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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 55 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 add-on subscriptions such as Apple TV+, Max, 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 technologist, 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! We are looking for a self-motivated, passionate and resourceful Applied Scientist to bring diverse perspectives, ideas, and skill-sets to make Prime Video even better for our customers. You will spend your time as a hands-on machine learning practitioner and a research leader. You will play a key role on the team, building and guiding machine learning models from the ground up. At the end of the day, you will have the reward of seeing your contributions benefit millions of Amazon.com customers worldwide. Key job responsibilities - Develop AI solutions for various Prime Video Search systems using Deep learning, GenAI, Reinforcement Learning, and optimization methods; - Work closely with engineers and product managers to design, implement and launch AI solutions end-to-end; - Design and conduct offline and online (A/B) experiments to evaluate proposed solutions based on in-depth data analyses; - Effectively communicate technical and non-technical ideas with teammates and stakeholders; - Stay up-to-date with advancements and the latest modeling techniques in the field; - Publish your research findings in top conferences and journals. About the team Prime Video Search Science team owns science solution to power search experience on various devices, from sourcing, relevance, ranking, to name a few. We work closely with the engineering teams to launch our solutions in production.
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 3201462
    (Updated 68 days ago)
    The North America Stores GenAI Evaluation Media (GEM) team is seeking a Senior Applied Scientist to help shape the future of visual shopping experiences. We're building CXs and foundational capabilities to understand, enhance, and generate real-time GenAI imagery, videos and CXs that inspire customers and drive purchase confidence, towards our vision to be the leader in visual media. Specifically, the charter will focus on visual agentic experiences, multi-modal personalization, and real-time image/video generation, looking ahead as customer shopping continues to inspirational assistant-driven experiences. As a Senior Applied Scientist on the team, you will own and define the scientific vision, strategy, and roadmap for agentic AI capabilities that inform and guide the customer's shopping journey through visuals. This includes architecting and advancing core science primitives for multimodal understanding, visual content generation and editing, personalized virtual try-on, and automated quality assurance. You will establish the technical direction for foundational capabilities that enable customers to express and discover styles through multimodal conversation and receive personalized, visual responses that bring their ideas to life. Your scientific leadership will emphasize accurate, real-time visual understanding and generation, contextual understanding, and scalable personalization, enabling agentic AI to actively collaborate with customers to achieve their style goals. You will set the long-term research agenda, bringing together computer vision, natural language processing, generative AI, and human-centered design to create agentic shopping experiences that are as intuitive as talking to a human specialist with a deep domain knowledge base. Success requires defining and institutionalizing robust evaluation frameworks and metrics, influencing and aligning cross-functional partners across organizations, validating asset effectiveness across diverse customer touch points, identifying whitespace opportunities, and staying at the forefront of rapid advances in AI technology. The ideal candidate will have deep and broad technical expertise in Computer Vision, Generative AI, or related fields with a proven track record of connecting scientific work to customer and business outcomes at scale. You will serve as a technical leader and thought partner to scientists, engineers, and senior stakeholders across Amazon, mentoring junior scientists, raising the scientific bar, and delivering innovation while upholding a culture of scientific excellence and customer obsession. This role requires both rigorous research skills and practical engineering instincts, with a focus on delivering solutions that scale and a demonstrated ability to navigate ambiguity, make high-judgment trade-offs, and drive alignment across competing priorities. You will be expected to contribute to the broader scientific community through publications, patents, and internal knowledge sharing. This is a unique opportunity to shape the technical strategy for visual commerce through applied AI research, building the systems that will define how hundreds of millions of customers discover and evaluate products and styles through visual experiences. Key job responsibilities Innovation & Technical Execution Define the research roadmap and advance core science primitives for vision and language understanding, visual content generation and editing, virtual try-on, and automated quality assurance via state-of-the-art computer vision, machine learning, and generative AI Architect visual agentic systems, making high-judgment trade-offs across visual quality, relevance, latency, cost, and long-term extensibility Establish evaluation frameworks, metrics, and success criteria for the team's scientific initiatives, institutionalizing rigorous validation across customer touch points Own end-to-end delivery of complex, ambiguous research initiatives from problem formulation through experimentation to production deployment, with minimal guidance Identify whitespace opportunities by staying at the forefront of AI/ML advances and translating them into actionable research