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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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  • IN, KA, Bengaluru
    Job ID: 10486423
    (Updated 54 days ago)
    Amazon Music is an immersive audio entertainment service that deepens connections between fans, artists, and creators. From personalized music playlists to exclusive podcasts, concert livestreams to artist merch, Amazon Music is innovating at some of the most exciting intersections of music and culture. We offer experiences that serve all listeners with our different tiers of service: Prime members get access to all the music in shuffle mode, and top ad-free podcasts, included with their membership; customers can upgrade to Amazon Music Unlimited for unlimited, on-demand access to 100 million songs, including millions in HD, Ultra HD, and spatial audio; and anyone can listen for free by downloading the Amazon Music app or via Alexa-enabled devices. Join us for the opportunity to influence how Amazon Music engages fans, artists, and creators on a global scale. Learn more at https://www.amazon.com/music. The Music Catalog Quality team at Amazon Music serves a key role in developing solutions to ensure and improve the quality of catalog metadata and content across the music streaming experience. We create solutions that detect, measure, and remediate quality issues in music metadata - including artist information, track attributes, versions, content tags, and provide actionable insights that enable continuous improvement of the catalog. We leverage a host of scientific and engineering technologies to accomplish this mission, including Generative AI, classical ML, Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision, and automated data validation pipelines. Key job responsibilities As an Applied Scientist, you will own the design and development of end-to-end systems. You’ll have the opportunity to create technical roadmaps, and drive production level projects that will support Amazon Science. You will work closely with Amazon scientists, and other science interns to develop solutions and deploy them into production. The ideal scientist must have the ability to work with diverse groups of people and cross-functional teams to solve complex business problems. Other responsibilities include: - Collaborate with scientists, engineers, and product managers to define and frame business problems as ML or optimization tasks. - Use machine learning, deep learning, LLMs and Agentic AI techniques to create scalable solutions for business problems - Analyze and extract relevant information from large amounts of Amazon's data to help automate and optimize key processes - Design, development and evaluation of AI models for predictive learning - Research and implement novel machine learning and statistical approaches - Implement scalable data pipelines and model-serving systems. - Analyze experimental results, draw insights, and refine models to improve accuracy and robustness. - Communicate findings and recommendations to technical and non-technical audiences.
  • IN, KA, Bengaluru
    Job ID: 10488669
    (Updated 11 days ago)
    Amazon Ads is a multi-billion dollar global business that delivers advertising experiences across Amazon's owned-and-operated properties (including Prime Video, Twitch, Fire TV, and Amazon.com), third-party publisher networks, and emerging channels like generative AI-powered shopping experiences. As one of the fastest-growing segments of Amazon, we operate at unprecedented scale across desktop, mobile, connected TV, and emerging surfaces. Within Amazon Ads, Traffic Quality is a critical pillar of advertiser trust and marketplace integrity. Our mission is to build advanced capabilities that work at petabyte scale to detect sophisticated invalid traffic (IVT) which includes sophisticated non-human traffic, bot networks, and fraudulent engagement patterns across programmatic advertising. We are on a journey to establish Amazon Ads as an industry leader in traffic quality standards and transparency. Our research agenda focuses on staying ahead of adversarial actors through continuous innovation in detection methodologies, leveraging state-of-the-art techniques in deep learning and generative modeling, user behavior and multi-modal representation learning, anomaly detection, time-series analysis, and sparse labeling methods. We process billions of ad events daily, developing novel algorithms that balance precision and recall while operating under strict latency constraints. Our work directly protects hundreds of millions of dollars in advertiser spend annually while maintaining a seamless user experience. Key job responsibilities Strategic Leadership & Vision - Define long-term science vision for Traffic Quality driven by advertiser and publisher needs, translating direction into actionable team plans. - Solve strategically important business problems independently, delivering robust, scalable scientific solutions with limited guidance. - Proactively identify technology gaps and business opportunities, determining resource allocation priorities. Scientific Innovation & Execution - Design and implement statistical and machine learning solutions to detect robotic and human traffic patterns across billions of daily ad events. - Own full development cycle for production-level code handling billions of ad requests: design, prototype, A/B testing, and deployment. - Stay current with scientific advancements and build publication strategy while championing excellence best practices. - Directly protect hundreds of millions of dollars in advertiser spend annually while maintaining seamless user experience. - Partner with engineers, product managers, and cross-functional teams to solve complex IVT detection problems and influence strategic initiatives. - Mentor scientists on the team. About the team Here are a few papers published by the team: 1/ [Scaling Generative Pre-training for User Ad Activity Sequences. AdKDD 2023.](https://assets.amazon.science/b7/42/03be071743d5a57cb1656e6caa34/scaling-generative-pre-training-for-user-ad-activity-sequences.pdf) 2/ [SLIDR: Real-time Robot Detection On Online Ads, IAAI 2023, Deployed Highly Innovative Applications of AI Track (AAAI 2023)](https://assets.amazon.science/75/2f/3b7106b143f38f7f4d2806388ace/real-time-detection-of-robotic-traffic-in-online-advertising.pdf) 3/ [Self-supervised Representation Learning Across Sequential and Tabular Features Using Transformers, NeurIPS 2022, First Table Representation Learning Workshop](https://openreview.net/forum?id=wIIJlmr1Dsk)
