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  • (Updated 12 days ago)
    Are you looking to work at the forefront of Machine Learning and AI? Would you be excited to apply cutting edge Generative AI algorithms to solve real world problems with significant impact? The Generative AI Innovation Center at AWS is a new strategic team that helps AWS customers implement Generative AI solutions and realize transformational business opportunities. This is a team of strategists, data scientists, engineers, and solution architects working step-by-step with customers to build bespoke solutions that harness the power of generative AI. You will work directly with customers and innovate in a fast-paced organization that contributes to game-changing projects and technologies. You will design and run experiments, research new algorithms, and find new ways of optimizing risk, profitability, and customer experience. We’re looking for ML Data Scientists capable of using GenAI and other techniques to design, evangelize, and implement state-of-the-art solutions for never-before-solved problems. Key job responsibilities As an ML Data Scientist, you will * Collaborate with ML scientist and architects to Research, design, develop, and evaluate cutting-edge generative AI algorithms to address real-world challenges * Interact with customers directly to understand the business problem, help and aid them in implementation of generative AI solutions, deliver briefing and deep dive sessions to customers and guide customer on adoption patterns and paths to production * Create and deliver best practice recommendations, tutorials, blog posts, sample code, and presentations adapted to technical, business, and executive stakeholder * Provide customer and market feedback to Product and Engineering teams to help define product direction About the team The team helps customers imagine and scope the use cases that will create the greatest value for their businesses, select and train the right models, define paths to navigate technical or business challenges, develop proof-of-concepts, and make plans for launching solutions at scale. The GenAI Innovation Center team provides guidance on best practices for applying generative AI responsibly and cost efficiently. 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. 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. 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 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.
  • US, OR, Portland
    Job ID: 2814056
    (Updated 32 days ago)
    The Automated Reasoning Group is looking for an Applied Scientist with experience in building scalable formal reasoning solutions that delight customers. You will be part of a world-class team building the next generation of tools and services by combining Automated Reasoning and Generative AI. AWS has the most services and more features within those services, than any other cloud provider–from infrastructure technologies like compute, storage, and databases–to emerging technologies, such as machine learning and artificial intelligence, data lakes and analytics, and Internet of Things. You will apply your knowledge to propose solutions, create software prototypes, and move prototypes into production systems using modern software development tools and methodologies. In addition, you will support and scale your solutions to meet the ever-growing demand of customer use. You will use your strong verbal and written communication skills, are self-driven and own the delivery of high quality results in a fast-paced environment. Each day, hundreds of thousands of developers make billions of transactions worldwide on AWS. They harness the power of the cloud to enable innovative applications, websites, and businesses. Using automated reasoning technology and mathematical proofs, AWS allows customers to answer questions about security, availability, durability, and functional correctness. We call this provable security, absolute assurance in security of the cloud and in the cloud. See https://aws.amazon.com/security/provable-security/ As an Applied Scientist in AWS AI, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the definition, vision, design, roadmap and development of product features from beginning to end. You will: * Define and implement new formal reasoning applications that employ scalable and efficient approaches to solve complex problems using Automated Reasoning and Generative AI technologies. * Apply software engineering best practices to ensure a high standard of quality for all team deliverables * Work in an agile, startup-like development environment, where you are always working on the most important stuff * Deliver high-quality scientific artifacts * Work with the team to lower the barrier of adoption for interactive theorem provers * Work with the team to help drive business decisions Learn and Be Curious. We have a formal mentor search application that lets you find a mentor that works best for you based on location, job family, job level etc. Your manager can also help you find a mentor or two, because two is better than one. In addition to formal mentors, we work and train together so that we are always learning from one another, and we celebrate and support the career progression of our team members. Inclusion and Diversity. Our team is diverse! We drive towards an inclusive culture and work environment. We are intentional about attracting, developing, and retaining amazing talent from diverse backgrounds. Team members are active in Amazon’s 10+ affinity groups, sometimes known as employee resource groups, which bring employees together across businesses and locations around the world. These range from groups such as the Black Employee Network, Latinos at Amazon, Indigenous at Amazon, Families at Amazon, Amazon Women and Engineering, LGBTQ+, Warriors at Amazon (Military), Amazon People With Disabilities, and more. Key job responsibilities * Design and implement scalable systems for formal reasoning and automated theorem proving. * Collaborate closely with internal and external users to understand their requirements for formal verification and automated reasoning. * Enhance and extend the capabilities of formal reasoning systems to meet application-specific demands. * Proactively identify and explore new opportunities for deploying and leveraging formal reasoning solutions across various domains. About the team The AWS Automated Reasoning Group is a talented group of scientists from around the world. Their areas of expertise include interactive theorem proving, generative AI, SAT/SMT solvers, and programming language theory.
