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At Amazon, we believe that scientific innovation is essential to being the most customer-centric company in the world. Our scientists' ability to have an impact at scale allows us to attract some of the brightest minds across diverse fields including artificial intelligence, robotics, computer vision, economics, and sustainability. Join us in pioneering solutions to complex challenges that not only delight our customers but also help define the future of technology.
  • The program is designed for academics from universities around the globe who want to work on large-scale technical challenges while continuing to teach and conduct research at their universities.
  • The program offers recent PhD graduates an opportunity to advance research while working alongside experienced scientists with backgrounds in industry and academia.
  • Our internship roles span research areas to provide hands-on experience working alongside world-class scientists and engineers to advance the state of the art in your field.
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  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 10481724
    (Updated 0 days ago)
    We are Amazon's central Responsible AI team. Our mission is to advance the science and practice of Responsible AI (RAI) to enable Amazon's tens of thousands of builders to build and deploy AI solutions to the high standards that our customers and society expect. As a scientist on this team, you will: - understand in depth the technical and scientific issues related to RAI, including controllability, security, privacy, safety, veracity, robustness, fairness, explainability, transparency, and governance - help define the strategies, priorities and metrics for RAI - solve open problems in RAI to unblock traditional, generative and/or agentic AI use cases and solutions, publishing as appropriate - help develop our team - liase with internal and external stakeholders, including the academic community, on issues related to RAI 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.
  • IN, KA, Bengaluru
    Job ID: 10475339
    (Updated 0 days ago)
    The Ads Trust Science team, based in Bangalore, is responsible for ensuring that ads are relevant and is of good quality, leading to higher conversion for the sellers and providing a great experience for the customers. We deal with one of the world’s largest product catalog, handle billions of requests a day with plans to grow it by order of magnitude and use automated systems to validate tens of millions of offers submitted by thousands of merchants in multiple countries and languages. In this role, you will build and develop ML models to address content understanding problems in Ads. These models will rely on a variety of visual and textual features requiring expertise in both domains. These models need to scale to multiple languages and countries. You will collaborate with engineers and other scientists to build, train and deploy these models. As part of these activities, you will develop production level code that enables moderation of millions of ads submitted each day.
  • US, CA, San Francisco
    Job ID: 10470408
    (Updated 3 days ago)
    We are seeking a Product Manager, Data Strategy & Physical AI to define and execute the long-term product vision for FAR's AI-powered robotics platform. The intersection of foundation models and physical intelligence is creating a once-in-a-generation opportunity to reimagine how intelligent systems perceive, reason, and act in the real world. We need a visionary product leader who can treat data as our primary competitive moat and translate research frontiers into scalable, production-grade capabilities. In this role, you will champion our core data strategy for foundation model creation, building a partner and tool ecosystem to systematically acquire, label, and iteratively improve physical AI datasets. You will architect a continuous data collection flywheel across deployed robot fleets, transforming real-world kinematics, video, and force-torque telemetry from edge operations back into high-fidelity training tokens. Recognizing the limitations of real-world environments, you will also lead the strategy to create high-fidelity synthesized datasets, utilizing advanced physics engines and simulation to generate diverse training tokens at massive scale. Key job responsibilities Data Acquisition & Labeling Ecosystem: Establish the partnerships, tools, and vendor pipelines necessary to acquire, curate, and continuously label multi-modal datasets for training large-scale models. Fleet Data Flywheel Infrastructure: Architect the framework for a continuous data flywheel that securely streams high-frequency kinematics, egocentric video, and force-torque telemetry from real-world robot fleets back into the training loop. Synthetic Data & Simulation Strategy: Define the strategy for generating high-fidelity, physics-aligned synthesized datasets using advanced simulation environments to scale training tokens for edge-case scenarios and long-horizon tasks. Data Compliance & Governance: Partner with operations, privacy, legal, and security teams to build enterprise-grade data management pipelines that programmatically enforce data minimization, anonymization, and CCPA/GDPR compliance. Data Quality & Token Curation: Implement automated telemetry filtering and dataset pruning strategies to identify high-value operational logs, eliminate redundant fleet data, and optimize training compute costs. Cross-Functional Physical AI Delivery: Act as the strategic bridge between machine learning research scientists, simulation developers, robotics engineers, and hardware teams to deliver data-ready platform features that improve physical reliability. About the team 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.
