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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: 10376690
    (Updated 6 days ago)
    Are you driven by the challenge of solving complex problems that directly impact the safety and well-being of millions of Amazon Associates worldwide? Do you want to push the boundaries of AI to build innovative solutions that make workplaces safer and more efficient? If so, we invite you to join our WHS DataTech team as an Applied Scientist and take your career to the next level! At WHS DataTech, we leverage Large Language Models (LLMs), Computer Vision, and AI-driven innovations to develop industry-leading solutions that proactively enhance workplace safety. Our work spans real-time risk assessment, predictive analytics, and AI-powered insights, all aimed at creating a safer work environment at scale. As an Applied Scientist specializing in LLMs and Computer Vision, you will play a pivotal role in shaping our next-generation safety solutions. You’ll be at the forefront of innovation, designing and implementing AI-powered features that redefine workplace safety. Your work will drive strategic decisions, optimize system architecture, and influence best practices, ensuring our technology remains industry-leading. Key job responsibilities - Apply LLM model to analyze complex unstructured datasets and extract meaningful insights. - Collaborate with software engineers to implement and deploy machine learning (LLM or CV) solutions. - Conduct experiments and evaluate model performance, iterating and improving as needed. - Stay up-to-date with the latest advancements in machine learning and related fields. - Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business needs and identify areas for application of machine learning. - Present findings and recommendations to stakeholders and contribute to the overall research and development strategy. 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 WHS DataTech is a multidisciplinary team of scientists and engineers dedicated to building AI-powered solutions that improve workplace safety across Amazon. We work at the intersection of large-scale data, advanced machine learning, and computer vision, delivering innovations that enhance decision-making, streamline operations, and protect millions of associates worldwide. Our collaborative culture emphasizes scientific rigor, engineering excellence, and a strong mission focus on creating safer, more efficient workplaces.
  • IN, HR, Gurugram
    Job ID: 10374458
    (Updated 7 days ago)
    Lead ML teams building large-scale forecasting and optimization systems that power Amazon’s global transportation network and directly impact customer experience and cost. As an Sr Research Scientist, you will set scientific direction, mentor applied scientists, and partner with engineering and product leaders to deliver production-grade ML solutions at massive scale. Key job responsibilities 1. Lead and grow a high-performing team of Applied Scientists, providing technical guidance, mentorship, and career development. 2. Define and own the scientific vision and roadmap for ML solutions powering large-scale transportation planning and execution. 3. Guide model and system design across a range of techniques, including tree-based models, deep learning (LSTMs, transformers), LLMs, and reinforcement learning. 4. Ensure models are production-ready, scalable, and robust through close partnership with stakeholders. Partner with Product, Operations, and Engineering leaders to enable proactive decision-making and corrective actions. 5. Own end-to-end business metrics, directly influencing customer experience, cost optimization, and network reliability. 6. Help contribute to the broader ML community through publications, conference submissions, and internal knowledge sharing. A day in the life Your day includes reviewing model performance and business metrics, guiding technical design and experimentation, mentoring scientists, and driving roadmap execution. You’ll balance near-term delivery with long-term innovation while ensuring solutions are robust, interpretable, and scalable. Ultimately, your work helps improve delivery reliability, reduce costs, and enhance the customer experience at massive scale.
  • (Updated 7 days ago)
    Amazon launched the AGI Lab to develop foundational capabilities for useful AI agents. We built Nova Act - a new AI model trained to perform actions within a web browser. The team builds AI/ML infrastructure that powers our production systems to run performantly at high scale. We’re also enabling practical AI to make our customers more productive, empowered, and fulfilled. In particular, our work combines large language models (LLMs) with reinforcement learning (RL) to solve reasoning, planning, and world modeling in both virtual and physical environments. Our lab is a small, talent-dense team with the resources and scale of Amazon. Each team in the lab has the autonomy to move fast and the long-term commitment to pursue high-risk, high-payoff research. We’re entering an exciting new era where agents can redefine what AI makes possible. We’d love for you to join our lab and build it from the ground up! Key job responsibilities This role will lead a team of SDEs building AI agents infrastructure from launch to scale. The role requires the ability to span across ML/AI system architecture and infrastructure. You will work closely with application developers and scientists to have a impact on the Agentic AI industry. We're looking for a Software Development Manager who is energized by building high performance systems, making an impact and thrives in fast-paced, collaborative environments. About the team Check out the Nova Act tools our team built on on nova.amazon.com/act
  • IN, KA, Bengaluru
    Job ID: 10376105
    (Updated 4 days ago)
    Amazon is seeking passionate, talented and inventive Applied Scientists with a strong machine learning background to help build Agentic AI solutions for Selling Partners and Retail users. Our mission is to elevate their experience through intelligent, collaborative Agentic AI solution powered by specialized agents that deliver seamless, personalized support at scale. Key job responsibilities As part of our AERO team in Amazon PGX, you will work alongside internationally recognized experts to develop novel solutions and modeling techniques to advance the state-of-the-art in Generative and Agentic AI. Your work will directly impact millions of our users in the form of products and services that improves their experience. You will gain hands on experience with Amazon’s native/partnered Large Language Models (LLMs), technologies like AgentCore, AgentMemory, Strands and Model Context Protocol (MCPs). We are also looking for talents with experiences/expertise in building large-scale and high-performing systems.
