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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 20 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. As the Applied Science Manager for the Continuous Model Evaluation and Learning workstream, you will own the quality backbone for this agentic brand-intelligence system. You will lead a mix of applied scientists and engineers who define what "good" looks like for each brand skill, instrument the system to measure it, diagnose why skills underperform, and close the loop by generating, validating, and deploying improvements. You will deliver the evaluation and remediation framework that attains accuracy targets, enables forward evaluation for skills as they develop, and establishes the autonomous detect-diagnose-remediate loop that lets us scale quality across all brand skills and multiple advertiser-facing surfaces. This is a business-critical, greenfield initiative within SPB. You will set the scientific charter, grow the talent on your team, and ship the framework that every other brand-intelligence workstream depends on. Key job responsibilities - Lead, mentor, and grow the talent on a team composed of applied scientists and machine learning engineers, fostering a culture of scientific excellence, customer obsession, and ownership. - Own the scientific vision and multi-quarter roadmap for continuous model evaluation and learning across the brand-intelligence system. - Design and deliver evaluation frameworks for agentic brand-intelligence skills, including LLM-as-Judge rubrics, multi-model ensemble judging, gold-set construction, and calibration against human evaluators. - Lead development of the optimization engine that programmatically refines prompts, generates synthetic training pairs, and composes agent decomposition strategies (orchestrator-worker patterns) when single-agent skills hit complexity limits. - Establish rigorous offline-to-online consistency, A/B testing discipline, and drift monitoring so that quality improvements generalize to production traffic. - Communicate scientific vision, research breakthroughs, and business outcomes to senior leadership, and drive alignment with broader Amazon Advertising objectives.
  • (Updated 23 days ago)
    Are you excited about leveraging state-of-the-art Deep Learning, Recommender Systems, Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing algorithms on large datasets to solve real-world problems? As an Applied Scientist Intern, you will be working in the closest Amazon offices to you (Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane) in a fast-paced, cross-disciplinary team of experienced R&D scientists. You will take on complex problems, work on solutions that leverage existing academic and industrial research, and utilize your own out-of-the-box pragmatic thinking. In addition to coming up with novel solutions and prototypes, you may even deliver these to production in customer facing products. Key job responsibilities - Develop novel solutions and build prototypes - Work on complex problems in Machine Learning and Information Retrieval - Contribute to research that could significantly impact Amazon operations - Collaborate with a diverse team of experts in a fast-paced environment - Collaborate with scientists on writing and submitting papers to top conferences, e.g. NeurIPS, ICML, KDD, SIGIR - Present your research findings to both technical and non-technical audiences Key Opportunities: - Work in a team of ML scientists to solve recommender systems problems at the scale of Amazon - Access to Amazon services and hardware - Become a disruptor, innovator, and problem solver in the field of information retrieval and recommender systems - Potentially deliver solutions to production in customer-facing applications - Opportunities to be hired full-time after the internship Join us in shaping the future of AI at Amazon. Apply now and turn your research into real-world solutions!
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 10406642
    (Updated 27 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 limits. If you’re interested in innovating at scale to address big challenges in the world, this is the team for you. As a Senior Computational Scientist on our team, you will develop advanced computational methods to analyze complex, multi-modal datasets. You'll work with large-scale structured and unstructured data sources to build predictive models and uncover actionable insights. Our team rewards curiosity while maintaining a laser-focus on bringing products to market. Competitive candidates are responsive, flexible, and able to succeed within an open, collaborative, entrepreneurial environment. Key job responsibilities We're seeking an experienced Computational Scientist to develop innovative solutions for complex data challenges. In this role, you will design end-to-end computational pipelines to process and analyze multi-modal data. You'll develop algorithms that integrate diverse information sources to generate predictions and actionable insights. Building interpretable models that reveal underlying mechanisms and patterns will be central to your work. You'll collaborate with machine learning scientists and domain experts to ensure your approaches are both technically rigorous and practically impactful. You'll work with large-scale proprietary databases and scientific literature to identify meaningful signals. Establishing best practices for data integration, quality assessment, and validation will be important aspects of your role. You'll need deep expertise in computational methods and the ability to communicate complex concepts to diverse audiences while working in an early-stage, rapidly evolving environment. A day in the life You'll work with proprietary datasets and structured knowledge bases, developing computational analyses to understand how various factors influence key outcomes. You'll collaborate with Applied Scientists and Statisticians on predictive models. Regular interaction with domain experts will help translate your findings into practical insights. Given the nature of our work, you'll have significant autonomy in defining approaches and establishing new methodologies. About the team We represent Amazon’s ambitious vision to solve the world’s most pressing challenges. We are exploring new approaches to enhance research practices in the healthcare space, leveraging Amazon’s scale and technological expertise. We operate with the agility of a startup while backed by Amazon’s resources and operational excellence. We’re looking for builders who are excited about working on ambitious, undefined problems and are comfortable with ambiguity.
