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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, CA, San Jose
    Job ID: 10449741
    (Updated 9 days ago)
    Are you excited about making business decisions using science and data? Are you interested in supporting consumer device concepts from idea inception to launch? Do you want to work on a Science Product team focused on scaling statistics and econometrics with custom tools? If so, this may be the role for you! Amazon.com strives to be Earth's most customer-centric company. The Amazon Devices and Services team focuses on delighting customer by enabling seamless functionality in supplying, entertaining, and managing the home -- and beyond. We seek and hire the world's brightest minds, offering them a fast-paced, technologically-sophisticated, and friendly work environment, where economic theory meets real-world industry. The Decision Science team in Devices owns demand estimates and pricing recommendations of concept devices before customers know they exist. We support devices and services ranging from Echo Frames to Kindle Paperwhite to Blink Video Camera …all prior to launch. We are a cross-functional Product team working to scale Econometrics through Amazon and beyond by incorporating Science into internal facing tools and making it easier for others to do so as well. In this role, you will have input in decision meetings with Amazon senior leadership, which include go/no-go decisions for brand new devices and services and build volume decisions for manufacture prior to receiving any customer signal. You will have direct input to pricing decisions. You will leverage Science and Tools produced by the Decision Science team such as conjoint demand models to produce these recommendations. You will work with Scientists, Economists, Product Managers, and Software Developers to provide meaningful feedback about stakeholder problems to inform business solutions and increase the velocity, quality, and scope behind our recommendations. You will also have the opportunity to work on special projects to both guide the business and advance your own knowledge and understanding of specific topics. Key job responsibilities Applies expertise to develop econometric/machine learning models to measure the demand of devices and the business; Reviews models and results for other scientists, mentors junior scientists; Generates economic insights for the Devices and Services business and work with stakeholders to run the business for effectively; Describes strategic importance of vision inside and outside of team; and, Identifies business opportunities, defines the problem and how to solve it; Engages with senior scientists, business leadership outside Devices and Services to understand interplay between different business units.
  • US, CA, Palo Alto
    Job ID: 10455948
    (Updated 2 days ago)
    Amazon is building a world class advertising business and defining and delivering a collection of self-service performance advertising products that drive discovery and sales of merchandise. Our products are strategically important to our Retail and Marketplace businesses, driving long-term growth. Sponsored Ads helps merchants, retail vendors, and brand owners grows incremental sales of their products sold on Amazon through native advertising. Sponsored Ads achieves this by using a combination of machine learning, big data analytics, ultra-low latency high-volume engineering systems, and quantitative product focus. If you are looking to make an impact, this is the team for you. You will join a newly-founded team with a broad mandate to experiment and innovate, which will give you the flexibility to develop systems and services from the ground up. As a Principal Applied Scientist in FAIM, you will help build new foundational AI technologies from the ground up and create and launch features for advertisers globally. You will partner with engineers, product managers, TPMs, and senior management to help create these world-class solutions. Most importantly, you will have an opportunity to grow and broaden your technical and scientific skills as you work in an environment that thrives on creativity, experimentation, and collaboration. Key job responsibilities Develop optimization strategies for Full-Funnel Ads Campaigns at Amazon Work with the leadership team on long-range AI/ML plans for Full Funnel Ads Campaigns Help the team adopt the latest SOTA technologies for large scale advertising
  • (Updated 2 days ago)
    We are hiring a Senior Manager, Economics to the Sales Channels team within Amazon Web Services (AWS) Central Econ and Science team. The team partners with the business to optimize sales motions, partner programs, and incentives in multi-sided marketplaces. The problem space includes experimental, quasi-experimental, and observational research design, establishing telemetry for future measurement, and the development of recommendation systems and incentive plans. This role will support a strong team in both sourcing new workstreams and executing existing workstreams. We will consider Applied Scientists with experience working with economists for this role. Key job responsibilities This role interfaces directly with executives, product/program owners, science leadership, and science ICs to create multi-year research agendas that drive step-change growth for the business. As this role is responsible for setting and executing the priorities of a centralized team, stakeholder management, working backward and partnering to work across teams (earns trust) is vital. The team’s mandate includes disambiguating structural relationships, so a strong grounding in applied theory is key to success in this position. The role will also own both production recommendation systems and feature generation for external systems, so experience with production-level development is important. This role will shape the strategic direction of the AWS Central Economics and Science team and collaborate with other science teams at AWS, especially those working on developing policies so that AWS sellers and partners meet customers where they are and help them grow. A day in the life Our team takes big swings and works on hard cross-organizational problems where success is long term and not guaranteed. We expect team members to grow their skills in a supportive and collegial environment. We expect and measure impact, and we hold each other to high standards. We work hard during work hours, but we also don’t encourage working at nights or on weekends: burn out isn’t a successful long run strategy. Because we invest in the long run success of our group it’s important to have hobbies, relax and then come to work refreshed and excited. It makes for bigger impact, faster skill accrual and thus career advancement. About the team Our group is technically rigorous and encourages ongoing academic conference participation and publication. Our leaders are here for you and to enable you to be successful. We believe in being servant leaders focused on influence: good data work has little value if it doesn’t translate into actionable insights that are rolled out and impact the real economy. We emphasize clear, consistent communication since being able to explain what we do ensures high success rates and lowers administrative churn. Also: we laugh a lot. If it’s not fun, what’s the point?
