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The North America Stores GenAI Evaluation Media (GEM) team is seeking an Applied Scientist to help shape the future of visual shopping experiences. We're building CXs and foundational capabilities to understand, enhance, and generate real-time GenAI imagery, videos and CXs that inspire customers and drive purchase confidence, towards our vision to be the leader in visual media. Specifically, the charter will focus on visual agentic experiences, multi-modal personalization, and real-time image/video generation, looking ahead as customer shopping continues to inspirational assistant-driven experiences. As an Applied Scientist on the team, you will drive the research and development of agentic AI capabilities that inform and guide the customer's shopping journey through visuals. This includes building core science primitives for multimodal understanding, visual content generation and editing, personalized virtual try-on, and automated quality assurance. You will develop the foundational capabilities that enable customers to express and discover styles through multimodal conversation and receive personalized, visual responses that bring their ideas to life. Your scientific approach will emphasize accurate, real-time visual understanding and generation, contextual understanding, and scalable personalization, enabling agentic AI to actively collaborate with customers to achieve their style goals. You will bring together computer vision, natural language processing, generative AI, and human-centered design to create agentic shopping experiences that are as intuitive as talking to a human specialist with a deep domain knowledge base. Success requires establishing robust metrics, collaborating with cross-functional partners, validating asset effectiveness across diverse customer touch points, and staying at the forefront of rapid advances in AI technology. The ideal candidate will have deep technical expertise in Computer Vision, Generative AI, or related fields with a strong ability to connect scientific work to customer and business outcomes. You will partner with scientists, engineers, and stakeholders across Amazon to deliver innovation and uphold a culture of scientific excellence and customer obsession. This role requires both rigorous research skills and practical engineering instincts, with a focus on delivering solutions that scale. This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of visual commerce through applied AI research, building the systems that will define how hundreds of millions of customers discover and evaluate products and styles through visual experiences. Key job responsibilities Innovation & Technical Execution • Develop core science primitives for vision and language understanding, visual content generation and editing, virtual try-on, and automated quality assurance via state-of-the-art computer vision, machine learning, and generative AI • Design and implement visual agentic systems, balancing visual quality, relevance, latency, and cost • Define metrics and success criteria for your scientific initiatives, ensuring rigorous validation across customer touch points • Own end-to-end delivery of research initiatives from problem formulation through experimentation to production deployment • Stay current with latest advances in AI/ML and identify opportunities to apply them to your problem space • Drive development and deployment of scalable agentic systems for visual content understanding and generation • Maintain high scientific and engineering standards in your work • Tackle complex technical problems while maintaining practical focus on customer value • Contribute to the team's culture of scientific excellence through presentations and publications at internal and external science forums Cross-functional Collaboration • Partner with product and engineering teams to deliver customer-facing features • Collaborate with scientists and engineers across multiple teams within Amazon to align on technical approaches • Communicate research findings and technical trade-offs clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

The North America Stores GenAI Evaluation Media (GEM) team is seeking an Applied Scientist to help shape the future of visual shopping experiences. We're building CXs and foundational capabilities to understand, enhance, and generate real-time GenAI imagery, videos and CXs that inspire customers and drive purchase confidence, towards our vision to be the leader in visual media. Specifically, the charter will focus on visual agentic experiences, multi-modal personalization, and real-time image/video generation, looking ahead as customer shopping continues to inspirational assistant-driven experiences. As an Applied Scientist on the team, you will drive the research and development of agentic AI capabilities that inform and guide the customer's shopping journey through visuals. This includes building core science primitives for multimodal understanding, visual content generation and editing, personalized virtual try-on, and automated quality assurance. You will develop the foundational capabilities that enable customers to express and discover styles through multimodal conversation and receive personalized, visual responses that bring their ideas to life. Your scientific approach will emphasize accurate, real-time visual understanding and generation, contextual understanding, and scalable personalization, enabling agentic AI to actively