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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: 10481634
    (Updated 33 days ago)
    The Sponsored Products and Brands team at Amazon Ads is re-imagining the advertising landscape through industry leading 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! The Amazon Sponsored Products and Brands is looking for a talented Sr. Applied Scientist to join the Global Optimization science team at the forefront of advertising technology innovation. We are working backwards from emerging markets to reimagine Amazon's advertising stack from the ground up, leveraging multilingual and multi-modal GenAI technologies — including semantic hash designs, LLMs, and more — to deliver solutions that scale to non-US marketplaces from day one. This is your opportunity to be part of a small, high-impact team that prototypes, invents, and ships state-of-the-art solutions that will define the future of digital advertising. The ideal candidate combines entrepreneurial drive with deep technical expertise, thriving in ambiguous, fast-moving environments where you define the path forward with minimal structure. Our team regularly goes from ideas on the whiteboard to production-grade experiments. Your Customer Obsession fuels your passion for translating science into real-world value for millions of advertisers and customers worldwide. You are consistently Right, A Lot when navigating complex technical decisions, demonstrating the rare ability to identify solutions that drive maximum impact with minimal resources. Whether you're architecting scalable GenAI systems or optimizing multi-task recommendation engines, you cut through complexity to find the solutions that deliver the most results. Your GenAI experience goes beyond theoretical knowledge—you have successfully delivered value with state-of-the-art technologies at Amazon scale, understanding both the promise and practical challenges of deploying machine learning in production environments (evaluations, etc.). You're not just a scientist or just an engineer—you're a builder who sees the bigger picture and knows how to make it reality. Key job responsibilities * Architect next-generation systems that replace legacy monolithic infrastructure with scalable, intelligent solutions that scale worldwide on day one. * Pioneer breakthrough applied science in multi-modal GenAI applications for advertising, combining text, image, and multi-lingual support. * Drive end-to-end innovation from research ideation through production deployment at Amazon scale. * Lead cross-functional collaboration with product, engineering, and business teams to translate science into customer impact. About the team You will join a newly-founded team with a broad mandate to experiment and innovate, with a focus on driving growth of sponsored products ad experiences across non-US marketplaces. This broad charter gives us the flexibility to explore and apply scientific techniques to novel product problems. You will have the satisfaction of seeing your work improve the experience of millions of Amazon shoppers worldwide while driving quantifiable revenue impact. More importantly, you will have the opportunity to broaden your technical skills, and be a science leader in an environment that thrives on creativity, experimentation, and product innovation.
  • US, NY, New York
    Job ID: 10483032
    (Updated 0 days ago)
    Amazon's Supply Chain is the backbone of the fastest growing e-commerce business in the world, and planning it is one of the largest optimization problems in industry. Every week we decide where millions of products should sit across hundreds of fulfillment centers, how inventory should flow between suppliers, buildings, and customers, and how to balance cost, speed, and capacity, all under deeply uncertain demand. No single model can solve a problem this large. The Supply Chain Planning Optimization team is building the next generation of planning systems around large-scale distributed optimization: decomposing the full network problem into tractable pieces that coordinate toward a globally consistent plan, solving optimization problems with hundreds of thousands of variables in seconds, and pairing them with probabilistic forecasts so plans hold up when reality diverges from the forecast. The work spans the full stack of modern operations research, from decomposition and convergence to stochastic optimization and solver performance at scale. And it has a rare property: the models you build move real inventory for hundreds of millions of customers, and you see the results in the physical world within weeks. What you'll do Design and deploy large-scale optimization and forecasting models that plan inventory placement and flow across our EU/NA fulfillment network under uncertainty Shape how the full network problem is decomposed and coordinated, defining the mathematical architecture of the planning system rather than just the models within it Push the computational frontier through formulations that solve fast and reliably at scale, and through the solver technology and tooling that make experimentation cheap Work with science, engineering, operations, and finance partners to take ideas from whiteboard to production, then own them end to end once live What we're looking for An experienced scientist with depth in large-scale optimization (stochastic optimization and decomposition methods especially welcome), fluency in machine learning and probabilistic forecasting, and a track record of delivering complex scientific systems end to end. You care about both the elegance of a formulation and whether it solves in two seconds or two hundred, and you're energized by delivering incremental wins while building toward a long-term scientific vision. If you want your optimization theory to move real inventory at planetary scale, this is the team. Key job responsibilities Build state-of-the-art, robust, and scalable stochastic optimization and probabilistic forecasting algorithms that drive optimal planning and execution under uncertainty across Amazon's end-to-end supply chain Shape how large-scale planning problems are formulated, decomposed, and solved — designing for computational performance and reliability at the scale of Amazon's fulfillment network Engineer your algorithms as production-grade, cloud-native software, applying modern development practices from prototype through deployment Think several steps ahead: architect long-term scientific solutions while continuously shipping incremental improvements to what's already running Prototype fast, drive early adoption through pilots, integrate operational feedback, and iterate Deliver your science into production by partnering closely with internal customers — understanding their needs and blockers, and influencing their roadmaps Lead complex analyses and communicate results and recommendations crisply to senior leadership Stay at the frontier as an active member of the science community: research, apply, and publish (internally and externally) the latest OR/ML techniques from academia and industry About the team We are a team of scientists and engineers who believe that some of the hardest optimization problems in the world are hiding inside everyday questions like "where should this product sit so a customer gets it tomorrow?" We take ideas from the frontier of operations research and machine learning — distributed optimization, planning under uncertainty, solving at massive scale — and turn them into systems that steer one of the largest supply chains on Earth. If a model we ship on Monday moves millions of units by Friday, that's a normal week; that loop between theory and the physical world is why we're here.
