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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: 10455933
    (Updated 3 days ago)
    Do you want to transform the way people shop at Amazon? We are looking for stellar applied scientists to be part of our multi-disciplinary team. We are re-imagining the future of the Amazon shopping experience for customers through tailoring it to their current intent. We understand what customers are interested in shopping for, and guide them to discover what they need as they shop. If you love building new technology that helps customers solve their problems, this is your opportunity to impact millions of customers. Come help us build the future of personalized shopping at Amazon! As an Applied Scientist on the team, you will work on science innovation in our space across a large multidisciplinary team. You will have a breadth of problems to work on, ranging from developing state of the art LLM-based techniques to reason about customers and products, developing deep learned transformer-based models to understand and abstract customer intent signals and representations, building large-scale real-time multi-task ranking systems, and more. You will build technology employed by teams across the company, while also having a direct connection to millions of customers through our own customer facing features every day. Come join us in the journey! Key job responsibilities Key job responsibilities * Deliver new features and models that have huge impact on the customer experience. Help customers find the right products and content on their shopping journey. Leverage the use of advanced machine learning to create customer shopping experience at Amazon's scale - for all Amazon customers across all countries in realtime * Be a key contributor on a multidisciplinary team across science, product, design, and engineering to see through ideas from inception, prototype, to launch in the hands of all Amazon's customers * Propose and innovate on the science roadmap across multiple projects About the team Our vision is to build the next generation of shopping experience at Amazon through personalization and understanding the customer's intent. We imagine our core experiences to work together as a talented personal shopping assistant would — a partner that is knowledgeable, understands your preferences, and helps you find the right solution for your needs. We aim for the quality of personalization to be a core reason customers choose Amazon, on par with Earth’s largest selection, low prices, and fast and free shipping. Our team is part of Amazon’s Personalization organization, a high-performing group that leverages Amazon’s expertise in machine learning, big data, distributed systems, and user experience design to deliver the best shopping experiences for our customers. We run global experiments and our work has revolutionized e-commerce with features such as "Keep shopping for ...", “Customers who bought this item also bought”, and “Frequently bought together”. Amazon’s internal surveys regularly recognize us as one of the best engineering organizations to work for in the company, with visible high-impact work, low operational load, respectful work-life balance, and continual opportunity to learn and grow.
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 10450492
    (Updated 12 days ago)
    Are you a PhD interested in machine learning, natural language processing, computer vision, automated reasoning, robotics, or quantum technologies? We are looking for skilled scientists capable of putting theory into practice through experimentation and invention, leveraging science techniques and implementing systems to work on massive datasets in an effort to tackle never-before-solved problems. A successful candidate will be a self-starter comfortable with ambiguity, strong attention to detail, and the ability to work in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment. As an Applied Scientist, you will own the design and development of end-to-end systems. You’ll have the opportunity to create technical 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. The ideal scientist must have the ability to work with diverse groups of people and cross-functional teams to solve complex business problems. Key job responsibilities Amazon Science gives insight into the company’s approach to customer-obsessed scientific innovation. Amazon fundamentally believes that scientific innovation is essential to being the most customer-centric company in the world. It’s the company’s ability to have an impact at scale that allows us to attract some of the brightest minds in artificial intelligence and related fields. Our scientists use our working backwards method to enrich the way we live and work. For more information on the Amazon Science community please visit https://www.amazon.science.