  • US, OR, Portland
    Job ID: 2814059
    (Updated 32 days ago)
    The Automated Reasoning Group is looking for an Applied Scientist with experience in building scalable formal reasoning solutions that delight customers. You will be part of a world-class team building the next generation of tools and services by combining Automated Reasoning and Generative AI. AWS has the most services and more features within those services, than any other cloud provider–from infrastructure technologies like compute, storage, and databases–to emerging technologies, such as machine learning and artificial intelligence, data lakes and analytics, and Internet of Things. You will apply your knowledge to propose solutions, create software prototypes, and move prototypes into production systems using modern software development tools and methodologies. In addition, you will support and scale your solutions to meet the ever-growing demand of customer use. You will use your strong verbal and written communication skills, are self-driven and own the delivery of high quality results in a fast-paced environment. Each day, hundreds of thousands of developers make billions of transactions worldwide on AWS. They harness the power of the cloud to enable innovative applications, websites, and businesses. Using automated reasoning technology and mathematical proofs, AWS allows customers to answer questions about security, availability, durability, and functional correctness. We call this provable security, absolute assurance in security of the cloud and in the cloud. See https://aws.amazon.com/security/provable-security/ As an Applied Scientist in AWS AI, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the definition, vision, design, roadmap and development of product features from beginning to end. You will: * Define and implement new formal reasoning applications that employ scalable and efficient approaches to solve complex problems using Automated Reasoning and Generative AI technologies. * Apply software engineering best practices to ensure a high standard of quality for all team deliverables * Work in an agile, startup-like development environment, where you are always working on the most important stuff * Deliver high-quality scientific artifacts * Work with the team to lower the barrier of adoption for interactive theorem provers * Work with the team to help drive business decisions Learn and Be Curious. We have a formal mentor search application that lets you find a mentor that works best for you based on location, job family, job level etc. Your manager can also help you find a mentor or two, because two is better than one. In addition to formal mentors, we work and train together so that we are always learning from one another, and we celebrate and support the career progression of our team members. Inclusion and Diversity. Our team is diverse! We drive towards an inclusive culture and work environment. We are intentional about attracting, developing, and retaining amazing talent from diverse backgrounds. Team members are active in Amazon’s 10+ affinity groups, sometimes known as employee resource groups, which bring employees together across businesses and locations around the world. These range from groups such as the Black Employee Network, Latinos at Amazon, Indigenous at Amazon, Families at Amazon, Amazon Women and Engineering, LGBTQ+, Warriors at Amazon (Military), Amazon People With Disabilities, and more. Key job responsibilities * Design and implement scalable systems for formal reasoning and automated theorem proving. * Collaborate closely with internal and external users to understand their requirements for formal verification and automated reasoning. * Enhance and extend the capabilities of formal reasoning systems to meet application-specific demands. * Proactively identify and explore new opportunities for deploying and leveraging formal reasoning solutions across various domains. About the team The AWS Automated Reasoning Group is a talented group of scientists from around the world. Their areas of expertise include interactive theorem proving, generative AI, SAT/SMT solvers, and programming language theory.
