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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: 10438745
    (Updated 33 days ago)
    Are you a scientist interested in pushing the state of the art in Information Retrieval, NLP, Large Language Models and fine-tuning LLMs? Are you interested in innovating on behalf of millions of customers, helping them accomplish their every day goals? Do you wish you had access to large datasets and tremendous computational resources? Do you want to join a team of capable scientist and engineers, building the future of e-commerce? Answer yes to any of these questions, and you will be a great fit for our team at Amazon. Our team is part of Amazon’s Personalization organization, a high-performing group that leverages Amazon’s expertise in machine learning, generative AI, large-scale data systems, and user experience design to deliver the best shopping experiences for our customers. Our team builds large-scale machine-learning solutions that delight customers with personalized and up-to-date recommendations that are related to their interests. We are a team uniquely placed within Amazon, to have a direct window of opportunity to influence how customers will think about their shopping journey in the future. Key job responsibilities As an Applied Scientist in our team, you will be responsible for the research, design, and development of new AI technologies for personalization. You will adopt or invent new machine learning and analytical techniques in the realm of recommendations, information retrieval and large language models and fine-tuning models. You will collaborate with scientists, engineers, and product partners locally and abroad. Your work will include inventing, experimenting with, and launching new features, products and systems. Please visit https://www.amazon.science for more information. A day in the life You will solve real-world problems by getting and analyzing large amounts of data, generate insights and opportunities, execute experiments, and develop statistical and ML models. The team is driven by business needs, which requires collaboration with other Scientists, Engineers, and Product Managers across the organization. You get to influence stakeholders with clear communication skills. You innovate on behalf of the customer and strategically build features. You will mentor junior members and help them grow. About the team The team values innovations and offers a safe place to try, fail and learn while fostering a culture of continuous improvement. Everyone is a leader and owner for everything we do as a team. Our team offers creative space with entrepreneurial work environment focusing on customer obsession.
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 10446902
    (Updated 12 days ago)
    Amazon brings buyers and sellers together. Our retail customers depend on us to give them access to every product at the best possible price. Our sellers depend on us to give them a platform to launch their business into every home and marketplace. Making this happen is the mission of every scientist in North America Stores (NAS) organization. To this end, the Science team is tasked with: · Building and deploying AI / ML models and LLM-powered systems that lead to hundreds of millions in business impact across supply chain optimization, customer engagement, and cultural relevance at Amazon scale · Partnering with product teams in evaluating the financial and operational impact of new product offerings. · Partnering with science teams across other organizations to develop state of the art algorithms and models. · Carrying out independent data-backed initiatives that can be leveraged later on in the fields of network organization and financial modeling of processes. · Publishing papers in both internal and external conferences / journals. In order to execute the above mandate we are on the look out for smart and qualified Applied Scientists who will own projects in partnership with product and research teams as well as operate autonomously on independent initiatives that are expected to unlock benefits in the future. Our team builds science-backed systems that directly influence vendor negotiations, forecasting, buying, product discovery for secondary language customers, and inventory management for North America's retail business. Key job responsibilities As an Applied Scientist, you are able to use a range of artificial intelligence and operations research methodologies to solve challenging business problems when the solution is unclear. Key responsibilities include: Develop workflows that combine ML models with optimization engines, similarity search, and human-in-the-loop capabilities to automate complex business processes Build scalable data and inference pipelines using AWS services (SageMaker, Bedrock, FAISS, Andes) to process 100M+ ASINs and serve real-time predictions in production Design and execute rigorous experimentation frameworks including weblabs, IPC labs, and causal inference methods to validate model impact and drive launch decisions Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, product, and business teams to translate ambiguous business problems into well-scoped science solutions with clear success metrics
  • US, WA, Redmond
    Job ID: 10454318
    (Updated 17 days ago)
    Amazon Redshift is the world’s most popular fully managed cloud data warehouse. Tens of thousands of enterprise customers use Redshift to crunch through exabytes of data in the cloud to make business critical decisions every day. To stay ahead in such a mission critical setting, at Redshift, we must always re-invent ourselves for customers. We are always looking for the innovative engineers to help shape the future of Redshift. We are looking for an Applied Scientist to build deep learning models that predict query resource consumption, enabling intelligent workload management at massive scale. Query resource prediction is at the heart of Redshift's workload management, determining how queries are scheduled, scaled, and executed across the system. This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of intelligent query management for the world's most popular cloud data warehouse, powering analytical workloads for Fortune 500 companies, startups, and everything in between. You will bring deep expertise in one or more areas such as deep learning, graph neural networks, or reinforcement learning, with the ability to work in a fast-moving and collaborative environment to deliver broad business impact at scale. Key job responsibilities As an Applied Scientist on the Redshift Query Optimizer team, you will research and develop deep learning models that power resource prediction for one of the world's largest cloud data warehouses. You will take ownership of the end-to-end ML lifecycle, from problem formulation and data analysis to model training, evaluation, and production deployment. You will design novel approaches to understand queries and predict resource needs across diverse and evolving workloads. You will run experiments at scale on real production data, and collaborate closely with systems engineers to deliver low-latency inference in a highly available environment. You will publish your research at top-tier academic venues and contribute to the broader ML-for-systems community. And you will help shape the science roadmap for autonomous database operations while mentoring fellow scientists and engineers. About the team AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred 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 AWS? Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses. Inclusive Team Culture Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness. Mentorship & 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, mentorship 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 we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.
