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At Amazon, we believe that scientific innovation is essential to being the most customer-centric company in the world. Our scientists' ability to have an impact at scale allows us to attract some of the brightest minds across diverse fields including artificial intelligence, robotics, computer vision, economics, and sustainability. Join us in pioneering solutions to complex challenges that not only delight our customers but also help define the future of technology.
  • The program is designed for academics from universities around the globe who want to work on large-scale technical challenges while continuing to teach and conduct research at their universities.
  • The program offers recent PhD graduates an opportunity to advance research while working alongside experienced scientists with backgrounds in industry and academia.
  • Our internship roles span research areas to provide hands-on experience working alongside world-class scientists and engineers to advance the state of the art in your field.
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  • US, MA, N.reading
    Job ID: 3154866
    (Updated 0 days ago)
    Amazon Industrial Robotics Group is seeking exceptional talent to help develop the next generation of advanced robotics systems that will transform automation at Amazon's scale. We're building revolutionary robotic systems that combine cutting-edge AI, sophisticated control systems, and advanced mechanical design to create adaptable automation solutions capable of working safely alongside humans in dynamic environments. This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of robotics and automation at an unprecedented scale, working with world-class teams pushing the boundaries of what's possible in robotic dexterous manipulation, locomotion, and human-robot interaction. This role presents an opportunity to shape the future of robotics through innovative applications of deep learning and large language models. At Amazon Industrial Robotics we leverage advanced robotics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence to solve complex operational challenges at an unprecedented scale. Our fleet of robots operates across hundreds of facilities worldwide, working in sophisticated coordination to fulfill our mission of customer excellence. The ideal candidate will contribute to research that bridges the gap between theoretical advancement and practical implementation in robotics. You will be part of a team that's revolutionizing how robots learn, adapt, and interact with their environment. Join us in building the next generation of intelligent robotics systems that will transform the future of automation and human-robot collaboration. Key job responsibilities - Design and implement whole body control methods for balance, locomotion, and dexterous manipulation - Utilize state-of-the-art in methods in learned and model-based control - Create robust and safe behaviors for different terrains and tasks - Implement real-time controllers with stability guarantees - Collaborate effectively with multi-disciplinary teams to co-design hardware and algorithms for loco-manipulation - Mentor junior engineer and scientists
  • (Updated 15 days ago)
    Success in any organization begins with its people and having a comprehensive understanding of our workforce and how we best utilize their unique skills and experience is paramount to our future success. WISE (Workforce Intelligence powered by Scientific Engineering) delivers the scientific and engineering foundation that powers Amazon's enterprise-wide workforce planning ecosystem. Addressing the critical need for precise workforce planning, WISE enables a closed-loop mechanism essential for ensuring Amazon has the right workforce composition, organizational structure, and geographical footprint to support long-term business needs with a sustainable cost structure. We are looking for a Applied Scientist to join our ML/AI team to work on Advanced Optimization and LLM solutions. You will partner with Software Engineers, Data Engineers and other Scientists, TPMs, Product Managers and Senior Management to help create world-class solutions. We're looking for people who are passionate about innovating on behalf of customers, demonstrate a high degree of product ownership, and want to have fun while they make history. You will leverage your knowledge in machine learning, advanced analytics, metrics, reporting, and analytic tooling/languages to analyze and translate the data into meaningful insights. You will have end-to-end ownership of operational and technical aspects of the insights you are building for the business, and will play an integral role in strategic decision-making. Further, you will build solutions leveraging advanced analytics that enable stakeholders to manage the business and make effective decisions, partner with internal teams to identify process and system improvement opportunities. As a tech expert, you will be an advocate for compelling user experiences and will demonstrate the value of automation and data-driven planning tools in the People Experience and Technology space. Key job responsibilities * Engineering execution - drive crisp and timely execution of milestones, consider and advise on key design and technology trade-offs with engineering teams * Priority management - manage diverse requests and dependencies from teams * Process improvements – define, implement and continuously improve delivery and operational efficiency * Stakeholder management – interface with and influence your stakeholders, balancing business needs vs. technical constraints and driving clarity in ambiguous situations * Operational Excellence – monitor metrics and program health, anticipate and clear blockers, manage escalations To be successful on this journey, you love having high standards for yourself and everyone you work with, and always look for opportunities to make our services better.