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 10459535
    (Updated 12 days ago)
    With AI reshaping every layer of the software stack, we have an opportunity to reimagine consumer software experiences — making them smarter, more personal, and more useful every day. Join us in revolutionizing how millions of customers discover and interact with the web. The Silk team is building the next evolution of browsing - one that transforms passive web consumption into an intelligent, AI-powered experience that understands and anticipates user needs. About the Role As a Senior Applied Scientist on the Silk team, you'll be at the forefront of defining and building the future of web browsing in the AI era. This is a unique opportunity to shape both the scientific vision and product direction of a next-generation browser that will fundamentally change how customers shop, discover content, and engage with the web. You'll have the freedom to innovate across multiple advanced domains including: - Large language models and generative AI for intelligent browsing assistance - Advanced recommender systems for personalized content discovery - Natural language processing for deep web content understanding - Novel AI applications that transform traditional browsing paradigms Why This Role Matters The browser is one of the most fundamental tools of the modern internet, yet the core browsing experience has remained largely unchanged for decades. At Silk, we're reimagining what a browser can be by integrating advanced AI capabilities that make web interactions more intuitive, efficient, and valuable for our customers. As a senior scientific leader, you'll have unprecedented opportunity to: - Define and own the technical vision for AI-powered browsing experiences that impact millions of users - Pioneer new approaches to web interaction that combine browsing with intelligent assistance - Build novel solutions that bridge content discovery, shopping, and entertainment - Drive innovation in areas like intelligent content summarization, shopping assistance, and AI-powered browsing tools - Shape the future of how customers interact with the vast knowledge and capabilities of the web Impact and Leadership This role combines scientific leadership with product ownership and technical execution. You'll: - Lead the definition and development of Silk's AI strategy and roadmap - Drive technical decisions that shape our product direction - Mentor and grow other scientists while building a culture of innovation - Collaborate with product and engineering leaders to bring scientific innovations to life - Influence the broader direction of Amazon's AI initiatives Key Responsibilities - Conceptualize and lead innovative research in ML and AI that transforms web browsing - Design scalable AI solutions that power next-generation browsing experiences - Guide technical approaches for complex ML projects while working with cross-functional teams - Drive deep data analysis to uncover customer insights and identify new opportunities - Work closely with engineering teams to bring ML innovations to production - Lead improvements in model scalability, efficiency, and automation - Stay at the forefront of ML research and apply relevant innovations - Contribute to Amazon's scientific community through publications and knowledge sharing Why You'll Love It You'll work on challenging problems at massive scale while having direct impact on how millions of customers interact with the web daily. Our team combines the innovative culture of a startup with the resources and scale of Amazon. You'll have: - End-to-end ownership of scientific solutions that power next-generation browser experiences - Freedom to experiment with new ideas and approaches - Access to vast computational resources and unique datasets - Opportunity to work with and learn from world-class scientists and engineers - Direct influence on product strategy and technical direction - Platform to publish research and contribute to the scientific community Join us in building the future of intelligent web browsing that combines AI innovation with customer-centric experiences. This is your opportunity to reimagine one of computing's most fundamental tools and shape how the next generation discovers and experiences the web.
  • (Updated 12 days ago)
    Have you ever wondered how Amazon launches and maintains a consistent customer experience across hundreds of countries and languages it serves its customers? Are you passionate about data and mathematics, and hope to impact the experience of millions of customers? Are you obsessed with designing simple algorithmic solutions to very challenging problems? If so, we look forward to hearing from you! At Amazon, we strive to be Earth's most customer-centric company, where both internal and external customers can find and discover anything they want in their own language of preference. Our Translations Services (TS) team plays a pivotal role in expanding the reach of our marketplace worldwide and enables thousands of developers and other stakeholders (Product Managers, Program Managers, Linguists) in developing locale specific solutions. Amazon Translations Services (TS) is seeking an Applied Scientist to be based in our Seattle office. As a key member of the Science and Engineering team of TS, this person will be responsible for designing algorithmic solutions based on data and mathematics for translating billions of words annually across 130+ and expanding set of locales. The successful applicant will ensure that there is minimal human touch involved in any language translation and accurate translated text is available to our worldwide customers in a streamlined and optimized manner. With access to vast amounts of data, State-of-the-art technology, and a diverse community of talented individuals, you will have the opportunity to make a meaningful impact on the way customers and stakeholders engage with Amazon and our platform worldwide. Together, we will drive innovation, solve complex problems, and shape the future of e-commerce. Key job responsibilities * Apply your expertise in LLM models to design, develop, and implement scalable machine learning solutions that address complex language translation-related challenges in the eCommerce space. * Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including software engineers, data scientists, and product managers, to define project requirements, establish success metrics, and deliver high-quality solutions. * Conduct thorough data analysis to gain insights, identify patterns, and drive actionable recommendations that enhance seller performance and customer experiences across various international marketplaces. * Continuously explore and evaluate state-of-the-art modeling techniques and methodologies to improve the accuracy and efficiency of language translation-related systems. * Communicate complex technical concepts effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, providing clear explanations and guidance on proposed solutions and their potential impact. About the team We are a start-up mindset team. As the long-term technical strategy is still taking shape, there is a lot of opportunity for this fresh Science team to innovate by leveraging Gen AI technoligies to build scalable solutions from scratch. Our Vision: Language will not stand in the way of anyone on earth using Amazon products and services. Our Mission: We are the enablers and guardians of translation for Amazon's customers. We do this by offering hands-off-the-wheel service to all Amazon teams, optimizing translation quality and speed at the lowest cost possible.
