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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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  • (Updated 18 days ago)
    We are seeking Applied and Research Scientists to join the Safe Autonomy Frontiers (SAF) Lab. In this role, you will develop and deploy the science of safe autonomy on highly dynamic robots, advancing the frontier through both foundational research and realization on hardware. You will contribute to achieving safe autonomy across three key areas: control barrier function (CBF) theory for robust and performant safety on hardware; safe reinforcement learning for agile whole-body control; and layered safety filters that interface with learning, perception, and semantic reasoning systems. You will validate your work experimentally on state-of-the-art robotic platforms — removing bottlenecks to deployment and enabling robots to safely operate around humans. You will work with the inventor of CBFs, as well as top scientists and engineers at Amazon developing the next generation of safe autonomy. Key job responsibilities -Advance the science of safe autonomy from formal foundations to the integration with learning and perception to validation on hardware — with particular emphasis on methods that bridge these domains. -Test and validate hardware, with a focus on next generation robotic systems. Including locomotion, manipulation and loco-manipulation. -Leverage the deployments on hardware to validate the underlying science, identifying gaps between theory and practice that drive the next cycle of research. hardware to validate the underlying science, identifying gaps between theory and practice that drive the next cycle of research. -Publish research at top-tier robotics, control, and ML venues, and contribute to Amazon’s scientific reputation in advanced robotics. -Collaborate with SAF Lab and Amazon production teams to move research into robots deployed at Amazon scale. A day in the life 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: -Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage -Maternity and Parental Leave Options -Paid Time Off (PTO) -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 The Safe Autonomy Frontiers (SAF) Lab is the first industry research lab dedicated to safe autonomy, founded by the inventor of control barrier functions. We are developing a universal safety layer for the next generation of robotic systems: mobile robots, manipulators, quadrupeds, and humanoids. Here you will advance performant safety for highly dynamic robots — CBF theory integrated with perception and learning, evaluated on next-generation platforms — and your work will underpin robots operating alongside people at Amazon’s unprecedented scale.
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 10571881
    (Updated 16 days ago)
    Do you want to shape the next generation of AI-driven customer experiences for Amazon’s most ground-breaking products? Join us and help invent the future of shopping. We are seeking a passionate, innovative, and highly skilled Applied Scientist with expertise in AI, Agentic LLMs, Generative AI, Machine Learning, and NLP to help build LLM-powered solutions for Amazon’s BuyForMe product, which enables Amazon customers to discover and purchase products from any merchants through browser use agents. Our team develops science and agentic AI capabilities that power a seamless, end-to-end shopping experience for Amazon customers. We build and advance technologies such as web agent frameworks, LLM fine-tuning, reinforcement learning, context engineering, RAG, MCP, and automated benchmarking to improve pre-purchase, in-purchase, and post-purchase workflows. Key job responsibilities As an Applied Scientist on our team, you will: Invent, implement, and evaluate state-of-the-art models and agentic systems that directly impact customer experience. Conduct research that may lead to publications, patents, or cross-Amazon technical influence. Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and other scientists to translate business challenges into scalable science solutions. Run experiments with real customer data and validate hypotheses in a high-impact product environment. Drive excellence in model performance, safety, reliability, and evaluation frameworks.
