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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.
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  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 3179064
    (Updated 41 days ago)
    At AWS Healthcare AI, we're revolutionizing healthcare delivery through AI solutions that serve millions globally. As a pioneer in healthcare technology, we're building next-generation services that combine Amazon's world-class AI infrastructure with deep healthcare expertise. Our mission is to accelerate our healthcare businesses by delivering intuitive and differentiated technology solutions that solve enduring business challenges. The AWS Healthcare AI organization includes services such as HealthScribe, Comprehend Medical, HealthLake, and more. We're seeking a Senior Applied Scientist to join our team working on our AI driven clinical solutions that are transforming how clinicians interact with patients and document care. Key Job Responsibilities To be successful in this mission, we are seeking an experienced Applied Scientist to lead pioneering research and development of new, highly confidential AI applications that re-imagine experiences for end-customers (e.g., consumers, patients), frontline workers (e.g., customer service agents, clinicians), and back-office staff (e.g., claims processing, medical coding). As a leading subject matter expert in NLU, deep learning, knowledge representation, foundation models, and reinforcement learning, you will guide a team of scientists to invent novel, generative AI-powered experiences. This role involves defining research directions, developing new ML techniques, conducting rigorous experiments, and ensuring research translates to impactful products. You will be a hands-on technical innovator who is passionate about building scalable scientific solutions. You will set the standard for excellence, invent scalable, scientifically sound solutions across teams, define evaluation methods, and lead complex reviews. This role wields significant influence across AWS, Amazon, and the global research community.
  • US, CA, Sunnyvale
    Job ID: 3179124
    (Updated 5 days ago)
    Robots are about to step out of the movies and into our homes. If you're excited about this robotics revolution, come join Amazon's Personal Robotics Group. As an Applied Scientist in this org, you'll design and implement state-of-the-art algorithms that bridge Computer Vision, Metric-semantic Mapping, and Contextual Reasoning to create comprehensive 3D/4D scene understanding capabilities. Your work will directly impact how our intelligent system perceives and reasons about dynamic home environments, building rich world representations that enable safe and effective autonomous operation alongside family members. You'll push the state-of-the-art techniques in Robotics and design novel algorithms that bridge the gap between research and real-world deployment. In this role, you'll develop expert models as well as end-to-end learning-based solutions that integrate Spatial Scene Understanding, Semantic Scene Graphs, and High-level Reasoning into unified world models. You'll leverage advanced Deep Learning techniques including Transformer architectures, Neural Radiance Fields, and Multi-modal Foundation Models to create robust representations of domestic spaces. Your solutions will need to handle the unique challenges of unstructured environments - from varying lighting conditions and cluttered spaces to dynamic interactions with humans and pets. Key job responsibilities - Develop multi-modal perception systems that fuse sensiing modalities in cluding but not limited to RGB-D, LiDAR, and other sensing modalities to create robust spatial-semantic world models. - Design and implement advanced 3D/4D scene understanding systems using neural implicit representations, occupancy networks, and dynamic scene graphs - Design experiments to identify the limitations of current state-of-the-art models and developing new models or techniques that can surpass these models - Collaborate with engineering teams to optimize and scale models for real-world applications. Influence technical decisions and implementation strategies within your area of focus - The ability to work with minimal guidance, be proactive and to handle ambiguity and the challenge of quickly evolving goals - Communicate complex technical work to a non-technical audience A day in the life - Design Expert architectures and Train ML models for deployment in simulation and real-world robots, identify and document their limitations post-deployment - Drive technical discussions within your team and with key stakeholders to develop innovative solutions to address identified limitations About the team The Personal Robotics Group is pioneering intelligent robotic products that deliver meaningful customer experiences. We're building the next generation of robotic systems that will redefine how customers interact with technology. This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of personal robotics working with world-class teams pushing the boundaries of what's possible in robotic Manipulation, Locomotion, and Open World Understanding. Join us if you’re passionate about creating the future of personal robotics, solving complex challenges at the intersection of hardware and software, and seeing your innovation deliver transformative customer experiences.