  • US, MA, Cambridge
    Job ID: 10439209
    (Updated 33 days ago)
    The Devices and Services org at Amazon has been the innovation engine of consumer electronics at Amazon with the industry-leading Kindle e-readers, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Echo, the most popular smart speaker and Alexa, the leading AI assistant. We are looking for Senior Applied Scientist- Audio to join the Edge Technology team. We are responsible for all of the Echo audio features including Spatial audio and Home Theater. Your work will have a large impact on the lives of Echo customers as music listening is the most popular feature. Key job responsibilities In this role, you will: -Be the champion of Echo music processing technology innovation from ideation, proof of concept to productization -Propose new research projects, get buy-in from stakeholders, and lead the team for successful execution -Work closely with an inter-disciplinary product development team including outside partners to bring the prototype algorithm into commercialization -Be a team leader in an open and collaborative environment
  • GB, Cambridge
    Job ID: 10442934
    (Updated 26 days ago)
    Amazon Devices is an inventive research and development company that designs and engineers high-profile devices like the Kindle family of products, Fire Tablets, Fire TV, Health & Wellness, Amazon Echo, and Astro products. This is an exciting opportunity to bring generative AI to Amazon's consumer products, both on-device at the edge and in the cloud. Our compression platform delivers 20x to 100x neural network compression, but using it well still takes weeks of hands-on learning and expert intuition. The Edge AI Model Studio team exists to change that. We become the expert users so partner teams don't have to: we turn compression science into reliable, production workflows, and we package the results into a library of compression-ready student architectures that partners can run on their own. Our north star is simple. Training-to-deployment should feel like pushing a button, not a month-long science project. We are looking for an Applied Scientist to join Model Studio and help compress the next generation of models for edge and cloud deployment across modalities, including large language models, vision-language models, speech and audio models, and omni models that reason jointly over text, audio, and video. You will apply and extend state-of-the-art compression recipes to real models, define the benchmarks and evaluation methodology that make trade-offs explicit, and build the reference implementations that let other teams deploy compressed models without our help. You will work backwards from deployment constraints such as memory, latency, throughput, power, and cost, which differ across edge and cloud targets, partnering closely with fellow scientists, platform and compiler engineers, hardware architects, and product teams. The role sits on two frontiers at once. Compressing a model effectively and healing it back to quality means staying current not just with the latest compression techniques, but with the rapidly evolving model architectures themselves, and understanding deeply how each one works inside. You will take ownership of project-level delivery, apply advanced compression across a wide range of real models, and have room to grow your scope and technical influence. Key job responsibilities - Apply and extend compression recipes (knowledge distillation, structured pruning, and post-training and quantization-aware quantization including low-bit and mixed-precision) to assigned models, achieving 20x to 100x compression while preserving model quality. - Design and run healing recipes (fine-tuning and distillation that recover accuracy lost to compression), iterating on data mixes, objectives, and training settings until the compressed model meets its quality bar. - Track emerging model architectures and dissect how they work internally, so you can choose where to compress, anticipate where accuracy will break, and design recovery strategies grounded in the model's actual structure. - Build a library of compression-ready model entries: reference implementations, compression recipes, model cards, and benchmark results that partner teams can run self-service to produce deployment-ready artifacts for edge and cloud targets. - Define the datasets, benchmarks, and KPIs that matter for your models, and build evaluation methodology that makes accuracy, latency, memory, and cost trade-offs explicit. - Run fast feasibility gates on new model families and modalities before committing to long efforts, and pivot early when a candidate does not clear the bar. - Capture platform friction as high-signal feedback: minimal reproductions and tracked fix requests that help platform and compression-science partners root-cause issues, so partner teams never rediscover the same blockers. - Write reproducible, testable, well-documented code that meets the SDE I bar, so your recipes and results can be reproduced and built on by others. - Collaborate with Applied Scientists, platform and compiler engineers, hardware architects, and partner teams; mentor interns and help newer teammates ramp up. - Where appropriate and not precluded by business considerations, publish and present on Amazon's behalf at top ML venues such as NeurIPS, ICLR, and MLSys. A day in the life You pick up a vision-language model whose vision tower needs to fit tight memory, latency, and cost budgets for deployment. You configure a quantization-aware training run at the team's target compression ratio, then check the compressed checkpoint against a visual reasoning benchmark and find it recovers only part of the baseline accuracy. You design a healing run to close the gap, tuning the data mix and training objective to fine-tune the compressed