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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 in artificial intelligence and related fields.
  • 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, CA, Mountain View
    Job ID: 3094532
    (Updated 66 days ago)
    We are looking for a science leader who is able to provide structure around complex business problems, work with machine learning scientists to estimate and validate their models on large scale data, and who can help business and tech partners turn the results of their analysis into policies, programs, and actions that have a major impact on Amazon’s business. We are looking for creative thinkers who can combine a strong economic toolbox with a desire to learn from others, and who know how to execute and deliver on big ideas. At the senior level, we expect you be able to own the development of scientific models and to manage, in close collaboration with scientists and engineers, the data analysis, modeling, and experimentation that is necessary for estimating and validating your model. You will need to work with our business partners to communicate the properties of your analysis/modeling and be able to work to incorporate their feedback and requests into your project. Experience in applied economic analysis is essential, and you should be familiar with modern tools for data science and business analysis. About the team The Stores Economics and Science (SEAS) organization uses economics, statistics, and machine learning to understand and design the complex economy of Amazon’s network of buyers and sellers. We are an interdisciplinary team, committed to use of cutting edge technology and leveraging the strengths of engineers and scientists to build solutions for some of the toughest business problems at Amazon. Our team is composed in equal parts of software engineers and scientists trained in diverse fields including ML, robotics, computer vision (CV), natural language processing (NLP), distributed systems and econometrics. Our mission is to drive adoption of AI science and technology across Amazon by partnering with business teams on science-heavy problems, incubating products with high AI research risk, reducing friction and manual effort with AI tooling, and raising the scientific bar across all teams at Amazon.
  • (Updated 25 days ago)
    Innovators wanted! Are you an entrepreneur? A builder? A dreamer? This role is part of an Amazon Special Projects team that takes the company’s Think Big leadership principle to the limits. If you’re interested in innovating at scale to address big challenges in the world, this is the team for you. Our team rewards curiosity while maintaining a laser-focus in bringing products to market. Competitive candidates are responsive, flexible, and able to succeed within an open, collaborative, entrepreneurial, startup-like environment. At the forefront of both academic and applied research in this product area, you have the opportunity to work together with a diverse and talented team of scientists, engineers, and product managers and collaborate with other teams. We are seeking a Sr. Manager, Applied Science to lead and build our science team focused on machine learning applications in life sciences. The role combines scientific leadership with people management responsibilities to drive innovative solutions. The role requires balancing exploratory research with delivering production-ready solutions while maintaining high scientific standards. You will work with Amazon's large-scale computing resources to accelerate advances in machine learning applications. Key job responsibilities - Lead ML for life science efforts using computational design approaches and ML-based tools. - Guide teams in applying SOTA ML methods, experimentation design, and modeling approaches. - Transform complex real world problems into scientific challenges and allocate resources effectively. - Review requirements, conduct technical architecture reviews, and make informed judgments around technical and business tradeoffs. - Provide mentorship to Applied Scientists, Research Scientists and Data Scientists while maintaining scientific rigor. - Manage hiring, performance feedback, promotions, and team development. - Collaborate with cross functional teams.
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 3091918
    (Updated 27 days ago)
    Amazon Science gives you insight into the company’s approach to customer focused scientific innovation. Amazon fundamentally believes that scientific innovation is essential to being the most customer-centric company in the world. It’s the company’s ability to have an impact at scale that allows us to attract some of the brightest minds in artificial intelligence and related fields. Our scientists continue to publish, teach, and engage with the academic community, in addition to utilizing our working backwards method to enrich the way we live and work. Please visit https://www.amazon.science for more information. Are you an expert in Neural Network, Graph Models and Probabilistic Risk Modeling? Are you interested in building AI-driven solutions on complex business problems that have significant global benefit. The Brand Protection ML team designs and builds high performance AI systems using machine learning that identify fraudulent and abusive entities to protect customers, brands, selling partners and the Amazon store worldwide from counterfeit and other forms of IP infringements. We are looking for a highly talented scientist to help build of our vision for Brand Protection. As an applied scientist on the team, You will play a key role in designing, developing, and deploying advanced graph-based models that detect hidden relationships, anomalous behaviors, and emerging risks in large-scale, complex data environments. You will work backwards from data insights and customer feedback to build the right machine learning solutions, and resourceful in finding innovative solutions to unsolved problems. You will work closely will product team and engineering partners to launch the solution into production and owning the end-to-end solution. An ideal candidate should have hands-on experience developing end-to-end Machine Learning solutions at industrial setting, specially in graph-based algorithms (e.g., Graph Neural Networks, representation learning, community detection, link prediction) for fraud and risk detection, 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. Major 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 post-launch - Analyze and extract relevant information from large amounts of both structured and unstructured data to design strategies to solve business problems. - Develop and apply graph-based algorithms (e.g., Graph Neural Networks, representation learning, community detection, link prediction) for fraud and risk detection. - Design scalable data pipelines to construct, enrich, and maintain large-scale knowledge graphs from heterogeneous data sources. - Present research and analytics insights with stakeholders and partners to advance organizational science knowledge and decision making - Research and implement novel AI solutions and publish research papers internally (and externally where appropriate) About the team Here at Selling Partner Services, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have 14 employee-led affinity groups, reaching 10,000+ employees in chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and we host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our DEI Ambassador Program. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 16 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.