  • (Updated 42 days ago)
    Have you ever wondered how that Amazon box with the smile arrives so quickly, where it came from, and how much it cost Amazon to deliver? The WW Amazon Logistics, Business Analytics team manages the delivery of tens of millions of products every week to Amazon's customers, achieving on-time delivery in a cost-effective manner. We are seeking an enthusiastic, customer-obsessed Sr. Manager Research Science with strong analytical skills to join our team. This role is crucial in optimizing Amazon's vast delivery network and will have significant impact on the customer experience, particularly in the final phase of delivery. As a Sr. Manager Research Science, you will: 1. Address business challenges through building compelling cases and using data to influence change across the organization 2. Develop input and assumptions based on preexisting models to estimate costs and savings opportunities associated with varying levels of network growth and operations 3. Create metrics to measure business performance, identify root causes and trends, and prescribe action plans 4. Manage multiple high-impact projects simultaneously 5. Work with technology teams and product managers to develop new tools and systems supporting business growth 6. Communicate with and support various internal stakeholders and external audiences 7. Implement scheduling solutions, improve metrics, and develop scalable processes and tools The ideal candidate will have: - PhD in Operations Research, Statistics, Engineering, or Supply Chain Management - Extensive experience in operations research and data-driven decision making - Strong analytical and problem-solving skills - Robust program management and research science skills - Ability to work with a team and make independent decisions in ambiguous environments - Customer-obsessed mindset with a focus on improving the Amazon delivery experience This role offers the autonomy to think strategically and make data-driven decisions from day one. Join us in shaping the future of e-commerce delivery and addressing the core challenges in our world-class operations space! Key job responsibilities 1. Advanced Modeling and Algorithm Development: - Design and implement sophisticated machine learning models for logistics optimization - Develop complex time series forecasting algorithms for demand prediction and resource allocation 2. AI and Machine Learning Integration: - Architect and deploy AI-powered systems to enhance decision-making in logistics operations - Implement deep learning techniques for image recognition in package sorting and handling - Develop reinforcement learning algorithms for adaptive scheduling and resource management 3. Big Data Analytics and Processing: - Design and implement distributed computing solutions for processing massive logistics datasets - Utilize cloud computing platforms (e.g., AWS) for scalable data processing and analysis 4. AI-Driven Workflow Optimization: - Design and implement AI agents for autonomous decision-making in logistics processes - Create machine learning models for customer behavior analysis and personalized delivery options 5. Software Development and System Architecture: - Write efficient, scalable code in languages such as Python, Java, or C++ - Develop and maintain complex software systems for logistics optimization - Stay at the forefront of AI and ML research - Publish research findings in top-tier conferences and journals About the team We are Amazon's Last Mile Science and Analytics team, dedicated to improving e-commerce delivery. We work to optimize our vast network, forecast demand using machine learning, and enhance route efficiency. Our efforts focus on developing innovative delivery methods, applying AI to solve complex problems, and conducting geospatial analysis. We create simulations to refine processes and plan capacity effectively. Operating globally, we strive to develop adaptable solutions for diverse markets. We aim to advance logistics science, continually improving speed, efficiency, and customer satisfaction, in support of Amazon's mission to be Earth's most customer-centric company.
  • IN, HR, Gurugram
    Job ID: 3171341
    (Updated 51 days ago)
    Lead ML teams building large-scale forecasting and optimization systems that power Amazon’s global transportation network and directly impact customer experience and cost. As an Sr Applied Scientist, you will set scientific direction, mentor applied scientists, and partner with engineering and product leaders to deliver production-grade ML solutions at massive scale. Key job responsibilities 1. Lead and grow a high-performing team of Applied Scientists, providing technical guidance, mentorship, and career development. 2. Define and own the scientific vision and roadmap for ML solutions powering large-scale transportation planning and execution. 3. Guide model and system design across a range of techniques, including tree-based models, deep learning (LSTMs, transformers), LLMs, and reinforcement learning. 4. Ensure models are production-ready, scalable, and robust through close partnership with stakeholders. Partner with Product, Operations, and Engineering leaders to enable proactive decision-making and corrective actions. 5. Own end-to-end business metrics, directly influencing customer experience, cost optimization, and network reliability. 6. Help contribute to the broader ML community through publications, conference submissions, and internal knowledge sharing. A day in the life Your day includes reviewing model performance and business metrics, guiding technical design and experimentation, mentoring scientists, and driving roadmap execution. You’ll balance near-term delivery with long-term innovation while ensuring solutions are robust, interpretable, and scalable. Ultimately, your work helps improve delivery reliability, reduce costs, and enhance the customer experience at massive scale.