collaborate with customers to achieve their style goals. You will bring together computer vision, natural language processing, generative AI, and human-centered design to create agentic shopping experiences that are as intuitive as talking to a human specialist with a deep domain knowledge base. Success requires establishing robust metrics, collaborating with cross-functional partners, validating asset effectiveness across diverse customer touch points, and staying at the forefront of rapid advances in AI technology. The ideal candidate will have deep technical expertise in Computer Vision, Generative AI, or related fields with a strong ability to connect scientific work to customer and business outcomes. You will partner with scientists, engineers, and stakeholders across Amazon to deliver innovation and uphold a culture of scientific excellence and customer obsession. This role requires both rigorous research skills and practical engineering instincts, with a focus on delivering solutions that scale. This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of visual commerce through applied AI research, building the systems that will define how hundreds of millions of customers discover and evaluate products and styles through visual experiences. Key job responsibilities Innovation & Technical Execution • Develop core science primitives for vision and language understanding, visual content generation and editing, virtual try-on, and automated quality assurance via state-of-the-art computer vision, machine learning, and generative AI • Design and implement visual agentic systems, balancing visual quality, relevance, latency, and cost • Define metrics and success criteria for your scientific initiatives, ensuring rigorous validation across customer touch points • Own end-to-end delivery of research initiatives from problem formulation through experimentation to production deployment • Stay current with latest advances in AI/ML and identify opportunities to apply them to your problem space • Drive development and deployment of scalable agentic systems for visual content understanding and generation • Maintain high scientific and engineering standards in your work • Tackle complex technical problems while maintaining practical focus on customer value • Contribute to the team's culture of scientific excellence through presentations and publications at internal and external science forums Cross-functional Collaboration • Partner with product and engineering teams to deliver customer-facing features • Collaborate with scientists and engineers across multiple teams within Amazon to align on technical approaches • Communicate research findings and technical trade-offs clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Amazon is investing heavily in building a world class advertising business and we are responsible for defining and delivering a collection of self-service performance advertising products that drive discovery and sales. Our products are strategically important to our Retail and Marketplace businesses driving long term growth. We deliver billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks daily and are breaking fresh ground to create world-class products. We are highly motivated, collaborative and fun-loving with an entrepreneurial spirit and bias for action. With a broad mandate to experiment and innovate, we are growing at an unprecedented rate with a seemingly endless range of new opportunities. The ATT team, based in Bangalore, is responsible for ensuring that ads are relevant and are of good quality, leading to higher conversion for the sellers and providing a great experience for the customers. We deal with one of the world’s largest product catalog, handle billions of requests a day with plans to grow it by an order of magnitude and use automated systems to validate tens of millions of offers submitted by thousands of merchants in multiple countries and languages. In this role, you will build and develop ML models to address content understanding and labeling problems in Ads. These models will rely on a variety of visual and textual features requiring expertise in both domains. These models need to scale to multiple languages and countries. You will collaborate with engineers and other scientists to build, train and deploy these models. As part of these activities, you will develop production level code that enables labeling of advertising assets and moderation of millions of ads submitted each day.

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. Key job responsibilities 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 Sr. Applied Scientist, you will help solve a variety of technical challenges and mentor other scientists. You will be the thought leader of the team. 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. A key focus of this role will be developing and implementing advanced visual reasoning systems that can understand complex spatial relationships and object interactions in real-time. You'll work on designing autonomous AI agents that can make intelligent decisions based on visual inputs, understand customer behavior patterns, and adapt to dynamic retail environments. This includes developing systems that can perform complex scene understanding, reason about object permanence, and predict customer intentions through visual cues. About the team Just Walk Out (JWO) 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 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.