model back toward the teacher's quality. The next checkpoint clears most of the gap but still lands short, so rather than assume the recipe is at fault, you dig into the evaluation harness and discover a benchmark filter is misaligned, deflating the score. You fix the filter, re-run, and confirm the healed model lands where the science predicts. You then package the work as a reusable model entry (recipe, model card, benchmark numbers, and a reference implementation a partner team can run on their own) and file a minimal reproduction of the harness bug so no one rediscovers it. A typical week mixes hands-on compression and evaluation with design discussions alongside fellow scientists and platform engineers. You run a fast feasibility gate on a new model family before committing to a long effort, profile a compressed model to confirm a real throughput gain, and turn a recurring friction point into a reusable pattern. You work in a small, fast-moving team where every recipe you harden compounds across future models and every partner you unblock ships faster. About the team We compress frontier models 20x to 100x and put them in the hands of millions of customers, everywhere from your pocket to the cloud: the device in your hand, the Echo on your counter, and the services behind them. The models the industry shipped last month, we are shrinking this month, across language, vision, speech, and omni. That is the job: take the best models in the world and make them small enough, fast enough, and cheap enough to run everywhere, without giving up the intelligence that makes them worth running. Edge AI Model Studio is the team that makes it real. We are the expert users of a compression platform that most of Amazon cannot yet wield, and our mission is to change that, turning weeks of expert intuition into recipes anyone can run. We are small, we move fast, and we own our work end to end: a result counts only when it ships with a recipe, benchmarks, and an artifact a partner team can run without us. Every recipe we crack compounds across every model that follows. If you want your science in real products at real scale, and you want to put the frontier of generative AI in the hands of millions of customers, come build it with us.
  • US, NY, New York
    Job ID: 10437288
    (Updated 34 days ago)
    The Ads Measurement Science team in the Measurement, Ad Tech, and Data Science (MADS) team of Amazon Ads serves a centralized role developing solutions for a multitude of performance measurement products. We create solutions which measure the comprehensive impact of advertiser's ad spend, including sales impacts both online and offline and across timescales, and provide actionable insights that enable our advertisers to optimize their media portfolios. We also own the science solutions for AI tools that unlock new insights and automate high-effort customer workflows, such as custom query and report generation based on natural language user requests. We leverage a host of scientific technologies to accomplish this mission, including Generative AI, classical ML, Causal Inference, Natural Language Processing, and Computer Vision. As a Senior Applied Scientist on the team, you will be at the forefront of innovation, developing measurement solutions end-to-end from inception to production. You will set the technical vision and innovate on behalf of our customers. You will propose, design, analyze, and productionize models to provide novel measurement insights to our customers. You will partner with engineering to deploy these solutions into production. You will work with key stakeholders from various business teams to enable advertisers to act upon those metrics. Key job responsibilities * Lead the development of ad measurement models and solutions that address the full spectrum of an advertiser's investment, focusing on scalable and efficient methodologies. * Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams including engineering, product management, and business teams to define and implement measurement solutions. * Use state-of-the-art scientific technologies including Generative AI, Classical Machine Learning, Causal Inference, Natural Language Processing, and Computer Vision to develop state of the art models that measure the impact of ad spend across multiple platforms and timescales. * Drive experimentation and the continuous improvement of ML models through iterative development, testing, and optimization. * Translate complex scientific challenges into clear and impactful solutions for business stakeholders. * Mentor and guide junior scientists, fostering a collaborative and high-performing team culture. * Foster collaborations between scientists to move faster, with broader impact. * Regularly engage with the broader scientific community with presentations, publications, and patents. A day in the life You will solve real-world problems by getting and analyzing large amounts of data, generate business insights and opportunities, design simulations and experiments, and develop statistical and ML models. The team is driven by business needs, which requires collaboration with other Scientists, Engineers, and Product Managers across the advertising organization. You will prepare written and verbal presentations to share insights to audiences of varying levels of technical sophistication. Team video https://advertising.amazon.com/help/G4LNN5YWHP6SM9TJ About the team We are a team of scientists across Applied, Research, Data Science and Economist disciplines. You will work with colleagues with deep expertise in ML, NLP, CV, Gen AI, and Causal Inference with a diverse range of backgrounds. We partner closely with top-notch engineers, product managers, sales leaders, and other scientists with expertise in the ads industry and on building scalable modeling and software solutions.