  • (Updated 0 days ago)
    Are you interested in building the measurement foundation that proves whether targeted, cohort-based marketing actually changes customer behavior at Amazon scale? We are seeking an Applied Scientist to own measurement and experimentation for our Lifecycle Marketing Experimentation roadmap within the PRIMAS (Prime & Marketing Analytics and Science) team. In this role, you will design and execute rigorous experiments that measure the effectiveness of audience-based marketing campaigns across multiple channels, providing the evidence that guides marketing strategy and investment decisions. This is a high-impact role where you will build measurement frameworks from scratch, design experiments that isolate causal effects, and establish the experimental standards for lifecycle marketing across EU. You will work closely with business leaders and the senior science lead to answer critical questions: does targeting specific cohorts (Bargain hunters, Young adults) improve efficiency vs. broad campaigns? Which creative strategies drive behavior change? How should we optimize marketing spend across channels? Key job responsibilities Measurement & Experimentation Ownership: 1. Own measurement end-to-end for lifecycle marketing campaigns – design experiments (RCTs, geo-tests, audience holdouts) that measure campaign effectiveness across marketing channels 2. Build measurement frameworks and experimental best practices that work across different activation platforms and can scale to multiple campaigns 3. Establish experimental standards and tooling for lifecycle marketing, ensuring statistical rigor while balancing business constraints Causal Inference & Analysis: 1. Apply causal inference methods to measure incremental impact of marketing campaigns vs. counterfactual 2. Navigate measurement challenges across different platforms (Meta attribution, LiveRamp, clean rooms, onsite tracking) 3. Analyze experiment results and provide optimization recommendations based on statistical evidence 4. Establish guardrails and success criteria for campaign evaluation About the team The PRIMAS team, is part of a larger tech tech team of 100+ people called WIMSI (WW Integrated Marketing Systems and Intelligence). WIMSI core mission is to accelerate marketing technology capabilities that enable de-averaged customer experiences across the marketing funnel: awareness, consideration, and conversion.
  • The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Center for Quantum Computing in Pasadena, CA, is looking to hire an Applied Scientist on the Device Team, focused on packaging and environmental R&D for quantum devices. You will join a multi-disciplinary team of theoretical and experimental physicists, materials scientists, and hardware and software engineers working at the forefront of quantum computing. You should have deep expertise in the design, modeling, and testing of packaging and off-chip environments for microelectronic or quantum devices, with a strong understanding of how packaging and environmental factors impact qubit performance at cryogenic operating conditions. Candidates with a track record of original scientific contributions in packaging, microwave engineering, or quantum cryogenic hardware will be preferred. We are looking for candidates with strong scientific and engineering principles, resourcefulness and a bias for action, superior problem solving, and excellent communication skills. Working effectively within a team environment is essential. As an applied scientist at CQC, you will be expected to drive packaging and environmental R&D from concept through hardware demonstration and stay abreast of advances in quantum hardware packaging and cryogenic measurement science. Key job responsibilities In this role, you will develop packaging and environmental R&D for superconducting quantum devices. Your responsibilities will span four interconnected areas: Packaging R&D: Design, model, and test packaging solutions for superconducting quantum devices. Build electromagnetic and mechanical models to predict and optimize packaging performance, and characterize packaging at cryogenic temperatures. Environmental Test Standards: Design and develop test standards for characterizing the DC and microwave qubit environment, ensuring rigorous and reproducible assessment of off-chip environmental contributions to qubit decoherence and loss. Measurement Automation: Automate data collection for environmental test standards and develop automated reporting pipelines to enable efficient, scalable characterization across devices and configurations. Environmental Improvement: Collaborate with hardware engineers, PCB designers, and circuit designers to identify and mitigate the most significant sources of environmental noise and integration uncertainty, driving improvements in qubit performance through off-chip environment optimization. You will contribute to multi-year roadmap planning for packaging and environmental capabilities aligned with CQC objectives, and help establish the scientific foundation for this capability area within the Device team. About the team About the team 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. 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. Within AWS UC, Amazon Dedicated Cloud (ADC) roles engage with AWS customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services. 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 (diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness. 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. 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.
