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We are looking for a passionate, talented, and inventive Data Scientist with a strong machine learning and analytics background to help build industry-leading language technology powering Alexa for Shopping, our AI-driven search and shopping assistant, helping customers with their shopping tasks at every step of their shopping journey. This innovative role focuses on developing conversation-based, multimodal shopping experiences, utilizing data analysis, statistical modeling, machine learning (ML) technologies, and experimentation to drive product decisions and optimize customer experiences. Our mission in conversational shopping is to make it easy for customers to find and discover the best products to meet their needs by helping with their product research, providing comparisons and recommendations, answering product questions, enabling shopping directly from images or videos, providing visual inspiration, and more. We do this by leveraging advanced analytics, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Machine Learning (ML), A/B testing, causal inference, and data-driven insights to continuously improve our systems. Key job responsibilities Key job responsibilities As a Data Scientist on our team, you will be responsible for the analysis, modeling, and optimization of AI technologies that will shape the future of shopping experiences. You will play a critical role in measuring and improving multimodal conversational systems, in particular those based on large language models, information retrieval, recommender systems and knowledge graphs, to be tailored to customer needs. You will handle Amazon-scale use cases with significant impact on our customers' experiences. You will collaborate with scientists, engineers, and product partners locally and abroad. Your work will include designing experiments, analyzing results, and launching new features, products and systems. A day in the life Perform hands-on analysis and modeling of enormous multimodal datasets to develop insights into how to best help customers throughout their shopping journeys. Use statistical methods, machine learning, and data mining techniques to create scalable solutions for measuring and optimizing shopping assistant systems based on a rich set of structured and unstructured contextual signals. Design and analyze A/B tests and experiments to evaluate new features and model improvements, ensuring statistical rigor and actionable insights. Develop metrics, dashboards, and reporting frameworks to monitor system performance, customer engagement, and business impact. Build predictive models and conduct deep-dive analyses to identify opportunities for improving customer experience, conversion, and satisfaction. Collaborate with Applied Scientists and Engineers to translate analytical insights into production systems, working closely on model evaluation and deployment. Establish automated processes for large-scale data analysis, ETL pipelines, metric generation, and experimentation frameworks. Communicate results and insights to both technical and non-technical audiences, including through presentations, written reports, and data visualizations. About the team The Alexa for Shopping Science team, based in London, works alongside ~150 engineers, designers and product managers, shaping the future of AI-driven shopping experiences at Amazon. The team works on every aspect of the AfS AI, from making it agentic, enabling customers to set price alerts or empower AfS to act on their behalf and automatically purchase products when the price is right, to understanding multimodal user queries and generating answers that combine text, image, audio and video, including deep research reports that scour the web and the Amazon catalog to provide detailed and personalised shopping guidance. We utilize and advance state-of-art techniques in the fields of Natural Language Processing, gen AI, Information Retrieval, Machine/Deep Learning, and Data Mining. We validate our work by actively participating in the internal and external scientific communities.

The Sponsored Products and Brands team at Amazon Ads is re-imagining the advertising landscape through cutting-edge 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. Key job responsibilities - Define and lead science initiatives from problem framing through production deployment in a high-ambiguity environment - Develop and deploy models spanning computer vision, language, and search and retrieval that operate on multimodal inputs at scale - Design and analyze large-scale online experiments to measure impact on shopper and advertiser outcomes - Collaborate with engineering, product, and design to ship science into production A day in the life As an Applied Scientist on the Sponsored Videos team, you will tackle problems at the intersection of computer vision, generative AI, search and retrieval, and personalization. You'll own the full science lifecycle from research and experimentation through online testing and production deployment, working closely with engineering, product, and design partners to bring ideas to market. You should be comfortable working with multimodal signals, building models that operate at scale, and measuring impact through rigorous experimentation. Your work will directly influence the experience of hundreds of millions of shoppers and the outcomes of tens of thousands of advertisers. About the team The Sponsored Videos team within Sponsored Products and Brands develops the science and systems behind video advertising experiences that connect advertisers and shoppers across Amazon. We are on a mission to make Amazon the best-in-class destination for shoppers to discover, engage with, and build affinity with brands through videos.

