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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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  • (Updated 32 days ago)
    Are you ready to revolutionize the future of aerial delivery? Join our pioneering team working on autonomous drone technology that will transform how Amazon delivers to customers. As a Manager III, Applied Science for our Perception team, you'll lead scientists and engineers building world-class machine learning models and computer vision and new frontier model based systems that enable drones to safely navigate complex environments. In this high-impact role, you'll guide the development of perception systems combining radar, machine learning, and distributed computing to solve unprecedented challenges in autonomous flight. Your work will directly shape the future of Amazon's drone delivery service, bringing innovative solutions to customers while pushing the boundaries of what's possible in autonomous systems technology. Key job responsibilities Lead and mentor a team of scientists and software engineers developing advanced perception systems that integrate computer vision, machine learning algorithms, and detect-and-avoid capabilities for autonomous drones Define and drive the technical vision and roadmap for perception technology, making strategic architectural decisions that balance current delivery needs with long-term innovation goals Collaborate with cross-functional teams including hardware engineers, autonomy specialists, and product stakeholders to deliver scalable, distributed systems that meet rigorous safety and performance requirements Establish audit mechanisms and metrics to track system performance, model accuracy, and team progress against goals, using data-driven insights to continuously improve customer experience Build and grow an inclusive, high-performing team through effective hiring, mentoring, and career development while fostering a culture of innovation and technical excellence About the team The Perception team is at the heart of Amazon's autonomous drone delivery initiative, developing the advanced computer vision and machine learning systems that enable safe, reliable flight operations. Our team tackles fascinating challenges at the intersection of radar technology, distributed computing, and real-time detection algorithms, creating solutions that have never been built before. We work in an innovative, collaborative environment where every scientists and engineer's contribution directly impacts the future of delivery technology. As we scale Amazon's drone delivery to new locations, you'll help shape both the technical direction and team culture that will define this transformative service for years to come.
  • US, CA, Palo Alto
    Job ID: 10534443
    (Updated 40 days ago)
    Alexa for Shopping (Rufus) is Amazon's new AI-powered shopping assistant that combines the capabilities of Rufus and Alexa+ to provide a more personalized and intelligent shopping experience. We are building the future of AI-powered commerce, where every customer interaction is conversational, personalized, and proactive. 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 will set the roadmap and vision for science investments across multiple new customer experiences and to optimize existing experiences to deliver the most helpful, accurate, and fastest AI shopping assistant in the industry The ideal candidate is deeply steeped in LLM-based architectures, post-training techniques (RLHF, DPO, fine-tuning), and multi-agent systems. They are passionate about applied science, working back from customer experience to define what matters, and building teams that ship production AI at scale. You’ll be working with talented scientists, engineers, and product managers 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!
  • CA, BC, Vancouver
    Job ID: 10557195
    (Updated 29 days ago)
    Alexa Connections is on a mission to become the world's most trusted communication agent, spanning calls, text, email, and the ever-expanding surfaces where people connect. We're building intelligence that keeps customers connected effortlessly while putting their trust and privacy first. As an Applied Scientist, you'll help build the smartest communications agent for people, an agent that understands intent, context, and relationships, and that acts on a customer's behalf to make every interaction feel effortless and genuinely helpful Key job responsibilities You'll research, develop, and deploy the language intelligence that powers how people communicate, using and adapting large language models to understand intent, context, and the entities that matter in a conversation, the people, contacts, events, dates, and topics that tell the agent who and what a message is about. In practice, that means reframing classic NLP and named entity recognition as LLM-native tasks through instruction-tuning, in-context learning, and structured generation, and building agentic capabilities that reason over multi-turn conversations and act on them, from summarization and smart replies to coreference and context resolution grounded in a customer's relationships and history. You'll fine-tune, align, and optimize foundation models for the messiness of real communication data, informal text, code-switching, misspellings, transcribed speech, and multilingual content, and ground their outputs in customer context using retrieval-augmented generation and personalization so responses stay relevant and reliable. Throughout, you'll take models from research to production at scale, partnering with engineering and product teams to ship LLM-powered features used by millions every day, and define the evaluation frameworks that measure quality, faithfulness, latency, and customer impact while keeping trust and privacy first.