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 3175182
    (Updated 13 days ago)
    The Selling Partner Experience (SPX) organization strives to make Amazon the best place for Selling Partners to do business. The SPX Science team is building an AI-powered conversational assistant to transform the Selling Partner experience. The Selling Assistant is a trusted partner and a seasoned advisor that’s always available to enable our partners to thrive in Amazon’s stores. It takes away the cognitive load of selling on Amazon by providing a single interface to handle a diverse set of selling needs. The assistant always stays by the seller's side, talks to them in their language, enables them to capitalize on opportunities, and helps them accomplish their business goals with ease. It is powered by the state-of-the-art Generative AI, going beyond a typical chatbot to provide a personalized experience to sellers running real businesses, large and small. Do you want to join an innovative team of scientists, engineers, product and program managers who use the latest Generative AI and Machine Learning technologies to help Amazon create a delightful Selling Partner experience? Do you want to build solutions to real business problems by automatically understanding and addressing sellers’ challenges, needs and opportunities? Are you excited by the prospect of contributing to one of Amazon’s most strategic Generative AI initiatives? If yes, then you may be a great fit to join the Selling Partner Experience Science team. Key job responsibilities - Use state-of-the-art Machine Learning and Generative AI techniques to create the next generation of the tools that empower Amazon's Selling Partners to succeed. - Design, develop and deploy highly innovative models to interact with Sellers and delight them with solutions. - Work closely with teams of scientists and software engineers to drive real-time model implementations and deliver novel and highly impactful features. - Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large scale data analyses, model benchmarking, model validation and model implementation. - Research and implement novel machine learning and statistical approaches. - Participate in strategic initiatives to employ the most recent advances in ML in a fast-paced, experimental environment. About the team Selling Partner Experience Science is a growing team of scientists, engineers and product leaders engaged in the research and development of the next generation of ML-driven technology to empower Amazon's Selling Partners to succeed. We draw from many science domains, from Natural Language Processing to Computer Vision to Optimization to Economics, to create solutions that seamlessly and automatically engage with Sellers, solve their problems, and help them grow. We are focused on building seller facing AI-powered tools using the latest science advancements to empower sellers to drive the growth of their business. We strive to radically simplify the seller experience, lowering the cognitive burden of selling on Amazon by making it easy to accomplish critical tasks such as launching new products, understanding and complying with Amazon’s policies and taking actions to grow their business.
