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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, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 10453383
    (Updated 21 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.
  • US, NY, New York
    Job ID: 10444818
    (Updated 2 days ago)
    We are seeking an Applied Scientist to lead the development of evaluation frameworks and data collection protocols for robotic capabilities. In this role, you will focus on designing how we measure, stress-test, and improve robot behavior across a wide range of real-world tasks. Your work will play a critical role in shaping how policies are validated and how high-quality datasets are generated to accelerate system performance. You will operate at the intersection of robotics, machine learning, and human-in-the-loop systems, building the infrastructure and methodologies that connect teleoperation, evaluation, and learning. This includes developing evaluation policies, defining task structures, and contributing to operator-facing interfaces that enable scalable and reliable data collection. The ideal candidate is highly experimental, systems-oriented, and comfortable working across software, robotics, and data pipelines, with a strong focus on turning ambiguous capability goals into measurable and actionable evaluation systems. Key job responsibilities - Design and implement evaluation frameworks to measure robot capabilities across structured tasks, edge cases, and real-world scenarios - Develop task definitions, success criteria, and benchmarking methodologies that enable consistent and reproducible evaluation of policies - Create and refine data collection protocols that generate high-quality, task-relevant datasets aligned with model development needs - Build and iterate on teleoperation workflows and operator interfaces to support efficient, reliable, and scalable data collection - Analyze evaluation results and collected data to identify performance gaps, failure modes, and opportunities for targeted data collection - Collaborate with engineering teams to integrate evaluation tooling, logging systems, and data pipelines into the broader robotics stack - Stay current with advances in robotics, evaluation methodologies, and human-in-the-loop learning to continuously improve internal approaches - Lead technical projects from conception through production deployment - Mentor junior scientists and engineers
  • (Updated 29 days ago)
    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 industry leading devices like Fire tablets, Fire TV and Amazon Echo. The Role: As a Senior Design Analysis Engineer, you will be responsible for bringing new product designs through to manufacturing. Structural engineering contributes unique, in-depth technical knowledge to solve complex engineering problems in concert with multi-disciplinary teams including Industrial Design, Hardware Engineering, and Operations. You will work closely with multi-disciplinary groups including Product Design, Industrial Design, Hardware Engineering, and Operations, to drive key aspects of engineering of consumer electronics products. In this role, you will: · Perform analysis and testing of complex electronic assemblies using advanced simulation and experimentation tools and techniques · Develop, analyze and test thermal, acoustic and structural solutions; from concept design, feature development, product architecture, through system validation · Support creative developments through application of analysis and testing of complex electronic assemblies using advanced simulation and experimentation tools and techniques · Use simulation tools like Abaqus for analysis and design of products · Validate design modifications using simulation and actual prototypes · Use of programming languages like Python and Matlab for analytical/statistical analyses and automation · Establish noise thresholds for usability and compliance requirements · Determine and validate structural performance under use and test conditions · Have strong knowledge of various materials such as heat spreaders solutions to resolve thermal issues, damping materials for noise and vibration suppression · Use various data acquisition systems with thermocouples, accelerometers, strain gauges and IR cameras · Collaborate as part of the device team to iterate and optimize design parameters of enclosures and structural parts to establish and deliver project performance objectives · Design and execute 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 results
  • CA, BC, Vancouver
    Job ID: 10458264
    (Updated 30 days ago)
    The AI Center of Excellence (AICE) builds AI primitives that power system-intrinsic intelligence and Trusted Intelligent Knowledge Infrastructure for both AI-as-a-Consumer and human users. We develop AI capabilities independently and in partnership with product-owning teams to evolve Amazon's AI-driven operations and productivity. Our impact is enterprise-broad and global. We are looking for an Applied Scientist who can identify high-impact problems, design rigorous experiments, and translate research into hardened, reusable primitives ready for broad consumption across the enterprise. Key job responsibilities * Research, design, and develop AI/ML primitives - defining problem spaces, formulating approaches, running experiments, and validating outcomes with scientific rigor * Translate research findings into production-ready primitives, working closely with machine learning engineers to harden and scale solutions * Drive the scientific direction of AICE primitives, identifying opportunities where novel approaches can unlock step-function improvements * Design and execute experiments to validate primitive performance, robustness, and generalizability before broad consumption by partner teams * Collaborate with product-owning teams to understand their problem spaces and ensure AICE primitives deliver measurable value when integrated * Contribute to AICE's mission of driving AI transformation through best practices in applied research, evaluation methodology, and responsible AI within your area of expertise * Publish findings, share learnings, and raise the scientific bar across the team A day in the life Every day brings new challenges. You might be deep in experimentation - designing evaluations to stress-test a new primitive's robustness. The next day, you could be analyzing results and iterating on model architectures. Later in the week, you may collaborate with partners to understand their domain and shape a primitive that fits their product needs. Other days, you'll work alongside our MLEs to harden a validated approach for broader consumption. No two weeks look the same. You'll move fluidly between research and applied problem-solving - always with the goal of building AI primitives that are scientifically sound, trusted, and impactful at enterprise scale. About the team AICE is a team of scientists and machine learning engineers building the AI primitives that power Amazon's intelligent systems. We develop and harden reusable capabilities for broad consumption by product teams across the enterprise - and partner with those teams to integrate them.
