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  • US, NY, New York
    Job ID: 2775063
    (Updated 61 days ago)
    Amazon is investing heavily in building a world class advertising business and developing a collection of self-service performance advertising products that drive discovery and sales. Our products are strategically important to our Retail and Marketplace businesses for driving long-term growth. We deliver billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks daily and are breaking fresh ground to create world-class products. We are highly motivated, collaborative and fun-loving with an entrepreneurial spirit and bias for action. With a broad mandate to experiment and innovate, we are growing at an unprecedented rate with a seemingly endless range of new opportunities. We are seeking a technical leader for our Supply Science team. This team is within the Sponsored Product team, and works on complex engineering, optimization, econometric, and user-experience problems in order to deliver relevant product ads on Amazon search and detail pages world-wide. The team operates with the dual objective of enhancing the experience of Amazon shoppers and enabling the monetization of our online and mobile page properties. Our work spans ML and Data science across predictive modeling, reinforcement learning (Bandits), adaptive experimentation, causal inference, data engineering. Key job responsibilities Search Supply and Experiences, within Sponsored Products, is seeking a Senior Applied Scientist to join a fast growing team with the mandate of creating new ads experience that elevates the shopping experience for our hundreds of millions customers worldwide. We are looking for a top analytical mind capable of understanding our complex ecosystem of advertisers participating in a pay-per-click model– and leveraging this knowledge to help turn the flywheel of the business. As a Senior Applied Scientist on this team you will: --Act as the technical leader in Machine Learning and drive full life-cycle Machine Learning projects. --Lead technical efforts within this team and across other teams. --Build machine learning models, perform proof-of-concept, experiment, optimize, and deploy your models into production. --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. --Work closely with software engineers to assist in productionizing your ML models. --Research new machine learning approaches. --Recruit Applied Scientists to the team and act as a mentor to other scientists on the team. A day in the life The successful candidate will be a self-starter comfortable with ambiguity, with strong attention to detail, and with an ability to work in a fast-paced, high-energy and ever-changing environment. The drive and capability to shape the direction is a must. About the team We are a customer-obsessed team of engineers, technologists, product leaders, and scientists. We are focused on continuous exploration of contexts and creatives where advertising delivers value to customers and advertisers. We specifically work on new ads experiences globally with the goal of helping shoppers make the most informed purchase decision. We obsess about our customers and we are continuously innovating on their behalf to enrich their shopping experience on Amazon
  • US, MA, North Reading
    Job ID: 2776319
    (Updated 35 days ago)
    Are you inspired by invention? Is problem solving through teamwork in your DNA? Do you like the idea of seeing how your work impacts the bigger picture? Answer yes to any of these and you’ll fit right in here at Amazon Robotics. We are a smart team of doers who work passionately to apply cutting edge advances in robotics and software to solve real-world challenges that will transform our customers’ experiences. We invent new improvements every day. We are Amazon Robotics and we will give you the tools and support you need to invent with us in ways that are rewarding, fulfilling, and fun. Amazon Robotics is seeking students to join us for a 5-6 month internship (full-time, 40 hours per week) as Data Science Co-op. Please note that by applying to this role you would be considered for Data Scientist spring co-op and fall co-op roles on various Amazon Robotics teams. The internship/co-op project(s) and location are determined by the team the student will be working on. Learn more about Amazon Robotics: https://amazon.jobs/en/teams/amazon-robotics About the team Amazon empowers a smarter, faster, more consistent customer experience through automation. Amazon Robotics automates fulfillment center operations using various methods of robotic technology including autonomous mobile robots, sophisticated control software, language perception, power management, computer vision, depth sensing, machine learning, object recognition, and semantic understanding of commands. Amazon Robotics has a dedicated focus on research and development to continuously explore new opportunities to extend its product lines into new areas.
