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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, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 10396412
    (Updated 0 days ago)
    Amazon Seller Assistant is our flagship GenAI-first, multi-agent system that reimagines Seller experience. Our vision is to provide each seller with a proactive, autonomous, agentic assistant that understands their business and helps them navigate the complexities of selling by anticipating their needs, surfacing insights, resolving issues, taking actions on their behalf, and helping them grow. Amazon Seller Assistant helps millions of sellers on Amazon serve billions of customers worldwide. We are seeking a world-class Data Scientist to help define and build the next generation of Amazon Seller Assistant. You will partner with top-tier scientists and engineers to launch production-grade agentic capabilities at Amazon's scale — owning your problem space end-to-end, from a crisp customer insight to a shipped product that millions of sellers rely on. Key job responsibilities • Own the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for a key Seller Assistant capability area. • Define and ship agentic experiences — reasoning, planning, memory, context engineering — that solve hard seller problems at scale. • Partner with scientists and engineers to translate frontier AI research into production-grade features sellers trust and depend on. • Design rigorous evaluation frameworks — automated and human-in-the-loop — to measure agent quality, accuracy, and business impact. • Deep-dive into seller data, identify unmet needs, and write compelling PRFAQs that set the direction for your team. • Drive cross-functional alignment across science, engineering, UX, and business teams to deliver with speed and quality. About the team Amazon Seller Assistant team operates at the very frontier of agentic AI and agentic commerce — not as a research group, but as a team shipping production-grade, multi-agent systems used by millions of sellers worldwide. We move with the urgency of a startup and the resources of the world's most customer-obsessed company, he latest breakthroughs in science and engineering into capabilities that sellers rely on every day.
  • (Updated 12 days ago)
    Are you a MS or PhD student interested in a 2026 internship in the field of machine learning, deep learning, generative AI, large language models and speech technology, robotics, computer vision, optimization, operations research, quantum computing, automated reasoning, or formal methods? If so, we want to hear from you! We are looking for students interested in using a variety of domain expertise to invent, design and implement state-of-the-art solutions for never-before-solved problems. You can find more information about the Amazon Science community as well as our interview process via the links below; https://www.amazon.science/ https://amazon.jobs/content/en/career-programs/university/science https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/university-roles/applied-science Key job responsibilities As an Applied Science Intern, you will own the design and development of end-to-end systems. You’ll have the opportunity to write technical white papers, create roadmaps and drive production level projects that will support Amazon Science. You will work closely with Amazon scientists and other science interns to develop solutions and deploy them into production. You will have the opportunity to design new algorithms, models, or other technical solutions whilst experiencing Amazon’s customer focused culture. The ideal intern must have the ability to work with diverse groups of people and cross-functional teams to solve complex business problems. A day in the life At Amazon, you will grow into the high impact person you know you’re ready to be. Every day will be filled with developing new skills and achieving personal growth. How often can you say that your work changes the world? At Amazon, you’ll say it often. Join us and define tomorrow. Some more benefits of an Amazon Science internship include; • All of our internships offer a competitive stipend/salary • Interns are paired with an experienced manager and mentor(s) • Interns receive invitations to different events such as intern program initiatives or site events • Interns can build their professional and personal network with other Amazon Scientists • Interns can potentially publish work at top tier conferences each year About the team Applicants will be reviewed on a rolling basis and are assigned to teams aligned with their research interests and experience prior to interviews. Start dates are available throughout the year and durations can vary in length from 3-6 months for full time internships. This role may available across multiple locations in the EMEA region (Austria, Estonia, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Spain, South Africa, UAE, and UK). Please note these are not remote internships.