directions with clear customer and business impact Drive development and deployment of scalable agentic systems for visual content understanding and generation, ensuring architectural decisions support long-term platform evolution Set and continuously raise the scientific and engineering bar across the team Tackle the team's most complex technical problems while maintaining practical focus on customer value and solution generalizability Advance the team's scientific reputation through high-impact publications and presentations at top-tier internal and external venues, and generate intellectual property through patents Cross-functional Influence & Leadership Influence product and engineering roadmaps by partnering with senior leadership to shape customer-facing features grounded in scientific insight Drive technical alignment across multiple teams and organizations within Amazon, resolving ambiguity and building consensus on approaches Communicate research vision, findings, and technical trade-offs persuasively to executive, technical, and non-technical stakeholders, shaping investment decisions Mentor and develop junior and mid-level scientists, accelerating their growth and impact
  • IN, KA, Bengaluru
    Job ID: 10371573
    (Updated 59 days ago)
    Amazon’s third-party marketplace is a multibillion-dollar global ecosystem, connecting customers and sellers across the world through millions of transactions annually. The Seller Fee Science Team integrates economic modeling, machine learning, and artificial intelligence to guide business fee strategy, ensure fees are accurately computed for millions of products, and improves the seller experience with AI tools that support any fee related contact (understanding, audit, and dispute). We build the scientific foundation that empowers sellers to grow their businesses with clarity and confidence. Our team brings together world-class economists, physicists, mathematicians, and computer scientists to tackle diverse challenging problems that require theoretical rigor and deliver real-world impact. For example, precision measurement of difficult to measure products, large-scale simulation of sales, inventory, and policy changes, as well as leveraging natural language understanding and automated reasoning to interpret policy, generate code, resolve disputes, audit fees, and respond to sellers at meaninful scale. As an applied scientist on our team, this role will focus on the application of machine learning and artificial intelligence to predict and reconcile measurement of products globally. This blends together statistical modeling, application of NLP, image processing, classical machine learning, cost-benefit analysis, causal modeling, and optimization. Your work will shape not only how fees are implemented, but how they are interpreted, experienced, and trusted at scale. You will partner closely with engineers and product partners to take your solutions from research to production. We are seeking scientists who are motivated by first principles, disciplined experimentation, and the technical challenge of deploying ideas at global scale. This is an opportunity to work on consequential problems where mathematical rigor meets real-world complexity, and where your models, algorithms, and systems will directly influence the experience of millions of sellers. If you are driven to build elegant solutions to hard problems—and to see them operate in production at meaningful scale—we would welcome the opportunity to build with you. Key job responsibilities - Identify opportunities to improve Seller Experience and translate ambiguous business challenges into well-defined scientific problems with measurable impact. - Design, develop, and deploy AI/ML models that improve fee accuracy, automate policy-to-code translation, and enhance seller understanding of fee calculations. - Partner closely with engineering and product teams to productionize solutions, meeting latency, scalability, reliability, and other system constraints. - Apply rigorous experimentation, causal inference, and simulation methods to validate models and quantify business impact at scale. - Communicate scientific innovations and results clearly to cross-functional stakeholders and contribute to the broader internal and external scientific community through publications, talks, and technical artifacts.
  • (Updated 73 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 add-on subscriptions such as Apple TV+, Max, 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 technologist, 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! We are looking for a self-motivated, passionate and resourceful Applied Scientist to bring diverse perspectives, ideas, and skill-sets to make Prime Video even better for our customers. You will spend your time as a hands-on machine learning practitioner and a research leader. You will play a key role on the team, building and guiding machine learning models from the ground up. At the end of the day, you will have the reward of seeing your contributions benefit millions of Amazon.com customers worldwide. Key job responsibilities - Develop AI solutions for various Prime Video Search systems using Deep learning, GenAI, Reinforcement Learning, and optimization methods; - Work closely with engineers and product managers to design, implement and launch AI solutions end-to-end; - Design and conduct offline and online (A/B) experiments to evaluate proposed solutions based on in-depth data analyses; - Effectively communicate technical and non-technical ideas with teammates and stakeholders; - Stay up-to-date with advancements and the latest modeling techniques in the field; - Publish your research findings in top conferences and journals. About the team Prime Video Search Science team owns science solution to power search experience on various devices, from sourcing, relevance, ranking, to name a few. We work closely with the engineering teams to launch our solutions in production.
