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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.
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  • US, NY, New York
    Job ID: 3184564
    (Updated 36 days ago)
    As part of the AWS Applied AI Solutions organization, we have a mission to build delightful AI solutions that improve human capabilities and business outcomes. We will accomplish this by accelerating our customers' businesses through delivery of intuitive and differentiated AI solutions that solve enduring business challenges. We blend vision with curiosity and Amazon's real-world experience to build opinionated, turnkey solutions. Where customers prefer to buy over build, we become their trusted partner with solutions that are no-brainers to buy and easy to use. The Applied Scientist will contribute to the development of Agentic AI solutions leveraging Gen AI. The role requires extending existing scientific techniques and inventing new ones to address specific customer needs. You should be comfortable working semi-autonomously on difficult problems with visible risks or roadblocks. You'll work closely with technical leaders within the team. We're looking for scientists who can maintain high standards while moving quickly, prioritizing both rapid experimentation and responsible AI development to deliver measurable customer impact. Key job responsibilities * Design and implement solutions that extend or adapt scientific approaches for customer needs * Deliver components into production that meet high quality standards (efficient, reproducible, testable code) * Produce science outputs demonstrating correctness, scholarship, and scientific rigor * Work with product, engineering, and science teams to deliver impactful AI features * Contribute to operational excellence in the team's deliverables About the team AWS Solutions As part of the AWS solutions organization, we have a vision to provide business applications, leveraging Amazon's unique experience and expertise, that are used by millions of companies worldwide to manage day-to-day operations. We will accomplish this by accelerating our customers' businesses through delivery of intuitive and differentiated technology solutions that solve enduring business challenges. We blend vision with curiosity and Amazon's real-world experience to build opinionated, turnkey solutions. Where customers prefer to buy over build, we become their trusted partner with solutions that are no-brainers to buy and easy to use.
  • IN, KA, Bengaluru
    Job ID: 10372897
    (Updated 41 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 makes 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. As Amazon expands to new geographies and new interfaces, we are faced with the unique challenge of maintaining the bar on Search Quality due to the diversity in user preferences, multilingual search and data scarcity. We are looking for an applied researcher to work on improving search on Amazon using NLP, ML, and DL technology. As an Applied Scientist, you will lead our efforts in query understanding, semantic matching, and ranking. 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.
  • (Updated 47 days ago)
    This position requires that the candidate selected be a US Citizen and must currently possess and maintain an active TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph. The Amazon Web Services Professional Services (ProServe) team is seeking a skilled Machine Learning Engineer to join our team at Amazon Web Services (AWS). Are you looking to work at the forefront of Machine Learning and AI? Would you be excited to apply Generative AI algorithms to solve real world problems with significant impact? In this role, you'll work directly with customers to design, evangelize, implement, and scale AI/ML solutions that meet their technical requirements and business objectives. You'll be a key player in driving customer success through their AI transformation journey, providing deep expertise in machine learning, generative AI, and best practices throughout the project lifecycle. As a Machine Learning Engineer within the AWS Professional Services organization, you will be proficient in architecting complex, scalable, and secure machine learning solutions tailored to meet the specific needs of each customer. You'll help customers imagine and scope the use cases that will create the greatest value for their businesses, select and train and fine tune the right models, and define paths to navigate technical or business challenges. Working closely with stakeholders, you'll assess current data infrastructure, develop proof-of-concepts, and propose effective strategies for implementing AI and generative AI solutions at scale. You will design and run experiments, research new algorithms, and find new ways of optimizing risk, profitability, and customer experience. The AWS Professional Services organization is a global team of experts that help customers realize their desired business outcomes when using the AWS Cloud. We work together with customer teams and the AWS Partner Network (APN) to execute enterprise cloud computing initiatives. Our team provides assistance through a collection of offerings which help customers achieve specific outcomes related to enterprise cloud adoption. We also deliver focused guidance through our global specialty practices, which cover a variety of solutions, technologies, and industries. Key job responsibilities - Designing and implementing complex, scalable, and secure AI/ML solutions on AWS tailored to customer needs, including selecting and fine-tuning appropriate models for specific use cases - Developing and deploying machine learning models and generative AI applications that solve real-world business problems, conducting experiments and optimizing for performance at scale - Collaborating with customer stakeholders to identify high-value AI/ML use cases, gather requirements, and propose effective strategies for implementing machine learning and generative AI solutions - Providing technical guidance on applying AI, machine learning, and generative AI responsibly and cost-efficiently, troubleshooting throughout project delivery and ensuring adherence to best practices - Acting as a trusted advisor to customers on the latest advancements in AI/ML, emerging technologies, and innovative approaches to leveraging diverse data sources for maximum business impact - Sharing knowledge within the organization through mentoring, training, creating reusable AI/ML artifacts, and working with team members to prototype new technologies and evaluate technical feasibility About the team Diverse Experiences Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying. Why AWS Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses. Work/Life Balance We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud. Inclusive Team Culture Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Mentorship 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, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
  • IN, KA, Bengaluru
    Job ID: 3182235
    (Updated 73 days ago)
    Amazon is looking for a motivated individual with strong statistical, analytical skills and technological experience to join the DIGI (Data Infrastructure and Generative Intelligence) Ad Sales Finance analytics team. In this position the successful candidate will be responsible for partnering with Finance and Business leaders to optimize Sales Forecasts Key job responsibilities - Build and train models to support forecasting and planning for Advertising Sales Finance - Have strong technical experience, but also be able to work with non-tech partners and communicate complex and technical topics in a simple and understandable fashion - Have a good understanding of machine learning or statistical modeling techniques, including a strong understanding of model parameters and how they affect performance - Understand time-series forecasting techniques (e.g., STL decomposition, ETS/Holt-Winters, ARIMA, Prophet, or similar models) - Familiarity with hierarchical or segmented forecasting problems (e.g., product, region, channel, or customer-level splits) - Apply theoretical or statistical models in an applied, real-world environment - Perform model evaluation such as confidence intervals, error metrics, backtesting, and validation datasets - Work with large, complex datasets across multiple dimensions - Translate analytical findings into clear, actionable insights for business stakeholders A day in the life In this position the successful candidate will be responsible for partnering with Finance and Business leaders to expand and optimize forecasting models that supports weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual reviews for the Display Ads Finance group and our stakeholders. About the team The Advertising Sales Finance Analytics & FP&A team's responsibilities comprise of corporate reporting, planning, Headcount & OpEx, Goals reporting, and ad-hoc analysis. We support Advertising leaders and finance teams by coordinating and consolidating deliverables, centralizing and standardizing processes, establishing financial controls and mechanisms, building tools that improve the speed of decision making, and providing insightful financial analysis on the short and long term strategy of Advertising.
  • US, WA, Bellevue
    Job ID: 3180339
    (Updated 41 days ago)
    Amazon’s Middle Mile Science group is looking for a Senior Applied Scientist specializing in design and evaluation of algorithms for predictive modeling and optimization applied to large-scale transportation planning systems. This includes the development of novel machine learning, pattern detection, and artificial intelligence techniques to improve on marketplace optimization solutions. The Middle Mile Science group is charged with developing an evolving suite of optimization tools to facilitate the design of efficient air and ground transport networks, optimize the flow of packages within the network to efficiently align network capacity and shipment demand, set prices, and effectively utilize scarce resources, such as aircraft and trucks. The scale of Amazon’s fulfillment operations challenges us to design, build and operate robust transportation networks that minimize the overall operational cost while meeting all customer deadlines. Real-time execution of our network depends on state-of-the-art artificial intelligence tools to coordinate the actions of thousands of operators and drivers in real time. Amazon often finds existing techniques do not effectively match our unique business needs, which necessitates the innovation and development of new approaches and algorithms to find an adequate solution. As a Sr. Applied Scientist responsible for middle mile transportation, you will be working closely with different teams including business leaders and engineers to design and build scalable products operating across multiple transportation modes. You will create experiments and prototype implementations of new learning algorithms and prediction techniques. You will have exposure to top level leadership to present findings of your research. You will also work closely with other scientists and engineers to implement your models within our production system. You will implement solutions that are exemplary in terms of algorithm design, clarity, model structure, efficiency, and extensibility, and make decisions that affect the way we build and integrate algorithms across our product portfolio. About the team Our Middle Mile Marketplace Science team builds the algorithms for Amazon’s rapidly growing freight marketplace. Amazon contracts with 3P shippers and a network of independent carriers, using a mix of contract structures with varying service and risk profiles. Our work focuses on mechanisms and learning algorithms to optimize pricing and matching in this complex marketplace, and continually improve the experience for carriers and shippers. This is an area with many challenging problems and a huge business impact for Amazon!