  • CA, ON, Toronto
    Job ID: 10564406
    (Updated 4 days ago)
    Are you a passionate scientist in the computer vision area who is aspired to apply your skills to bring value to millions of customers? Here at Ring, we have a unique opportunity to innovate and see how the results of our work improve the lives of millions of people and make neighborhoods safer. You will be part of a team committed to pushing the frontier of computer vision and machine learning technology to deliver the best experience for our neighbors. This is a great opportunity for you to innovate in this space by developing highly optimized algorithms that will work on scale. This position requires experience with developing Multi-modal LLMs and Vision Language Models. You will collaborate with different Amazon teams to make informed decisions on the best practices in machine learning to build highly-optimized integrated hardware and software platforms. Key job responsibilities - Participate in the design, development, evaluation, deployment and updating of data-driven models for computer vision applications. - Research and implement the state-of-the-art computer vision and Vision Language models algorithms. - Collaborate with product managers and engineering teams to design and implement computer vision and machine learning based features for Ring devices - Influence system design and product vision by making informed decisions on the selection of technology, data sources, algorithms, and sensors.
  • US, TX, Austin
    Job ID: 10517467
    (Updated 38 days ago)
    Are You Ready to Redefine How the World Receives Its Packages? What if your algorithms defined the most efficient path for millions of deliveries — every single day? At Amazon, we're building the science that makes that possible, and we're looking for exceptional scientists to help lead the way. The Last Mile Routing & Planning organization develops the software, algorithms, and tools that power the "magic" of home delivery. Our planning and routing intelligence systems drive billions of daily decisions — enabling safe, efficient, and frustration-free routes for drivers across the globe. What You'll Do In this role, you'll sit at the intersection of state-of-the-art research and real-world impact. You will: - Design and build algorithms that solve large-scale, complex logistics problems - Synthesize data from diverse sources to identify high-value business opportunities - Provide research direction and data-driven insights to guide strategic decisions - Translate complex technical approaches into clear communication for scientists, engineers, and business stakeholders - Partner closely with scientists and engineers in a collaborative, high-impact environment What You'll Work On We have an exciting and growing portfolio of research areas, including: - Routing for same-day and grocery deliveries - Planning for electric and autonomous vehicles - District-level and stop-level planning - Forecasting solutions for diverse delivery programs All of this is powered by the latest methods in Operations Research (OR), Machine Learning (ML), and Generative AI — at a truly global scale. Successful candidates will lead one or more of these problem spaces. What We're Looking For - Deep expertise in Operations Research and/or Machine Learning methods - Proven experience applying these methods to large-scale, real-world business problems - Ability to translate models into production-ready code in Python or Java - Strong communication skills — you can explain complex technical concepts to diverse audiences - A bias for action and an iterative mindset when tackling ambitious research challenges Why Amazon We're passionate about your growth. Whether you want to explore emerging technologies, take on broader scope, or accelerate your career trajectory, we'll invest in helping you get there. Our business is scaling fast — and so are the opportunities for the people who build it. If you're driven by the challenge of optimizing one of the world's most complex logistics systems and excited to see your work impact millions of customers daily, we'd love to hear from you. Key job responsibilities - Invent and design novel solutions for scientifically complex problem areas, and identify opportunities for invention within existing and new business initiatives - Deliver large-scale, high-impact solutions to complex problems in support of medium-to-large business goals - Shape the design of scientifically complex software systems, personally contributing significant portions of the critical scientific novelty - Apply mathematical optimization, machine learning, and Generative AI techniques to develop solution methodologies for in-house decision support tools and software - Research, prototype, simulate, and experiment with models — and actively participate in their production-level deployment in Python or Java - Engage with the broader scientific community by publishing research articles and participating in leading research conferences
  • US, CA, Sunnyvale
    Job ID: 10517288
    (Updated 65 days ago)
