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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, CA, San Francisco
    Job ID: 10443975
    (Updated 13 days ago)
    Employer: Amazon Web Services, Inc. Position: Data Scientist II - AMZ27351.1 Location: San Francisco, CA Multiple Positions Available: Design and implement scalable and reliable approaches 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 solution approach is unclear. Acquire data by building the necessary SQL / ETL queries. Import processes through various company specific interfaces for accessing Oracle, RedShift, and Spark storage systems. Build relationships with stakeholders and counterparts. Analyze data for trends and input validity by inspecting univariate distributions, exploring bivariate relationships, constructing appropriate transformations, and tracking down the source and meaning of anomalies. Build models using statistical modeling, mathematical modeling, econometric modeling, network modeling, social network modeling, natural language processing, machine learning algorithms, genetic algorithms, and neural networks. 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. (40 hours / week, 8:00am-5:00pm, Salary Range $175425 - $212800) Amazon.com is an Equal Opportunity – Affirmative Action Employer – Minority / Female / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 10444800
    (Updated 14 days ago)
    Amazon Seller Assistant is our flagship GenAI-first, multi-agent system that reimagines Seller experience. Our vision is to provide each seller with a proactive, autonomous, agentic assistant that understands their business and helps them navigate the complexities of selling by anticipating their needs, surfacing insights, resolving issues, taking actions on their behalf, and helping them grow. Amazon Seller Assistant helps millions of sellers on Amazon serve billions of customers worldwide. We are seeking a world-class Senior Data Scientist to help define and build the next generation of Amazon Seller Assistant. You will partner with top-tier scientist, engineers and product teams to launch production-grade agentic capabilities at Amazon's scale — owning your problem space end-to-end, from a crisp customer insight to a shipped product that millions of sellers rely on. Key job responsibilities • Own the science vision, strategy, and roadmap for a key Seller Assistant capability area. • Define and ship agentic experiences — sub-agent onboarding, tool onboarding, evaluations— that solve hard seller problems at scale. • Partner with scientists and engineers to translate frontier AI research into production-grade features sellers trust and depend on. • Design rigorous evaluation frameworks — automated and human-in-the-loop — to measure agent quality, accuracy, and business impact. • Deep-dive into seller data, identify unmet needs, and write compelling PRFAQs that set the direction for your team. • Drive cross-functional alignment across science, engineering, UX, and business teams to deliver with speed and quality. About the team Amazon Seller Assistant team operates at the very frontier of agentic AI and agentic commerce — not as a research group, but as a team shipping production-grade, multi-agent systems used by millions of sellers worldwide. We move with the urgency of a startup and the resources of the world's most customer-obsessed company, the latest breakthroughs in science and engineering into capabilities that sellers rely on every day.
  • (Updated 17 days ago)
    Join the AWS Perimeter Protection team as a Senior Applied Scientist, where you will bring your deep ML engineering expertise to design, build, and scale AI-driven security solutions that protect AWS customers worldwide. This role is ideal for someone who has already built and shipped production ML systems at industry scale and is looking to apply that experience to high-impact security challenges. You will own the full ML lifecycle — from research and prototyping to production deployment and optimization — powering services including Web Application Firewall, DDoS Protection, Bot Management, and Infrastructure Protection. With services spanning all AWS regions and handling trillions of requests per week, you will solve complex engineering and science problems where model performance, system reliability, and low-latency inference are critical. Key job responsibilities - Develop and implement advanced AI/ML models and algorithms to enhance the capabilities of our security services, enabling proactive threat detection, mitigation, and protection against evolving cyber threats. - Collaborate with security engineers and researchers, to understand business/domain requirements, analyze data patterns, and translate insights into actionable solutions. - Design and drive implementation of data pipelines and ETL processes to ingest, process, and analyze large-scale security data from multiple sources, ensuring data quality and integrity. - Conduct in-depth data analysis, feature engineering, and model evaluation to continuously improve the performance and accuracy of AI/ML-based security solutions. - Participate in the development and deployment of AI/ML models into production environments, ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance at cloud scale. - Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration of AI/ML solutions with our security services and infrastructure. - Contribute to the development of best practices, documentation, and knowledge-sharing within the team and the broader organization. - Engage in research and exploration of emerging technologies and techniques relevant to AI/ML-based security solutions, stay up-to-date with the latest trends cybersecurity, and incorporate new techniques and methodologies into our security offerings.
  • US, NY, New York
    Job ID: 10443991
    (Updated 26 days ago)
    MULTIPLE POSITIONS AVAILABLE Employer: Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. Offered Position: Applied Scientist III - AMZ007408 Job Location: New York, NY Position Responsibilities: Participate in the design, development, evaluation, deployment, and updating of formal reasoning systems for security, privacy, and data protection applications. Drive technical and scientific innovation in security automation, data protection, and privacy-preserving technologies, with a focus on developing scalable solutions for cloud environments. Develop and/or apply formal verification techniques and automated theorem proving methods for different applications in cloud security and privacy. Collaborate with internal and external users to understand requirements and enhance formal verification and automated reasoning capabilities. Lead research and development efforts in AI security, specifically evaluate emerging threats and opportunities, including securing Generative AI systems and designing robust safeguards. Proactively identify and explore new opportunities for deploying and leveraging formal reasoning solutions across various domains.