  • (Updated 58 days ago)
    Do you want to join an innovative team of scientists who use deep learning, natural language processing, large language models to help Amazon provide the best seller experience across the entire Seller life cycle, including recruitment, growth, support and provide the best customer and seller experience by automatically mitigating risk? Do you want to build advanced algorithmic systems that help manage the trust and safety of millions of customer interactions every day? Are you excited by the prospect of analyzing and modeling terabytes of data and creating state-of-the-art algorithms to solve real world problems? Are you excited by the opportunity to leverage GenAI and innovate on top of the state-of-the-art large language models to improve customer and seller experience? Do you like to build end-to-end business solutions and directly impact the profitability of the company? Do you like to innovate and simplify processes? If yes, then you may be a great fit to join the Machine Learning Accelerator team in the Amazon Selling Partner Services (SPS) group. Key job responsibilities The scope of an Applied Scientist III in the Selling Partner Services (SPS) Machine Learning Accelerator (MLA) team is to research and prototype Machine Learning applications that solve strategic business problems across SPS domains. Additionally, the scientist collaborates with engineers and business partners to design and implement solutions at scale when they are determined to be of broad benefit to SPS organizations. They develop large-scale solutions for high impact projects, introduce tools and other techniques that can be used to solve problems from various perspectives, and show depth and competence in more than one area. They influence the team’s technical strategy by making insightful contributions to the team’s priorities, approach and planning. They develop and introduce tools and practices that streamline the work of the team, and they mentor junior team members and participate in hiring.
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 2795244
    (Updated 14 days ago)
    We’re working to improve shopping on Amazon using the conversational capabilities of large language models, and are searching for pioneers who are passionate about technology, innovation, and customer experience, and are ready to make a lasting impact on the industry. You'll be working with talented scientists, engineers, and technical program managers (TPM) to innovate on behalf of our customers. If you're fired up about being part of a dynamic, driven team, then this is your moment to join us on this exciting journey! Key job responsibilities We seek strong Applied Scientists with domain expertise in machine learning and deep learning, transformers, generative models, large language models, computer vision and multimodal models. You will devise innovative solutions at scale, pushing the technological and science boundaries. You will guide the design, modeling, and architectural choices of state-of-the-art large language models and multimodal models. You will devise and implement new algorithms and new learning strategies and paradigms. You will be technically hands-on and drive the execution from ideation to productionization. You will work in collaborative environment with other technical and business leaders, to innovate on behalf of the customer.
  • (Updated 8 days ago)
    AWS Resilience owns service to prevent and response to availability and security issues for all AWS Services. In other words, we’re the people who keep the cloud running. We work on the most challenging problems, with constant new services and possible failure modes to prevent — and we’re looking for talented people who want to help. You’ll join a diverse team of software, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles. You’ll collaborate with people across AWS to help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security and availability. You’ll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion. AWS Incident Response is at the heart of the high availability of Amazon Web Services. We make customer impacting events shorter and less frequent by driving large scale event and incident response. Our automated tooling quickly identifies the cause of an issue and helps mitigate its impact, and much of our engineer time is spent on projects to improve the tooling and automation. We also provide manual incident management for AWS and other Amazon groups, directing the resolution of an issue with service teams, and diving deep into those events to drive improvements to the tooling. It's an exciting time to join our team as we are growing and expanding our offerings. Key job responsibilities You will own the organisation strategy relative to the usage of ML, GenAI and propose the best technology to advance our ability to better detect, faster root cause ,and correlate to prior incidents to shorten customer facing AWS incidents. Your work will enable us to identify gaps in our current strategy, learnings from past incidents. You will contribute to shortening incident response through deep analysis and introduction of new technology. About the team AWS Infrastructure Services (AIS) AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. In other words, we’re the people who keep the cloud running. We support all AWS data centers and all of the servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling equipment that ensure our customers have continual access to the innovation they rely on. We work on the most challenging problems, with thousands of variables impacting the supply chain — and we’re looking for talented people who want to help. You’ll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles. You’ll collaborate with people across AWS to help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost for our customers. And you’ll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion. 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.
