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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, VA, Arlington
    Job ID: 10518451
    (Updated 2 days ago)
    Application deadline: Sep 22, 2026 Applied Scientists in AWS Science of Security are dedicated to making AWS the best computing service in the world for customers who require advanced and rigorous solutions for security, privacy, and sovereignty. Key job responsibilities The successful candidate will: * Solve large or significantly complex problems that require deep knowledge and understanding of your domain and scientific innovation. * Own the design, implementation, and delivery for solutions that have a long-term quantifiable impact. *Provide cross-organizational technical influence, increasing productivity and effectiveness by sharing your deep knowledge and experience. * Develop fundamentally new solutions for business problems. A day in the life This is a unique and rare opportunity to get in early on a fast-growing segment of AWS and help shape the technology, product and the business. You will have a chance to utilize your deep technical experience within a fast moving, start-up environment and make a large business and customer impact. 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.
  • US, CA, Santa Clara
    Job ID: 10522626
    (Updated 2 days ago)
    Applied Scientists in AWS Automated Reasoning develop and apply bleeding-edge formal methods, automated reasoning techniques, and neurosymbolic approaches to ensure the security, reliability, and correctness of Amazon/AWS services and customer applications. Our tools are called billions of times daily, powering the backbone of Amazon's products and services. We are changing the way computer systems are developed and operated, raising the bar for security, durability, availability, and quality. At Amazon, automated reasoning is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. Application areas span cloud infrastructure verification, cryptographic assurance, AI safety, drone safety, and formal guarantees for generative AI systems. Our methods range from interactive theorem proving and constraint solving to neuro-inspired proof search This is a unique opportunity to get in early on a fast-growing segment of the business and help shape the technology, product, and business. You will have a chance to utilize your deep technical expertise within a fast-moving environment and make a large business and customer impact. Key job responsibilities • Design and implement algorithms and formal methods for automated reasoning, including constraint solving, model checking, static analysis, theorem proving, and program synthesis to verify the correctness, security, and reliability of computing systems. • Solve large or significantly complex problems that require deep knowledge and scientific innovation in your domain; own strategic problem solving and take the lead on design, implementation, and delivery of solutions with long-term quantifiable impact. • Develop new decision procedures, heuristics, and search strategies that improve the scalability and accuracy of verification tools; build and deploy production-grade automated reasoning systems at Amazon scale. • Explore and apply generative AI and machine learning techniques to enhance automated reasoning capabilities, including learning-based heuristics for search and optimization, neural approaches to symbolic reasoning, and methods for verifying the correctness of AI-generated code. • Develop automated reasoning techniques for generative AI and agentic coding systems, including methods for ensuring the safety and alignment of autonomous software agents and applying formal guarantees to large language model outputs. • Conduct original research snd publish findings in peer-reviewed venues. • Work with customer teams to understand the nature of their software and the properties they need to establish; identify tools and methods capable of addressing verification needs, including novel analysis capabilities. • Provide cross-organizational technical influence, increasing productivity and effectiveness by sharing deep knowledge and experience; collaborate with partner teams to translate verification capabilities into production systems. • Mentor scientists and engineers on formal methods, neurosymbolic techniques, and best practices for building reliable automated reasoning systems; assist in career development of others.