  • (Updated 5 days ago)
    Amazon Advertising is one of Amazon's fastest growing and most profitable businesses. Amazon's advertising portfolio helps merchants, retail vendors, and brand owners succeed via native advertising, which grows incremental sales of their products sold through Amazon. The primary goals are to help shoppers discover new products they love, be the most efficient way for advertisers to meet their business objectives, and build a sustainable business that continuously innovates on behalf of customers. Our products and solutions are strategically important to enable our Retail and Marketplace businesses to drive long-term growth. We deliver billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks and break fresh ground in product and technical innovations every day! The ADSP Forecasting team's vision is to build the best in class forecasting products offered by any DSP to allow advertisers to forecast campaign outcomes across the full market funnel. Our goal is to empower advertisers using Amazon demand side platform to make informed decisions by providing predictions and recommendations of supply and ad-performance. Our forecasting models and analytical solutions will also help internal teams (sales, PSC, supply desk etc) to gain insights into forecasted supply, demand and ad performance to make the best business decisions. The team comprises scientists and engineers who own end-to-end projects - data collection, analysis, ideation, and prototyping, to development, metrics and monitoring. The models and services are integrated directly with Amazon's Ads eco system and the forecasts are used to drive key business decisions at the VP/SVP level. We are a team of Applied Scientists and Engineers, who are passionate about solving technical problems in the Ad Forecasting space with models using Machine Learning, Bayesian Statistics, etc. You will join a group of highly talented PhDs with diverse background to design, prototype, and implement models to deliver impact directly to customers. You will have the opportunity to present your work in science communities and to leadership As a Applied Scientist on this team, you will: - Be the technical leader in Machine Learning; lead efforts within this team and across other teams. - Perform hands-on analysis and modeling of enormous data sets to develop insights that increase traffic monetization and merchandise sales, without compromising the shopper experience. - Drive end-to-end Machine Learning projects that have a high degree of ambiguity, scale, complexity. - Build machine learning models, perform proof-of-concept, experiment, optimize, and deploy your models into production; work closely with software engineers to assist in productionizing your ML models. - Run A/B experiments, gather data, and perform statistical analysis. - Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large-scale data analysis, machine-learning model development, model validation and serving. - Research new and innovative machine learning approaches. Why you will love this opportunity: Amazon is investing heavily in building a world-class advertising business. This team defines and delivers a collection of advertising products that drive discovery and sales. Our solutions generate billions in revenue and drive long-term growth for Amazon’s Retail and Marketplace businesses. We deliver billions of ad impressions, millions of clicks daily, and break fresh ground to create world-class products. We are a highly motivated, collaborative, and fun-loving team with an entrepreneurial spirit - with a broad mandate to experiment and innovate. Impact and Career Growth: You will invent new experiences and influence customer-facing shopping experiences to help suppliers grow their retail business and the auction dynamics that leverage native advertising; this is your opportunity to work within the fastest-growing businesses across all of Amazon! Define a long-term science vision for our advertising business, driven from our customers' needs, translating that direction into specific plans for research and applied scientists, as well as engineering and product teams. This role combines science leadership, organizational ability, technical strength, product focus, and business understanding. Team video https://youtu.be/zD_6Lzw8raE
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 10382814
    (Updated 6 days ago)
    Are you a scientist interested in pushing the state of the art in Information Retrieval, Large Language Models and Recommendation Systems? Are you interested in innovating on behalf of millions of customers, helping them accomplish their every day goals? Do you wish you had access to large datasets and tremendous computational resources? Do you want to join a team of capable scientist and engineers, building the future of e-commerce? Answer yes to any of these questions, and you will be a great fit for our team at Amazon. Our team is part of Amazon’s Personalization organization, a high-performing group that leverages Amazon’s expertise in machine learning, generative AI, large-scale data systems, and user experience design to deliver the best shopping experiences for our customers. Our team builds large-scale machine-learning solutions that delight customers with personalized and up-to-date recommendations that are related to their interests. We are a team uniquely placed within Amazon, to have a direct window of opportunity to influence how customers will think about their shopping journey in the future. Key job responsibilities As an Applied Scientist in our team, you will be responsible for the research, design, and development of new AI technologies for personalization. You will adopt or invent new machine learning and analytical techniques in the realm of recommendations, information retrieval and large language models. You will collaborate with scientists, engineers, and product partners locally and abroad. Your work will include inventing, experimenting with, and launching new features, products and systems. Please visit https://www.amazon.science for more information.
