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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, MD, Annapolis Junction
    Job ID: 10435024
    (Updated 20 days ago)
    As a Data Scientist on our team, you will leverage advanced analytics and machine learning to protect our cloud infrastructure from security threats. You'll develop and deploy sophisticated anomaly detection models, predictive algorithms, and real-time analysis systems that identify and help automate the mitigation of cyber threats across Amazon's infrastructure. Your expertise in statistical analysis, machine learning, and big data processing will be crucial in building scalable security solutions. You'll collaborate with software engineers, security engineers, and fellow data scientists to: - Analyze large-scale security data using statistical methods and data mining techniques - Create automated systems for real-time pattern recognition and risk assessment - Build data pipelines and ETL processes to handle massive security datasets - Translate complex analytical findings into actionable security insights We use the full power of AWS technologies, including Amazon SageMaker, EMR, and other ML/AI services to protect every AWS customer from security threats. Experience with Python and a strong background in statistical analysis and machine learning are essential. We're looking for a new teammate who is enthusiastic, empathetic, curious, motivated, reliable, and able to work effectively with a diverse team of peers. We want someone who will help us amplify the positive & inclusive team culture we've been building. We understand that life is dynamic and we have a flexible work environment that enables individuals to adjust their work schedule to accommodate personal needs. Our team is distributed, though most of the team is located in Maryland and Virginia. We generally keep core business hours of 10:00 AM EST - 3:00 PM EST, while allowing flexibility as needed. At AWS Security, it’s not about clocking hours, it’s about delivering results. On-Call Responsibility This position involves on-call responsibilities, typically for one week every two months. We don’t like getting paged in the middle of the night or on the weekend, so we work to ensure that our systems are fault tolerant. When we do get paged, we work together to resolve the root cause so that we don’t get paged for the same issue twice. Key job responsibilities - Running experiments to assess potential risk of security responses. - Expanding our existing LLM agent pipelines - Analyzing post mortems to understand what data signals could have prevented the occurence About the team Diverse Experiences Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the 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 Amazon Security? At Amazon, security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. Our organization is responsible for creating and maintaining a high bar for security across all of Amazon’s products and services. We offer talented security professionals the chance to accelerate their careers with opportunities to build experience in a wide variety of areas including cloud, devices, retail, entertainment, healthcare, operations, and physical stores. Inclusive Team Culture In Amazon Security, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Ongoing DEI events and learning experiences inspire us to continue learning and to embrace our uniqueness. Addressing the toughest security challenges requires that we seek out and celebrate a diversity of ideas, perspectives, and voices. Training & 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, training, 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 flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 10426721
    (Updated 28 days ago)
    We are a passionate team applying the latest advances in technology to solve real-world challenges. As a Data Scientist working at the intersection of machine learning and advanced analytics, you will help develop innovative products that enhance customer experiences. Our team values intellectual curiosity while maintaining sharp focus on bringing products to market. Successful candidates demonstrate responsiveness, adaptability, and thrive in our open, collaborative, entrepreneurial environment. Working at the forefront of both academic and applied research, you will join a diverse team of scientists, engineers, and product managers to solve complex business and technology problems using scientific approaches. You will collaborate closely with other teams to implement innovative solutions and drive improvements. At Amazon, we cultivate an inclusive culture through our Leadership Principles, which emphasize seeking diverse perspectives, continuous learning, and building trust. Our global community includes thirteen employee-led affinity groups with 40,000 members across 190 chapters, showcasing our commitment to embracing differences and fostering continuous learning through local, regional, and global programs. We prioritize work-life balance, recognizing it as fundamental to long-term happiness and fulfillment. Our team is committed to supporting your career development through challenging projects, mentorship opportunities, and targeted training programs that help you reach your full potential. Key job responsibilities Work