  • (Updated 26 days ago)
    Amazon Advertising is one of Amazon's fastest growing and most profitable businesses. Amazon's advertising portfolio helps merchants, retail vendors, and brand owners succeed via native advertising, which grows incremental sales of their products sold through Amazon. The primary goals are to help shoppers discover new products they love, be the most efficient way for advertisers to meet their business objectives, and build a sustainable business that continuously innovates on behalf of customers. Our products and solutions are strategically important to enable our Retail and Marketplace businesses to drive long-term growth. We deliver billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks and break fresh ground in product and technical innovations every day! Amazon continues to develop its advertising program. Ads run in our Stores (including Consumer Stores, Books, Amazon Business, Whole Foods Market, and Fresh) and Media and Entertainment publishers (including Fire TV, Fire Tablets, Kindle, Alexa, Twitch, Prime Video, Freevee, Amazon Music, MiniTV, Audible, IMDb, and others). In addition to these first-party (1P) publishers, we also deliver ads on third-party (3P) publishers. We have a number of ad products, including Sponsored Products and Sponsored Brands, display and video products for smaller brands, including Sponsored Display and Sponsored TV. We also operate ad tech products, including Amazon Marketing Cloud (a clean-room for advertisers), Amazon Publisher Cloud (a clean-room for publishers), and Amazon DSP (an enterprise-level buying tool that brings together our ad tech for buying video, audio, and display ads). We are seeking an experienced Applied Scientist passionate about understanding shopping journeys spanning across ad products and publishers. Key job responsibilities This role is focused on developing core models that will be the foundational to Full Funnel Campaigns. You will regularly engage with product managers and technical program managers, who will partner with you to productize your work.
  • IN, MH, Mumbai
    Job ID: 10406694
    (Updated 27 days ago)
    Amazon Science gives you insight into the company’s approach to customer-obsessed scientific innovation. Amazon fundamentally believes that scientific innovation is essential to being the most customer-centric company in the world. It’s the company’s ability to have an impact at scale that allows us to attract some of the brightest minds in artificial intelligence and related fields. Our scientists continue to publish, teach, and engage with the academic community, in addition to utilizing our working backwards method to enrich the way we live and work. Please visit https://www.amazon.science for more information. About Amazon Prime Video “Many of the problems we face have no textbook solution, and so we-happily-invent new ones.” – Jeff Bezos
 The Amazon Prime Video team is shaping the future of digital video entertainment. We are seeking a Data Scientist to uncover key insights on how consumers watch videos on Amazon. The ideal candidate will be an expert in the areas of data science, machine learning and statistics, having hands-on experience with multiple improvement initiatives as well as balancing technical and business judgment to make the right decisions about technology, models and methodologies. As consumers increasingly consume digital video, we need to make agile decisions based on what content appeals to our customers. As a Data Scientist at Amazon Prime Video APAC and ANZ analytics team, you will have the opportunity to work on one of the world's largest consumer data sets, influence the long term evolution of our analytics capability and support the expansion of Amazon's digital video business. The Data Scientist will work closely with other research scientists, machine-learning experts, and economists to design and run experiments, research new algorithms, and find new ways to improve optimization across all our associate facing tools. 
