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The Amazon Q Developer Science team is looking for an Applied Scientist who is passionate about building services and tools for developers that leverage artificial intelligence (AI) agents and machine learning (ML). You will be part of a team building AI-based services for Amazon Q Developer with the focus on redefining the way developer work. The team works in close collaboration with other AWS AI services such as AWS Bedrock, the AWS IDE Toolkit, and Amazon Sagemaker. If you are excited about working in cloud computing and building new AWS services, then we'd love to talk to you. Key job responsibilities As a senior Applied Scientist, you are recognized for your expertise, advise team members on a range of machine learning topics, and work closely with software engineers to drive the delivery of end-to-end modeling solutions. Your work focuses on ambiguous problem areas where the business problem or opportunity may not yet be defined. The problems that you take on require scientific breakthroughs. You take a long-term view of the business objectives, product roadmaps, technologies, and how they should evolve. You drive mindful discussions with customers, engineers, and scientist peers. You bring perspective and provide context for current technology choices, and make recommendations on the right modeling and component design approach to achieve the desired customer experience and business outcome. 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.

The JP Books - Manga team is looking for a Sr. Applied Scientist to lead in our AI related efforts to develop new prototypes and concepts that can then be translated into meaningful technologies impacting millions of customers. In this position, you will be expected to research, design and build/train/tune models and provide recommendations in areas including but not limited to natural language processing (automatic translation, summarization, extraction) and image processing (boundary detection, image understanding, image generation). The ideal candidate will have strong knowledge in the areas of Computer Vision, Translations and or Image understanding/generation. This is the ideal role if you are excited about leveraging science for tangible business impact to the Manga books business. Amazon encourages publications, and you will work within an international team of engineers, all based in Tokyo, Japan while collaborating with partner scientists in Tokyo and Seattle. Key job responsibilities As an Sr. Applied Scientist, your responsibilities will be: - Spot opportunities for innovation using AI for the JP Manga business, and publish to internal or external conferences. - Work closely with other Books scientists and engineers to build, review and improve your model design proposals. - Partner with product managers and other business stakeholders, documenting and explaining your progress in business reviews, and being the technical voice in charge of your product. - Be active in the community, participating in science education/growth activities for Books and Amazon JP - Keep up to date with scientific development in related field About the team Our team develops and owns the experience for Manga books on Amazon in Japan. We build products powering the solutions offered to publishers, authors and customers in Japan and worldwide. We interact with Product Managers and business stakeholders to develop features that allow us to better serve our customers. We place strong emphasis on continuous learning through internal mechanisms for our team to keep on growing their expertise and keep up with the state of the art. Our mission is to establish Amazon Manga as the go-to destination for digital and print Manga.

Prime Video is a first-stop entertainment destination offering customers a vast collection of premium programming in one app available across thousands of devices. Prime members can customize their viewing experience and find their favorite movies, series, documentaries, and live sports – including Amazon MGM Studios-produced series and movies; licensed fan favorites; and programming from Prime Video add-on subscriptions such as Apple TV+, Max, Crunchyroll and MGM+. All customers, regardless of whether they have a Prime membership or not, can rent or buy titles via the Prime Video Store, and can enjoy even more content for free with ads. Are you interested in shaping the future of entertainment? Prime Video's technology teams are creating best-in-class digital video experience. As a Prime Video technologist, you’ll have end-to-end ownership of the product, user experience, design, and technology required to deliver state-of-the-art experiences for our customers. You’ll get to work on projects that are fast-paced, challenging, and varied. You’ll also be able to experiment with new possibilities, take risks, and collaborate with remarkable people. We’ll look for you to bring your diverse perspectives, ideas, and skill-sets to make Prime Video even better for our customers. With global opportunities for talented technologists, you can decide where a career Prime Video Tech takes you! Key job responsibilities - Develop foundation models for content understanding using state-of-the-art deep learning and multimodal learning techniques to analyze video, audio, and text - Build time sequence foundation models to understand and predict customer behavior patterns and viewing trajectories - Work closely with engineers and product managers to design, implement and launch solutions end-to-end across various Prime Video experiences - Design and conduct offline and online (A/B) experiments to evaluate proposed solutions based on in-depth data analyses - Effectively communicate technical and non-technical ideas with teammates and stakeholders - Stay up-to-date with advancements and the latest modeling techniques in foundation models, multimodal learning, and time series analysis - Publish your research findings in top conferences and journals A day in the life We're using advanced approaches such as foundation models to connect information about our videos and customers from a variety of information sources, acquiring and processing data sets on a scale that only a few companies in the world can match. This will enable us to recommend titles effectively, even when we don't have a large behavioral signal (to tackle the cold-start title problem). It will also allow us to find our customer's niche interests, helping them discover groups of titles that they didn't even know existed. We are looking for creative & customer obsessed machine learning scientists who can apply the latest research, state of the art algorithms and ML to build highly scalable page personalization solutions. You'll be a research leader in the space and a hands-on ML practitioner, guiding and collaborating with talented teams of engineers and scientists and senior leaders in the Prime Video organization. You will also have the opportunity to publish your research at internal and external conferences. About the team Prime Video Recommendation Science team owns science solution to power recommendation and personalization experience on various Prime Video surfaces and devices. We work closely with the engineering teams to launch our solutions in production.