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 10490800
    (Updated 16 days ago)
    Some CX shopping defects might be straightforward to detect and track. The interesting ones are not because they depend on what a customer perceives. For example, a search page may return legitimately different results, yet a shopper has no way to tell apart. We turn these ambiguous perception questions into a measurable artifact using LLMs, and we build the frameworks to know exactly where model judgment can be trusted and where a human must decide and proving it, against ground truth, at Amazon scale. This is one example of an LLM based measurement pipeline you will own, but that’s not all. You will extend that measurement to other parts of the shopping experience like the homepage and the detail page, where the same customer problem looks nothing like it does in search results, and where you will design the measurement from scratch. The larger goal is what makes this role unusual. Teams across Amazon are each independently figuring out how to label quality with LLMs, hitting the same problems alone: prompts that break on the next model version; golden sets nobody audited, accuracy that collapses in other locales. Through the work above, you will set the standard and build the production tooling behind it. Reusable labeling pipelines, evaluation frameworks, and inference infrastructure that hold up against Amazon-sized data and get adopted by teams who did not have to use them. Key job responsibilities - Design and improve LLM-based labeling for perception-driven defects: prompt design, sampling strategy, and the split between model judgment and human annotation. - Validate labeling quality against human ground truth, and build and maintain the golden datasets that make that validation possible. - Extend perceived-duplicate measurement to other parts of the shopping experience, designing the methodology where none exists and evaluating approaches already in use where one does. - Build reusable, production-grade labeling and evaluation tooling, batch inference, quality sampling, prompt and model version control, that operates on Amazon-scale data. - Define and publish the standards other teams adopt for using LLMs to measure customer experience. - Partner with science, engineering, and product teams across Stores to make quality measurement usable in their decisions, and present metric results and methodology changes to stakeholders. A day in the life We are a small team, which means your work is visible and your scope grows as fast as you do. There are existing partnerships with other teams and a paved way to cross org influence.
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 10490540
    (Updated 63 days ago)
    Every day, hundreds of millions of customers arrive on Amazon's Homepage, search for a product, and land on a detail page. Along the way, some of what we show them is irrelevant — a recommendation that misreads what they want, a widget that repeats what they just saw, a headline that doesn't say what it means, a product that shouldn't have been surfaced at all. We have built the ability to detect these defects at scale using Large Language Models (LLMs), and we report them to Amazon's most senior leadership as a company-level measure of shopping quality. What we have not yet built is the confidence to act on every one of them. That is the problem you will own. Today, the most consequential categories of shopping defects — product quality, duplication, staleness, irrelevance — go largely unenforced. Not because we cannot detect them, but because we have not yet clearly defined when they lead to customer dissatisfaction. These are genuinely hard questions. When is a recommendation irrelevant rather than merely unexpected? When are two products duplicates rather than legitimate alternatives? Every answer carries consequences for customers and advertisers. As Principal Data Scientist, you will own the analytical rigor behind Amazon's store quality metrics end-to-end: how they are defined, how faithfully our LLM implementations execute those definitions, and how accurate the resulting judgments actually are across relevance, presentation, product quality, and duplication. You will go deep enough to inspect individual model judgments and read the edge cases where they break, then come back up to argue definitional questions with the leaders who own the outcomes on both sides. You will also define experiments that will turn judgement into facts backed by data. Your influence will come from deep dives so well-constructed that stakeholders across two large organizations change their minds. Getting there means building the tooling that makes rigor repeatable rather than heroic: agents that walk the store the way a customer would, automated inspection of experiments, and feedback loops that finally connect what customers tell us directly to the metrics we optimize. Much of the customer voice we already collect goes underused today; you will change that. You will begin on the Homepage, where measurement is most mature, then extend the methodology to Detail Page and Search — carrying not just the metrics but the standard of evidence with them. Key job responsibilities - Validate store quality metrics end-to-end: inspect metric definitions, audit LLM implementations, and evaluate LLM judgment accuracy across