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  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 2848230
    (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.
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 2852874
    (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.
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 2852883
    (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.
  • US, NJ, Newark
    Job ID: 2846957
    (Updated 41 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. ABOUT THIS ROLE Audible's insights team leverages data to create value for our company and customers. We're seeking a Data Science Lead for our marketing and product measurement science team, to help us understand the return on investment (ROI) of our paid media and brand investments. As a Data Science Lead, you’ll manage a team of scientists working in the media measurement space. Your primary focus will be guiding scientific approach in developing and deploying advanced marketing measurement models (e.g., lifetime value, media mix). You will also lead Audible's scaled experimentation program, maintaining scientific integrity in global paid media experiments and guiding meta-analytical work to assess program health. Additionally, you will serve as the primary scientific contact for third-party media partners (Meta, Google), collaborating with them on new measurement approaches. You'll work with Audible marketers to translate sophisticated scientific methodologies into actionable business strategies, ultimately driving more effective marketing investments. ABOUT YOU As a Data Science Lead, you will provide technical leadership in marketing measurement, design scalable model solutions, collaborate across scientific disciplines, communicate complex concepts clearly, and mentor team members to drive collective success. You have deep technical expertise across statistical modeling, machine learning, causal inference, and experimental design. You demonstrate a strong understanding of experimental design and evaluation. You are an expert in statistical modeling techniques. You have deep experience solving marketing-related problems, such as customer acquisition, retention, and ROI. You possess a strong ownership mindset and the ability to guide a technical team with minimal oversight. Your innovative problem-solving skills thrive in ambiguous environments, and you excel at translating complex scientific concepts into actionable insights. Outstanding business acumen, coupled with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously, defines your professional approach. You are committed to building a positive team culture, reliably delivering against commitments, and have a genuine passion for mentoring and developing scientific talent. You are adaptable across different scientific approaches and comfortable collaborating with cross-disciplinary scientific teams. As a Data Science Lead, you will... - Be a technical leader of other scientists, with substantial scope, impact, and visibility in the marketing measurement space - Understand complex use cases across the business and design scalable, efficient, automated model solutions, including developing, delivering, and improving various marketing measurement models - Collaborate with economists, applied scientists, and other data scientists on the right model specification(s) to serve business needs in the context of paid media measurement - Communicate clearly with senior audiences, translating complex scientific concepts into simplified, relevant outputs that can be quickly understood and actioned by both technical and non-technical colleagues - Mentor and grow scientists in your team and across Audible 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.
  • DE, BE, Berlin
    Job ID: 2855334
    (Updated 62 days ago)
    Are you excited about building high-performance robotic systems that can perceive, learn, and act intelligently alongside humans? The Amazon Robotics team is creating new products and technologies that make this possible, at Amazon scale. The Amazon Robotics team is seeking broad, curious robotics engineers to join our diverse, full-stack team. In addition to designing, building, and delivering end-to-end robotic systems, our team is responsible for core infrastructure and tools that serve as the backbone of our robotic applications, enabling roboticists, machine learning scientists, and software engineers to collaborate and deploy systems in the lab and in the field. Key job responsibilities - As a manager, you will be responsible for delivering critical robotic capabilities. - You will manage across the science and engineering job families required to build these systems. - You will prioritize being a great people manager: motivating, rewarding, and coaching your diverse team is the most important part of this role. You will recruit and retain top talent and excel in day-to-day people and performance management tasks. - You will keep your technical skills current to contribute to architecture and design discussions. - You will regularly take part in deep-dive troubleshooting exercises and drive technical post-mortem discussions to identify the root cause of complex issues. - Set a vision for your team and create product roadmaps. Help your team sort out technical and product requirements and priorities. Use project management skills to deliver product roadmap items and other cross-team projects.
  • IL, Haifa
    Job ID: 2837233
    (Updated 88 days ago)
    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. Are you an inventive, curious, and driven Applied Scientist with a strong background in AI and Deep Learning? Join Amazon’s AWS Multimodal generative AI science team and be a catalyst for groundbreaking advancements in Computer Vision, Generative AI, and foundational models. As part of the AWS Multimodal generative AI science team, you’ll lead innovative research projects, develop state-of-the-art algorithms, and pioneer solutions that will directly impact millions of Amazon customers. Leveraging Amazon’s vast computing power, you’ll work alongside a supportive and diverse group of top-tier scientists and engineers, contributing to products that redefine the industry. Key job responsibilities * Lead research initiatives in Multimodal generative AI, pushing the boundaries of model efficiency, accuracy, and scalability. * Design, implement, and evaluate deep learning models in a production environment. * Collaborate with cross-functional teams to transfer research outcomes into scalable AWS services. * Publish in top-tier conferences and journals, keeping Amazon at the forefront of innovation. * Mentor and guide other scientists and engineers, fostering a culture of scientific curiosity and excellence. 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.
