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At Amazon, we believe that scientific innovation is essential to being the most customer-centric company in the world. Our scientists' ability to have an impact at scale allows us to attract some of the brightest minds across diverse fields including artificial intelligence, robotics, computer vision, economics, and sustainability. Join us in pioneering solutions to complex challenges that not only delight our customers but also help define the future of technology.
  • The program is designed for academics from universities around the globe who want to work on large-scale technical challenges while continuing to teach and conduct research at their universities.
  • The program offers recent PhD graduates an opportunity to advance research while working alongside experienced scientists with backgrounds in industry and academia.
  • Our internship roles span research areas to provide hands-on experience working alongside world-class scientists and engineers to advance the state of the art in your field.
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  • US, NY, New York
    Job ID: 3184564
    (Updated 64 days ago)
    As part of the AWS Applied AI Solutions organization, we have a mission to build delightful AI solutions that improve human capabilities and business outcomes. We will accomplish this by accelerating our customers' businesses through delivery of intuitive and differentiated AI solutions that solve enduring business challenges. We blend vision with curiosity and Amazon's real-world experience to build opinionated, turnkey solutions. Where customers prefer to buy over build, we become their trusted partner with solutions that are no-brainers to buy and easy to use. The Applied Scientist will contribute to the development of Agentic AI solutions leveraging Gen AI. The role requires extending existing scientific techniques and inventing new ones to address specific customer needs. You should be comfortable working semi-autonomously on difficult problems with visible risks or roadblocks. You'll work closely with technical leaders within the team. We're looking for scientists who can maintain high standards while moving quickly, prioritizing both rapid experimentation and responsible AI development to deliver measurable customer impact. Key job responsibilities * Design and implement solutions that extend or adapt scientific approaches for customer needs * Deliver components into production that meet high quality standards (efficient, reproducible, testable code) * Produce science outputs demonstrating correctness, scholarship, and scientific rigor * Work with product, engineering, and science teams to deliver impactful AI features * Contribute to operational excellence in the team's deliverables About the team AWS Solutions As part of the AWS solutions organization, we have a vision to provide business applications, leveraging Amazon's unique experience and expertise, that are used by millions of companies worldwide to manage day-to-day operations. We will accomplish this by accelerating our customers' businesses through delivery of intuitive and differentiated technology solutions that solve enduring business challenges. We blend vision with curiosity and Amazon's real-world experience to build opinionated, turnkey solutions. Where customers prefer to buy over build, we become their trusted partner with solutions that are no-brainers to buy and easy to use.
  • US, WA, Bellevue
    Job ID: 3180339
    (Updated 69 days ago)
    Amazon’s Middle Mile Science group is looking for a Senior Applied Scientist specializing in design and evaluation of algorithms for predictive modeling and optimization applied to large-scale transportation planning systems. This includes the development of novel machine learning, pattern detection, and artificial intelligence techniques to improve on marketplace optimization solutions. The Middle Mile Science group is charged with developing an evolving suite of optimization tools to facilitate the design of efficient air and ground transport networks, optimize the flow of packages within the network to efficiently align network capacity and shipment demand, set prices, and effectively utilize scarce resources, such as aircraft and trucks. The scale of Amazon’s fulfillment operations challenges us to design, build and operate robust transportation networks that minimize the overall operational cost while meeting all customer deadlines. Real-time execution of our network depends on state-of-the-art artificial intelligence tools to coordinate the actions of thousands of operators and drivers in real time. Amazon often finds existing techniques do not effectively match our unique business needs, which necessitates the innovation and development of new approaches and algorithms to find an adequate solution. As a Sr. Applied Scientist responsible for middle mile transportation, you will be working closely with different teams including business leaders and engineers to design and build scalable products operating across multiple transportation modes. You will create experiments and prototype implementations of new learning algorithms and prediction techniques. You will have exposure to top level leadership to present findings of your research. You will also work closely with other scientists and engineers to implement your models within our production system. You will implement solutions that are exemplary in terms of algorithm design, clarity, model structure, efficiency, and extensibility, and make decisions that affect the way we build and integrate algorithms across our product portfolio. About the team Our Middle Mile Marketplace Science team builds the algorithms for Amazon’s rapidly growing freight marketplace. Amazon contracts with 3P shippers and a network of independent carriers, using a mix of contract structures with varying service and risk profiles. Our work focuses on mechanisms and learning algorithms to optimize pricing and matching in this complex marketplace, and continually improve the experience for carriers and shippers. This is an area with many challenging problems and a huge business impact for Amazon!