  • (Updated 15 days ago)
    At Amazon, security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. Our mission is to prevent denied entities from transacting with Amazon businesses. We build automatic mechanisms to detect and prevent prohibited transactions with denied entities using a diverse set of algorithms and machine learning techniques. We screen over a billion events every day and develop algorithms which are able to scale and detect suspicious entities . We are still Day 1 and have an exciting road map to build Machine Learning (ML) and Generative AI (LLM) powered detection and resolution systems to help scale Amazon for years to come. We are seeking an Applied Scientist to join our team and help tackle challenging problems at the forefront of machine learning and artificial intelligence. Working closely with a multidisciplinary team of engineers, data scientists, and domain experts, you will play a crucial role in defining cutting-edge ML/AI-powered customer experiences and solutions. If you have an entrepreneurial mindset, the technical depth to deliver impactful results, and a passion for innovation, we want to hear from you. Key job responsibilities In this role, you will: • Drive the research, design, and development of novel ML/AI models and systems to power critical products and services • Collaborate cross-functionally to deeply understand business requirements, customer needs, and technical constraints • Rapidly prototype, test, and iterate on ML/AI solutions, iterating quickly based on data and feedback • Communicate complex technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders • Mentor and grow a team of talented ML scientists and engineers • Stay up-to-date on the latest advancements in AI/ML and identify opportunities to apply emerging techniques A day in the life - Starting the day by reviewing the latest model performance metrics and identifying areas for improvement - Brainstorming new architectures and approaches with your cross-functional team during a whiteboard session - Diving deep into a complex dataset, leveraging advanced statistical and AI techniques to uncover hidden insights - Prototyping a new model and running a series of experiments to optimize its performance - Preparing a presentation to pitch your latest research findings and recommendations to product and engineering leaders - Mentoring a junior data scientist, providing guidance on coding best practices and problem-solving strategies About the team Why Amazon Security At Amazon, security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. Our organization is responsible for creating and maintaining a high bar for security across all of Amazon’s products and services. 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. Inclusive Team Culture In Amazon Security, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Ongoing DEI events and learning experiences inspire us to continue learning and to embrace our uniqueness. Addressing the toughest security challenges requires that we seek out and celebrate a diversity of ideas, perspectives, and voices. Training 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, training, and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
  • (Updated 27 days ago)
    The Amazon Publisher Monetization Stores team is seeking an experienced Manager, Applied Science to lead our Stores Supply Science team and our Stores Supply Applied Science Engineering team. In this role, you will be responsible for developing novel machine learning and optimization solutions to drive improvements in the monetization of digital content for Amazon's publishing partners. You will collaborate closely with product, engineering, and business stakeholders to identify high-impact opportunities, define technical roadmaps, and deliver innovative solutions at scale. Equally importantly you will represent APM Stores Science across the broader Ads science community (e.g. Sponsored Products, Sponsored Brands, DSP and Ads Econ) and drive collaboration and harmonization. This is an exciting opportunity to leverage your depth of applied science expertise to shape the future of Amazon's publisher monetization platform and have a significant impact on the business. Key job responsibilities * Lead the Stores Supply Science team and Applied Science Engineering teams as a direct manager, setting the technical vision and implementation, managing performance, and developing your team members * Work closely with product, engineering, and business stakeholders to define the technical roadmap and ensure the delivery of high-impact solutions * Represent APM Stores Science across the broader Ads science community * Identify new opportunities to leverage data and advanced analytics to unlock value for Amazon's publishing partners * Foster a culture of innovation, agility, and customer obsession within your teams A day in the life As the Manager, Applied Science, you will spend your time collaborating with key stakeholders, leading your teams, and driving the development and deployment of high-impact solutions. A typical day may include: * Meeting with product and business leaders to understand their challenges and align on strategic priorities * Reviewing progress and providing guidance to your direct reports on the Stores Supply Science and Applied Science engineering teams * Defining the technical roadmap and implementation plan for new models in collaboration with engineering teams * Presenting your teams' work and recommendations to senior leadership * Providing career feedback and growth opportunities to your direct reports * Staying abreast of the latest advancements in machine learning and other scientific disciplines and exploring how they could be applied to our business