  • (Updated 26 days ago)
    The AOP (Analytics Operations and Programs) team is responsible for creating core analytics, insight generation and science capabilities for ROW Ops. We develop scalable analytics applications, AI/ML products and research models to optimize operation processes. You will work with Product Managers, Data Engineers, Data Scientists, Research Scientists, Applied Scientists and Business Intelligence Engineers using rigorous quantitative approaches to ensure high quality data/science products for our customers around the world. As a Data Scientist, you will play a crucial role in supporting the team by creating and maintaining the data infrastructure necessary for the advanced analytics and machine learning solutions. Our team solves a broad range of problems that can be scaled across ROW (Rest of the World including countries like India, Australia, Singapore, MENA and LATAM). Here is a glimpse of the problems that this team deals with on a regular basis: • Using live package and truck signals to adjust truck capacities in real-time • HOTW models for Last Mile Channel Allocation • Using LLMs to automate analytical processes and insight generation • Ops research to optimize middle mile truck routes • Working with global partner science teams to affect Reinforcement Learning based pricing models and estimating Shipments Per Route for $MM savings • Deep Learning models to synthesize attributes of addresses • Abuse detection models to reduce network losses Key job responsibilities 1. AI Agent development for data analytics. 2. Analyze data with statistical and ML techniques. 3. Develop analysis/model in scripting languages (e.g. Python, R) and statistical/mathematical software (e.g. SAS, Matlab, etc.). 4. Develop science-based Supply Chain solutions. 5. Analysis/model documentation. 6. Learn and understand state-of-the-art statistical and ML techniques/tools. 7. Learn and understand Amazon Supply Chain operations.
  • (Updated 32 days ago)
    Amazon is looking for talented Postdoctoral Scientists to join our research team for a full-time research position focused on visual localization and navigation for real-world applications. Our work focuses on developing next-generation assistive technologies and logistics platforms that rely on robust, scalable visual perception systems. We are building solutions that enable devices and agents to understand, localize within, and navigate complex real-world environments—from indoor spaces with dynamic layouts to large-scale outdoor settings. We are looking for Postdoctoral Scientists to work at the intersection of computer vision, SLAM, and scene understanding—supporting innovations that will be deployed to real systems at global scale. The core technical challenges include building metric-semantic maps of complex environments, performing robust visual relocalization under appearance change, maintaining long-term map consistency, and achieving accurate monocular localization using both geometric and learning-based approaches—all under real-time constraints on real hardware. The solution space is deliberately open-ended. We are looking for researchers who want to push the boundaries of visual localization and spatial AI—and see their work running on real platforms within months. Key job responsibilities In this role you will: * Work closely with a senior science advisor, collaborate with other scientists and engineers, and be part of Amazon’s vibrant and diverse global science community. * Publish your innovation in top-tier academic venues and hone your presentation skills. * Be inspired by challenges and opportunities to invent cutting-edge techniques in your area(s) of expertise. A day in the life 0
  • US, CA, San Francisco
    Job ID: 10443615
    (Updated 34 days ago)
    Join the next revolution in robotics at Amazon's Frontier AI & Robotics team, where you'll work alongside world-renowned AI pioneers to lead key initiatives in robotic intelligence. As a Member of Technical Staff, you'll spearhead the development of breakthrough foundation models that enable robots to perceive, understand, and interact with the world in unprecedented ways. You'll drive technical excellence in areas such as perception, manipulation, science understanding, sim2real transfer, multi-modal foundation models, and multi-task learning, designing novel algorithms that bridge the gap between state-of-the-art research and real-world deployment at Amazon scale. In this role, you'll combine hands-on technical work with scientific leadership, ensuring your team delivers robust solutions for dynamic real-world environments. You'll leverage Amazon's vast computational resources to tackle ambitious problems in areas like very large multi-modal robotic foundation models and efficient, promptable model architectures that can scale across diverse robotic applications. Key job responsibilities - Lead technical initiatives in robotics foundation models, driving breakthrough approaches through hands-on research and development in areas like open-vocabulary panoptic scene understanding, scaling up multi-modal LLMs, sim2real/real2sim techniques, end-to-end vision-language-action models, efficient model inference, video tokenization - Design and implement novel deep learning architectures that push the boundaries of what robots can understand and accomplish - Guide technical direction for specific research initiatives, ensuring robust performance in production environments - Mentor and support fellow scientists while maintaining strong individual technical contributions - Collaborate with engineering teams to optimize and scale models for real-world applications - Influence technical decisions and implementation strategies within your area of focus A day in the life - Develop and implement novel foundation model architectures, working hands-on with our extensive compute infrastructure - Guide and support fellow scientists in solving complex technical challenges, from sim2real transfer to efficient multi-task learning - Lead focused technical initiatives from conception through deployment, ensuring successful integration with production systems - Drive technical discussions within your team and with key stakeholders - Conduct experiments and prototype new ideas using our massive compute cluster - Mentor team members while maintaining significant hands-on contribution to technical solutions Amazon offers a full range of benefits that support you and eligible family members, including domestic partners and their children. Benefits can vary by location, the number of regularly scheduled hours you work, length of employment, and job status such as seasonal or temporary employment. The benefits that generally apply to regular, full-time employees include: 1. Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage 2. Maternity and Parental Leave Options 3. Paid Time Off (PTO) 4. 401(k) Plan If you are not sure that every qualification on the list above describes you exactly, we'd still love to hear from you! At Amazon, we value people with unique backgrounds, experiences, and skillsets. If you’re passionate about this role and want to make an impact on a global scale, please apply! About the team At Frontier AI & Robotics, we're not just advancing robotics – we're reimagining it from the ground up. Our team is building the future of intelligent robotics through ground breaking foundation models and end-to-end learned systems. We tackle some of the most challenging problems in AI and robotics, from developing sophisticated perception systems to creating adaptive manipulation strategies that work in complex, real-world scenarios. What sets us apart is our unique combination of ambitious research vision and practical impact. We leverage Amazon's massive computational infrastructure and rich real-world datasets to train and deploy state-of-the-art foundation models. Our work spans the full spectrum of robotics intelligence – from multimodal perception using images, videos, and sensor data, to sophisticated manipulation strategies that can handle diverse real-world scenarios. We're building systems that don't just work in the lab, but scale to meet the demands of Amazon's global operations. Join us if you're excited about pushing the boundaries of what's possible in robotics, working with world-class researchers, and seeing your innovations deployed at unprecedented scale.
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 10452322
    (Updated 18 days ago)
    The Amazon Search team's vision is to deliver high quality search results regardless of how customers phrase their search queries. Keyword-based search breaks down when confronted with natural language expressions. Queries like "I have ants in my house," "headphones comparable to Bose," "breakfast foods for someone avoiding sugar," and "scratch resistant flooring for dogs that looks like real wood" require world knowledge, common-sense reasoning, and sophisticated language understanding that customers increasingly expect. Core Search team is reimagining search architecture using Large Language Models (LLMs): a new LLM stack that already powers Amazon Search, Alexa+, Alexa for Shopping, Help Me Decide, Interests AI, confidential initiatives, and a growing portfolio of Amazon experiences across Stores and Devices. We build this stack as a primitive to supercharge a new generation of natural-language experiences across Amazon. We are hiring an Applied Scientist to push the science behind this stack: the reasoning LLMs, embedding models, cross-encoder rankers, and multi-objective optimization systems that turn billions of products into the right answer for hundreds of millions of customers. The role spans the full model lifecycle, from mid-training reasoning models on shopping data to aligning the models with customers on the dimensions that matter for shopping: helpfulness, trust, and faithfulness. You will build with us a natural language AI interface to billions of products, for all Amazon customers. Key job responsibilities As an Applied Scientist on the team, you will lead science innovation across multiple problems and surfaces. You will: - Develop personalized multi-modal thinking-LLM techniques that reason about customers, queries, and products. - Mid-train and post-train large language models on shopping data: domain-adaptive continued pre-training, ireinforcement learning shopping reasoning traces, and instruction tuning for natural-language shopping queries. - Align models with customer interests on the dimensions such as helpfulness, harmlessness, and faithfulness. Apply Reinforcement Learning (RLVR, RLHF), Direct Preference Optimization (DPO), and customer-behavior-derived reward models. - Create semantic representations of products, customers, and context (bi-encoder embeddings, contrastive learning, hard-negative mining, cross-lingual training). - Develop cross-attentive LLM rankers that score candidate products against rich query intent and complex constraints. - Train multi-objective ranking and optimization systems that balance relevance, purchasability, and personalization. - Drive improvements on offline benchmarks as well as online experiments. About the team Core Search builds the next-generation LLM-powered retrieval and ranking stack for Amazon. We own the stack end-to-end including LLM models, personalization, multi-turn natural-language refinements, routing, the experimentation service, and the partner-facing primitive that other Amazon teams build on top of. The team is highly motivated, collaborative, technically deep, and runs with strong executive sponsorship and strategic visibility. In this role, you will define program strategy, prioritize investments, and shape how AI-driven natural-language search experiences ship across all devices, globally.
  • (Updated 7 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, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 10459535
    (Updated 14 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.

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