    We are looking for a Senior Inference Engineer to own inference for real-time multimodal conversational AI. This is a full-stack inference role: you will work across the entire path a model takes from research to production — shaping model architecture so it is servable, building the real-time runtime that serves it within hard latency budgets, and building the offline systems that train and reinforce it. You will operate at the boundary of Science and Inference, taking frontier-scale speech and audio models and making them run within real-time latency budgets on production hardware. You will co-design architectures with scientists to make them inference-friendly from inception, own the low-latency streaming serving path, and build the training and reinforcement-learning infrastructure that closes the loop. You will have the compute, data, and runway to solve problems that few teams in the world are positioned to tackle. As a Senior Engineer, you will own a significant area of the inference stack end to end, drive its technical execution, contribute to the team's roadmap, and work closely with scientists and hardware partners to ensure our models run fast enough to feel human in real time — and at a cost that makes them viable at scale. You may go deep in one of the areas below while contributing across the others. Key job responsibilities Model Architecture & Inference Co-Design • Partner with research scientists to make model architectures servable from inception — surfacing the latency, memory, and cost implications of architecture choices before they are locked in • Implement and optimize the inference path for large-scale multimodal models — attention and KV-cache mechanisms, multimodal/autoregressive decoding, and the compute primitives on the critical path Apply efficiency techniques across the stack — quantization (per-tensor/per-channel/per- group, INT8/FP8/BF16), speculative decoding, operator fusion, and paged KV-cache — and quantify their quality/latency trade-offs • Develop and tune high-performance kernels for critical operations where off-the-shelf implementations leave performance on the table, integrating them into production serving with minimal overhead • Profile end-to-end performance with tools such as Nsight Compute/Systems and roofline analysis to identify and eliminate bottlenecks in large-scale inference workloads Real-Time & Interactive Runtime • Own the real-time serving path for streaming multimodal conversational AI, meeting sub- second, streaming latency budgets under concurrent session load • Build and tune continuous batching, scheduling, and preemption to balance throughput against per-request latency SLAs for interactive workloads • Customize production serving frameworks (e.g., vLLM, PyTorch) for real-time streaming generative models that fall outside standard LLM serving patterns — sustained low-latency output under concurrent session load • Implement multi-GPU inference (tensor parallelism, collective communication) for latency- critical paths, and drive cost toward parity with existing production baselines • Establish latency, throughput, and cost benchmarking, and publish the operational metrics that gate deployment Offline Systems: Training, RL & Evaluation Infrastructure • Build and scale the offline inference systems behind post-training — high-throughput rollout generation and reward-model serving for reinforcement learning (RL/RLHF/RLAIF) • Ensure train/serve consistency — that the inference path used in RL and evaluation faithfully matches production online behavior (e.g., parity across sampling and logit processing) • Work with the evaluation team to enable offline inference that captures the quality dimensions unique to real-time conversation — latency sensitivity, audio quality, and interaction naturalness
  • US, WA, Bellevue
    Job ID: 10523945
    (Updated 42 days ago)
    Have you ever placed an order on Amazon and wondered how it got to you so fast? Behind that speed is a massive transportation network generating billions of data points daily. We need someone who can turn that data into clarity. Come join the Network Engineering, Scheduling and Technology (NEST) Science team within Amazon Transportation Services. We are looking for a Data Scientist who is equal parts data engineer, visualization architect, and analytical modeler. You will own the end-to-end build process for data-driven solutions: identifying business needs, developing simulation and optimization models, building computationally efficient analytical tools, and narrating results through compelling data storytelling. This is not a dashboard-building role. You will work at the intersection of large-scale data processing, advanced analytics (including simulation and optimization), and data visualization, building tools that allow stakeholders to explore millions of records interactively, uncover patterns in network performance, and make data-driven decisions with confidence. The ideal candidate is a data wizard who thrives on wrangling massive datasets, building predictive and prescriptive models, architecting performant query and aggregation pipelines, and crafting visualizations that communicate complex findings with precision and clarity. You will own the full lifecycle, from problem identification and data extraction through modeling and simulation to production-grade analytical applications that narrate results back to stakeholders. You will collaborate closely with scientists, engineers, and product