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    Amazon Advertising is one of Amazon's fastest growing and most profitable businesses, responsible for defining and delivering a collection of advertising products that drive discovery and sales. Our products are strategically important to our businesses driving long term growth. We deliver billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks and break fresh ground in product and technical innovations every day! The Bidding Experimentation and Science Team is responsible for both real-time pricing and ranking decisions on the Amazon RTB (Real-Time Bidding) system as well as our experimentation infrastructure and methodology. As the owners of ranking, we have one of the most important job in the DSP which is to set the bid price on advertising opportunities. Even small incremental improvement is making a huge impact for the company, and we are responsible for developing the next generation of pricing algorithms to drive these improvements. As owners of experimentation, we work closely with not only scientists within our team but also our partners teams to develop new online experiment designs, propose new analysis methodologies to increase the statistical validity and power of our results, and build tools to enable experimenters to rapidly iterate on their ideas. Experimentation is ultimately the engine that drives our decision-making when launching new products and algorithms. The visibility of our team's work is very high and we receive high support from the management and peer teams. These systems are optimizing the price of every individual opportunity on behalf of Amazon Advertising advertisers. You will play a significant role in building and improving our production algorithms, leveraging the latest advances in ML, online optimization, optimal control, forecasting, and causal inference, to name a few. You will construct prototypes to validate your hypotheses, work with engineers to turn these prototypes into production systems, and perform offline analysis and online A/B experimentation. You will also join the Amazon science community, with opportunities to write papers, attend workshops and conferences (internal and external), participate in science events, and obtain early access to Amazon ML technologies. Key job responsibilities In this role, you will work directly with a highly motivated team of ML scientists and engineers who are passionate about applying data science and ML techniques to solve advertiser needs. You will also join the Amazon ML community, with opportunities to write papers, attend workshops and conferences (internal and external), participate in science events, and obtain early access to Amazon ML technologies. As an Applied Scientist II, you will - Be a technical leader in ML, optimization, and causal inference and drive full life-cycle projects within this team and across other teams - Build machine learning models, perform proof-of-concept, experiment, optimize, and deploy your models into production. - Develop algorithms for online optimization and control, bandits, and reinforcement learning and bring them to production. - Develop, design, and run A/B experiments, gather data, and perform statistical analysis. - Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for monitoring and feedback. - Work closely with software engineers to assist in productionizing your work. - Research new and innovative machine learning and optimization approaches. - Recruit Applied Scientists and Data Scientists to the team and mentor scientists on the team. A day in the life - Conduct offline analyses of data to guide design decisions with the product team - Conduct A/B tests and analyze results to guide rollout, go to market, or development priority decisions - Suggest models, algorithms, designs, and/or features to sophisticate the marketing products or solutions we offer to our customers About the team Why you will love this opportunity: Amazon is investing heavily in building a world-class advertising business. This team defines and delivers a collection of advertising products that drive discovery and sales. Our solutions generate billions in revenue and drive long-term growth for Amazon’s Retail and Marketplace businesses. We deliver billions of ad impressions, millions of clicks daily, and break fresh ground to create world-class products. We are a highly motivated, collaborative, and fun-loving team with an entrepreneurial spirit - with a broad mandate to experiment and innovate. Impact and Career Growth: You will invent new experiences and influence customer-facing shopping experiences to help suppliers grow their retail business and the auction dynamics that leverage native advertising; this is your opportunity to work within the fastest-growing businesses across all of Amazon! Define a long-term science vision for our advertising business, driven from our customers' needs, translating that direction into specific plans for research and applied scientists, as well as engineering and product teams. This role combines science leadership, organizational ability, technical strength, product focus, and business understanding. Team video https://youtu.be/zD_6Lzw8raE
  • IN, KA, Bengaluru
    Job ID: 10535900
    (Updated 2 days ago)
    Have you ever wanted to solve a mystery or be part of solving a case? Are you fascinated by detective stories or crime shows on TV? Do you love to catch bad actors, build ML models and solve complex problems. If so, working on the WWOS Tech team as an Applied Scientist is the place for you! We detect theft, fraud and organized crime happening across our global supply chain and operations for millions of items, for hundreds of product lines worth billions of dollars of inventory world-wide. We foster new game-changing ideas, creating ever more intelligent and self-learning systems to maximize the cost savings of Amazon's inventory losses. The primary role of an Applied Scientist within Amazon is to address business challenges through building a compelling case, and using data to influence change across the organization. This individual will be given responsibility on their first day to own those business challenges and the autonomy to think strategically and make data driven decisions. Decisions and tools made in this role will have significant impact to the customer experience, as it will have a major impact on all the fraud investigations happening across Amazon operations. Ideal candidates will be a high potential, strategic and analytic graduate with a PhD in ( Research, Statistics, Engineering, and Supply Chain) ready for challenging opportunities in the core of our world class operations space. Great candidates have a history of building fraud detections, detecting organized crime and the ability to use data and research to make changes. This individual will need to be able to work with a team, but also be comfortable making decisions independently, in what is often times an ambiguous environment. Key job responsibilities - Own KPIs that measure theft/fraud management performance and efficiencies. - Detect and automate theft, fraud MOs - Detect organized crime rings and bad actor clusters - Perform end to end evaluation of operational defects, system gaps, and scaling challenges (both system and operational). - Contribute to the overall fraud management and product development strategies. - Present key learnings and vision to stakeholders and leadership. - Integrate ML detection models via software applications About the team We believe that building a culture that is welcoming and inclusive is integral to people doing their best work and is essential to what we can achieve as a company. We actively recruit people from diverse backgrounds to build a supportive and inclusive workplace. Our team puts a high value on work-live balance. It isn’t about how many hours you spend at home or at work; it’s about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment.
