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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.
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  • US, VA, Arlington
    Job ID: 3181967
    (Updated 4 days ago)
    This position requires that the candidate selected be a US Citizen and currently possess and maintain an active Top Secret security clearance. The Amazon Web Services Professional Services (ProServe) team seeks an experienced Principal Data Scientist to join our ProServe Shared Delivery Team (SDT). In this role, you will serve as a technical leader and strategic advisor to AWS enterprise customers, partners, and internal AWS teams on transformative AI/ML projects. You will leverage your deep technical expertise to architect and implement innovative machine learning and generative AI solutions that drive significant business outcomes. As a Principal Data Scientist, you will lead complex, high-impact AI/ML initiatives across multiple customer engagements. You will collaborate with Director and C-level executives to translate business challenges into technical solutions. You will drive innovation through thought leadership, establish technical standards, and develop reusable solution frameworks that accelerate customer adoption of AWS AI/ML services. Your work will directly influence the strategic direction of AWS Professional Services AI/ML offerings and delivery approaches. Your extensive experience in designing and implementing sophisticated AI/ML solutions will enable you to tackle the most challenging customer problems. You will provide technical mentorship to other data scientists, establish best practices, and represent AWS as a subject matter expert in customer-facing engagements. You will build trusted advisor relationships with customers and partners, helping them achieve their business outcomes through innovative applications of AWS AI/ML services. The AWS Professional Services organization is a global team of experts that help customers realize their desired business outcomes when using the AWS Cloud. We work together with customer teams and the AWS Partner Network (APN) to execute enterprise cloud computing initiatives. Our team provides a collection of offerings which help customers achieve specific outcomes related to enterprise cloud adoption. We also deliver focused guidance through our global specialty practices, which cover a variety of solutions, technologies, and industries. Key job responsibilities Architecting and implementing complex, enterprise-scale AI/ML solutions that solve critical customer business challenges Providing technical leadership across multiple customer engagements, establishing best practices and driving innovation Collaborating with Delivery Consultants, Engagement Managers, Account Executives, and Cloud Architects to design and deploy AI/ML solutions Developing reusable solution frameworks, reference architectures, and technical assets that accelerate customer adoption of AWS AI/ML services Representing AWS as a subject matter expert in customer-facing engagements, including executive briefings and technical workshops Identifying and driving new business opportunities through technical innovation and thought leadership Mentoring junior data scientists and contributing to the growth of AI/ML capabilities within AWS Professional Services
  • US, VA, Arlington
    Job ID: 3181340
    (Updated 4 days ago)
    This position requires that the candidate selected be a US Citizen and currently possess and maintain an active Top Secret security clearance. The Amazon Web Services Professional Services (ProServe) team seeks an experienced Principal Data Scientist to join our ProServe Shared Delivery Team (SDT). In this role, you will serve as a technical leader and strategic advisor to AWS enterprise customers, partners, and internal AWS teams on transformative AI/ML projects. You will leverage your deep technical expertise to architect and implement innovative machine learning and generative AI solutions that drive significant business outcomes. As a Principal Data Scientist, you will lead complex, high-impact AI/ML initiatives across multiple customer engagements. You will collaborate with Director and C-level executives to translate business challenges into technical solutions. You will drive innovation through thought leadership, establish technical standards, and develop reusable solution frameworks that accelerate customer adoption of AWS AI/ML services. Your work will directly influence the strategic direction of AWS Professional Services AI/ML offerings and delivery approaches. Your extensive experience in designing and implementing sophisticated AI/ML solutions will enable you to tackle the most challenging customer problems. You will provide technical mentorship to other data scientists, establish best practices, and represent AWS as a subject matter expert in customer-facing engagements. You will build trusted advisor relationships with customers and partners, helping them achieve their business outcomes through innovative applications of AWS AI/ML services. The AWS Professional Services organization is a global team of experts that help customers realize their desired business outcomes when using the AWS Cloud. We work together with customer teams and the AWS Partner Network (APN) to execute enterprise cloud computing initiatives. Our team provides a collection of offerings which help customers achieve specific outcomes related to enterprise cloud adoption. We also deliver focused guidance through our global specialty practices, which cover a variety of solutions, technologies, and industries. Key job responsibilities Architecting and implementing complex, enterprise-scale AI/ML solutions that solve critical customer business challenges Providing technical leadership across multiple customer engagements, establishing best practices and driving innovation Collaborating with Delivery Consultants, Engagement Managers, Account Executives, and Cloud Architects to design and deploy AI/ML solutions Developing reusable solution frameworks, reference architectures, and technical assets that accelerate customer adoption of AWS AI/ML services Representing AWS as a subject matter expert in customer-facing engagements, including executive briefings and technical workshops Identifying and driving new business opportunities through technical innovation and thought leadership Mentoring junior data scientists and contributing to the growth of AI/ML capabilities within AWS Professional Services