  • US, NY, New York
    Job ID: 3170628
    (Updated 29 days ago)
    MULTIPLE POSITIONS AVAILABLE Employer: AMAZON ADVERTISING LLC Offered Position: Data Scientist II Job Location: New York, New York Job Number: AMZ9658237 Position Responsibilities: Design and implement scalable and reliable approaches to support or automate decision making throughout the business. Apply a range of data science techniques and tools combined with subject matter expertise to solve difficult business problems and cases in which the solution approach is unclear. Acquire data by building the necessary SQL / ETL queries. Import processes through various company specific interfaces for accessing Oracle, RedShift, and Spark storage systems. Build relationships with stakeholders and counterparts. Analyze data for trends and input validity by inspecting univariate distributions, exploring bivariate relationships, constructing appropriate transformations, and tracking down the source and meaning of anomalies. Build models using statistical modeling, mathematical modeling, econometric modeling, network modeling, social network modeling, natural language processing, machine learning algorithms, genetic algorithms, and neural networks. Validate models against alternative approaches, expected and observed outcome, and other business defined key performance indicators. Implement models that comply with evaluations of the computational demands, accuracy, and reliability of the relevant ETL processes at various stages of production. 40 hours / week, 8:00am-5:00pm, Salary Range $169,541/year to $207,500/year. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, visit: https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. Amazon.com is an Equal Opportunity-Affirmative Action Employer – Minority / Female / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation.#0000
  • (Updated 53 days ago)
    Who are we? Do you want to build Amazon's next $100B business? We're not just joining the shipping industry—we're transforming how billions of packages move across the world every year. Through evolving Amazon's controlled, predictable fulfillment network into a dynamic, adaptive shipping powerhouse we are building an intelligent system that optimizes in real-time to deliver on the promises businesses make to their customers. Our mission goes beyond moving boxes—we're spinning a flywheel where every new package makes our network stronger, faster, and more efficient. As we increase density and scale, we're revolutionizing shipping for businesses while simultaneously strengthening Amazon's own delivery capabilities, driving down costs and increasing speed for our entire ecosystem. What will you do? Amazon shipping is seeking a Senior Data Scientist with strong pricing and machine learning skills to work in an embedded team, partnering closely with commercial, product and tech. This person will be responsible for developing demand prediction models for Amazon shipping’s spot pricing system. As a Senior Data Scientist, you will be part of a science team responsible for improving price discovery across Amazon shipping, measuring the impact of model implementation, and defining a roadmap for improvements and expansion of the models into new unique use cases. This person will be collaborating closely with business and software teams to research, innovate, and solve high impact economics problems facing the worldwide Amazon shipping business. Who are you? The ideal candidate is analytical, resourceful, curious and team oriented, with clear communication skills and the ability to build strong relationships with key stakeholders. You should be a strong owner, are right a lot, and have a proven track record of taking on end-to-end ownership of and successfully delivering complex projects in a fast-paced and dynamic business environment. As this position involves regular interaction with senior leadership (director+), you need to be comfortable communicating at that level while also working directly with various functional teams. Key job responsibilities * Combine ML methodologies with fundamental economics principles to create new pricing algorithms. * Automate price exploration through automated experimentation methodologies, for example using multi-armed bandit strategies. * Partner with other scientists to dynamically predict prices to maximize capacity utilization. * Collaborate with product managers, data scientists, and software developers to incorporate models into production processes and influence senior leaders. * Educate non-technical business leaders on complex modeling concepts, and explain modeling results, implications, and performance in an accessible manner. * Independently identify and pursue new opportunities to leverage economic insights * Opportunity to expand into other domains such as causal analytics, optimization and simulation. About the team Amazon Shipping's pricing team empowers our global business to find strategic harmony between growth and profit tradeoffs, while seeking long term customer value and financial viability. Our people and systems help identify and drive synergy between demand, operational, and economic planning. The breadth of our problems range from CEO-level strategic support to in-depth mathematical experimentation and optimization. Excited by the intersection of data and large scale strategic decision-making? This is the team for you!
  • (Updated 5 days ago)
    This is currently a 12 month temporary contract opportunity with the possibility to extend to 24 months based on business needs. The Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) team is seeking a dedicated, skilled, and innovative Applied Scientist with a robust background in machine learning, statistics, quality assurance, auditing methodologies, and automated evaluation systems to ensure the highest standards of data quality, to build industry-leading technology with Large Language Models (LLMs) and multimodal systems. Key job responsibilities As part of the AGI team, an Applied Scientist will collaborate closely with core scientist team developing Amazon Nova models. They will lead the development of comprehensive quality strategies and auditing frameworks that safeguard the integrity of data collection workflows. This includes designing auditing strategies with detailed SOPs, quality metrics, and sampling methodologies that help Nova improve performances on benchmarks. The Applied Scientist will perform expert-level manual audits, conduct meta-audits to evaluate auditor performance, and provide targeted coaching to uplift overall quality capabilities. A critical aspect of this role involves developing and maintaining LLM-as-a-Judge systems, including designing judge architectures, creating evaluation rubrics, and building machine learning models for automated quality assessment. The Applied Scientist will also set up the configuration of data collection workflows and communicate quality feedback to stakeholders. An Applied Scientist will also have a direct impact on enhancing customer experiences through high-quality training and evaluation data that powers state-of-the-art LLM products and services. A day in the life An Applied Scientist with the AGI team will support quality solution design, conduct root cause analysis on data quality issues, research new auditing methodologies, and find innovative ways of optimizing data quality while setting examples for the team on quality assurance best practices and standards. Besides theoretical analysis and quality framework development, an Applied Scientist will also work closely with talented engineers, domain experts, and vendor teams to put quality strategies and automated judging systems into practice.