  • DE, Berlin
    Job ID: 10480577
    (Updated 11 days ago)
    The Amazon Robotics team is seeking an experienced Applied Scientist to join our team. In this role you will apply the latest trends in research to solve real-world problems in robotics and AI. You will collaborate with a team of scientists and engineers building these applications. We holistically design, build, and deliver end-to-end robotic systems. Our team is also responsible for core infrastructure and tools that serve as the backbone of our robotic applications, enabling roboticists, machine learning scientists, software engineers, and hardware engineers to collaborate and deploy systems in the field. Key job responsibilities • Research, design, implement and evaluate complex perception, motion planning, and decision making algorithms integrating across multiple disciplines and leveraging machine learning. • Create experiments and prototype implementations of new learning algorithms and prediction techniques. • Work closely with software engineering team members to drive scalable, real-time implementations. • Collaborate with machine learning and robotic controls experts to implement and deploy algorithms, such as machine learning models. • Collaborate closely with hardware engineering team members on developing systems from prototyping to production level. • Represent Amazon in academia community through publications and scientific presentations. • Work with stakeholders across hardware, science, and operations teams to iterate on systems design and implementation. About the team Watch this video to learn more about Vulcan Pick team in Amazon Robotics: https://www.amazon.science/publications/vulcan-pick-a-robotic-system-for-picking-targeted-objects-from-fabric-pods
  • US, WA, Bellevue
    Job ID: 10483501
    (Updated 24 days ago)
    The R2L team is responsible for building the next generation supply chain for Amazon's world-class ultra-fast customer experiences including Amazon Fresh groceries, Sub-Same Day, Amazon Now, and other soon-to-launch exciting new businesses. Join us and you'll be taking part in serving our customers in as fast as 30 minutes! The R2L Science & AI team is the centralized data science and AI function serving all R2L business verticals. We drive data informed decision making and build AI-powered products that optimize every stage of R2L's operational pipeline from supply chain planning through last-mile delivery. We are looking for a customer-focused, solutions-oriented Senior Manager, Data Science to lead and scale the data science function within the R2L organization. In this role, you will build and manage a high-performing team of Data Scientists and BI Engineers while owning the AI technical roadmap for R2L. You will be responsible for delivering data science and AI solutions that drive measurable operational improvements across R2L's end-to-end network including Supply Chain, Operations, Delivery, Operational Excellence, and Finance. This is a people leadership role with deep technical expectations. You will set the technical vision, hire and develop talent, and partner with senior leaders across R2L and external stakeholders to ensure data science and AI investments are aligned with business priorities and deliver outsized impact. Key job responsibilities - Build and manage a team of Data Scientists and BI Engineers - Define and drive the multi-year vision for Science and AI roadmap for R2L, aligning investments with business priorities to deliver measurable efficiency and customer experience improvements - Define and execute the Gen AI strategy for R2L, identifying high-impact use cases for LLMs, agentic AI, and automation across operational workflows - Influence VP and Director-level leaders through data-driven narratives, technical deep dives, and business impact framing - Educate senior leaders about and advocate for high-quality measurement as an input to data-driven decisions - Raise the technical bar across the organization through mentorship, artifact reviews, and establishing best practices for experimentation, model development, and deployment - Stay up-to-date on the latest data science, measurability, AI tools, techniques, and best practices and help evangelize them across the organization 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!