  • (Updated 49 days ago)
    Amazon Devices is revolutionizing smart home devices and services, and we're seeking a visionary Senior Economist to lead the charge. In this high-impact role, you'll flex your advanced Empirical IO and Structural Demand modeling expertise to tackle complex pricing challenges for a diverse portfolio of world-class products and services. Imagine being the driving force behind the pricing and demand strategies that power game-changing innovations for brands like Alexa, Ring, Blink, and Kids+. Your insights will directly influence critical business decisions, like optimizing, bundled offerings, and feature roadmaps for subscriptions. Get ready to dive deep, uncover valuable insights, and transform them into real-world impact. Whether you're supporting products pre-launch or fine-tuning mature business lines, your work will have a multi-million-dollar influence. As a Senior Economist on the Subscription Science team, you'll collaborate cross-functionally to shape product roadmaps. Sound like the kind of challenge you thrive on? Bring your passion for problem-solving, your knack for translating data into action, and your entrepreneurial spirit – and join us on the frontlines of the connected home revolution. This is your opportunity to make a lasting mark and create experiences that delight customers worldwide. Key job responsibilities - Develop advanced structural demand and econometric frameworks for products and services in Amazon Devices. - Create and drive the scientific roadmap for the team, and influence partner science teams - Drive cross-functional collaboration with scientists, engineers, and business leaders to integrate economic insights into strategic decision-making processes and shape future initiatives. - Communicate insights in writing and verbally, to senior leaders on Product and Finance teams within the company. - Actively mentor junior scientists on advanced econometric techniques. About the team This role is in the Subscription Science team, a cross-functional team in Amazon Devices that focuses on developing science models to inform major one-way door decisions that lead to customer facing changes for our products and services, and using these insights to help product teams focus efforts on improving products for their customers. We do this by building world-class demand models which provide pricing recommendations, for these organizations and help inform critical business investment decisions, frequently presenting results to the highest levels of leadership in the organization. In addition to the primary job location we are open to considering locations near major Amazon hubs including but not limited to Arlington VA (HQ2 near DC).
  • US, WA, Bellevue
    Job ID: 2809411
    (Updated 40 days ago)
    Amazon is committed to exceeding customer expectations. In the Returns and Recommerce organization, we seek to improve customer satisfaction with the items they buy on Amazon, provide new value for our customers, and reduce costs to drive the holistic business flywheel. We are looking for a dynamic, resourceful, and organized Economist to join the Returns and Recommerce organization to develop new, data-driven solutions to support the most critical components of this rapidly scaling team. The Amazon R&R team has an opening for applied micro, empirical IO, and time series and forecasting with demonstrated industry, policy, or academic experience. You will apply economic theory to build econometric models, and prototype and put into production scalable implementations in partnership with technical teams, using Amazon’s world class data systems. You will be expected to be a thought leader as we chart new courses with our customer delivery support technologies. Successful candidates will have a deep knowledge of quantitative modelling in at least one area (ML, forecasting/time series, optimization, causal modeling), the ability to build and refine models that can be implemented in production, the communication skills necessary to explain complex technical approaches to a variety of stakeholders and customers, and the excitement to take iterative approaches to tackle big, long-term problems. Economists at Amazon will be expected to develop new techniques to process large data sets, address quantitative problems, and contribute to design of automated systems around the company. The economics community at Amazon has grown tremendously in the past few years – economists in Amazon R&R partner with economists company-wide to tackle some of the hardest problems at Amazon. As part of the R&R organization, you’ll partner closely with Science, Product, Tech, and Program teams to design innovative solutions to organizational and business problems, communicating highly complex findings to multiple audiences. The ability to understand and measure policy effects and then integrate them into downstream optimization systems is a highly valuable asset. You may come from any one of a variety of econometric backgrounds, but you must be comfortable with multiple modeling techniques, be able to acquire new techniques with practice, and be willing to show flexibility in finding the right technique to match the research problem. Our economists will be comfortable with both ambiguity and autonomy, and excel at investigative analyses. Key job responsibilities Key Responsibilities: - Conceptualize and lead global research initiatives in the Returns and Recommerce space - Guide the technical approach for the design and implementation of successful models and algorithms in support of expert cross-functional teams delivering on demanding projects - Conduct, direct, and coordinate all phases of research projects, demonstrating skill in all stages of the analysis process, including defining key research questions, recommending measures, working with multiple data sources, evaluating methodology and design, executing analysis plans, interpreting and communicating results - Functionally decompose complex problems into simple, straight-forward solutions
  • IL, Tel Aviv