  • IN, KA, Bengaluru
    Job ID: 10381672
    (Updated 57 days ago)
    At Amazon Search, we discover experience that connects millions of customers to the products they seek across our global marketplace. Our team develops sophisticated search solutions that make Amazon's vast product catalog easily accessible to customers worldwide. We're building next-generation search infrastructure that enables seamless expansion into new markets and product categories. Our mission is to ensure every customer enjoys an exceptional search experience from day one, whether they're shopping in an established market or a newly launched region. We develop intelligent, scalable systems that optimize search quality and effectiveness across Amazon's diverse product ecosystem. Our innovations help customers find exactly what they're looking for, while enabling Amazon to rapidly expand its global presence with consistent, high-quality search capabilities. We are seeking a strong applied scientists to join the Search Relevance India team. This team’s charter is to increase the pace at which Amazon expands and improve the search experience at launch. In practice, we aim to invent universally applicable signals and algorithms for training machine-learned ranking models and improve the machine-learning framework for training and offline evaluation that is used for all new relevance models. Key job responsibilities * Build machine learning models for Product Search. * Develop new ranking features and techniques building upon the latest results from the academic research community. * Propose and validate hypothesis to direct our business and product road map. Work with engineers to make low latency model predictions and scale the throughput of the system. * Focus on identifying and solving customer problems with simple and elegant solutions. * Design, develop, and implement production level code that serves billions of search requests. Own the full development cycle: design, development, impact assessment, A/B testing (including interpretation of results) and production deployment. * Take ownership. Understand the needs of various search teams, distill those into coherent projects, and implement them with an eye on long-term impact. * Be a leader. Use your expertise to set a high bar for the team, mentor team members, set the tone for how to take on and deliver on large impossible-sounding projects. * Be curious. You will work alongside systems engineers, machine learning scientists, and data analysts. Your effectiveness and impact will depend on discussing problems with and learning from them. You will have access to the advanced edge technologies and vast technical tools and resources of Amazon and will need to learn how to use them effectively.
  • US, CA, San Francisco
    Job ID: 3175923
    (Updated 69 days ago)
    Amazon has launched a new research lab in San Francisco to develop foundational capabilities for useful AI agents. We’re enabling practical AI to make our customers more productive, empowered, and fulfilled. In particular, our work combines large language models (LLMs) with reinforcement learning (RL) to solve reasoning, planning, and world modeling in both virtual and physical environments. Our research builds on that of Amazon’s broader AGI organization, which recently introduced Amazon Nova, a new generation of state-of-the-art foundation models (FMs). Our lab is a small, talent-dense team with the resources and scale of Amazon. Each team in the lab has the autonomy to move fast and the long-term commitment to pursue high-risk, high-payoff research. We’re entering an exciting new era where agents can redefine what AI makes possible. We’d love for you to join our lab and build it from the ground up! Key job responsibilities You will be responsible for maintaining our task management system which supports many internal and external stakeholders and ensures we are able to continue adding orders of magnitude more data and reliability.
  • (Updated 71 days ago)
    The AWS Marketplace & Partner Services (AMPS) Science team is at the forefront of driving AWS's AI-powered growth through developing and evaluating the next generation search, recommendations, and agentic systems. As a Principal Applied Scientist on our team, you'll own the technical strategy and execution for our most ambitious AI-driven initiatives that directly accelerate AWS revenue growth through both customer discovery experiences and partner co-selling capabilities. Your work will establish Marketplace as customers' primary solution discovery and transaction platform while simultaneously transforming how AWS partners scale their business through insights and agentic workflow automation. You will be a trusted technical leader who tackles intrinsically complex scientific problems by leveraging deep expertise in information retrieval, recommendation systems, LLMs, and agentic systems. You'll innovate and set the standard for scientific excellence, making decisions that affect how products are built and integrated across AMPS. You'll align teams toward coherent strategies, guide peers in adopting the latest scientific trends, and force-multiply by decomposing hard problems and executing through collaboration. Key job responsibilities - Define direction for next-generation recommendation systems, including deep personalization, agentic architecture, and primitives that integrate customer usage patterns, infrastructure requirements, and business objectives to deliver personalized, outcome-oriented guidance - Lead information retrieval innovations, multi-objective ranking, and reasoning over heterogeneous solution types - Architect, implement, and design agentic AI systems that orchestrate complex workflows - Bridge theoretical innovations with practical solutions, making critical judgments to select the best technical approaches for both short and long-term objectives - Mentor and guide applied scientists, holding the team to high standards of technical rigor and scientific excellence - Contribute to the broader scientific community through patents, publications at conferences, and engagement with academic partners About the team The AWS Marketplace & Partner Services Science team is at the forefront of developing and deploying AI/ML systems that serve multiple critical stakeholders: - AWS Customers: Through the AWS Marketplace, we support discovery experiences that streamline cloud adoption and innovation. - AWS Partners: Via Partner Central, we offer advanced tools and insights to enhance collaboration and drive mutual growth. - Internal AWS Sellers: We equip our sales teams with data-driven recommendations to better serve our customers and partners.