  • US, NY, New York
    Job ID: 3083576
    (Updated 12 days ago)
    About Amazon Advertising: Amazon Advertising operates at the intersection of eCommerce and advertising, offering a rich array of digital display advertising solutions with the goal of helping our customers find and discover anything they want to buy. We help advertisers of all types to reach Amazon customers on Amazon.com, across our other owned and operated sites, on other high quality sites across the web, and on millions of mobile devices. We start with the customer and work backwards in everything we do, including advertising. If you’re interested in joining a rapidly growing team working to build a unique, world-class advertising group with a relentless focus on the customer, you’ve come to the right place. About our team: Our team, CreativeX optimizations, is responsible for tailoring the visual experience of ads to each context in real time. To accomplish this, we are investing in latent-diffusion models, large language models (LLM), reinforced learning (RL), Computer Vision, and related methods. Key job responsibilities We are looking for talented Applied Scientists who are adept at a variety of skills, especially with reinforcement learning and recommendations, and familiarity with LLMs, latent diffusion, or related foundational models that will accelerate our plans to dynamically optimize ad creatives on behalf of advertisers. Every member of the team is expected to build customer (advertiser) facing features, contribute to the collaborative spirit within the team, publish, patent, and bring state-of-the-art research to raise the bar within the team.
  • (Updated 26 days ago)
    The Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) team is looking for a passionate, talented, and inventive Senior Applied Scientist; to lead the development and implementation of Generative AI (GenAI) algorithms and models for supervised fine-tuning, and advance the state of the art with Large Language Models (LLMs), As a Senior Applied Scientist, you will play a critical role in driving the development of GenAI technologies that can handle Amazon-scale use cases and have a significant impact on our customers' experiences. Key job responsibilities - Collaborate with cross-functional teams of engineers, product managers, and scientists to identify and solve complex problems in GenAI - Design and execute experiments to evaluate the performance of different algorithms and models, and iterate quickly to improve results - Think big about the arc of development of GenAI over a multi-year horizon, and identify new opportunities to apply these technologies to solve real-world problems - Communicate results and insights to both technical and non-technical audiences, including through presentations and written reports - Mentor and guide junior scientists and engineers, and contribute to the overall growth and development of the team
  • (Updated 89 days ago)
    The Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) team is looking for a Senior Applied Scientist to work on pre-training methodologies for Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) models. You will interact closely with our customers and with the academic and research communities. You will be at the heart of a growing and exciting focus area for Amazon, working with other acclaimed engineers and world-famous scientists. Key job responsibilities Join us to work as an integral part of a team that has diverse experience with GenAI models in this space. We work on these areas: - Scaling laws - Hardware-informed efficient model architecture, low-precision training - Optimization methods, learning objectives, curriculum design - Deep learning theories on efficient hyperparameter search and self-supervised learning - Learning objectives and reinforcement learning methods - Distributed training methods and solutions - AI-assisted research About the team The AGI team has a mission to push the envelope in Large Language Models (LLMs) and multimodal systems, in order to provide the best-possible experience for our customers.
  • (Updated 65 days ago)
    ** Join Our Innovative Computer Vision Team at Amazon, Australia ** Are you passionate about developing generative models to transform the next generation of e-commerce platform and build AI models used by millions of customers? We invite you to be part of our high-performing Computer Vision team at Amazon located in Melbourne, Australia. As a member of our international Machine Learning group, you will play a key role in developing generative AI solutions that leverage vast amounts of Amazon data and advanced cloud computing resources. Our mission is to create next-generation media content that delivers an unforgettable shopping experience for our customers in emerging marketplaces. We are seeking talented Computer Vision Scientists with a Ph.D. in a related field. This is an opportunity for you to build innovative AI techniques that tackle real-world business challenges. Join a team dedicated to advancing AI technology at Amazon and transforming it into impactful business solutions. #austechjobs Key job responsibilities - Develop scalable machine learning and computer vision solutions to revamp the media block of our catalog - Analyze and extract meaningful insights from large volumes of Amazon’s data to automate and enhance content - Design, build, and evaluate generative AI models tailored to our business use cases - Communicate clearly with business stakeholders to understand and align on requirements - Conduct market, research and implement novel machine learning techniques to solve customer problems - Mentor interns and junior scientists - Publish papers at Tier-1 CV/ML conferences
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 3077522
    (Updated 12 days ago)
    Application deadline: Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis Amazon Ads is re-imagining advertising through cutting-edge generative AI technologies. We combine human creativity with artificial intelligence to transform every aspect of the advertising lifecycle – from ad creation and optimization to performance analysis and customer insights. Our solutions help advertisers grow their brands while enabling millions of customers to discover and purchase products through delightful experiences. We deliver billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks daily, breaking fresh ground in product and technical innovations. If you're energized by solving complex challenges and pushing the boundaries of what's possible with AI, join us in shaping the future of advertising. Key job responsibilities As an Applied Scientist in Amazon Ads, you will: - Research and implement cutting-edge ML approaches, including applications of generative AI and large language models - Develop and deploy innovative ML solutions spanning multiple