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  • (Updated 33 days ago)
    The Applied Science Manager will be a key leadership member the Credit team in Amazon B2B Payments and Lending. This leader will lead the science team developing best-in-class underwriting systems. This role presents a significant intellectual, technical, and operational challenge with enormous opportunity for business impact. Amazon is dedicated to building credit/lending services that help small, medium, and large businesses worldwide. We believe we are in a unique position to serve our customers with exceptional value due to our deep understanding and insight into our base coupled with rigorous scientific approach and customer-focused emphasis to building financial products. This leader will be passionate about enabling the growth of small, medium, and large businesses and other to-be-launched segments by removing a critical barrier to deepening their activity on Amazon – access to capital. This leader will demonstrate high judgment and deep business experience across economic cycles. They will bring proven ability to identify and recommend data-driven solutions, navigating through complex financial and regulatory issues across geographies. This role is highly strategic and will interact with all levels across a broad range of teams and leaders across Amazon. This leader will need to work with our business and product management partners to communicate the properties of their team’s analysis/modeling. This leader owns the multi-year research agenda and prioritization for the team, and ensure that projects meaningful drive results. Key job responsibilities · Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing science team · Apply advanced analytics and AI/ML techniques to support Credit Management processes · Source, incorporate, and analyze alternative credit data to drive innovation · Own science team roadmap, balance multiple projects efficiently and achieve goals in a fast-paced, dynamic environment · Own production model (real time and batch) Conduct code review and model monitoring to insist high bar of operating efficiencies and excellence. Ensure high performant credit management science models · Collaborate effectively with Credit Strategy, operation, product teams, and senior management at ABPL to underwrite new customers and manage portfolio risk · Promote a culture of transparency, integrity, and ethical use of data.
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 2873000
    (Updated 7 days ago)
    Are you a passionate Data Scientist (DS) ready to shape the future of digital content creation? At Amazon, we're building Earth's most desired destination for creators to monetize their unique skills, inspire the next generation of customers, and help brands expand their reach. We build innovative products and experiences that drive growth for creators across Amazon's ecosystem. Our team owns the entire Creator product suite, ensuring a cohesive experience, optimizing compensation structures, and launching features that help creators achieve both monetary and non-monetary goals. Key job responsibilities As a DS in our team you will: * Collaborate with cross-functional leaders from business development, marketing, product, and engineering to implement measurable, data-driven strategies * Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large scale data analyses, model development, model validation and implementation. * Perform large-scale experimentation to identify hidden relationships between variables in large datasets * Implement statistical, machine learning, or other mathematical methodologies to solve specific business problems * Coordinate research and analysis activities using unstructured and structured data and use programming to clean and organize data * Foster a culture of continuous learning and innovation The successful candidate is self-driven and thrives in a fast-paced, innovative environment. You have deep expertise in accessing, manipulating, analyzing, and modeling large datasets across various platforms. You possess strong business acumen and excellent communication skills, and use them to effectively translate business requirements into scientific solutions. You stay current with emerging technologies and implement them strategically. About the team Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of domain specialists (Economics, Data Science, Applied Science), experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge creation and sharing, and mentorship. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded professional and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.
  • US, WA, Redmond
    Job ID: 2872056
    (Updated 33 days ago)
    Project Kuiper is an initiative to increase global broadband access through a constellation of 3,236 satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO). Its mission is to bring fast, affordable broadband to unserved and underserved communities around the world. Project Kuiper will help close the digital divide by delivering fast, affordable broadband to a wide range of customers, including consumers, businesses, government agencies, and other organizations operating in places without reliable connectivity. Key job responsibilities This position is part of the Satellite Attitude Determination and Control team. You will design and analyze the control system and algorithms, support development of our flight hardware and software, help integrate the satellite in our labs, participate in flight operations, and see a constellation of satellites flow through the production line in the building next door. You will design and analyze algorithms for estimation, flight control, and precise pointing using linear methods and simulation. Along with that will be plenty of work developing and applying models and simulations, with various levels of fidelity, of the satellite and our constellation. The labs in our building provide for component level environmental testing, functional and performance checkout, subsystem integration, and satellite integration up to Day in the Life testing and mission rehearsal. We are excited to get into space, so you can look forward to seeing your designs launch and fly soon! A day in the life This is an opportunity to play a significant role in the design of an entirely new satellite system with challenging performance requirements. The large, integrated constellation brings opportunities for advanced capabilities that need investigation and development. The constellation size also puts emphasis on engineering excellence so our tools and methods, from conceptualization through manufacturing and all phases of test, will be state of the art as will the satellite and supporting infrastructure on the ground. You will find that Kuiper's mission is compelling, so our program is staffed with some of the top engineers in the industry. Our daily collaboration with other teams on the program brings constant opportunity for discovery, learning, and growth. About the team Our team has lots of experience with various satellite systems and many other flight vehicles. We have bench strength in both our mission and core GNC disciplines. We design, prototype, test, iterate and learn together. Because GNC is central to safe flight, we tend to drive Concepts of Operation and many system level analyses.