  • US, CA, Sunnyvale
    Job ID: 10457130
    (Updated 16 days ago)
    Amazon Lab126 is an inventive research and development company that designs and engineers high-profile consumer electronics. Lab126 began in 2004 as a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc., originally creating the best-selling Kindle family of products. Since then, we have produced devices like Fire tablets, Fire TV, and Amazon Echo. What will you help us create? The Wireless Applied Science Manager will manage the Wireless Science team. You will manage the recruitment, selection and retention of the team as we continue to grow our business. You will be responsible for the Wireless Algorithm and science development and will be hands on with the team throughout the development process from concept through design, test, and into mass-production support. You are ultimately accountable for delivering the performance and quality. Key job responsibilities In this role you will: • Recruit, manage and maintain a world class Wireless Communications Systems team • Attend and run cross functional engineering meetings • Dive into and take ownership for critical design issues • Lead design reviews and report on status of development, quality, operations and system performance to management • Build design processes to continuously improve performance and quality
  • (Updated 31 days ago)
    In this role, you will design and build intelligent multi-agent systems that automate root cause analysis for advertising campaign delivery at scale. You will architect agentic orchestration patterns where specialized sub-agents (campaign diagnostics, deal-level troubleshooting, pacing control) are invoked as composable tools by a reasoning layer that determines which subsystems to query based on the nature of the issue. You will develop hierarchical analysis frameworks that move from daily trend detection to intra-day anomaly isolation, enabling the system to pinpoint when and why delivery degraded rather than relying on static time windows. You will build self-learning feedback loops where the system identifies recurring failure signatures (auction dynamics, pacing anomalies, supply contention), updates its diagnostic knowledge as engineering teams deploy fixes, and retires stale patterns automatically. We are looking for a passionate Applied Scientist with technical expertise in LLM-based agent architectures, retrieval-augmented generation, time-series anomaly detection, and production ML systems. In addition to hands-on experience building agentic AI solutions, an ideal candidate should demonstrate the ability to translate complex distributed system behaviors into structured diagnostic reasoning, show a willingness to push the boundaries of how LLMs interact with real-time operational data, and thrive in an environment where you ship production systems that directly reduce advertiser escalation time from days to minutes. Key job responsibilities * Conduct deep data analysis to derive insights for the business, identify gaps, and uncover new opportunities. * Develop scalable and effective machine learning models and optimization strategies to solve business problems. * Run regular A/B experiments, gather data, and perform statistical analysis to optimize advertiser experiences. * Collaborate closely with software engineers to deliver end-to-end solutions into production. * Enhance the scalability, efficiency, and automation of large-scale data analytics, model training, deployment, and serving. * Research and implement new machine learning models and techniques to improve advertising performance. A day in the life Your primary focus is building a multi-agent diagnostic system that automates root cause analysis for advertising campaign delivery issues. On a typical day, you might review how the system handled recent escalations, identify where it reasoned incorrectly, adjust orchestration logic, and write new evaluation cases. You will design agent architectures that invoke specialized sub-agents as tools, build hierarchical analysis frameworks that move from trend detection to anomaly isolation, and develop self-learning loops that keep the system's diagnostic knowledge current as the underlying platform evolves. You will work closely with SDEs building the diagnostic platform, product managers defining the troubleshooting experience, and the support teams who rely on your system to resolve advertiser delivery issues in minutes instead of days. Beyond the core agent work, you may find yourself diving into causal inference to measure recommendation effectiveness, prototyping proactive anomaly detection, or contributing to evaluation science for systems that reason over complex operational data. About the team The Demand Enablement, Product Analytics and Operations team builds the diagnostic and intelligence layer for Amazon DSP, the demand-side platform powering Amazon's programmatic advertising business. We own the systems that detect, diagnose, and surface delivery issues across campaigns, giving internal teams and advertisers the visibility to act before problems impact spend. Our product portfolio spans automated troubleshooting platforms, advertiser-facing delivery insights, and AI-powered root cause analysis using multi-agent architectures on foundation models. We are a small, high-ownership team that ships production systems end-to-end, from data pipelines processing billions of bid events to LLM-based agents that reason over complex advertising systems. If you want to work at the intersection of applied science, distributed systems observability, and real business impact measured in advertiser dollars recovered, this is the team.