hands-on with complex, noisy datasets to derive actionable insights and explain/debug black-box models using interpretability and data-attribution methods (e.g., SHAP/TreeSHAP, Anchors, Integrated Gradients, counterfactuals, nearest-neighbor exemplars, influence/data attribution). Design and analyze experiments and observational studies with rigorous statistical inference, including confidence intervals, power/sample-size estimation, variance reduction, and appropriate tests (e.g., two-sample tests, permutation tests, sequential testing, and multiple-comparison control such as FDR). Benchmark models and datasets using classical and modern techniques; select ML methods based on data and operational constraints (e.g., clustering/KDE, tree ensembles, CNN/RNN/Transformers, representation learning), and evaluate with robust metrics and diagnostics (e.g., AUROC, AUPRG, proper scoring rules/losses, calibration/ECE, threshold/utility curves, slice-based evaluation, and error analysis). Apply production-grade measurement and MLOps practices, including data quality monitoring, drift/shift detection (PSI, KS, MMD/embedding drift), and A/B test design and readouts with disciplined diagnosis of metric movement (e.g., instrumentation changes, seasonality, novelty effects, sample-ratio mismatch, guardrail tradeoffs). Deliver end-to-end analyses that improve team execution and decision-making—define goal-driving metrics with stakeholders, build clear reporting (tables, dashboards, and visualizations), and communicate results that translate into concrete actions. Investigate anomalies and data integrity issues across diverse data sources using structured root-cause analysis, correlation diagnostics, significance testing, and simulation across high- and low-fidelity datasets. Partner closely with cross-functional domain experts to design experiments and interpret results, applying modern statistical methods to evaluate predictive and generative models as well as operational and process performance. Develop production-quality analytics and modeling code—write well-tested, maintainable SQL/Python scripts and analysis workflows that can be promoted into production pipelines, and continuously adopt new statistical methods and best practices as the field evolves. A day in the life New data has just landed and promoted to our datalake. You load the data and verify it's overall integrity by visualizing variation across target subsets. You realize we may have made progress toward our goals and begin to test the validity of your nominal results. At midday you grab lunch with new coworkers and learn about their fields or weird interests (there are many). You generate visualizations for the entire dataset and perform significance tests that reinforce specific findings. You meet with peers in the afternoon to discuss your findings and breakdown the remaining tasks to finalize your group report! About the team 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. We focus on creating entirely new products and services with a goal of positively impacting the lives of our customers. No industries or subject areas are out of bounds. If you’re interested in innovating at scale to address big challenges in the world, this is the team for you.
  • (Updated 0 days ago)
    The NASC & TOM Science team owns Operations Research, Machine Learning, and AI projects across the North America Sort Center (NASC) and Transportation Operations Management (TOM) planning and operations organizations. We turn complex network, labor, and capacity problems into deployed models that drive multi-million-dollar planning decisions every day. As a Data Scientist II, you will own the end-to-end Machine learning Operation cycle: Design, build, and ship machine learning and/or optimization models that directly shape Amazon's middle miles planning decisions. You will own end-to-end delivery — from problem framing with business partners, through modeling and validation, to deployment in internal model hosting platform and integration with downstream planning tools. You will work on problems such as: - Long- and short-horizon forecasting - Network and capacity optimization - GenAI / agentic systems - Defect prevention and adaptive planning You will partner closely with Engineering, Product, Engineering, and stakeholders to translate ambiguous operational pain points into measurable model outcomes. Key job responsibilities - Design and implement complex ML and optimization solutions (forecasting, MIP/LP, simulation, Deep learning / foundation model); - Drive end-to-end delivery of scalable models — from data exploration and feature engineering through training, evaluation, deployment, and post-launch monitoring; - Develop new modeling patterns and analytical frameworks for forecasting (multivariate, hierarchical, causal-DAG, model-chaining) and optimization; - Build robust model validation, backtesting, and monitoring pipelines; identify and eliminate sources of leakage, bias, and silent failure; - Define and own model performance metrics (e.g., WAPE) tied to business outcomes; - Partner with Data Engineering and Software Development to productionize models and define I/O contracts, packaging, and model CI/CD; - Excellent communication to present findings, tradeoffs, and recommendations clearly to stakeholders and senior leadership.