We are seeking an Applied Scientist to lead the development of evaluation frameworks and data collection protocols for robotic capabilities. In this role, you will focus on designing how we measure, stress-test, and improve robot behavior across a wide range of real-world tasks. Your work will play a critical role in shaping how policies are validated and how high-quality datasets are generated to accelerate system performance. You will operate at the intersection of robotics, machine learning, and human-in-the-loop systems, building the infrastructure and methodologies that connect teleoperation, evaluation, and learning. This includes developing evaluation policies, defining task structures, and contributing to operator-facing interfaces that enable scalable and reliable data collection. The ideal candidate is highly experimental, systems-oriented, and comfortable working across software, robotics, and data pipelines, with a strong focus on turning ambiguous capability goals into measurable and actionable evaluation systems. Key job responsibilities - Design and implement evaluation frameworks to measure robot capabilities across structured tasks, edge cases, and real-world scenarios - Develop task definitions, success criteria, and benchmarking methodologies that enable consistent and reproducible evaluation of policies - Create and refine data collection protocols that generate high-quality, task-relevant datasets aligned with model development needs - Build and iterate on teleoperation workflows and operator interfaces to support efficient, reliable, and scalable data collection - Analyze evaluation results and collected data to identify performance gaps, failure modes, and opportunities for targeted data collection - Collaborate with engineering teams to integrate evaluation tooling, logging systems, and data pipelines into the broader robotics stack - Stay current with advances in robotics, evaluation methodologies, and human-in-the-loop learning to continuously improve internal approaches - Lead technical projects from conception through production deployment - Mentor junior scientists and engineers

We are seeking an Economist to join our growing team in Japan. In this role, you will apply rigorous economic and econometric methods to guide critical business decisions affecting Amazon's JP marketplace. You will build causal inference models to measure the impact of business initiatives on pricing, product selection, delivery speed, profitability, and customer experience. Working alongside economists, data scientists, and business intelligence engineers, you will tackle challenging problems using state-of-the-art analytical techniques while providing advisory support to business stakeholders. As one of the first economists based outside North America and EU, you will play a pioneering role in expanding Amazon's economist community in Asia and make an outsized impact on our international marketplace operations. At Amazon, you'll work alongside the latest AI and GenAI tools that are increasingly woven into how teams operate: from AI-powered capabilities that accelerate decision-making, to Generative AI that helps you focus on work that truly matters. You'll have opportunities and resources to develop AI fluency at your own pace, with continuous learning built into the culture. Key job responsibilities Design and execute causal inference analyses using econometric techniques to measure the impact of business initiatives on key marketplace metrics Build economic models to optimize pricing strategies, product selection decisions, and delivery speed investments that balance customer experience with business profitability Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and business leaders to translate complex business questions into tractable research problems and deliver actionable insights Design and analyze experiments to test hypotheses and validate causal relationships in observational data Develop scalable analytical frameworks and tools using R, Python, or Stata that can be leveraged across multiple business use cases Present findings and recommendations to technical and non-technical audiences, including senior leadership, through clear written narratives and data visualizations Partner with Machine Learning and BI team members to integrate economic insights into automated decision-making systems About the team The JP Economics and Decision Sciences team is a central science team that applies rigorous economic theory, causal inference methods, and machine learning to solve complex business challenges across the JP marketplace and beyond. We work closely with JP business leaders to drive change at Amazon, focusing on solving long-term, ambiguous problems while providing advisory support for short-term business pain points. Key topics include pricing, product selection, delivery speed, profitability, and customer experience. We tackle these issues by building novel economic and econometric models, machine learning systems, and high-impact experiments which we integrate into business, financial, and system-level decision making. Our work is highly collaborative and we regularly partner with JP-, EU-, and US-based interdisciplinary teams.