  • (Updated 7 days ago)
    Customer Experience and Business Trends (CXBT) is looking for an Applied Scientist to join their team. CXBT's mission is to create best-in-class AI agents that seamlessly integrate multimodal inputs like speech, images, and video, enabling natural, empathetic, and adaptive interactions. We leverage advanced architectures, cross-modal learning, interpretability, and responsible AI techniques to provide coherent, context-aware responses augmented by real-time knowledge retrieval. The ideal candidate will have expertise in Large Language Models (LLMs), speech, audio, Natural Language processing (NLP) or multimodal learning to pioneer innovations in data simulation, representation, generation, reasoning, retrieval, and evaluation. Key job responsibilities - Build scalable solutions for real-time conversational experiences, including multilingual support, customizable personalities, and conversational turn-taking. - Develop data simulation approaches that mimic real-world speech interactions. - Research and implement novel algorithms and modeling techniques. - Acquire and curate diverse datasets while ensuring user privacy. - Create robust evaluation metrics and test sets to assess language model performance. - Integrate human feedback to improve data selection and model performance. - Innovate in data representation and model training techniques. - Apply responsible AI practices throughout the development process. A day in the life Our team is dedicated to improving Amazon's products and services through evaluation of the end-to-end customer experience using both internal and external processes and technology. Our mission is to deeply understand our customers' experiences, challenge the status quo, and provide insights that drive innovation to improve that experience. Through our analysis and insights, we inform business decisions that directly impact customer experience as customers of new GenAI and LLM technologies. About the team Customer Experience and Business Trends (CXBT) is an organization made up of a diverse suite of functions dedicated to deeply understanding and improving customer experience, globally. We are a team of builders that develop products, services, ideas, and various ways of leveraging data to influence product and service offerings – for almost every business at Amazon – for every customer (e.g., consumers, developers, sellers/brands, employees, investors, streamers, gamers). Our approach is based on determining the customer need, along with problem solving, and we work backwards from there. We use technical and non-technical approaches and stay aware of industry and business trends. We are a global team, made up of a diverse set of profiles, skills, and backgrounds – including: Product Managers, Software Developers, Computer Vision experts, Solutions Architects, Data Scientists, Business Intelligence Engineers, Business Analysts, Risk Managers, and more.
  • (Updated 0 days ago)
    Are you passionate about applying machine learning and advanced statistical techniques to protect one of the world's largest online marketplaces? Do you want to be at the forefront of developing innovative solutions that safeguard Amazon's customers and legitimate sellers while ensuring a fair and trusted shopping experience? Do you thrive in a collaborative environment where diverse perspectives drive breakthrough solutions? If yes, we invite you to join the Amazon Risk Intelligence Science Team. We're seeking an exceptional scientist who can revolutionize how we protect our marketplace through intelligent automation. As a key member of our team, you'll develop and deploy state-of-the-art machine learning systems that analyze millions of seller interactions daily, ensuring the integrity and trustworthiness of Amazon's marketplace while scaling our operations to new heights. Your work will directly impact the safety and security of the shopping experience for hundreds of millions of customers worldwide, while supporting the growth of honest entrepreneurs and businesses. Key job responsibilities • Use machine learning and statistical techniques to create scalable abuse detection solutions that identify fraudulent seller behavior, identity change, and marketplace manipulation schemes • Innovate with the latest GenAI technology to build highly automated solutions for efficient seller verification, transaction monitoring, and risk assessment • Design, develop and deploy end-to-end machine learning solutions in the Amazon production environment to prevent and detect sophisticated abuse patterns across the marketplace • Learn, explore and experiment with the latest machine learning advancements to protect customer trust and maintain marketplace integrity while supporting legitimate selling partners • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop comprehensive risk models that can adapt to evolving abuse patterns and emerging threats About the team You'll be working closely with business partners, science and engineering teams to create end-to-end scalable machine learning solutions that address real-world problems. You will build scalable, efficient, and automated processes for large-scale data analyses, model development, model validation, and model implementation. You will also be providing clear and compelling reports for your solutions and contributing to the ongoing innovation and knowledge-sharing that are central to the team's success.