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 3175641
    (Updated 2 days ago)
    Are you passionate to join an innovative team of scientists and engineers who use machine learning and AI techniques to create state-of-the-art solutions to help seller succeed on Amazon? The Selling Partner Growth org is looking for a Senior Applied Scientist to lead us on our mission to understand demand side signals on Amazon, and empower sellers to grow their business and provide a great customer experience. As a Senior Applied Scientist on our team of scientists and engineers, you will have opportunities to create significant impact on our systems, our business and most importantly, our customers as we take on challenges that can revolutionize the e-commerce industry. You will identify specific and actionable opportunities to solve business problems, propose state-of-the-art solutions and collaborate with engineering, and business teams for future innovation. You need to be a great translation between ambiguous business domains and rigorous scientific solutions, an expert at inventing and simplify, and a good communicator to surface insights and recommendations to audiences of varying levels of technical sophistication. Major responsibilities - Use machine learning and AI techniques to create scalable seller-facing solutions - Analyze and extract relevant information from large amounts of Amazon's historical business data to help automate and optimize key processes - Design, development and evaluation of highly innovative models - Work closely with software engineering teams to drive real-time model implementations and new feature creations To know more about Amazon science, Please visit https://www.amazon.science
  • US, WA, Bellevue
    Job ID: 3184384
    (Updated 9 days ago)
    The NA AMZL Supply Chain organization leads the innovation of Amazon’s Last Mile. We are an Operations org that hires and manages associates to deliver packages next day and sub-same day. Our key vision is to transform the online experience by enabling ultra-fast delivery at lower cost possible. We’re growing in scale and volume, by orders of magnitude. The Execution and Planning Science-Engineering (EPSE) team sits within NA AMZL Supply Chain with the mission to build world-class automated Science-Tech products that enable ultra-fast delivery speeds for Amazon customers and job market opportunities for Amazon associates. We are team of Scientists, Engineers and Tech leaders who invent and implement scalable algorithms for automated decision making in the Operations space. We are looking for an Applied Scientist to contribute to the future of Last Mile associate labor planning. Work will include advising on evolving flexible labor planning programs, optimizing our supply chain network, providing data-driven strategies to improve cost, reliability or speed. Designing, implementing and evaluating experiments, and measuring impact. Work will feed strategic analyses and also be part of production systems. Experience needed in Optimization and Statistics/ML. Key job responsibilities As an Applied Scientist, you’ll design, model, develop and implement state-of-the-art models and solutions. As part of your role you will regularly interact with software engineering teams and business leadership.
  • US, WA, Bellevue
    Job ID: 3187361
    (Updated 17 days ago)
    The R2L team is responsible for building the next generation supply chain for Amazon’s world-class ultra-fast customer experiences including Amazon Fresh groceries, Sub-Same Day, Amazon Now, and other soon-to-launch exciting new businesses. Join us and you'll be taking part in serving our customers in as fast as 30 minutes! We are looking for a Data Scientist to join our team and solve some of the most complex business problems! Key job responsibilities - Work with product managers, engineers, other scientists, and leadership to identify and prioritize complex problems. - Interview stakeholders to gather business requirements and translate business problems into data science or analytical problems - Design, develop, and evaluate highly innovative statistics and ML models - Guide and establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large scale data analyses, model development, model validation and model implementation - Proactively seek to identify business opportunities and insights and provide solutions to shape key business processes and policies based on a broad and deep knowledge of Amazon data, industry best-practices, and work done by other teams. A day in the life In this role, you will be a technical expert with significant scope and impact. You will work with Product and Supply Chain Managers, Business Intelligence Engineers, System Developers and other Scientists, to develop models that solve a wide range of complex and ambiguous business problems, with the main goal to improve customer experience, improve availability of products and reduce supply chain cost. A successful Data Scientist will have bias for action needed in a startup environment, with great leadership skills, proven ability to build and manage medium-scale modeling projects, identify data requirements, build methodology and tools that are statistically grounded. It will be a person who enjoys diving deep into data, doing analysis, discovering root causes, and designing long-term scientific solutions. We are seeking someone who can thrive in a fast-paced, high-energy and fun work environment where we deliver value incrementally and frequently. We look for individuals who know how to deliver results and show a desire to develop themselves, their colleagues, and their career. About the team The R2L team is responsible for building the next generation supply chain for Amazon’s world-class ultra-fast customer experiences including Amazon Fresh groceries, Sub-Same Day, Amazon Now, and other soon-to-launch exciting new businesses. Join us and you'll be taking part in serving our customers in as fast as 30 minutes!
