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  • US, CA, Santa Clara
    Job ID: 2875059
    (Updated 33 days ago)
    Amazon AI is looking for an Applied Scientist to join our science team in the area of Multimodal Learning, Large Language Models, Natural Language Processing and Speech/Audio Representation Learning. Our organization develops the science that drives the cloud-based AI services of AWS. Our mission is to put the power of AI into the hands of every developer. We seek to advance the state of the art in machine learning to create services that delight our customers and meet real-world business needs. As an Applied Scientist you will partner with talented scientists and engineers to design, train, test, and deploy machine learning models. You will contribute to innovative features, improve our services based on customer requirements and help maintain a highly scalable data and model management infrastructure that supports cutting-edge research. You will be responsible for translating business and engineering requirements into deliverables and software products. We are looking for candidates who thrive in an exciting, fast-paced environment and who have a strong personal interest in learning, researching, and creating new technologies with high customer impact. Prior domain knowledge in multimodal learning, unsupervised speech/audio representations, natural language processing, or computer vision is strongly preferred; solid knowledge of fundamentals of statistics, machine learning, and deep learning is required. Candidates should possess strong software engineering skills and several years of industry experience. 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.
  • US, CA, Palo Alto
    Job ID: 2868110
    (Updated 1 days ago)
    The Amazon Search team creates powerful, customer-focused search solutions and technologies. Whenever a customer visits an Amazon site worldwide and types in a query or browses through product categories, Amazon Product Search services go to work. We design, develop, and deploy high performance, fault-tolerant distributed search systems used by millions of Amazon customers every day. Our Search Relevance team works to maximize the quality and effectiveness of the search experience for visitors to Amazon websites worldwide. The Search Relevance team focuses on several technical areas for improving search quality. In this role, you will invent universally applicable signals and algorithms for training machine-learned ranking models. The relevance improvements you make will help millions of customers discover the products they want from a catalog containing millions of products. You will work on problems such as predicting the popularity of new products, developing new ranking features and algorithms that capture unique characteristics, and analyzing the differences in behavior of different categories of customers. The work will span the whole development pipeline, including data analysis, prototyping, A/B testing, and creating production-level components. Joining this team, you’ll experience the benefits of working in a dynamic, entrepreneurial environment, while leveraging the resources of Amazon.com (AMZN), one of the world’s leading Internet companies. We provide a highly customer-centric, team-oriented environment in our offices located in Palo Alto, California. Please visit https://www.amazon.science for more information. Key job responsibilities Key job responsibilities for this role include but not limited to 1) exploring new hypotheses related to better search ranking, 2) training state of the art DL ranking models to balance multiple aspects of relevance and personalization, and 3) design, running, and analyzing AB tests to validate your hypotheses.
  • (Updated 61 days ago)
    The Amazon Postdoctoral Science Program provides recent PhD graduates with a formal avenue to gain industry experience, apply their subject matter expertise, and gain mentorship from established Amazon scientists. Postdoctoral scientists will explore new research ideas, accelerate scientific innovation and impact, and publish their work in peer-reviewed scientific literature. The program is designed for individuals who received their PhD in the past two years and want to gain industry experience. The program advances postdoctoral scientists’ career development through industry exposure, publishing research, and mentorship from the Amazon Science community. “This program provides an excellent and fun opportunity to work on cutting-edge customer-obsessed research and learn from and collaborate with some of the brightest researchers and leading experts at Amazon,” said Sareh Nabi, a postdoctoral scientist in Amazon Ads who is participating in a postdoc pilot program. “It also provides a great platform to take the skillset I learned and apply it to a wide range of real-world applications on a large scale.” “This is an opportunity for outstanding researchers to work with us on our hardest scientific challenges,” said Jeremy Wyatt, senior manager of Amazon Robotics AI. “Amazon postdoctoral scientists will pursue exploratory work on our hardest problems, gaining industry experience and publishing the results in the best scientific venues.” In SnT Optimization research team, part of Amazon Transportation Services, we are seeking a Postdoctoral Scientist with Operations Research, Computer Science or Applied Mathematics background, to join our team in the EU Headquarters in Luxembourg, for one-plus-one year. As a key member of our science team, you will be responsible for designing and implementing beyond state of the art algorithmic frameworks that optimize the middle-mile Amazon Transportation Network. Our work ensures that our end-to-end strategies in terms of customer demand fulfillment are reliable, robust and efficient. Key job responsibilities In this role you will: • Work closely with a senior science advisor, collaborate with other scientists and engineers, and be part of Amazon’s vibrant and diverse global science community. • Publish your innovation in top-tier academic venues and hone your presentation skills. • Be inspired by challenges and opportunities to invent cutting-edge techniques in your area(s) of expertise.
