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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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  • (Updated 89 days ago)
    Do you want to help shape the future of Amazon's physical retail presence? Worldwide Grocery Stores (WWGS), Location Strategy and Analytics team is looking for a Sr. Applied Scientist to join us in developing advanced forecasting models, optimization models, and analytical tools to support critical real estate and network planning decisions for Amazon's Worldwide Grocery business, including Whole Foods Market. Our team is responsible for developing predictive models and tools to support Real Estate and Topology analysts in making important decisions regarding our stores—including new store openings, relocations, closures, remodels, design, new formats, and more. We leverage statistical modeling, machine learning, and GenAI to build solutions for store sales forecasting, sales transfer effects, macrospace optimization, store network optimization, store network diffusion planning, and causal effects. As a Sr. Applied Scientist on our team, you will apply your deep technical expertise to tackle complex business problems and develop innovative solutions to improve our forecasting, decision-making capabilities, and MLOps. You will collaborate with a diverse team of scientists, economists, and business partners to identify opportunities, develop hypotheses, build internal products, and translate analytical insights into actionable recommendations for Executive Leadership. Key job responsibilities - Design and implement forecasting models and machine learning solutions to predict store performance and optimize our retail network. - Analyze large datasets to uncover insights and patterns related to store performance, customer behavior, and market dynamics. - Develop and own end-to-end solutions, tools and frameworks to scale our ML model development, MLOps, and data analysis. - Leverage GenAI models to enhance user interaction with our solutions, improve overall user experience, and build new features. - Present research findings and recommendations to scientists, business leaders, and executives. - Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive adoption of models and insights. - Mentor junior scientists, providing technical guidance and supporting their professional growth. - Stay current on latest developments in relevant fields and propose innovative approaches. About the team We are a team of scientists passionate about leveraging data and advanced analytics to drive strategic decisions for Amazon's grocery business. Our work directly impacts Amazon's worldwide grocery store growth and development strategy. We foster a collaborative environment where team members are encouraged to think creatively, challenge assumptions, and pursue novel approaches to solving complex problems. Our team is at the forefront of applying a multitude of techniques - including GenAI - to improve our scientific solutions and products.
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 10422870
    (Updated 8 days ago)
    Are you passionate about Generative AI? Do you want to help define the future of Go to Market (GTM) at AWS using generative AI? In this role, you will help our customers build and deploy GenAI enabled applications using Amazon Bedrock, customize Generative AI models, and help enterprise customers leverage these models to power end applications. You will engage with product owners to influence product direction and help our customers tap into new markets by utilizing GenAI along with AWS Services. The Worldwide Specialist Organization (WWSO) is part of AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS), which is responsible for driving revenue, adoption, and growth from the largest and fastest growing small- and mid-market accounts to enterprise-level customers including public sector. We work backwards from our customer’s most complex and business critical problems to build and execute go-to-market plans that turn AWS ideas into multi-billion-dollar businesses. WWSO teams include business development, specialist and technical solutions architecture. As part of WWSO, you'll provide expertise across the entire life cycle of an AWS customer initiative, from developing ideas for new services to accelerating the adoption of established businesses. We pride ourselves on thinking big, delivering exceptional results for our customers, and working across AWS as #OneTeam The Generative AI Worldwide Specialist team guides AWS customers on building enterprise-grade GenAI systems. This role will support development of techniques, solutions and architectural blueprints that our customers can use to build their own enterprise-wide Generative AI and Agentic systems in a responsible way, helping them balance democratization of access to GenAI and speed of innovation with following best practices around trustworthy AI, cost efficiency, security, etc. This role specifically will be owning development of best practices around Responsible AI covering such important topics as guardrails, veracity, model evaluations, automated reasoning, fairness, explainability, etc. The role with partner with others on the team to develop comprehensive guidance for AWS GenAI customers using Amazon Bedrock. The deliverables include: helping customers solve complex problems with data science, contributions to the joint technical guidance, architectural blueprints / whitepapers, feedback to AWS Bedrock science teams, thought leadership in the form of public writing and speaking, as well as internal enablement. The role has a global remit. Key job responsibilities - Customer Advisor- Implement, and deploy state of the art machine learning algorithms under Gen AI. You will build prototypes, troubleshoot customer issues, and explore new solutions. You will interact closely with our customers and with the academic community. - Thought Leadership – Evangelize AWS features relating to Responsible AI and share best practices through forums such as AWS blogs, white-papers, reference architectures and public-speaking events such as AWS Summit, AWS re:Invent, etc. - Partner with SAs, Sales, Business Development and the AI/ML Service teams to accelerate customer adoption and providing guidance on their customer engagements. - Develop and support an AWS internal community of ML related subject matter experts worldwide. Create field enablement materials for the broader SA population, to help them understand how to integrate Amazon Web Services GenAI solutions into customer architectures.