Prime Video is a first-stop entertainment destination offering customers a vast collection of premium programming in one app available across thousands of devices. Prime members can customize their viewing experience and find their favorite movies, series, documentaries, and live sports – including Amazon MGM Studios-produced series and movies; licensed fan favorites; and programming from Prime Video add-on subscriptions such as Apple TV+, Max, Crunchyroll and MGM+. All customers, regardless of whether they have a Prime membership or not, can rent or buy titles via the Prime Video Store, and can enjoy even more content for free with ads. Are you interested in shaping the future of entertainment? Prime Video's technology teams are creating best-in-class digital video experience. As a Prime Video technologist, you’ll have end-to-end ownership of the product, user experience, design, and technology required to deliver state-of-the-art experiences for our customers. You’ll get to work on projects that are fast-paced, challenging, and varied. You’ll also be able to experiment with new possibilities, take risks, and collaborate with remarkable people. We’ll look for you to bring your diverse perspectives, ideas, and skill-sets to make Prime Video even better for our customers. With global opportunities for talented technologists, you can decide where a career Prime Video Tech takes you! We are looking for a self-motivated, passionate and resourceful Applied Science Manager to bring diverse perspectives, ideas, and skill-sets to make Prime Video even better for our customers. You will lead a strong science team and work closely with other science and engineering leaders, product and business partners together to build the best personalized customer experience for Prime Video. At the end of the day, you will have the reward of seeing your contributions benefit millions of Amazon.com customers worldwide. Key job responsibilities - Lead to develop AI solutions for various Prime Video recommendation and personalization systems using Deep learning, GenAI, Reinforcement Learning, recommendation system and optimization methods; - Work closely with engineers and product managers to design, implement and launch AI solutions end-to-end; - Effectively communicate technical and non-technical ideas with teammates and stakeholders; - Stay up-to-date with advancements and the latest modeling techniques in the field; - Hire and grow a science team working in this exciting video personalization domain. About the team Prime Video Recommendation Science team owns science solution to power recommendation and personalization experience on various devices. We work closely with the engineering teams to launch our solutions in production.

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! As a Senior Applied Scientist on this team, you will: - Be the technical leader in Machine Learning; lead efforts within this team and across other teams. - Perform hands-on analysis and modeling of enormous data sets to develop insights that increase traffic monetization and merchandise sales, without compromising the shopper experience. - Drive end-to-end Machine Learning projects that have a high degree of ambiguity, scale, complexity. - Build 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. - Research new and innovative machine learning approaches. - Recruit Applied Scientists to the team and provide mentorship. Why you will love this opportunity: Amazon is investing heavily in building a world-class advertising business. This team defines and delivers a collection of advertising products that drive discovery and sales. Our solutions generate billions in revenue and drive long-term growth for Amazon’s Retail and Marketplace businesses. We deliver billions of ad impressions, millions of clicks daily, and break fresh ground to create world-class products. We are a highly motivated, collaborative, and fun-loving team with an entrepreneurial spirit - with a broad mandate to experiment and innovate. Impact and Career Growth: You will invent new experiences and influence customer-facing shopping experiences to help suppliers grow their retail business and the auction dynamics that leverage native advertising; this is your opportunity to work within the fastest-growing businesses across all of Amazon! Define a long-term science vision for our advertising business, driven from our customers' needs, translating that direction into specific plans for research and applied scientists, as well as engineering and product teams. This role combines science leadership, organizational ability, technical strength, product focus, and business understanding. Team video https://youtu.be/zD_6Lzw8raE

Amazon is looking for a passionate, talented, and inventive Applied Scientist with a strong machine learning background to help build industry-leading technology in generative AI and foundational models. 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 generative AI. Your work will directly impact millions of our customers in the form of products and services that make use of speech, vision and language technology. You will gain hands on experience with Amazon’s heterogeneous speech, text, image and structured data sources, and large-scale computing resources to accelerate advances in machine learning and foundation models. More specifically, you will have the opportunity to impact millions of our customers by researching and building innovative solutions using Agentic AI. Agentic AI drives innovation at the forefront of artificial intelligence, enabling customers to transform their businesses through cutting-edge generative AI solutions. We build and deliver the foundational AI services that power the future of cloud computing, helping organizations harness the potential of AI to solve their most complex challenges. Join our dynamic team of AI/ML practitioners, applied scientists, software engineers, and solution architects who work backwards from customer needs to create groundbreaking technologies. If you're passionate about shaping the future of AI while making a meaningful impact for customers worldwide, we want to hear from you. A day in the life A day in the life 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) 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.

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 Consumer Instock Value (CIV) team within Amazon's Supply Chain Optimization Technology (SCOT) Group develops and manages systems that estimate the long-term impact of inventory availability and delivery speed changes at the product level. Our estimates are crucial inputs for multiple production systems across Amazon's supply chain planning, helping teams make critical decisions about inventory management, selection, and placement. Key responsibilities of a Data Scientist in CIV Team 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 model improvements 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.

