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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, CA, Santa Clara
    Job ID: 3169077
    (Updated 15 days ago)
    Join the next science and engineering revolution at Amazon's Delivery Foundation Model team, where you'll work alongside world-class scientists and engineers to pioneer the next frontier of logistics through advanced AI and foundation models. We are seeking an exceptional Applied Scientist to help develop innovative foundation models that enable delivery of billions of packages worldwide. In this role, you'll combine highly technical work with scientific leadership, ensuring the team delivers robust solutions for dynamic real-world environments. Your team will leverage Amazon's vast data and computational resources to tackle ambitious problems across a diverse set of Amazon delivery use cases. Key job responsibilities - Design and implement novel deep learning architectures combining a multitude of modalities, including image, video, and geospatial data. - Solve computational problems to train foundation models on vast amounts of Amazon data and infer at Amazon scale, taking advantage of latest developments in hardware and deep learning libraries. - As a foundation model developer, collaborate with multiple science and engineering teams to help build adaptations that power use cases across Amazon Last Mile deliveries, improving experience and safety of a delivery driver, an Amazon customer, and improving efficiency of Amazon delivery network. - Drive technical direction for specific research initiatives, ensuring robust performance in production environments. A day in the life As a member of the Delivery Foundation Model team, you’ll spend your day on the following: - Develop and implement novel foundation model architectures, working hands-on with data and our extensive training and evaluation infrastructure - Collaborate with fellow scientists in solving complex technical challenges, from trajectory planning to efficient multi-task learning - Collaborate with fellow engineers in building scalable and reusable infra to support model training, evaluation, and inference - Contribute to focused technical initiatives from conception through deployment, ensuring successful integration with production systems - Drive technical discussions within the team and and key stakeholders - Conduct experiments and prototype new ideas - Make significant hands-on contribution to technical solutions About the team The Delivery Foundation Model team combines ambitious research vision with real-world impact. Our foundation models provide generative reasoning capabilities required to meet the demands of Amazon's global Last Mile delivery network. We leverage Amazon's unparalleled computational infrastructure and extensive datasets to deploy state-of-the-art foundation models to improve the safety, quality, and efficiency of Amazon deliveries. Our work spans the full spectrum of foundation model development, from multimodal training using images, videos, and sensor data, to sophisticated modeling strategies that can handle diverse real-world scenarios. We build everything end to end, from data preparation to model training and evaluation to inference, along with all the tooling needed to understand and analyze model performance. Join us if you're excited about pushing the boundaries of what's possible in logistics, working with world-class scientists and engineers, and seeing your innovations deployed at unprecedented scale.
  • US, WA, Bellevue
    Job ID: 3185776
    (Updated 25 days ago)
    The Workplace Health and Safety Central Science (WHS-CS) team researches factors that drive safety outcomes and identifies effective improvement programs. We partner with business teams on scientific problems, use data strategically for decision-making, and help bring a scientific lens to WHS as we work to make Amazon Earth’s safest employer in the industries in which it operates. A successful candidate will be able to partner effectively with both business and technical teams, including clear communication of results and the ability to influence a variety of stakeholders. The ideal candidate will have experience applying causal inference techniques and impact estimation, and be curious and excited to apply these in challenging real-world settings. They will thrive in working to deliver impactful solutions to the business problem, in the face of ambiguity over which modeling approaches will deliver the best results. Key job responsibilities Key job responsibilities -Work with engineers and data scientists on large-scale data modeling -Combine strong economic expertise with interdisciplinary learning -Execute big ideas as part of a technical team -Apply expertise in causal modeling and machine learning to measure the impact of key initiatives on safety outcomes. -Develop and maintain attribution models to understand the key drivers of safety performance. -Design experiments to measure pilot programs and support the scaling of successful experiments. -Collaborate with business stakeholders, product managers, and executive-level decision makers to synthesize findings into actionable insights. Successful candidates combine strong economic expertise with interdisciplinary learning, work effectively in diverse teams, and partner with engineering to develop scalable data resources that transform successful models into new products and services. A day in the life Work with teammates to apply economic methods to business problems. This might include identifying the appropriate research questions, writing code to implement a DID analysis or estimate a structural model, or writing and presenting a document with findings to business leaders. Our economists also collaborate with partner teams throughout the process, from understanding their challenges, to developing a research agenda that will address those challenges, to helping them implement solutions. About the team We are a multidisciplinary team that combines the talents of science and engineering to develop innovative solutions to make Amazon Earth's Safest Employer for the industries in which it operates. Our charter is to deliver technology solutions and data insights that help reduce workplace risks and injuries at Amazon. Our customers are Worldwide (WW) Operations and the WHS organization. We conduct scientific research and modeling to generate actionable safety insights and provide analytical solutions.
