an Applied Scientist on our team, you will: - Research and Evaluate state-of-the-art algorithms in NLP, multi-modal modeling, domain adaptation, continuous learning and large language model. - Design new algorithms that improve on the state-of-the-art to drive business impact, such as synthetic data generation, active learning, grounding LLMs for business use cases - Design and plan collection of new labels and audit mechanisms to develop better approaches that will further improve product assurance and customer trust. - Analyze and convey results to stakeholders and contribute to the research and product roadmap. - Collaborate with other scientists, engineers, product managers, and business teams to creatively solve problems, measure and estimate risks, and constructively critique peer research - Consult with engineering teams to design data and modeling pipelines which successfully interface with new and existing software - Publish research publications at internal and external venues. About the team The science team delivers custom state-of-the-art algorithms for image and document understanding. The team specializes in developing machine learning solutions to advance compliance capabilities. Their research contributions span multiple domains including multi-modal modeling, unstructured data matching, text extraction from visual documents, and anomaly detection, with findings regularly published in academic venues.

At Amazon, we’re inventing on behalf of customers, and with Amazon Leo, we’re redefining what global connectivity looks like. Our mission is to deliver fast, affordable broadband to unserved and underserved communities around the world through a constellation of low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites. Every system we build helps connect people to education, healthcare, opportunity, and each other. As a Data Scientist, you will be responsible for developing advanced analytics and machine learning solutions for user terminals. You will develop predictive models to proactively identify possible user terminal failures in the field. You will work in a collaborative environment with a multi-disciplinary team, including constellation, RF, antenna, silicon, algorithm, and software engineers. Key job responsibilities As a Data Scientist, you will develop analytic tools for a team developing current and future user terminals. Your responsibilities include: • Develop statistical and analytical tool to enable the regression decision from on-orbit and lab measurement of user terminals • Publish documents and create compelling visualizations and presentations to communicate insights to stakeholders • Create and manage datasets for continued pre-training and supervised fine-tuning of LLMs • Develop scalable visualizations for analysis of user terminal performance • Work closely with constellation, RF, antenna, silicon, algorithm, and software engineers to root-cause the failures using data as the primary tool • Drive consensus on metrics and analysis approaches to support product development strategy Export Control Requirement: Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum. A day in the life As a Data Scientist in the LEO Customer Terminal Team, you will work daily with satellite constellation, algorithm, RF, antenna, silicon, hardware, and software teams in a collaborative environment. Your focus will be using data as an intelligence source to enable design decisions for the team. About the team The LEO Customer Terminal team is responsible for developing both outdoor and indoor devices that enable customers to access internet service via the LEO satellite network. We own the entire process from early prototypes through mass production, including requirements documentation, architecture definition, hardware development, algorithm development, and all integration and verification testing.

MULTIPLE POSITIONS AVAILABLE Employer: AMAZON.COM SERVICES LLC Offered Position: Research Scientist II Job Location: New York, New York Job Number: AMZ9898222 Position Responsibilities: Interact with various software and business groups to develop an understanding of their business requirements and operational processes. Utilize acquired knowledge and business judgment to build scalable machine learning systems, optimization models and operational tools to improve the bottom line. Build quantitative mathematical models to represent a wide range of supply chain, transportation and logistics systems. Implement these models and tools using modeling languages and engineering code in software languages such as Python, C++, or JAVA. Gather required data for analysis and mathematical model building by writing ad-hoc scripts and database queries. Perform quantitative, economic, and numerical performance analyses of these systems under uncertainty using statistical and optimization tools. Create computer simulations to support operational decision-making. Identify areas with potential for improvement and work with internal teams to generate requirements to realize improvements. Design optimal or near optimal solution methodologies to be used by in-house decision support tools and software. Create software prototypes to verify and validate the devised solutions methodologies. Integrate prototypes into production systems using standard software development tools and methodologies. Position Requirements: Master's degree or foreign equivalent degree in Operations Research, Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field and one year of research or work experience in the job offered, or as a Research Scientist, Research Assistant, Software Engineer, or a related occupation. Employer will accept a Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent degree in Operations Research, Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field and five years of progressive post-baccalaureate research or work experience in the job offered or a related occupation as equivalent to the Master's degree and one year of experience. Must have one year of research or work experience in the following skill(s): (1) programming with a major programming language including Java, C++, C#, C, or Python; and (2) formulating and solving both discrete and continuous optimization problems. Amazon.com is an Equal Opportunity-Affirmative Action Employer – Minority / Female / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation. 40 hours / week, 8:00am-5:00pm, Salary Range $158,440/year to $212,800/year. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, visit: https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits.#0000

As a member of the CMT team, you'll play a key role in the evolution of our Competitive Monitoring systems to solve significantly complex and interesting technical challenges in machine learning, large language models in production, and recommender systems to name a few. The team's work directly impacts customer experience at a worldwide scale. Key job responsibilities Key job responsibilities 1. Research the problem domain and come up with various approaches to solve the problem. 2. Be willing to experiment quickly and fail fast. 3. Collaborate with engineers to come up with the right end to end solution to the business problems. 4. Ideate on future roadmap for science in CMT 5. Be willing to roll up your sleeves and learn core topics outside applied science, for example ML engineering A day in the life A typical day might involve (a) working on ideas for improving models around product similarity or price recommendations, (b) working closely with other scientists and our ML engineers to ensure that the best models are in production, (c) writing good maintainable code that can be reused and reproduced, (d) sharing your work across CMT and beyond via technical writings and presentations