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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 62 days ago)
    Prime Video is a first-stop entertainment destination offering customers a vast collection of premium programming in one app available across thousands of devices. Prime members can customize their viewing experience and find their favorite movies, series, documentaries, and live sports – including Amazon MGM Studios-produced series and movies; licensed fan favorites; and programming from Prime Video subscriptions such as Apple TV+, HBO Max, Peacock, Crunchyroll and MGM+. All customers, regardless of whether they have a Prime membership or not, can rent or buy titles via the Prime Video Store, and can enjoy even more content for free with ads. Are you interested in shaping the future of entertainment? Prime Video's technology teams are creating best-in-class digital video experience. As a Prime Video team member, you’ll have end-to-end ownership of the product, user experience, design, and technology required to deliver state-of-the-art experiences for our customers. You’ll get to work on projects that are fast-paced, challenging, and varied. You’ll also be able to experiment with new possibilities, take risks, and collaborate with remarkable people. We’ll look for you to bring your diverse perspectives, ideas, and skill-sets to make Prime Video even better for our customers. With global opportunities for talented technologists, you can decide where a career Prime Video Tech takes you! Key job responsibilities - Lead research and development of speech and audio generation technology and end-to-end speech-to-speech architecture - Develop audio processing solutions for production environments, including source separation, enhancement, and mixing - Define the research roadmap for your area, identify high-impact problems, and communicate technical direction to senior leadership - Publish research, contribute to the broader scientific community, and bring external advances into production systems - Hire, mentor, and develop applied scientists. Grow the team's capabilities to meet evolving customer and business needs About the team This team's mission is to deeply understand all content and empower all customers with relevant language options, innovative accessibility assists, and rich title-information across all their content-experiences on Prime Video. We create and publish content on-time that's meaningful, accurate, and accessible to every customer globally. We delight our customers by pushing the boundaries of content understanding and enrichment. Through inclusion and innovation, we do the most fulfilling work of our career.
  • (Updated 6 days ago)
    Conversational AI ModEling and Learning (CAMEL) team is part of Amazon Devices organization where our mission is to build a best-in-class Conversational AI that is intuitive, intelligent, and responsive, by developing superior Large Language Models (LLM) solutions and services which increase the capabilities built into the model and which enable utilizing thousands of APIs and external knowledge sources to provide the best experience for each request across millions of customers and endpoints. We are looking for a passionate, talented, and resourceful Applied Scientist in the field of LLM, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Natural Language Processing (NLP), Recommender Systems and/or Information Retrieval, to invent and build scalable solutions for a state-of-the-art context-aware conversational AI. A successful candidate will have strong machine learning background and a desire to push the envelope in one or more of the above areas. The ideal candidate would also have hands-on experiences in building Generative AI solutions with LLMs, enjoy operating in dynamic environments, be self-motivated to take on challenging problems to deliver big customer impact, moving fast to ship solutions and then iterating on user feedback and interactions. Key job responsibilities As an Applied Scientist, you will leverage your technical expertise and experience to collaborate with other talented applied scientists and engineers to research and develop novel algorithms and modeling techniques to reduce friction and enable natural and contextual conversations. You will analyze, understand and improve user experiences by leveraging Amazon’s heterogeneous data sources and large-scale computing resources to accelerate advances in artificial intelligence. You will work on core LLM technologies, including Prompt Engineering and Optimization, Supervised Fine-Tuning, Learning from Human Feedback, Evaluation, Self-Learning, etc. Your work will directly impact our customers in the form of novel products and services.
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 10464003
    (Updated 25 days ago)
    Join Amazon's International Seller Services (ISS) Economics team and shape how millions of sellers succeed in the worldwide marketplace through causal inference, LLMs, and generative AI. You'll combine rigorous economic methods with real business impact, building the frameworks and measurement systems that define the future of Amazon's seller services. Key job responsibilities In this role, you will be a people manager and a technical leader in Econometric research with significant scope, impact, and high visibility. You will own developing the economics charter in ISS combining scientific methods with business needs. Your solution will deliver to business leaders accurate and actionable insights and recommendations to optimize and expand their business. As a successful Science Manager, you can navigate ambiguity, lead problem solving, guide development of new frameworks, and credibly interface between technical teams and business stakeholders. You are an innovator who can push the limits on what’s scientifically possible with a razor sharp focus on measurable business impact. You will coach and guide scientists in your team across different job families including Economists, Data Scientists and Applied Scientists to grow the team’s talent and scale the impact of your work. About the team The International Seller Services (ISS) Economics team shapes Amazon's global seller ecosystem through sophisticated economic analysis and data-driven insights. Our mission is to transform how Amazon empowers millions of sellers to succeed in the worldwide digital marketplace.
