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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, VA, Arlington
    Job ID: 10586949
    (Updated 6 days ago)
    WW Installments is one of the fastest growing businesses within Amazon and we are looking for an Applied Scientist to join the team. This group has been entrusted with a massive charter that will impact every customer that visits Amazon.com. We are building the next generation of features and payment products that maximize customer enablement in a simple, transparent, and customer obsessed way. Through these products, we will deliver value directly to Amazon customers improving the shopping experience for hundreds of millions of customers worldwide. Our mission is to delight our customers by building payment experiences and financial services that are trusted, valued, and easy to use from anywhere in any way. As an Applied Scientist within WW Installments, you will be responsible for building machine learning models and pipelines with direct customer impact. These models represent a core capability for WW Installments and businesses across Amazon. Your work will directly impact customers by influencing how they interact with financing options to make purchases. You will work across functions including data engineering, software development, and business to induce data driven decisions at every level of the organization. Key job responsibilities This role will be responsible for: • Developing production machine learning models and pipelines for the WW Installments Fraud Detection team that directly impact customers. • Apply expertise in machine learning to develop large-scale production systems that are deployed across Amazon businesses. • Identify business opportunities, define and execute modeling approach, then deliver outcomes to various Amazon businesses with an Amazon-wide perspective for solutions. • Lead the implementation of production ML from a scientific perspective including identifying consumer financial credit and fraud risks, key milestones, and paths to mitigate risks. • Identifying new opportunities to influence business strategy and product vision using data science and machine learning. • Continually improve the WW Installments ML roadmap automating and simplifying whenever possible. • Coordinate support across engineers, scientists, and stakeholders to deliver ML pipelines, analytics projects, and build proof of concept applications. • Work through significant business and technical ambiguity delivering on analytics roadmap across the team with autonomy.
  • US, VA, Arlington
    Job ID: 10588628
    (Updated 3 days ago)
    Every year, Amazon's operations depend on hiring hundreds of thousands of hourly associates across the globe, and your work will determine how efficiently and effectively that happens. We are looking for a curious, resourceful Applied Scientist to tackle multi-objective optimization problems worldwide. In this role, you will build mathematical models and AI/ML systems that optimize recruitment processes under real-world cost, capacity, and regulatory constraints across North America and beyond. This is a particularly exciting time to join because we are expanding into new countries, building AI-native capabilities, and beginning to externalize our solutions so that teams beyond our own can benefit from the tools we create. You will partner with economists, machine learning engineers, and analytics engineers to turn theory-based decision models into production systems that improve candidate experience and business outcomes at a scale few teams can offer. Key job responsibilities - Design and implement optimization algorithms and mathematical models that determine optimal job posting timing, candidate management strategies, and recruitment coordination across multiple countries and markets. - Develop and maintain conversion models, demand forecasting systems, and multi-objective optimization frameworks using machine learning, survival analysis, and causal inference techniques. - Plan and run controlled experiments to validate new recruitment mechanisms, measure their impact, and iterate on model performance using real-world data. - Write production-quality code in Python, applying optimal data structures and algorithms while making practical tradeoffs between complexity, memory efficiency, and maintainability. - Collaborate with generation, hiring event, and coordination teams to integrate your models into automated hiring pipelines, and contribute to the team's scientific agenda through peer reviews, mentorship, and publications. A day in the life You might start your morning reviewing model performance dashboards and conversion metrics, then refine a stochastic dynamic programming model that balances hiring demand against cost constraints for an upcoming peak period. After lunch, you could be designing an A/B test for a new candidate management strategy or pairing with another scientist to incorporate local market regulations into an optimization framework. You will regularly present findings in science reviews and help shape the team's research roadmap. About the team Our team sits within Amazon's operations organization and owns the science behind converting job applicants into hired associates at a global scale. We support leadership teams across North America and beyond, building the optimization and ML systems that keep fulfillment centers staffed and ready to serve customers. Right now we are investing in AI-native automation, expanding our models to additional countries, and making our tools available to partner teams across the organization. The team is a multidisciplinary group of scientists, economists, machine learning engineers, and analytics engineers who collaborate closely to solve problems that span economic theory, statistical modeling, and large-scale engineering. We value rigorous experimentation, collaborative problem-solving, and a shared commitment to improving both business outcomes and the candidate experience.