 A successful candidate will be able to understand and manage key operational and technical concepts. They will have excellent project and communication skills, and motivation to achieve results in a fast-paced environment. Candidates should demonstrate a passion for working on behalf of customers, have a record of accomplishment of timely delivery of large-scale projects, and have the ability to influence multiple global teams. Autonomy, judgment, influence, and leadership skills are essential. This person will be responsible for ensuring we meet our key deliverables, on time with high quality, and communicating status to internal and external stakeholders. Key Responsibilities - Support the Content team on business reporting, ad hoc analysis, statistical inference and predictive modelling for all Prime Video APAC and ANZ. - Mine and analyze data pertaining to customers viewing experiences to identify critical business insight and make recommendations to optimize content selection. - Proactively develop new ML models using streaming, video, audio and textual data to understand and predict customer streaming behaviour - Translate analytic insights into concrete, actionable recommendations for business or product improvement. Develop and present these as papers to senior stakeholders. - Liaise with your peers in other prime video territories to develop solutions that greatly benefit our global customers - This role will be based in Mumbai, India
  • (Updated 4 days ago)
    Amazon's International Technology org in EU (EU INTech) is creating new ways for Amazon customers discovering Amazon catalog through new and innovative Customer experiences. Our vision is to provide the most relevant content and CX for their shopping mission. We are responsible for building the software and machine learning models to surface high quality and relevant content to the Amazon customers worldwide across the site. The team, mainly located in Madrid Technical Hub, London and Luxembourg, comprises Software Developer and ML Engineers, Applied Scientists, Product Managers, Technical Product Managers and UX Designers who are experts on several areas of ranking, computer vision, recommendations systems, Search as well as CX. Are you interested on how the experiences that fuel Catalog and Search are built to scale to customers WW? Are interesting on how we use state of the art AI to generate and provide the most relevant content? Key job responsibilities We are looking for Applied Scientists who are passionate to solve highly ambiguous and challenging problems at global scale. You will be responsible for major science challenges for our team, including working with text to image and image to text state of the art models to scale to enable new Customer Experiences WW. You will design, develop, deliver and support a variety of models in collaboration with a variety of roles and partner teams around the world. You will influence scientific direction and best practices and maintain quality on team deliverables. Key job responsibilities We are looking for Applied Scientists who are passionate to solve highly ambiguous and challenging problems at global scale. You will be responsible for major science challenges for our team, including working with text to image and image to text state of the art models to scale to enable new Customer Experiences WW. You will design, develop, deliver and support a variety of models in collaboration with a variety of roles and partner teams around the world. You will influence scientific direction and best practices and maintain quality on team deliverables.
  • (Updated 15 days ago)
    Amazon Advertising is one of Amazon's fastest growing businesses. Amazon's advertising portfolio helps merchants, retail vendors, and brand owners succeed via native advertising, which grows incremental sales of their products sold through Amazon. The primary goals are to help shoppers discover new products they love, be the most efficient way for advertisers to meet their business objectives, and build a sustainable business that continuously innovates on behalf of customers. Our products and solutions are strategically important to enable our Retail and Marketplace businesses to drive 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 Creative X team within Amazon Advertising time aims to democratize access to high-quality creatives (audio, images, videos, text) by building AI-driven solutions for advertisers. To accomplish this, we are investing in understanding how best users can leverage Generative AI methods such as latent-diffusion models, large language models (LLM), generative audio (music and speech synthesis), computer vision (CV), reinforced learning (RL) and related. As an Applied Scientist you will be part of a close-knit team of other applied scientists and product managers, UX and engineers who are highly collaborative and at the top of their respective fields. We are looking for talented Applied Scientists who are adept at a variety of skills, especially at the Agentic AI, development and use of multi-modal Generative AI and can use state-of-the-art generative music and audio, computer vision, latent diffusion or related foundational models that will accelerate our plans to generate high-quality creatives on behalf of advertisers. Every member of the team is expected to build customer (advertiser) facing features, contribute to the collaborative spirit within the team, publish, patent, and bring SOTA research to raise the bar within the team. As an Applied Scientist on this team, you will: Drive the invention and development of novel AI Agent architectures and video/image/audio generation models in advertising. Strong expertise in AI agent evaluation methodologies and complex task decomposition; hands-on experience with AI-powered video generation pipelines; Deep knowledge in LLM/VLM fine tuning and reinforcement learning. Work closely and integrate end-to-end proof-of-concept Machine Learning projects that have a high degree of ambiguity, scale and complexity. Build interface-oriented systems that use Machine Learning models, perform proof-of-concept, experiment, optimize, and deploy your models into production; work closely with software engineers to assist in productionizing your ML models. Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large-scale data analysis, machine-learning model development, model validation and serving. Mentor and help recruit Applied Scientists to the team. Present results and explain methods to senior leadership. Willingness to publish research at internal and external top scientific venues. Write and pursue IP submissions. Key job responsibilities This role is focused on developing new multi-modal Generative AI methods to augment generative imagery and videos. You will develop AI agent, new multi-modal paradigms, models, datasets that will be at the core of advertising-facing tools that we are launching. You may also work on development of ML and GenAI models suitable for advertising. You will conduct literature reviews to stay on the SOTA of the field. You will regularly engage with product managers, UX designers and engineers who will partner with you to productize your work. For reference see our products: Enhanced Video Generator, Creative Agent and Creative Studio. A day in the life On a day-to-day basis, you will be doing your independent research and work to develop models, you will participate in sprint planning, collaborative sessions with your peers, and demo new models and share results with peers, other partner teams and leadership. About the team The team is a dynamic team of applied scientists, UX researchers, engineers and product leaders. We reside in the Creative X organization, which focuses on creating products for advertisers that will improve the quality of the creatives within Amazon Ads. We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations: USA (Seattle).
