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  • US, CA, Santa Clara
    Job ID: 2807512
    (Updated 14 days ago)
    About Amazon Health Amazon Health’s mission is to make it dramatically easier for customers to access the healthcare products and services they need to get and stay healthy. Towards this mission, we (Health Storefront and Shared Tech) are building the technology, products and services, that help customers find, buy, and engage with the healthcare solutions they need. Job summary We are seeking an exceptional Senior Applied Scientist to join a team of experts in the field of machine learning, and work together to break new ground in the world of healthcare to make personalized and empathetic care accessible, convenient, and cost-effective. We leverage and train state-of-the-art large-language-models (LLMs) and develop entirely new experiences to help customers find the right products and services to address their health needs. We work on machine learning problems for intent detection, dialogue systems, and information retrieval. You will work in a highly collaborative environment where you can pursue both near-term productization opportunities to make immediate, meaningful customer impacts while pursuing ambitious, long-term research. You will work on hard science problems that have not been solved before, conduct rapid prototyping to validate your hypothesis, and deploy your algorithmic ideas at scale. You will get the opportunity to pursue work that makes people's lives better and pushes the envelop of science. #everydaybetter Key job responsibilities - Translate product and CX requirements into science metrics and rigorous testing methodologies. - Invent and develop scalable methodologies to evaluate LLM outputs against metrics and guardrails. - Design and implement the best-in-class semantic retrieval system by creating high-quality knowledge base and optimizing embedding models and similarity measures. - Conduct tuning, training, and optimization of LLMs to achieve a compelling CX while reducing operational cost to be scalable. A day in the life In a fast-paced innovation environment, you work closely with product, UX, and business teams to understand customer's challenges. You translate product and business requirements into science problems. You dive deep into challenging science problems, enabling entirely new ML and LLM-driven customer experiences. You identify hypothesis and conduct rapid prototyping to learn quickly. You develop and deploy models at scale to pursue productizations. You mentor junior science team members and help influence our org in scientific best practices. About the team We are the Health AI team at HST (Health Store and Technology). The team consists of exceptional ML Scientists with diverse background in healthcare, robotics, customer analytics, and communication. We are committed to building and deploying the most advanced scientific capabilities and solutions for the products and services at Amazon Health.
  • US, NY, New York
    Job ID: 2807207
    (Updated 40 days ago)
    The Ads Measurement Science team in the Measurement, Ad Tech, and Data Science (MADS) team of Amazon Ads serves a centralized role developing solutions for a multitude of performance measurement products. We create solutions which measure the comprehensive impact of their ad spend, including sales impacts both online and offline and across timescales, and provide actionable insights that enable our advertisers to optimize their media portfolios. We leverage a host of scientific technologies to accomplish this mission, including Generative AI, classical ML, Causal Inference, Natural Language Processing, and Computer Vision. As a Senior Applied Scientist on the team, you will lead measurement solutions end-to-end from inception to production. You will propose, design, analyze, and productionize models to provide novel measurement insights to our customers. Key job responsibilities - Lead a team of scientists to innovate on state-of-the-art ads measurement solutions leveraging artificial intelligence, causal inference, natural language processing, computer vision, and large language models. - Directly contribute to the end-to-end delivery of production solutions through careful designs and owning implementation of significant portions of critical-path code - Lead the decomposition of problems and development of roadmaps to execute on it. - Set an example for others with exemplary analyses; maintainable, extensible code; and simple, effective solutions. - Influence team business and engineering strategies. - Communicate clearly and effectively with stakeholders to drive alignment and build consensus on key initiatives. - Foster collaborations between scientists to move faster, with broader impact. - Actively engage in the development of others, both within and outside the team. - Regularly engage with the broader scientific community with presentations, publications, and patents. About the team We are a team of scientists across Applied, Research, Data Science and Economist disciplines. You will work with colleagues with deep expertise in ML, NLP, CV, Gen AI, and Causal Inference with a diverse range of backgrounds. We partner closely with top-notch engineers, product managers, sales leaders, and other scientists with expertise in the ads industry and on building scalable modeling and software solutions. Team Video: https://youtu.be/zD_6Lzw8raE
  • US, NY, New York
    Job ID: 2807213
    (Updated 40 days ago)