Amazon Ads is a multi-billion dollar global business that delivers advertising experiences across Amazon's owned-and-operated properties (including Prime Video, Twitch, Fire TV, and Amazon.com), third-party publisher networks, and emerging channels like generative AI-powered shopping experiences. As one of the fastest-growing segments of Amazon, we operate at unprecedented scale across desktop, mobile, connected TV, and emerging surfaces. Within Amazon Ads, Traffic Quality is a critical pillar of advertiser trust and marketplace integrity. Our mission is to build advanced capabilities that work at petabyte scale to detect sophisticated invalid traffic (IVT) which includes sophisticated non-human traffic, bot networks, and fraudulent engagement patterns across programmatic advertising. We are on a journey to establish Amazon Ads as an industry leader in traffic quality standards and transparency. Our research agenda focuses on staying ahead of adversarial actors through continuous innovation in detection methodologies, leveraging state-of-the-art techniques in deep learning and generative modeling, user behavior and multi-modal representation learning, anomaly detection, time-series analysis, and sparse labeling methods. We process billions of ad events daily, developing novel algorithms that balance precision and recall while operating under strict latency constraints. Our work directly protects hundreds of millions of dollars in advertiser spend annually while maintaining a seamless user experience. Key job responsibilities As an Applied Scientist I in Traffic Quality, you will solve inherently hard problems in advertising fraud detection using deep learning, self-supervised techniques, representation learning, and advanced clustering. You'll work on systems that process billions of ad impressions and clicks per day, using Amazon's cloud services including EC2, S3, EMR, Sagemaker, and RedShift. - Deliver on new research problems in fraud detection where neither problem nor solution is well-defined. - Invent and adapt new machine learning approaches, models, and algorithms to detect sophisticated invalid traffic. - Design and deploy production-quality ML components that directly impact advertiser trust and the business top-line. - Apply domain knowledge to perform broad data analysis as a precursor to modeling and build business insights. - Work with unstructured and massive datasets to deliver results. - Produce research reports meeting top-tier external publication standards. - Contribute to the scientific community through publications at peer-reviewed venues and reviewing research submissions. About the team Here are a few papers published by the team: 1/ [Scaling Generative Pre-training for User Ad Activity Sequences. AdKDD 2023.](https://assets.amazon.science/b7/42/03be071743d5a57cb1656e6caa34/scaling-generative-pre-training-for-user-ad-activity-sequences.pdf) 2/ [SLIDR: Real-time Robot Detection On Online Ads, IAAI 2023, Deployed Highly Innovative Applications of AI Track (AAAI 2023)](https://assets.amazon.science/75/2f/3b7106b143f38f7f4d2806388ace/real-time-detection-of-robotic-traffic-in-online-advertising.pdf) 3/ [Self-supervised Representation Learning Across Sequential and Tabular Features Using Transformers, NeurIPS 2022, First Table Representation Learning Workshop](https://openreview.net/forum?id=wIIJlmr1Dsk)

The AI Center of Excellence (AICE) builds AI primitives that power system-intrinsic intelligence and Trusted Intelligent Knowledge Infrastructure for both AI-as-a-Consumer and human users. We develop AI capabilities independently and in partnership with product-owning teams to evolve Amazon's AI-driven operations and productivity. Our impact is enterprise-broad and global. We are looking for an Applied Scientist who can identify high-impact problems, design rigorous experiments, and translate research into hardened, reusable primitives ready for broad consumption across the enterprise. Key job responsibilities * Research, design, and develop AI/ML primitives - defining problem spaces, formulating approaches, running experiments, and validating outcomes with scientific rigor * Translate research findings into production-ready primitives, working closely with machine learning engineers to harden and scale solutions * Drive the scientific direction of AICE primitives, identifying opportunities where novel approaches can unlock step-function improvements * Design and execute experiments to validate primitive performance, robustness, and generalizability before broad consumption by partner teams * Collaborate with product-owning teams to understand their problem spaces and ensure AICE primitives deliver measurable value when integrated * Contribute to AICE's mission of driving AI transformation through best practices in applied research, evaluation methodology, and responsible AI within your area of expertise * Publish findings, share learnings, and raise the scientific bar across the team A day in the life Every day brings new challenges. You might be deep in experimentation - designing evaluations to stress-test a new primitive's robustness. The next day, you could be analyzing results and iterating on model architectures. Later in the week, you may collaborate with partners to understand their domain and shape a primitive that fits their product needs. Other days, you'll work alongside our MLEs to harden a validated approach for broader consumption. No two weeks look the same. You'll move fluidly between research and applied problem-solving - always with the goal of building AI primitives that are scientifically sound, trusted, and impactful at enterprise scale. About the team AICE is a team of scientists and machine learning engineers building the AI primitives that power Amazon's intelligent systems. We develop and harden reusable capabilities for broad consumption by product teams across the enterprise - and partner with those teams to integrate them.

