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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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  • US, WA, Bellevue
    Job ID: 10448783
    (Updated 81 days ago)
    At Amazon's FinTech organization, we are building AI systems that process hundreds of millions of financial transactions, turn complex documents into actionable intelligence, and power autonomous agents that learn from every customer interaction. We are looking for an Applied Scientist to lead the development of generative AI applications that change how finance teams work, tackling problems at the intersection of large language models, multi-agent systems, and real-world financial operations. Key job responsibilities - Building AI systems that finance teams trust enough to rely on without manual review, where precision isn't a nice-to-have, it's a compliance requirement. - Designing agents that learn from user corrections and get measurably better with every interaction, not just at the next model release. - Solving inference at massive scale using tiered model architectures, intelligent routing, and small language models that deliver production-grade accuracy at a fraction of frontier model cost. - Developing evaluation frameworks that catch quality regressions before customers do and gate every model change before it ships. Who Thrives Here - You're someone who cares as much about shipping as about research. - You've built models that run in production, not just in notebooks. - You're comfortable working across the full stack, from model architecture to deployment to measuring whether the customer's workflow actually changed. - You operate well in cross-functional settings where science, engineering, and business teams inform each other continuously. - You'd rather solve a hard real-world problem than optimize a benchmark. What Makes This Different - Your work ships to production and directly changes how thousands of finance professionals operate daily. - The problems are genuinely hard: financial data is messy, regulated, high-stakes, and operates at a scale where naive LLM approaches break down. - You'll work across multiple domains, from contract intelligence to cash application to financial data investigation, not a single narrow use case.
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 10452867
    (Updated 23 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.
  • (Updated 12 days ago)
    We are seeking an Applied Scientist to help build Amazon’s next-generation customer memory and personalization systems. Are you interested in building systems that move beyond reacting to customer behavior, to actually understanding and remembering it over time? Our team is building Amazon’s customer memory layer – a system that extracts, curates, and reasons over customer knowledge to power next-generation personalization. This includes transforming noisy, unstructured signals into durable, high-quality representations of customer preferences, intents, and life events, and using them in real time to improve customer experiences. We are part of Amazon’s Personalization organization, a high-performing group that leverages large-scale machine learning, generative AI, and distributed systems to deliver highly relevant customer experiences. We tackle challenging problems at the intersection of information extraction, knowledge representation, LLM reasoning, and recommendation systems. Our systems operate under real-world constraints of scale, latency, and quality, requiring careful tradeoffs between precision, recall, and responsiveness. This team plays a central role in defining how Amazon understands its customers, and how that understanding is applied across the shopping experience. As an Applied Scientist, you will design and build ML and LLM-powered solutions for Amazon's customer memory and personalization systems. You will work on how customer knowledge is extracted, validated, and applied in production systems. You will own the end-to-end delivery of ML solutions, from problem formulation and modeling to offline and online experimentation, and production deployment at scale. You will deliver high-quality, scalable systems that power customer-facing experiences. You will drive work across areas such as fact extraction, memory quality and lifecycle, temporal reasoning, and grounded personalization, while navigating tradeoffs between quality, latency, and coverage. You will collaborate closely with engineering and product teams to translate research into measurable customer impact. Please visit https://www.amazon.science for more information.
  • IL, Haifa
    Job ID: 10442944
    (Updated 4 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 is building next-generation personalization systems powered by Large Language Models. We are tackling novel research challenges to help customers discover products they'll love - at Amazon scale and latency requirements. 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. As an Applied Science Manager, you will lead a team of scientists working at the frontier of LLM-based personalization. You will set the technical vision, drive the research agenda, and ensure your team delivers production-ready solutions. You will hire, mentor, and develop world-class scientists while fostering a culture of innovation and scientific rigor. You will partner closely with engineering and product teams to translate ambitious research into customer-facing impact, and represent your team's work to senior leadership. Please visit https://www.amazon.science for more information.