  • US, WA, Bellevue
    Job ID: 2844108
    (Updated 0 days ago)
    The Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) team is seeking a dedicated, skilled, and innovative Applied Scientist with a robust background in deep learning, to build industry-leading technology with Large Language Models (LLMs) and multimodal systems. Key job responsibilities As part of the AGI team, an Applied Scientist will collaborate closely with talented colleagues to lead the development of advanced approaches and modeling techniques, driving forward the frontier of LLM technology. This includes innovating model-in-the-loop and human-in-the-loop approaches to ensure the collection of high-quality data, safeguarding data privacy and security for LLM training, and more. An Applied Scientist will also have a direct impact on enhancing customer experiences through state-of-the-art products and services that harness the power of speech and language technology. A day in the life An Applied Scientist with the AGI team will support the 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 practice. The ideal candidate should be passionate about delivering experiences that delight customers and creating robust solutions. They will also create reliable, scalable and high-performance products that require exceptional technical expertise, and a sound understanding of Machine Learning.
  • US, CA, Sunnyvale
    Job ID: 2850021
    (Updated 39 days ago)
    Are you passionate about pushing the boundaries of computer vision and machine learning to create innovative consumer products? Join Amazon Lab126's Camera and Sensors Group in shaping the future of wearables, Echo devices, Fire TVs, and consumer robotics. About the Role: As a Principal Applied Scientist, you will lead cutting-edge productization of computer vision and machine learning, directly impacting millions of customers worldwide. You'll work with a diverse team of engineers and scientists to solve complex problems and bring revolutionary products to market. Key job responsibilities Key Responsibilities: * Drive strategic vision and long-term roadmap for camera and sensor technologies, influencing product teams and aligning direction across technology, silicon, and devices organizations * Lead groundbreaking ML/CV innovations, focusing on differentiated hardware technologies for advanced camera and sensor capabilities * Architect and implement state-of-the-art ML models for edge computing in consumer products, optimizing for performance and efficiency * Guide the development of next-generation AI-enabled devices, including wearables, Echo devices, Fire TVs, and robotics * Guide the invention and design of next-generation wearables, Echo devices, Fire TVs, and robotics * Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate ML solutions into hardware designs * Mentor and develop team members, fostering innovation and technical excellence About the team At Amazon, we're guided by our Leadership Principles, including "Customer Obsession," "Invent and Simplify," and "Learn and Be Curious." We value innovative thinking and diverse perspectives to solve complex challenges. This role offers a unique opportunity to work on ML applications that directly improve people's daily lives. You'll be part of a collaborative team integrating AI into everyday devices, making advanced technology accessible to all. We're committed to fostering an inclusive environment where everyone can do their best work and maintain a healthy work-life balance.
  • (Updated 28 days ago)
    The Amazon Postdoctoral Science Program offers recent PhD graduates an exciting opportunity to gain hands-on industry experience, apply their specialized knowledge, and collaborate with Amazon's leading scientists. This program is designed for researchers who have completed their PhD within the past two years and are eager to bridge academia and industry, driving innovation at scale. “This program provides an excellent and fun opportunity to work on cutting-edge customer-obsessed research and learn from and collaborate with some of the brightest researchers and leading experts at Amazon,” said Sareh Nabi, a postdoctoral scientist in Amazon Ads who is participating in a postdoc pilot program. “It also provides a great platform to take the skillset I learned and apply it to a wide range of real-world applications on a large scale.” “This is an opportunity for outstanding researchers to work with us on our hardest scientific challenges,” said Jeremy Wyatt, senior manager of Amazon Robotics AI. “Amazon postdoctoral scientists will pursue exploratory work on our hardest problems, gaining industry experience and publishing the results in the best scientific venues.” Postdoctoral scientists will contribute to high-impact research initiatives, advance cutting-edge scientific developments, and publish their work in top-tier scientific journals. Participants will benefit from mentorship, access to Amazon's world-class resources, and exposure to real-world challenges with immediate customer impact. **Focus Areas** We are seeking candidates with expertise in foundational and applied research, particularly in: - Large Language Models (LLMs): Experience developing, fine-tuning, and scaling LLMs for diverse applications. - Graph Databases: Strong understanding of graph theory, data modeling, and implementation of graph database technologies in complex systems. - Mathematical Optimization: Good understanding of mathematical optimization, including mixed-integer optimization, combinatorial optimization, and robust optimization. **Basic Qualifications** - PhD in a relevant field (e.g., Computer Science, Operations Research, Mathematics, Statistics) received within 2 years of program start date. - Proven publication record in areas such as LLM, NLP, Generative AI, Graph Database, or other relevant domains. - Hands-on experience with technologies related to large language models, graph databases, and mathematical optimization. Preferred qualifications Postdocs demonstrate the following preferred job qualifications: - Ability to independently deliver results in a fast-paced environment - Publications at top-tier, peer-reviewed conferences and/or journals such as NurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CIKM, ICDE - Exceptional verbal and written communication skills - Expert knowledge in modeling and performance, operationalization, and scalability of scientific techniques and establishing decision strategies Required application materials: - CV, which lists all peer-reviewed publications and conferences - Research statement that outlines your research achievements and future research interests, and - A journal article or book chapter that demonstrates your domain expertise
  • (Updated 10 days ago)
