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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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  • IE, D, Dublin
    Job ID: 10471746
    (Updated 6 days ago)
    Do you have a passion for GenAI, machine learning, and/or cybersecurity?! If so, join us in building innovative AI/ML services that protect our cloud from advanced security threats! As a Senior Applied Scientist on our team, you’ll analyze data using GenAI and other AI/ML techniques to build new services that detect and automate the mitigation of cybersecurity threats across Amazon’s infrastructure, including advanced persistent threats. You’ll work with software development engineers, security engineers, and other applied scientists across multiple teams to develop innovative security solutions at a massive scale. Our services protect the AWS cloud for all customers, helping preserve our customers’ trust in us. You’ll get to use the full power and breadth of AWS technologies to build services that proactively protect every single AWS customer, both internally and externally, from security threats – not many teams can say that! A successful candidate is one who is passionate about utilizing big data, machine learning, and GenAI to solve real business problems. This role gives you the opportunity to lead technical innovation and drive the future direction of automation within threat detection and mitigation. Candidates are expected to have a track record of delivering high-quality results in a fast-moving environment. We need someone who’s comfortable mentoring, leading by example, and independently delivering. We have a team culture that encourages innovation and for every team member to have a high degree of ownership for their program, vision, and execution of ideas. We’re looking for someone who is enthusiastic, empathetic, curious, motivated, reliable, and able to work effectively with a diverse team of peers and partner teams. We want someone who will help us amplify the positive and inclusive team culture we’ve been building. Key job responsibilities - Design, build, and deploy AI/ML systems that process threat data at scale, running over petabyte-scale security logs with real-time inference - Conduct thorough data analyses and develop prototypes for detecting otherwise-unknown security problems - Independently frame ambiguous problems, and then define and deliver a research agenda with limited guidance - Seek out, develop, and advocate for new technologies to solve scientifically-complex security problems - Build consensus on scientific approaches, balancing analytic rigor with the operational urgency inherent to security - Mentor and develop teammates both technically and professionally - Publish patents and peer-reviewed articles, and present your research both internally and externally About the team This team is part of the larger ‘Amazon Active Defense’ organization, focused on bringing automation – at scale – to AWS Security. Teams within Amazon Active Defense consist of security engineers, data/applied scientists, and software developers, all working together to launch big data analytics able to automatically detect and mitigate threats within AWS in near-real-time. This team, in particular, is focused on both detecting and automatically stopping advanced actor activities in internal AWS resources. Review these blogs for example past projects you could have led! - https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/how-aws-uses-active-defense-to-help-protect-customers-from-security-threats/ - https://www.amazon.science/blog/how-amazon-uses-agentic-ai-for-vulnerability-detection-at-global-scale - https://www.amazon.science/blog/how-amazon-uses-ai-agents-to-anticipate-and-counter-cyber-threats Diverse Experiences Amazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the 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 Amazon Security? At Amazon, security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. Our organization is responsible for creating and maintaining a high bar for security across all of Amazon’s products and services. We offer talented security professionals the chance to accelerate their careers with opportunities to build experience in a wide variety of areas including cloud, devices, retail, entertainment, healthcare, operations, and physical stores. Inclusive Team Culture In Amazon Security, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Ongoing DEI events and learning experiences inspire us to continue learning and to embrace our uniqueness. Addressing the toughest security challenges requires that we seek out and celebrate a diversity of ideas, perspectives, and voices. Training & Career Growth We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, training, and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional. Work/Life Balance We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.