  • US, WA, Bellevue
    Job ID: 3155354
    (Updated 14 days ago)
    As an Applied Scientist for Last Mile Delivery Automation, you will be at the forefront of developing AI and ML solutions that power our delivery solutions. This role combines deep expertise in machine learning, computer vision, and robotics to solve complex challenges in real-world perception, navigation, and path planning. You will work closely with applied scientists, software developers, and product teams to research, design, and implement sophisticated algorithms that enable safe and efficient operations. This position requires a unique blend of theoretical knowledge and practical implementation skills, with a focus on transforming research concepts into production-ready solutions that can operate reliably in diverse real-world environments. Key job responsibilities - Design and develop advanced machine learning models and algorithms for perception, navigation and planning. - Lead research initiatives in areas such as computer vision, sensor fusion, behavioral prediction, and path planning - Transform research concepts into production-ready solutions that meet strict safety and performance requirements - Develop novel approaches to solve complex technical challenges in perception, navigation and planning - Create and implement metrics and evaluation frameworks to measure model performance - Collaborate with engineering teams to integrate ML solutions into production stack - Publish research findings and represent Amazon at technical conferences About the team The Applied Science team within Amazon's Last Mile Delivery Automation organization focuses on developing machine learning solutions for autonomous systems. We work at the intersection of computer vision, deep learning, robotics, and control systems to create robust and scalable algorithms that enable safe autonomous operation. Our team combines expertise from diverse scientific backgrounds to tackle fundamental challenges in perception, prediction, and decision-making.
  • CA, ON, Toronto
    Job ID: 3178384
    (Updated 11 days ago)
    The Brand Registry Science team is looking for a talented scientist to help solve complex problems faced by brands using the latest science solutions. In this role, you will work closely will product team and engineering partners to launch the solution into production and owning the end-to-end solution. We are looking for a highly talented scientist to help build our vision for agent-based intelligent automation. As an research scientist on the team, you will use large language models' techniques to build automated AI solutions that thinks like human to assist decision making and eventually make autonomous decisions that impacts millions of brands, selling partners, and customers. You will work backwards from data insights and customer feedback to build the right machine learning solutions, collaborate with other domain experts in finding innovative solutions to unsolved problems. An ideal candidate should have extensive experience driving large-scale Machine Learning initiatives, specially in GenAI and LLM applications, from conception to launch in a rapidly evolving environment. Amazon’s growth requires leaders who move fast, have an entrepreneurial spirit to create new solutions, have an unrelenting tenacity to get things done, and are capable of breaking down and solving complex problems. Key job responsibilities - Understand business challenges by analyzing data and customer feedback - Collaborate with tech and product teams on building ML strategies, experimentation, implementation and continuous improvement - Analyze and extract relevant information from large amounts of both structured and unstructured data to design strategies to solve business problems. - Use large language models and machine learning techniques to create scalable solutions for business problems - Create business and analytics reports and present to the senior management teams - Research and implement novel AI solutions and publish research papers About the team
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 3184217
    (Updated 4 days ago)
    We are working on improving shopping on Amazon using the conversational capabilities of large language models and through customer behavioral data to make them more personalized for each customer. We are searching for pioneers who are passionate about technology, innovation, and customer experience, and are ready to make a lasting impact on the industry. In this role, you will be managing a team working on Large Language Model (LLM) and/or Vision-Language Model (VLM) post-training and alignment for new shopping experiences. You’ll be working with talented scientists, engineers, and technical program managers (TPM) to innovate on behalf of our customers. If you’re fired up about being part of a dynamic, driven team, then this is your moment to join us on this exciting journey!
