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Sponsored Products and Brands (SPB) is at the heart of Amazon Advertising, helping millions of advertisers—from small businesses to global brands—connect with customers at the moments that matter most. Our advertising solutions enable sellers, vendors, and brand owners to grow their businesses by reaching shoppers with relevant, engaging ads across Amazon's store and beyond. We're obsessed with delivering measurable results for advertisers while creating a delightful shopping experience for customers. Are you interested in defining the science behind the future of advertising? Sponsored Products and Brands science teams are pioneering breakthrough agentic AI systems—pushing the boundaries of large language models, autonomous reasoning, planning, and decision-making to build intelligent agents that fundamentally transform how advertisers succeed on Amazon. As an SPB applied science leader, you'll have end-to-end ownership of the product and scientific vision, research agenda, model architectures, and evaluation frameworks required to deliver state-of-the-art agentic AI solutions for our advertising customers. You'll get to work on problems that are fast-paced, scientifically rich, and deeply consequential. You'll also be able to explore novel research directions, take bold bets, and collaborate with remarkable scientists, engineers, and product leaders. We'll look for you to bring your diverse perspectives, deep technical expertise, and scientific rigor to make Amazon Advertising even better for our advertisers and customers. With global opportunities for talented scientists and science leaders, you can decide where a career in Amazon Ads Science takes you! We are kicking off a new initiative within SPB to leverage agentic AI solutions to revolutionize how advertisers create, manage, and optimize their advertising campaigns. This is a unique opportunity to lead a business-critical applied science initiative from its inception—defining the scientific charter, establishing foundational research pillars, and building a multi-year science roadmap for transformative impact. As the single-threaded applied science leader, you will build and guide a dedicated team of applied scientists, research scientists, and machine learning engineers, working closely with cross-functional engineering and product partners, to research, develop, and deploy agentic AI systems that fundamentally reimagine the advertiser journey. Your charter will begin with advancing the science behind intelligent agents that simplify campaign creation, automate optimization decisions through autonomous reasoning and planning, and deliver personalized advertising strategies at scale. You will pioneer novel approaches in areas such as LLM-based agent architectures, multi-step planning and tool use, retrieval-augmented generation, reinforcement learning from human and business feedback, and robust evaluation methodologies for agentic systems. You will expand to proactively identify and tackle the next generation of AI-powered advertising experiences across the entire SPB portfolio. This high-visibility role places you as the science leader driving our strategy to democratize advertising success—making it effortless for advertisers of all sizes to achieve their business goals while delivering relevant experiences for Amazon customers. Key job responsibilities Build, mentor, and lead a new, high-performing applied science organization of applied scientists, research scientists, and engineers, fostering a culture of scientific excellence, innovation, customer obsession, and ownership. Define, own, and drive the long-term scientific and product vision and research strategy for agentic AI-powered advertising experiences across Sponsored Products and Brands—identifying the highest-impact research problems and charting a path from exploration to production. Lead the research, design, and development of novel agentic AI models and systems—including LLM-based agent architectures, multi-agent orchestration, planning and reasoning frameworks, tool-use mechanisms, and retrieval-augmented generation pipelines—that deliver measurable value for advertisers and create delightful, intuitive experiences. Establish rigorous scientific methodology and evaluation frameworks for assessing agent performance, reliability, safety, and advertiser outcomes, setting a high bar for experimentation, reproducibility, and offline-to-online consistency. Partner closely with senior business, engineering, and product leaders across Amazon Advertising to translate advertiser pain points and business opportunities into well-defined science problems, and deliver cohesive, production-ready solutions that drive advertiser success. Drive execution from research to production at scale, ensuring models and agentic systems meet high standards for quality, robustness, latency, safety, and reliability for mission-critical advertising services operating at Amazon scale. Champion a culture of scientific inquiry and technical depth that encourages bold experimentation, publication of novel research, relentless simplification, and continuous improvement. Communicate your team's scientific vision, research breakthroughs, strategy, and progress to senior leadership and key stakeholders, ensuring alignment with broader Amazon Advertising objectives and contributing to Amazon's position at the forefront of applied AI. Develop a science roadmap directly tied to advertiser outcomes, revenue growth, and business plans, delivering on commitments for high-impact research and modeling initiatives that shape the future of AI-powered digital advertising.