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 2888314
    (Updated 3 days ago)
    Lead the development of AI models to power Amazon's eCommerce ontology - a key source of product knowledge driving exceptional customer experiences. Applied Scientists in this role solve problems related to product classification, attribute extraction, ontology modeling, data integration and enrichment, and scalable knowledge services. It's challenging due to the vast scale, heterogeneous data sources, and evolving domains, but exciting for pushing boundaries in ML, NLP, and knowledge representation research. If you're passionate about driving innovation at scale, we want to hear from you! Key job responsibilities - Lead the research and development of novel AI solutions to enrich and curate Amazon's product ontology (Product Knowledge) at scale - Develop scalable data processing pipelines and architectures to ingest, transform, and enrich product data from various sources (seller listings, customer reviews, etc.) - Collaborate with engineers to design and implement robust services - Work closely with product managers, stakeholders, and subject matter experts to identify opportunities for innovation and drive the roadmap for Product Knowledge - Mentor and upskill junior scientists and engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and knowledge sharing - Communicate complex technical concepts and research findings effectively to diverse audiences, including leadership, cross-functional teams, and the wider scientific community - Stay up-to-date with the latest advancements in machine learning, natural language processing, knowledge representation, and related fields, and identify opportunities to apply them to Product Knowledge A day in the life The Amazon product ontology is a structured knowledge base representing product types, attributes, classes, and relationships. It standardizes product data, enabling enhanced customer experiences through improved search and recommendations, streamlined selling processes, and internal data enrichment across Amazon's eCommerce ecosystem. You will work with following stakeholders: - Product Managers represent customer experiences and selling partner experiences - Category Leaders (e.g., apparel, electronics) provide domain knowledge and guidance as subject matter experts - Engineers build and maintain data pipelines and services in production - Ontologists design data models and define guidelines - Other Applied Scientists collaborate on research and innovation About the team The Product Knowledge team at Amazon is dedicated to creating the industry-standard eCommerce product and services ontology. Our diverse team of applied scientists, engineers, ontologists and subject matter experts build a comprehensive ontology enabling exceptional customer and selling partner experiences through high-quality, contextual product knowledge at scale.
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 2869541
    (Updated 10 days ago)
    Are you fascinated by the power of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Large Language Models (LLM) to transform the way we interact with technology? Are you fascinated by the use of Generative AI to build an advertiser facing solution that predict problems and coach users while they solve real word problems? Are you passionate about applying advanced machine learning techniques to solve complex challenges in the customer service space? If so, Amazon's Support Product & Services (SP&S) team has an exciting opportunity for you as an Applied Scientist. Key job responsibilities • Apply your expertise in LLM models to design, develop, and implement scalable machine learning solutions that address complex language-related challenges in the advertising support center domain. • Use Transformers and apply other NLP techniques like Sentence embeddings, Dimensionality reduction, clustering and topic modeling to identify customer intents and utterances. • Use services like AWS Lex, AWS Bedrock etc. to develop advertising facing solutions • Work closely with teams of scientists and software engineers to drive real-time model implementations and deliver novel and highly impactful solutions. • Automating feedback loops for algorithms in production. • Setup and monitor alarms to detect anomalous data patterns and perform root cause analyses to explain and address them. • Be a member of the Amazon-wide Machine Learning Community, participating in internal and external MeetUps, Hackathons and Conferences. A day in the life You will work closely with a cross functional team of Software Engineers, Product Owners, Data Scientists, and Contact Center experts. You will research and investigate the latest options in industry to apply machine learning and generative AI to real world problems. You will work backwards from customer problems and collaborate with stakeholders to determine how to scale new technology and integrate with complicated help channels used by advertisers everyday. About the team SP&S team provides solutions and libraries that are leveraged by teams all across Amazon Advertising to provide timely and personalized help. The team aims to predict Advertisers problems and proactively surface intelligent guidance to customers at the right time. As a AS, you will help the team to achieve its vision of building and implementing the next generation of Contact Center technology. You will build/leverage LLMs to train them on advertising support domain knowledge and work shoulder to shoulder with stakeholders to externalize to users in novel ways.