As a Senior Applied Scientist for Last Hundred Yards Automation, you will be at the forefront of developing cutting-edge AI and ML solutions that power our autonomous delivery robots. This role combines deep expertise in machine learning, computer vision, and robotics to solve complex challenges in real-world autonomous navigation, obstacle detection, and dynamic path planning. You will work closely with robotics engineers, software developers, and product teams to research, design, and implement sophisticated algorithms that enable safe and efficient last-yard delivery operations. This position requires a unique blend of theoretical knowledge and practical implementation skills, with a focus on transforming research concepts into production-ready solutions that can operate reliably in diverse real-world environments. Key job responsibilities The Senior Applied Scientist will lead the development and implementation of advanced AI/ML models for autonomous navigation, focusing on critical areas such as real-time object detection, semantic scene understanding, and predictive movement planning. You will be responsible for designing and conducting experiments, analyzing complex datasets, and developing novel algorithms to improve robot performance and reliability. The role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to integrate ML solutions into the robotics platform, optimizing model performance for edge computing, and establishing metrics for continuous improvement. You will also mentor junior scientists, contribute to research publications, and stay current with latest developments in the field. Key activities include developing robust ML pipelines, implementing state-of-the-art deep learning architectures, and creating innovative solutions for challenging problems such as adverse weather navigation, multi-robot coordination, and human-robot interaction. Success in this role requires balancing research excellence with practical implementation, while maintaining a strong focus on safety and reliability in autonomous systems. About the team LMDA (Last Mile Delivery Automation) is a cutting-edge automation system designed to revolutionize the final phase of package delivery, focusing specifically on the last hundred yards from delivery vehicle to customer doorstep. The system integrates autonomous robots equipped with advanced AI/ML algorithms, real-time navigation capabilities, and smart obstacle avoidance technology to efficiently transport packages to their final destination. These robots are designed to navigate various terrains, including sidewalks, building entrances, and residential complexes, while adhering to local safety regulations and maintaining secure delivery protocols. LMDA incorporates cloud-based fleet management, real-time tracking, and dynamic route optimization to ensure seamless coordination between delivery vehicles and robots. The system features a user-friendly interface for both delivery personnel and customers, providing live tracking, delivery notifications, and interactive robot communication. As labor costs rise and delivery volumes increase, LMDA represents a scalable, cost-effective solution that addresses the growing challenges of last-mile delivery while significantly improving operational efficiency and customer satisfaction.

Are you fascinated by the power of Large Language Models (LLM) and applying Generative AI to solve complex challenges within one of Amazon's most significant businesses? Amazon Selection and Catalog Systems (ASCS) builds the systems that host and run the world’s largest e-Commerce products catalog - it powers the online buying experience for customers worldwide so they can find, discover and buy anything they want. Amazon’s customers rely on the completeness, consistency and correctness of Amazon's product data to make well-informed purchase decisions. We develop LLM applications that make Catalog the best-in-class source of product information for all products worldwide. This problem is challenging due to sheer scale (billions of products in the catalog), diversity (products ranging from electronics to groceries) and multitude of input sources (millions of sellers contributing product data with different quality). You will lead the Amazon Catalog Science team and own devising the strategy and execution plans that power initiatives ranging from: developing tuning artifacts on top of foundational LLMs, training ML models, performing fact extraction, automatic detection of missing product information, active learning mechanisms for scaling human tasks, building applications for distilling product information, building mechanisms to analyze product composition, ingest images, text, and unstructured data to drive deep understanding of products at scale. The right candidate will be a leader who lives and breathes innovation. They'll foster a culture where creative thinking is celebrated and bold ideas can take root. Most importantly, they'll be able to transform this innovative spirit into tangible results, skillfully guiding the team from inspiring vision to real-world impact through careful execution of our strategic roadmap.

The Perfect Order Experience (POE) AI team combines artificial intelligence, machine learning, and economic insights to ensure exceptional customer experiences and seller success on Amazon. We develop advanced scientific solutions that protect product authenticity, maintain quality standards, and safeguard intellectual property across Amazon's vast catalog. Our work spans from building detection systems using state-of-the-art Large Language Models to creating automated investigation processes and risk treatment mechanisms. Our solutions directly impact billions of customer interactions and enable millions of sellers to thrive while maintaining the highest standards of trust and quality. We are seeking an exceptional Senior Applied Science Manager to lead key AI initiatives to ensure a perfect order experience for Amazon customers. In this role, you will spearhead the development of a domain specific large language model designed to comprehend complex seller behaviors and relationships. You will lead the research and implementation on LLM pre-training, fine-tuning and reinforcement learning for LLM reasoning. You will implement and influence ranker models that intelligently adjust product visibility based on risk signals and trust metrics. Key job responsibilities - Drive AI strategy and lead a team of applied scientists in developing ML solutions. - Lead the end-to-end development of a domain specific LLM. - Drive the development of large-scale pre-training and post-training strategies for the LLM using domain-specific datasets. - Architect automated risk detection and treatment systems that combine multi-modal signals to identify product quality issues and implement optimization-based mitigation strategies. - Collaborate with other science teams to develop/ influence ranker models that optimize product visibility.