Amazon Lab126 is an inventive research and development company that designs and engineers high-profile consumer electronics. Lab126 began in 2004 as a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc., originally creating the best-selling Kindle family of products. Since then, we have produced industry leading devices like Fire tablets, Fire TV and Amazon Echo. The Role: As a Senior Design Analysis Engineer, you will be responsible for bringing new product designs through to manufacturing. Structural engineering contributes unique, in-depth technical knowledge to solve complex engineering problems in concert with multi-disciplinary teams including Industrial Design, Hardware Engineering, and Operations. You will work closely with multi-disciplinary groups including Product Design, Industrial Design, Hardware Engineering, and Operations, to drive key aspects of engineering of consumer electronics products. In this role, you will: · Perform analysis and testing of complex electronic assemblies using advanced simulation and experimentation tools and techniques · Develop, analyze and test thermal, acoustic and structural solutions; from concept design, feature development, product architecture, through system validation · Support creative developments through application of analysis and testing of complex electronic assemblies using advanced simulation and experimentation tools and techniques · Use simulation tools like Abaqus for analysis and design of products · Validate design modifications using simulation and actual prototypes · Use of programming languages like Python and Matlab for analytical/statistical analyses and automation · Establish noise thresholds for usability and compliance requirements · Determine and validate structural performance under use and test conditions · Have strong knowledge of various materials such as heat spreaders solutions to resolve thermal issues, damping materials for noise and vibration suppression · Use various data acquisition systems with thermocouples, accelerometers, strain gauges and IR cameras · Collaborate as part of the device team to iterate and optimize design parameters of enclosures and structural parts to establish and deliver project performance objectives · Design and execute tests using statistical tools to validate analytical models, identify risks and assess design margins · Create and present analytical and experimental results · Develop and apply design guidelines based on project results

The Data Intelligence team is a new function within Amazon Customer Service. We own the end-to-end process of defining, building, implementing, and monitoring a comprehensive data strategy. We also develop and apply Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), Machine Learning (ML), Ontology, and Natural Language Processing (NLP) to enhance customer service associate and customer experiences. As an Applied Scientist, you'll own the definition and implementation of customer-focused, AI-driven innovation in Amazon Customer Service globally, leveraging GenAI, ML, and/or NLP to transform complex business requirements and customer needs into innovative technology solutions. Your expertise will be key in shaping data-driven strategies and addressing complex data challenges. With your expertise in AI, text analysis, embeddings, language modeling, and generation, you'll design and develop scalable AI-powered technology solutions, prioritize initiatives, drive data-driven insights, and deliver business impact. This position will advance applied science best practices, leverage data and AI to drive customer experience improvements, and set new global standards for customer experience. This role requires you to work with a cross-functional team, including scientists, engineers, and product managers, to develop scalable and maintainable AI solutions for both structured and unstructured data. The ideal candidate has strong technical skills in AI techniques (e.g., automated reasoning, reasoning, planning, knowledge representation), excellent written documentation skills, and experience with big data technologies. Success in this role requires combining deep business knowledge with hands-on technical skills to solve customer problems and address complex technical challenges. Key job responsibilities - Develop innovative solutions to complex problems (e.g., Automated Reasoning for Trusted AI-Enabled Customer Service). - Apply technical expertise to implement novel algorithms and modeling solutions, in collaboration with other scientists and engineers. - Analyze data and define metrics to identify actionable insights and measure improvements in customer experience. - Communicate results and insights to both technical and non-technical audiences through written reports, presentations, and internal/external publications. - Collaborate with product management and engineering teams to integrate and optimize models in production systems. A day in the life A typical day as an Applied Scientist in the Data Intelligence team involves combining business expertise with hands-on problem-solving in ML and AI. The role encompasses tackling complex data initiatives, ensuring alignment with customer needs and business objectives, and translating business requirements into practical AI-driven solutions. Working collaboratively with cross-functional teams, this position involves designing and enhancing AI models, focusing on efficiency, precision, and scalability. Daily activities include ensuring data quality, monitoring model performance, and generating actionable insights from vast amounts of information. Each day presents opportunities to resolve complex technical challenges, advance important AI projects, and conceive innovative ways to leverage data in transforming the customer experience. About the team The Data Intelligence team is a new function within Amazon Customer Service. We develop and apply Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), Machine Learning (ML), Ontology, and Natural Language Processing (NLP) to enhance customer service associate and customer experiences.