  • US, CA, Sunnyvale
    Job ID: 10475944
    (Updated 14 days ago)
    We are seeking an Applied Scientist to focus on Robotics Spatial Intelligence and Semantic Understanding. In this role, you'll research and build advanced semantic and world understanding algorithms that enable robots to observe, understand, and reason about complex and dynamic home environments. You'll work across a broad spectrum of 3D perception, contextual understanding, and world modeling approaches to build robust solutions that support autonomous decision making, task planning, navigation, and manipulation. Key job responsibilities - Develop and implement robust World Understanding and Modeling algorithms for a domestic robot. - Build simulation-based and on-robot evaluation frameworks with comprehensive benchmarks and metrics for systematic evaluation of Our Spatial Intelligence stack. - Conduct sim-to-real transfer experiments, analyzing performance gaps and developing techniques to ensure reliable real-world performance. - Collaborate with navigation, manipulation, and other teams to ensure seamless integration of World Understanding capabilities. - Stay current with the latest advances in World Modeling, Spatial Reasoning, and related fields and apply relevant findings to improve system performance About the team Fauna Robotics, an Amazon company, is building capable, safe, and genuinely delightful robots for everyday life. Our goal is simple: make robots people actually want to live and interact with in everyday human spaces. We believe that future won’t arrive until building for robotics becomes far more accessible. Today, too much effort is spent reinventing the fundamentals. We’re changing that by developing tightly integrated hardware and software systems that make it faster, safer, and more intuitive to create real-world robotic products. Our work spans the full stack: mechanical design, control systems, dynamic modeling, and intelligent software. The focus is not just functionality, but experience. We’re building robots that feel responsive, expressive, and genuinely useful. At Fauna, you’ll work at the frontier of this space, helping define how robots move, manipulate, and interact with people in natural environments. It’s an opportunity to solve hard problems across hardware and software with a team focused on making robotics accessible and joyful to build. If you care about making robotics real for everyone and building systems that are as delightful as they are capable, we’re interested in hearing from you.
  • (Updated 40 days ago)
    Here at Amazon, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of diversity and inclusion of our teams within the organization. How do you get items to customers quickly, cost-effectively, and—most importantly—safely, in less than an hour? And how do you do it in a way that can scale? Our teams of hundreds of scientists, engineers, aerospace professionals, and futurists have been working hard to do just that! We are delivering to customers, and are excited for what’s to come. Check out more information about Prime Air on the About Amazon blog (https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/transportation/amazon-prime-air-delivery-drone-reveal-photos). If you are seeking an iterative environment where you can drive innovation, apply state-of-the-art technologies to solve real world delivery challenges, and provide benefits to customers, Prime Air is the place for you. Come work on the Amazon Prime Air Team! We're looking for a Research Scientist with a background in developing simulations for traffic management algorithms, including expert knowledge in strategic deconfliction, tactical deconfliction, or detect-and-avoid systems. Managing a large number of concurrent autonomous drone flights that share airspace with other autonomous or manned aircraft is a challenging problem. Be part of the team building simulation tools and algorithms to solve this at scale. This role will contribute to a portfolio of simulation tools managing concurrent airspace traffic for aviation systems. This will include developing new methodologies in the areas of conflict detection and resolution, as well as developing related software systems that will be used in operation to enable package delivery at scale. The ideal candidate is comfortable with risk-taking and ambiguity and able to build consensus on critical, controversial technical decisions. If you enjoy the process of solving real-world problems that haven’t been solved at scale anywhere before, Prime Air is right for you. Along the way, we guarantee you’ll get opportunities to be a disruptor, prolific innovator, and a reputed problem solver and directly impact Amazon’s customers worldwide. Key job responsibilities The primary focus of this role will be on modeling traffic management frameworks that use a layered conflict detection and resolution strategy to ensure safe and efficient flight operations. This will include developing fundamental simulation infrastructure code, including discrete event simulation tooling. In addition, it will involve developing expert knowledge of the layers of mitigation and conducting in-depth scientific research on alternative solutions for conflict resolution. The candidate will contribute to significant and impactful systems that will provide value for Amazon customers and will drive these projects from the concept stage through development. This role will include substantial software development in prototyping and production environments.