  • CA, BC, Vancouver
    Job ID: 10453126
    (Updated 6 days ago)
    Join our Amazon Private Brands Selection Guidance organization in building science and tech solutions at scale to delight our customers with products across our leading private brands such as Amazon Basics, Amazon Essentials, and by Amazon. The Selection Guidance team applies Generative AI, Machine Learning, Statistics, and Economics solutions to drive our private brands product assortment, strategic business decisions, and product inputs such as title, price, merchandising and ordering. We are an interdisciplinary team of Scientists, Economists, Engineers, and Product Managers incubating and building day one solutions using novel technology, to solve some of the toughest business problems at Amazon. As an Applied Scientist you apply state-of-the-art research to business problems, invent novel solutions and prototypes, and directly contribute to bringing your ideas to life through production implementation. Current research areas include named entity recognition, product substitutes, pricing optimization, agentic AI, and large language models. You will review and guide scientists across the team on their designs and implementations, and raise the team bar for science research and development. This is a unique, high visibility opportunity for someone who wants to develop ambitious science solutions and have direct business and customer impact. Key job responsibilities - Partner with business stakeholders to deeply understand APB business problems and frame ambiguous business problems as science problems and solutions. - Adapt and apply state-of-the-art machine learning solutions to business problems. - Invent novel science solutions, develop prototypes, and deploy production software to solve business problems. - Review and guide science solutions across the team. - Publish and socialize your and the team's research across Amazon and external avenues as appropriate - Leverage industry best practices to establish repeatable applied science practices, principles & processes.
  • (Updated 7 days ago)
    The Amazon Fulfillment Technologies (AFT) Science team is seeking an exceptional Sr. Applied Scientist with strong operations research and optimization expertise to develop production solutions for one of the most complex systems in the world: Amazon's Fulfillment Network. At AFT Science, we design, build, and deploy optimization, statistics, machine learning, and GenAI/LLM solutions that power production systems running across Amazon Fulfillment Centers worldwide. We tackle a wide range of challenges throughout the network, including labor planning and staffing, pick scheduling, stow guidance, and capacity risk management. Our mission is to develop innovative, scalable, and reliable science-driven production solutions that exceed the published state of the art, enabling systems to run optimally and continuously (from every few minutes to every few hours) across our large-scale network. Key job responsibilities As a Senior Applied Scientist, you will collaborate with scientists, software engineers, product managers, and operations leaders to drive the end-to-end lifecycle of optimization-driven solutions that directly impact process efficiency and associate experience in the worldwide fulfillment network. Your key responsibilities include: * Develop deep understanding and domain knowledge of operational processes, system architecture, and business requirements * Dive deep into data and code to identify opportunities for continuous improvement and disruptive new approaches * Design and develop scalable mathematical models for production systems to derive optimal or near-optimal solutions for existing and emerging challenges * Create prototypes and simulations for agile experimentation of proposed solutions * Advocate for technical solutions with business stakeholders, engineering teams, and senior leadership * Partner with software engineers to integrate prototypes into production systems * Design and execute experiments to test new or incremental solutions launched in production * Build and monitor metrics to track solution performance and business impact About the team Amazon Fulfillment Technologies (AFT) designs, develops, and operates end-to-end fulfillment technology solutions that power Amazon Fulfillment Centers worldwide. AFT integrates software, science, and operational processes to optimize how inventory is received, stored, picked, packed, and shipped, enabling Amazon customers to receive the right products at the right time. AFT Science is the central science organization driving scientific solution empowering across all critical AFT charters including inbound, outbound, and labor planning. The Fulfillment Operations Research (FOR) team within AFT Science specializes in optimization, statistics, machine learning, and GenAI/LLM. The team partners closely with software engineering, product, and operations teams to deliver scalable and reliable production solutions while advancing the state of the art in optimization, machine learning, and decision science.
