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Amazon Devices is an inventive research and development company that designs and engineer high-profile devices like the Kindle family of products, Fire Tablets, Fire TV, Health Wellness, Amazon Echo & Astro products. This is an exciting opportunity to join Amazon in developing state-of-the-art techniques that bring Gen AI on edge for our consumer products. We are looking for exceptional scientists to join our Applied Science team and help develop the next generation of edge models, and optimize them while doing co-designed with custom ML HW based on a revolutionary architecture. Work hard. Have Fun. Make History. Key job responsibilities Key job responsibilities * Quantize, prune, distill, finetune Gen AI models to optimize for edge platforms * Fundamentally understand Amazon’s underlying Neural Edge Engine to invent optimization techniques * Analyze deep learning workloads and provide guidance to map them to Amazon’s Neural Edge Engine * Use first principles of Information Theory, Scientific Computing, Deep Learning Theory, Non Equilibrium Thermodynamics * Train custom Gen AI models that beat SOTA and paves path for developing production models * Collaborate closely with compiler engineers, fellow Applied Scientists, Hardware Architects and product teams to build the best ML-centric solutions for our devices * Publish in open source and present on Amazon's behalf at key ML conferences - NeurIPS, ICLR, MLSys.

WW Amazon Stores Finance Science (ASFS) works to leverage science and economics to drive improved financial results, foster data backed decisions, and embed science within Finance. ASFS is focused on developing products that empower controllership, improve business decisions and financial planning by understanding financial drivers, and innovate science capabilities for efficiency and scale. We are looking for a data scientist to lead high visibility initiatives for forecasting Amazon Stores' financials. You will develop new science-based forecasting methodologies and build scalable models to improve financial decision making and planning for senior leadership up to VP and SVP level. You will build new ML and statistical models from the ground up that aim to transform financial planning for Amazon Stores. We prize creative problem solvers with the ability to draw on an expansive methodological toolkit to transform financial decision-making with science. The ideal candidate combines data-science acumen with strong business judgment. You have versatile modeling skills and are comfortable owning and extracting insights from data. You are excited to learn from and alongside seasoned scientists, engineers, and business leaders. You are an excellent communicator and effectively translate technical findings into business action. Key job responsibilities Demonstrating thorough technical knowledge, effective exploratory data analysis, and model building using industry standard ML models Working with technical and non-technical stakeholders across every step of science project life cycle Collaborating with finance, product, data engineering, and software engineering teams to create production implementations for large-scale ML models Innovating by adapting new modeling techniques and procedures Presenting research results to our internal research community

Amazon Leo is an initiative to launch a constellation of Low Earth Orbit satellites that will provide low-latency, high-speed broadband connectivity to unserved and underserved communities around the world. As a Communications Engineer in Modeling and Simulation, this role is primarily responsible for the developing and analyzing high level system resource allocation techniques for links to ensure optimal system and network performance from the capacity, coverage, power consumption, and availability point of view. Be part of the team defining the overall communication system and architecture of Amazon Leo’s broadband wireless network. This is a unique opportunity to innovate and define novel wireless technology with few legacy constraints. The team develops and designs the communication system of Leo and analyzes its overall system level performance, such as overall throughput, latency, system availability, packet loss, etc., as well as compatibility for both connectivity and interference mitigation with other space and terrestrial systems. This role in particular will be responsible for 1) evaluating complex multi-disciplinary trades involving RF bandwidth and network resource allocation to customers, 2) understanding and designing around hardware/software capabilities and constraints to support a dynamic network topology, 3) developing heuristic or solver-based algorithms to continuously improve and efficiently use available resources, 4) demonstrating their viability through detailed modeling and simulation, 5) working with operational teams to ensure they are implemented. This role will be part of a team developing the necessary simulation tools, with particular emphasis on coverage, capacity, latency and availability, considering the yearly growth of the satellite constellation and terrestrial network. Export Control Requirement: Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum. Key job responsibilities • Work within a project team and take the responsibility for the Leo's overall communication system design and architecture • Extend existing code/tools and create simulation models representative of the target system, primarily in MATLAB • Design interconnection strategies between fronthaul and backhaul nodes. Analyze link availability, investigate link outages, and optimize algorithms to study and maximize network performance • Use RF and optical link budgets with orbital constellation dynamics to model time-varying system capacity • Conduct trade-off analysis to benefit customer experience and optimization of resources (costs, power, spectrum), including optimization of satellite constellation design and link selection • Work closely with implementation teams to simulate expected system level performance and provide quick feedback on potential improvements • Analyze and minimize potential self-interference or interference with other communication systems • Provide visualizations, document results, and communicate them across multi-disciplinary project teams to make key architectural decisions