  • IN, KA, Bengaluru
    Job ID: 10475352
    (Updated 12 days ago)
    Alexa+ is the world’s best Generative AI powered personal assistant / agent for consumers, and is becoming the conversational AI interface for Amazon services with the launch of Alexa for Shopping on Amazon.com and Amazon mobile app. At Alexa Ads, we are creating industry's first and most advanced Agentic Advertising products to drive Agentic Commerce. We are seeking an Applied Scientist to join our newly expanding team in India focused on Alexa Agentic/Conversational Ads and Personalization. In this role, you will build machine learning models that seamlessly and naturally integrate relevant advertising into the Alexa experience while deeply personalizing user interactions. You will work closely with other scientists, engineers, and product managers to take models from conception to production. Key job responsibilities - Design, develop, and evaluate innovative machine learning and deep learning models for natural language processing (NLP), recommendation systems, and personalization. - Conduct hands-on data analysis and build scalable ML pipelines. - Design and run A/B experiments to measure the impact of new models on customer experience and ad performance. - Collaborate with software development engineers to deploy models into high-scale, real-time production environments. About the team We are building a new science team in Bangalore to solve some of the most impactful problems in computational advertising. This isn't about tweaking existing models as we are rethinking how ads are ranked, priced, and personalized across voice-first and screen-first surfaces. These are problems that don't have textbook solutions. Key points to note about the team: 🧪 Greenfield team - you are not joining a mature org with rigid processes. You will shape the science roadmap, pick the problems, and define the culture from day one. 📈 Direct business impact — your models directly drive revenue. No yearly cycles to see if your work matters. 🌏 Global scope, local autonomy — collaborate with scientists and engineers across Seattle, Sunnyvale, and Bangalore, but own your problem space end-to-end. 🎓 Ship AND Publish: We encourage top-tier publications (NeurIPS, ACL, EMNLP, KDD, ICML, WWW) while ensuring your research hits production.
  • IL, Tel Aviv
    Job ID: 10475004
    (Updated 12 days ago)
    Come join the AWS Agentic AI science team in building the next generation models for intelligent automation. AWS, the world-leading provider of cloud services, has fostered the creation and growth of countless new businesses, and is a positive force for good. Our customers bring problems that will give Applied Scientists like you endless opportunities to see your research have a positive and immediate impact in the world. You will have the opportunity to partner with technology and business teams to solve real-world problems, have access to virtually endless data and computational resources, and to world-class engineers and developers that can help bring your ideas into the world. As part of the team, we expect that you will develop innovative solutions to hard problems, and publish your findings at peer reviewed conferences and workshops. We are looking for world class researchers with experience in one or more of the following areas - autonomous agents, API orchestration, Planning, large multimodal models (especially vision-language models), reinforcement learning (RL) and sequential decision making.
  • US, CA, Sunnyvale
    Job ID: 10476943
    (Updated 39 days ago)
    Come join the Device connectivity team in building the next generation of innovative wireless solution that create a magical experience on our products and services. We actively engage in strategic initiatives, foster partnerships with industry and academia, leverage foundational artificial intelligence and large language models to stay at the forefront of the technological advancements. We are seeking an experienced Applied Science Manager to lead and grow a team of applied scientists who are pushing the boundaries of AI/ML in wireless connectivity and sensing. In this role, you will combine deep technical expertise with strong people leadership to drive scientific innovation that directly impacts millions of customers worldwide. Key job responsibilities As a Applied Science Manager in the team, you will: Build, mentor, and develop a high-performing team of applied scientists, setting the technical bar through code reviews, design reviews, and hands-on contributions while fostering a culture of scientific excellence, innovation, and operational rigor. Define and drive the AI/ML science roadmap for wireless solutions by developing a deep understanding of Amazon's Devices and Services offerings, translating complex business problems into well-defined scientific challenges, identifying high-risk and high-impact technical directions, and guiding your team to deliver them from conception through production. Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, product, and business partners to drive ML development from research through optimization and onto production devices, aligning science investments with product goals while meeting on-device performance, latency, and resource constraints. Balance exploratory research with production delivery timelines, ensuring the team maintains scientific rigor while meeting business commitments. Represent the team's AI innovations to both internal leadership and the external scientific community through leadership reviews, publications, patents, and conference presentations, providing clear articulation of science strategy, progress, and impact. About the team About the team Device Connectivity team is empowering possibilities through wireless innovation on our devices and through services, our vision is to design and develop transformative products and services that consistently exceed our customers' expectations.
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 10476219
    (Updated 39 days ago)
    Innovators wanted! Are you an entrepreneur? A builder? A dreamer? This role is part of an Amazon Special Projects team that takes the company’s Think Big leadership principle to the extreme. We focus on creating entirely new products and services with a goal of positively impacting the lives of our customers. No industries or subject areas are out of bounds. If you’re interested in innovating at scale to address big challenges in the world, this is the team for you. Here at Amazon, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have thirteen employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We are constantly learning through programs that are local, regional, and global. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 16 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust. Our team highly values work-life balance, mentorship and career growth. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects and offer training that will challenge you to become your best.

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