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  • US, MA, Boston
    Job ID: 2849765
    (Updated 69 days ago)
    The Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) team is looking for a passionate, talented, and innovative principal applied scientist with a strong background in deep learning, to help build industry-leading technology with Large Language Models (LLMs) and multimodal systems. Key job responsibilities As a Principal Applied Scientist within the AGI team, you will work with world-class scientists and engineers to develop novel data, modeling and engineering solutions to support the responsible AI initiatives at AGI. Your work will directly impact our customers in the form of products and services that make use of AI technology. You will leverage Amazon’s heterogeneous data sources and large-scale computing resources to accelerate advances in AGI in order to provide the best-possible experience for our customers. About the team Our team has a mission to push the envelope of AGI, in order to provide the best-possible experience for our customers.
  • (Updated 11 days ago)
    We are a part of Amazon Alexa Devices organization with the mission “delight customers through contextual and personalized proactive experiences that keep customers informed, engaged, and productive without cognitive burden”. We are developing an advanced system using Large Language Model (LLM) technologies to deliver engaging, intuitive, and adaptive content recommendations across all Amazon surfaces. We aim to facilitate seamless reasoning and customer experiences, surpassing the capabilities of previous machine learning models. We are looking for a passionate, talented, and resourceful Applied Scientist in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP), Recommender Systems and/or Information Retrieval, to invent and build scalable solutions for a state-of-the-art context-aware speech assistant. A successful candidate will have strong machine learning background and a desire to push the envelope in one or more of the above areas. The ideal candidate would also enjoy operating in dynamic environments, be self-motivated to take on challenging problems to deliver big customer impact, shipping solutions via rapid experimentation and then iterating on user feedback and interactions. Key job responsibilities As an Applied Scientist on the team, you will collaborate with other applied scientists and engineers to develop novel algorithms to enable timely, relevant and delightful recommendations and conversations. Your work will directly impact our customers in the form of products and services that make use of various machine learning, deep learning and language model technologies. You will leverage Amazon’s heterogeneous data sources and large-scale computing resources to accelerate advances in the state of art.
  • CA, ON, Toronto
    Job ID: 2849837
    (Updated 11 days ago)
    We are a part of Amazon Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) organization where our mission is “delight customers through contextual and personalized proactive experiences that keep customers informed, engaged, and productive without cognitive burden”. We are developing advanced systems to deliver engaging, intuitive, and adaptive content recommendations across all Amazon surfaces. We aim to facilitate seamless reasoning and customer experiences, surpassing the capabilities of previous machine learning models. We are looking for a passionate, talented, and resourceful Senior Applied Scientist in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP), Large Language Model (LLM), Recommender Systems and/or Information Retrieval, to invent and build scalable solutions for a state-of-the-art context-aware personal assistant. A successful candidate will have strong machine learning background and a desire to push the envelope in one or more of the above areas. The ideal candidate would also enjoy operating in dynamic environments, be self-motivated to take on challenging problems to deliver big customer impact, shipping solutions via rapid experimentation and then iterating on user feedback and interactions. Key job responsibilities As a Senior Applied Scientist, you will leverage your technical expertise and experience to demonstrate leadership in tackling large complex problems, setting the direction and collaborating with applied scientists and engineers to develop novel algorithms and modeling techniques to enable timely, relevant and delightful recommendations and conversations. Your work will directly impact our customers in the form of products and services that make use of various machine learing, deep learning and language model technologies. You will leverage Amazon’s heterogeneous data sources and large-scale computing resources to accelerate advances in the state of art.
  • (Updated 25 days ago)
    Here at Amazon, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of diversity and inclusion of our teams within the organization. We’re working on the future. If you are seeking an iterative fast-paced environment where you can drive innovation, apply state-of-the-art technologies to solve extreme-scale real world delivery challenges, and provide visible benefit to end-users, this is your opportunity. Come work on the Amazon Prime Air team! We're looking for an outstanding Applied Scientist with either some background or strong interest in building simulation tools and algorithms for orchestration of a fleet of autonomous delivery drones. Managing a large number of concurrent autonomous drone flights that share airspace with other autonomous or manned aircrafts is a challenging problem. Be part of the team building simulation tools and algorithms to solve this at scale. This role will contribute to a portfolio of simulation tools managing concurrent airspace traffic for aviation systems. The ideal candidate is comfortable with a degree of risk taking and ambiguity and able to build consensus on the critical path. If you enjoy the process of solving real-world problems that, quite frankly, haven’t been solved at scale anywhere before, Prime Air could be the place for you. Along the way, we guarantee you’ll get opportunities to be a fearless disruptor, prolific innovator, and a reputed problem solver and directly impact Amazon’s customer’s worldwide. About the team Prime air has ambitious goals to offer its service to an increasing number of customers and enabling a large number of concurrent flights is central to achieving this. To this end, the air traffic management team is building algorithms, tools and services for orchestration of prime air's autonomous drone fleet.