  • US, MA, Boston
    Job ID: 10404529
    (Updated 16 days ago)
    We are looking for researchers who aim to build super-intelligent AI systems that leverage proof assistants to guide learning and reasoning. Our neuro-symbolic AI technology is applied across a wide range of science and engineering domains within Amazon, and you will join the team at the forefront of this research. As a Principal Applied Scientist, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the definition, vision, and development of product features from beginning to end. You will: - Define and implement new neuro-symbolic applications that employ scalable and efficient approaches to solve complex problems. - Work in an agile, startup-like development environment, where you are always working on the most important stuff. - Deliver high-quality scientific artifacts. About the team We work closely with academia. Our team includes an Amazon Scholar in mathematics, and we maintain active research collaborations with faculty at leading CS departments (MIT, Berkeley, CMU).
  • (Updated 16 days ago)
    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 Scientist to bring diverse perspectives, ideas, and skill-sets to make Prime Video even better for our customers. You will spend your time as a hands-on machine learning practitioner and a research leader. You will play a key role on the team, building and guiding machine learning models from the ground up. 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 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. 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.
  • CA, BC, Vancouver
    Job ID: 10416539
    (Updated 26 days ago)
    Amazon ‘s Tax engine organisation is looking for a passionate and innovative science leader to take its science initiatives to new heights. Amazon Tax Engine platform backs all of the orders placed across Amazon e-commerce. We serve Amazon customers and sellers by correctly computing and collecting the tax amounts when an Amazon order is placed globally. We are responsible for correctly attributing products to the correct Tax categories applicable for the specific country, state and county, providing core calculation services that calculate taxes (sales tax and VAT) for all Amazon sales, physical and digital. Our challenges include staying on top of the complex and ever-changing global tax legislations as well as computing calculations correctly and quickly, thousands of times a second, with accuracy close to 100%. We use language models at scale for Tax classification of the diverse products in Amazon catalogue We have a growing portfolio of science problems that includes balance of predictive and generative AI -including language comprehension, causal reasoning and active learning. Key job responsibilities - Manage and mentor a talented team of senior Appleid Scientists and SDEs. - Improve process and methodologies pertaining to deliverables of the team. - Strike the right balance between experimentation and delivery for sustained impact and long term gains. - Partner with stakeholders and customers to build roadmap for new products and services.
  • (Updated 12 days ago)
    We are seeking a Simulation Engineer to join our AI robotics research team, focusing on high-fidelity synthetic data generation. In this role, you will leverage classic game engine architecture, 3D pipelines, and procedural generation techniques to build highly realistic, scalable environments. You will work alongside researchers to generate the 3D datasets required to train large-scale foundation models for robotics perception. Key job responsibilities - Architect and develop scalable 3D pipelines for high-fidelity synthetic data generation. - Build procedural generation systems to create diverse, dynamic environments and varying object configurations at scale. - Develop and maintain automated asset toolchains that support industry-standard ecosystem formats (e.g., USD, OpenVDB). - Optimize rendering performance and pipeline throughput to meet the massive data requirements of ML training. - Collaborate with researchers to define synthetic data requirements and ensure the generated data meets the visual fidelity needed for sim-to-real transfer. About the team At Frontier AI & Robotics (FAR), we're not just advancing robotics – we're reimagining it from the ground up. Our team is building the future of intelligent robotics through frontier foundation models and end-to-end learned systems. We tackle some of the most challenging problems in AI and robotics, from developing sophisticated perception systems to creating adaptive manipulation strategies that work in complex, real-world scenarios. What sets us apart is our unique combination of ambitious research vision and practical impact. We leverage Amazon's massive computational infrastructure and rich real-world datasets to train and deploy state-of-the-art foundation models. Our work spans the full spectrum of robotics intelligence – from multimodal perception using images, videos, and sensor data, to sophisticated manipulation strategies that can handle diverse real-world scenarios. We're building systems that don't just work in the lab, but scale to meet the demands of Amazon's global operations. Join us if you're excited about pushing the boundaries of what's possible in robotics, working with world-class researchers, and seeing your innovations deployed at unprecedented scale.
  • IN, KA, Bengaluru
    Job ID: 10463418
    (Updated 37 days ago)
    Are you passionate about applying machine learning and advanced statistical techniques to protect one of the world's largest online marketplaces? Do you want to be at the forefront of developing innovative solutions that improve Amazon's customers experience? Do you thrive in a collaborative environment where diverse perspectives drive breakthrough solutions? If yes, we invite you to join the Amazon Customer Fulfillment & Prime analytics team. We're seeking an exceptional scientist who can revolutionize how we delight our customers. As a key member of our team, you'll develop and deploy machine learning systems that analyze millions of customer interactions daily, ensuring state of art experience for customers across 10 countries. Your work will directly impact the shopping experience for hundreds of millions of customers worldwide. Key job responsibilities • Use machine learning and statistical techniques to create scalable abuse detection solutions that identify fraudulent customer behavior, rings of accounts, identity change, holistic customer risk and marketplace manipulation schemes • Innovate with the latest GenAI technology to build highly automated solutions for efficient customer promotions • Design, develop and deploy end-to-end machine learning solutions in the Amazon production environment to delight Amazon customers • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop comprehensive ML/statistical models that can scale to millions of customers and 10+ countries About the team You'll be working closely with business partners, science and engineering teams to create end-to-end scalable machine learning solutions that address real-world problems. You will build scalable, efficient, and automated processes for large-scale data analyses, model development, model validation, and model implementation. You will also be providing clear and compelling reports for your solutions and contributing to the ongoing innovation and knowledge-sharing that are central to the team's success.