    The Ads Measurement Science team in the Measurement, Ad Tech, and Data Science (MADS) team of Amazon Ads serves a centralized role developing solutions for a multitude of performance measurement products. We create solutions which measure the comprehensive impact of their ad spend, including sales impacts both online and offline and across timescales, and provide actionable insights that enable our advertisers to optimize their media portfolios. We leverage a host of scientific technologies to accomplish this mission, including Generative AI, classical ML, Causal Inference, Natural Language Processing, and Computer Vision. As an Applied Scientist on the team, you will lead measurement solutions end-to-end from inception to production. You will propose, design, analyze, and productionize models to provide novel measurement insights to our customers. Key job responsibilities - Leverage deep expertise in one or more scientific disciplines to invent solutions to ambiguous ads measurement problems - Disambiguate problems to propose clear evaluation frameworks and success criteria - Work autonomously and write high quality technical documents - Implement a significant portion of critical-path code, and partner with engineers to directly carry solutions into production - Partner closely with other scientists to deliver large, multi-faceted technical projects - Share and publish works with the broader scientific community through meetings and conferences - Communicate clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences - Contribute new ideas that shape the direction of the team's work - Mentor more junior scientists and participate in the hiring process About the team We are a team of scientists across Applied, Research, Data Science and Economist disciplines. You will work with colleagues with deep expertise in ML, NLP, CV, Gen AI, and Causal Inference with a diverse range of backgrounds. We partner closely with top-notch engineers, product managers, sales leaders, and other scientists with expertise in the ads industry and on building scalable modeling and software solutions. Team Video: https://youtu.be/zD_6Lzw8raE
  • (Updated 7 days ago)
    In this role, you will develop data-driven solutions to optimize our marketing efforts across messaging, channels, and features. You will collaborate with stakeholders in marketing, product, engineering, and sales to enhance customer engagement relevance, predict customer needs, and measure marketing impact. You will institute analytical rigor across marketing and co-sell initiatives and in doing so help scale and optimize our impact for buyers and partners. Key job responsibilities • Multi-Touch Attribution (MTA) & Market Mix Modeling (MMM): Develop and maintain sophisticated attribution models to accurately measure the impact of marketing channels and optimize cross-channel marketing strategies. • Marketing Impact Measurement: Apply causal inference techniques such as double robust regression, propensity score matching, and other econometric models to quantify the true impact of marketing initiatives. • Customer Lifetime Value (CLV) Prediction: Create predictive models to estimate CLV and inform strategies for customer acquisition, retention, and upsell opportunities. • A/B Testing & Experimentation: Partner with marketing teams to design, execute, and analyze A/B tests and controlled experiments that optimize campaigns and marketing efforts. • Customer Segmentation & Personalization: Design and implement data-driven segmentation strategies to identify customer personas and personalize marketing communications at scale. • Conversion Optimization: Build models to prioritize high-quality leads for sales teams, improving sales efficiency and conversion rates. • Transform Data into Insights: Analyze complex data sets and transform them into actionable insights that inform marketing strategy and drive business results. • Analyze Buyers’ Journeys: Build measurement and analysis strategies to understand buyers’ journeys across a marketplace of solutions to provide recommendations on how to better meet customer needs and enhance our customer's experience. • Campaign Optimization: Build predictive models to improve campaign targeting, segmentation, and budget allocation, maximizing efficiency and conversion rates. • Inform, Educate and Enable: Be able to present and communicate findings to senior leaders as strategy insight. Deliver and maintain training and resource materials, highlighting best practices and opportunities for efficiency. About the team AWS Marketplace enables enterprises and startups to optimize how they discover, migrate, procure, and deploy trusted third-party software, data, and professional services as they migrate to and build in the cloud. The AWS Marketplace Marketing team exists to support this growth with global go-to-market (GTM) strategies and programs intended to accelerate discovery and adoption of AWS Marketplace-listed solutions. About AWS Diverse Experiences AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying. Why AWS? Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses. Inclusive Team Culture Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness. Mentorship & Career Growth We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional. Work/Life Balance We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.
  • US, CA, San Francisco
    Job ID: 2813174
    (Updated 18 days ago)
    Amazon is looking for world class scientists to join its Frontier AI & Robotics team. As an Applied Scientist in this team, you will lead and support the development of robotics foundational models for decision-making, focusing on tasks from perception to manipulation. You will collaborate with scientists and engineers to design new deep learning algorithms, refine model architectures, and explore reinforcement learning strategies to build general, flexible robots that operate effectively in the real world. Your work will balance forward-looking research with practical application, working closely with platform teams to deploy your models and algorithms into production, in order to ensure that our robotic systems that are scalable and robust enough for our dynamic real-world environments. Your contributions will drive innovation in robotics at scale and help shape the future of AI in Amazon’s autonomous 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 Our mission is to push the boundaries of robotics by creating and deploying best-in-class AI agents that seamlessly integrate multimodal inputs like images, videos, catalog data, and sensor data in order to most effectively perceive as well as interact with the world. Our systems are deployed in real-world applications at scale, making scalability a core focus of our work. We combine simulated and real-world data to develop state-of-the-art robotics foundation models, leveraging pre-training and fine-tuning techniques to ensure our models are robust and capable of handling diverse deployment scenarios. Our team is small, but our ambitions are big. Above all, we value creativity, effective communication, and an ability to provide the insights that will move us toward our goals.