  • (Updated 0 days ago)
    At Amazon, we are committed to being the Earth's most customer-centric company. The European International Technology group (EU INTech) owns the enhancement and delivery of Amazon's engineering to all the varied customers and cultures of the world. We do this through a combination of partnerships with other Amazon technical teams and our own innovative new projects. You will be joining the Tamale team to work on Haul. As part of EU INTech and Haul, Tamale strives to create a discovery-driven shopping experience using challenging machine learning and ranking solutions. You will be exposed to large-scale recommendation systems, multi-objective optimization, and state-of-the-art deep learning architectures, and you'll be part of a key effort to improve our customers' browsing experience by building next-generation ranking models for Amazon Haul's endless scroll experience. We are looking for a passionate, talented, and inventive Scientist with a strong machine learning background to help build industry-leading ranking solutions. We strongly value your hard work and obsession to solve complex problems on behalf of Amazon customers. Key job responsibilities We look for applied scientists who possess a wide variety of skills. As the successful applicant for this role, you will work closely with your business partners to identify opportunities for innovation. You will apply machine learning solutions to optimize multi-objective ranking, improve discovery engagement through contextual signals, and scale ranking systems across multiple marketplaces. You will work with business leaders, scientists, and product managers to translate business and functional requirements into concrete deliverables, including the design, development, testing, and deployment of highly scalable distributed ranking services. You will be part of a team of scientists and engineers working on solving ranking and personalization challenges at scale. You will be able to influence the scientific roadmap of the team, setting the standards for scientific excellence. You will be working with state-of-the-art architectures and real-time feature serving systems. Your work will improve the experience of millions of daily customers using Amazon Haul worldwide. You will have the chance to have great customer impact and continue growing in one of the most innovative companies in the world. You will learn a huge amount - and have a lot of fun - in the process!
  • IN, KA, Bengaluru
    Job ID: 10373343
    (Updated 8 days ago)
    Do you want to join an innovative team of scientists who use machine learning and statistical techniques to create state-of-the-art solutions for providing better value to Amazon’s customers? Do you want to build and deploy advanced algorithmic systems that help optimize millions of transactions every day? Are you excited by the prospect of analyzing and modeling terabytes of data to solve real world problems? Do you like to own end-to-end business problems/metrics and directly impact the profitability of the company? Do you like to innovate and simplify? If yes, then you may be a great fit to join the Machine Learning and Data Sciences team for India Consumer Businesses. If you have an entrepreneurial spirit, know how to deliver, love to work with data, are deeply technical, highly innovative and long for the opportunity to build solutions to challenging problems that directly impact the company's bottom-line, we want to talk to you. Major responsibilities - Use machine learning and analytical techniques to create scalable solutions for business problems - Analyze and extract relevant information from large amounts of Amazon’s historical business data to help automate and optimize key processes - Design, development, evaluate and deploy innovative and highly scalable models for predictive learning - Research and implement novel machine learning and statistical approaches - Work closely with software engineering teams to drive real-time model implementations and new feature creations - Work closely with business owners and operations staff to optimize various business operations - Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large scale data analyses, model development, model validation and model implementation - Mentor other scientists and engineers in the use of ML techniques
  • (Updated 7 days ago)
    The Sponsored Products and Brands (SPB) team at Amazon Ads is re-imagining the advertising landscape through generative and agentic AI technologies, revolutionizing how millions of customers discover products and engage with brands across Amazon.com and beyond. We are at the forefront of re-inventing advertising experiences to transform every aspect of the advertising lifecycle; from ad creation, delivery, optimization, performance management, and beyond. We are a passionate group of innovators dedicated to developing state-of-the-art AI technologies that balance the needs of advertisers and enhance the shopping experience. Within SPB, the SPB Offsite (SPBO) team builds solutions to extend campaigns to reach customers off the store and extend shopping experiences on third-party sites where shoppers search and discover products. We use industry-leading machine learning, high-scale low-latency systems, and gen AI technologies to create better sponsored customer experiences off the store. The Principal Applied Scientist for SPBO leads the technical vision and scientific strategy for extending Amazon Advertising's sponsored experiences to