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    The Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) team is seeking a dedicated, skilled, and innovative Applied Scientist with a robust background in machine learning, statistics, quality assurance, auditing methodologies, and automated evaluation systems to ensure the highest standards of data quality, to build industry-leading technology with Large Language Models (LLMs) and multimodal systems. Key job responsibilities As part of the AGI team, an Applied Scientist will collaborate closely with core scientist team developing Amazon Nova models. They will lead the development of comprehensive quality strategies and auditing frameworks that safeguard the integrity of data collection workflows. This includes designing auditing strategies with detailed SOPs, quality metrics, and sampling methodologies that help Nova improve performances on benchmarks. The Applied Scientist will perform expert-level manual audits, conduct meta-audits to evaluate auditor performance, and provide targeted coaching to uplift overall quality capabilities. A critical aspect of this role involves developing and maintaining LLM-as-a-Judge systems, including designing judge architectures, creating evaluation rubrics, and building machine learning models for automated quality assessment. The Applied Scientist will also set up the configuration of data collection workflows and communicate quality feedback to stakeholders. An Applied Scientist will also have a direct impact on enhancing customer experiences through high-quality training and evaluation data that powers state-of-the-art LLM products and services. A day in the life An Applied Scientist with the AGI team will support quality solution design, conduct root cause analysis on data quality issues, research new auditing methodologies, and find innovative ways of optimizing data quality while setting examples for the team on quality assurance best practices and standards. Besides theoretical analysis and quality framework development, an Applied Scientist will also work closely with talented engineers, domain experts, and vendor teams to put quality strategies and automated judging systems into practice.
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    The Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) team is seeking a dedicated, skilled, and innovative Applied Scientist with a robust background in machine learning, statistics, quality assurance, auditing methodologies, and automated evaluation systems to ensure the highest standards of data quality, to build industry-leading technology with Large Language Models (LLMs) and multimodal systems. Key job responsibilities As part of the AGI team, an Applied Scientist will collaborate closely with core scientist team developing Amazon Nova models. They will lead the development of comprehensive quality strategies and auditing frameworks that safeguard the integrity of data collection workflows. This includes designing auditing strategies with detailed SOPs, quality metrics, and sampling methodologies that help Nova improve performances on benchmarks. The Applied Scientist will perform expert-level manual audits, conduct meta-audits to evaluate auditor performance, and provide targeted coaching to uplift overall quality capabilities. A critical aspect of this role involves developing and maintaining LLM-as-a-Judge systems, including designing judge architectures, creating evaluation rubrics, and building machine learning models for automated quality assessment. The Applied Scientist will also set up the configuration of data collection workflows and communicate quality feedback to stakeholders. An Applied Scientist will also have a direct impact on enhancing customer experiences through high-quality training and evaluation data that powers state-of-the-art LLM products and services. A day in the life An Applied Scientist with the AGI team will support quality solution design, conduct root cause analysis on data quality issues, research new auditing methodologies, and find innovative ways of optimizing data quality while setting examples for the team on quality assurance best practices and standards. Besides theoretical analysis and quality framework development, an Applied Scientist will also work closely with talented engineers, domain experts, and vendor teams to put quality strategies and automated judging systems into practice.