  • US, CA, Mountain View
    Job ID: 10430348
    (Updated 26 days ago)
    Employer: Amazon Web Services, Inc. Position: Data Scientist II Location: Mountain View, CA Multiple Positions Available: Design and implement scalable and reliable approaches to support or automate decision making throughout the business. Apply a range of data science techniques and tools combined with subject matter expertise to solve difficult business problems and cases in which the solution approach is unclear. Acquire data by building the necessary SQL / ETL queries. Import processes through various company specific interfaces for accessing Oracle, RedShift, and Spark storage systems. Build relationships with stakeholders and counterparts. Analyze data for trends and input validity by inspecting univariate distributions, exploring bivariate relationships, constructing appropriate transformations, and tracking down the source and meaning of anomalies. Build models using statistical modeling, mathematical modeling, econometric modeling, network modeling, social network modeling, natural language processing, machine learning algorithms, genetic algorithms, and neural networks. Validate models against alternative approaches, expected and observed outcome, and other business defined key performance indicators. Implement models that comply with evaluations of the computational demands, accuracy, and reliability of the relevant ETL processes at various stages of production. (40 hours / week, 8:00am-5:00pm, Salary Range $157300 - $212800) Amazon.com is an Equal Opportunity – Affirmative Action Employer – Minority / Female / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation
  • GB, Cambridge
    Job ID: 10438453
    (Updated 1 days ago)
    The Alexa International Science team is looking for a passionate, talented, and inventive Senior Applied Scientist with a strong background in speech models (understanding and generation) and deep learning, to help build industry-leading Generative AI technology with speech-to-speech models and multilingual systems. At this level, you will drive cross-team scientific strategy for speech quality across international locales, influence partner teams, and deliver solutions that have broad impact across Alexa's global products. Key job responsibilities As a Senior Applied Scientist with the Alexa International team, you will work with talented peers to develop novel algorithms and modeling techniques to advance the state of the art in multilingual speech generation, text-to-speech synthesis, and speech-to-speech models. Your work will directly impact customers across multiple languages in the form of natural, expressive, and locale-appropriate voice experiences for Alexa+. You will leverage Amazon's heterogeneous data sources and large-scale computing resources to accelerate advances in speech synthesis, voice quality, and pronunciation accuracy for non-English locales. The ideal candidate possesses a solid understanding of machine learning, speech synthesis (TTS/S2S), multilingual phonetics, modern model architectures, and evaluation methodology. They thrive in a fast-paced environment, tackle complex challenges in low-resource language settings, excel at delivering impactful solutions while iterating based on customer feedback, and are able to influence and align multiple teams around a shared scientific vision for international speech quality. A day in the life You will start your day reviewing experiment results and iterating on model architectures for speech generation. You will collaborate with software engineers to optimize model performance for production deployment, and partner with product managers to align research priorities with customer needs. You will participate in science reviews, paper reading groups, and brainstorming sessions with fellow scientists across the organization. Your work directly impacts how Alexa sounds and communicates with customers in international markets, making every day an opportunity to solve meaningful problems at global scale. About the team The Alexa International Tech team helps Alexa' global expansion scalable, reliable, and locally relevant for customers. We build the science, engineering, evaluation, and quality platforms behind global AI product delivery: multi-model AI orchestration, multilingual model and data readiness, speech and language quality, reward modeling, synthetic data generation, automated evaluation, developer tooling, defect analysis, and launch mechanisms. Our work sits at the intersection of applied AI, speech, distributed systems, developer experience, and customer quality automation. The goal is simple but hard: help teams build Alexa+ experiences once and scale them across languages, countries, devices, models, and customer expectations without reinventing the same mechanisms every time.