Join Amazon's Frontier AI & Robotics team and take ownership of the electronics that make our robots move. As a Member of Technical Staff - Electronics Engineer, Actuators & Drives, you will conceptualize, design, and test the motor drive electronics that power our in-house robotic actuators—from the gate drivers and power stages that command motor current to the sensing circuits and communication interfaces that give our robots proprioceptive awareness. Your printed circuit board (PCB) designs will live inside each of our next-generation robotic systems, directly enabling the embodied intelligence that is central to FAR's mission. Key job responsibilities • Conceptualize, design, and validate motor drive electronics for in-house robotic actuators, including inverter power stages, gate driver circuits, current and position sensing, and power management subsystems from concept through prototype and production • Lead PCB-level design of compact, high-power-density motor drive boards, including schematic capture, component selection, and collaboration with PCB layout engineers to achieve signal integrity, thermal, and EMC requirements in constrained actuator form factors • Characterize and optimize inverter switching performance, efficiency, and thermal behavior across the full operating envelope of FAR's actuator variants, using bench measurements and simulation to guide design decisions • Define and implement current sensing architectures (shunt-based, Hall-effect, or integrated IC-based) and position/velocity sensing interfaces (encoder, resolver, Hall sensor) to support high-bandwidth FOC firmware on microcontrollers and DSPs • Partner with firmware engineers to define hardware-software interfaces for motor drive control loops, fault detection logic, and communication protocols (CAN, EtherCAT, SPI), ensuring electronics designs support the real-time control requirements of robotic actuation • Collaborate with motor design and mechanical engineers to specify the electrical characteristics of custom BLDC and PMSM motors, align inverter design to motor parameters, and validate the integrated actuator electro-mechanical system • Lead hardware bring-up, functional testing, and failure analysis for new actuator electronics prototypes, developing test plans and characterization setups that systematically validate design performance and identify failure modes • Define electronics design standards, review processes, and design-for-manufacturability (DFM) guidelines for FAR's actuator drive portfolio, and mentor junior engineers in motor drive electronics design best practices A day in the life Your day centers on the full electronics development cycle for our custom actuator drive systems. You might start by reviewing simulation results for a new inverter topology, then transition to the lab to characterize switching losses and thermal performance on a prototype motor drive board. Later in the day, you could be collaborating with motor design engineers on back-EMF waveform analysis, refining gate drive timing to optimize inverter efficiency, or working with firmware engineers to define current sensing interfaces and hardware abstraction layers. Across the week, you'll be involved in schematic capture and PCB layout reviews with your design team, participating in design review gates, and iterating on hardware based on test findings. You'll navigate the challenge of fitting high-performance drive electronics into compact, thermally constrained actuator packages—designing for the power density, reliability, and robustness our robots demand. Your work will span from concept and architecture through silicon bring-up, and you'll play a key role in defining the electronics roadmap for FAR's actuator portfolio. About the team Frontier AI & Robotics (FAR) is the team at Amazon building the next generation of embodied intelligence. FAR drives the development and implementation of advanced AI models within Amazon’s operations that enable robots to see, reason, and act on the world around them, supporting a number of different warehouse automation tasks.

About the Role: We are looking for a Member of Technical Staff - Mechanical Engineer with a passion for building complex robotic systems from the ground up. This role is ideal for someone with a deep understanding of structural and electromechanical design, who thrives in hands-on environments and has experience taking high-performance robots from concept to production. You will work on the mechanical and system architecture of advanced robotics platforms, including high degree-of-freedom systems, where considerations such as actuator selection, thermal constraints, cabling, sensing integration, and manufacturability are critical. This is a cross-disciplinary role requiring close collaboration with electrical, software, and AI research teams. Beyond day-to-day hardware development, this role also provides exciting avenues to contribute to innovative research projects. Whether you’re interested in mechatronics, sensor integration, or novel actuation methods, you’ll find opportunities to explore your research interests while building real-world systems that advance in the field of high degree-of-freedom robotics. What You Bring: * A systems-thinking mindset with a strong grasp of cross-domain engineering tradeoffs. * A bias toward action: comfortable building, testing, and iterating rapidly. * A collaborative and communicative working style — especially in multi-disciplinary research environments. * A passion for robotics and advancing the state of the art in intelligent, capable machines. Key job responsibilities * Lead mechanical design of robotic subsystems and full platforms, including structures, joints, enclosures, and mechanisms for a research environment. * Own kinematic, dynamic, and structural analyses to guide the design and optimization of full systems and subsystems of high-DoF robots * Specify and integrate actuators and motors for high-torque density applications in high-degree-of-freedom systems. * Contribute to thermal management strategies for motors, sensors, and embedded compute hardware. * Integrate sensors such as lidar, stereo cameras, IMUs, tactile sensors, and compute modules into compact, functional assemblies. * Design and route cabling and wire harnesses, ensuring reliability, serviceability, and thermal/electrical integrity. * Prototype and test mechanical systems; support hands-on builds, debug sessions, and field testing. * Conduct root cause analysis on system-level failures or performance issues and implement design improvements. * Apply Design for Manufacturing (DFM) and Design for Assembly (DFA) principles to transition prototypes into scalable builds (10s–100s of units). * Collaborate with cross-functional teams in electrical engineering, controls, perception, and research to meet research and product goals. About the team Frontier AI & Robotics (FAR) is the team at Amazon building the next generation of embodied intelligence. FAR drives the development and implementation of advanced AI models within Amazon’s operations that enable robots to see, reason, and act on the world around them, supporting a number of different warehouse automation tasks.