  • IN, KA, Bengaluru
    Job ID: 10478047
    (Updated 4 days ago)
    We are embarking on a multi-year journey to improve the shopping experience for customers globally. Amazon Search team creates customer-focused search solutions and technologies that make shopping delightful and effortless for our customers. Our goal is to understand what customers are looking for in whatever language happens to be their choice at the moment and help them find what they need in Amazon's vast catalog of billions of products — starting from the very first keystroke. As Amazon expands to new interfaces, we are faced with the unique challenge of maintaining the bar on Search Assistance and Search Quality. We are looking for a Senior Applied Scientist to work on improving search on Amazon using NLP, ML, and DL technology. As an Applied Scientist, you will lead our efforts in search autocomplete — developing high-quality suggestions. You will build systems that anticipate search query intent and surface the right suggestions and results. As part of this role, you will develop high precision, high recall, and low latency solutions for search. Your solutions should work for all languages that Amazon supports and will be used in all Amazon locales world-wide. You will develop scalable science and engineering solutions that work successfully in production. You will work with leaders to develop a strategic vision and long term plans to improve search globally. We are growing our collaborative group of engineers and applied scientists by expanding into new areas. Key job responsibilities As an Applied Scientist on the team, you will lead science innovation to improve the customer search experience through higher-quality autocomplete search results. You will: - Develop and deploy ML models to produce high-quality, diverse search autocomplete suggestions. - Design and train semantic matching models (bi-encoders, cross-encoders, and distillation from large foundation models) for suggestion ranking and relevance. - Develop reinforcement learning and reward-modeling approaches to continuously improve suggestion quality. - Train multi-objective ranking and scoring systems that balance suggestion diversity, specificity, and relevance. - Design and implement scalable model architectures optimized for strict latency constraints, including knowledge distillation, quantization, and efficient inference strategies for production deployment. - Lead end-to-end science projects from problem formulation through production launch, mentoring scientists and collaborating closely with engineers and scientists within and outside the team to deliver customer-facing impact.
  • (Updated 47 days ago)
    Are you passionate to join an innovative team of scientists and engineers who use machine learning and AI techniques to create state-of-the-art solutions to help seller succeed on Amazon? The Selling Partner Selection Success org is looking for a Principal Applied Scientist to lead us on our mission to provide selection success support on Amazon, and empower sellers to grow their business and provide a great customer experience. As a Principal Applied Scientist on our team of scientists and engineers, you will have opportunities to create significant impact on our systems, our business and most importantly, our customers as we take on challenges that can revolutionize the e-commerce industry. You will identify specific and actionable opportunities to solve business problems, propose state-of-the-art solutions and collaborate with engineering, and business teams for future innovation. You need to be a great translation between ambiguous business domains and rigorous scientific solutions, an expert at inventing and simplify, and a good communicator to surface insights and recommendations to audiences of varying levels of technical sophistication. Key job responsibilities - Drive and advocate technical vision that drives the significant business impact - Use machine learning and AI techniques to create scalable seller-facing solutions - Analyze and extract relevant information from large amounts of Amazon's historical business data to help automate and optimize key processes - Design, development and evaluation of highly innovative models - Work closely with software engineering teams to drive real-time model implementations and new feature creations
  • (Updated 4 days ago)
    We are looking for a passionate, talented, and inventive Data Scientist with a strong machine learning and analytics background to help build industry-leading language technology powering Alexa for Shopping, our AI-driven search and shopping assistant, helping customers with their shopping tasks at every step of their shopping journey. This innovative role focuses on developing conversation-based, multimodal shopping experiences, utilizing data analysis, statistical modeling, machine learning (ML) technologies, and experimentation to drive product decisions and optimize customer experiences. Our mission in conversational shopping is to make it easy for customers to find and discover the best products to meet their needs by helping with their product research, providing comparisons and recommendations, answering product questions, enabling shopping directly from images or videos, providing visual inspiration, and more. We do this by leveraging advanced analytics, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Machine Learning (ML), A/B testing, causal inference, and data-driven insights to continuously improve our systems. Key job responsibilities Key job responsibilities As a Data Scientist on our team, you will be responsible for the analysis, modeling, and optimization of AI technologies that will shape the future of shopping experiences. You will play a critical role in measuring and improving multimodal conversational systems, in particular those based on large language models, information retrieval, recommender systems and knowledge graphs, to be