quality dimensions (relevance, presentation, product quality, duplicates) - Starting with Homepage, extending cross-page — identify gaps and inconsistencies between Organic and Ads treatments that block the tiered enforcement framework - Drive alignment through deep dives that present evidence to both Stores and Ads stakeholders - Build and deliver deep-dive tooling (walk-the-store bots, automated experiment inspection via Gecko, VoC feedback loops) that make metric validation repeatable and self-serve - Own the analytical rigor behind the alignment on definitions of subjective/debated metrics and moving them to aligned/enforceable About the team Core Shopping Data Science owns the measurement of shopping quality across Amazon's Core Shopping eexperiences, including defect metrics reviewed by Amazon's most senior leadership. We focus on the long term and big picture to ensure that the full Amazon shopping experience balances strategic trade-offs. We work across Stores and Advertising, partnering with personalization, ranking, and search teams to turn measurement into changes customers can feel.
  • US, MA, N.reading
    Job ID: 10491962
    (Updated 0 days ago)
    As an Applied Scientist on the Science SW team, you will be a versatile generalist who collaborates closely with other scientists and engineers teams to bring research to production across a broad portfolio of problems: from computer-vision perception platforms to building-wide optimization and orchestration. This role combines the scientific application of ML and applied mathematics with a strong product focus. It will be your job to frame ambiguous business problems as tractable scientific problems, and to implement novel ML systems, first-principles models, embedded systems prototypes, and performance optimizations in both prototype and production environments. Key job responsibilities • Own the research and development of scientific and ML solutions across a broad range of problems spanning classical machine learning, statistical modeling, computer vision, optimization, and physics-informed / first-principles modeling in a production environment. • Rapidly ramp on unfamiliar problem domains, frame ambiguous or open-ended business problems as tractable scientific problems, and prototype solutions end to end. • Prototype and evaluate sensing hardware and lightweight, edge-deployable models that run on commodity compute under real-world constraints. • Collaborate across multiple science and engineering teams to integrate your solutions into our deployment architecture. About the team Amazon is building next generation software, hardware, and processes that will run our global network of fulfillment centers that move millions of units of inventory, and ensure customers get what they want when promised. The Science Software team in the One MHS organization unlocks Material Handling Equipment (MHE) innovation through a multiplicity of disciplines within Artificial Intelligence (AI) and applied science, including Computer Vision (CV), Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs), Optimization, Reinforcement Learning, classical Machine Learning, statistical modeling, and sensing-hardware prototyping. Rooted in first principles aligned experimentation, the team is dedicated to building self-optimizing fulfillment centers, developing the models that drive real-time, building-wide orchestration of MHE. We conduct experiments, develop models, and apply machine learning (ML) at scale to optimize throughput, flow, merge, and congestion control, and to improve operational performance across the fulfillment network.
  • IN, KA, Bengaluru
    Job ID: 10498825
    (Updated 14 days ago)
    The Alexa Edge AI team is seeking a talented and motivated Applied Scientist to join our newly established team in Bangalore. In this role, you will design, develop, and deploy state-of-the-art machine learning models spanning computer vision (CV), audio (including speech) processing, and multimodal semantic understanding for both edge and cloud deployment. You will work at the intersection of multiple modalities to build systems that can perceive, interpret, and reason about the world — pushing the boundaries of what's possible in unified multimodal intelligence. This is a unique opportunity to be a founding member of a brand-new site, shaping the team culture, technical direction, and research agenda from the ground up. Key job responsibilities Model Development: Design and build deep learning models for computer vision, audio understanding, and multimodal semantic fusion — including architectures that enable joint reasoning across visual, auditory, and textual modalities. End-to-End Ownership: Own the full ML lifecycle — from problem formulation, data strategy, and annotation design through experimentation, evaluation frameworks, model optimization, and deployment at scale. Research & Innovation: Stay at the frontier of CV, audio ML, and multimodal learning; identify and apply SOTA techniques and contribute to the scientific community through papers at top-tier venues (CVPR, NeurIPS, ICASSP, ICCV, ACL). Mentorship & Culture Building: As a founding member of the Bangalore site, help hire, onboard, and establish the technical practices that define the team's culture. A day in the life An Applied Scientist with the Alexa Edge AI team will support science solution design, run experiments, research new algorithms, and find new ways of optimizing the customer experience; while setting examples for the team on good science practice and standards. Besides theoretical analysis and innovation, an Applied Scientist will also work closely with talented engineers and scientists to put algorithms and models into production. About the team The Alexa Edge AI team has a mission to deliver best in class, resource efficient multimodal AI models in support of various perception (vision, audio and speech) and semantic understanding based applications for devices like Echo Show series within Amazon.