  • (Updated 31 days ago)
    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 who are passionate about making a meaningful impact on communities and the environment while helping shape the future of sustainable business practices. The Worldwide Sustainability (WWS) organization capitalizes on Amazon's scale and speed to build a more resilient and sustainable company. We manage our social and environmental impacts globally and drive solutions that enable our customers, businesses, and the world to become more sustainable. Through innovative programs and strategic partnerships, we're creating lasting positive change in the communities where we operate while advancing Amazon's commitment to environmental stewardship and social responsibility. We are looking for a robotics scientist to build and operate the first autonomous materials discovery laboratory at Amazon. This role combines deep robotics expertise (motion planning, control, platform integration) with modern Physical AI approaches (vision-language-action models, sim-to-real transfer, agentic orchestration). You will design autonomous experimental workflows that integrate dexterous robotic platforms, analytical instruments, and AI-driven hypothesis generation into a closed-loop discovery pipeline — where foundation models drive hypothesis generation and experimental planning, validated on real hardware under real chemistry. This is not a pure research role. You will work directly with physical robots, laboratory instruments, and deployment pipelines. The work is expected to be published, but the primary measure of success is a working autonomous platform that generates scientific results. Materials science expertise is not required — the team includes domain scientists. What matters is strong AI and robotics foundations, scientific curiosity, and the drive to ship. Key job responsibilities - Develop, train, and benchmark robotic manipulation policies for materials synthesis and characterization using modern policy architectures (VLA architectures, diffusion policies). - Design and execute sim-to-real transfer strategies including domain randomization, physics parameter tuning, and visual domain adaptation for laboratory robotic systems. - Integrate robotic platforms and laboratory instruments into automated workflows via APIs (SiLA 2, or equivalent), building real-time data pipelines for multimodal experimental outputs. - Architect policy training pipelines combining teleoperation data, synthetic demonstrations, reinforcement learning, and imitation learning for dexterous lab manipulation. - Build production-grade agentic runtime systems — failure detection, retry logic, exception handling, and human-handoff protocols — for unattended experimental sessions. - Design and execute autonomous experimental campaigns applying active learning, Bayesian optimization, or RL to drive iterative materials discovery. - Drive technical design reviews and set scientific direction for the autonomous lab platform. A day in the life You build the Physical AI systems that power robotics in autonomous science lab, one where foundation models generate hypotheses, robots execute experiments, and closed-loop optimization discovers materials that did not exist yesterday. You train manipulation policies in simulation, transfer them to a physical cobot, and watch real chemistry validate (or invalidate) an AI-generated theory. The signal here is not a metric on a dashboard; it is a synthesizing and testing novel material with measurable sustainability impact. If you want your research to have physical weight, this is the lab. About the team Sustainability Science and Innovation (SSI) is a multi-disciplinary research team within WW Sustainability combining science, ML, economics, and engineering. The autonomous laboratory is a new capability being built from the ground up. You will work alongside computational materials scientists, chemists, and ML engineers — with access to AWS-scale compute and Amazon's supply chain for hardware. The work targets sustainability outcomes across packaging, building materials, and alternative fuels.
  • US, CA, Sunnyvale
    Job ID: 10556575
    (Updated 24 days ago)
    We are seeking Data Scientist II with strong science application skills to join our Device Economics team. This role will focus primarily on Amazon's innovative devices and services (e.g. Echo Family of Devices), working at the intersection of economic modeling, forecasting science, and business strategy. The ideal candidate will be responsible for pre-launch forecasts, annualized overall forecasts, identifying substitution patterns, and partnering closely with product managers and marketing managers to understand the evolution of the Devices portfolio. Key job responsibilities Forecasting & Modeling 1. Develop and maintain pre-launch forecasts and annualized overall forecasts for Amazon Devices 2. Identify and model substitution patterns across the device portfolio 3. Build economic and financial models to support demand planning and business decisions 4. Formulate relevant analytical frameworks to address key economic issues in device forecasting Science Communication & Collaboration 1. Explain complex science models and methodologies to non-technical stakeholders including product managers and marketing managers 2. Collaborate with economists, data scientists, and applied scientists across Decision Science 3. Present results of analyses to cross-functional teams and leadership 4. Build trust in science models and forecast outputs with product teams Innovation & Strategic Thinking 1. Think creatively about ways that leading-edge analytics and emerging data sources can address Devices' most pressing business challenges 2. Help internal teams leverage analytic tools to better manage innovation 3. Conduct empirical studies and perform quantitative and qualitative research 4. Identify opportunities to improve forecasting accuracy and business impact Cross-Functional Partnership 1. Work closely with product managers and marketing managers to understand portfolio evolution and business strategy 2. Support DSO leadership in quarterly business reviews and strategic planning A day in the life Your days will be split between refining and building models and working with business leaders to interpret them. You own science-based forecasts that can directly impact Amazon's bottom line on the order of multi-million dollar decisions. - You will perform model refreshes or updates to analyses as needed; and, - You will be expected to develop new techniques to process large data sets, address quantitative problems, and contribute to design of automated systems. About the team The Decision Science team within DSO (Device Supply Organization) is responsible for forecasting and demand planning initiatives across Amazon Devices. The DSO team of 300+ engineers, scientists, and PMs applies quantitative methods and data-driven approaches to replace judgment-based decisions with science-driven forecasts. Decision Science focuses on lifetime demand forecasting using econometric and machine learning models for rapid reforecasting, mix adjustments, and portfolio management for new product launches. We also inform to go/no-go investment decision for new product initiatives