tailored to customer needs. You will handle Amazon-scale use cases with significant impact on our customers' experiences. You will collaborate with scientists, engineers, and product partners locally and abroad. Your work will include designing experiments, analyzing results, and launching new features, products and systems. A day in the life Perform hands-on analysis and modeling of enormous multimodal datasets to develop insights into how to best help customers throughout their shopping journeys. Use statistical methods, machine learning, and data mining techniques to create scalable solutions for measuring and optimizing shopping assistant systems based on a rich set of structured and unstructured contextual signals. Design and analyze A/B tests and experiments to evaluate new features and model improvements, ensuring statistical rigor and actionable insights. Develop metrics, dashboards, and reporting frameworks to monitor system performance, customer engagement, and business impact. Build predictive models and conduct deep-dive analyses to identify opportunities for improving customer experience, conversion, and satisfaction. Collaborate with Applied Scientists and Engineers to translate analytical insights into production systems, working closely on model evaluation and deployment. Establish automated processes for large-scale data analysis, ETL pipelines, metric generation, and experimentation frameworks. Communicate results and insights to both technical and non-technical audiences, including through presentations, written reports, and data visualizations. About the team The Alexa for Shopping Science team, based in London, works alongside ~150 engineers, designers and product managers, shaping the future of AI-driven shopping experiences at Amazon. The team works on every aspect of the AfS AI, from making it agentic, enabling customers to set price alerts or empower AfS to act on their behalf and automatically purchase products when the price is right, to understanding multimodal user queries and generating answers that combine text, image, audio and video, including deep research reports that scour the web and the Amazon catalog to provide detailed and personalised shopping guidance. We utilize and advance state-of-art techniques in the fields of Natural Language Processing, gen AI, Information Retrieval, Machine/Deep Learning, and Data Mining. We validate our work by actively participating in the internal and external scientific communities.
  • US, WA, Bellevue
    Job ID: 10464365
    (Updated 21 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. As an Applied Scientist, you will work with talented peers 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 at scale. This position requires experience with developing Multi-modal LLMs and/or 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.
  • (Updated 4 days ago)
    We are seeking an Economist to join our growing team in Japan. In this role, you will apply rigorous economic and econometric methods to guide critical business decisions affecting Amazon's JP marketplace. You will build causal inference models to measure the impact of business initiatives on pricing, product selection, delivery speed, profitability, and customer experience. Working alongside economists, data scientists, and business intelligence engineers, you will tackle challenging problems using state-of-the-art analytical techniques while providing advisory support to business stakeholders. As one of the first economists based outside North America and EU, you will play a pioneering role in expanding Amazon's economist community in Asia and make an outsized impact on our international marketplace operations. At Amazon, you'll work alongside the latest AI and GenAI tools that are increasingly woven into how teams operate: from AI-powered capabilities that accelerate decision-making, to Generative AI that helps you focus on work that truly matters. You'll have opportunities and resources to develop AI fluency at your own pace, with continuous learning built into the culture. Key job responsibilities Design and execute causal inference analyses using econometric techniques to measure the impact of business initiatives on key marketplace metrics Build economic models to optimize pricing strategies, product selection decisions, and delivery speed investments that balance customer experience with business profitability Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and business leaders to translate complex business questions into tractable research problems and deliver actionable insights Design and analyze experiments to test hypotheses and validate causal relationships in observational data Develop scalable analytical frameworks and tools using R, Python, or Stata that can be leveraged across multiple business use cases Present findings and recommendations to technical and non-technical audiences, including senior leadership, through clear written narratives and data visualizations Partner with Machine Learning and BI team members to integrate economic insights into automated decision-making systems About the team The JP Economics and Decision Sciences team is a central science team that applies rigorous economic theory, causal inference methods, and machine learning to solve complex business challenges across the JP marketplace and beyond. We work closely with JP business leaders to drive change at Amazon, focusing on solving long-term, ambiguous problems while providing advisory support for short-term business pain points. Key topics include pricing, product selection, delivery speed, profitability, and customer experience. We tackle these issues by building novel economic and econometric models, machine learning systems, and high-impact experiments which we integrate into business, financial, and system-level decision making. Our work is highly collaborative and we regularly partner with JP-, EU-, and US-based interdisciplinary teams.