disciplines – from ranking and personalization to natural language processing, computer vision, recommender systems, and large language models - Drive end-to-end projects that tackle ambiguous problems at massive scale, often working with petabytes of data - Build and optimize models that balance multiple stakeholder needs - helping customers discover relevant products while enabling advertisers to achieve their goals efficiently - Build ML models, perform proof-of-concept, experiment, optimize, and deploy your models into production, working closely with cross-functional teams including engineers, product managers, and other scientists - Design and run A/B experiments to validate hypotheses, gather insights from large-scale data analysis, and measure business impact - Develop scalable, efficient processes for model development, validation, and deployment that optimize traffic monetization while maintaining customer experience A day in the life Why you will love this role: This role offers unprecedented breadth in ML applications, and access to extensive computational resources and rich datasets that enable you to build truly innovative solutions. You'll work on projects that span the full advertising lifecycle - from sophisticated ranking algorithms and real-time bidding systems to creative optimization and measurement solutions. You'll also work alongside talented engineers, scientists and product leaders in a culture that encourages innovation, experimentation, and bias for action where you’ll directly influence business strategy through your scientific expertise. What makes this role unique is the combination of scientific rigor with real-world impact. You’ll re-imagine advertising through the lens of advanced ML while solving problems that balance the needs of advertisers, customers, and Amazon's business objectives. About the team Your impact and career growth: Amazon Ads is investing heavily in AI and ML capabilities, creating opportunities for scientists to innovate and make their mark. Your work will directly impact millions. Whether you see yourself growing as an individual contributor or moving into people management, there are clear paths for career progression. This role combines scientific leadership, organizational ability, technical strength, and business understanding. You'll have opportunities to lead technical initiatives, mentor other scientists, and collaborate with senior leadership to shape the future of advertising technology. Most importantly, you'll be part of a community that values scientific excellence and encourages you to push the boundaries of what's possible with AI. Watch two applied scientists at Amazon Ads talk about their work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvHsURsIPEA Learn more about Amazon Ads: https://advertising.amazon.com/
  • (Updated 79 days ago)
    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? The Generative AI Innovation Center helps AWS customers implement Generative AI solutions and realize transformational business opportunities. This is a team of strategists, scientists, engineers, and architects working step-by-step with customers to build bespoke solutions that harness the power of generative AI. Starting in 2024, the Innovation Center launched a new Custom Model and Optimization program to help customers develop and scale highly customized generative AI solutions. The team helps customers imagine and scope bespoke use cases that will create the greatest value for their businesses, define paths to navigate technical or business challenges, develop and optimize models to power their solutions, 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. 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 Applied 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 Applied Scientist, you will • Collaborate with AI/ML scientists and architects to research, design, develop, and evaluate generative AI solutions to address real-world challenges • Interact with customers directly to understand their business problems, aid them in implementation of generative AI solutions, brief customers and guide them on adoption patterns and paths to production • Help customers optimize their solutions through approaches such as model selection, training or tuning, right-sizing, distillation, and hardware optimization • Provide customer and market feedback to product and engineering teams to help define product direction
  • US, WA, Bellevue
    Job ID: 3095718
    (Updated 24 days ago)
    Revolutionize logistics through groundbreaking data science at Amazon! We're seeking an innovative problem-solver who will transform complex global logistics challenges using advanced analytics and artificial intelligence. Your work will directly impact how millions of packages move worldwide, leveraging cutting-edge machine learning, Large Language Models (LLMs), and predictive technologies to optimize our intricate delivery networks. Our team empowers data-driven decision-making by developing sophisticated analytical solutions that bridge operational insights with strategic vision. You'll have the opportunity to design scalable models, implement advanced AI technologies, and create transformative recommendations that reshape logistics efficiency at a global scale. Key job responsibilities • Build sophisticated machine learning models and production pipelines to analyze complex logistics data • Develop advanced AI solutions using Python, AWS tools, and emerging technologies like Large Language Models • Synthesize information from diverse data sources to generate meaningful, actionable business insights • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate complex technical findings into strategic recommendations • Design and implement optimization strategies that enhance network performance and operational efficiency A day in the life As a Data Scientist in our R2L team, you'll immerse yourself in intricate data ecosystems, uncovering hidden patterns and opportunities that can revolutionize package delivery. Your daily work will involve exploring massive datasets, developing innovative analytical approaches, building production pipelines and transforming raw information into strategic intelligence. About the team We are a dynamic collective of data enthusiasts dedicated to optimizing Amazon's logistics infrastructure. Our team operates at the intersection of technology, operations, and strategic innovation, working collaboratively to create more intelligent, responsive, and efficient delivery systems.

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Amazon scientists are working on large-scale technical challenges in a variety of research areas across the globe. Use the pins below to learn more about the customer-obsessed science being conducted at some of our research locations.
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