  • US, NY, New York
    Job ID: 10592454
    (Updated 0 days ago)
    Amazon Advertising is one of Amazon's fastest growing and most profitable businesses. Our products are used daily to surface new selection and provide customers a wider set of product choices along their shopping journeys. The business is focused on generating value for shoppers as well as advertisers. Our team uses a combination of econometrics, machine learning, and data science to build disruptive products for all our Advertising products. We also generate insights to guide Amazon Advertising strategy, providing direct support to senior leadership. We are looking for an experienced Economist with a deep passion for building econometric solutions and the ability to communicate data insights and scientific vision to execute on strategic projects. Key job responsibilities - Leverage econometrics and ML models to optimize advertising strategies on behalf of our customers. - Influence key business and product decisions based on insights from models you develop. - Perform hands-on analysis and modeling with enormous data sets to develop insights that increase traffic monetization and merchandise sales without compromising shopper experience. - Work closely with software engineers on detailed requirements to productionize the models you build. - Run A/B experiments that affect hundreds of millions of customers, evaluate the impact of your optimizations and communicate your results to various business stakeholders. - Work with other scientists, software developers, and product partners to implement your solutions.
  • IN, KA, Bengaluru
    Job ID: 10591594
    (Updated 1 days ago)
    We are looking for Applied Scientists to advance how Minerva detects and responds to risk across KDP and Kindle Unlimited, building new models and raising the bar on the ones in production. You will own a problem end to end, from framing and modeling through evaluation and production launch, working with scientists and engineers in Bengaluru and the US. Key job responsibilities - Monitor production risk models and push their quality higher: track performance and drift, improve how performance is measured, and lead the deep-dive science that turns model behavior into better detection. - Design, train, and evaluate improved detection models, and take them to production with engineering partners. - Build datasets, labels, evaluation sets, and metrics, and strengthen them as abuse patterns change. - Write clear readouts with recommendations for scientists, engineers, and policy partners. About the team Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) has empowered a new wave of self-motivated creators, tearing down barriers that once blocked writers from reaching readers. Minerva is the science and analytics organization for Amazon's Books business. We build systems for content understanding, author marketing and discovery, fraud and abuse prevention, and content risk, and we optimize manufacturing, fulfillment, and quality for Print On Demand (POD). We have mature areas and green-field opportunities, with engineering, business intelligence, and data engineering support across our areas. We are now building science teams in Bengaluru that work closely with our scientists in the US. Risk Science, a team within Minerva, keeps fraud, abuse, copyright infringement, and harmful content out of the Books catalog and programs such as Kindle Unlimited, using text, image, and behavioral data.
  • IN, KA, Bengaluru
    Job ID: 10588034
    (Updated 6 days ago)
    We are looking for an Applied Science Manager to build and lead Minerva's first Risk Science team in Bengaluru. This is a hands-on role: you will collaborate with scientists in the US to set the scientific bar and advance how we detect and respond to risk across KDP and Kindle Unlimited. Key job responsibilities - Hire, develop, and retain a high-performing team of applied scientists across levels, and set its practices for experimentation, evaluation, reviews, publishing, and patents. - Push the quality of production risk models higher: set the standard for how model performance is measured, and lead the deep-dive science that turns model behavior into better detection. - Develop new and improved detection models for fraud, abuse, copyright infringement, and harmful content, using NLP, computer vision, LLMs, and behavioral and graph-based modeling. - Partner with engineering, product, policy, and investigation teams in the US and India to turn findings into fixes, and present options, risks, and tradeoffs to senior leaders. - Work with the US science team to divide ownership clearly and share methods across Minerva. About the team Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) has empowered a new wave of self-motivated creators, tearing down barriers that once blocked writers from reaching readers. Minerva is the science and analytics organization for Amazon's Books business. We build systems for content understanding, author marketing and discovery, fraud and abuse prevention, and content risk, and we optimize manufacturing, fulfillment, and quality for Print On Demand (POD). We have mature areas and green-field opportunities, with engineering, business intelligence, and data engineering support across our areas. We are now building science teams in Bengaluru that work closely with our scientists in the US. Risk Science, a team within Minerva, keeps fraud, abuse, copyright infringement, and harmful content out of the Books catalog and programs such as Kindle Unlimited, using text, image, and behavioral data.