  • US, CA, Santa Clara
    Job ID: 2841198
    (Updated 7 days ago)
    Come join the AWS AI science team in building the next generation models for intelligent automation. AWS, the world-leading provider of cloud services, has fostered the creation and growth of countless new businesses, and is a positive force for good. Our customers bring problems that will give Applied Scientists like you endless opportunities to see your research have a positive and immediate impact in the world. You will have the opportunity to partner with technology and business teams to solve real-world problems, have access to virtually endless data and computational resources, and to world-class engineers and developers that can help bring your ideas into the world. As part of the team, we expect that you will develop innovative solutions to hard problems, and publish your findings at peer reviewed conferences and workshops. We are looking for world class researchers with experience in one or more of the following areas - autonomous agents, API orchestration, Planning, large multimodal models (especially vision-language models), reinforcement learning (RL) and sequential decision making. We are located in the USA (Seattle, Pasadena, Bay Area). 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. 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. 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. 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. Mentorship 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, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional. Diverse Experiences Amazon 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.
  • US, CA, Santa Clara
    Job ID: 2845874
    (Updated 38 days ago)
    AWS is looking for a passionate, talented, and inventive Applied Scientists with a strong machine learning background to help build industry-leading technology. Our mission is to provide a delightful experience to Amazon’s customers by pushing the envelope in multimodal LLMs and VLMs in Computer Vision. Key job responsibilities As part of our AI team in Amazon AWS, you will work alongside internationally recognized experts to develop novel algorithms and modeling techniques to advance the state-of-the-art in human language technology. Your work will directly impact millions of our customers in the form of products and services that make use of speech and language technology. You will gain hands on experience with Amazon’s heterogeneous speech, text, and structured data sources, and large-scale computing resources to accelerate advances in spoken language understanding. 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. 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. 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. 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. Mentorship 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, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional. Diverse Experiences Amazon 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.
  • US, WA, Bellevue
    Job ID: 2843781
    (Updated 12 days ago)
    Are you seeking an environment where you can drive innovation? Do you want to apply inference, advanced statistical modeling and techniques to solve world's most challenging problems in? Do you want to play a crucial role in the future of Amazon's Retail business? Do you want to be a part of a journey that develops a new technology from scratch for answering critical business question in Amazon Retail? Every time an Amazon customer makes a purchase, a number of systems are involved: these systems help optimize acquisition, enable a number of purchase options, ensure great , store products so they are available for fast delivery, and minimize package frustration. The Technology (SCOT) Group develops and manages these systems. We are central to Amazon customers' ability to find what they want and get it when they want it. The SCOT Lab team within SCOT Forecasting is responsible for designing and executing the inference and experimentation systems that measure the impact of SCOT initiatives. We are looking for senior applied scientists to drive innovation in SCOT by developing/building a new scientific approach and pushing our system further upstream in the innovation process. Key responsibilities of a Research Scientist in IPC Lab include: - Developing new statistical, causal, and machine learning techniques and develop solution prototypes to drive innovation - Working with technical and non-technical customers to design experiments and communicate results - Collaborating with our dedicated software team to create production implementations for large-scale data analysis - Developing an understanding of key business metrics / KPIs and providing clear, compelling analysis that shapes the direction of our business - Presenting research results to our internal research community - Leading training and informational sessions on our science and capabilities - Your contributions will be seen and recognized broadly within Amazon, contributing to the Amazon research corpus and patent portfolio. To help describe some of our challenges, we created a short video about at Amazon - http://bit.ly/amazon-scot Amazon is an Equal Opportunity-Affirmative Action Employer – Minority / Female / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation / Age
  • (Updated 17 days ago)
    The Central Science Team within Amazon’s People Experience and Technology org (PXTCS) uses economics, behavioral science, statistics, and machine learning to proactively identify mechanisms and process improvements which simultaneously improve Amazon and the lives, well-being, and the value of work to Amazonians. We are an interdisciplinary team, which combines the talents of science and engineering to develop and deliver solutions that measurably achieve this goal. We are looking for a Senior Economist who is able to provide structure around complex business problems, hone those complex problems into specific, scientific questions, and test those questions to generate insights. The ideal candidate will work with various science, engineering, operations, and analytics teams to estimate models and algorithms on large scale data, design pilots and measure their impact, and transform successful prototypes into improved policies and programs at scale. They will lead teams of researchers to produce robust, objective research results and insights which can be communicated to a broad audience inside and outside of Amazon. Ideal candidates will work closely with business partners to develop science that solves the most important business challenges. They will work well in a team setting with individuals from diverse disciplines and backgrounds. They will serve as an ambassador for science and a scientific resource for business teams, so that scientific processes permeate throughout the HR organization to the benefit of Amazonians and Amazon. Ideal candidates will own the development of scientific models and manage the data analysis, modeling, and experimentation that is necessary for estimating and validating models. They will be customer-centric – clearly communicating scientific approaches and findings to business leaders, listening to and incorporate their feedback, and delivering successful scientific solutions. This position is for an individual contributor role, but a successful candidate could have the opportunity to take on 1-3 direct reports. Key job responsibilities Use structural economic modeling to evaluate the impact of policies on employee outcomes, and examine how external labor market and economic conditions impact Amazon's ability to hire and retain talent. A day in the life Work with teammates to apply economic methods to business problems. This might include identifying the appropriate research questions, writing code to estimate a structural model, or writing and presenting a document with findings to business leaders. Our economists also collaborate with partner teams throughout the process, from understanding their challenges, to developing a research agenda that will address those challenges, to help them implement solutions. About the team We are a multidisciplinary team that combines the talents of science and engineering to develop innovative solutions to make Amazon Earth's Best Employer.

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Amazon collaborates with leading academic organizations to drive innovation and to ensure that research is creating solutions whose benefits are shared broadly across all sectors of society.