  • US, VA, Arlington
    Job ID: 10411974
    (Updated 40 days ago)
    As a Data Scientist on our team, you will leverage advanced analytics and machine learning to protect our cloud infrastructure from security threats. You'll develop and deploy sophisticated anomaly detection models, predictive algorithms, and real-time analysis systems that identify and automate the mitigation of cyber threats across Amazon's infrastructure. Your expertise in statistical analysis, machine learning, and big data processing will be crucial in building scalable security solutions. You'll collaborate with software engineers, security engineers, and fellow data scientists to: - Analyze large-scale security data using statistical methods and data mining techniques - Create automated systems for real-time pattern recognition and risk assessment - Build data pipelines and ETL processes to handle massive security datasets - Translate complex analytical findings into actionable security insights We use the full power of AWS technologies, including Amazon SageMaker, EMR, and other ML/AI services to protect every AWS customer from security threats. Experience with Python and a strong background in statistical analysis and machine learning are essential. We're looking for a new teammate who is enthusiastic, empathetic, curious, motivated, reliable, and able to work effectively with a diverse team of peers. We want someone who will help us amplify the positive & inclusive team culture we've been building. We understand that life is dynamic and we have a flexible work environment that enables individuals to adjust their work schedule to accommodate personal needs. Our team is distributed, though most of the team is located in Maryland and Virginia. We generally keep core business hours of 10:00 AM EST - 3:00 PM EST, while allowing flexibility as needed. At AWS Security, it’s not about clocking hours, it’s about delivering results. On-Call Responsibility This position involves on-call responsibilities, typically for one week every two months. We don’t like getting paged in the middle of the night or on the weekend, so we work to ensure that our systems are fault tolerant. When we do get paged, we work together to resolve the root cause so that we don’t get paged for the same issue twice. Key job responsibilities - Running experiments to assess potential risk of security responses. - Expanding our existing LLM agent pipelines - Analyzing post mortems to understand what data signals could have prevented the occurence About the team Diverse Experiences Amazon Security 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 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. We offer talented security professionals the chance to accelerate their careers with opportunities to build experience in a wide variety of areas including cloud, devices, retail, entertainment, healthcare, operations, and physical stores. 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 & 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. 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.
  • (Updated 71 days ago)
    Amazon's International Technology org in EU (EU INTech) is creating new ways for Amazon customers discovering Amazon catalog through new and innovative Customer experiences. Our vision is to provide the most relevant content and CX for their shopping mission. We are responsible for building the software and machine learning models to surface high quality and relevant content to the Amazon customers worldwide across the site. The team, mainly located in Madrid Technical Hub, London and Luxembourg, comprises Software Developer and ML Engineers, Applied Scientists, Product Managers, Technical Product Managers and UX Designers who are experts on several areas of ranking, computer vision, recommendations systems, Search as well as CX. Are you interested on how the experiences that fuel Catalog and Search are built to scale to customers WW? Are interesting on how we use state of the art AI to generate and provide the most relevant content? Key job responsibilities We are looking for Applied Scientists who are passionate to solve highly ambiguous and challenging problems at global scale. You will be responsible for major science challenges for our team, including working with text to image and image to text state of the art models to scale to enable new Customer Experiences WW. You will design, develop, deliver and support a variety of models in collaboration with a variety of roles and partner teams around the world. You will influence scientific direction and best practices and maintain quality on team deliverables.
  • JP, 13, Tokyo
    Job ID: 10404977
    (Updated 19 days ago)
    We are seeking an exceptional Senior Data Scientist to join our JP Seller Services team, where you will play a pivotal role in enabling seller growth and success on Amazon Marketplace through innovative products, technology, and data-driven solutions. As a key member of JP Seller Services, you will collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders across Amazon to develop sophisticated AI-native science solutions and innovative problem-solving products through advanced analytics, machine learning, statistical modeling and generative AI. These solutions will enable seller business growth on Amazon Marketplace and deliver key strategic decisions impacting our entire business. The ideal candidate combines strong technical depth with the strategic thinking to address complex business problems at scale. At Amazon, you'll work alongside the latest AI and GenAI tools that are increasingly woven into how teams operate: from AI-powered capabilities that accelerate decision-making, to Generative AI that helps you focus on work that truly matters. You'll have opportunities and resources to develop AI fluency at your own pace, with continuous learning built into the culture. Key job responsibilities (1) Implement AI-driven solutions to streamline and accelerate the science model development and evaluation cycle, enabling faster iteration and impact delivery. (2) Develop science-based solutions to optimize seller engagement channel strategies. (3) Build and scale end-to-end AI-native recommendation models using generative AI and ML to identify critical seller challenges and unlock business growth opportunities. (4) Collaborate with stakeholders to transform business insights into rigorous scientific solutions.

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