  • IN, KA, Bengaluru
    Job ID: 3152027
    (Updated 7 days ago)
    RBS (Retail Business Services) Tech team works towards enhancing the customer experience (CX) and their trust in product data by providing technologies to find and fix Amazon CX defects at scale. Our platforms help in improving the CX in all phases of customer journey, including selection, discoverability & fulfilment, buying experience and post-buying experience (product quality and customer returns). The team also develops GenAI platforms for automation of Amazon Stores Operations. As a Sciences team in RBS Tech, we focus on foundational ML research and develop scalable state-of-the-art ML solutions to solve the problems covering customer experience (CX) and Selling partner experience (SPX). We work to solve problems related to multi-modal understanding (text and images), task automation through multi-modal LLM Agents, supervised and unsupervised techniques, multi-task learning, multi-label classification, aspect and topic extraction for Customer Anecdote Mining, image and text similarity and retrieval using NLP and Computer Vision for product groupings and identifying duplicate listings in product search results. Key job responsibilities As an Applied Scientist, you will be responsible to design and deploy scalable GenAI, NLP and Computer Vision solutions that will impact the content visible to millions of customer and solve key customer experience issues. You will develop novel LLM, deep learning and statistical techniques for task automation, text processing, image processing, pattern recognition, and anomaly detection problems. You will define the research and experiments strategy with an iterative execution approach to develop AI/ML models and progressively improve the results over time. You will partner with business and engineering teams to identify and solve large and significantly complex problems that require scientific innovation. You will help the team leverage your expertise, by coaching and mentoring. You will contribute to the professional development of colleagues, improving their technical knowledge and the engineering practices. You will independently as well as guide team to file for patents and/or publish research work where opportunities arise. The RBS org deals with problems that are directly related to the selling partners and end customers and the ML team drives resolution to organization level problems. Therefore, the Applied Scientist role will impact the large product strategy, identifies new business opportunities and provides strategic direction which is very exciting.
  • US, CA, San Francisco
    Job ID: 3158132
    (Updated 0 days ago)
    Amazon Autonomy is a research lab based in San Francisco with the charter to develop state of the art browser use agents at scale. Our research leverages Large Language Models (LLMS) and reinforcement learning (RL) algorithm at scale and benefits from the ability to work Amazon’s scale and a startup’s agility. As a Member of Technical staff (MTS) on the gym pod, you’ll be responsible for helping develop the training environments, tasks, and integrations needed to scale our data and drive core model capabilities. You’ll work closely with our researchers and given the autonomy to drive significant outcomes. This role is for you if you have a learner’s mindset, enjoy building at the frontier of what’s possible, and thrive in a collaborative fast-paced environment. Key job responsibilities Responsible for developing approaches to scale our RL environment from hundreds of web applications and tens of thousands of tasks to thousands of web applications and hundreds of thousands of tasks. Core Engineering: Architect and deliver robust software solutions throughout the development lifecycle Develop agentic harnesses that run autonomously with high accuracy Engineer and optimize high-performance systems at scale with modern TypeScript and Python Collaboration & Leadership: Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to deliver aligned features Mentor junior engineering staff Maintain technical documentation and architectural decision records
  • IN, TS, Hyderabad
    Job ID: 3146570
    (Updated 18 days ago)
    We're seeking an Applied Scientist to lead and innovate in applying advanced AI technologies that will reshape how businesses sell on Amazon. Our team is passionate about leveraging Machine Learning, GenAI, and Agentic AI to help B2B sellers optimize their operations and drive growth. Join Amazon Business 3P (Third Party - Sellers) - a rapidly growing global organization where we innovate at the intersection of AI technology and B2B commerce. We're reimagining how sellers reach and serve business customers, creating intelligent solutions that help them grow their B2B business on Amazon. From AI-powered Seller Central tools to smart business certifications, dynamic pricing capabilities, and advanced analytics, we're transforming how B2B selling happens. As an Applied Scientist II on our AB 3P Tech team, you'll drive the development and implementation of state-of-the-art algorithms and models for supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning. You'll work with highly technical, entrepreneurial teams to: - Design and implement AI models that power the B2B selling experience - Lead the development of GenAI products that can handle Amazon-scale use cases - Drive research and implementation of advanced algorithms for human feedback and complex reasoning - Make strategic AI technology decisions and mentor technical talent - Own critical AI systems spanning from Seller Central to Amazon Business detail pages Join us in shaping the future of B2B selling - we're building applied AI solutions that businesses love and trust for their day-to-day success. If you are scrappy and bias for action is your favorite Leadership Principle, you'll fit right in as we innovate