  • (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 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. As a Senior Research Engineer embedded in our science team, you'll be instrumental in transforming innovative research into high-performance production systems. You'll collaborate directly with scientists to build and optimize large-scale transformer models for robotics applications. In this role, you'll balance deep technical optimization work with strategic input on model architecture decisions, ensuring our innovative robotics models are designed with performance in mind from the ground up. You'll leverage PyTorch and NVIDIA's acceleration stack and other compilation techniques to tackle ambitious performance targets, working at the intersection of large language models and real-world robotics applications. Key job responsibilities - Design, implement, and optimize distributed training systems that scale across thousands of GPUs and nodes for large-scale training workloads. - Develop high-performance optimizations to maximize throughput and efficiency. - Develop reusable frameworks and libraries to improve training reproducibility, reliability, and scalability for new model architectures. - Establish standards for reliability, maintainability, and security, ensuring systems are robust under rapid iteration. - Collaborate with researchers to influence model architectures for optimal hardware utilization - Develop comprehensive benchmarking frameworks to measure and optimize model performance A day in the life In this role, you will: - Optimize transformer blocks using custom CUDA kernels and TensorRT optimization techniques - Partner with scientists to analyze model architectures and propose efficiency improvements - Implement and benchmark various optimization strategies for large-scale models - Debug performance bottlenecks using NVIDIA profiling tools - Participate in technical discussions about new model architectures with the science team - Manage pre/post training runs and continue improve system stability and throughput - Prototype new acceleration approaches using emerging compilation frameworks
  • US, NY, New York
    Job ID: 10451969
    (Updated 0 days ago)
    Are you excited about building optimization models that directly impact how millions of packages reach Amazon customers faster and at lower cost? The SCOT Planning Optimization team is looking for a Data Scientist I to help shape the future of supply chain planning at Amazon. In this role, you will develop and enhance mathematical optimization models that generate the volume plan for North American network —determining how much inventory flows where, when, and how across hundreds of sites. Your work will focus not only on making these models optimal, but also explainable—ensuring stakeholders can understand and trust the decisions being made. You will build network plan simulations to evaluate scenarios and stress-test planning strategies before they go live. You'll be working at the frontier of Agentic and Generative AI, building intelligent agents that automate planning workflows and make complex model outputs interpretable to human operators. You'll partner with other science teams on researching new optimization techniques such as the Consensus Planning Protocol, and collaborate with Software Engineering to productionalize models on AWS infrastructure. This is a high-impact role where your work will directly influence delivery speed and cost to serve for every Amazon customer in North America. Key job responsibilities - Develop and maintain optimization models that generate volume plans for the North America fulfillment network, balancing constraints such as labor capacity, storage limits, transportation costs, and demand forecasts - Build Agentic AI and GenAI applications that make model outputs explainable and actionable for planners, translating complex optimization decisions into clear, human-interpretable insights - Design and implement Agentic AI-driven planning process automation to reduce manual intervention and accelerate planning cycles - Leverage Agentic AI to run network plan simulations, identify further optimization opportunities, and surface recommendations for improved network performance - Design and maintain metrics and frameworks to track, evaluate, and continuously improve optimal network performance - Partner with other science teams on researching new optimization / explainability techniques - Collaborate with the Software Engineering team to deploy and monitor models on AWS infrastructure - Conduct data analysis to identify improvement opportunities in supply chain planning processes, quantifying impact with data and anecdotes - Develop automated reporting and data pipelines to track model performance and planning outcomes across the network A day in the life Amazon offers a full range of benefits that support you and eligible family members, including domestic partners and their children. Benefits can vary by location, the number of regularly scheduled hours you work, length of employment, and job status such as seasonal or temporary employment. The benefits that generally apply to regular, full-time employees include: - Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage - Maternity and Parental Leave Options - Paid Time Off (PTO) - 401(k) Plan If you are not sure that every qualification on the list above describes you exactly, we'd still love to hear from you! At Amazon, we value people with unique backgrounds, experiences, and skillsets. If you’re passionate about this role and want to make an impact on a global scale, please apply! About the team SCOT (Supply Chain Optimization Technologies) owns technologies that power Amazon's inventory and fulfillment decisions at global scale. Within SCOT, our team—Planning Optimization—owns the central coordination layer that determines optimal volume flow across the North America network, directly impacting delivery speed, cost to serve, and operational efficiency for hundreds of fulfillment sites. We use mathematical optimization, simulation, and Agentic AI/GenAI to continuously improve plan quality, automate planning workflows, and make model decisions explainable and trustworthy for business stakeholders.