  • US, NJ, Newark
    Job ID: 2809770
    (Updated 38 days ago)
    At Audible, we believe stories have the power to transform lives. It’s why we work with some of the world’s leading creators to produce and share audio storytelling with our millions of global listeners. We are dreamers and inventors who come from a wide range of backgrounds and experiences to empower and inspire each other. Imagine your future with us. ABOUT THIS ROLE The playback team at Audible owns the core playback logic end-to-end. All our services, systems and players are invoked each time customers click play (or download a title for offline playback) to enjoy the best playback experience. Specifically we own 1) Core playback logic on players such as Android, iOS and Web, 2) Playback services related to content delivery infrastructure, security & digital rights management, and processing / synchronization of listening data across devices, 3) listening statistics that power royalties, returns, creator metrics, and more, 4) Playback metrics, insights and platform, obsessing over the core playback metrics and trends that represent the service health of Audible Playback and delivery, 5) Unified Audible Playback SDK, that can be shared with both 3P and 1P customers, 6) Player optimizations related to QoE, ABR and Quality/CDN selection across Android, iOS and web, Server optimizations to segment the customer data and tune playback parameters in real-time, 7) all of the efforts around quality of experience monitoring which enable timely, accurate and automated detection of QoS performance degradations and identify opportunities to improve playback experience, 8) automated ML based review and sentiment analysis system that will proactively analyze posts across social media feeds, customer reviews to automatically establish relational models to identify and cross correlate issues detected by tools such as Anomaly detection, and finally, 9) Driving Audible’s playback initiatives to establish faculty collaborations to advance state of the art in Internet Audio. ABOUT YOU As an applied scientist on our team, you will wear many hats and work in a highly collaborative environment that’s more startup than big company. You'll need to tackle complex problems that span a variety of domains: Machine learning, Artificial intelligence, Natural Language processing, real-time and distributed systems and help us build services and systems from the ground up which scale and serve billions of requests per day, with obsessively high reliability and low operational overhead. You'll have an opportunity to explore, innovate, invent and simplify various Playback state-of-art services and algorithms which leverage both custom and Industry proven Machine Learning, Natural Language processing and Artificial Intelligence technologies. Your work will focus on training and evaluating models and deploying them to production where we continuously monitor and evaluate. You'll work on large engineering efforts that solve significantly complex problems facing global customers. You'll be trusted to operate with independence and are often assigned to focus on areas with significant impact on audience satisfaction. You must be equally comfortable digging in to customer requirements as you are drilling into design with development teams and developing production ready learning models. You consistently bring strong, data-driven business and technical judgment to decisions. We experiment a lot and it is a must to learn and be curios. You'll be encouraged to see the big picture, be innovative, and positively impact millions of customers. As a Senior Applied Scientist, you will... - Understand large complex use cases across the Playback org and design scalable, efficient, and automated solutions - Design, develop, and deploy state-of-art Optimization services & algorithms and novel adaptive bitrate algorithms - Partner closely with other Amazon scientists focused on streaming insights and optimization use cases - Work closely with teams of scientists and software engineers to drive real-time model implementations and deliver novel and highly impactful features - Push the boundary of innovation - Mentor and grow the scientists in the team and across Amazon ABOUT AUDIBLE Audible is the leading producer and provider of audio storytelling. We spark listeners’ imaginations, offering immersive, cinematic experiences full of inspiration and insight to enrich our customers daily lives. We are a global company with an entrepreneurial spirit. We are dreamers and inventors who are passionate about the positive impact Audible can make for our customers and our neighbors. This spirit courses throughout Audible, supporting a culture of creativity and inclusion built on our People Principles and our mission to build more equitable communities in the cities we call home.
  • US, NJ, Newark
    Job ID: 2809772
    (Updated 34 days ago)
    At Audible, we believe stories have the power to transform lives. It’s why we work with some of the world’s leading creators to produce and share audio storytelling with our millions of global listeners. We are dreamers and inventors who come from a wide range of backgrounds and experiences to empower and inspire each other. Imagine your future with us. ABOUT THIS ROLE In this role, you'll employ scalable cutting-edge machine learning (ML), deep learning (DL), and Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques to detect and predict fraudulent activities, enhance fraud investigation capabilities, and develop advanced fraud protection and defense mechanisms. You'll leverage these technologies to analyze complex patterns in transaction data, identify anomalies, and create predictive models that can anticipate potential fraud before it occurs. Your work will be crucial in safeguarding the company's assets, protecting customers from financial harm, and maintaining the integrity of our systems. You'll translate intricate fraud patterns into actionable insights, enabling rapid response to emerging threats and informing critical business decisions related to risk management. You'll operate in an agile environment in which we own and collaborate on the life cycle of research, design, and model development of relevant projects. As an Applied Scientist, you will... - Protect Audible’s customers and content creators against the onslaught of AI-generated fraud - Develop Amazon-scale data engineering & modeling pipelines - Imagine and invent before the business asks, and create groundbreaking fraud detection and mitigation solutions using cutting-edge approaches - Work closely with other data scientists, ML experts, engineers as well as business across the globe, and on cross-disciplinary efforts with other scientists within Amazon - Contribute to the growth of the Audible Data Science team by sharing your ideas, intellectual property and learning from others ABOUT AUDIBLE Audible is the leading producer and provider of audio storytelling. We spark listeners’ imaginations, offering immersive, cinematic experiences full of inspiration and insight to enrich our customers daily lives. We are a global company with an entrepreneurial spirit. We are dreamers and inventors who are passionate about the positive impact Audible can make for our customers and our neighbors. This spirit courses throughout Audible, supporting a culture of creativity and inclusion built on our People Principles and our mission to build more equitable communities in the cities we call home.