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 10411623
    (Updated 21 days ago)
    Amazon is investing heavily in building a world-class advertising business, and we are responsible for defining and delivering a collection of advertising tools and products that drive discovery and Advertiser success. Our products are strategically important to our Retail and Marketplace businesses, driving long-term growth. We deliver billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks daily and are breaking fresh ground to create world-class products. We are highly motivated, collaborative, and fun-loving with an entrepreneurial spirit and bias for action. The Marketing Effectiveness & Attribution Science team develops causal inference and machine learning systems to measure the impact of marketing programs across Amazon's advertising ecosystem. We build production-grade attribution models that help business teams understand what's working, optimize resource allocation, and drive advertiser growth. Our work sits at the intersection of econometrics, scalable ML systems, and high-stakes business decisions. As a Data Scientist on this team, you will own end-to-end modeling pipelines — from problem formulation and experimental design to model development, productionization, and stakeholder communication. Major responsibilities include: Translate / Interpret: Partner with cross-functional teams to translate business questions into rigorous causal inference problems Design observational studies and quasi-experiments to measure marketing effectiveness when traditional A/B tests are infeasible Work with data engineering to instrument new data pipelines when existing data cannot answer the causal question Measure / Quantify / Expand: Own and evolve production attribution models across multiple marketing channels Build and maintain causal inference pipelines using methods such as Difference-in-Differences, Synthetic Control, Double Machine Learning, and Media Mix Models Develop scalable PySpark and Python codebases that process large-scale event data Continuously improve model accuracy through feature engineering, heterogeneity analysis, and sensitivity testing Explore / Enlighten: Investigate anomalies in model outputs and deep-dive to identify root causes Develop automated data quality checks and model diagnostics Research and prototype next-generation measurement methods Make Decisions / Recommendations: Present findings to senior leadership with clear recommendations Build dashboards and self-service tools that enable stakeholders to explore results independently Write production-quality Python code for data analysis, model training, and result publishing
  • US, CA, Culver City
    Job ID: 10407353
    (Updated 27 days ago)
    Amazon Advertising is one of Amazon's fastest growing and most profitable businesses. Our products are used daily to surface new selection and provide customers a wider set of product choices along their shopping journeys. The business is focused on generating value for shoppers as well as advertisers. Our team uses a combination of econometrics, machine learning, and data science to build disruptive products for all our Advertising products. We also generate insights to guide Amazon Advertising strategy, providing direct support to senior leadership. We are looking for an experienced Economist with a deep passion for building econometric solutions and the ability to communicate data insights and scientific vision to execute on strategic projects. Key job responsibilities - Leverage econometrics and ML models to optimize advertising strategies on behalf of our customers. - Influence key business and product decisions based on insights from models you develop. - Perform hands-on analysis and modeling with enormous data sets to develop insights that increase traffic monetization and merchandise sales without compromising shopper experience. - Work closely with software engineers on detailed requirements to productionize the models you build. - Run A/B experiments that affect hundreds of millions of customers, evaluate the impact of your optimizations and communicate your results to various business stakeholders. - Work with other scientists, software developers, and product partners to implement your solutions.
  • US, WA, Bellevue
    Job ID: 10408199
    (Updated 14 days ago)
    Amazon’s Last Mile Team is looking for a passionate individual with strong optimization and analytical skills to join its Last Mile Science team in the endeavor of designing and improving the most complex planning of delivery network in the world. Last Mile builds global solutions that enable Amazon to attract an elastic supply of drivers, companies, and assets needed to deliver Amazon's and other shippers' volumes at the lowest cost and with the best customer delivery experience. Last Mile Science team owns the core decision models in the space of jurisdiction planning, delivery channel and modes network design, capacity planning for on the road and at delivery stations, routing inputs estimation and optimization. Our research has direct impact on Amazon customer experience, driver experience, delivery model success and the sustainable growth of Amazon. Optimizing the last mile delivery requires deep understanding of transportation, supply chain management, pricing strategies and forecasting. Only through innovative and strategic thinking, we will make the right capital investments in technology, assets and infrastructures that allows for long-term success. Our team members have an opportunity to 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, scientists, and software engineers in the industry. Key job responsibilities Candidates will be responsible for developing solutions to better manage and optimize delivery capacity in the last mile network. The successful candidate should have solid research experience in one or more technical areas of Operations Research , Machine Learning and GenAI. These positions will focus on identifying and analyzing opportunities to improve existing algorithms and also on optimizing the system policies across the management of external delivery service providers and internal planning strategies. They require superior logical thinkers who are 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. To support their proposals, candidates should be able to independently mine and analyze data, and be able to use any necessary programming and statistical analysis software to do so. 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. As a senior scientist, you will also help coach/mentor junior scientists in the team.

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