the broader web—meeting shoppers wherever they search, browse, and discover products. This is a multi-disciplinary scientific space spanning machine learning, large-scale optimization, causal inference, NLP, information retrieval, and generative AI. You will define and drive the science roadmap for how Amazon connects advertisers with high-intent customers across third-party environments at massive scale and with low latency. As a GenAI-first organization, we build foundational and agentic models that power advertiser use cases across Ads, while empowering our Applied Scientists to directly build and ship products. You will be a hands-on technical leader who architects novel solutions end-to-end—from research through production—while mentoring a team of scientists across diverse domains. The problems you will tackle are among the hardest in ad tech. You will develop models that leverage Amazon's first-party shopping signals to reach high-value audiences in third-party environments where signal density differs fundamentally from on-Amazon contexts. You will innovate on real-time bidding, auction dynamics, and ranking models across heterogeneous supply sources with distinct inventory characteristics, latency constraints, and auction mechanics. You will design ML approaches that maintain effectiveness amid an evolving privacy landscape—turning constraints from cookie deprecation, regulation, and platform restrictions into innovation opportunities. You will influence attribution models that capture the incremental value of offsite advertising on shopping outcomes, bridging measurement gaps between offsite touchpoints and on-Amazon conversions. You will pioneer generative and agentic AI to personalize ad creatives and shopping experiences for offsite contexts, and develop scientific frameworks to optimize spend allocation across supply partners and channels. You will partner with engineering, product, and business leaders as well as external partners to shape product strategy with scientific insight and drive results at scale. You will represent Amazon Advertising's offsite science externally through patents and industry engagement. Key job responsibilities - Driving the scientific vision of the teams in your organization and advising and influencing its technical leadership on ad serving, bidding, ranking, and offsite advertising models and products. - Identifying, tackling, and proposing innovative solutions to intrinsically hard, previously unsolved problems in offsite ad tech. - Bringing clarity to complex problems, probing assumptions, illuminating pitfalls, fostering shared understanding, and guiding towards effective solutions. - Serving and being recognized by internal and external peers as a thought leader in offsite advertising science, including real-time bidding, personalization, privacy-preserving ML, and generative AI for ad experiences. - Influencing your team's science and business strategy by driving one or more team roadmaps contributing to the organization's roadmap and taking responsibility for some organizational goals. You drive multiple new product features from inception to production launch. - Guiding the career development of others, actively mentoring and educating the larger applied science community on trends, technologies, and best practices.
  • US, MA, N.reading
    Job ID: 10375078
    (Updated 6 days ago)
    Industrial Robotics Group is seeking exceptional talent to help develop the next generation of advanced robotics systems that will transform automation at Amazon's scale. We're building revolutionary robotic systems that combine cutting-edge AI, sophisticated control systems, and advanced mechanical design to create adaptable automation solutions capable of working safely alongside humans in dynamic environments. This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of robotics and automation at an unprecedented scale, working with world-class teams pushing the boundaries of what's possible in robotic manipulation, locomotion, and human-robot interaction. We're seeking an Applied Scientist to join our Robotics team. This role focuses on developing innovative machine learning solutions that enable robots to perform complex manipulation tasks in real-world environments. You will work on creating adaptive learning approaches that combine traditional robotics with modern ML techniques to improve robot performance and reliability. In this role, you will collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to advance the state-of-the-art in robotic manipulation, contributing to the development of next-generation autonomous systems that can operate safely and efficiently within Amazon fulfillment centers. Key job responsibilities - Lead design, adapt, and implement novel machine learning solutions for manipulation robots - Create hybrid approaches combining classical methods with learning-based solutions - Design learning algorithms for automated parameter tuning and adaptation - Develop data collection pipelines and methodologies for capturing high-quality demonstrations of dexterous tasks - Build and test prototype robotic workcell setups to validate the performance of the solution - Partner with cross-functional teams to rapidly create new concepts and prototypes - Work with Amazon's robotics engineering and operations teams to grasp their requirements and develop tailored solutions - Document the architecture, performance, and validation of the final system

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