MULTIPLE POSITIONS AVAILABLE Employer: IMDB.COM, INC. Offered Position: Data Scientist III Job Location: Seattle, Washington Job Number: AMZ9971313 Position Responsibilities: Own the data science elements of various products to help with data-based decision making, product performance optimization, and product performance tracking. Work directly with product managers to help drive the design of the product. Work with Technical Product Managers to help drive the build planning. Translate business problems and products into data requirements and metrics. Initiate the design, development, and implementation of scientific analysis projects or deliverables. Own the analysis, modelling, system design, and development of data science solutions for products. Write documents and make presentations that explain model/analysis results to the business. Bridge the degree of uncertainty in both problem definition and data scientific solution approaches. Build consensus on data, metrics, and analysis to drive business and system strategy. 40 hours / week, 8:00am-5:00pm, Salary Range $165,006/year to $215,300/year. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, visit: https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. Amazon.com is an Equal Opportunity-Affirmative Action Employer – Minority / Female / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation.#0000

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 Sponsored Brands team at Amazon is building the next generation of brand advertising products and platforms for advertisers using Gen AI. This role presents an opportunity to join us at the ground floor of this transformation, which is a core part of Amazon's overall business strategy. You will be the Gen AI applied science leader that will determine what products and ads show up in the most critical ad placements across Amazon. You'll have opportunities to deliver at the highest technical level, working with science, product, engineering, and UX, all directly connected to a marketplace of supply and demand. In this highly visible role, you'll collaborate across multiple stakeholders within Ads and Retail. We are seeking a Gen AI Applied Science inventor who has strong product sense, with a proven track record with hands on science vision and execution while building high impact products from the ground up. you will have the opportunity to apply your deep subject matter expertise in the area of ML, LLM and GenAI models. You will invent new product experiences that enable novel advertiser and shopper experiences. This role will work on bringing state-of-the-art GenAI models to production. You will define the long-term science vision for our advertising business, driven by our customer’s needs, and translate it into actionable plans for our team of applied scientists and engineers. Key job responsibilities You will play a pivotal role in managing projects at all stages: inception, design, development, deployment and subsequent improvements. You will tackle challenging problems and coordinate high profile projects across multiple teams to ensure customer and business goals are met. You will interface across product, science, and engineering teams within the advertising and retail organizations. You will drive mechanisms that allow the team to move quickly and deliver strong results. You will operate with a high degree of autonomy and efficiency. You'll be responsible for project management - prioritize, plan projects and features, manage partners, and track external commitments. You will recommend alternative technical approaches and partner with product, science, and engineering teams to meet timelines. You will actively role model the use of GenAI to make the team more efficient. About the team We are on a mission to make Amazon the best in class destination for shoppers to discover, engage, and purchase relevant products, from brands that are relevant to them. In this role, you will design and implement Gen AI solutions that help millions of advertisers create more effective ad campaigns with intelligent recommendations, while improving the overall experience at Amazon's global scale. Our team invents, defines, and delivers advertising products that drive brand discovery and sales. Our solutions generate billions in revenue and drive long-term growth for Amazon Store 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, fast-paced, and collaborative team with an entrepreneurial spirit.