  • US, NY, New York
    Job ID: 10437287
    (Updated 34 days ago)
    The Ads Measurement Science team in the Measurement, Ad Tech, and Data Science (MADS) team of Amazon Ads serves a centralized role developing solutions for a multitude of performance measurement products. We create solutions which measure the comprehensive impact of advertiser's ad spend, including sales impacts both online and offline and across timescales, and provide actionable insights that enable our advertisers to optimize their media portfolios. We also own the science solutions for AI tools that unlock new insights and automate high-effort customer workflows, such as custom query and report generation based on natural language user requests. We leverage a host of scientific technologies to accomplish this mission, including Generative AI, classical ML, Causal Inference, Natural Language Processing, and Computer Vision. As an Applied Scientist on the team, you will lead measurement solutions end-to-end from inception to production. You will propose, design, analyze, and productionize models to provide novel measurement insights to our customers. Key job responsibilities Leverage deep expertise in one or more scientific disciplines to invent solutions to ambiguous ads measurement problems Disambiguate problems to propose clear evaluation frameworks and success criteria Work autonomously and write high quality technical documents Implement a significant portion of critical-path code, and partner with engineers to directly carry solutions into production Partner closely with other scientists to deliver large, multi-faceted technical projects Share and publish works with the broader scientific community through meetings and conferences Communicate clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences Contribute new ideas that shape the direction of the team's work Mentor more junior scientists and participate in the hiring process About the team We are a team of scientists across Applied, Research, Data Science and Economist disciplines. You will work with colleagues with deep expertise in ML, NLP, CV, Gen AI, and Causal Inference with a diverse range of backgrounds. We partner closely with top-notch engineers, product managers, sales leaders, and other scientists with expertise in the ads industry and on building scalable modeling and software solutions.
  • (Updated 0 days ago)
    At Frontier AI & Robotics, we're not just advancing robotics – we're reimagining it from the ground up. Our team is building the future of intelligent robotics through frontier foundation models and end-to-end learned systems. We tackle some of the most challenging problems in AI and robotics, from developing sophisticated perception systems to creating adaptive manipulation strategies that work in complex, real-world scenarios. What sets us apart is our unique combination of ambitious research vision and practical impact. We leverage Amazon's massive computational infrastructure and rich real-world datasets to train and deploy state-of-the-art foundation models. Our work spans the full spectrum of robotics intelligence – from multimodal perception using images, videos, and sensor data, to sophisticated manipulation strategies that can handle diverse real-world scenarios. We're building systems that don't just work in the lab, but scale to meet the demands of Amazon's global operations. Join us if you're excited about pushing the boundaries of what's possible in robotics, working with world-class researchers, and seeing your innovations deployed at unprecedented scale. Key job responsibilities In this role you will build and maintain the data infrastructure that powers our robotics manipulation research. You'll work alongside our existing team of platform engineers to extend the systems that turn raw robot session data into curated, trainable episodes. This team owns streaming ingestion pipelines, platform and schema design, heterogeneous data sources, data curation and quality controls, full-stack inspection and dataset-builders that researchers and human annotators actually use, and tools to let scientists go from dataset to training job without leaving the platform. We run on a modern cloud-native stack — distributed compute on Kubernetes, streaming data infrastructure, columnar lakehouse storage, and a TypeScript/React frontend. We’re looking for engineers willing and eager to work on the full stack in a fast iteration cycle while working with researchers as close customers. What matters is that you can ship full-stack data infrastructure real users depend on, treat researchers as collaborators rather than customers, and have a strong bias toward iteration in a flat org where engineers pick up science-driven work directly instead of waiting for approval layers.