  • (Updated 10 days ago)
    Amazon's advertising business has grown exponentially over the past years, helping connect sellers and vendors to shoppers who may be interested in their products. Our ad products are strategically important to our Retail and Marketplace businesses driving long term growth. We deliver billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks daily and are breaking fresh ground to create world-class products that leverage state of the art AI technologies. The Sponsored Products and Brands team is seeking a Principal Applied Scientist to lead the development and implementation of generative AI solutions for ad allocation and ranking on Amazon search pages. This role will be instrumental in revolutionizing how we match ads with customer intent and shopping behavior. Key job responsibilities * Design and develop novel generative AI architectures for real-time ad allocation, focusing on both efficiency and effectiveness at massive scale * Lead research initiatives in applying large language models and multimodal AI to understand deep semantic relationships between ads, queries, and user behavior * Create innovative approaches to leverage GenAI for dynamic ad placement optimization while maintaining strict latency requirements * Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate GenAI solutions into existing advertising systems * Author research papers and technical documentation, contributing to the broader scientific community
  • US, NY, New York
    Job ID: 10398946
    (Updated 25 days ago)
    The Supply Chain Optimization Technologies (SCOT) Buying team is at the heart of Amazon's global inventory management. We build sophisticated automated systems that decide what to buy, when to buy it, and where to place billions of dollars in inventory across Amazon's vast network. These decisions directly impact Amazon's ability to delight customers and drive operational efficiency. Join us to solve complex technical challenges at massive scale, shaping the core of Amazon's retail business through data-driven decisions. As a Data Scientist in SCOT Buying Outcomes, you will be responsible for developing and supporting best-in-class data science methodologies and models that provide crucial inputs to Amazon’s diverse buying programs. You’ll address ambiguous buying questions at scale by building tools drive key decisions in buying and sourcing strategies across Just in Time, Advanced Purchasing, and Global Ordering programs. This role requires exceptional technical expertise to handle massive datasets, familiarity with deriving causal inferences using observational data, and able to model variations related with different buying and cost scenarios across different planning horizons. Upon completion of statistical analysis, the Data Scientist needs to communicate results and recommendations to stakeholders by translating technical framework to business-oriented insights. This role requires an individual with excellent analytical abilities as well as business acumen. The successful candidate will be comfortable with ambiguity, with attention to detail, an ability to balance analysis with critical thinking and judgement, and work in a fast-paced and ever-changing environment. They recognize that the true measure of the success of the work product is based on the business impact the findings have had. Key job responsibilities - Collaborate with product managers and deep learning science and engineering teams to design and implement model solutions for Amazon buying systems - Develop edge case agile models for on-going buying assessments toward the end goal of optimizing buying decisions for millions of products world-wide - Use large datasets or experiments to make causal inferences or predictions - Work with engineers to automate science analysis processes and build scalable measurement solutions - Interpret data, write reports, and make actionable recommendations - Keys to success in this role include exceptional analytics, statistics, judgment, and communication skills. The candidate will need to be able to extract insights from data and be able to clearly communicate appropriate triggers and actions - Drive technical standards and best practices for the team's data architecture and analytics approaches - Mentor and provide technical guidance to other team members on complex projects A day in the life You might start your day working with a teammate to optimize a complex metric attribution logic. You could then collaborate with a Senior SDE to design the model architecture that enables our Gen AI tools for understanding the buying decisions. Later, you could lead a model backtesting and lab design review for a new cross-program framework and present analysis on a strategic business decision to senior leadership. Amazon offers a full range of benefits