  • IN, KA, Bengaluru
    Job ID: 10381672
    (Updated 29 days ago)
    At Amazon Search, we discover experience that connects millions of customers to the products they seek across our global marketplace. Our team develops sophisticated search solutions that make Amazon's vast product catalog easily accessible to customers worldwide. We're building next-generation search infrastructure that enables seamless expansion into new markets and product categories. Our mission is to ensure every customer enjoys an exceptional search experience from day one, whether they're shopping in an established market or a newly launched region. We develop intelligent, scalable systems that optimize search quality and effectiveness across Amazon's diverse product ecosystem. Our innovations help customers find exactly what they're looking for, while enabling Amazon to rapidly expand its global presence with consistent, high-quality search capabilities. We are seeking a strong applied scientists to join the Search Relevance India team. This team’s charter is to increase the pace at which Amazon expands and improve the search experience at launch. In practice, we aim to invent universally applicable signals and algorithms for training machine-learned ranking models and improve the machine-learning framework for training and offline evaluation that is used for all new relevance models. Key job responsibilities * Build machine learning models for Product Search. * Develop new ranking features and techniques building upon the latest results from the academic research community. * Propose and validate hypothesis to direct our business and product road map. Work with engineers to make low latency model predictions and scale the throughput of the system. * Focus on identifying and solving customer problems with simple and elegant solutions. * Design, develop, and implement production level code that serves billions of search requests. Own the full development cycle: design, development, impact assessment, A/B testing (including interpretation of results) and production deployment. * Take ownership. Understand the needs of various search teams, distill those into coherent projects, and implement them with an eye on long-term impact. * Be a leader. Use your expertise to set a high bar for the team, mentor team members, set the tone for how to take on and deliver on large impossible-sounding projects. * Be curious. You will work alongside systems engineers, machine learning scientists, and data analysts. Your effectiveness and impact will depend on discussing problems with and learning from them. You will have access to the advanced edge technologies and vast technical tools and resources of Amazon and will need to learn how to use them effectively.
  • (Updated 16 days ago)
    Selection Monitoring team is responsible for making the biggest catalog on the planet even bigger. In order to drive expansion of the Amazon catalog, we develop advanced ML/AI technologies to process billions of products and algorithmically find products not already sold on Amazon. We work with structured, semi-structured and Visually Rich Documents using deep learning, NLP and image processing. The role demands a high-performing and flexible candidate who can take responsibility for success of the system and drive solutions from research, prototype, design, coding and deployment. We are looking for Applied Scientists to tackle challenging problems in the areas of Information Extraction, Efficient crawling at internet scale, developing models for website comprehension and agents to take multi-step decisions. You should have depth and breadth of knowledge in text mining, information extraction from Visually Rich Documents, semi structured data (HTML) and advanced machine learning. You should also have programming and design skills to manipulate Semi-Structured and unstructured data and systems that work at internet scale. You will encounter many challenges, including: - Scale (build models to handle billions of pages), - Accuracy (requirements for precision and recall) - Speed (generate predictions for millions of new or changed pages with low latency) - Diversity (models need to work across different languages, market places and data sources) You will help us to - Build a scalable system which can algorithmically extract information information from world wide web. - Intelligently cluster web pages, segment and classify regions, extract relevant information and structure the data available on semi-structured web. - Build systems that will use existing Knowledge Base to perform open information extraction at scale from visually rich documents. Key job responsibilities: - Use AI, NLP and advances in LLMs/SLMs and agentic systems to create scalable solutions for business problems. - Efficiently Crawl web, Automate extraction of relevant information from large amounts of Visually Rich Documents and optimize key processes. - Design, develop, evaluate and deploy, innovative and highly scalable ML models. - Work closely with software engineering teams to drive real-time model implementations. - Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large scale model development, model validation and model maintenance. - Lead projects and mentor other scientists, engineers in the use of ML techniques. - Publish innovation in research forums. Basic qualifications: - 3+ years experience building ML models for business application. - PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience. - Experience programming in Python, Java, C++ or related languages. - Experience in any of the following areas: algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, high-performance computing. Preferred qualifications: - Experience using Unix/Linux. - Experience in professional software development. - Experience in patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals. - Master's degree or above in computer science, computer engineering, or related field.