Have you ever wondered what it takes to transform millions of manual network planning decisions into AI-powered precision? Network Planning Solutions is looking for scientific innovators obsessed with building the AI/ML intelligence that makes orchestrating complex global operations feel effortless. Here, you'll do more than just build models; you'll create 'delight' by discovering and deploying the science that delivers exactly what our customers need, right when they need it. If you're ready to transform complex data patterns into breakthrough AI capabilities that power intuitive human experiences, you've found your team. Network Planning Solutions architects and orchestrates Amazon's customer service network of the future. By building AI-native solutions that continuously learn, predict and optimize, we deliver seamless customer experiences and empower associates with high-value work—driving measurable business impact at a global scale. As a Sr. Manager, Applied Science, you will own the scientific innovation and research initiatives that make this vision possible. You will lead a team of applied scientists and collaborate with cross-functional partners to develop and implement breakthrough scientific solutions that redefine our global network. Key job responsibilities Lead AI/ML Innovation for Network Planning Solutions: - Develop and deploy production-ready demand forecasting algorithms that continuously sense and predict customer demand using real-time signals - Build network optimization algorithms that automatically adjust staffing as conditions evolve across the service network - Architect scalable AI/ML infrastructure supporting automated forecasting and network optimization capabilities across the system Drive Scientific Excellence: - Build and mentor a team of applied scientists to deliver breakthrough AI/ML solutions - Design rigorous experiments to validate hypotheses and quantify business impact - Establish scientific excellence mechanisms including evaluation metrics and peer review processes Enable Strategic Transformation: - Drive scientific innovation from research to production - Design and validate next-generation AI-native models while ensuring robust performance, explainability, and seamless integration with existing systems. - Partner with Engineering, Product, and Operations teams to translate AI/ML capabilities into measurable business outcomes - Navigate ambiguity through experimentation while balancing innovation with operational constraints - Influence senior leadership through scientific rigor, translating complex algorithms into clear business value A day in the life Your day will be a dynamic blend of scientific innovation and strategic problem-solving. You'll collaborate with cross-functional teams, design AI algorithms, and translate complex data patterns into intuitive solutions that drive meaningful business impact. About the team We are Network Planning Solutions, a team of scientific innovators dedicated to reshaping how global service networks operate. Our mission is to create AI-native solutions that continuously learn, predict, and optimize customer experiences. We empower our associates to tackle high-value challenges and drive transformative change at a global scale.

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 Data Scientist 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 data science, machine learning, generative AI, and best practices throughout the project lifecycle. As a Data Scientist 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, develop statistical models and analytical frameworks, select and train the right models, and define paths to navigate technical or business challenges. Working closely with stakeholders, you'll assess current data infrastructure, perform exploratory data analysis, 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, extract insights from complex datasets, 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 developing statistical models, performing feature engineering, and selecting appropriate algorithms for specific use cases - Developing and deploying machine learning models and generative AI applications that solve real-world business problems, conducting experiments, performing rigorous statistical analysis, and optimizing for performance at scale - Collaborating with customer stakeholders to identify high-value AI/ML use cases, gather requirements, analyze data quality and availability, 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, performing model validation and interpretation, 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, statistical methodologies, 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 analytical frameworks, and working with team members to prototype new technologies and evaluate technical feasibility

The Amazon Fulfillment Technologies (AFT) Science team is seeking an exceptional Applied Scientist with strong operations research and optimization expertise to develop production solutions for one of the most complex systems in the world: Amazon's Fulfillment Network. At AFT Science, we design, build, and deploy optimization, statistics, machine learning, and GenAI/LLM solutions that power production systems running across Amazon Fulfillment Centers worldwide. We tackle a wide range of challenges throughout the network, including labor planning and staffing, pick scheduling, stow guidance, and capacity risk management. Our mission is to develop innovative, scalable, and reliable science-driven production solutions that exceed the published state of the art, enabling systems to run optimally and continuously (from every few minutes to every few hours) across our large-scale network. Key job responsibilities As an Applied Scientist, you will collaborate with scientists, software engineers, product managers, and operations leaders to develop optimization-driven solutions that directly impact process efficiency and associate experience in the fulfillment network. Your key responsibilities include: - Develop deep understanding and domain knowledge of operational processes, system architecture, and business requirements - Dive deep into data and code to identify opportunities for continuous improvement and disruptive new approaches - Design and develop scalable mathematical models for production systems to derive optimal or near-optimal solutions for existing and emerging challenges - Create prototypes and simulations for agile experimentation of proposed solutions - Advocate for technical solutions with business stakeholders, engineering teams, and senior leadership - Partner with software engineers to integrate prototypes into production systems - Design and execute experiments to test new or incremental solutions launched in production - Build and monitor metrics to track solution performance and business impact About the team Amazon Fulfillment Technology (AFT) designs, develops, and operates end-to-end fulfillment technology solutions for all Amazon Fulfillment Centers (FCs). We harmonize the physical and virtual worlds so Amazon customers can get what they want, when they want it. The AFT Science team brings expertise in operations research, optimization, statistics, machine learning, and GenAI/LLM, combined with deep domain knowledge of operational processes within FCs and their unique challenges. We prioritize advancements that support AFT tech teams and focus areas rather than specific fields of research or individual business partners. We influence each stage of innovation from inception to deployment, which includes both developing novel solutions and improving existing approaches. Our production systems rely on a diverse set of technologies, and our teams invest in multiple specialties as the needs of each focus area evolve.