managers Key job responsibilities - Own the end-to-end analytical lifecycle: identify stakeholder needs, frame problems, build models, and narrate results through data tools and visualizations - Design and build production-grade analytical tools, BI applications, and interactive data products that enable self-service exploration of very large transportation datasets (billions of records) - Develop and enhance simulation and optimization models (discrete event simulation, agent-based modeling, mathematical optimization) applied to network planning and transportation operations - Architect computationally efficient data pipelines and aggregation strategies that support responsive, real-time or near-real-time visualization at scale - Develop advanced data storytelling artifacts that communicate complex network dynamics, trends, and anomalies to technical and non-technical stakeholders - Build and maintain reusable visualization frameworks and libraries tailored to transportation network data (routing, scheduling, flow, capacity) - Work with large-scale data platforms (Redshift, Spark, S3, Athena) to extract, transform, and model data for analytical consumption - Develop code (Python, SQL, Scala) for data processing, statistical modeling, simulation, and building automated analytical workflows - Collaborate with Applied Scientists, Research Scientists, Software Engineers, and Product Managers to integrate analytical tools into broader planning and decision-support systems - Define and implement best practices for data visualization performance, including sampling strategies, level-of-detail rendering, and progressive loading for large datasets - Communicate findings, methodology, and recommendations through compelling written and verbal presentations to leadership and business customers About the team The Network Engineering, Scheduling, and Technology (NEST) Science Team prototype, build, and productionize mathematical models that reduce transportation cost and improve customer experience in Amazon's Middle Mile network. Equipped with techniques from Operations Research, Machine Learning and Simulation, these models are used to govern scheduling and equipment selection of hundreds of thousands of truck movements, optimize network configurations, determine the transit times between nodes, and simulate network flow under uncertainty for informed decision making. Our core team consists of Applied, Data, and Research Scientists along with technical Product Managers that come from diverse backgrounds.
  • (Updated 38 days ago)
    Amazon is looking for an Applied Scientist to help build next generation selection/assortment systems. On the Specialized Selection team within the Supply Chain Optimization Technologies (SCOT) organization, we own the selection of the products that Amazon offers in our limited shelf assortment problems world wide. This includes products for our fastest delivery, perishable grocery offerings, and other emerging Amazon delivery programs. The selection is generated with a series of Machine Learning (ML) and optimization models to best cater to customer purchase intents under limited warehouse capacity. We build tools and systems that enable our partners and business owners to scale themselves by leveraging our problem domain expertise, focusing instead on introspecting our outputs and iteratively helping us improve our models rather than hand-managing their assortment. We partner closely with our business stakeholders as we work to develop state-of-the-art, scalable, automated selection management systems. As an Applied Scientist, you will work with software engineers, product managers, and business teams to understand the business problems and requirements, distill that understanding to crisply define the problem, and design and develop innovative solutions to address them. Our team is highly cross-functional and employs a wide array of scientific tools and techniques to solve key challenges, including supervised and unsupervised machine learning, large language models, mixed integer linear programs (MILPs), reinforcement learning, causal inference, and experiment designs. Some critical research areas in our space include modeling substitutability between similar products, complementarity and basket building, measuring speed sensitivity of products through experiments, optimizing assortment under operational and capacity constraints, and supply and demand forecasting. Key job responsibilities You will be an end-to-end owner for the projects you support. Responsibilities include: Understanding business requirements and existing challenges and map them to the right scientific solution; Designing effective, scalable, and achievable solutions to key business problems; Developing the right set of metrics to evaluate efficacy of your models and solutions; Prototyping and analyzing new models and business logic; Productionizing your scientific solutions, including writing production-quality critical path code; Communicating, both written and verbally, with both technical and business audiences throughout each project; Publishing findings in internal and/or external conferences and interfacing with the scientific community; Mentoring and developing the scientist community across the organization