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 Applied Scientists who have a deep passion for building machine-learning solutions, ability to communicate data insights and scientific vision, and execute strategic projects. As an Applied Scientist on this team, you will: • Build full life-cycle machine learning solutions; build models and perform data analysis to deliver scalable solutions to business problems. • Scale ad performance insights through agentic systems/LLMs. • 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 ML 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. • Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large-scale data analysis, machine-learning model development, model validation and serving. • Research innovative machine learning approaches. 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. BASIC QUALIFICATIONS • PhD or equivalent Master's Degree plus 4+ years of experience in CS, CE, ML or related field • 3+ years of experience of building machine learning models for business application • Experience programming in Python or related language

The Amazon Center for Quantum Computing (CQC) is a multi-disciplinary team of scientists, engineers, and technicians on a mission to develop a fault-tolerant quantum computer. As a Senior Quantum Applied Scientist on our Device and Architecture Theory team, you will be a technical authority and driving force in the theory and modeling of our superconducting qubit processors. You will lead detailed modeling efforts to explain experimental results, inform new processor designs, and optimize device performance, working closely with our measurement, design, and calibration teams. You will also help chart the strategic direction for next-generation processors, evaluating novel qubits, gate schemes, and scalable architectures for error correction and fault-tolerant logic. This is a role with significant room for innovation: you will play a key role in architecting our large-scale error-corrected quantum processors. We are looking for a seasoned researcher with deep expertise in superconducting circuit physics and a proven track record of bridging theory and experiment. Success in this role requires both technical depth and a genuine passion for applied, collaborative work. The ideal candidate will excel at communication across disciplines — translating detailed analyses into actionable guidance for engineering teams — and will bring the experience and judgment to identify innovations that will have the greatest impact. Key job responsibilities - Develop theoretical and numerical models of superconducting qubit processors, working across theory, measurement, design, and calibration teams to validate predictions and translate modeling insights into device improvements - Conduct pathfinding research on novel qubit designs, gate schemes, and processor architectures to push the performance of next-generation devices - Communicate scientific findings across the CQC, and, when appropriate, share results externally via conference presentations and publications in scientific journals - Identify and evaluate emerging research developments that could impact architectural decisions About the team The Amazon Center for Quantum Computing (CQC) is a multi-disciplinary team of scientists, engineers, and technicians, on a mission to develop a fault-tolerant quantum computer. Inclusive Team Culture Here at Amazon, 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. Diverse Experiences Amazon 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. 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. Export Control Requirement Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be either a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum, or be able to obtain a US export license. If you are unsure if you meet these requirements, please apply and Amazon will review your application for eligibility.

The Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) Customization Team is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Applied Scientist to support adoption and enable customization of Amazon Nova. The role focuses on developing state-of-the-art services and tools for model customization, including supervised fine-tuning, reinforcement learning, and knowledge distillation across large language models. As an Applied Scientist, you will play a important role in developing advanced customization capabilities that enable enterprises to build highly performant application-specific models without the need for training models from scratch. Your work will directly impact how companies leverage Amazon Nova models for their specific use cases. Key job responsibilities - Contribute to the development of novel customization techniques including extended post-training, continued pre-training, and advanced knowledge distillation - Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and implement enterprise-ready tooling for various training techniques on Amazon SageMaker - Design and execute experiments to optimize model accuracy, latency, and cost across different customization approaches (SFT, DPO, PPO) - Develop and enhance preference learning algorithms and training curricula for customer-specific applications - Create robust evaluation frameworks for assessing model performance across different domains and use cases - Contribute to the development of the Responsible AI toolkit, including creating training and evaluation datasets for model alignment - Design and implement secure access mechanisms for early model checkpoints and weights - Communicate technical insights and results to both technical and non-technical stakeholders through presentations and documentation