  • (Updated 3 days ago)
    The Central Learning Solutions (CLS) Science team in Amazon Operations builds state-of-the-art solutions for enhancing leadership and associate development across the organization. We develop technology and mechanisms for building personalized learning experiences based on the profiles of different learners and assess the post-training performance curves for different learner profiles. As a Data Scientist on the team, you will be driving the data science roadmap for the CLS Science team. You will leverage your knowledge in statistics and econometrics, estimate the causal impact of training interventions, recommend the right interventions for a given learner profile, and measure the post-launch success of these interventions through A/B weblabs. These insights will help in dynamically changing the training content of Learning & Development courses and unlock opportunities to improve both training effectiveness and learner experience. You will collaborate effectively with internal stakeholders and cross-functional teams for solving business problems, create operational efficiencies, and deliver successfully against high organizational standards. Key job responsibilities - Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large scale data analyses, model development, model validation and implementation. - Use advanced causal inference methodologies to estimate the learning curves for different learner profiles and the effectiveness of training content. - Perform statistical analysis and statistical tests including hypothesis testing and A/B testing. - Implement new statistical, machine learning, or other mathematical methodologies to solve specific business problems. - Present deep dives and analysis to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, ensure clarity, and influence the strategy of business partners. 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 Central Learning Solutions (CLS) is the centralized technical team that builds Learning & Development products for North America Operations employees. CLS Science teams owns the science components that power the different products on Impact Estimation, Self Serve Analytics, Content Understanding, and Personal learning.
  • (Updated 5 days ago)
    Do you want to define the multi-year science vision that transforms how millions of customers experience AWS products? Do you want to influence the AWS investment in GenAI technology and see the impact of your leadership moving the needle on billions of dollars of AWS business? Do you want to lead cross functional team that impacts multiple organizations (product, sales, marketing, finance) in AWS? Do you want to push the boundaries of AI/ML technology (e.g. multi-agent analytics system, agentic knowledge representation and management, graph neural networks, reinforcement learning, causal inference, optimization, and LLM-based forecasting models) to build scalable ML products that help AWS grow and delight our customers? The AWS Analytics Engineering (AAE) is at the forefront of leveraging cutting-edge AI/ML technology and infrastructure to redefine how AWS product leaders and teams interact with and derive insights from their data. We are a cross functional org from decision science, ML products, data platform, and agentic analytics system. Our vision is to use artificial intelligence and machine learning to enable AWS product teams, product, and go to market leaders to drive product growth and create personalized, optimized, and simplified product experiences to delight our customers. We shape AWS product features (e.g. Console, Spot and Autoscaling), influence GTM efficiencies with customer propensity models, democratize data and insights access through multi-agent system, and influence AWS leaders’ product strategy. We are looking for a customer-focused, solutions-oriented Senior Applied Science Manager to lead and define the science and engineering strategy across AWS product organization. In this role, you will set the technical direction for agentic analytics products, build ML features for AWS products to optimize their operations, influence product growth related decision science for senior leaders, generate ML-driven sales leads for AWS GTM teams, innovate multi-agent analytics system, develop big data engineering system at the AWS data scale. You will partner directly with GMs, VPs, and senior product leaders from major AWS product management, marketing, and sales organization to translate complex business challenges into innovative scientific solutions that directly influence AWS's top line and bottom line. As a Senior Applied Science Manager , you will be the technical thought leader who establishes the science roadmap, analytics software development, drives cross-organizational alignment, and raises the bar for scientific rigor across the team. You will work cross organization from AWS product management, engineering, sales, marketing, and finance. You will operate effectively in ambiguous environments, exercise strong business judgment on high-impact decisions, drive the innovation and publication roadmap, and continuously push the frontier of what's possible with ML-driven product intelligence at AWS scale. Key job responsibilities Define and drive the multi-year science, ML product, and software engineering vision and roadmap for ML-powered product analytics across AWS Products, Marketing, and Sales organization - Build, lead, and develop a high-performing team of technical managers, applied scientists, and software engineers, including hiring top talent, managing performance, and growing careers through mentorship and promotion readiness - Partner with senior AWS leaders (GM/VP level) to identify strategic, data-driven opportunities and translate business objectives into high-impact scientific initiatives - Architect and guide enterprise-scale ML and agentic platform, including agentic system, knowledge representation, big data platform, deep learning, graph neural networks, reinforcement learning, causal inference, and forecasting models that predict business outcomes and enhance customer experiences - Manage cross-functional science and software engineering team to build ML driven products that are scalable and leading industry best practices at the AWS scale and speed - Invent, operationalize, and scale novel analytical frameworks and metrics that enable data-driven product growth and executive decision-making - Communicate findings, conclusions, and strategic recommendations to technical and non-technical business leaders across AWS - Mentor scientists and engineers, establish best practices for experiment design and model evaluation, and review technical artifacts to ensure quality - Identify and champion new science opportunities that expand AAE’s impact across AWS, building the case for investment and driving adoption A day in the life As a senior applied science manager in AAE org, you will shape the science strategy that underpins product decisions across multiple AWS organizations. You'll spend your time partnering with VPs and GMs to identify the highest-leverage science opportunities, architecting novel ML solutions to complex product challenges, and mentoring scientists across the team. You'll drive alignment across cross-functional stakeholders, ensure scientific rigor in our most critical initiatives, and communicate insights that directly influence AWS product roadmaps. You'll balance long-term vision-setting with hands-on technical leadership, diving deep into model architectures and data pipelines when needed while maintaining the strategic altitude to guide the team's direction. You will manage cross functional science and engineering team to build cutting edge agentic system and ML products that transform our product and customer experience. About the team We are a team of scientists and software engineers supporting AWS product leaders to make high-impact decisions through sophisticated analytical frameworks, trusted data science methods, and scalable ML products. We come from diverse backgrounds in statistics, computer science, engineering, and business analytics. We specialize in the full end-to-end ML development process, including data ingestion, ETL, model development, and model deployment in production. We provide AI/ML services across decision science, ML products, multi-agent analytics systems, and data engineering platform. High Impact Projects: We work on high-impact, high-visibility projects that directly influence AWS product roadmaps and senior leaders' decisions. Supportive Team Environment: We are proud of our supportive and inclusive team culture, we have each other's back during ups and downs. Work-Life Balance: We believe 80% of value comes from 20% of work, so we always prioritize our backlog ruthlessly based on business value. Learning Opportunity: Extensive opportunities to understand AWS business and leverage state-of-the-art AI/ML and cloud technology.