  • US, NJ, Newark
    Job ID: 10442437
    (Updated 88 days ago)
    At Audible, we believe stories have the power to transform lives. It’s why we work with some of the world’s leading creators to produce and share audio storytelling with our millions of global listeners. We are dreamers and inventors who come from a wide range of backgrounds and experiences to empower and inspire each other. Imagine your future with us. At Audible, we believe stories have the power to transform lives. It’s why we work with some of the world’s leading creators to produce and share audio storytelling with our millions of global listeners. We are dreamers and inventors who come from a wide range of backgrounds and experiences to empower and inspire each other. Imagine your future with us. ABOUT THIS ROLE As a leader and individual contributor of Audible’s Analytics and Decision Science group, you will drive discussion and decision with our business partners by explaining, predicting, scenarizing, prescribing insight-driven actions with/for both tech and non-tech audiences. You will deliver the right technical solution (analytics- or data-product) to influence, guide, and force-multiply (via automation) our business functions, increase their effectiveness and efficiency, and hold them accountable. You will help drive continuous improvement by designing and building measurement frameworks, and other communications conduits (presentations and documents) to track initiative and business performance, driving focus on results and execution. You will frame hypotheses and potential decisions into a testable structure and develop robust experimental designs. You will leverage deep cross-functional knowledge to be a trusted advisor across a wide range of issues. Alternate locations available: This position can also be located in Audible's Berlin or London hubs. ABOUT YOU You are able to work with minimal instruction and oversight, conduct multiple high-stake tasks and projects simultaneously, and own deliverables end-to-end with limited dependencies on the work of others. You have the ability to think strategically, develop insightful analysis, and frame decisions, and communicate findings concisely to senior leaders in your and other organizations. As a Director, Analytics and Decision Science, you will... - Design and lead hands-on decision science initiatives that support Audible strategy and programs. Use causal inference methods (experimentation and models) to understand the incremental impact of our activity on business performance - Learn and master the intricacies of our economics, understand pain points and opportunities, and provide solutions short-term and long-term - Develop an in-depth knowledge of all relevant data sources, business intelligence technologies, data science, and analytical tools available to maximize their potential. Ensure and own the accuracy, relevance, quality, and impact of your deliveries - Communicate crisply in both oral and written forms for different levels of audiences (Tech, non-Tech, manager to executive) - Develop compelling presentations and documents ABOUT AUDIBLE Audible is the leading producer and provider of audio storytelling. We spark listeners’ imaginations, offering immersive, cinematic experiences full of inspiration and insight to enrich our customers daily lives. We are a global company with an entrepreneurial spirit. We are dreamers and inventors who are passionate about the positive impact Audible can make for our customers and our neighbors. This spirit courses throughout Audible, supporting a culture of creativity and inclusion built on our People Principles and our mission to build more equitable communities in the cities we call home.
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 10438081
    (Updated 25 days ago)
    We’re working to improve shopping on Amazon using the conversational capabilities of large language models, and are searching for pioneers who are passionate about technology, innovation, and customer experience, and are ready to make a lasting impact on the industry. You'll be working with talented scientists, engineers, and technical program managers (TPM) to innovate on behalf of our customers. If you're fired up about being part of a dynamic, driven team, then this is your moment to join us on this exciting journey!
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 10438745
    (Updated 42 days ago)
    Are you a scientist interested in pushing the state of the art in Information Retrieval, NLP, Large Language Models and fine-tuning LLMs? 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 and fine-tuning 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. A day in the life You will solve real-world problems by getting and analyzing large amounts of data, generate insights and opportunities, execute experiments, and develop statistical and ML models. The team is driven by business needs, which requires collaboration with other Scientists, Engineers, and Product Managers across the organization. You get to influence stakeholders with clear communication skills. You innovate on behalf of the customer and strategically build features. You will mentor junior members and help them grow. About the team The team values innovations and offers a safe place to try, fail and learn while fostering a culture of continuous improvement. Everyone is a leader and owner for everything we do as a team. Our team offers creative space with entrepreneurial work environment focusing on customer obsession.