Revolutionize the Future of AI at the Frontier of Applied Science Are you a brilliant mind seeking to push the boundaries of what's possible with artificial intelligence? Join our elite team of researchers and engineers at the forefront of applied science, where we're harnessing the latest advancements in natural language processing, deep learning, and generative AI to reshape industries and unlock new realms of innovation. As an Applied Science Intern, you'll have the unique opportunity to work alongside world-renowned experts, gaining invaluable hands-on experience with cutting-edge technologies such as large language models, transformers, and neural networks. You'll dive deep into complex challenges, fine-tuning state-of-the-art models, developing novel algorithms for named entity recognition, and exploring the vast potential of generative AI. This internship is not just about executing tasks – it's about being a driving force behind groundbreaking discoveries. You'll collaborate with cross-functional teams, leveraging your expertise in statistics, recommender systems, and question answering to tackle real-world problems and deliver impactful solutions. Throughout your journey, you'll have access to unparalleled resources, including state-of-the-art computing infrastructure, cutting-edge research papers, and mentorship from industry luminaries. This immersive experience will not only sharpen your technical skills but also cultivate your ability to think critically, communicate effectively, and thrive in a fast-paced, innovative environment where bold ideas are celebrated. Join us at the forefront of applied science, where your contributions will shape the future of AI and propel humanity forward. Seize this extraordinary opportunity to learn, grow, and leave an indelible mark on the world of technology. Amazon has positions available for LLM & GenAI Applied Science Internships in, but not limited to, Bellevue, WA; Boston, MA; Cambridge, MA; New York, NY; Santa Clara, CA; Seattle, WA; Sunnyvale, CA; Pittsburgh, PA. Key job responsibilities We are particularly interested in candidates with expertise in: LLMs, NLP/NLU, Gen AI, Transformers, Fine-Tuning, Recommendation Systems, Deep Learning, NER, Statistics, Neural Networks, Question Answering. In this role, you will work alongside global experts to develop and implement novel, scalable algorithms and modeling techniques that advance the state-of-the-art in areas at the intersection of LLMs and GenAI. You will tackle challenging, groundbreaking research problems on production-scale data, with a focus on recommendation systems, question answering, deep learning and generative AI. The ideal candidate should possess the ability to work collaboratively with diverse groups and cross-functional teams to solve complex business problems. A successful candidate will be a self-starter, comfortable with ambiguity, with strong attention to detail and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment. A day in the life - Collaborate with cross-functional teams to tackle complex challenges in natural language processing, computer vision, and generative AI. - Fine-tune state-of-the-art models and develop novel algorithms to push the boundaries of what's possible. - Explore the vast potential of generative AI and its applications across industries. - Attend cutting-edge research seminars and engage in thought-provoking discussions with industry luminaries. - Leverage state-of-the-art computing infrastructure and access to the latest research papers to fuel your innovation. - Present your groundbreaking work and insights to the team, fostering a culture of knowledge-sharing and continuous learning.

Come be a part of a rapidly expanding $35 billion-dollar global business. At Amazon Business, a fast-growing startup passionate about building solutions, we set out every day to innovate and disrupt the status quo. We stand at the intersection of tech & retail in the B2B space developing innovative purchasing and procurement solutions to help businesses and organizations thrive. At Amazon Business, we strive to be the most recognized and preferred strategic partner for smart business buying. Bring your insight, imagination and a healthy disregard for the impossible. Join us in building and celebrating the value of Amazon Business to buyers and sellers of all sizes and industries. Unlock your career potential. Amazon Business Data Insights and Analytics team is looking for a Data Scientist to lead the research and thought leadership to drive our data and insights strategy for Amazon Business. This role is central in shaping the definition and execution of the long-term strategy for Amazon Business. You will be responsible for researching, experimenting and analyzing predictive and optimization models, designing and implementing advanced detection systems that analyze customer behavior at registration and throughout their journey. You will work on ambiguous and complex business and research science problems with large opportunities. You'll leverage diverse data signals including customer profiles, purchase patterns, and network associations to identify potential abuse and fraudulent activities. You are an analytical individual who is comfortable working with cross-functional teams and systems, working with state-of-the-art machine learning techniques and AWS services to build robust models that can effectively distinguish between legitimate business activities and suspicious behavior patterns You must be a self-starter and be able to learn on the go. Excellent written and verbal communication skills are required as you will work very closely with diverse teams. Key job responsibilities - Interact with business and software teams to understand their business requirements and operational processes - Frame business problems into scalable solutions - Adapt existing and invent new techniques for solutions - Gather data required for analysis and model building - Create and track accuracy and performance metrics - Prototype models by using high-level modeling languages such as R or in software languages such as Python. - Familiarity with transforming prototypes to production is preferred. - Create, enhance, and maintain technical documentation