    We are looking for a passionate, talented, and inventive Applied Scientist with a strong machine learning background to help build industry-leading language technology powering Rufus, our AI-driven search and shopping assistant, helping customers with their shopping tasks at every step of their shopping journey. This innovative role focuses on developing conversation-based, multimodal shopping experiences, utilizing multimodal large language models (MLLMs), generative AI, advanced machine learning (ML) technologies and computer vision. Our mission in conversational shopping is to make it easy for customers to find and discover the best products to meet their needs by helping with their product research, providing comparisons and recommendations, answering product questions, enabling shopping directly from images or videos, providing visual inspiration, and more. We do this by pushing the SoTA in Natural Language Processing (NLP), Generative AI, Multimodal Large Language Model (MLLM), Natural Language Understanding (NLU), Machine Learning (ML), Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), Computer Vision, Responsible AI, LLM Agents, Evaluation, and Model Adaptation. Key job responsibilities As an Applied Scientist on our team, you will be responsible for the research, design, and development of new AI technologies that will shape the future of shopping experiences. You will play a critical role in driving the development of multimodal conversational systems, in particular those based on large language models, information retrieval, recommender systems and knowledge graph, to be tailored to customer needs. You will handle Amazon-scale use cases with significant impact on our customers' experiences. 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. You will: - Perform hands-on analysis and modelling of enormous multimodal datasets to develop insights into how to best help customers throughout their shopping journeys. - Use deep learning, ML and MLLM techniques to create scalable language model centric solutions for building shopping assistant systems based on a rich set of structured and unstructured contextual signals. - Innovate new methods for understanding, extracting, retrieving and summarising contextual information that allows for the effective grounding of MLLMs, considering memory, compute, latency and quality. - Drive end-to-end MLLM projects that have a high degree of ambiguity, scale and complexity. - Build models, perform offline and A/B test experiments, optimize and deploy your models into production, working closely with software engineers. - Establish automated processes for large-scale data analysis and generation, machine-learning model development, model validation and serving. - Communicate results and insights to both technical and non-technical audiences, including through presentations and written reports and publish your work at internal and external conferences. About the team You will be part of a dynamic science team based in London, working alongside over 100 engineers, designers and product managers, focused on shaping the future of AI-driven shopping experiences at Amazon. This team works on every aspect of the shopping experience, from understanding multimodal user queries to planning and generating answers that combine text, image, audio and video.
  • US, NY, New York
    Job ID: 2841218
    (Updated 11 days ago)
    Amazon's Next Generation Developer Experience (NGDE) Organization is looking for world class scientists and engineers to join its team to work on AI4Code, LLM, and natural language processing. This group is entrusted with developing core algorithms/capabilities for Amazon Q Developer. At NGDE's science team you will invent, implement, and deploy state of the art AI algorithms and systems for developers. You will build prototypes and explore conceptually new large scale AI solutions. You will interact closely with our customers and with the academic community. You will be at the heart of a growing and exciting focus area for AWS and work with other acclaimed engineers and world famous scientists. About the team 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. Diverse Experiences AWS 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 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.
  • US, WA, Bellevue
    Job ID: 2844074
    (Updated 3 days ago)
    We are seeking a passionate, talented, and inventive individual to join the Applied AI team and help build industry-leading technologies that customers will love. This team offers a unique opportunity to make a significant impact on the customer experience and contribute to the design, architecture, and implementation of a cutting-edge product. The mission of the Applied AI team is to enable organizations within Worldwide Amazon.com Stores to accelerate the adoption of AI technologies across various parts of our business. We are looking for a Senior Applied Scientist to join our Applied AI team to work on LLM-based solutions. We are seeking an experienced Scientist who combines superb technical, research, analytical and leadership capabilities with a demonstrated ability to get the right things done quickly and effectively. This person must be comfortable working with a team of top-notch developers and collaborating with our research teams. We’re looking for someone who innovates, and loves solving hard problems. You will be expected to have an established background in building highly scalable systems and system design, excellent project management skills, great communication skills, and a motivation to achieve results in a fast-paced environment. You should be somebody who enjoys working on complex problems, is customer-centric, and feels strongly about building good software as well as making that software achieve its operational goals. Key job responsibilities You will be responsible for developing and maintaining the systems and tools that enable us to accelerate knowledge operations and work in the intersection of Science and Engineering. You will push the boundaries of ML and Generative AI techniques to scale the inputs for hundreds of billions of dollars of annual revenue for our eCommerce business. If you have a passion for AI technologies, a drive to innovate and a desire to make a meaningful impact, we invite you to become a valued member of our team. A day in the life On our team you will push the boundaries of ML and Generative AI techniques to scale the inputs for hundreds of billions of dollars of annual revenue for our eCommerce business. If you have a passion for AI technologies, a drive to innovate and a desire to make a meaningful impact, we invite you to become a valued member of our team.
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 2848227
    (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.

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