across the seller experience to create significant impact in this fast-growing business. Key job responsibilities Key job responsibilities: - Collaborate with cross-functional teams of engineers, product managers, and scientists to identify and solve complex problems in Gen AI - 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 Gen AI 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 About the team At Amazon Business Third Party (AB3P) Tech, we're revolutionizing B2B e-commerce by empowering sellers in the business marketplace. Our scope spans the complete B2B selling journey, from Seller Central to Amazon Business detail pages, cart, and checkout for merchant-fulfilled offers. Our entrepreneurial culture and global reach define us. We develop features across seller experience, delivery, certifications, fees, registration, and analytics, collaborating with worldwide teams and leveraging advanced AI technologies to continuously innovate. Working in true Day 1 spirit, we build next-generation solutions that shape the future of B2B commerce. Join us in building next-generation solutions that shape the future of B2B commerce.
  • (Updated 29 days ago)
    AWS Deep Science for Systems & Services is looking for a Sr. Manager, Applied Science who will lead a team of world class scientists to work on foundation models, large-scale representation learning, and distributed learning methods and systems. At AWS Deep Science for Systems & ServicesL you lead a team inventing, implementing, and deploying state of the art machine learning algorithms and systems. You will build prototypes and innovate on new representation learning solutions, 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 AWS and work with other acclaimed engineers and world famous scientists. Large-scale foundation models have been the powerhouse in many of the recent advancements in computer vision, natural language processing, automatic speech recognition, recommendation systems, and time series modeling. Developing such models requires not only skillful modeling in individual modalities, but also understanding of how to synergistically combine them, and how to scale the modeling methods to learn with huge models and on large datasets. Join us to work as an integral part of a team that has diverse experiences in this space. We actively work on these areas: - Hardware-informed efficient model architecture, training objective and curriculum design - Distributed training, accelerated optimization methods - Continual learning, multi-task/meta learning - Reasoning, interactive learning, reinforcement learning - Robustness, privacy, model watermarking - Model compression, distillation, pruning, sparsification, quantization
  • IL, Tel Aviv
    Job ID: 3144807
    (Updated 52 days ago)
    We are looking for a Data Scientist to join our Prime Video team in Israel, focusing on personalizing customer experiences through Search and Recommendations. Our team leverages Machine Learning (ML) to deliver tailored content discovery, helping millions of customers find the entertainment they love. You will work on large-scale experimentation, measurement frameworks, and data-driven decision-making that directly shapes how customers interact with Prime Video. Key job responsibilities - Design metrics frameworks and evaluation systems to measure the quality, performance, and reliability of algorithmic solutions - Lead the design, execution, and analysis of A/B tests to validate product hypotheses and quantify customer impact - Communicate analytical findings and recommendations clearly to both technical teams and business stakeholders, driving data-informed decisions - Partner with Applied Scientists, Software Engineers, and Product Managers to define requirements, evaluate models, and drive data-informed product decisions - Act as the subject matter expert for data structures, metrics definitions, and analytical best practices - Identify opportunities for improving customer experience through deep-dive analyses of user behavior and algorithm performance
  • IL, Haifa
    Job ID: 3144872
    (Updated 14 days ago)
    Are you a scientist interested in pushing the state of the art in Information Retrieval, Large Language Models and Recommendation Systems? Are you interested in innovating on behalf of millions of customers, helping them accomplish their every day goals? Do you wish you had access to large datasets and tremendous computational resources? Do you want to join a team of capable scientist and engineers, building the future of e-commerce? Answer yes to any of these questions, and you will be a great fit for our team at Amazon. Our team is part of Amazon’s Personalization organization, a high-performing group that leverages Amazon’s expertise in machine learning, generative AI, large-scale data systems, and user experience design to deliver the best shopping experiences for our customers. Our team is building next-generation personalization systems powered by Large Language Models. We are tackling novel research challenges to help customers discover products they'll love - at Amazon scale and latency requirements. We are a team uniquely placed within Amazon, to have a direct window of opportunity to influence how customers will think about their shopping journey in the future. As an Applied Science Manager, you will lead a team of scientists working at the frontier of LLM-based personalization. You will set the technical vision, drive the research agenda, and ensure your team delivers production-ready solutions. You will hire, mentor, and develop world-class scientists while fostering a culture of innovation and scientific rigor. You will partner closely with engineering and product teams to translate ambitious research into customer-facing impact, and represent your team's work to senior leadership. Please visit https://www.amazon.science for more information.