  • IN, KA, Bengaluru
    Job ID: 10477892
    (Updated 4 days ago)
    Selection Monitoring team is responsible for making the biggest catalog on the planet even bigger. In order to drive expansion of the Amazon catalog, we develop advanced ML/AI technologies to process billions of products and algorithmically find products not already sold on Amazon. We work with structured, semi-structured and Visually Rich Documents using deep learning, NLP and image processing. The role demands a high-performing and flexible candidate who can take responsibility for success of the system and drive solutions from research, prototype, design, coding and deployment. We are looking for Applied Scientists to tackle challenging problems in the areas of Information Extraction, efficient crawling at internet scale, developing ML models for website comprehension and agents to take multi-step decisions. You should have depth and breadth of knowledge in text mining, information extraction from Visually Rich Documents, semi structured data (HTML) and advanced machine learning and reinforcement learning methods. You should also have programming and design skills to manipulate semi-structured and unstructured data and systems that work at internet scale. You will encounter many challenges, including: - Scale (build models to handle billions of pages), - Accuracy (requirements for precision and recall) - Speed (generate predictions for millions of new or changed pages with low latency) - Diversity (models need to work across different languages, market places and data sources) You will help us to: - Build a scalable system which can algorithmically extract information from world wide web. - Intelligently cluster web pages, segment and classify regions, extract relevant information and structure the data available on semi-structured web. - Build systems that will use existing Knowledge Bases to perform open information extraction at scale from visually rich documents. Key job responsibilities: - Using AI, NLP and advances in LLMs/SLMs and agentic systems to create scalable solutions for business problems. - Developing models for efficiently crawling web, automate extraction of relevant information from large amounts of Visually Rich Documents and optimize key processes. - Designing, developing, evaluating and deploying, innovative and highly scalable ML models, esp. leveraging latest advances in RL-based fine-tuning methods like DPO, GRPO etc. - Identifying latest technical/research trends applicable for the problems of efficient web navigation and web-scale information extraction and adapting them to concrete open problems. - Influencing software engineering teams to drive and optimize model implementations. - Challenging status quo in the current end-to-end production stack and ML models and identifying opportunities for simplification, improvements, cost-saving and innovation. - Establishing scalable, efficient, automated processes for large scale model development, model validation and model maintenance. - Leading projects and mentoring other scientists, interns, engineers in the use of ML techniques. - Publishing innovation in research forums.