that support you and eligible family members, including domestic partners and their children. Benefits can vary by location, the number of regularly scheduled hours you work, length of employment, and job status such as seasonal or temporary employment. The benefits that generally apply to regular, full-time employees include: - Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage - Maternity and Parental Leave Options - Paid Time Off (PTO) - 401(k) Plan If you are not sure that every qualification on the list above describes you exactly, we'd still love to hear from you! At Amazon, we value people with unique backgrounds, experiences, and skillsets. If you’re passionate about this role and want to make an impact on a global scale, please apply! About the team You'll join a dynamic team of Data Scientists, Production Managers, SDEs, and BIEs within SCOT Buying Outcomes, focusing on data-driven decisions that impact Amazon's global supply chain. Our team brings together simulation and analytics across multiple buying programs, creating exciting opportunities to reshape our next generation of buying tools. We're passionate about making our models and data accessible and actionable, whether it's through self-service tools or deep-dive analyses. We value collaboration, innovation, and the ability to translate complex technical concepts into business impact.
  • (Updated 13 days ago)
    Are you excited about applying economic models and methods using large data sets to solve real world business problems? Then join the Economic Decision Science (EDS) team. EDS is an economic science team based in the EU Stores business. The teams goal is to optimize and automate business decision making in the EU business and beyond. An internship at Amazon is an opportunity to work with leading economic researchers on influencing needle-moving business decisions using incomparable datasets and tools. It is an opportunity for PhD students in Economics or related fields. We are looking for detail-oriented, organized, and responsible individuals who are eager to learn how to work with large and complicated data sets. Knowledge of econometrics, as well as basic familiarity with Stata, R, or Python is necessary. Experience with SQL would be a plus. As an Economics Intern, you will be working in a fast-paced, cross-disciplinary team of researchers who are pioneers in the field. You will take on complex problems, and work on solutions that either leverage existing academic and industrial research, or utilize your own out-of-the-box pragmatic thinking. In addition to coming up with novel solutions and prototypes, you may even need to deliver these to production in customer facing products. Roughly 85% of previous intern cohorts have converted to full time scientist employment at Amazon.
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 3201258
    (Updated 19 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 Data Scientist to help define and build the next generation of Amazon Seller Assistant. You will partner with top-tier scientists, product managers and engineers 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 -- Respond to Seller feedback and implement fix in Gen AI solution to enhance Seller experience -- Drive deep-dive analytical studies to understand seller pain points, evaluate feature performance, and identify opportunities to improve the Selling Partner experience. -- Design and execute robust causal inference and measurement frameworks, including A/B testing, quasi-experiments, and observational causal methods (e.g., diff-in-diff, synthetic control, propensity score methods). -- Develop scalable analytical pipelines for impact measurement, KPI development, metric integrity validation, and long-term business monitoring. -- Apply NLP and statistical modeling techniques—including topic modeling, clustering, semantic similarity, and classification—to uncover insights from unstructured seller interactions, feedback, and content. -- Partner with scientists, engineers, economists, and product managers to translate ambiguous problems into structured analytical approaches and influence product roadmaps with data-driven recommendations. -- Build and maintain automated analytics tools and dashboards to democratize insights for product, science, and engineering teams. -- Collaborate scientists to evaluate model-driven features, quantify impact, and ensure mechanisms are grounded in rigorous measurement. -- Research and experiment with new analytical and measurement methodologies, ensuring Amazon leverages the latest best practices in causal inference, NLP, and GenAI. 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, transforming the latest breakthroughs in science and engineering into capabilities that sellers rely on every day.

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