Prime Video is a first-stop entertainment destination offering customers a vast collection of premium programming in one app available across thousands of devices. Prime members can customize their viewing experience and find their favorite movies, series, documentaries, and live sports – including Amazon MGM Studios-produced series and movies; licensed fan favorites; and programming from Prime Video subscriptions such as Apple TV+, HBO Max, Peacock, Crunchyroll and MGM+. All customers, regardless of whether they have a Prime membership or not, can rent or buy titles via the Prime Video Store, and can enjoy even more content for free with ads. Are you interested in shaping the future of entertainment? Prime Video's technology teams are creating best-in-class digital video experience. As a Prime Video team member, you’ll have end-to-end ownership of the product, user experience, design, and technology required to deliver state-of-the-art experiences for our customers. You’ll get to work on projects that are fast-paced, challenging, and varied. You’ll also be able to experiment with new possibilities, take risks, and collaborate with remarkable people. We’ll look for you to bring your diverse perspectives, ideas, and skill-sets to make Prime Video even better for our customers. With global opportunities for talented technologists, you can decide where a career Prime Video Tech takes you! As an Applied Scientist, you will apply state of the art natural language processing and computer vision research to video centric digital media. We are looking for scientists with expertise in vision-language models/multimodal LLMs and long-form content understanding (full movies/episode vs. short clips). You will be dealing with architectures that handle long-context understanding and causal reasoning across extended temporal sequences. Key job responsibilities Our team builds multi-modal machine learning technologies to enrich and understand video content. We aim not only to understand individual components within the content itself, but also their relationships to each other to provide a holistic and broader contextual understanding. This powers the next generation of video understanding and search capabilities for Prime Video. About the team Prime Video's Content Localization, Understanding & Enrichment organization is responsible for 1) enabling Prime Video to "see" and "understand" video content including characters, scenes, dialogue, events & visual elements and 2) delivering localized, accessible content that meets a consistent cinematic quality standard at scale. This team's mission is to deeply understand all content and empower all customers with relevant language options, innovative accessibility assists, and rich title-information across all their content-experiences on Prime Video. We create and publish content on-time that's meaningful, accurate, and accessible to every customer globally. We delight our customers by pushing the boundaries of content understanding and enrichment. Through inclusion and innovation, we do the most fulfilling work of our career.

The Healthcare AI organization in AWS is seeking an Applied Science Manager to lead science and data teams working on innovative AI-powered healthcare solutions. We are developing innovative products that leverage generative and agentic AI to transform clinical and administrative workflows for healthcare providers. Our aim is to improve patient care, enhance operational efficiency, and deliver exceptional value to our customers. You will lead a team of applied scientists, working on transformative healthcare solutions powered by cloud computing and artificial intelligence. This role offers an opportunity to work at the forefront of applied AI/ML and distributed systems, building new products and services from the ground up. Our team builds on our existing successful healthcare business, which serves major providers and payers in the US. You'll be instrumental in creating solutions that address complex challenges in areas such as clinical documentation, health data analytics, and accurate billing, ultimately contributing to better health outcomes for individuals and populations. Key job responsibilities As an Applied Science Manager, you will be responsible for building and leading a world-class team that pushes the boundaries of computer vision, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. In this role, you will drive the technical vision and strategy for your team while fostering a culture of innovation and scientific excellence. You will balance hands-on technical leadership with people management responsibilities, ensuring your team delivers innovative solutions while growing professionally. The role requires someone who can think strategically about business problems while diving deep into technical details when needed. - Building and mentoring teams of Applied Scientists and ML Engineers - Setting technical direction and research strategy aligned with business goals - Driving innovation in medical administration reasoning systems, AI agent design, and medical coding - Collaborating with cross-functional teams to translate research into production - Managing project portfolios and resource allocation A day in the life Inclusive Team Culture Here at Amazon, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon conferences. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 14 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust. Work/Life Balance Our team puts a high value on work-life balance. It isn’t about how many hours you spend at home or at work; it’s about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment. We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal lives. Mentorship & Career Growth Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. We care about your career growth and strive to assign opportunities based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded contributor. About the team Our team builds on our existing successful healthcare business, which serves major providers and payers in the US. You'll be instrumental in creating solutions that address complex challenges in areas such as clinical documentation, health data analytics, and accurate billing, ultimately contributing to better health outcomes for individuals and populations.