  • (Updated 29 days ago)
    Have you ever wondered how Amazon predicts when your order will arrive and how we ensure that it actually arrives on at the promised date/time? Have you wondered where all those Amazon semi-trucks on the road are headed? Are you passionate about increasing efficiency and reducing carbon footprint? Does the idea of having worldwide impact on Amazon's logistics network including our planes, trucks, and vans sound exciting to you? If so, then we want to talk with you! At Amazon's Supply Chain Optimization Technologies (SCOT), we are tasked with optimizing the fulfilment on customer orders so that we fulfil all orders worldwide in the most intelligent manner while ensuring Amazon customers get their orders on time. Amazon Fulfillment Planning & Execution (FPX) Science team within SCOT- Fulfilment Optimization group is seeking a Senior Applied Scientist with expertise in Optimization and a proven record of solving business problems through scalable Optimization solutions. FPX Science tackles some of the most mathematically complex challenges in transportation planning and execution space to improve Amazon's operational efficiency worldwide. We own Amazon’s global fulfilment planning and execution. The team also owns the short and mid-term-term network planning and execution that determines the optimal flow of customer orders through Amazon fulfilment network. This includes developing sophisticated math models that assign orders to fulfilment centres to be picked and packed and then planning the optimal ship method in terms of cost, speed and carbon impact to deliver to the customer. These plans drive downstream decisions that are in the billions of dollars at Amazon Scale worldwide! The systems we build are entirely in-house, and are on the forefront of both academic and applied research in large scale supply chain planning, optimization, machine learning and statistics. These systems operate at various scales, from real-time decision system that completes thousands of transactions per seconds, to large scale distributed system that optimize Amazon’s fulfilment network. Your tech solution will have large impacts to the physical supply chain of Amazon, and play a key role in improving Amazon consumer business’s long-term profitability. If you are interested in diving into a multi-discipline, high impact space this is the team for you. We’re looking for a passionate, results-oriented, and inventive Senior Applied Scientist who can create and improve optimization models for our outbound transportation planning and execution systems. In addition, you will be working on design, development and evaluation of highly innovative Optimization models for solving complex business problems in the area of outbound transportation planning systems. Watch http://bit.ly/amazon-scot to get the big picture. Key job responsibilities As a Senior Applied Scientist, you will propose and deploy solutions that will likely draw from a range of scientific areas such as Optimization, machine learning, advanced statistical modeling, and graph models. You will be on the forefront of supply chain thought leadership by working on some of the most difficult problems in the industry, with some of the best product managers, research scientists, statisticians, and software engineers to integrate scientific work into production systems. You will bring deep technical expertise in the area of Mathematical Optimization, and play an integral part in building Amazon's Fulfillment Optimization systems. Other responsibilities include: * Design, development and evaluation of highly innovative Math models for solving complex business problems. * Research and apply the latest Optimization techniques and best practices from both academia and industry. * Think about customers and how to improve the customer delivery experience. * Use and analytical techniques to create scalable solutions for business problems. * Work closely with software engineering teams to build model implementations and integrate successful models and algorithms in production systems at very large scale. * Technically lead and mentor other scientists in team. * Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large scale data analyses, model development, model validation and model implementation. A day in the life This is a great role for someone who likes to learn new things. You will have the opportunity to learn all about how Amazon plans for and executes within its logistics network including Fulfillment Centres, Air Stations, Sort Centres, Delivery Stations, and more. You will need to meet with many internal customers to understand their business and their challenges as you develop an effective solution to enable us to collectively scale. Our leadership is very interested in this effort so you will find lots of opportunities to get your ideas and plans in front of them for evaluation and alignment. We are seeking someone who wants to lead projects that require innovative thinking and deep technical problem-solving skills to create production-ready mathematical optimization solutions. A successful candidate is able to quickly approach large ambiguous problems, turn high-level business requirements into mathematical models, identify the right solution approach, and contribute to the software development for production systems. Successful candidates must thrive in fast-paced environments, which encourage collaborative and creative problem solving, be able to measure and estimate risks, constructively critique peer research, and align research focuses with the Amazon's strategic needs. We look for individuals who know how to deliver results and show a desire to develop themselves, their colleagues, and their career. About the team Fulfillment Planning & Execution Science team contains a group of scientists with different technical backgrounds including Operations Research and Machine Learning who will collaborate closely with you on your projects. Our team directly supports critical functional areas across Fulfillment Optimization and the research needs of the corresponding product and engineering teams. We tackle some of the most mathematically complex challenges in facility and transportation planning and execution to improve Amazon's operational efficiency worldwide and at a scale that is unique to Amazon. We often seek the opportunity of applying hybrid techniques in the space of Operations Research and Machine Learning to tackle some of our biggest technical challenges. We disambiguate complex supply chain problems and create solutions to solve those problems at scale.