Are you passionate about solving complex business problems at scale through Generative AI? Do you want to build intelligent systems that reason, act, and learn from minimal supervision? Are you excited about taking innovative AI solutions from proof-of-concept to production? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you on Amazon's Trustworthy Shopping Experience (TSE) team. At TSE, our vision is to guarantee customers a worry-free shopping experience by earning their trust that the products they buy are safe, authentic, and compliant with regulations and policy. We give customers confidence that Amazon stands behind every product and will make it right in the rare chance anything goes wrong. We do this in close partnership with our selling partners and empower them with best-in-class tools and expertise required to offer a high-quality selection of compliant products that customers trust. As an Applied Scientist, you will lead the development of next Gen AI solutions to automate complex manual investigation processes at Amazon scale. You will work on some of the most fascinating challenges in applied AI—building systems that reason and act autonomously, learn rich representations from structured and relational data without extensive labels, adapt rapidly from limited examples, improve through feedback and interaction, seamlessly connect visual and textual understanding, and compress complex model capabilities into efficient, deployable systems. Your innovations will deliver significant impact to cost-of-serving customers while maintaining the highest standards of trust and safety. This role offers end-to-end ownership—from initial research and proof-of-concept through production deployment. You will see your innovations serving hundreds of millions of customers within months, not years. Key job responsibilities • Design and build expertise agentic AI systems with multi-step reasoning, autonomous task execution, and multimodal intelligence with capabilities to handle feedback with memory mechanisms. • Productionize large scale models built on top of SFT (Supervised Finetuning) and RFT (Reinforced fine tuning) approaches, few shot approaches based on multimodal datasets • Build novel production ready Deep and conventional ML solutions to aid the multiple potential automation requirements • Identify customer and business problems at project level; invent or extend state-of-the-art approaches for complex workflows involving unstructured text, documents, images, and relational data • Author or co-author research papers for peer-reviewed venues; serve as PC member at conferences when aligned with business needs • Prototype rapidly, iterate based on feedback, and deliver components at SDE I+ level that integrate directly into production-scale systems • Engineer efficient systems balancing model capability, deployment cost, and resource usage; write significant code demonstrating technical excellence and maintainability • Scrutinize algorithm and software performance for improvements; resolve root causes leaving systems more maintainable • Contribute to tactical and strategic planning—team goals, priorities, and roadmaps—while providing architectural guidance for AI systems • Participate in engineering best practices with rigorous peer reviews; communicate design decisions clearly and participate in science reviews • Train new teammates on component construction and integration; mentor less experienced scientists and participate in hiring processes About the team Investigation technology Product team in TSE is responsible for the human-in-the-loop products and technology used in the risk investigations at Amazon. The team is also responsible for reducing the cost of performing the investigations, by automating wherever possible and optimizing the experience where manual interventions are needed. The team leverages state-of-the art technology and GenAI to deliver the products and associated goals.

Are you passionate about applying machine learning and data-driven techniques to solve real-world problems at global scale? Amazon is seeking an Applied Scientist who combines curiosity, creativity, and strong analytical skills to build models and algorithms that power customer experiences and business decisions. As an Applied Scientist II, you will work with senior scientists and engineers to design, train, and deploy ML models using large-scale datasets. You will experiment with modern techniques in supervised and unsupervised learning, natural language processing, computer vision, or optimization—depending on the team’s focus area. You’ll also have opportunities to learn Amazon’s scalable infrastructure, experiment platforms, and science best practices. This role is ideal for someone early in their career who enjoys working in collaborative, multidisciplinary teams and is excited by the opportunity to learn, innovate, and deliver measurable impact to customers. Key job responsibilities 1.Collaborate with scientists, engineers, and product managers to define and frame business problems as ML or optimization tasks. 2.Build, train, and evaluate models using large, complex datasets. 3.Implement scalable data pipelines and model-serving systems. 4.Analyze experimental results, draw insights, and refine models to improve accuracy and robustness. 5.Communicate findings and recommendations to technical and non-technical audiences. 6.Continuously learn and apply new algorithms and techniques to improve existing systems.