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 3150794
    (Updated 11 days ago)
    Here at Amazon, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of diversity and inclusion of our teams within the organization. How do you get items to customers quickly, cost-effectively, and—most importantly—safely, in less than an hour? And how do you do it in a way that can scale? Our teams of hundreds of scientists, engineers, aerospace professionals, and futurists have been working hard to do just that! We are delivering to customers, and are excited for what’s to come. Check out more information about Prime Air on the About Amazon blog (https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/transportation/amazon-prime-air-delivery-drone-reveal-photos). If you are seeking an iterative environment where you can drive innovation, apply state-of-the-art technologies to solve real world delivery challenges, and provide benefits to customers, Prime Air is the place for you. Come work on the Amazon Prime Air Team! Prime Air is seeking an experienced Applied Science Manager to help develop our advanced Navigation algorithms and flight software applications. In this role, you will lead a team of scientists and engineers to conduct analyses, support cross-functional decision-making, define system architectures and requirements, contribute to the development of flight algorithms, and actively identify innovative technological opportunities that will drive significant enhancements to meet our customers' evolving demands. This person must be comfortable working with a team of top-notch software developers and collaborating with our science teams. We’re looking for someone who innovates, and loves solving hard problems. You will work hard, have fun, and make history! Export Control License: This position may require a deemed export control license for compliance with applicable laws and regulations. Placement is contingent on Amazon’s ability to apply for and obtain an export control license on your behalf.
  • (Updated 4 days ago)
    As a Senior Applied Scientist in Amazon Fullfilment Technology, you will lead the development of agentic systems to assist with operational decision making and orchestration. You will train LLMs using a combination of SFT, post-training, and Reinforcement Learning (RL). Your work will leverage the latest LLMs and multimodal models to develop capabilities for agentic reasoning, coding and analytics. You will also lead research projects to tackle unsolved problems, mentor interns, and author academic papers to summarize your findings for external publication. Key job responsibilities - Generating training and preference data for specific use cases (reasoning trajectories, tool traces) - Reward modeling and policy optimization for LLMs: DPO, IPO, KTO, RLHF/RLAIF with PPO/GRPO, KL control, rejection sampling. - Supervised fine-tuning on step-by-step trajectories and tool-use traces - RL for LLMs, Offline RL and off-policy evaluation - Agentic memory/state management; episodic and semantic memory; vector search; grounding with RAG. - Evaluation: developing decision quality metrics, scaling LLM-based evaluations. About the team Amazon Fulfillment Technologies (AFT) powers Amazon’s global fulfillment network. We invent and deliver software, hardware, and data science solutions that orchestrate processes, robots, machines, and people. We harmonize the physical and virtual world so Amazon customers can get what they want, when they want it. Learn more about AFT: https://tinyurl.com/AFTOverview
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 3157569
    (Updated 54 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 Selling Partner Trust & Store Integrity Science Team. We are looking for a talented scientist who is passionate to build advanced machine learning systems that help manage the safety of millions of transactions every day and scale up our operation with automation. Key job responsibilities Innovate with the latest GenAI/LLM/VLM technology to build highly automated solutions for efficient risk evaluation and automated operations Design, develop and deploy end-to-end machine learning solutions in the Amazon production environment to create impactful business value Learn, explore and experiment with the latest machine learning advancements to create the best customer experience A day in the life You will be working within a dynamic, diverse, and supportive group of scientists who share your passion for innovation and excellence. You'll be working closely with business partners 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.

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