  • US, NY, New York
    Job ID: 10583488
    (Updated 1 days ago)
    Amazon Advertising is one of Amazon's fastest growing and most profitable businesses. Amazon's advertising portfolio helps merchants, retail vendors, and brand owners succeed via native advertising, which grows incremental sales of their products sold through Amazon. The primary goals are to help shoppers discover new products they love, be the most efficient way for advertisers to meet their business objectives, and build a sustainable business that continuously innovates on behalf of customers. Our products and solutions are strategically important to enable our Retail and Marketplace businesses to drive long-term growth. We deliver billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks and break fresh ground in product and technical innovations every day! The Creative X team within Amazon Advertising time aims to democratize access to high-quality creatives (text, audio, images, videos) by building AI-driven solutions for advertisers. To accomplish this, we are investing in latent-diffusion models, large language models (LLM), generative audio (music and speech synthesis), computer vision (CV), reinforced learning (RL) and related methods. You will be part of a close-knit team of applied scientists and product managers who are highly collaborative and at the top of their respective fields. We are looking for talented Applied Scientists who have a proven record of developing Generative AI science at the highest standards of innovation, and experience working and delivering product-ready code, are adept at a variety of skills, especially with LLMs, generative audio, computer vision, latent diffusion or related foundational models that will accelerate our plans to generate high-quality creatives on behalf of advertisers. Every member of the team is expected to build customer (advertiser) facing features, contribute to the collaborative spirit within the team, publish, patent, and bring innovation research to raise the bar within the team.
  • US, NY, New York
    Job ID: 10583487
    (Updated 1 days ago)
    Amazon Advertising is one of Amazon's fastest growing businesses. Amazon's advertising portfolio helps merchants, retail vendors, and brand owners succeed via native advertising, which grows incremental sales of their products sold through Amazon. The primary goals are to help shoppers discover new products they love, be the most efficient way for advertisers to meet their business objectives, and build a sustainable business that continuously innovates on behalf of customers. Our products and solutions are strategically important to enable our Retail and Marketplace businesses to drive long-term growth. We deliver billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks and break fresh ground in product and technical innovations every day! The Creative X team within Amazon Advertising time aims to democratize access to high-quality creatives (audio, images, videos, text) by building AI-driven solutions for advertisers. To accomplish this, we are investing in understanding how best users can leverage Generative AI methods such as latent-diffusion models, large language models (LLM), generative audio (music and speech synthesis), computer vision (CV), reinforced learning (RL) and related. As an Applied Scientist you will be part of a close-knit team of other applied scientists, engineers and product managers who are highly collaborative and at the top of their respective fields. We are looking for talented Applied Scientists who are adept at a variety of skills, especially at the interface of how users can use state-of-the-art generative music and audio, computer vision, latent diffusion or related foundational models that will accelerate our plans to generate high-quality creatives on behalf of advertisers. Every member of the team is expected to build customer (advertiser) facing features, contribute to the collaborative spirit within the team, publish, patent, and bring innovative research to raise the bar within the team. You will: - Drive the invention and development of novel methods for the use of Generative AI in ads - Work closely and integrate end-to-end proof-of-concept Machine Learning projects that have a high degree of ambiguity, scale and complexity. - Build interface-oriented systems that use Machine Learning models, perform proof-of-concept, experiment, optimize, and deploy your models into production; work closely with software engineers to assist in productionizing your ML models. - Run A/B experiments, gather data, and perform statistical analysis. - Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large-scale data analysis, machine-learning model development, model validation and serving. - Mentor and help recruit Applied Scientists to the team. - Present results and explain methods to senior leadership. - Willingness to publish research at internal and external top scientific venues. - Write and pursue IP submissions. Key job responsibilities This role is focused on developing Machine Learning and Generative AI methods to augment generative imagery and videos. You will develop new paradigms that will impact how users can engage and benefit from GenAI and that are at the core of advertising-facing tools that we are launching. You will also work on development of ML and GenAI models. You will conduct literature reviews to stay on the top of the field. You will regularly engage with product managers, who will partner with you to productize your work. About the team