  • (Updated 69 days ago)
    Amazon Worldwide Advertising is one of Amazon's fastest growing and most profitable businesses. Partner Experience and Growth (PEG) team leverages advanced analytics and experimentation to unlock value for our advertising partners and mutual customers i.e. the advertisers. The Science charter in PEG spearheads these efforts by optimizing the onboarding journey and providing data-driven insights to agencies and tool providers in the Amazon Ads ecosystem. Our proprietary tools provide granular visibility into what's working across audiences, creatives, targeting strategies, and more. These custom algorithmic recommendations uncover growth opportunities previously hidden in the data fog. Partners can confidently allocate budgets based on predicted performance, unlocking improved return on ad spend. And advertisers reap the benefits through expanded brand awareness, increased sales, and stronger customer loyalty over time. Key job responsibilities You will participate in driving features from idea to deployment, and your work will directly impact millions of customers. You are going to love this job because you will: Map business requirements and customer needs to a scientific problem. Align the research direction to business requirements and make the right judgments on research/development schedule and prioritization. Research, design and implement scalable machine learning (ML), natural language, or supervised and unsupervised models to solve problems that matter to our customers in an iterative fashion. Mentor and develop junior scientists and developers who work on science problems in the same organization. Stay informed on the latest machine learning, natural language and/or artificial intelligence trends and make presentations to the larger engineering and science communities. Communicate complex technical concepts effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, providing clear explanations on proposed solutions and their potential impact. About the team The Partner Science team’s vision is to drive the Advertising Partner flywheel by infusing science-based interventions at all stages of their journey with Amazon Ads including demand generation, partner selection, partner engagement, partner competition and innovation, ultimately improving the partner managed advertiser experience. We drive the vision by attracting and growing top scientist talents in an innovative, experimental, and collaborative culture.
  • (Updated 1 days ago)
    Do you want to join an innovative team of scientists who use deep learning, natural language processing, large language models to help Amazon provide the best seller experience across the entire Seller life cycle, including recruitment, growth, support and provide the best customer and seller experience by automatically mitigating risk? Do you want to build advanced algorithmic systems that help manage the trust and safety of millions of customer interactions every day? Are you excited by the prospect of analyzing and modeling terabytes of data and creating state-of-the-art algorithms to solve real world problems? Are you excited by the opportunity to leverage GenAI and innovate on top of the state-of-the-art large language models to improve customer and seller experience? Do you like to build end-to-end business solutions and directly impact the profitability of the company? Do you like to innovate and simplify processes? If yes, then you may be a great fit to join the Machine Learning Accelerator team in the Amazon Selling Partner Services (SPS) group. Key job responsibilities The scope of an Applied Scientist III in the Selling Partner Services (SPS) Machine Learning Accelerator (MLA) team is to research and prototype Machine Learning applications that solve strategic business problems across SPS domains. Additionally, the scientist collaborates with engineers and business partners to design and implement solutions at scale when they are determined to be of broad benefit to SPS organizations. They develop large-scale solutions for high impact projects, introduce tools and other techniques that can be used to solve problems from various perspectives, and show depth and competence in more than one area. They influence the team’s technical strategy by making insightful contributions to the team’s priorities, approach and planning. They develop and introduce tools and practices that streamline the work of the team, and they mentor junior team members and participate in hiring.
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 2868344
    (Updated 7 days ago)
    The Worldwide Capacity Planning team is looking for a Research Scientist for their Forecasting Science team. Here you'll develop cutting-edge algorithms that transform complex analytical insights into powerful business solutions. You'll design and implement innovative and automated end-to-end forecasting solutions to support planning, and address critical demand challenges and service quality metrics. The ideal candidate will be an innovative problem-solver with exceptional communication skills, and passionate about turning data into meaningful organizational transformation, leveraging techniques like machine learning, econometric modeling, time series forecasting, statistical inference, and optimization to directly impact our bottom line and elevate our global customer service capabilities. Key job responsibilities - Drive model development and improvement with a combination of econometrics, statistics, machine learning and analytical techniques to create scalable solutions for business problems. - Collaborate with product, software engineering, research science, data engineering, and business leaders to build algorithms and models. - Design, develop and evaluate of highly innovative models for forecasting problems. - Identify business problems, and formulate scientific solutions. - Use the best practices in science: data integrity, design, test, and implementation and documentation. - Contribute to Amazon's Intellectual Property through patents and internal and external publications. A day in the life We thrive on solving challenging problems to innovate for our customers. By pushing the boundaries of technology, we create unparalleled experiences that enable us to rapidly adapt in a dynamic environment. Our decisions are guided by data, and we collaborate with engineering, science, and product teams to foster an innovative learning environment. 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! Benefits summary: 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: 1. Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage 2. Maternity and Parental Leave Options 3. Paid Time Off (PTO) 4. 401(k) Plan About the team Worldwide Capacity Planning optimizes capacity across operations sites that help minimize customer wait time and route customers to the associate who can best resolve their issue, on the first contact. We build forecasting models and optimization tools that help predict the hourly capacity requirement, including when there are new device or game launches, or when there is a special event, such as Prime Day.