  • (Updated 1 days ago)
    Have you ever ordered a product on Amazon and when that box with the smile arrived you wondered how it got to you so fast? Have you wondered where it came from and how much it cost Amazon to deliver it to you? We are looking for a Data Scientist who will be responsible to develop cutting-edge scientific solutions to optimize our fulfillment strategy across multiple regions of the world (EU, JP, IN and more), to maximize our Customer Experience and minimize our cost and carbon footprint. You will partner with the worldwide scientific community to help design the optimal fulfillment strategy for Amazon. You will also collaborate with technical teams to develop optimization tools for network flow planning and execution systems. Finally, you will also work with business and operational stakeholders to influence their strategy and gather inputs to solve problems. To be successful in the role, you will need deep analytical skills and a strong scientific background. The role also requires excellent communication skills, and an ability to influence across business functions at different levels. You will work in a fast-paced environment that requires you to be detail-oriented and comfortable in working with technical, business and technical teams. Key job responsibilities - Design and develop mathematical models to optimize inventory placement and product flows. - Design and develop statistical and optimization models for planning Supply Chain under uncertainty. - Manage several, high impact projects simultaneously. - Consult and collaborate with business and technical stakeholders across multiple teams to define new opportunities to optimize our Supply Chain. - Communicate data-driven insights and recommendations to diverse senior stakeholders through technical and/or business papers. - Leverage LLMs to improve explainability of our optimization solutions and drive engagement from supply chain planners across the world.
  • US, NY, New York
    Job ID: 10421569
    (Updated 15 days ago)
    We are seeking a Robotics/AI Motor Control Scientist to develop cutting-edge machine learning algorithms for motor control systems in robots. In this role, you will focus on creating and optimizing intelligent motor control strategies to enable robots to perform complex, whole-body tasks. Your contributions will be essential in advancing robotics by enabling fluid, reliable, and safe interactions between robots and their environments. Key job responsibilities - Develop controllers that leverage reinforcement learning, imitation learning, or other advanced AI techniques to achieve natural, robust, and adaptive motor behaviors - Collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams to integrate motor control systems with robotic hardware, ensuring alignment with real-world constraints such as actuator dynamics and energy efficiency - Use simulation and real-world testing to refine and validate control algorithms - Stay updated on advancements in robotics, AI, and control systems to apply advanced techniques to robotic motion challenges - Lead technical projects from conception through production deployment - Mentor junior scientists and engineers - Bridge research initiatives with practical engineering implementation About the team Fauna Robotics, an Amazon company, is building capable, safe, and genuinely delightful robots for everyday life. Our goal is simple: make robots people actually want to live and interact with in everyday human spaces. We believe that future won’t arrive until building for robotics becomes far more accessible. Today, too much effort is spent reinventing the fundamentals. We’re changing that by developing tightly integrated hardware and software systems that make it faster, safer, and more intuitive to create real-world robotic products. Our work spans the full stack: mechanical design, control systems, dynamic modeling, and intelligent software. The focus is not just functionality, but experience. We’re building robots that feel responsive, expressive, and genuinely useful. At Fauna, you’ll work at the frontier of this space, helping define how robots move, manipulate, and interact with people in natural environments. It’s an opportunity to solve hard problems across hardware and software with a team focused on making robotics accessible and joyful to build. If you care about making robotics real for everyone and building systems that are as delightful as they are capable, we’re interested in hearing from you. an opportunity to solve hard problems across hardware and software with a team focused on making robotics accessible and joyful to build. If you care about making robotics real for everyone and building systems that are as delightful as they are capable, we’re interested in hearing from you.