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 10453383
    (Updated 25 days ago)
    The Healthcare AI organization in AWS is seeking an Applied Science Manager to lead science and data teams working on innovative AI-powered healthcare solutions. We are developing innovative products that leverage generative and agentic AI to transform clinical and administrative workflows for healthcare providers. Our aim is to improve patient care, enhance operational efficiency, and deliver exceptional value to our customers. You will lead a team of applied scientists, working on transformative healthcare solutions powered by cloud computing and artificial intelligence. This role offers an opportunity to work at the forefront of applied AI/ML and distributed systems, building new products and services from the ground up. Our team builds on our existing successful healthcare business, which serves major providers and payers in the US. You'll be instrumental in creating solutions that address complex challenges in areas such as clinical documentation, health data analytics, and accurate billing, ultimately contributing to better health outcomes for individuals and populations. Key job responsibilities As an Applied Science Manager, you will be responsible for building and leading a world-class team that pushes the boundaries of computer vision, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. In this role, you will drive the technical vision and strategy for your team while fostering a culture of innovation and scientific excellence. You will balance hands-on technical leadership with people management responsibilities, ensuring your team delivers innovative solutions while growing professionally. The role requires someone who can think strategically about business problems while diving deep into technical details when needed. - Building and mentoring teams of Applied Scientists and ML Engineers - Setting technical direction and research strategy aligned with business goals - Driving innovation in medical administration reasoning systems, AI agent design, and medical coding - Collaborating with cross-functional teams to translate research into production - Managing project portfolios and resource allocation A day in the life Inclusive Team Culture Here at Amazon, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon conferences. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 14 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust. Work/Life Balance Our team puts a high value on work-life balance. It isn’t about how many hours you spend at home or at work; it’s about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment. We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal lives. Mentorship & Career Growth Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. We care about your career growth and strive to assign opportunities based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded contributor. About the team Our team builds on our existing successful healthcare business, which serves major providers and payers in the US. You'll be instrumental in creating solutions that address complex challenges in areas such as clinical documentation, health data analytics, and accurate billing, ultimately contributing to better health outcomes for individuals and populations.
  • (Updated 68 days ago)
    Prime Video is a first-stop entertainment destination offering customers a vast collection of premium programming in one app available across thousands of devices. Prime members can customize their viewing experience and find their favorite movies, series, documentaries, and live sports – including Amazon MGM Studios-produced series and movies; licensed fan favorites; and programming from Prime Video subscriptions such as Apple TV+, HBO Max, Peacock, Crunchyroll and MGM+. All customers, regardless of whether they have a Prime membership or not, can rent or buy titles via the Prime Video Store, and can enjoy even more content for free with ads. Are you interested in shaping the future of entertainment? Prime Video's technology teams are creating best-in-class digital video experience. As a Prime Video team member, you’ll have end-to-end ownership of the product, user experience, design, and technology required to deliver state-of-the-art experiences for our customers. You’ll get to work on projects that are fast-paced, challenging, and varied. You’ll also be able to experiment with new possibilities, take risks, and collaborate with remarkable people. We’ll look for you to bring your diverse perspectives, ideas, and skill-sets to make Prime Video even better for our customers. With global opportunities for talented technologists, you can decide where a career Prime Video Tech takes you! As an Applied Scientist, you will apply state of the art natural language processing and computer vision research to video centric digital media. We are looking for scientists with expertise in vision-language models/multimodal LLMs and long-form content understanding (full movies/episode vs. short clips). You will be dealing with architectures that handle long-context understanding and causal reasoning across extended temporal sequences. Key job responsibilities Our team builds multi-modal machine learning technologies to enrich and understand video content. We aim not only to understand individual components within the content itself, but also their relationships to each other to provide a holistic and broader contextual understanding. This powers the next generation of video understanding and search capabilities for Prime Video. About the team Prime Video's Content Localization, Understanding & Enrichment organization is responsible for 1) enabling Prime Video to "see" and "understand" video content including characters, scenes, dialogue, events & visual elements and 2) delivering localized, accessible content that meets a consistent cinematic quality standard at scale. This team's mission is to deeply understand all content and empower all customers with relevant language options, innovative accessibility assists, and rich title-information across all their content-experiences on Prime Video. We create and publish content on-time that's meaningful, accurate, and accessible to every customer globally. We delight our customers by pushing the boundaries of content understanding and enrichment. Through inclusion and innovation, we do the most fulfilling work of our career.

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