  • IN, KA, Bengaluru
    Job ID: 10486422
    (Updated 53 days ago)
    The Music Catalog Quality team at Amazon Music serves a key role in developing solutions to ensure and improve the quality of catalog metadata and content across the music streaming experience. We create solutions that detect, measure, and remediate quality issues in music metadata - including artist information, track attributes, versions, content tags, and provide actionable insights that enable continuous improvement of the catalog. We leverage a host of scientific and engineering technologies to accomplish this mission, including Generative AI, classical ML, Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision, and automated data validation pipelines. As an Applied Science Manager on the team, you will lead a team of scientists to define and execute a transformative vision for holistic catalog quality measurement, metadata enrichment, and content integrity. Your team will own the science solutions for foundational quality detection frameworks, metadata validation and correction technologies, state-of-the-art algorithms to identify and resolve catalog anomalies (violative content, duplicative/low value content, misattributed tracks, incorrect metadata), and/or agentic AI solutions that help internal teams quickly surface and fix quality issues to ensure customers receive accurate, complete catalog experiences. Key job responsibilities You independently manage a team of scientists. You identify the needs of your team and effectively grow, hire, and promote scientists to maintain a high-performing team. You have a broad understanding of scientific techniques, several of which may fall out of your specific job function. You define the strategic vision for your team. You establish a roadmap and successfully deliver scientific solutions that innovate on catalog quality detection, metadata enrichment, and content integrity. You define clear goals for your team and effectively prioritize, balancing short-term quality improvements and long-term innovation in catalog intelligence. You establish clear and effective metrics and scientific process to enforce consistent, high-quality artifact delivery and measurable catalog quality improvements. You proactively identify risks and bring them to the attention of your manager, customers, and stakeholders with plans for mitigation before they become roadblocks. You know when to escalate. You communicate ideas effectively, both verbally and in writing, to all types of audiences. You author strategic documentation for your team. You communicate issues and options with leaders in such a way that facilitates understanding and that leads to a decision. You work successfully with customers, leaders, and engineering teams. You foster a constructive dialogue, harmonize discordant views, and lead the resolution of contentious issues. About the team We are a team of scientists and MLEs focused on music catalog quality and metadata intelligence. You will work with colleagues with deep expertise in ML, NLP, CV, Gen AI, and data quality systems with a diverse range of backgrounds. We partner closely with top-notch engineers, product managers, content operations teams, and other scientists with expertise in music metadata, content classification, and building scalable modeling and software solutions that keep the Amazon Music catalog accurate, complete, and trustworthy.