  • (Updated 64 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.
  • (Updated 0 days ago)
    The AOP (Analytics Operations and Programs) team is responsible for creating core analytics, insight generation and science capabilities for ROW Ops. We develop scalable analytics applications, AI/ML products and research models to optimize operation processes. You will work with Product Managers, Data Engineers, Data Scientists, Research Scientists, Applied Scientists and Business Intelligence Engineers using rigorous quantitative approaches to ensure high quality data/science products for our customers around the world. As a Data Scientist, you will play a crucial role in supporting the team by creating and maintaining the data infrastructure necessary for the advanced analytics and machine learning solutions. Our team solves a broad range of problems that can be scaled across ROW (Rest of the World including countries like India, Australia, Singapore, MENA and LATAM). Here is a glimpse of the problems that this team deals with on a regular basis: • Using live package and truck signals to adjust truck capacities in real-time • HOTW models for Last Mile Channel Allocation • Using LLMs to automate analytical processes and insight generation • Ops research to optimize middle mile truck routes • Working with global partner science teams to affect Reinforcement Learning based pricing models and estimating Shipments Per Route for $MM savings • Deep Learning models to synthesize attributes of addresses • Abuse detection models to reduce network losses Key job responsibilities 1. AI Agent development for data analytics. 2. Analyze data with statistical and ML techniques. 3. Develop analysis/model in scripting languages (e.g. Python, R) and statistical/mathematical software (e.g. SAS, Matlab, etc.). 4. Develop science-based Supply Chain solutions. 5. Analysis/model documentation. 6. Learn and understand state-of-the-art statistical and ML techniques/tools. 7. Learn and understand Amazon Supply Chain operations.
  • US, NY, New York
    Job ID: 10443991
    (Updated 57 days ago)
    MULTIPLE POSITIONS AVAILABLE Employer: Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. Offered Position: Applied Scientist III - AMZ007408 Job Location: New York, NY Position Responsibilities: Participate in the design, development, evaluation, deployment, and updating of formal reasoning systems for security, privacy, and data protection applications. Drive technical and scientific innovation in security automation, data protection, and privacy-preserving technologies, with a focus on developing scalable solutions for cloud environments. Develop and/or apply formal verification techniques and automated theorem proving methods for different applications in cloud security and privacy. Collaborate with internal and external users to understand requirements and enhance formal verification and automated reasoning capabilities. Lead research and development efforts in AI security, specifically evaluate emerging threats and opportunities, including securing Generative AI systems and designing robust safeguards. Proactively identify and explore new opportunities for deploying and leveraging formal reasoning solutions across various domains.