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 2817638
    (Updated 5 days ago)
    AWS Industry Products (IP) is a new AWS engineering organization chartered to build new AWS products by applying Amazon’s innovation mechanisms along with AWS digital technologies to transform the world, industry by industry. We dive deep with leaders and innovators to solve the problems which block their industries, enabling them to capitalize on new digital business models. Simply put, our goal is to use the skill and scale of AWS to make the benefits of a connected world achievable for all businesses. We are looking for an Applied Scientist who are passionate about transforming industries through AI. This is a unique opportunity to not only listen to industry customers but also to develop AI and generative AI expertise in multiple core industries. You will join a team of scientists, product managers and software engineers that builds AI solutions in automotive, manufacturing, healthcare, sustainability/clean energy, and supply chain/operations domains. Leveraging and advancing generative AI technology will be a big part of your charter as we seek to apply the latest advancements in generative AI to industry-specific problems. Key job responsibilities Using your in-depth expertise in machine learning and generative AI, you will deliver reusable science components and services that differentiate our industry products and solve customer problems. You will be the voice of scientific rigor, delivery, and innovation as you work with our segment teams on AI-driven product differentiators. You will conduct and advance research in AI and generative AI within and outside Amazon.
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 2820652
    (Updated 24 days ago)
    AWS Industry Products (IP) is a new AWS engineering organization chartered to build new AWS products by applying Amazon’s innovation mechanisms along with AWS digital technologies to transform the world, industry by industry. We dive deep with leaders and innovators to solve the problems which block their industries, enabling them to capitalize on new digital business models. Simply put, our goal is to use the skill and scale of AWS to make the benefits of a connected world achievable for all businesses. We are looking for Research Scientists who are passionate about transforming industries through AI. This is a unique opportunity to not only listen to industry customers but also to develop AI and generative AI expertise in multiple core industries. You will join a team of scientists, product managers and software engineers that builds AI solutions in automotive, manufacturing, healthcare, sustainability/clean energy, and supply chain/operations domains. Leveraging and advancing generative AI technology will be a big part of your charter as we seek to apply the latest advancements in generative AI to industry-specific problems Using your in-depth expertise in machine learning and generative AI, you will take the lead on tactical and strategic initiatives to deliver reusable science components and services that differentiate our industry products and solve customer problems. You will be the voice of scientific rigor, delivery, and innovation as you work with our segment teams on AI-driven product differentiators. You will conduct and advance research in AI and generative AI within and outside Amazon. Extensive knowledge of both state-of-the-art and emerging AI methods and technologies is expected. Hands-on knowledge of generative AI, foundation models and commitment to learn and grow in this field are expected. Basic qualifications PhD, or Master's degree and 10+ years of quantitative field research experience Experience investigating the feasibility of applying scientific principles and concepts to business problems and products Experience analyzing both experimental and observational data sets Preferred qualifications Knowledge of R, MATLAB, Python or similar scripting language 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 AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying. Inclusive Team Culture Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness. Mentorship & Career Growth We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional. Work/Life Balance We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud. Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 2807561
    (Updated 40 days ago)
    Interested in helping build Prime's content and offer personalization system to drive huge business impact on millions of customers? Join our team of Scientists and Engineers developing algorithms to adaptively generate, optimize, and personalize the customer experience with Amazon Prime. This includes identifying who our customers are and providing them with personalized relevant content. As an ML scientist, you will partner directly with product owners to intake, build, and directly apply your modeling solutions. There are numerous scientific and technical challenges you will get to tackle in this role, such as deep learning and reinforcement learning, and their application to various types of contextual, multi-step optimization of the customer journey. We employ techniques from supervised learning, multi-armed bandits, optimization, and RL - while this role is focused on the space of discriminative and generative recommender systems. As the central science team within Prime, our