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 10557802
    (Updated 32 days ago)
    Are you passionate about solving complex problems and protecting one of the world’s largest cloud platforms? The AWS Payments and Fraud Prevention team is looking for an innovative Applied Scientist to help keep AWS a safe and trusted environment for millions of customers worldwide. In this role, you will design, build, and deploy machine learning models that detect, prevent, and mitigate fraudulent activity across the AWS ecosystem. You will work with massive, real-world datasets, develop new detection strategies, and apply advanced and practical technologies to tackle ever-evolving threats. You will also explore Generative AI (GenAI) techniques to uncover new fraud patterns and strengthen our fraud defenses. At AWS, we support hundreds of thousands of businesses, powering billions of transactions every day. Fraudsters are constantly innovating — and so are we. If you enjoy thinking like a fraudster, building resilient defenses, and making a real-world impact, we invite you to join us and help shape the future of secure cloud computing. Key job responsibilities * Design, build, and deploy machine learning models to detect, prevent, and mitigate fraudulent activities across the AWS platform. * Analyze large-scale behavioral, transactional, and historical datasets to uncover fraud patterns and emerging threats. * Explore and apply GenAI techniques, including large language models (LLMs), synthetic data generation, and adversarial simulations to enhance fraud detection capabilities. * Collaborate closely with engineering, product, and operations teams to translate business needs into scalable technical solutions. * Experiment, prototype, and iterate on new detection strategies, algorithms, and evaluation metrics. * Continuously monitor model performance and improve robustness against adversarial behaviors and evolving fraud tactics. * Communicate findings and technical insights clearly and effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences. * Contribute to the broader fraud prevention strategy, driving innovation and best practices across the organization. About the team AWS Payments and Fraud Prevent is responsible for detecting & mitigating AWS account risks. You’ll be part of a team of Scientists, Analysts, and Technical & non-Technical Program Managers. The team’s goal is to identify and neutralize fraudsters from unauthorized access to legitimate AWS customers accounts. We have a formal mentor search application that lets you find a mentor that works best for you. 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.
  • GB, Cambridge
    Job ID: 10590206
    (Updated 4 days ago)
    Amazon Devices is an inventive research and development company that designs and engineers high-profile devices like Echo, Fire Tablets, Fire TV, and other consumer devices. We are looking for an exceptional data scientist to join our Edge AI Product Science team to advance the state-of-the-art in developing efficient multimodal deep learning models across our product portfolio. Through close hardware-software integration, we design and train models for resource efficiency across the hardware and software tech stack. Edge AI Product Science team is looking for a talented Data Scientist who will introduce and model best practices around our dataset curation, annotation pipelines, and data driven model development. This role will take a data-first approach to improving model and system performance and work alongside other scientists to develop new evaluation methods for multimodal language models and agents for our devices, including audio and vision experiences. Key job responsibilities - Collaborate with cross-functional engineers and scientists to advance the state of the art in multimodal model evaluations for devices, including audio, images, and videos - Invent and validate reliability for novel automated evaluation methods for perception tasks, such as fine-tuned LLM-as-judge - Develop and extend our evaluation frameworks to support expanding capabilities for multimodal language models - Analyse large offline and online datasets using Python or similar to understand model gaps, develop methods to interpret model failures, and collaborate with training teams to enhance model capabilities for product use cases - Work closely with other scientists, compiler engineers, data collection, and product teams to advance evaluation methods A day in the life As a Data Scientist with the Edge AI Product Science team, you'll contribute to innovative methods for evaluating new product experiences and discover ways to use data to enhance our model capabilities and enrich our customer experiences. You'll have opportunities to collaborate across teams of engineers and scientists to bring algorithms and models from inception through prototype all the way to production. About the team Our Edge AI Product Science team brings together our unique skills and experiences to deliver state-of-the-art multimodal AI models that enable new experiences on Amazon devices. We strive to deliver customer experiences driven by AI at the edge which are only possible with tight model, hardware, and system co-design.

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