Have you ever ordered a product on Amazon and when that box with the smile arrived, wondered how it got to you so fast? Wondered where it came from and how much it cost Amazon? If so, the Amazon Global Supply Chain Optimization Technology (SCOT) organization is for you. Watch this video to learn more about our organization, SCOT: http://bit.ly/amazon-scot We are the Optimal Sourcing Systems team (OSS) within SCOT and are looking for a Applied Scientist II to join us! OSS designs and builds systems that measure and manage Amazon’s supplier capabilities, identify and react to supply disruptions, and prioritizes inbound freight for our global network. OSS software is used by every country Amazon services, and is a critical link to ensuring Amazon offers the products our customers want, at the lowest possible cost. This team under OSS orchestrates and tracks inventory movement into Amazon's network, maintains performance feedback loops, and ensures vendor compliance. The Applied Scientist II, in partnership with the Product Management and Tech teams, will lead efforts in following areas: - Build solutions to enable collaborative inventory planning with vendors through agent to agent collaboration or humans-in-the loop collaborative methods - Leverage and develop agentic GenAI workflows to automate the end-to-end vendor coaching and evaluation - Drive the full development cycle from whiteboarding new algorithmic approaches to production-scale deployments - Collaborate with SDEs to build high-performance, distributed training and inference pipelines; translate complex scientific concepts into scalable, production-grade code The ideal candidate thrives in ambiguous problem spaces, relishes working with large volumes of data, and enjoys the challenge of highly complex supply chain contexts. The successful candidate will be a person who has deep understanding about machine learning/reinforcement learning/GenAI models, enjoys and excels at diving into data to analyze root causes, and implementing long term solutions. They can translate complex business logic into scalable models and communicate insights effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Keys to success in this role include exceptional Science depth and breadth, analytics, statistics, judgment, and communication skills. Experience with supply chain optimization, operations research, or vendor management systems is a plus. Key job responsibilities - Collaborate with product managers, science, and engineering teams to design and implement complex Science solutions for Sourcing Execution & Performance systems - Identify science and innovation opportunities to improve outcomes across Inbound, and guiding the science direction to solve ambiguous business problems. - Build prototypes and core production algorithms, and work with talented engineering teams to scale them. - Drive technical standards and best practices for the team's Science solutions - Mentor and provide technical guidance to other team members on complex projects A day in the life Amazon offers a full range of benefits that support you and eligible family members, including domestic partners and their children. Benefits can vary by location, the number of regularly scheduled hours you work, length of employment, and job status such as seasonal or temporary employment. The benefits that generally apply to regular, full-time employees include: Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage Maternity and Parental Leave Options Paid Time Off (PTO) 401(k) Plan If you are not sure that every qualification on the list above describes you exactly, we'd still love to hear from you! At Amazon, we value people with unique backgrounds, experiences, and skillsets. If you’re passionate about this role and want to make an impact on a global scale, please apply!