  • GB, London
    Job ID: 10441414
    (Updated 3 days ago)
    Orchestrating the selection of one out of tens of millions of ads, honoring advertiser targeting intent for hundreds of thousands of advertisers while ensuring great shopper experience for billions of shoppers millions of times per second on a latency of tens of milliseconds is not a trivial task. The demand retrieval team within the Amazon DSP organisation deals with this challenge, developing and operating machine learning models that match ads opportunities with the most relevant ads to deliver the right messages to the right customers at the right time. We are looking for an Applied Scientist to optimize ad matching for Amazon’s programmatic advertisement products. In this role you will lead the design and implementation of solutions for performance sourcing, using behavioural information on customers’ interactions with Amazon and other owned and operated businesses as well as contextual information about the bid request to predict their propensity to convert, in turn driving better advertising campaign outcomes. Your work will affect multi-billion dollar businesses, and you will be responsible for designing, testing and delivering significant breakthrough's for Amazon's business. Successful candidates will have strong technical ability, excellent teamwork, communication skills, and a motivation to achieve business results in a fast-paced environment. Key job responsibilities * Design and implement deep learning models to match the right customers with the right ads across different verticals, geographies, and ads formats. * Investigate new ML techniques such as multi-task learning to ensure that models can operate for a variety of advertisers in multiple industries and with different volumes of conversion events. * Improve the performance, generalisation and scalability of models by introducing new features and enhancing models’ architecture. * Work side by side with our engineers to deliver code changes impacting our ads stack, working with very large datasets and high throughput production systems. * Rapidly prototype and test many possible hypotheses/implementation alternatives in a high-ambiguity environment, making use of both quantitative analysis and business judgement. * Be immersed in Amazon's advertisers and their objectives, and think long-term about how to turn those objectives into products and technical capabilities. * Understand the latest literature on machine learning for recommender and advertising systems, contributing to guiding strategic investment for the organization. A day in the life You will partner with our product and engineering teams, bringing your own ideas to the conversation and aligning on work, adjusting priorities based on business requirements and fast iteration on experiments. You will have a strong theoretical understanding of modern ML techniques and methodologies, and the software engineering and data processing skills to deploy these using the large-scale datasets we deal with in advertising. About the team The Demand Retrieval team is responsible for designing, implementing, deploying and operating machine learning models that match bid opportunities to ads demand based on performance, campaign delivery, and targeting objectives specified by advertisers. We measure the success of our approaches based on offline experimentation and and online metrics that measure the impact of our matching models on campaign KPIs (e.g.: cost per action, return on ads investment, budgets delivered, and targeting precision).
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 10442940
    (Updated 42 days ago)
    Are you a scientist passionate about advancing Information Retrieval, NLP, and Large Language Models? Do you want access to massive datasets, world-class compute, and a team of top scientists and engineers building the future of e-commerce? If so, you'll be a great fit for our team at Amazon. We build large-scale ML solutions that deliver personalized, up-to-date recommendations to millions of customers. Our team is uniquely positioned to shape how customers think about their shopping journey. We're looking for scientists with deep LLM expertise to build our next generation of models. The team focuses on post-training—instruction tuning, reward modeling, reinforcement learning, and multi-modal alignment. You'll design and run large-scale experiments, analyze model behavior, and develop training recipes that improve core capabilities like reasoning, personalization, and other frontier paradigms. Key job responsibilities - Own the scientific roadmap for personalization initiatives, identifying high-impact research directions and translating ambiguous business problems into well-defined ML formulations - Design and lead end-to-end systems spanning recommendations, information retrieval, and LLM fine-tuning, from problem framing through offline experimentation to production A/B testing and launch - Drive technical decisions on model architecture, training methodology, and evaluation frameworks, balancing scientific rigor with business impact and operational constraints - Mentor and raise the bar for the science team through design reviews, paper discussions, and establishing best practices for experimentation and reproducibility - Influence cross-functional strategy by partnering with engineering, product, and leadership to define the product vision informed by what's technically feasible and scientifically novel - Publish and advance the state of the art — contribute to the broader ML community through patents, publications, and external engagement at conferences A day in the life You will solve real-world problems by getting and analyzing large amounts of data, generate insights and opportunities, execute experiments, and develop statistical and ML models. The team is driven by business needs, which requires collaboration with other Scientists, Engineers, and Product Managers across the organization. You get to influence stakeholders with clear communication skills. You innovate on behalf of the customer and strategically build features. You will mentor junior members and help them grow. About the team The team values innovations and offers a safe place to try, fail and learn while fostering a culture of continuous improvement. Everyone is a leader and owner for everything we do as a team. Our team offers creative space with entrepreneurial work environment focusing on customer obsession.
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 10461287
    (Updated 43 days ago)
    We are seeking a talented applied researcher to join the Whole Page Planning and Optimization (WPPO) Science team in Search. The latest data from Business Insider shows that almost 50% of online shoppers visit Amazon first. The Search WPPO Science team is responsible for developing large-scale machine learning systems—spanning ranking, reinforcement learning, and large language models (LLMs)—that power the next generation Amazon shopping experience and deliver it to millions of customers. We believe that shopping on Amazon should be simple, delightful, and full of WOW moments for EVERYONE, whether you are technically savvy or new to online shopping. Key job responsibilities As an Applied Scientist, you will work closely with a team of applied scientists and engineers to build systems that shape the future of Amazon's shopping experience by generating relevant content with LLMs and assembling a whole page experience that is coherent, dynamic, and interesting. You will improve our ranking and optimization algorithms. 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: * Apply state-of-the-art Machine Learning (ML) algorithms, including Deep Learning, Reinforcement Learning, and Large Language Models (LLMs), to improve hundreds of millions of customers' shopping experience. * Have measurable business impact using A/B testing. * Work in a dynamic team that provides continuous opportunities for learning and growth. * Work with leaders in the field of machine learning.

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