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 2868356
    (Updated 7 days ago)
    We are looking for an Applied Science Manager to join the Forecasting Science team in the Worldwide Capacity Planning org. This role leads both the science and engineering efforts to design and implement innovative and automated end-to-end forecasting solutions to support planning, and address critical demand challenges and service quality metrics. In this role you have the opportunity to work on a variety of Machine Learning and engineering challenges, and be given the flexibility to continually learn new skills. You will also collaborate with scientists and other multiple partner teams (Product, Engineering). Key job responsibilities - Define and execute the scientific vision and roadmap for the team. - Deliver solutions to the core business problems, through the leadership in problem-solving, development of algorithms, new frameworks or systems, and so on, and influencing business partners. - Establish scientific culture and standards for all the scientists (publication, best practices, reviews, etc.). - Mentor and develop scientists to enhance the team’s talent and expand the impact of the work. A day in the life We thrive on solving challenging problems to innovate for our customers. By pushing the boundaries of technology, we create unparalleled experiences that enable us to rapidly adapt in a dynamic environment. Our decisions are guided by data, and we collaborate with engineering, science, and product teams to foster an innovative learning environment. 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! Benefits summary: 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: 1. Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage 2. Maternity and Parental Leave Options 3. Paid Time Off (PTO) 4. 401(k) Plan About the team Worldwide Capacity Planning optimizes capacity across operations sites that help minimize customer wait time and route customers to the associate who can best resolve their issue, on the first contact. We build forecasting models and optimization tools that help predict the hourly capacity requirement, including when there are new device or game launches, or when there is a special event, such as Prime Day.
  • US, WA, Bellevue
    Job ID: 2866603
    (Updated 38 days ago)
    The AWS AI Labs team has a world-leading team of researchers and academics, and we are looking for world-class colleagues to join us and make the AI revolution happen. Our team of scientists have developed the algorithms and models that power AWS computer vision services such as Amazon Rekognition and Amazon Textract. As part of the team, we expect that you will develop innovative solutions to hard problems, and publish your findings at peer reviewed conferences and workshops. AWS is the world-leading provider of cloud services, has fostered the creation and growth of countless new businesses, and is a positive force for good. Our customers bring problems which will give Applied Scientists like you endless opportunities to see your research have a positive and immediate impact in the world. You will have the opportunity to partner with technology and business teams to solve real-world problems, have access to virtually endless data and computational resources, and to world-class engineers and developers that can help bring your ideas into the world. Our research themes include, but are not limited to: multimodal models, few-shot learning, unsupervised and semi-supervised methods, active learning and semi-automated data annotation, large scale image and video detection and recognition, face detection and recognition, OCR and scene text recognition, document understanding, 3D scene and layout understanding. For this role, we are looking for a science manager who has experience working in the intersection of vision, language and audio. We are located in Seattle, Pasadena, Palo Alto (USA) and in Haifa and Tel Aviv (Israel). About the team About AWS Diverse Experiences AWS 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. 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. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness. Mentorship & 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. 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. This team is part of AWS Utility Computing: Utility Computing (UC) AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations — from foundational services such as Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWS’s services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization, you’ll support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Internet of Things (Iot), Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS, including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.
  • (Updated 6 days ago)
    Do you want to leverage your expertise in translating innovative science into impactful products to improve the lives and work of over a million people worldwide? If so, People eXperience Technology Central Science (PXTCS) would love to discuss how you can make that a reality. PXTCS is an interdisciplinary team that uses economics, behavioral science, statistics, and machine learning to identify products, mechanisms, and process improvements that enhance Amazonians' well-being and their ability to deliver value for Amazon's customers. We collaborate with HR teams across Amazon to make Amazon PXT the most scientific human resources organization in the world. In this role you will lead and grow a team of scientists responsible for the science strategy and technical implementation innovations across our predictive modeling and forecasting work-streams. These machine learning work-streams include existing models and future models that power leaders across Amazon to make decisions about their businesses. You will build and develop a high-performing team while serving as the strategic science advisor to PXT leaders operating at the Director, VP, and SVP level. As a people manager, you will coach and mentor your team to identify opportunities where science investment can have material impact on our long-term objectives or annual goals, and help them build consensus around needed investments. You will guide your team across different business domains (corporate, operations, safety) and analysis levels (individual, group, organizational), using various modeling approaches (linear, tree, deep neural network, and LLM-based), enabling stakeholders to make challenging and strategic decisions. While primarily focused on people leadership, you maintain technical depth to effectively review and guide your team's development and delivery of complex science modeling and implementation problems. You will develop your team's technical vision while staying current with emergent AI/ML science and engineering trends, helping your organization focus in a rapidly evolving landscape. Key responsibilities include organizational planning, hiring strategy, career development, and building the next generation of technical leaders. We are looking for a people leader who can create an inclusive team environment, think big, move fast, and inspire their team to transform the way leaders use data to drive business success. If you excel at building and leading high-performing technical teams and are passionate about developing both technology and people, come join us as we work hard, have fun, and make history.

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