  • JP, 13, Tokyo
    Job ID: 10444411
    (Updated 5 days ago)
    The Japan Prime & Marketing team drives customer growth and engagement for Amazon Japan. Our applied science team combine advanced machine learning with deep business understanding to deliver experiences that delight customers and grow the Prime membership base in one of Amazon's most dynamic and competitive marketplaces. We are seeking a Senior Applied Scientist to lead the science for personalization and customer growth initiatives across Japan Points, promotional campaigns, and Prime membership engagement. You will own end-to-end science solutions — from problem formulation and data analysis through model development, A/B testing, and production deployment — that directly impact millions of Japanese customers. This is a high-visibility role where you will define the science roadmap, influence business strategy with data-driven insights, and collaborate with product, engineering, economics, and marketing teams across Japan and globally. At Amazon, you'll work alongside the latest AI and GenAI tools that are increasingly woven into how teams operate: from AI-powered capabilities that accelerate decision-making, to Generative AI that helps you focus on work that truly matters. You'll have opportunities and resources to develop AI fluency at your own pace, with continuous learning built into the culture. Key job responsibilities - Define and execute the science roadmap for personalization, points optimization, promotions targeting, and customer growth within Japan Prime & Marketing - Design and develop machine learning models for customer segmentation, lifetime value prediction, churn propensity, and next-best-action recommendation to drive Prime acquisition and retention - Build optimization frameworks for Japan Points allocation, promotional offer targeting, and budget efficiency that maximize long-term customer value rather than short-term engagement - Apply causal inference, experimentation design, and econometric methods to measure the incremental impact of points, promotions, and marketing interventions - Develop personalization systems that tailor offers, messaging, and incentive structures to individual customer preferences and lifecycle stages - Lead the design and analysis of large-scale A/B tests and quasi-experimental studies to validate model performance and business impact - Collaborate with engineering teams to integrate models into production systems with millisecond-level latency requirements serving millions of daily active customers - Influence senior leadership through clear communication of scientific findings, trade-offs, and strategic recommendations - Mentor junior scientists and raise the scientific bar across the team through code reviews, design reviews, and knowledge sharing - Contribute to the broader scientific community through internal and external publications at peer-reviewed venues
  • US, CA, Pasadena
    Job ID: 10454065
    (Updated 6 days ago)
    We are seeking an Applied Scientist to join Amazon Robotics, Compass Team. In this role, you will own the development of safe legged locomotion algorithms and their deployment on physical hardware, developing learning-based controllers that enable quadrupeds and humanoids to walk, run, and recover from disturbances with agility and robustness. You will leverage Reinforcement Learning (RL), sim-to-real transfer, and other learning-based architectures to train policies that produce stable, dynamic gaits across varied terrains and operating conditions. These learned policies will interface with model-based control strategies to form whole-body control laws that balance performance and safety. Your work sits at the novel intersection of safety and machine learning, where these learned policies will be used in a safety-critical context for complex safety constraints like stability. You will collaborate closely with perception, planning, and safety teams to close the loop between what the robot sees, where it needs to go, and how it moves to get there safely. This is a rare opportunity to shape how legged robots move through the world alongside people. Key job responsibilities • Design, train, and deploy reinforcement learning policies for dynamic legged locomotion including walking, running, stair climbing, and fall recovery on physical quadruped and humanoid platforms • Collaborate with the Compass safety team to ensure locomotion policies operate within safety-critical bounds, incorporating control barrier functions or other formal safety mechanisms as constraints during or after training • Develop sim-to-real transfer pipelines that produce policies robust to the reality gap, including domain randomization, system identification, and adaptive strategies • Integrate learned locomotion policies with model-based whole-body controllers, defining how RL outputs (e.g., joint targets, contact schedules) interface with optimization-based control layers • Formulate reward functions and training curricula that encode both performance objectives and safety constraints, ensuring policies respect stability and contact-force limits • Develop and maintain large-scale training infrastructure for locomotion policy learning, including physics simulation environments and parallelized training pipelines • Evaluate policy performance rigorously through simulation benchmarks, hardware experiments, and failure-mode analysis • Investigate emerging techniques (e.g., foundation models for control, diffusion policies, world models) and assess their applicability to safe legged locomotion • Publish research at top-tier robotics and ML venues and contribute to Amazon's scientific reputation in legged robotics • Collaborate with perception and planning teams to enable terrain-aware and goal-conditioned locomotion behaviors A day in the life 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 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 Work with the inventors of control barrier functions on a novel, universal approach to safe autonomy: one that scales across mobile robots, manipulators, mobile manipulators, and future robot platforms with dynamic stability. You'll push the boundary of safe performance by integrating safety with motion planning, RL, and foundation models, ensuring that safety is never a blocker to robot performance. Your work will underpin robots operating alongside people at Amazon's unprecendented scale.