  • (Updated 41 days ago)
    Are you a MS or PhD student interested in a 2025 Internship in the field of machine learning, deep learning, speech, robotics, computer vision, optimization, quantum computing, automated reasoning, or formal methods? If so, we want to hear from you! We are looking for students interested in using a variety of domain expertise to invent, design and implement state-of-the-art solutions for never-before-solved problems. You can find more information about the Amazon Science community as well as our interview process via the links below; https://www.amazon.science/ https://amazon.jobs/content/en/career-programs/university/science https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/university-roles/applied-science Key job responsibilities As an Applied Science Intern, you will own the design and development of end-to-end systems. You’ll have the opportunity to write technical white papers, create roadmaps and drive production level projects that will support Amazon Science. You will work closely with Amazon scientists, and other science interns to develop solutions and deploy them into production. You will have the opportunity to design new algorithms, models, or other technical solutions whilst experiencing Amazon’s customer focused culture. The ideal intern must have the ability to work with diverse groups of people and cross-functional teams to solve complex business problems. A day in the life At Amazon, you will grow into the high impact, visionary person you know you’re ready to be. Every day will be filled with developing new skills and achieving personal growth. How often can you say that your work changes the world? At Amazon, you’ll say it often. Join us and define tomorrow. Some more benefits of an Amazon Science internship include; • All of our internships offer a competitive stipend/salary • Interns are paired with an experienced manager and mentor(s) • Interns receive invitations to different events such as intern program initiatives or site events • Interns can build their professional and personal network with other Amazon Scientists • Interns can potentially publish work at top tier conferences each year About the team Applicants will be reviewed on a rolling basis and are assigned to teams aligned with their research interests and experience prior to interviews. Start dates are available throughout the year and durations can vary in length from 3-6 months for full time internships. This role may available across multiple locations in the EMEA region (Austria, Estonia, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Spain, UAE, and UK). Please note these are not remote internships.
  • (Updated 20 days ago)
    Working at Amazon Robotics Are you inspired by invention? Is problem solving through teamwork in your DNA? Do you like the idea of seeing how your work impacts the bigger picture? Answer yes to any of these and you’ll fit right in here at Amazon Robotics. We are a smart team of doers that work passionately to apply innovative advances in robotics and software to solve real-world challenges that will transform our customers’ experiences in ways we can’t even imagine yet. We invent new improvements every day. We are Amazon Robotics and we will give you the tools and support you need to invent with us in ways that are rewarding, fulfilling and fun. Position Overview The Amazon Robotics (AR) Software Research and Science team builds and runs simulation experiments and delivers analyses that are central to understanding the performance of the entire AR system. This includes operational and software scaling characteristics, bottlenecks, and robustness to “chaos monkey” stresses -- we inform critical engineering and business decisions about Amazon’s approach to robotic fulfillment. We are seeking an enthusiastic Data Scientist to design and implement state-of-the-art solutions for never-before-solved problems. The DS will collaborate closely with other research and robotics experts to design and run experiments, research new algorithms, and find new ways to improve Amazon Robotics analytics to optimize the Customer experience. They will partner with technology and product leaders to solve business problems using scientific approaches. They will build new tools and invent business insights that surprise and delight our customers. They will work to quantify system performance at scale, and to expand the breadth and depth of our analysis to increase the ability of software components and warehouse processes. They will work to evolve our library of key performance indicators and construct experiments that efficiently root cause emergent behaviors. They will engage with software development teams and warehouse design engineers to drive the evolution of the AR system, as well as the simulation engine that supports our work. Inclusive Team Culture Here at Amazon, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have 12 affinity groups (employee resource groups) with more than 87,000 employees across hundreds of chapters around the world. We have innovative benefit offerings and host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (diversity) conferences. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 14 Leadership Principles, which reminds team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust. Flexibility It isn’t about which hours you spend at home or at work; it’s about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life. We offer flexibility and encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal lives. Mentorship & Career Growth We care about your career growth too. Whether your goals are to explore new technologies, take on bigger opportunities, or get to the next level, we'll help you get there. Our business is growing fast and our people will grow with it. 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: 1. Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage 2. Maternity and Parental Leave Options 3. Paid Time Off (PTO) 4. 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!