    Job ID: 2774620
    (Updated 22 days ago)
    Come build the future of entertainment with us. Are you interested in helping shape the future of movies and television? Do you want to help define the next generation of how and what Amazon customers are watching? Prime Video is a premium streaming service that offers customers a vast collection of TV shows and movies - all with the ease of finding what they love to watch in one place. We offer customers thousands of popular movies and TV shows including Amazon Originals and exclusive licensed content to exciting live sports events. We also offer our members the opportunity to subscribe to add-on channels which they can cancel at anytime and to rent or buy new release movies and TV box sets on the Prime Video Store. Prime Video is a fast-paced, growth business - available in over 240 countries and territories worldwide. The team works in a dynamic environment where innovating on behalf of our customers is at the heart of everything we do. If this sounds exciting to you, please read on. We are looking for an Applied Scientist to embark on our journey to build a Prime Video Sports tech team in Israel from ground up. Our team will focus on developing products to allow for personalizing the customers’ experience and providing them real-time insights and revolutionary experiences using Computer Vision (CV) and Machine Learning (ML). You will get a chance to work on greenfield, cutting-edge and large-scale engineering and science projects, and a rare opportunity to be one of the founders of the Israel Prime Video Sports tech team in Israel. Key job responsibilities We are looking for an Applied Scientist with domain expertise in Computer Vision or Recommendation Systems to lead development of new algorithms and E2E solutions. You will be part of a team of applied scientists and software development engineers responsible for research, design, development and deployment of algorithms into production pipelines. As a technologist, you will also drive publications of original work in top-tier conferences in Computer Vision and Machine Learning. You will be expected to deal with ambiguity! We're looking for someone with outstanding analytical abilities and someone comfortable working with cross-functional teams and systems. You must be a self-starter and be able to learn on the go. About the team In September 2018 Prime Video launched its first full-scale live streaming experience to world-wide Prime customers with NFL Thursday Night Football. That was just the start. Now Amazon has exclusive broadcasting rights to major leagues like NFL Thursday Night Football, Tennis major like Roland-Garros and English Premium League to list few and are broadcasting live events across 30+ sports world-wide. Prime Video is expanding not just the breadth of live content that it offers, but the depth of the experience. This is a transformative opportunity, the chance to be at the vanguard of a program that will revolutionize Prime Video, and the live streaming experience of customers everywhere.
  • US, CA, Santa Clara
    Job ID: 2773329
    (Updated 71 days ago)
    Machine learning (ML) has been strategic to Amazon from the early years. We are pioneers in areas such as recommendation engines, product search, eCommerce fraud detection, and large-scale optimization of fulfillment center operations. The Generative AI team helps AWS customers accelerate the use of Generative AI to solve business and operational challenges and promote innovation in their organization. As an applied scientist, you are proficient in designing and developing advanced ML models to solve diverse challenges and opportunities. You will be working with terabytes of text, images, and other types of data to solve real-world problems. You'll design and run experiments, research new algorithms, and find new ways of optimizing risk, profitability, and customer experience. We’re looking for talented scientists capable of applying ML algorithms and cutting-edge deep learning (DL) and reinforcement learning approaches to areas such as drug discovery, customer segmentation, fraud prevention, capacity planning, predictive maintenance, pricing optimization, call center analytics, player pose estimation, event detection, and virtual assistant among others. Key job responsibilities The primary responsibilities of this role are to: • Design, develop, and evaluate innovative ML models to solve diverse challenges and opportunities across industries • Interact with customer directly to understand their business problems, and help them with defining and implementing scalable Generative AI solutions to solve them • Work closely with account teams, research scientist teams, and product engineering teams to drive model implementations and new solution A day in the life ABOUT AWS: 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. 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. 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. 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 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.
  • US, WA, Bellevue
    Job ID: 2773413
    (Updated 76 days ago)
    The Geospatial science team solves problems at the interface of ML/AI and GIS for Amazon's last mile delivery programs. We have access to Earth-scale datasets and use them to solve challenging problems that affect hundreds of thousands of transporters. We are looking for strong candidates to join the transportation science team which owns time estimation, GPS trajectory learning, and sensor fusion from phone data. You will join a team of GIS and ML domain experts and be expected to develop ML models, present research results to stakeholders, and collaborate with SDEs to implement the models in production. Key job responsibilities - Understand business problems and translate them into science problems - Develop ML models - Present research results - Write and publish papers - Write production code - Collaborate with SDEs and other scientists

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