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 10560713
    (Updated 24 days ago)
    AWS Billing requires a Scientist with a proven track record in time-series based anomaly detection. During the billing process there are many unknown-unknowns and detecting these are vital for ensuring an accurate bill. Key job responsibilities You will work closely with the usage metering and bill computation teams to build anomaly detectors that can find issues in usage and invoices. You will build production models that will be the cornerstone of our efforts to ensure accurate bills. About the team We are a small science team that work on high-impact projects in AWS Billing. Our work is foundational for Billing's accuracy goals. We publish our results in top conferences and play an active role in academia.
  • IN, KA, Bengaluru
    Job ID: 10562883
    (Updated 18 days ago)
    The Amazon Smart Vehicles (ASV) science team is seeking a passionate and skilled Applied Scientist with extensive expertise in advanced LLM technologies. This role involves innovating in rapidly evolving areas of AI research, focusing on creating personalized services to enhance drivers' and passengers' experiences. Your work will aim to simplify their lives, keep them informed, entertained, productive, and safe on the road, with direct application to prominent Amazon products. If you have extensive expertise in LLMs, natural language processing, and machine learning, along with experience in high-performing research teams, this could be the perfect opportunity for you. Our dynamic and fast-paced environment demands a high level of independence in decision-making and the ability to drive ambitious research initiatives through to production. You will collaborate closely with other science and engineering teams, as well as business stakeholders, to ensure your contributions are both impactful and delivered with maximum efficiency. Key job responsibilities - Leverage Amazon’s heterogeneous data sources and large-scale computing resources to accelerate advances in generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) - Work with talented peers to lead the development of novel algorithms and modeling techniques to advance the state of the art with LLMs - Collaborate with other science and engineering teams as well as business stakeholders to maximize the velocity and impact of your contributions About the team This is an exciting moment to lead in AI research and application. As part of the Amazon Smart Vehicles science team, you have the opportunity to shape the future by enhancing information-driven experiences for Amazon customers around the globe. Your work will directly influence customers through innovative products and services powered by language and multimodal technology!
  • (Updated 2 days ago)
    Join us in the evolution of Amazon’s Seller business! The Selling Partner Selection Success organization is the growth and development engine for our Store. Partnering with business, product, and engineering, we catalyze SP selection growth with comprehensive and accurate data, unique insights, and actionable recommendations and collaborate with WW SP facing teams to drive adoption and create feedback loops. We strongly believe that any motivated SP should be able to grow their businesses and reach their full potential supported by Amazon tools and resources. We are looking for a Applied Scientist II to work on our growth agent vision on seller recommendation to improve our SP growth strategy and drive new seller success. As a successful Applied Scientist on our talented team of applied scientists and economists, you will leverage the latest scientific methods, including statistics, machine learning, deep learning and GenAI technology to solve complex problems, and collaborate with engineering, research, and business teams to deliver optimized experience (AI infused products, agentic experiences) on behalf of our sellers. You need to have deep understanding on the business domain and have the ability to connect business with science. You are also strong in AI/ML/GenAI technology and scientific foundation with the ability to collaborate with engineering to put models in production to answer specific business questions. You are an expert at synthesizing and communicating insights and recommendations to audiences of varying levels of technical sophistication. You will continue to contribute to the research community, by working with scientists across Amazon, as well as collaborating with academic researchers and publishing papers (www.aboutamazon.com/research). Key job responsibilities As an Applied Scientist II in the team, you will: - Identify opportunities to improve SP growth and translate those opportunities into science problems via principled GenAI solutions . - Design and execute roadmaps for complex science projects to help SP have a delightful selling experience while creating long term value for our shoppers. - Work with our engineering partners and draw upon your experience to meet latency and other system constraints. - Be responsible for communicating our science innovations to the broader internal & external scientific community.