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 3206663
    (Updated 7 days ago)
    Are you passionate about solving unique customer-facing problems in the Amazon scale? Are you excited about utilizing statistical analysis, machine learning, data mining and leverage tons of Amazon data to learn and infer customer shopping patterns? Do you enjoy working with a diversity of engineers, machine learning scientists, product managers and user-experience designers? If so, you have found the right match! Fashion is extremely fast-moving, visual, subjective, and it presents numerous unique problem domains such as product recommendations, product discovery and evaluation. The vision for Amazon Fashion is to make Amazon the number one online shopping destination for Fashion customers by providing large selections, inspiring and accurate recommendations and customer experience. The NAS Shop and Keep (SHAKE) organization empowers customers to make confident, lasting purchase decisions by minimizing purchase anxiety and reducing returns. The NAS SHAKE science team advances this mission by innovating and developing scalable ML solutions tailored to these unique challenges. The team is hiring a Data Scientist who has a solid background in Statistical Analysis, Machine Learning and Data Mining and a proven record of effectively analyzing large complex heterogeneous datasets, and is motivated to grow professionally as a Data Scientist. Key job responsibilities - You will work on our Science team and partner closely with applied scientists, data engineers as well as product managers, UX designers, and business partners to answer complex problems via data analysis. Outputs from your analysis will directly help improve the performance of the ML based recommendation systems thereby enhancing the customer experience as well as inform the roadmap for science and the product. - You can effectively analyze complex and disparate datasets collected from diverse sources to derive key insights, build segmentation models and improve customer experience by reducing retail returns. - You have excellent communication skills to be able to work with cross-functional team members to understand key questions and earn the trust of senior leaders. - You are able to multi-task between different tasks such as gap analysis of algorithm results, integrating multiple disparate datasets, doing business intelligence, analyzing engagement metrics or presenting to stakeholders. - You thrive in an agile and fast-paced environment on highly visible projects and initiatives.
  • (Updated 20 days ago)
    Leo is Amazon’s low Earth orbit satellite broadband network. Its mission is to deliver fast, reliable internet to customers and communities around the world, and we’ve designed the system with the capacity, flexibility, and performance to serve a wide range of customers, from individual households to schools, hospitals, businesses, government agencies, and other organizations operating in locations without reliable connectivity. The Sr. Applied Scientist Pricing Optimization, Leo Global Pricing Strategy will have an outsized impact on the profitability of Amazon Leo directly through building the initial foundational models to enable the business to optimize our pricing and product feature strategies. You will be building a true "0 to 1" function, powering the science behind pricing decisions and driving science automation at a global scale. 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 You will design, develop, and deploy advanced machine‑learning models to predict customer‑level behavior (revenue, churn, usage, migration, product choice) and response to pricing changes. You will build robust models that capture the complexities of multi‑product bundling interactions in a subscription business model and regional nuances in supply/demand and consumer choice alternative choices. You will implement scalable inference systems, will monitor model performance, and will automate retraining. Collaboration with cross‑functional teams will be critical to ensure that technical solutions will align with business objectives and actionable strategies. Establishing mechanisms to stay up to date on latest scientific advancements in machine learning, neural networks, natural language processing, probabilistic forecasting, and multi-objective optimization techniques will be critical.

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