  • (Updated 27 days ago)
    Are you passionate about solving complex business problems at scale through Generative AI? Do you want to build intelligent systems that reason, act, and learn from minimal supervision? Are you excited about taking innovative AI solutions from proof-of-concept to production? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you on Amazon's Trustworthy Shopping Experience (TSE) team. At TSE, our vision is to guarantee customers a worry-free shopping experience by earning their trust that the products they buy are safe, authentic, and compliant with regulations and policy. We give customers confidence that Amazon stands behind every product and will make it right in the rare chance anything goes wrong. We do this in close partnership with our selling partners and empower them with best-in-class tools and expertise required to offer a high-quality selection of compliant products that customers trust. As an Applied Scientist, you will lead the development of next Gen AI solutions to automate complex manual investigation processes at Amazon scale. You will work on some of the most fascinating challenges in applied AI—building systems that reason and act autonomously, learn rich representations from structured and relational data without extensive labels, adapt rapidly from limited examples, improve through feedback and interaction, seamlessly connect visual and textual understanding, and compress complex model capabilities into efficient, deployable systems. Your innovations will deliver significant impact to cost-of-serving customers while maintaining the highest standards of trust and safety. This role offers end-to-end ownership—from initial research and proof-of-concept through production deployment. You will see your innovations serving hundreds of millions of customers within months, not years. Key job responsibilities • Design and build expertise deep agentic AI systems with multi-step reasoning, autonomous task execution, and multimodal intelligence with capabilities to handle feedback with long term as well as short term memory mechanisms. • Design and build expertise agentic AI systems with multi-step reasoning, autonomous task execution, and multimodal intelligence with capabilities to handle feedback with long term as well as short term memory mechanisms. • Productionize large scale models built on top of SFT (Supervised Finetuning) and RFT (Reinforced fine tuning) approaches (GRPO with RLVR, Process/Outcome Reward Models), few shot approaches (Contrastive, Prototypical) based on multimodal datasets • Enhance on existing Automatic prompt optimization techniques (GEPA & beyond) towards agentic optimization given the ground truth datasets to improve agentic planning. • Build novel production ready Finetuned transformer architectures (using LORA/Q-LORA/LLM-JEPA etc) and conventional supervised & unsupervised ML solutions to aid the multiple potential automation requirements • Identify customer and business problems at project level; invent or extend state-of-the-art approaches for complex LLM workflows involving unstructured text, documents, images, and relational data • Author or co-author research papers for peer-reviewed venues; serve as PC member at conferences when aligned with business needs • Prototype rapidly, iterate based on feedback, and deliver components at SDE 1+ level that integrate directly into production-scale systems • Engineer efficient systems balancing model capability, deployment cost, and resource usage; write significant code demonstrating technical excellence and maintainability • Scrutinize algorithm and software performance for improvements; resolve root causes leaving systems more maintainable • Contribute to tactical and strategic planning—team goals, priorities, and roadmaps—while providing architectural guidance for AI systems • Participate in engineering best practices with rigorous peer reviews; communicate design decisions clearly and participate in science reviews • Train new teammates & interns on component construction and integration; mentor less experienced scientists and participate in hiring processes About the team Investigation technology Product team in TSE is responsible for the human-in-the-loop products and technology used in the risk investigations at Amazon. The team is also responsible for reducing the cost of performing the investigations, by automating wherever possible and optimizing the experience where manual interventions are needed. The team leverages state-of-the art technology and GenAI to deliver the products and associated goals.