  • IN, KA, Bengaluru
    Job ID: 10452417
    (Updated 3 days ago)
    Interested to build the next generation Financial systems that can handle billions of dollars in transactions? Interested to build highly scalable next generation systems that could utilize Amazon Cloud? Massive data volume + complex business rules in a highly distributed and service oriented architecture, a world class information collection and delivery challenge. Our challenge is to deliver the software systems which accurately capture, process, and report on the huge volume of financial transactions that are generated each day as millions of customers make purchases, as thousands of Vendors and Partners are paid, as inventory moves in and out of warehouses, as commissions are calculated, and as taxes are collected in hundreds of jurisdictions worldwide. Key job responsibilities • Understand the business and discover actionable insights from large volumes of data through application of machine learning, statistics or causal inference. • Analyse and extract relevant information from large amounts of Amazon’s historical transactions data to help automate and optimize key processes • Research, develop and implement novel machine learning and statistical approaches for anomaly, theft, fraud, abusive and wasteful transactions detection. • Use machine learning and analytical techniques to create scalable solutions for business problems. • Identify new areas where machine learning can be applied for solving business problems. • Partner with developers and business teams to put your models in production. • Mentor other scientists and engineers in the use of ML techniques. A day in the life • Understand the business and discover actionable insights from large volumes of data through application of machine learning, statistics or causal inference. • Analyse and extract relevant information from large amounts of Amazon’s historical transactions data to help automate and optimize key processes • Research, develop and implement novel machine learning and statistical approaches for anomaly, theft, fraud, abusive and wasteful transactions detection. • Use machine learning and analytical techniques to create scalable solutions for business problems. • Identify new areas where machine learning can be applied for solving business problems. • Partner with developers and business teams to put your models in production. • Mentor other scientists and engineers in the use of ML techniques. About the team The FinAuto TFAW(theft, fraud, abuse, waste) team is part of FGBS Org and focuses on building applications utilizing machine learning models to identify and prevent theft, fraud, abusive and wasteful(TFAW) financial transactions across Amazon. Our mission is to prevent every single TFAW transaction. As a Machine Learning Scientist in the team, you will be driving the TFAW Sciences roadmap, conduct research to develop state-of-the-art solutions through a combination of data mining, statistical and machine learning techniques, and coordinate with Engineering team to put these models into production. You will need to collaborate effectively with internal stakeholders, cross-functional teams to solve problems, create operational efficiencies, and deliver successfully against high organizational standards.
  • (Updated 5 days ago)
    Amazon's Compliance and Safety Services (CoSS) Team is looking for a smart and creative Applied Scientist to apply and extend state-of-the-art research in NLP, multi-modal modeling, domain adaptation, continuous learning and large language model to join the Applied Science team. At Amazon, we are working to be the most customer-centric company on earth. Millions of customers trust us to ensure a safe shopping experience. This is an exciting and challenging position to drive research that will shape new ML solutions for product compliance and safety around the globe in order to achieve best-in-class, company-wide standards around product assurance. You will research on large amounts of tabular, textual, and product image data from product detail pages, selling partner details and customer feedback, evaluate state-of-the-art algorithms and frameworks, and develop new algorithms to improve safety and compliance mechanisms. You will partner with engineers, technical program managers and product managers to design new ML solutions implemented across the entire Amazon product catalog. Key job responsibilities As an Applied Scientist on our team, you will: - Research and Evaluate state-of-the-art algorithms in NLP, multi-modal modeling, domain adaptation, continuous learning and large language model. - Design new algorithms that improve on the state-of-the-art to drive business impact, such as synthetic data generation, active learning, grounding LLMs for business use cases - Design and plan collection of new labels and audit mechanisms to develop better approaches that will further improve product assurance and customer trust. - Analyze and convey results to stakeholders and contribute to the research and product roadmap. - Collaborate with other scientists, engineers, product managers, and business teams to creatively solve problems, measure and estimate risks, and constructively critique peer research - Consult with engineering teams to design data and modeling pipelines which successfully interface with new and existing software - Publish research publications at internal and external venues. About the team The science team delivers custom state-of-the-art algorithms for image and document understanding. The team specializes in developing machine learning solutions to advance compliance capabilities. Their research contributions span multiple domains including multi-modal modeling, unstructured data matching, text extraction from visual documents, and anomaly detection, with findings regularly published in academic venues.

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