  • US, CA, Pasadena
    Job ID: 10450084
    (Updated 6 days ago)
    We are seeking a Principle Applied Scientist to join Compass. In this role, you will own the perception input into the Compass safety system, defining how robots perceive, interpret, and anticipate their surroundings in safety-critical contexts. You will develop novel approaches to environment understanding that go beyond static scene representation, providing real-time, predictive models of how humans, objects, and dynamic obstacles may evolve over short time horizons. Your work will directly unlock robot performance by replacing conservative assumptions with precise, learned understandings of risk. You will set the scientific direction for perception within Compass, collaborate closely with controls, planning, and firmware teams, and influence the broader Amazon Robotics safety architecture. Key job responsibilities • Define and drive the long-term scientific vision for safety-critical perception within Compass, spanning multiple robot platforms and deployment environments • Develop novel perception algorithms that provide real-time, predictive representations of dynamic environments including human motion forecasting, obstacle trajectory prediction, and scene evolution modeling • Design perception outputs that are tightly coupled to safety constraints, enabling control barrier functions to operate with minimal conservatism while maintaining formal safety guarantees • Research and develop methods to quantify and bound perception uncertainty, providing calibrated confidence estimates that safety systems can reason over • Architect perception pipelines that generalize across sensor modalities (LiDAR, depth cameras, RGB, radar) and robot morphologies without platform-specific retraining • Investigate the application of foundation models and large-scale pre-training to safety-critical perception tasks, establishing when and how learned representations can be trusted at safety-critical confidence levels • Collaborate with controls, motion planning, and firmware teams to define interface contracts between perception and downstream safety modules • Publish research at top-tier venues and represent Amazon Robotics in the broader academic and industry community • Mentor and develop a team of applied scientists and research engineers • Influence Amazon Robotics' safety architecture and perception strategy at the organizational level About the team Work with the inventors of control barrier functions on a novel, universal approach to safe autonomy. You'll push the boundary of safe performance by integrating safety with motion planning, RL, and foundation models, ensuring that safety is never a blocker to robot performance.
  • (Updated 28 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 Science Manager to bring diverse perspectives, ideas, and skill-sets to make Prime Video even better for our customers. You will lead a strong science team and work closely with other science and engineering leaders, product and business partners together to build the best personalized customer experience for Prime Video. 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 - Lead to develop AI solutions for various Prime Video recommendation and personalization systems using Deep learning, GenAI, Reinforcement Learning, recommendation system and optimization methods; - Work closely with engineers and product managers to design, implement and launch AI solutions end-to-end; - 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; - Hire and grow a science team working in this exciting video personalization domain. About the team Prime Video Recommendation Science team owns science solution to power recommendation and personalization experience on various devices. We work closely with the engineering teams to launch our solutions in production.
  • (Updated 7 days ago)
    We are seeking a Member of Technical Staff Simulation Engineer to join our AI robotics research team developing foundation models for robotics. You will rapidly develop 3D physics-based and photorealistic simulations alongside scientists to enable training large-scale machine learning models. Key job responsibilities - Develop simulations for reinforcement learning, closed-loop simulations and synthetic data generation - Implement essential robotics features, including accurate modeling of sensors, actuators, and controllers - Build real-to-sim workflows for dynamic environments and robotics tasks - Implement simulation features to minimize sim-to-real gaps through domain randomization and system identification - Create asset toolchains supporting industry-standard formats (URDF, MJCF, USD) - Collaborate closely with a team of ML researchers to enable large-scale robotics training pipelines About the team At Frontier AI & Robotics (FAR), we're not just advancing robotics – we're reimagining it from the ground up. Our team is building the future of intelligent robotics through frontier foundation models and end-to-end learned systems. We tackle some of the most challenging problems in AI and robotics, from developing sophisticated perception systems to creating adaptive manipulation strategies that work in complex, real-world scenarios. What sets us apart is our unique combination of ambitious research vision and practical impact. We leverage Amazon's massive computational infrastructure and rich real-world datasets to train and deploy state-of-the-art foundation models. Our work spans the full spectrum of robotics intelligence – from multimodal perception using images, videos, and sensor data, to sophisticated manipulation strategies that can handle diverse real-world scenarios. We're building systems that don't just work in the lab, but scale to meet the demands of Amazon's global operations. Join us if you're excited about pushing the boundaries of what's possible in robotics, working with world-class researchers, and seeing your innovations deployed at unprecedented scale.