  • US, TN, Nashville
    Job ID: 10551943
    (Updated 0 days ago)
    Are you driven by innovation and complex problem-solving? At Infrastructure Reliability, we build scalable solutions that ensure the reliability of Amazon's critical systems. Our team develops and operates tools that detect and prevent outages to maintain high availability across Amazon's global infrastructure. Join us to architect solutions that directly impact millions of customers, with the resources and support to make meaningful contributions. The team at Amazon is responsible for building intelligent and real-time insights into service-to-service communications, network traffic, and event correlation across hundreds of Amazon's critical fulfillment and robotics services. Our solutions support visibility into anomalous service behavior to prevent and quickly recover from incidents, ensuring high availability to keep the Customer Promise. We are seeking a talented Senior Applied Scientist to invent the next generation of agentic observability solutions at Amazon scale. In this role, you will define, lead, and build the science behind intelligent systems that reason about complex network and infrastructure telemetry, autonomously detect anomalies, and drive automated remediation. You will own the scientific direction end to end, partnering closely with engineering, product, and Network Development Engineers to translate a long-term science vision into concrete research and delivery roadmaps. Working backwards from the needs of our customers and operations teams, you will take the lead on ambiguous, high-impact problems where neither the problem nor the solution is well defined, and deliver production systems that improve infrastructure availability at scale. You will invent new methods, drive their adoption across multiple teams, and remain deeply hands-on with the hardest technical challenges. Key job responsibilities * Define and own the science vision for agentic observability, translating it into research and engineering roadmaps in partnership with product and engineering leaders. * Build ML and agentic AI systems that autonomously detect, classify, and correlate infrastructure anomalies across network, compute, and service layers at Amazon scale. * Design and develop models for event correlation, root cause analysis, and predictive failure detection using time-series analysis, graph-based methods, and deep learning. * Own the agentic architecture for automated observability workflows, including planning, tool integration, long-horizon reasoning, and multi-agent orchestration. * Define and curate the datasets and evaluation methodologies needed to train, benchmark, and continuously improve detection and classification systems. * Stay deeply hands-on: write production-quality, critical-path code and build core components that take systems from prototype to launch. Partner with Network Development Engineers and operations teams to ground science solutions in real-world infrastructure behavior and operational needs. * Mentor scientists and engineers, raise the science bar, and represent the team in the internal and external scientific community through publications and presentations. A day in the life You will solve real-world problems by analyzing large-scale network telemetry and operational data, designing experiments and simulations, and developing ML models that detect and prevent infrastructure incidents. Your work requires close collaboration with engineers, Network Development Engineers, product managers, and operations leaders across the organization. You will prepare written and verbal presentations to share insights with audiences of varying technical sophistication, and you will iterate rapidly between research and production deployment.
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    上海职位 - 如果希望在上海工作,请投递本职位。 毕业时间:2026年10月 - 2027年9月之间毕业的应届毕业生 · 投递须知: 1 填写简历申请时,请把必填和非必填项都填写完整。提交简历之后就无法修改了哦! 2 学校的英文全称请准确填写。中英文对应表,请点击链接查看 https://docs.qq.com/sheet/DVmdaa1BCV0RBbnlR?tab=BB08J2 3 简历不限中英文。 如果您正在攻读自然语言处理(NLP)、信息检索(IR)、机器学习、生成式人工智能或相关方向的硕士或博士学位,并希望将前沿科学研究转化为服务真实客户的产品,我们诚挚邀请您加入亚马逊 International Technology 搜索团队。 我们的目标是帮助亚马逊客户更准确地找到所需商品,并发现符合其需求和兴趣的新商品。您每天的工作都将直接影响全球数百万客户的购物体验。团队使用 TB 级商品、查询和客户行为数据,持续推进搜索、推荐、自然语言理解以及生成式 AI 技术的发展。 在这个岗位中,您将研究并应用 NLP、IR、深度学习、大语言模型(LLM)和基础模型等前沿技术,解决搜索理解、相关性排序、语义匹配、个性化和对话式购物等问题。您将有机会探索预训练、监督微调(SFT)、参数高效微调、检索增强生成(RAG)、提示优化和智能体(Agent)等技术,并针对业务场景建立可靠的离线与在线评估方法。 您将与应用科学家、软件工程师和产品经理密切合作,完成从问题定义、数据分析、算法设计和实验验证,到模型部署、在线测试和持续迭代的完整闭环。您需要根据客户价值和业务目标选择合适的技术方案,并在模型质量、可靠性、安全性、推理延迟和计算成本之间做出合理权衡。 Key job responsibilities Key job responsibilities · 针对 Amazon 搜索和购物体验中的实际问题,提出可验证的科学假设,设计并实现机器学习、NLP、IR 或 LLM 解决方案。 · 使用大规模商品、查询和客户行为数据训练、微调和评估模型,建立可重复的实验与评估流程。 · 探索基础模型在搜索、推荐和对话式购物中的应用,包括 RAG、模型微调、提示优化和 Agent 等方向。 · 设计覆盖相关性、事实性、鲁棒性、安全性、延迟和成本的评估指标,并通过离线实验、A/B 测试和客户反馈验证效果。 · 与工程和产品团队合作,将原型转化为可扩展、可维护的生产系统,并持续分析和改进线上表现。 · 跟踪学术界和工业界的最新进展,形成技术文档,并在适当情况下向内部或外部科学社区分享研究成果。 基本要求 · 正在攻读或已获得计算机科学、计算机工程、机器学习、人工智能、运筹学、统计学或相关领域的硕士或博士学位。 · 具备机器学习或深度学习的基础知识,以及实验设计、统计分析和模型评估经验。 · 具备使用代码和工具实现、训练和评估算法的经验。 · 至少熟练使用一种编程语言,例如 Python、Java 或 C++。 · 了解 NLP、IR、推荐系统或生成式 AI 中至少一个方向的基本方法。 优先条件 · 在 NLP、IR、机器学习、数据挖掘或生成式 AI 相关顶级会议或期刊发表过论文,或有高质量研究项目经历。 · 熟悉 Transformer、LLM 或基础模型,并具有预训练、监督微调(SFT)、参数高效微调、偏好优化或推理优化中的一种或多种实践经验。 · 具有 RAG、向量检索、Embedding、语义匹配、Agent 或工具调用系统的研究或开发经验。 · 熟悉 PyTorch、TensorFlow 等深度学习框架,以及 Hugging Face Transformers 等常用 LLM 工具链。 · 具有搜索引擎或推荐系统经验,尤其是在索引、召回、排序、查询理解、个性化或在线实验方面。 · 具有 LLM 评估经验,能够从相关性、事实性、幻觉、鲁棒性、安全性、延迟和成本等维度衡量系统质量。 · 具有大规模数据处理、分布式训练、模型压缩或高效推理经验。 · 具备良好的批判性思维和技术沟通能力,能够清楚地解释模型选择、实验结果及其局限性,并与跨职能团队合作解决开放性问题。
  • IT, Turin
    Job ID: 10505442
    (Updated 6 days ago)
    As an Applied Scientist in the Alexa AI team, you will spearhead the advancement and deployment of state-of-the-art ML/RAG systems that revolutionize how millions of customers interact with Alexa. You'll leverage your expertise in machine learning, natural language processing, and large language models to create reliable, scalable, high-performance products that set new standards in operational excellence. Working at the intersection of research and production, you'll translate latest AI innovations into customer-facing features that delight users daily. Your work will span the full ML lifecycle: from analyzing customer behavior patterns and building novel metrics for personal digital assistants, to deploying automated training pipelines and conducting rigorous A/B testing across diverse devices and endpoints. Collaborating closely with business, engineering, and science teams across Amazon, you'll lead high-visibility programs that automate workflows and deliver measurable customer impact. This role offers the unique opportunity to publish at top-tier conferences while seeing your innovations scale to one of the world's most popular voice assistants, serving millions of customers globally. Key job responsibilities As an Applied Scientist in the Alexa AI team: You'll analyze and model customer behavior at scale, building novel metrics for personal digital assistants across diverse devices and endpoints. Your work will involve creating deep learning, policy-based learning, and machine learning algorithms that directly impact customer experiences, translating complex data patterns into actionable insights that drive product innovation. Your technical leadership will extend to building and deploying automated model training and evaluation pipelines, implementing complex machine learning and deep learning algorithms, and conducting rigorous model and data analysis through online A/B testing. You'll research and implement novel approaches that push the boundaries of what's possible in conversational AI. Beyond model development, you'll ensure operational excellence by taking ownership of production systems, including on-call responsibilities during peak and non-peak hours. Working alongside Software Development Engineers, you'll deploy fixes and handle high-severity issues, ensuring our ML systems maintain the reliability and performance that millions of Alexa customers depend on daily. The applicable collective agreement for this role is CBA for employees of Telecommunication Sector. The position is classified at level 7 or above, depending on the candidate's skills, competences and experience. A day in the life As an Applied Scientist in the Alexa AI team, your day will involve collaborating with talented engineers and scientists to build scalable solutions for our conversational assistant. You'll dive into data analysis, experiment with novel algorithms, and iterate on models based on real-time user feedback. Working in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment, you'll tackle complex technical challenges: from debugging production issues to presenting research findings to stakeholders. Your self-motivated approach will drive you to swiftly deliver impactful solutions while maintaining the high standards that define our mission to revolutionize user experiences for millions of customers. About the team The Alexa AI team develops the intelligence behind one of the world's most popular voice assistants, serving millions of customers globally. We're a diverse group of scientists, engineers, and researchers united by our mission to make Alexa more natural, helpful, and delightful. Our culture thrives on innovation, collaboration, and customer obsession. We tackle some of the most challenging problems in conversational AI; from natural language understanding to personalization at scale. Here, you'll work alongside world-class talent, publish at top-tier conferences, and see your innovations impact customers daily. We move fast, think big, and celebrate both successes and learnings.