  • US, CA, San Francisco
    Job ID: 10443975
    (Updated 21 days ago)
    Employer: Amazon Web Services, Inc. Position: Data Scientist II - AMZ27351.1 Location: San Francisco, CA Multiple Positions Available: Design and implement scalable and reliable approaches to support or automate decision making throughout the business. Apply a range of data science techniques and tools combined with subject matter expertise to solve difficult business problems and cases in which the solution approach is unclear. Acquire data by building the necessary SQL / ETL queries. Import processes through various company specific interfaces for accessing Oracle, RedShift, and Spark storage systems. Build relationships with stakeholders and counterparts. Analyze data for trends and input validity by inspecting univariate distributions, exploring bivariate relationships, constructing appropriate transformations, and tracking down the source and meaning of anomalies. Build models using statistical modeling, mathematical modeling, econometric modeling, network modeling, social network modeling, natural language processing, machine learning algorithms, genetic algorithms, and neural networks. Validate models against alternative approaches, expected and observed outcome, and other business defined key performance indicators. Implement models that comply with evaluations of the computational demands, accuracy, and reliability of the relevant ETL processes at various stages of production. (40 hours / week, 8:00am-5:00pm, Salary Range $175425 - $212800) Amazon.com is an Equal Opportunity – Affirmative Action Employer – Minority / Female / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 10455933
    (Updated 30 days ago)
    Do you want to transform the way people shop at Amazon? We are looking for stellar applied scientists to be part of our multi-disciplinary team. We are re-imagining the future of the Amazon shopping experience for customers through tailoring it to their current intent. We understand what customers are interested in shopping for, and guide them to discover what they need as they shop. If you love building new technology that helps customers solve their problems, this is your opportunity to impact millions of customers. Come help us build the future of personalized shopping at Amazon! As an Applied Scientist on the team, you will work on science innovation in our space across a large multidisciplinary team. You will have a breadth of problems to work on, ranging from developing state of the art LLM-based techniques to reason about customers and products, developing deep learned transformer-based models to understand and abstract customer intent signals and representations, building large-scale real-time multi-task ranking systems, and more. You will build technology employed by teams across the company, while also having a direct connection to millions of customers through our own customer facing features every day. Come join us in the journey! Key job responsibilities Key job responsibilities * Deliver new features and models that have huge impact on the customer experience. Help customers find the right products and content on their shopping journey. Leverage the use of advanced machine learning to create customer shopping experience at Amazon's scale - for all Amazon customers across all countries in realtime * Be a key contributor on a multidisciplinary team across science, product, design, and engineering to see through ideas from inception, prototype, to launch in the hands of all Amazon's customers * Propose and innovate on the science roadmap across multiple projects About the team Our vision is to build the next generation of shopping experience at Amazon through personalization and understanding the customer's intent. We imagine our core experiences to work together as a talented personal shopping assistant would — a partner that is knowledgeable, understands your preferences, and helps you find the right solution for your needs. We aim for the quality of personalization to be a core reason customers choose Amazon, on par with Earth’s largest selection, low prices, and fast and free shipping. Our team is part of Amazon’s Personalization organization, a high-performing group that leverages Amazon’s expertise in machine learning, big data, distributed systems, and user experience design to deliver the best shopping experiences for our customers. We run global experiments and our work has revolutionized e-commerce with features such as "Keep shopping for ...", “Customers who bought this item also bought”, and “Frequently bought together”. Amazon’s internal surveys regularly recognize us as one of the best engineering organizations to work for in the company, with visible high-impact work, low operational load, respectful work-life balance, and continual opportunity to learn and grow.
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 10444800
    (Updated 45 days ago)
    Amazon Seller Assistant is our flagship GenAI-first, multi-agent system that reimagines Seller experience. Our vision is to provide each seller with a proactive, autonomous, agentic assistant that understands their business and helps them navigate the complexities of selling by anticipating their needs, surfacing insights, resolving issues, taking actions on their behalf, and helping them grow. Amazon Seller Assistant helps millions of sellers on Amazon serve billions of customers worldwide. We are seeking a world-class Senior Data Scientist to help define and build the next generation of Amazon Seller Assistant. You will partner with top-tier scientist, engineers and product teams to launch production-grade agentic capabilities at Amazon's scale — owning your problem space end-to-end, from a crisp customer insight to a shipped product that millions of sellers rely on. Key job responsibilities • Own the science vision, strategy, and roadmap for a key Seller Assistant capability area. • Define and ship agentic experiences — sub-agent onboarding, tool onboarding, evaluations— that solve hard seller problems at scale. • Partner with scientists and engineers to translate frontier AI research into production-grade features sellers trust and depend on. • Design rigorous evaluation frameworks — automated and human-in-the-loop — to measure agent quality, accuracy, and business impact. • Deep-dive into seller data, identify unmet needs, and write compelling PRFAQs that set the direction for your team. • Drive cross-functional alignment across science, engineering, UX, and business teams to deliver with speed and quality. About the team Amazon Seller Assistant team operates at the very frontier of agentic AI and agentic commerce — not as a research group, but as a team shipping production-grade, multi-agent systems used by millions of sellers worldwide. We move with the urgency of a startup and the resources of the world's most customer-obsessed company, the latest breakthroughs in science and engineering into capabilities that sellers rely on every day.

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