  • US, NY, New York
    Job ID: 10582742
    (Updated 10 days ago)
    We are seeking an Applied Scientist to develop and optimize Visual Inertial Odometry (VIO) and sensor fusion systems for our intelligent robots. In this role, you will design, implement, and deploy state estimation and tracking algorithms that enable robots to understand their position and motion in real time, even in challenging and dynamic environments. You will own the full pipeline from algorithm development through embedded deployment, ensuring that perception systems run efficiently on resource-constrained robotic hardware. You will also leverage modern machine learning approaches to push the boundaries of classical perception methods, combining learned representations with geometric techniques to achieve robust, real-time performance. This is a deeply hands-on role. You will work directly with sensors, hardware, and real-world data, while prototyping, testing, and iterating in physical environments. The ideal candidate has strong foundations in VIO and sensor fusion, practical experience optimizing algorithms for embedded platforms, and familiarity with how modern deep learning is transforming perception. Key job responsibilities - Design and implement Visual Inertial Odometry algorithms for robust real-time state estimation on robotic platforms like Sprout - Develop multi-sensor fusion pipelines integrating cameras, IMUs, and other sensing modalities for accurate pose tracking - Optimize perception and tracking algorithms for deployment on embedded hardware (e.g., ARM, GPU-accelerated edge devices) under strict latency and power constraints - Apply modern ML-based perception techniques (learned features, depth estimation, neural odometry) to complement and improve classical geometric approaches - Build and maintain calibration, evaluation, and benchmarking infrastructure for perception systems - Collaborate with hardware, controls, and navigation teams to integrate perception outputs into the robot’s autonomy stack - Lead technical projects from research prototyping through production deployment
  • (Updated 6 days ago)
    At Amazon, security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. Our mission is to prevent denied entities from transacting with Amazon businesses. We build automatic mechanisms to detect and prevent prohibited transactions with denied entities using a diverse set of algorithms and machine learning techniques. We screen over a billion events every day and develop algorithms which are able to scale and detect suspicious entities . We are still Day 1 and have an exciting road map to build Machine Learning (ML) and Generative AI (LLM) powered detection and resolution systems to help scale Amazon for years to come. We are seeking an Applied Scientist to join our team and help tackle challenging problems at the forefront of machine learning and artificial intelligence. Working closely with a multidisciplinary team of engineers, data scientists, and domain experts, you will play a crucial role in defining innovative ML/AI-powered customer experiences and solutions. If you have an entrepreneurial mindset, the technical depth to deliver impactful results, and a passion for innovation, we want to hear from you. Key job responsibilities In this role, you will: • Drive the research, design, and development of novel ML/AI models and systems to power critical products and services • Collaborate cross-functionally to deeply understand business requirements, customer needs, and technical constraints • Rapidly prototype, test, and iterate on ML/AI solutions, iterating quickly based on data and feedback • Communicate complex technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders • Stay up-to-date on the latest advancements in AI/ML and identify opportunities to apply emerging techniques A day in the life - Starting the day by reviewing the latest model performance metrics and identifying areas for improvement - Brainstorming new architectures and approaches with your cross-functional team during a whiteboard session - Diving deep into a complex dataset, leveraging advanced statistical and AI techniques to uncover hidden insights - Prototyping a new model and running a series of experiments to optimize its performance - Preparing a presentation to pitch your latest research findings and recommendations to product and engineering leaders - Mentoring junior scientists, providing guidance on coding best practices and problem-solving strategies About the team 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. 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. 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 and 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.
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 10588963
    (Updated 1 days ago)
    We are seeking a Data Scientist II with strong applied-science skills to join our Perfect Order Experience (POE) team. In this role you will build models that anticipate customer, seller, brand, and program outcomes, working at the intersection of predictive modeling, economic reasoning, and business strategy. You will partner closely with business stakeholders to translate complex, open-ended problems into well-defined scientific questions, and develop predictive models that turn those questions into actionable insight. Your work will directly inform how the business grows, protects customers and brands, and makes investment and policy decisions.

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