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 3154577
    (Updated 15 days ago)
    Join us in the evolution of Amazon’s Seller business! The Selling Partner Growth organization is the growth and development engine for our Store. Partnering with business, product, and engineering, we catalyze SP growth with comprehensive and accurate data, unique insights, and actionable recommendations and collaborate with WW SP facing teams to drive adoption and create feedback loops. We strongly believe that any motivated SP should be able to grow their businesses and reach their full potential supported by Amazon tools and resources. We are looking for an Applied Scientist II to work on our growth agent vision on seller recommendation to improve our SP growth strategy and drive new seller success. As a successful applied scientist on our talented team of applied scientists and economists, you will translate complex business problems into science solutions using a variety of machine learning techniques, and collaborate with engineering, research, and business teams to deliver impactful experiences on behalf of our sellers. You need to have deep understanding of the business domain and have the ability to bridge business needs with scientific approaches. You are also strong in machine learning methodology and scientific foundation with the ability to collaborate with engineering to put models in production to answer specific business questions. You excel at identifying the right ML techniques—whether supervised learning, causal inference, optimization, or other approaches—to solve diverse business challenges. You are an expert at synthesizing and communicating insights and recommendations to audiences of varying levels of technical sophistication. You will continue to contribute to the research community, by working with scientists across Amazon, as well as collaborating with academic researchers and publishing papers (www.aboutamazon.com/research). Key job responsibilities As an Applied Scientist II in the team, you will: - Identify opportunities to improve SP growth and translate those opportunities into science problems. - Design and execute roadmaps for complex science projects to help SP have a delightful selling experience while creating long term value for our shoppers. - Work with our engineering partners and draw upon your experience to meet latency and other system constraints. - Be responsible for communicating our science innovations to the broader internal & external scientific community.
  • (Updated 2 days ago)
    You will be working with a unique and gifted team developing exciting products for consumers. The team is a multidisciplinary group of engineers and scientists engaged in a fast paced mission to deliver new products. The team faces a challenging task of balancing cost, schedule, and performance requirements. You should be comfortable collaborating in a fast-paced and often uncertain environment, and contributing to innovative solutions, while demonstrating leadership, technical competence, and meticulousness. Your deliverables will include development of thermal solutions, concept design, feature development, product architecture and system validation through to manufacturing release. You will support creative developments through application of analysis and testing of complex electronic assemblies using advanced simulation and experimentation tools and techniques. Key job responsibilities In this role, you will: - Evaluate and optimize thermal solution requirements of consumer electronic products - Use simulation tools like Star-CCM+ or FloTherm XT/EFD for analysis and design of products - Validate design modifications for thermal concerns using simulation and actual prototypes - Establish temperature thresholds for user comfort level and component level considering reliability requirements - Have intimate knowledge of various materials and heat spreaders solutions to resolve thermal issues - Use of programming languages like Python and Matlab for analytical/statistical analyses and automation - Collaborate as part of device team to iterate and optimize design parameters of enclosures and structural parts to establish and deliver project performance objectives - Design and execute of tests using statistical tools to validate analytical models, identify risks and assess design margins - Create and present analytical and experimental results - Develop and apply design guidelines based on project learnings About the team Amazon Lab126 is an inventive research and development company that designs and engineers high-profile consumer electronics. Lab126 began in 2004 as a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc., originally creating the best-selling Kindle family of products. Since then, we have produced devices like Fire tablets, Fire TV and Amazon Echo. What will you help us create?

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