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 10444441
    (Updated 31 days ago)
    The Sponsored Products and Brands (SPB) team at Amazon Ads is re-imagining the advertising landscape through generative AI technologies, revolutionizing how millions of customers discover products and engage with brands across Amazon.com and beyond. We are at the forefront of re-inventing advertising experiences, bridging human creativity with artificial intelligence to transform every aspect of the advertising lifecycle from ad creation and optimization to performance analysis and customer insights. We are a passionate group of innovators dedicated to developing responsible and intelligent AI technologies that balance the needs of advertisers, enhance the shopping experience, and strengthen the marketplace. If you're energized by solving complex challenges and pushing the boundaries of what's possible with AI, join us in shaping the future of advertising. This position will be part of the Conversational Ad Experiences team within the Amazon Advertising organization. Our cross-functional team focuses on designing, developing and launching innovative ad experiences delivered to shoppers in conversational contexts. We utilize leading-edge engineering and science technologies in generative AI to help shoppers discover new products and brands through intuitive, conversational, multi-turn interfaces. We also empower advertisers to reach shoppers, using their own voice to explain and demonstrate how their products meet shoppers' needs. We collaborate with various teams across multiple Amazon organizations to push the boundary of what's possible in these fields. We are seeking a science leader for our team within the Sponsored Products & Brands organization. You'll be working with talented scientists, engineers, and product managers to innovate on behalf of our customers. An ideal candidate is able to navigate through ambiguous requirements, working with various partner teams, and has experience in generative AI, large language models (LLMs), information retrieval, and ads recommendation systems. Using a combination of generative AI and online experimentation, our scientists develop insights and optimizations that enable the monetization of Amazon properties while enhancing the experience of hundreds of millions of Amazon shoppers worldwide. If you're fired up about being part of a dynamic, driven team, then this is your moment to join us on this exciting journey! Key job responsibilities - Serve as a tech lead for defining the science roadmap for multiple projects in the conversational ad experiences space powered by LLMs. - Build POCs, optimize and deploy models into production, run experiments, perform deep dives on experiment data to gather actionable learnings and communicate them to senior leadership - Work closely with software engineers on detailed requirements, technical designs and implementation of end-to-end solutions in production. - Work closely with product managers to contribute to our mission, and proactively identify opportunities where science can help improve customer experience - Research new machine learning approaches to drive continued scientific innovation - Be a member of the Amazon-wide machine learning community, participating in internal and external meetups, hackathons and conferences - Help attract and recruit technical talent, mentor scientists and engineers in the team
  • (Updated 5 days ago)
    Amazon's Worldwide Grocery Stores (WWGS), Data & Science team is seeking an Applied Scientist to join our under the roof (UTR) Science team, focused on improving outbound pick efficiencies across the Amazon Grocery Network. In this role, you will build optimization and simulation models that directly reduce operational costs and improve associate productivity in warehouse picking operations. This role owns the development and deployment of mathematical optimization models for pick planning, inventory placement, and warehouse layout design. You will formulate ambiguous business problems as concrete scientific models, develop and deploy production-grade solutions, and work closely with engineering partners, product owners, and business stakeholders to deliver measurable impact. Because UTR operations are complex and inter-connected (e.g., inbound stow vs. outbound pick), this role requires a strong understanding of these relationships and the ability to make trade-offs at the system level. You will interface directly with non-technical product owners and business leaders, manage expectations, and take an active part in influencing the feature roadmap. Key job responsibilities - Design, develop, and deploy mathematical optimization models (e.g., Mixed Integer Programming, meta-heuristics) to improve outbound picking efficiency, including pick planning and inventory placement. - Build simulation models to evaluate warehouse layout designs, test optimization solutions offline, and answer strategic what-if questions. - Formulate complex, ambiguous business problems into well-defined scientific solutions with clear objectives and constraints. - Collaborate with engineering teams to productionize models, establish data pipelines, and create scalable architectures. - Track solution performance post-deployment, identify issues through deep dives, and iteratively improve model quality. - Communicate technical concepts clearly to diverse stakeholders — scientists, engineers, product managers, and business leaders — through documentation, presentations, and design reviews. - Author peer-reviewed research papers on developed models and contribute to the internal scientific community.