  • IL, Tel Aviv
    Job ID: 3196112
    (Updated 8 days ago)
    Come join the AWS Agentic AI science team in building the next generation models for intelligent automation. AWS, the world-leading provider of cloud services, has fostered the creation and growth of countless new businesses, and is a positive force for good. Our customers bring problems that will give Applied Scientists like you endless opportunities to see your research have a positive and immediate impact in the world. You will have the opportunity to partner with technology and business teams to solve real-world problems, have access to virtually endless data and computational resources, and to world-class engineers and developers that can help bring your ideas into the world. As part of the team, we expect that you will develop innovative solutions to hard problems, and publish your findings at peer reviewed conferences and workshops. We are looking for world class researchers with experience in one or more of the following areas - autonomous agents, API orchestration, Planning, large multimodal models (especially vision-language models), reinforcement learning (RL) and sequential decision making.
  • (Updated 23 days ago)
    This position requires that the candidate selected be a US Citizen and must currently possess and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph. The Amazon Web Services Professional Services (ProServe) team is seeking a skilled Data Scientist to join our team at Amazon Web Services (AWS). Are you looking to work at the forefront of Machine Learning and AI? Would you be excited to apply Generative AI algorithms to solve real world problems with significant impact? In this role, you'll work directly with customers to design, evangelize, implement, and scale AI/ML solutions that meet their technical requirements and business objectives. You'll be a key player in driving customer success through their AI transformation journey, providing deep expertise in data science, machine learning, generative AI, and best practices throughout the project lifecycle. As a Data Scientist within the AWS Professional Services organization, you will be proficient in architecting complex, scalable, and secure machine learning solutions tailored to meet the specific needs of each customer. You'll help customers imagine and scope the use cases that will create the greatest value for their businesses, develop statistical models and analytical frameworks, select and train the right models, and define paths to navigate technical or business challenges. Working closely with stakeholders, you'll assess current data infrastructure, perform exploratory data analysis, develop proof-of-concepts, and propose effective strategies for implementing AI and generative AI solutions at scale. You will design and run experiments, research new algorithms, extract insights from complex datasets, and find new ways of optimizing risk, profitability, and customer experience. The AWS Professional Services organization is a global team of experts that help customers realize their desired business outcomes when using the AWS Cloud. We work together with customer teams and the AWS Partner Network (APN) to execute enterprise cloud computing initiatives. Our team provides assistance through a collection of offerings which help customers achieve specific outcomes related to enterprise cloud adoption. We also deliver focused guidance through our global specialty practices, which cover a variety of solutions, technologies, and industries. Key job responsibilities - Designing and implementing complex, scalable, and secure AI/ML solutions on AWS tailored to customer needs, including developing statistical models, performing feature engineering, and selecting appropriate algorithms for specific use cases - Developing and deploying machine learning models and generative AI applications that solve real-world business problems, conducting experiments, performing rigorous statistical analysis, and optimizing for performance at scale - Collaborating with customer stakeholders to identify high-value AI/ML use cases, gather requirements, analyze data quality and availability, and propose effective strategies for implementing machine learning and generative AI solutions - Providing technical guidance on applying AI, machine learning, and generative AI responsibly and cost-efficiently, performing model validation and interpretation, troubleshooting throughout project delivery, and ensuring adherence to best practices - Acting as a trusted advisor to customers on the latest advancements in AI/ML, emerging technologies, statistical methodologies, and innovative approaches to leveraging diverse data sources for maximum business impact - Sharing knowledge within the organization through mentoring, training, creating reusable AI/ML artifacts and analytical frameworks, and working with team members to prototype new technologies and evaluate technical feasibility
  • (Updated 4 days ago)