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 2813482
    (Updated 33 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 extreme. We focus on creating entirely new products and services with a goal of positively impacting the lives of our customers. No industries or subject areas are out of bounds. If you’re interested in innovating at scale to address big challenges in the world, this is the team for you. As a Research Scientist, you will work with a unique and gifted team developing exciting products for consumers and collaborate with cross-functional teams. Our team rewards intellectual curiosity while maintaining a laser-focus in bringing products to market. At the cutting edge of both academic and applied research in this product area, you have the opportunity to work together with some of the most talented scientists, engineers, and product managers. Here at Amazon, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have thirteen employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We are constantly learning through programs that are local, regional, and global. 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. Our team highly values work-life balance, mentorship and career growth. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects and offer training that will challenge you to become your best.
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 2809799
    (Updated 10 days ago)
    Description How often have you had an opportunity to be an early member of a team that is tasked with solving a huge customer need through disruptive, innovative technology, reinventing an industry? Are you passionate about building cutting-edge AI solutions that leverage the power of Generative AI? Do you want to be at the forefront of transforming how Amazonians work and collaborate? If so, we want to hear from you! Our mission is to revolutionize the way Amazonians work and collaborate by transforming productivity through the power of advanced generative AI technologies. As a Senior Applied Scientist, you will play a critical role in driving the development of Generative AI solutions, in particular those based on large language models, information retrieval, AI Agents and knowledge graphs with goals being tailored to Amazonians needs. You will handle Amazon-scale use cases with significant impact. Key job responsibilities - Use deep learning, ML and NLP techniques to create scalable solutions for creation and development of language model centric solutions for building personalized agent systems based on a rich set of structured and unstructured contextual signals - Innovate new methods for knowledge extraction and information retrieval, using language models in combination with other learning techniques, that allows effective grounding in context providers when considering memory, compute, latency and quality - Collaborate with cross-functional teams of engineers, product managers, and scientists to identify and solve complex problems in knowledge aggregation, processing, modeling, and verification - Design and execute experiments to evaluate the performance of state-of-the-art algorithms and models, and iterate quickly to improve results - Think Big about the arc of development of Agents in Amazon 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 Basic Qualifications - 5+ years of building machine learning models for business application experience - PhD, or Master's degree and 5+ years of applied research experience - Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language - Experience with neural deep learning methods and machine learning Preferred Qualifications - Experience using spark and distributed computing, for big data engineering. - Experience with popular deep learning frameworks such as MxNet and Tensor Flow. - Experience with large scale machine learning systems such as profiling and debugging and understanding of system performance and scalability - Proficient in 2 of these areas: large language models, information retrieval and knowledge graphs
  • RO, Bucharest
    Job ID: 2826680
    (Updated 0 days ago)
    Our mission is to build best-in-class, product-based compliance solutions harnessing the power of state-of-the-art multilingual, multimodal, LLMs, and generative AI to improve productivity and elevate user experiences. We develop these solutions as foundational multi-use ML services that eliminate compliance friction for our partners, reduce operational costs, and ensure a great buyer experience, while enabling extensions beyond compliance to non-compliance use cases Amazon wide. As an Applied Scientist in Compliance Shared Services (CoSS) Romania Applied Research & Development Center, you will collaborate with CoSS scientists and engineers to apply state-of-the-art unstructured data validation and processing approaches to develop ML primitives that enable Amazon to process unstructured content, such as document and images, at Amazon scale. You will collaborate closely with senior and principal scientists to develop best-in-class ML algorithms and solutions to be easily adopted and integrated into customer technology stacks to maximize business impact for Amazon. You will also foster growth and innovation together with other scientists, and contribute to developing CoSS Romania Applied Research and Development Center into a world-class applied research organization internally within Amazon and publish externally in tier 1 science conferences. A successful candidate is passionate about driving innovation and shaping the future of e-commerce, spearheading the development of innovative, ML, LLM and generative AI-driven solutions, and being a trusted role model who can energize our cross-functional team of scientists, engineers, product and business leaders to persevere through challenges and setbacks to achieve impactful results on behalf of our customers. Key job responsibilities Design and execute science experiments – work backwards from automation goals to design science formulations and experiments that increase automation and capture cost savings. Develop