  • IN, KA, Bengaluru
    Job ID: 10488953
    (Updated 14 days ago)
    Amazon’s Marketplace business is one of the largest in the world operating in 23 countries. Amazon Marketplace enables millions of Sellers worldwide to list hundreds of millions of products and manage orders for inventory across dozens of different categories and languages. The IN Seller Partner Services Tech organization is responsible for building delightful seller experiences with the vision of being the technology foundation that makes Amazon the #1 choice for sellers of all types and price-sensitive customers in India and emerging markets—transforming how a billion people buy and sell, thereby transforming lives. By making its sellers successful, Amazon can attract and retain sellers on the platform, which in turn offers its customers the best selection, convenience, pricing and experience resulting in multi-billion-dollar business. This organization enables sellers of all stripes across a multitude of business lines existing or new such as Q-Commerce, Pharmacy and Out of country selling. We are looking for a motivated and innovative Applied Scientist with strong analytical skills and practical experience to join our science team. As a key member of our science team, you will provide expertise that helps accelerate the business and make it profitable. You will research, design and improve on the models that will directly impact Amazon’s Selection quality and maximize fee revenue. You will be working in a highly collaborative environment partnering with various science, product management, engineering, operations, finance, business intelligence and analytics teams. You will need to understand the business requirements and translate them into complex analytical outputs. You will design tests to explain performance of the models from impact on customer and cost perspective. You will create ML models to capture features impacting performance. You should be comfortable building prototypes, testing and improving them given the feedback from the real time data. You should be able to present your model and findings to a various range of stakeholders. Looking for candidate with expertise in the areas of machine learning, operations research, and statistics. With expertise in applying theoretical models in an applied environment relying heavily on the latest advances in machine learning, optimization, stochastic modeling, and engineering. The candidate will be expected to work on numerous aspects, such as feature engineering, modeling, probabilistic modeling, hyper-parameter tuning, scalable inference methods and latent variable models. Challenges will involve dealing with very large data sets and requirements on throughput. Key job responsibilities - Design, implement, test, deploy, and maintain innovative science solutions to accelerate our business. - Create experiments and prototype implementations of new learning algorithms and prediction techniques - Collaborate with scientists, engineers, product managers, and stakeholders to design and implement software solutions for science problems - Use best practices to ensure a high standard of quality for all of the team deliverables
  • US, TN, Nashville
    Job ID: 10483724
    (Updated 61 days ago)
    Employer: Amazon.com Services LLC Position: Applied Scientist II - AMZ27580.1 Location: Nashville, TN Multiple Positions Available: Participate in the design, development, evaluation, deployment and updating of data-driven models and analytical solutions for machine learning (ML) and/or natural language (NL) applications. Develop and/or apply statistical modeling techniques (e.g. Bayesian models and deep neural networks), optimization methods, and other ML techniques to different applications in business and engineering. Routinely build and deploy ML models on available data. Research and implement novel ML and statistical approaches to add value to the business. Mentor junior engineers and scientists. (40 hours / week, 8:00am-5:00pm, Salary Range $136000 - $184000) Amazon.com is an Equal Opportunity – Affirmative Action Employer – Minority / Female / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation #0000
  • (Updated 16 days ago)
    At Amazon, security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. Our mission is to prevent denied entities from transacting with Amazon businesses. We build automatic mechanisms to detect and prevent prohibited transactions with denied entities using a diverse set of algorithms and machine learning techniques. We screen over a billion events every day and develop algorithms which are able to scale and detect suspicious entities . We are still Day 1 and have an exciting road map to build Machine Learning (ML) and Generative AI (LLM) powered detection and resolution systems to help scale Amazon for years to come. We are seeking an Sr. Applied Scientist to join our team and help tackle challenging problems at the forefront of machine learning and artificial intelligence. Working closely with a multidisciplinary team of engineers, data scientists, and domain experts, you will play a crucial role in defining innovative ML/AI-powered customer experiences and solutions. If you have an entrepreneurial mindset, the technical depth to deliver impactful results, and a passion for innovation, we want to hear from you. Key job responsibilities In this role, you will: • Drive the research, design, and development of novel ML/AI models and systems to power critical products and services • Collaborate cross-functionally to deeply understand business requirements, customer needs, and technical constraints • Rapidly prototype, test, and iterate on ML/AI solutions, iterating quickly based on data and feedback • Communicate complex technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders • Mentor and grow a team of talented ML scientists and engineers • Stay up-to-date on the latest advancements in AI/ML and identify opportunities to apply emerging techniques A day in the life - Starting the day by reviewing the latest model performance metrics and identifying areas for improvement - Brainstorming new architectures and approaches with your cross-functional team during a whiteboard session - Diving deep into a complex dataset, leveraging advanced statistical and AI techniques to uncover hidden insights - Prototyping a new model and running a series of experiments to optimize its performance - Preparing a presentation to pitch your latest research findings and recommendations to product and engineering leaders - Mentoring junior scientists, providing guidance on coding best practices and problem-solving strategies About the team Why Amazon Security At Amazon, security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. Our organization is responsible for creating and maintaining a high bar for security across all of Amazon’s products and services. 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 flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve. Inclusive Team Culture In Amazon Security, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Ongoing DEI events and learning experiences inspire us to continue learning and to embrace our uniqueness. Addressing the toughest security challenges requires that we seek out and celebrate a diversity of ideas, perspectives, and voices. Training and 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, training, and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

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