The Stores Economics and Science (SEAS) team is an interdisciplinary science and economics team whose mission is to solve high-risk, high-return problems for the Stores organization. We leverage frontier science, partner with teams across Amazon, and learn from the tools, experience, and perspectives of others. Our work spans rapid responses to pressing leadership questions, collaborative partnerships to help other teams achieve their goals, and multi-year scientific bets with large upside potential. We are looking for an economist who can use data-driven modeling and analyses to make the right trade-offs and solve impactful business problems. We seek creative thinkers who can combine a strong economic toolbox with a desire to learn from others, and who know how to execute and deliver on big ideas. In this role, you will contribute to SEAS' mission in two key ways. First, you will leverage your economic expertise to help design and validate scientific solutions for pressing business challenges. This will involve applying advanced analytical techniques, conducting rigorous data analysis, and proactively proposing high-impact initiatives that can be rapidly prototyped and scaled. Secondly, you will play a crucial role in translating complex economic models and insights into actionable recommendations that directly inform leadership decisions across the organization. This will require strong communication skills to effectively collaborate with cross-functional partners and drive meaningful change. Key job responsibilities - Collaborate with cross-functional partner teams to understand their challenges and translate them into rigorous economic frameworks that can be addressed through data analysis, modeling, and experimentation. - Own the end-to-end development of economic models and analyses, including conducting necessary data gathering, analysis, and validation to drive actionable insights, and - Effectively communicate your economic findings, models, and proposed solutions to senior business stakeholders, incorporating their feedback to refine your work.

Amazon Industrial Robotics is seeking exceptional talent to help develop the next generation of advanced robotics systems that will transform automation at Amazon's scale. We're building revolutionary robotic systems that combine cutting-edge AI, sophisticated control systems, and advanced mechanical design to create adaptable automation solutions capable of working safely alongside humans in dynamic environments. This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of robotics and automation at unprecedented scale, working with world-class teams pushing the boundaries of what's possible in robotic manipulation, locomotion, and human-robot interaction. This role presents an opportunity to shape the future of robotics through innovative applications of deep learning and large language models. We leverage advanced robotics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence to solve complex operational challenges at unprecedented scale. Our fleet of robots operates across hundreds of facilities worldwide, working in sophisticated coordination to fulfill our mission of customer excellence. We are pioneering the development of robotics foundation models that: - Enable unprecedented generalization across diverse tasks - Integrate multi-modal learning capabilities (visual, tactile, linguistic) - Accelerate skill acquisition through demonstration learning - Enhance robotic perception and environmental understanding - Streamline development processes through reusable capabilities The ideal candidate will contribute to research that bridges the gap between theoretical advancement and practical implementation in robotics. You will be part of a team that's revolutionizing how robots learn, adapt, and interact with their environment. Join us in building the next generation of intelligent robotics systems that will transform the future of automation and human-robot collaboration. As an Applied Scientist, you will develop and improve machine learning systems that help robots perceive, reason, and act in real-world environments. You will leverage state-of-the-art models (open source and internal research), evaluate them on representative tasks, and adapt/optimize them to meet robustness, safety, and performance needs. You will invent new algorithms where gaps exist. You’ll collaborate closely with research, controls, hardware, and product-facing teams, and your outputs will be used by downstream teams to further customize and deploy on specific robot embodiments. Key job responsibilities - Leverage state-of-the-art models for targeted tasks, environments, and robot embodiments through fine-tuning and optimization. - Execute rapid, rigorous experimentation with reproducible results and solid engineering practices, closing the gap between sim and real environments. - Build and run capability evaluations/benchmarks to clearly profile performance, generalization, and failure modes. - Contribute to the data and training workflow: collection/curation, dataset quality/provenance, and repeatable training recipes. - Write clean, maintainable, well commented and documented code, contribute to training infrastructure, create tools for model evaluation and testing, and implement necessary APIs - Stay current with latest developments in foundation models and robotics, assist in literature reviews and research documentation, prepare technical reports and presentations, and contribute to research discussions and brainstorming sessions. - Work closely with senior scientists, engineers, and leaders across multiple teams, participate in knowledge sharing, support integration efforts with robotics hardware teams, and help document best practices and methodologies.

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.

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.