  • (Updated 7 days ago)
    Alexa for Shopping (Rufus) is Amazon's new AI-powered shopping assistant that combines the capabilities of Rufus and Alexa+ to provide a more personalized and intelligent shopping experience. We are building the future of AI-powered commerce, where every customer interaction is conversational, personalized, and proactive. We are seeking a Director, Applied Science to lead the science vision and execution for the next-generation conversational AI platform. This leader will own the end-to-end science roadmap for a multi-agent architecture powered by large language models (LLMs), SLMs, reinforcement learning (RL), and post-training optimization to deliver the most helpful, accurate, and fastest AI shopping assistant in the industry. This is a transformational leadership role. You will lead the science that makes this possible: distilling Amazon's vast data assets into rich context, building specialized models through fine-tuning and RL that match frontier model quality at a fraction of the latency, and architecting intelligent agent routing across diverse use cases (pre-purchase, post-purchase, cross-Amazon services). The ideal candidate is deeply steeped in LLM-based architectures, post-training techniques (RLHF, DPO, fine-tuning), and multi-agent systems. They are passionate about applied science, working back from customer experience to define what matters, and building teams that ship production AI at scale. This leader will shape the science philosophy for one of Amazon's highest-visibility AI initiatives. Key job responsibilities - Define and execute the science strategy for Alexa for Shopping conversational AI platform - Lead a large, multidisciplinary organization of Applied Scientists, Research Scientists, and Machine Learning Engineers. - Architect and scale multi-agent systems - Partner with Product, Engineering, and senior leadership (including S-team) to align AI investments with long-term business goals and the vision of conversational commerce replacing traditional shopping paradigms. - Establish scientific best practices across experimentation, evaluation, model iteration, and production deployment for a high-traffic, latency-sensitive customer-facing system. - Mentor and develop senior technical leaders; foster a culture of innovation, customer obsession, and operational excellence.
  • US, CA, San Francisco
    Job ID: 10451675
    (Updated 7 days ago)
    Amazon is on a mission to redefine the future of automation — and we're looking for exceptional talent to help lead the way. We are building the next generation of advanced robotic systems that seamlessly blend cutting-edge AI, sophisticated control systems, and novel mechanical design to create adaptable, intelligent automation solutions capable of operating safely alongside humans in dynamic, real-world environments. At Amazon, we leverage the power of machine learning, artificial intelligence, and advanced robotics to solve some of the most complex operational challenges at a scale unlike anywhere else in the world. Our fleet of robots spans hundreds of facilities globally, working in sophisticated coordination to deliver on our promise of customer excellence — and we're just getting started. As a Scientist in Robot Navigation, you will be at the forefront of this transformation — architecting and delivering navigation systems that are intelligent, safe, and scalable. You will bring deep expertise in learning-based planning and control, a strong understanding of foundation models and their application to embodied agents, and as well as have in-depth understanding of control-theoretic approaches such as model predictive control (MPC)-based trajectory planning. You will develop navigation solutions that seamlessly blend data-driven intelligence with principled control-theoretic guarantees. Our vision is bold: to build navigation systems that allow robots to move fluidly and safely through dynamic environments — understanding context, anticipating change, and adapting in real time. You will lead research that bridges the gap between cutting-edge academic advances and production grade deployment, collaborating with world-class teams pushing the boundaries of robotic autonomy, manipulation, and human-robot interaction. Join us in building the next generation of intelligent navigation systems that will define the future of autonomous robotics at scale. Key job responsibilities - Design, develop, and deploy perception algorithms for robotics systems, including object detection, segmentation, tracking, depth estimation, and scene understanding - Lead research initiatives in computer vision, sensor fusion and 3D perception - Collaborate with cross-functional teams including robotics engineers, software engineers, and product managers to define and deliver perception capabilities - Drive end-to-end ownership of ML models — from data collection and labeling strategy to training, evaluation, and deployment - Mentor junior scientists and engineers; contribute to a culture of technical excellence - Define and track key metrics to measure perception system performance in real-world environments - Publish research findings in top-tier venues (CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ICRA, NeurIPS, etc.) and contribute to patents A day in the life - Train ML models for deployment in simulation and real-world robots, identify and document their limitations post-deployment - Drive technical discussions within your team and with key stakeholders to develop innovative solutions to address identified limitations - Actively contribute to brainstorming sessions on adjacent topics, bringing fresh perspectives that help peers grow and succeed — and in doing so, build lasting trust across the team - Mentor team members while maintaining significant hands-on contribution to technical solutions About the team Our team is a group is a diverse group of scientists and engineers passionate about building intelligent machines. We value curiosity, rigor, and a bias for action. We believe in learning from failure and iterating quickly toward solutions that matter.