  • (Updated 16 days ago)
    The Cross-Border (XB) Science & Analytics team is at the heart of Amazon's international marketplace expansion, powering science-driven solutions that enable customers across 20+ countries to discover and purchase products seamlessly across borders. Our work directly impacts millions in annualized business value through ML models, algorithms, and data-driven systems that solve some of Amazon's most complex cross-border challenges. We are a lean, high-impact team of scientists working across various programs spanning search ranking, demand forecasting, pricing optimization, product recommendations, language understanding, and generative AI. We partner closely with product, engineering, and business teams across Amazon's global retail organization to take science from ideation to production at scale. Key job responsibilities We are looking for a passionate and technically strong Applied Scientist to join our team. In this role, you will design, develop, and deploy machine learning models and algorithms that directly improve the cross-border shopping experience for millions of Amazon customers worldwide. You will work on challenging, ambiguous problems—from improving search relevance across languages to building ML-powered pricing and recommendation systems—with significant autonomy and end-to-end ownership. This is a hands-on, high-visibility role. You will publish your research internally and externally, collaborate with world-class scientists and engineers, and see your work go live across Amazon's global marketplaces. A day in the life Research & Experimentation Analyze large-scale datasets to identify patterns, formulate hypotheses, and design experiments Develop and iterate on ML models (deep learning, NLP, ranking, causal inference) to improve cross-border product discovery, relevance, and conversion Design and run A/B experiments on live traffic to measure model impact against business and customer metrics Building & Shipping Write production-quality code (Python, Java/Scala) and work with SDEs to deploy models into real-time and batch inference pipelines Build end-to-end ML pipelines—from data ingestion and feature engineering to training, evaluation, and online serving Own model monitoring, performance debugging, and iterative improvements post-launch Collaboration & Communication Participate in weekly science syncs, design reviews, and cross-functional standups with product managers, engineers, and business stakeholders Translate business problems into well-defined science problems, and communicate results and trade-offs to both technical and non-technical audiences Contribute to technical documentation—architecture wikis, experiment write-ups, and model cards Growth & Community Present at internal ML paper reading sessions and science forums Stay current with state-of-the-art research (NeurIPS, ICLR, ACL, KDD) and bring new ideas to the team Mentor junior scientists and interns; participate in hiring interviews and debriefs Publish findings in top-tier venues and file patents where applicable
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 10555696
    (Updated 31 days ago)
    We are Amazon's central Responsible AI team. Our mission is to advance the science and practice of Responsible AI (RAI) to enable Amazon's tens of thousands of builders to build and deploy AI solutions to the high standards that our customers and society expect. As a scientist on this team, you will: - understand in depth the technical and scientific issues related to RAI, including controllability, security, privacy, safety, veracity, robustness, fairness, explainability, transparency, and governance - help define the strategies, priorities and metrics for RAI - solve open problems in RAI to unblock traditional, generative and/or agentic AI use cases and solutions, publishing as appropriate - help develop our team - liase with internal and external stakeholders, including the academic community, on issues related to RAI About the team Diverse Experiences Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying. Why Amazon Security? At Amazon, security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. Our organization is responsible for creating and maintaining a high bar for security across all of Amazon’s products and services. We offer talented security professionals the chance to accelerate their careers with opportunities to build experience in a wide variety of areas including cloud, devices, retail, entertainment, healthcare, operations, and physical stores. Inclusive Team Culture In Amazon Security, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Ongoing DEI events and learning experiences inspire us to continue learning and to embrace our uniqueness. Addressing the toughest security challenges requires that we seek out and celebrate a diversity of ideas, perspectives, and voices. Training & 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, training, and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional. Work/Life Balance We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.

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