  • US, MA, Westborough
    Job ID: 2876523
    (Updated 31 days ago)
    Are you in interested in designing highly automated systems that span across Amazon's Global Fulfillment network? Do you like the idea of leveraging a variety of simulation technology and approaches to drive system design and robotic innovation? Do you like the idea of driving new technology to advance simulation experimentation and analysis? Answer yes to any of these questions and you will fit right in here in the Amazon Robotics System Operations and Simulation team. We are a team of collaborative builders that work passionately to solve real-world challenges that will transform our customers’ experiences in ways we can’t even imagine yet. We focus on reducing complexity across the fulfillment network, driving new improvements every day. We are Amazon Robotics and we will give you the tools and support you need to invent with us in ways that are rewarding, fulfilling and fun. Key job responsibilities As a Principal Data Scientist on our team you will: - Create simulations of our robotic workcells and automation systems with varying fidelity from mathematical modeling to simulation with software in the loop. - Decompose novel system designs and iterate on alternatives to produce simulations of robotic and system designs. - Apply your system engineering and science judgement to determine the most critical behaviors to model to drive design and engineering decisions. - Apply simulation expertise to drive designs to produce the best product minimizing system complexity. - Communicate transparently the experiments and analysis produced from system design models. - Advance simulation technology to accelerate innovation and system design. A day in the life On any given day at Amazon Robotics, you will: - Collaborate with experts spanning robotics, hardware, software, industrial design, system architecture and other domains. - Inform understanding of simulation and experiment design. - Adjudicate what system behaviors are most critical to model when. - Use analysis results to drive system understanding and gain consensus around what is the best system design while reducing complexity. - Use your skillset across simulation and design boundaries to continually surface data and evolve designs. - Provide guidance and hands on expertise to improve tools and techniques used in simulation to accelerate innovation.
  • (Updated 4 days ago)
    The Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) team is looking for a passionate, talented, and inventive Senior Applied Scientist with a strong deep learning background, to build industry-leading technology with Large Language Models (LLMs) and Multimodal (MM) systems. Key job responsibilities As a Senior Applied Scientist with the AGI team, you will work with talented peers to lead the development of novel algorithms and modeling techniques, to advance the state of the art with LLMs, and MM models. Your work will directly impact our customers in the form of products and services that make use of language technology. You will leverage Amazon’s heterogeneous data sources and large-scale computing resources to accelerate advances in LLMs and multimodal systems. About the team The AGI team has a mission to push the envelope in LLMs and multimodal systems, in order to provide the best-possible experience for our customers.
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 2870165
    (Updated 21 days ago)
    As part of the AWS Solutions organization, we have a vision to provide business applications, leveraging Amazon’s unique experience and expertise, that are used by millions of companies worldwide to manage day-to-day operations. We will accomplish this by accelerating our customers’ businesses through delivery of intuitive and differentiated technology solutions that solve enduring business challenges. We blend vision with curiosity and Amazon’s real-world experience to build opinionated, turnkey solutions. Where customers prefer to buy over build, we become their trusted partner with solutions that are no-brainers to buy and easy to use. The Team: Amazon Go is a new kind of store with no lines and no checkout—you just grab and go! Customers simply use the Amazon Go app to enter the store, take what they want from our selection of fresh, delicious meals and grocery essentials, and go! Our checkout-free shopping experience is made possible by our Just Walk Out Technology, which automatically detects when products are taken from or returned to the shelves and keeps track of them in a virtual cart. When you’re done shopping, you can just leave the store. Shortly after, we’ll charge your Amazon account and send you a receipt. Check it out at amazon.com/go. Designed and custom-built by Amazonians, our Just Walk Out Technology uses a variety of technologies including computer vision, sensor fusion, and advanced machine learning. Innovation is part of our DNA! Our goal is to be Earths’ most customer centric company and we are just getting started. We need people who want to join an ambitious program that continues to push the state of the art in computer vision, machine learning, distributed systems and hardware design. The Role: Everyone on the team needs to be entrepreneurial, wear many hats and work in a highly collaborative environment that’s more startup than big company. We’ll need to tackle problems that span a variety of domains: computer vision, image recognition, machine learning, real-time and distributed systems. As a Machine Learning or Computer Vision Research Scientist, you will help solve a variety of technical challenges and mentor other engineers. You will tackle challenging, novel situations every day and given the size of this initiative, you’ll have the opportunity to work with multiple technical teams at Amazon in different locations. You should be comfortable with a degree of ambiguity that’s higher than most projects and relish the idea of solving problems that, frankly, haven’t been solved at scale before - anywhere. Along the way, we guarantee that you’ll learn a ton, have fun and make a positive impact on millions of people. About the team 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. Diverse Experiences Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying. 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. 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 and 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.

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