expertise gets routinely called upon to weigh in on a variety of topics. We also emphasize the need and value of scientific research and have developed a strong publication and patent record (internally/externally) which you will be a part of. You will also utilize and be exposed to the latest in ML technologies and infrastructure: AWS technologies (EMR/Spark, Redshift, Sagemaker, DynamoDB, S3, ...), various ML algorithms and techniques (Random Forests, Neural Networks, supervised/unsupervised/semi-supervised/reinforcement learning, LLMs), and statistical modeling techniques. Major responsibilities - Build and develop machine learning models and supporting infrastructure at TB scale, in coordination with software engineering teams. - Leverage Bandits, Supervised Learning, and Reinforcement Learning for Contextual Recommendation and Optimization Systems. - Develop offline policy estimation tools and integrate with reporting systems. - Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large scale data analyses, model development, model validation and model implementation. - Analyze and extract relevant information from large amounts of Amazon’s historical business data to help automate and optimize key processes. - Work closely with the business to understand their problem space, identify the opportunities and formulate the problems. - Use machine learning, data mining, statistical techniques and others to create actionable, meaningful, and scalable solutions for the business problems. - Design, develop and evaluate highly innovative models and statistical approaches to understand and predict customer behavior and to solve business problems.
  • IN, KA, Bengaluru
    Job ID: 2805102
    (Updated 14 days ago)
    Do you want to join an innovative team of scientists who use machine learning and statistical techniques to help Amazon provide the best customer experience by preventing eCommerce fraud? Are you excited by the prospect of analyzing and modeling terabytes of data and creating state-of-the-art algorithms to solve real world problems? Do you like to own end-to-end business problems/metrics and directly impact the profitability of the company? Do you enjoy collaborating in a diverse team environment? If yes, then you may be a great fit to join the Amazon Buyer Risk Prevention (BRP) Machine Learning group. We are looking for a talented scientist who is passionate to build advanced algorithmic systems that help manage safety of millions of transactions every day. Key job responsibilities • Demonstrate proficiency in supervised algorithms (tree-based models, neural networks) and unsupervised algorithms (clustering). • Rapidly design, prototype, and test multiple hypotheses in a high-ambiguity environment, utilizing quantitative analysis and business judgment. • Report findings in a scientifically rigorous manner. • Collaborate with software engineers, product managers, and domain experts to identify and address challenges requiring innovative solutions for our products. • Acquire knowledge of Amazon's diverse data resources and determine when, how, and which resources to leverage or exclude. • Integrate successful experiments into large-scale, highly complex production services by collaborating with software engineering teams. • Maintain technical documentation and effectively communicate results to diverse audiences. • Evaluate trade-offs by considering complexity, long-term benefits, and the reusability of existing solution
  • DE, BE, Berlin
    Job ID: 2805183
    (Updated 41 days ago)
    The Amazon Robotics team is seeking an experienced Applied Scientist to join our team. In this role you will apply the latest trends in research to solve real-world problems in robotics and AI. You will collaborate with a team of scientists and engineers building these applications. We holistically design, build, and deliver end-to-end robotic systems. Our team is also responsible for core infrastructure and tools that serve as the backbone of our robotic applications, enabling roboticists, machine learning scientists, software engineers, and hardware engineers to collaborate and deploy systems in the field. Key job responsibilities • Research, design, implement and evaluate complex perception, motion planning, and decision making algorithms integrating across multiple disciplines and leveraging machine learning. • Create experiments and prototype implementations of new learning algorithms and prediction techniques. • Work closely with software engineering team members to drive scalable, real-time implementations. • Collaborate with machine learning and robotic controls experts to implement and deploy algorithms, such as machine learning models. • Collaborate closely with hardware engineering team members on developing systems from prototyping to production level. • Represent Amazon in academia community through publications and scientific presentations. • Work with stakeholders across hardware, science, and operations teams to iterate on systems design and implementation. We are looking for applied scientists with expertise in any of the following: - Computer vision (including but not limited to tracking, object recognition, visual SLAM, motion prediction, reconstruction) - Machine learning (e.g. reinforcement learning, supervised learning, Bayesian methods, online learning systems, ML for robotics)

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