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    This position is for an 8–12 week full-time, on-site internship to be conducted in Summer 2027 (June–September 2027). *Minimum 12 weeks internship is required for all international hires (who require JP visa support). *Target Candidates: Students graduating in 2029 Do you want to see your research directly impact how millions of customers discover, browse, and purchase products on Amazon — across Japan and the globe? Amazon's Japan Store Tech team owns the science and technology behind cross-border shopping — product discovery, search relevance, personalization, and content experiences spanning dozens of marketplaces. We tackle problems at massive scale: multi-language signals, multi-marketplace data, and region-specific customer behaviors, all served at low latency to millions of daily shoppers. We're looking for current Bachelor or Master students with a passion for applied science and machine learning to join us as an Applied Scientist Intern in Summer 2027 to shape the future of customer experiences at scale. For this position, our Japan Store Tech team is looking for students with a specialization in one or more of the following research areas: machine learning, deep learning, natural language processing (NLP), information retrieval, recommender systems, computer vision, large language models (LLMs), generative AI, causal inference, experimentation and A/B testing, optimization, and more! As an Applied Scientist Intern, you'll develop novel models and algorithms, design and run experiments on live traffic, and own meaningful science contributions end-to-end. You'll also leverage and contribute to GenAI/LLM systems that power both customer-facing experiences and internal development tools. If you want to kickstart your science career at global scale — solving real customer problems alongside talented scientists and engineers in a collaborative, international environment — this is the place to start. Application & Assessment Deadline: Mid October, 2026 Selection Communication Begins: End October, 2026 Offer Extensions: December 2026 – March 2027 Key job responsibilities - Collaborate and communicate effectively with experienced cross-disciplinary Amazonians to design, develop, and deploy innovative machine learning models and scientific solutions that delight our customers, while participating in technical discussions to drive solutions forward. - Develop and implement scalable machine learning models and algorithms to improve product discovery, search relevance, personalization, or other customer-facing experiences. - Design and conduct experiments (offline and online) to validate hypotheses and measure the impact of proposed solutions. - Analyze large-scale datasets to identify patterns, generate insights, and inform model design decisions. - Leverage and contribute to the development of GenAI and LLM-powered tools to enhance customer experiences and development productivity while staying current with emerging technologies. - Write clean, maintainable, production-quality code following best practices. - Communicate research findings effectively through documentation, presentations, and technical papers. - Work in an agile environment and collaborate closely with software engineers to bring science solutions from prototype to production. A day in the life As an intern, you will be matched to a manager and a mentor and will have the opportunity to influence the evolution of Amazon's science and technology and lead critical projects early in your career. In addition to working on an impactful project, you will have the opportunity to engage with Amazonians for both personal and professional development, expand your network, and participate in activities with other interns throughout your internship. No matter the location of your internship, we give you the tools to own your project and learn in a real-world setting. Amazon internships are full-time positions, and interns should expect to work in office, Monday–Friday, up to 40 hours per week typically between 9am–6pm. Specific team norms around working hours will be communicated by your manager. Interns should not have other employment during the Amazon work-day.

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