  • US, CA, Sunnyvale
    Job ID: 10457221
    (Updated 18 days ago)
    Amazon Music is an immersive audio entertainment service that deepens connections between fans, artists, and creators. From personalized music playlists to exclusive podcasts, concert livestreams to artist merch, Amazon Music is innovating at some of the most exciting intersections of music and culture. We offer experiences that serve all listeners with our different tiers of service: Prime members get access to all the music in shuffle mode, and top ad-free podcasts, included with their membership; customers can upgrade to Amazon Music Unlimited for unlimited, on-demand access to 100 million songs, including millions in HD, Ultra HD, and spatial audio; and anyone can listen for free by downloading the Amazon Music app or via Alexa-enabled devices. Join us for the opportunity to influence how Amazon Music engages fans, artists, and creators on a global scale. Amazon Music Search Science team is seeking an experienced Applied Scientist who will join a team of experts in the field of machine learning, and work together to break new ground in the world of understanding and classifying different forms of music, and creating interactive experiences to help users find the music they are in the mood for. We work on machine learning problems for music classification, recommender systems, dialogue systems, NLP, and music information retrieval. You'll work in a collaborative environment where you can pursue applied research, with many peta-bytes of data, work on problems that haven’t been solved before, quickly implement and deploy your algorithmic ideas at scale, understand whether they succeed via statistically relevant experiments across millions of customers, and publish your research. You'll see the work you do directly improve the experience of Amazon Music customers on Alexa/Echo, mobile, and web. Key job responsibilities - Use machine learning, deep learning, LLMs and Agentic AI techniques to create scalable solutions for business problems - Analyze and extract relevant information from large amounts of Amazon's data to help automate and optimize key processes - Design, development and evaluation of AI models for predictive learning - Work closely with software engineering teams to drive model implementations and new feature creations - Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large scale data analyses, model development, model validation and model implementation - Research and implement novel machine learning and statistical approaches About the team Everyone on our team has a meaningful impact on product features, new directions in music streaming, and customer engagement. We are looking for new team members across a variety of job functions including software engineering/development, marketing, design, ops and more. Come join us as we make history by launching exciting new projects in the coming year.Our team is focused on building a personalized, curated, and seamless music experience. We want to help our customers discover up-and-coming artists, while also having access to their favorite established musicians. We build systems that are distributed on a large scale, spanning our music apps, web player, and voice-forward audio engagement on mobile and Amazon Echo devices, powered by Alexa to support our customer base. Amazon Music offerings are available in countries around the world, and our applications support our mission of delivering music to customers in new and exciting ways that enhance their day-to-day lives.
  • US, CA, Sunnyvale
    Job ID: 10457219
    (Updated 18 days ago)
    Amazon Music is an immersive audio entertainment service that deepens connections between fans, artists, and creators. From personalized music playlists to exclusive podcasts, concert livestreams to artist merch, Amazon Music is innovating at some of the most exciting intersections of music and culture. We offer experiences that serve all listeners with our different tiers of service: Prime members get access to all the music in shuffle mode, and top ad-free podcasts, included with their membership; customers can upgrade to Amazon Music Unlimited for unlimited, on-demand access to 100 million songs, including millions in HD, Ultra HD, and spatial audio; and anyone can listen for free by downloading the Amazon Music app or via Alexa-enabled devices. Join us for the opportunity to influence how Amazon Music engages fans, artists, and creators on a global scale. Amazon Music Search Science team is seeking an experienced Applied Scientist who will join a team of experts in the field of machine learning, and work together to break new ground in the world of understanding and classifying different forms of music, and creating interactive experiences to help users find the music they are in the mood for. We work on machine learning problems for music classification, recommender systems, dialogue systems, NLP, and music information retrieval. You'll work in a collaborative environment where you can pursue applied research, with many peta-bytes of data, work on problems that haven’t been solved before, quickly implement and deploy your algorithmic ideas at scale, understand whether they succeed via statistically relevant experiments across millions of customers, and publish your research. You'll see the work you do directly improve the experience of Amazon Music customers on Alexa/Echo, mobile, and web. Key job responsibilities - Use machine learning, deep learning, LLMs and Agentic AI techniques to create scalable solutions for business problems - Analyze and extract relevant information from large amounts of Amazon's data to help automate and optimize key processes - Design, development and evaluation of AI models for predictive learning - Work closely with software engineering teams to drive model implementations and new feature creations - Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large scale data analyses, model development, model validation and model implementation - Research and implement novel machine learning and statistical approaches About the team Everyone on our team has a meaningful impact on product features, new directions in music streaming, and customer engagement. We are looking for new team members across a variety of job functions including software engineering/development, marketing, design, ops and more. Come join us as we make history by launching exciting new projects in the coming year.Our team is focused on building a personalized, curated, and seamless music experience. We want to help our customers discover up-and-coming artists, while also having access to their favorite established musicians. We build systems that are distributed on a large scale, spanning our music apps, web player, and voice-forward audio engagement on mobile and Amazon Echo devices, powered by Alexa to support our customer base. Amazon Music offerings are available in countries around the world, and our applications support our mission of delivering music to customers in new and exciting ways that enhance their day-to-day lives.

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