  • US, WA, Bellevue
    Job ID: 10497379
    (Updated 5 days ago)
    Amazon Leo is Amazon’s low Earth orbit satellite network. Our mission is to deliver fast, reliable internet connectivity to customers beyond the reach of existing networks. From individual households to schools, hospitals, businesses, and government agencies, Amazon Leo will serve people and organizations operating in locations without reliable connectivity. The Amazon Leo team is looking for a seasoned Principal Economist who are high performing, motivated and believe in our mission to close the digital divide. We operate in a fast-paced startup environment and offer many challenging and rewarding projects. Every day is Day 1 at Amazon Leo and we are just getting started. Key job responsibilities The Principal Economist role is responsible for defining and delivering the plans and pricing that enable business and government customers to access Amazon Leo services around the world. This involves close partnership with business development and sales teams, product teams, and our own science and analytics teams to define the principles and frameworks, plans and pricing, demand and capacity tradeoffs, and guardrails that enable high-velocity decision-making at scale. The role will also be critical in identifying economic insights, scenarios, and optimizations to improve the Amazon Leo Business. Key roles include: - Define economic principles and frameworks to guide high-velocity decision-making - Define service plans and pricing for business and government customers, direct and indirect channels, and fixed and mobility use cases - Define choice models and pricing strategies for new product offerings and bundles - Define volume and regional discount guardrails and frameworks - Deliver post-mortem insights and define experiments to optimize plans and pricing - Identify customer trends in post-mortem analysis 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. A day in the life
  • US, VA, Arlington
    Job ID: 10480512
    (Updated 10 days ago)
    Application deadline: Aug 18, 2026 We are looking for an experienced Sr. Manager, Applied Science to own technical vision and roadmaps, drive innovation at AWS scale, and lead a team of applied scientists working at the frontier of automated reasoning and neurosymbolic AI. You will partner closely with security, privacy, and compliance stakeholders across AWS to expand the reach and impact of provably correct products. Key job responsibilities - Hire, develop, and retain a world-class team of applied scientists. - Foster a culture of scientific rigor, innovation, and operational excellence. - Own strategic design, implementation, and delivery of solutions that have a long-term quantifiable impact. - Provide cross-organizational technical influence, increasing productivity and effectiveness of partner teams. - Develop strategic plans to identify fundamentally new solutions for business problems. - Assist in the career development of others, actively mentoring individuals and the community. A day in the life This is a unique and rare opportunity to get in early on a fast-growing segment of AWS and help shape the technology, product and the business. You will have a chance to utilize your deep technical experience within a fast moving, start-up environment and make a large business and customer impact. About the team Science of Security is dedicated to making AWS the best computing service in the world for customers who require advanced and rigorous solutions for security, privacy, and sovereignty.
  • (Updated 19 days ago)
    Stores Economics and Science (SEAS) is an interdisciplinary team in Amazon's Stores organization with a peak-jumping mission: we apply expertise in science and engineering to move from local to global optima in methods, models, and software. We pursue this mission by leveraging frontier science, collaborating with partner teams, and learning from the tools, experience, and perspective of others. We scale by solving problems, first in the small to prove concepts, and then in the large by building scalable solutions. We also help other teams within Amazon scale by hiring and developing the best and embedding them in other business units. We are looking for a Senior Economist to drive high-impact economic analysis and modeling that shapes how Amazon's Stores business makes decisions. In this role, you will work in a team of economists, scientists, and engineers to identify key business questions, design rigorous analytical frameworks, and deliver actionable insights to senior leadership and partner teams. You will own end-to-end research (from problem formulation and data analysis through modeling and stakeholder communication) in areas such as pricing, demand estimation, substitution measurement, and experiment design. Your responsibilities include developing economic models and empirical analyses that inform strategic decisions, designing and analyzing experiments, and translating complex findings into clear recommendations for technical and non-technical audiences. You will also mentor junior economists and help raise the bar on economic rigor across partner teams. The ideal candidate has a PhD in Economics and deep expertise in causal inference and applied econometrics. Experience with large-scale data, proficiency in statistical programming (Python or similar), and familiarity with machine learning methods are a plus. To be successful in this role, you should be comfortable operating with ambiguity, able to independently scope and prioritize research agendas, skilled at influencing decisions through rigorous analysis, and comfortable with using AI tools.
  • (Updated 19 days ago)
    Amazon.com is seeking an exceptional Senior Economist to join our Advertising Finance team. As a tech lead of the Adpt Finance Econ and Science team, you will play a pivotal role in answering critical questions that drive the long-term strategy of our advertising business. These questions include: - What are the long-term impacts of our initiatives? - Where will Advertising’s growth come from in the next year? - How big will the Advertising business become over the next three years? - What are the interactions between consumers and the Ads business? At Amazon, we're always finding answers that redefine industries. In this Senior Economist role, you'll have the unique opportunity to collaborate with top-tier talent, influence senior leadership, and make a tangible impact on the future of advertising. If you're passionate about pushing the boundaries of economic research, thrive on challenging modeling puzzles, and crave a dynamic environment where your insights directly shape business strategy, this is the role for you. Key job responsibilities - Lead causal analysis projects as the primary technical expert, guiding the team in applying advanced economic methodologies to solve complex business challenges. - Collaborate closely with economists, data scientists, financial managers, and business leaders to define product requirements, offer scientific support, and effectively communicate feedback throughout project lifecycles. - Utilize programming languages such as Python, R, Scala, etc., to implement sophisticated economics methods tailored to address specific business problems, ensuring robustness and scalability. - Drive continuous improvement by innovating existing methodologies, including developing new data sources, rigorously testing model enhancements, and fine-tuning model parameters to optimize performance and accuracy. - Present data and insights in a clear, actionable format, enabling stakeholders to make informed decisions and address critical business questions with confidence.

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