We are seeking an Applied Scientist to join Compass. In this role, you will develop the core Control Barrier Function (CBF) algorithms that form the mathematical foundation of the Compass safety system. You will ensure they don't just work in theory but perform reliably on real robots under real-world conditions. You will push the boundaries of concepts central to CBFs: computing robust invariant sets, designing hybrid system formulations that handle contact transitions and mode switches, and developing backup-set approaches that leverage learned policies and multiple controllers. A key challenge of this role is bridging the gap between the mathematics of set invariance and the realities of hardware, including sensor noise, model uncertainty, computational budgets, and discrete state transitions. You will ensure that these algorithms are not only provably correct but also implementable within a safety-critical architecture that must be certified by a third-party. You will contribute directly to the next generation of CBF theory and its practical deployment across Amazon's diverse robot fleet. Key job responsibilities • Develop and implement novel CBF algorithms that provide formal safety guarantees while minimizing conservatism to maximize the permissible operating envelope for each robot platform • Compute and refine invariant sets for complex, high-dimensional robotic systems, developing scalable methods that go beyond what existing analytical approaches can handle • Design formulations for hybrid dynamical systems, handling discrete mode transitions (e.g., contact/no-contact, stance/flight phases) with provable safety across switching boundaries • Address the theory-to-practice gap by developing methods that are robust to model uncertainty, sensor noise, actuation delays, and computational latency • Create reduced-order and full-order dynamics models with both white-box and black-box approach • Implement real-time optimization solvers that execute within the tight timing budgets of safety-critical control loops • Develop formal arguments and documentation sufficient to support third-party safety certification of algorithms • Validate algorithms through rigorous simulation and hardware experiments, characterizing failure modes and quantifying safety margins • Contribute to the theoretical foundations of CBFs through publications at top-tier controls and robotics venues • Collaborate with perception, planning, locomotion, and manipulation teams to accommodate the needs of upstream and downstream systems 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! About the team Work with the inventors of control barrier functions on a novel, universal approach to safe autonomy: one that scales across mobile robots, manipulators, mobile manipulators, and future robot platforms with dynamic stability. You'll push the boundary of safe performance by integrating safety with motion planning, RL, and foundation models, ensuring that safety is never a blocker to robot performance. Your work will underpin robots operating alongside people at Amazon's unprecendented scale.

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 programming from Prime Video subscriptions such as Apple TV+, HBO Max, Peacock, Crunchyroll and MGM+. All customers, regardless of whether they have a Prime membership or not, can rent or buy titles via the Prime Video Store, and can 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 team member, 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! Key job responsibilities As an Applied Scientist at Prime Video, you will have end-to-end ownership of the product, related research and experimentation, applying advanced machine learning techniques in computer vision (CV), Generative AI, multimedia understanding and so on. You’ll work on diverse projects that enhance Prime Video’s content localization, image/video understanding, and content personalization, driving impactful innovations for our global audience. Other responsibilities include: - Research and develop generative models for controllable synthesis across images, video, vector graphics, and multimedia - Innovate in advanced diffusion and flow-based methods (e.g., inverse flow matching, parameter efficient training, guided sampling, test-time adaptation) to improve efficiency, controllability, and scalability. - Advance visual grounding, depth and 3D estimation, segmentation, and matting for integration into pre-visualization, compositing, VFX, and post-production pipelines. - Design multimodal GenAI workflows including visual-language model tooling, structured prompt orchestration, agentic pipelines. A day in the life Prime Video is pioneering the use of Generative AI to empower the next generation of creatives. Our mission is to make world-class media creation accessible, scalable, and efficient. We are seeking an Applied Scientist to advance the state of the art in Generative AI and to deliver these innovations as production-ready systems at Amazon scale. Your work will give creators unprecedented freedom and control while driving new efficiencies across Prime Video’s global content and marketing pipelines. This is a newly formed team within Prime Video Science!

Amazon.com strives to be Earth's most customer-centric company where customers can shop in our stores to find and discover anything they want to buy. We hire the world's brightest minds, offering them a fast paced, technologically sophisticated and friendly work environment. Economists at Amazon partner closely with senior management, business stakeholders, scientist and engineers, and economist leadership to solve key business problems ranging from Amazon Web Services, Kindle, Prime, inventory planning, international retail, third party merchants, search, pricing, labor and employment planning, effective benefits (health, retirement, etc.) and beyond. Amazon Economists build econometric models using our world class data systems and apply approaches from a variety of skillsets – applied macro/time series, applied micro, econometric theory, empirical IO, empirical health, labor, public economics and related fields are all highly valued skillsets at Amazon. You will work in a fast moving environment to solve business problems as a member of either a cross-functional team embedded within a business unit or a central science and economics organization. You will be expected to develop techniques that apply econometrics to large data sets, address quantitative problems, and contribute to the design of automated systems around the company.