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 10439370
    (Updated 14 days ago)
    Amazon's Worldwide Promotions organization is seeking a strong Sr. Applied Scientist to help solve complex business problems involving promotional strategies at a global scale. This Sr. Applied Scientist will operate in a team of other scientists and economists. Our team applies causal inferences, statistics, machine learning, forecasting, optimization, economics, and experimentation to drive actionable insights and to improve strategic business decision-making. This is an individual contributor role that requires collaboration across teams and functions to solve core business problems for the company around setting new promotional strategies as we incorporate more elements of personalization into the promotional shopping experience. The work is part of significant scientific investments in promotions intelligence systems that personalize, recommend, rank, and optimize promotions strategies across different surfaces in the Store. Key job responsibilities - Invent or adapt new scientific approaches, models, or algorithms inspired and driven by customers' needs and benefits - Produce research papers and reports that have the same level of correctness, scholarship, usefulness, completeness, depth, rigor, and originality as a top-tier external publication - Implement solutions that will be deployed into production or directly support production systems - Write clear, useful documentation describing algorithms and design choices in your components to make it possible for others to understand and reproduce your work - Contribute to operational excellence in the team's deliverable - Analyze the performance of your methods and models to understand the gaps, and iteratively propose solutions to improve - Champion the adoption of scientific advancements in the team - Help new teammates ramp up and understand who our customers are, what their needs are, how the team's solutions work, and how scientific components fit in those solutions A day in the life As a Sr. Applied Scientist on the WW Promotions Science team, you invent or adapt new scientific approaches, models, or algorithms to solve real-world business problems. Your work uses the latest (or the most appropriate) techniques from academic literature. You work semi-autonomously to successfully deliver solutions that are consistently of high quality (efficient, reproducible, testable code). You work collaboratively with teammates, partners, and stakeholders. You recognize discordant views and take part in constructive dialogue to resolve them. You adopt and identify opportunities to refine mechanisms to raise the general scientific knowledge in the team. About the team The WW Pricing & Promotions Science team is responsible for driving scientific innovation to support pricing and promotions programs across Amazon's businesses. We specialize in experimental and observational causal methods, forecasting, and optimization. We apply these tools to drive business decision making at scale, leading to launch decisions of new pricing algorithms and new promotion strategies, understanding short- and long-term value of different programs, and the prioritization of budget allocations. We also develop models to set optimal prices and promotions, and define innovative price guardrails and incentives to optimize for long-term program health.
  • (Updated 16 days ago)
    The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Center for Quantum Computing (CQC) is a multi-disciplinary team of theoretical and experimental physicists, materials scientists, and hardware and software engineers on a mission to develop a fault-tolerant quantum computer. Throughout your internship 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 Quantum Computing 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 Quantum Research Science and Applied Science Internships in Santa Clara, CA and Pasadena, CA. We are particularly interested in candidates with expertise in any of the following areas: superconducting qubits, cavity/circuit QED, quantum optics, open quantum systems, superconductivity, electromagnetic simulations of superconducting circuits, microwave engineering, benchmarking, quantum error correction, fabrication, etc. Key job responsibilities In this role, you will work alongside global experts to develop and implement novel, scalable solutions that advance the state-of-the-art in the areas of quantum computing. You will tackle challenging, groundbreaking research problems, work with leading edge technology, focus on highly targeted customer use-cases, and launch products that solve problems for Amazon customers. 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. About the team Diverse Experiences AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the 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 (gender diversity) 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. Hybrid Work We value innovation and recognize this sometimes requires uninterrupted time to focus on a build. We also value in-person collaboration and time spent face-to-face. Our team affords employees options to work in the office every day or in a flexible, hybrid work model near one of our U.S. Amazon offices.

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