    This position requires that the candidate selected be a US Citizen and currently possess and maintain an active Top Secret security clearance. Join a sizeable team of data scientists, research scientists, and machine learning engineers that develop computer vision models on overhead imagery for a high-impact government customer. We own the entire machine learning development life cycle, developing models on customer data: Exploring the data and brainstorming and prioritizing ideas for model development Implementing new features in our sizable code base Training models in support of experimental or performance goals T&E-ing, packaging, and delivering models We perform this work on both unclassified and classified networks, with portions of our team working on each network. We seek a new team member to work on the classified networks. Three to four days a week, you would travel to the customer site in Northern Virginia to perform tasking as described below. Weekdays when you do not travel to the customer site, you would work from your local Amazon office. You would work collaboratively with teammates to use and contribute to a well-maintained code base that the team has developed over the last several years, almost entirely in python. You would have great opportunities to learn from team members and technical leads, while also having opportunities for ownership of important project workflows. You would work with Jupyter Notebooks, the Linux command line, Apache AirFlow, GitLab, and Visual Studio Code. We are a very collaborative team, and regularly teach and learn from each other, so, if you are familiar with some of these technologies, but unfamiliar with others, we encourage you to apply - especially if you are someone who likes to learn. We are always learning on the job ourselves. Key job responsibilities With support from technical leads, carry out tasking across the entire machine learning development lifecycle to develop computer vision models on overhead imagery: - Run data conversion pipelines to transform customer data into the structure needed by models for training - Perform EDA on the customer data - Train deep neural network models on overhead imagery - Develop and implement hyper-parameter optimization strategies - Test and Evaluate models and analyze results - Package and deliver models to the customer - Incorporate model R&D from low-side researchers - Implement new features to the model development code base - Collaborate with the rest of the team on long term strategy and short-medium term implementation. - Contribute to presentations to the customer regarding the team’s work.
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 3179994
    (Updated 53 days ago)
    Prime Video is a first-stop entertainment destination offering customers a vast collection of premium programming in one app available across thousands of devices. Prime members can customize their viewing experience and find their favorite movies, series, documentaries, and live sports – including Amazon MGM Studios-produced series and movies; licensed fan favorites; and exclusive access to coverage of live sports. All customers regardless of whether they have a Prime membership or not, can access programming from subscriptions such as Apple TV, Peacock Premium Plus, HBO Max, FOX One, Crunchyroll and MGM+, as well as more than 900 free ad-support (FAST) Channels, rent or buy titles, and enjoy even more content for free with ads. Are you interested in shaping the future of entertainment? Prime Video's technology teams are creating best-in-class digital video experience. As a Prime Video technologist, you’ll have end-to-end ownership of the product, user experience, design, and technology required to deliver state-of-the-art experiences for our customers. You’ll get to work on projects that are fast-paced, challenging, and varied. You’ll also be able to experiment with new possibilities, take risks, and collaborate with remarkable people. We’ll look for you to bring your diverse perspectives, ideas, and skill-sets to make Prime Video even better for our customers. With global opportunities for talented technologists, you can decide where a career Prime Video Tech takes you! Interested in influencing what customers around the world see when they turn on Prime Video? The Prime Video Personalization and Discovery team matches customers with the right content at the right time, at all touch points throughout the content discovery journey. We are looking for a customer-focused, solutions-oriented Senior Data Scientist to build and guide new data-driven frameworks to understand what makes new personalization and content discovery innovations successful for users and the business. You'll be part of an embedded science team on projects that are fast-paced, challenging, and ultimately influence what millions of customers around the world see when the log into Prime Video. The ideal candidate brings strong problem-solving skills, stakeholder communication skills, and the ability to balance technical rigor with delivery speed and customer impact. You will build cross-functional support within Prime Video, assess business problems, define metrics, and support iterative scientific solutions that balance short-term delivery with long-term science roadmaps. Key job responsibilities - Use advanced statistical and machine learning techniques to extract insights from complex, large-scale data sets - Design and implement end-to-end data science workflows, from data acquisition and cleaning to model development, testing, and deployment - Support scalable, self-service data analyses by building datasets for analytics, reporting and ML use cases - Partner with product stakeholders and science peers to identify strategic data-driven opportunities to improve the customer experience - Communicate findings, conclusions, and recommendations to technical and non-technical stakeholders - Stay up-to-date on the latest data science tools, techniques, and best practices and help evangelize them across the organization
  • CA, ON, Toronto
    Job ID: 3180095
    (Updated 14 days ago)