  • (Updated 20 days ago)
    As part of the AWS Solutions organization, we have a vision to provide business applications, leveraging Amazon’s unique experience and expertise, that are used by millions of companies worldwide to manage day-to-day operations. We will accomplish this by accelerating our customers’ businesses through delivery of intuitive and differentiated technology solutions that solve enduring business challenges. We blend vision with curiosity and Amazon’s real-world experience to build opinionated, turnkey solutions. Where customers prefer to buy over build, we become their trusted partner with solutions that are no-brainers to buy and easy to use. The Team Just Walk Out (JWO) is a new kind of store with no lines and no checkout—you just grab and go! Customers simply use the Amazon Go app to enter the store, take what they want from our selection of fresh, delicious meals and grocery essentials, and go! Our checkout-free shopping experience is made possible by our Just Walk Out Technology, which automatically detects when products are taken from or returned to the shelves and keeps track of them in a virtual cart. When you’re done shopping, you can just leave the store. Shortly after, we’ll charge your account and send you a receipt. Check it out at amazon.com/go. Designed and custom-built by Amazonians, our Just Walk Out Technology uses a variety of technologies including computer vision, sensor fusion, and advanced machine learning. Innovation is part of our DNA! Our goal is to be Earths’ most customer centric company and we are just getting started. We need people who want to join an ambitious program that continues to push the state of the art in computer vision, machine learning, distributed systems and hardware design. Key job responsibilities Everyone on the team needs to be entrepreneurial, wear many hats and work in a highly collaborative environment that’s more startup than big company. We’ll need to tackle problems that span a variety of domains: computer vision, image recognition, machine learning, real-time and distributed systems. As a Sr. Applied Scientist, you will help solve a variety of technical challenges and mentor other scientists. You will be the thought leader of the team. You will tackle challenging, novel situations every day and given the size of this initiative, you’ll have the opportunity to work with multiple technical teams at Amazon in different locations. You should be comfortable with a degree of ambiguity that’s higher than most projects and relish the idea of solving problems that, frankly, haven’t been solved at scale before - anywhere. Along the way, we guarantee that you’ll learn a ton, have fun and make a positive impact on millions of people. Key job responsibilities - Develop a novel framework and advance the theory and practice of multi-object tracking, re-identification, person activity understanding, multi-modal foundation model, and generic video understanding - Create innovative techniques for efficient visual processing that can scale to real-world applications - Investigate approaches to reduce the computational and data requirements of visual AI systems About the team AWS Solutions As part of the AWS solutions organization, we have a vision to provide business applications, leveraging Amazon's unique experience and expertise, that are used by millions of companies worldwide to manage day-to-day operations. We will accomplish this by accelerating our customers' businesses through delivery of intuitive and differentiated technology solutions that solve enduring business challenges. we blend vision with curiosity and Amazon's real-world experience to build opinionated, turnkey solutions. Where customers prefer to buy over build, we become their trusted partner with solutions that are no-brainers to buy and easy to use. 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 AWS values curiosity and connection. Our employee-led and company-sponsored affinity groups promote inclusion and empower our people to take pride in what makes us unique. Our inclusion events foster stronger, more collaborative teams. Our continual innovation is fueled by the bold ideas, fresh perspectives, and passionate voices our teams bring to everything we do. 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: 10373514
    (Updated 30 days ago)
    We are looking for passionate, talented, and inventive Applied Scientists with a strong machine learning background to help build industry-leading Conversational AI Systems. Our mission is to provide a delightful experience to Amazon’s customers by pushing the envelope in Natural Language Understanding (NLU), Dialog Systems including Generative AI with Large Language Models (LLMs) and Applied Machine Learning (ML). 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 language technology. You will gain hands on experience with Amazon’s heterogeneous text, structured data sources, and large-scale computing resources to accelerate advances in language understanding. We are hiring in all areas of human language technology: NLU, Dialog Management, Conversational AI, LLMs and Generative AI. A day in the life The team uses generative AI and foundation models to reimagine the experience of all customers on AWS. We explore new technologies and find creative solutions. Curiosity and an explorative mindset can find a place here to impact the life of engineers around the world. If you are excited about this space and want to enlighten your peers with new capabilities, this is the team for you. We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations: Santa Clara, CA, USA About the team 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. 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 (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 in the cloud. Hybrid Work We value innovation and recognize this sometimes requires uninterrupted time to focus on a build. We also value in-person collaboration and time spent face-to-face. Our team affords employees options to work in the office every day or in a flexible, hybrid work model near one of our U.S. Amazon offices.

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