  • (Updated 20 days ago)
    At Amazon, we are committed to being the Earth’s most customer-centric company. The European International Technology group (EU INTech) owns the enhancement and delivery of Amazon’s engineering to all the varied customers and cultures of the world. We do this through a combination of partnerships with other Amazon technical teams and our own innovative new projects. You will be joining the Tools and Machine Learning (Tamale) team. As part of EU INTech, we tackle complex, high-impact problems at the intersection of e-commerce, AI, and customer experience — going well beyond traditional ML pipelines. Our work spans multiple frontiers: we build GenAI-powered data solutions, enabling scalable and cost-efficient training data generation at Amazon scale. We design and deploy agentic systems for detecting and fixing quality issues across Amazon's retail surfaces. And we develop ranking and recommendation models for Haul shopping experiences. We are looking for a passionate, talented, and inventive Scientist with a strong machine learning background to help build industry-leading machine learning solutions. We strongly value your hard work and obsession to solve complex problems on behalf of Amazon customers. Key job responsibilities We look for applied scientists who possess a wide variety of skills. As the successful applicant for this role, you will with work closely with your business partners to identify opportunities for innovation. You will apply machine learning solutions to automate manual processes, to scale existing systems and to improve catalog data quality, to name just a few. You will work with business leaders, scientists, and product managers to translate business and functional requirements into concrete deliverables, including the design, development, testing, and deployment of highly scalable distributed services. You will be part of team of scientists and engineers working on solving data quality issues at scale. You will be able to influence the scientific roadmap of the team, setting the standards for scientific excellence. You will be working with state-of-the-art models, including image to text, LLMs and GenAI. Your work will improve the experience of millions of daily customers using Amazon in Europe and in other regions. You will have the chance to have great customer impact and continue growing in one of the most innovative companies in the world. You will learn a huge amount - and have a lot of fun - in the process!
  • US, CA, San Francisco
    Job ID: 3175923
    (Updated 41 days ago)
    Amazon has launched a new research lab in San Francisco to develop foundational capabilities for useful AI agents. We’re enabling practical AI to make our customers more productive, empowered, and fulfilled. In particular, our work combines large language models (LLMs) with reinforcement learning (RL) to solve reasoning, planning, and world modeling in both virtual and physical environments. Our research builds on that of Amazon’s broader AGI organization, which recently introduced Amazon Nova, a new generation of state-of-the-art foundation models (FMs). Our lab is a small, talent-dense team with the resources and scale of Amazon. Each team in the lab has the autonomy to move fast and the long-term commitment to pursue high-risk, high-payoff research. We’re entering an exciting new era where agents can redefine what AI makes possible. We’d love for you to join our lab and build it from the ground up! Key job responsibilities You will be responsible for maintaining our task management system which supports many internal and external stakeholders and ensures we are able to continue adding orders of magnitude more data and reliability.
  • (Updated 43 days ago)
    The AWS Marketplace & Partner Services (AMPS) Science team is at the forefront of driving AWS's AI-powered growth through developing and evaluating the next generation search, recommendations, and agentic systems. As a Principal Applied Scientist on our team, you'll own the technical strategy and execution for our most ambitious AI-driven initiatives that directly accelerate AWS revenue growth through both customer discovery experiences and partner co-selling capabilities. Your work will establish Marketplace as customers' primary solution discovery and transaction platform while simultaneously transforming how AWS partners scale their business through insights and agentic workflow automation. You will be a trusted technical leader who tackles intrinsically complex scientific problems by leveraging deep expertise in information retrieval, recommendation systems, LLMs, and agentic systems. You'll innovate and set the standard for scientific excellence, making decisions that affect how products are built and integrated across AMPS. You'll align teams toward coherent strategies, guide peers in adopting the latest scientific trends, and force-multiply by decomposing hard problems and executing through collaboration. Key job responsibilities - Define direction for next-generation recommendation systems, including deep personalization, agentic architecture, and primitives that integrate customer usage patterns, infrastructure requirements, and business objectives to deliver personalized, outcome-oriented guidance - Lead information retrieval innovations, multi-objective ranking, and reasoning over heterogeneous solution types - Architect, implement, and design agentic AI systems that orchestrate complex workflows - Bridge theoretical innovations with practical solutions, making critical judgments to select the best technical approaches for both short and long-term objectives - Mentor and guide applied scientists, holding the team to high standards of technical rigor and scientific excellence - Contribute to the broader scientific community through patents, publications at conferences, and engagement with academic partners About the team The AWS Marketplace & Partner Services Science team is at the forefront of developing and deploying AI/ML systems that serve multiple critical stakeholders: - AWS Customers: Through the AWS Marketplace, we support discovery experiences that streamline cloud adoption and innovation. - AWS Partners: Via Partner Central, we offer advanced tools and insights to enhance collaboration and drive mutual growth. - Internal AWS Sellers: We equip our sales teams with data-driven recommendations to better serve our customers and partners.

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