  • IN, KA, Bengaluru
    Job ID: 10432009
    (Updated 5 days ago)
    The Alexa Edge AI team is seeking a talented and motivated Applied Scientist to join our newly established team in Bangalore. In this role, you will design, develop, and deploy state-of-the-art machine learning models spanning computer vision (CV), audio (including speech) processing, and multimodal semantic understanding for both edge and cloud deployment. You will work at the intersection of multiple modalities to build systems that can perceive, interpret, and reason about the world — pushing the boundaries of what's possible in unified multimodal intelligence. This is a unique opportunity to be a founding member of a brand-new site, shaping the team culture, technical direction, and research agenda from the ground up. Key job responsibilities Model Development: Design and build deep learning models for computer vision, audio understanding, and multimodal semantic fusion — including architectures that enable joint reasoning across visual, auditory, and textual modalities. End-to-End Ownership: Own the full ML lifecycle — from problem formulation, data strategy, and annotation design through experimentation, evaluation frameworks, model optimization, and deployment at scale. Research & Innovation: Stay at the frontier of CV, audio ML, and multimodal learning; identify and apply cutting-edge techniques and contribute to the scientific community through papers at top-tier venues (CVPR, NeurIPS, ICASSP, ICCV, ACL). Mentorship & Culture Building: As a founding member of the Bangalore site, help hire, onboard, and establish the technical practices that define the team's culture. A day in the life An Applied Scientist with the Alexa Edge AI team will support science solution design, run experiments, research new algorithms, and find new ways of optimizing the customer experience; while setting examples for the team on good science practice and standards. Besides theoretical analysis and innovation, an Applied Scientist will also work closely with talented engineers and scientists to put algorithms and models into production. About the team The Alexa Edge AI team has a mission to deliver best in class, resource efficient multimodal AI models in support of various perception (vision, audio and speech) and semantic understanding based applications for devices like Echo Show series within Amazon.
  • IN, KA, Bengaluru
    Job ID: 10432006
    (Updated 5 days ago)
    The Alexa Edge AI team is seeking a talented and motivated Applied Scientist to join our newly established team in Bangalore. In this role, you will design, develop, and deploy state-of-the-art machine learning models spanning computer vision (CV), audio (including speech) processing, and multimodal semantic understanding for both edge and cloud deployment. You will work at the intersection of multiple modalities to build systems that can perceive, interpret, and reason about the world — pushing the boundaries of what's possible in unified multimodal intelligence. This is a unique opportunity to be a founding member of a brand-new site, shaping the team culture, technical direction, and research agenda from the ground up. Key job responsibilities Model Development: Design and build deep learning models for computer vision, audio understanding, and multimodal semantic fusion — including architectures that enable joint reasoning across visual, auditory, and textual modalities. End-to-End Ownership: Own the full ML lifecycle — from problem formulation, data strategy, and annotation design through experimentation, evaluation frameworks, model optimization, and deployment at scale. Research & Innovation: Stay at the frontier of CV, audio ML, and multimodal learning; identify and apply SOTA techniques and contribute to the scientific community through papers at top-tier venues (CVPR, NeurIPS, ICASSP, ICCV, ACL). Mentorship & Culture Building: As a founding member of the Bangalore site, help hire, onboard, and establish the technical practices that define the team's culture. A day in the life An Applied Scientist with the Alexa Edge AI team will support science solution design, run experiments, research new algorithms, and find new ways of optimizing the customer experience; while setting examples for the team on good science practice and standards. Besides theoretical analysis and innovation, an Applied Scientist will also work closely with talented engineers and scientists to put algorithms and models into production. About the team The Alexa Edge AI team has a mission to deliver best in class, resource efficient multimodal AI models in support of various perception (vision, audio and speech) and semantic understanding based applications for devices like Echo Show series within Amazon.

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