  • (Updated 8 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 subscriptions such as Apple TV+, HBO Max, Peacock, 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 team member, 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 - Lead research and development of speech and audio generation technology and end-to-end speech-to-speech architecture - Develop audio processing solutions for production environments, including source separation, enhancement, and mixing - Define the research roadmap for your area, identify high-impact problems, and communicate technical direction to senior leadership - Publish research, contribute to the broader scientific community, and bring external advances into production systems - Hire, mentor, and develop applied scientists. Grow the team's capabilities to meet evolving customer and business needs About the team This team's mission is to deeply understand all content and empower all customers with relevant language options, innovative accessibility assists, and rich title-information across all their content-experiences on Prime Video. We create and publish content on-time that's meaningful, accurate, and accessible to every customer globally. We delight our customers by pushing the boundaries of content understanding and enrichment. Through inclusion and innovation, we do the most fulfilling work of our career.
  • US, MA, N.reading
    Job ID: 10448481
    (Updated 9 days ago)
    Amazon is on a mission to redefine the future of automation — and we're looking for exceptional talent to help lead the way. We are building the next generation of advanced robotic systems that seamlessly blend cutting-edge AI, sophisticated control systems, and novel mechanical design to create adaptable, intelligent automation solutions capable of operating safely alongside humans in dynamic, real-world environments. At Amazon, we leverage the power of machine learning, artificial intelligence, and advanced robotics to solve some of the most complex operational challenges at a scale unlike anywhere else in the world. Our fleet of robots spans hundreds of facilities globally, working in sophisticated coordination to deliver on our promise of customer excellence — and we're just getting started. As a Applied Scientist in Robot Perception, you will be at the forefront of this transformation. You will develop and deploy state-of-the-art perception algorithms that enable robots to truly understand and interact with the physical world — bridging the gap between theoretical research and real-world impact. Bringing deep expertise in Computer Vision and a nuanced understanding of the capabilities and limitations of modern Vision-Language Models (VLMs), you will innovate boldly and push the boundaries of what's possible. Our vision for the Perception layer is ambitious: to enable seamless, intelligent interaction between the user, the robot, and its environment. This is a rare opportunity to work at the intersection of deep learning, large language models, and robotics — contributing to research that doesn't just advance the field, but reshapes it. You will collaborate with world-class teams pioneering breakthroughs in dexterous manipulation, locomotion, and human-robot interaction, all at an unprecedented scale. Join us in building intelligent robotic systems that will define the future of automation and human-robot collaboration. Key job responsibilities - Design, develop, and deploy perception algorithms for robotics systems, including object detection, segmentation, tracking, depth estimation, and scene understanding - Lead research initiatives in computer vision, sensor fusion and 3D perception - Collaborate with cross-functional teams including robotics engineers, software engineers, and product managers to define and deliver perception capabilities - Drive end-to-end ownership of ML models — from data collection and labeling strategy to training, evaluation, and deployment - Mentor junior scientists and engineers; contribute to a culture of technical excellence - Define and track key metrics to measure perception system performance in real-world environments - Publish research findings in top-tier venues (CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ICRA, NeurIPS, etc.) and contribute to patents A day in the life - Train ML models for deployment in simulation and real-world robots, identify and document their limitations post-deployment - Drive technical discussions within your team and with key stakeholders to develop innovative solutions to address identified limitations - Actively contribute to brainstorming sessions on adjacent topics, bringing fresh perspectives that help peers grow and succeed — and in doing so, build lasting trust across the team - Mentor team members while maintaining significant hands-on contribution to technical solutions
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 10448106
    (Updated 12 days ago)
    We are working on improving shopping on Amazon using the conversational capabilities of large language models and through customer behavioral data to make them more personalized for each customer. We are searching for pioneers who are passionate about technology, innovation, and customer experience, and are ready to make a lasting impact on the industry. In this role, you will be managing a team working on Large Language Model (LLM) and/or Vision-Language Model (VLM) post-training and alignment for new shopping experiences. 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!

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