    Are you interested in shaping the future of Advertising and B2B Sales? We are a growing science and engineering team with an exciting charter and need your passion, innovative thinking, and creativity to help take our products to new heights. Amazon Advertising is one of Amazon's fastest growing and most profitable businesses, responsible for defining and delivering a collection of advertising products that drive discovery and sales. Our products are strategically important to our businesses driving long term growth. We break fresh ground in product and technical innovations every day! Within the Advertising Sales organization, we are building a central AI/ML team and are seeking top science talent to build new, science-backed services to drive success for our customers. Our goal is to transform the way account teams operate by creating actionable insights and recommendations they can share with their advertising accounts, and ingesting Generative AI throughout their end-to-end workflows to improve their work efficiency. As a part of our team, you will bring deep expertise in Generative AI and quantitative modeling (forecasting, recommender systems, reinforcement learning, causal inferencing or generative artificial intelligence) to build and refine models that can be implemented in production. You will contribute to chart new courses with our ad sales support technologies, and you have the communication skills necessary to explain complex technical approaches to a variety of stakeholders and customers. You will be part of a team of fellow scientists and engineers taking on iterative approaches to tackle big, long-term problems. Why you will love this opportunity: Amazon has invested heavily in building a world-class advertising business. This team defines and delivers a collection of advertising products that drive discovery and sales. Our solutions generate billions in revenue and drive long-term growth for Amazon's Retail and Marketplace businesses. We deliver billions of ads impressions, millions of clicks daily, and break fresh ground to create world-class products. We are a highly motivated, collaborative, and fun-loving team with an entrepreneurial spirit with a broad mandate to experiment and innovate. Impact and Career Growth: You will invent new experiences and influence customer-facing shopping experiences; this is your opportunity to work within the fastest growing businesses across all of Amazon! Define a long-term scientific vision for our advertising sales business, driven from our customers' needs, translating that direction into specific plans for scientists, engineers and product teams. This role combines scientific leadership, organizational ability, technical strength, product focus, and business understanding. Key job responsibilities - Conceptualize and lead state-of-the-art research on new Machine Learning and Generative Artificial Intelligence solutions to optimize all aspects of the Ad Sales business - Guide the technical approach for the design and implementation of successful models and algorithms in support of expert cross-functional teams delivering on demanding projects - Conduct deep data analysis to derive insights to the business, and identify gaps and new opportunities - Run regular A/B experiments, gather data, and perform statistical analysis - Work closely with software engineers to deliver end-to-end solutions into production - Improve the scalability, efficiency and automation of large-scale data analytics, model training, deployment and serving About the team Sales AI is a central science and engineering organization within Amazon Advertising Sales that powers selling motions and account team workflows via state-of-the-art of AI/ML services. Sales AI is investing in a range of sales intelligence models, including the development of advertiser insights, recommendations and Generative AI-powered applications throughout account team workflows.
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 3181815
    (Updated 11 days ago)
    Profit Intelligence (PI) team in Amazon , owning Amazon's core profitability prediction system, is looking for an ambitious Applied Scientist to build the next generation of profitability science for Amazon. As an AS II in PI, you will partner closely with science leadership, business stakeholders, applied scientists, economists, and engineers to solve key business problems that are at the core of economic prediction and cost optimization for Amazon, empowering downstream teams to make high-velocity, high-quality profitability decisions for both short term and long term. You will utilize massive data, state-of-the-art scientific computing, econometrics, time-series forecasting, and machine-learning, etc. to do so. Some of the science you create will be publishable in internal or external scientific journals and conferences. You will work closely with a team of economists, applied scientists, business analysts, data engineers, product managers, and software engineers. The team is unique in its exposure to company-wide strategies, and operates at the research frontier of utilizing data, machine-learning, artificial intelligence to inform business profitability strategies. Key job responsibilities 1) Design, implement, test, deploy and maintain innovative data and machine learning solutions to accelerate our business. Candidate should show a tracking record of delivering projects well and on-time, preferably in collaboration with other team members (e.g. co-authors). 2) Experiments and prototype implementations of new machine learning algorithms and prediction techniques, with a capacity for dealing with a high-level of ambiguity. 3) Partners with scientists, engineers, product managers, and stockholders to use data and model driven approach to influence business decisions 4) Influence the team to adopt cutting edge technologies and machine learning best practices to ensure a high standard of quality for all of the team deliverables

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