novel architectures, pre-train/fine-tune on Amazon datasets, push state-of-the-art, and collaborate with engineers to launch ML solutions into production. Lead Science Brand internally and externally – Work with CoSS Product and leaders to expose science innovations to other organizations. Develop the CoSS Romania Applied Research and Development Center as a recognized brand for high quality AI research and ML products. Contribute to authoring papers, submissions and publications in external tier 1 conferences. Develop and nurture other scientists - Grow and develop other scientists. Every scientist should grow and develop their own competencies and contribute to others' growth and development. We believe that the whole is greater than the sum of parts, and we grow not just hard science and technical skills and competencies, but also leadership principles and collaborations with other scientists and project team members to grow their ability to increase scope, impact and influence at Amazon. A day in the life 9:00 am - start work 10:00 am - Team stand-up 10:30 am - Individual work time 12:00 pm - Lunch with team and/or partners in the CoSS Romania Applied Research and Development Center 1:00 pm - Discuss progress on org-wide initiatives with other scientists in the team. 2:00 pm - Meet engineers to discuss deployment of your tested algorithm. 2:30 pm - work time 4:30 pm - 1:1 with manager 5:00 pm - Meet with US collaborators - Product Managers, or other scientists in the broader org. 6:00 pm - End work
  • (Updated 46 days ago)
    The Automated Reasoning Group in AWS Utility Computing is looking for a Senior Applied Scientist with experience in building scalable automated reasoning solutions that delight customers. You will be part of a world-class team building the next generation of automated reasoning tools and services. You will apply your knowledge to propose solutions, create software prototypes, and develop prototypes into production systems using software development tools. In addition, you will support and scale your solutions to meet the ever-growing demand of customer use. You have demonstrated leadership in automated reasoning positions in industry or academia, strong verbal and written communication skills, are self-driven and deliver high quality results in a fast-paced environment. Each day, hundreds of thousands of developers make billions of transactions worldwide on AWS. They harness the power of the cloud to enable innovative applications, websites, and businesses. Using automated reasoning technology and mathematical proofs, AWS allows customers to answer questions about security, availability, durability, and functional correctness. We call this provable security, absolute assurance in security of the cloud and in the cloud. https://aws.amazon.com/security/provable-security/ Key job responsibilities As a Senior Applied Scientist, you will help shape the definition and vision for applied science across teams within AWS. We have a diverse portfolio of projects that target protocol, code, and hardware verification, and leadership opportunities exist for: - Advance automated code-level reasoning and invariant synthesis and proof repair for cloud-scale web services. - Build new engines and extending foundational proof engines that apply to distributed systems. - Researching the application of automated reasoning to novel software applications. - Building automated reasoning solutions for critical AWS DSLs for architectural configuration, migration, code generation, and other areas. - Improving integration and user experience of tools to support large-scale adoption and use of automated reasoning techniques. You will work in an agile, startup-like development environment, where you are always working on the most important things, and you will design, implement, test, deploy and maintain innovative software solutions to transform service performance, durability, cost, and security. About the team About AWS Diverse Experiences AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying. Why AWS? Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses. Inclusive Team Culture Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness. Mentorship & Career Growth We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional. Work/Life Balance We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud. This team is part of AWS Utility Computing: Utility Computing (UC) AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations — from foundational services such as Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWS’s services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization, you’ll support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Internet of Things (Iot), Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS, including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 2802052
    (Updated 46 days ago)
    We’re working to improve shopping on Amazon using the conversational capabilities of large language models, and are searching for pioneers who are passionate about technology, innovation, and customer experience, and are ready to make a lasting impact on the industry. You'll be working with talented scientists and engineers 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! Key job responsibilities We seek strong Applied Scientists with domain expertise in machine learning and deep learning, transformers, generative models, large language models, computer vision and multimodal models. You will devise innovative solutions at scale, pushing the technological and science boundaries. You will guide the design, modeling, and architectural choices of state-of-the-art large language models and multimodal models. You will devise and implement new algorithms and new learning strategies and paradigms. You will be technically hands-on and drive the execution from ideation to productionization. You will work in collaborative environment with other technical and business leaders, to innovate on behalf of the customer.

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