  • (Updated 7 days ago)
    Alexa+ is Amazon’s next-generation, AI-powered virtual assistant. Building on the original Alexa, it uses generative AI to deliver a more conversational, personalised, and effective experience. Alexa Sensitive Content Intelligence (ASCI) team is developing responsible AI (RAI) solutions for Alexa+, empowering it to provide useful information responsibly. The Mission Build AI safety systems that protect millions of Alexa customers every day. As conversational AI evolves, you'll solve challenging problems in Responsible AI by ensuring LLMs provide safe, trustworthy responses, building AI systems that understand nuanced human values across cultures, and maintaining customer trust at scale. We are looking for a passionate, talented, and inventive Data Scientist-II to help build industry-leading technology with Large Language Models (LLMs) and multimodal systems, requiring good learning and generative models knowledge. You will be working with a team of exceptional Data Scientists working in a hybrid, fast-paced organization where scientists, engineers, and product managers work together to build customer facing experiences. You will collaborate with other data scientists while understanding the role data plays in developing data sets and exemplars that meet customer needs. You will analyze and automate processes for collecting and annotating LLM inputs and outputs to assess data quality and measurement. You will apply state-of-the-art Generative AI techniques to analyze how well our data represents human language and run experiments to gauge downstream interactions. You will work collaboratively with other data scientists and applied scientists to design and implement principled strategies for data optimization. Key job responsibilities A Data Scientist-II should have a reasonably good understanding of NLP models (e.g. LSTM, LLMs, other transformer based models) or CV models (e.g. CNN, AlexNet, ResNet, GANs, ViT) and know of ways to improve their performance using data. You leverage your technical expertise in improving and extending existing models. Your work will directly impact our customers in the form of products and services that make use of speech, language, and computer vision technologies. You will be joining a select group of people making history producing one of the most highly rated products in Amazon's history, so if you are looking for a challenging and innovative role where you can solve important problems while growing in your career, this may be the place for you. A day in the life You will be working with a group of talented scientists on running experiments to test scientific proposal/solutions to improve our sensitive contents detection and mitigation for worldwide coverage. This will involve collaboration with partner teams including engineering, PMs, data annotators, and other scientists to discuss data quality, policy, model development, and solution implementation. You will work with other scientists, collaborating and contributing to extending and improving solutions for the team. About the team Our team pioneers Responsible AI for conversational assistants. We ensure Alexa delivers safe, trustworthy experiences across all devices, modalities, and languages worldwide. We work on frontier AI safety challenges—and we're looking for scientists who want to help shape the future of trustworthy AI.
  • (Updated 7 days ago)
    Alexa+ is Amazon’s next-generation, AI-powered virtual assistant. Building on the original Alexa, it uses generative AI to deliver a more conversational, personalised, and effective experience. Alexa Sensitive Content Intelligence (ASCI) team is developing responsible AI (RAI) solutions for Alexa+, empowering it to provide useful information responsibly. The Mission Build AI safety systems that protect millions of Alexa customers every day. As conversational AI evolves, you'll solve challenging problems in Responsible AI by ensuring LLMs provide safe, trustworthy responses, building AI systems that understand nuanced human values across cultures, and maintaining customer trust at scale. We are looking for a passionate, talented, and inventive Data Scientist-II to help build industry-leading technology with Large Language Models (LLMs) and multimodal systems, requiring good learning and generative models knowledge. You will be working with a team of exceptional Data Scientists working in a hybrid, fast-paced organization where scientists, engineers, and product managers work together to build customer facing experiences. You will collaborate with other data scientists while understanding the role data plays in developing data sets and exemplars that meet customer needs. You will analyze and automate processes for collecting and annotating LLM inputs and outputs to assess data quality and measurement. You will apply state-of-the-art Generative AI techniques to analyze how well our data represents human language and run experiments to gauge downstream interactions. You will work collaboratively with other data scientists and applied scientists to design and implement principled strategies for data optimization. Key job responsibilities A Data Scientist-II should have a reasonably good understanding of NLP models (e.g. LSTM, LLMs, other transformer based models) or CV models (e.g. CNN, AlexNet, ResNet, GANs, ViT) and know of ways to improve their performance using data. You leverage your technical expertise in improving and extending existing models. Your work will directly impact our customers in the form of products and services that make use of speech, language, and computer vision technologies. You will be joining a select group of people making history producing one of the most highly rated products in Amazon's history, so if you are looking for a challenging and innovative role where you can solve important problems while growing in your career, this may be the place for you. A day in the life You will be working with a group of talented scientists on running experiments to test scientific proposal/solutions to improve our sensitive contents detection and mitigation for worldwide coverage. This will involve collaboration with partner teams including engineering, PMs, data annotators, and other scientists to discuss data quality, policy, model development, and solution implementation. You will work with other scientists, collaborating and contributing to extending and improving solutions for the team. About the team Our team pioneers Responsible AI for conversational assistants. We ensure Alexa delivers safe, trustworthy experiences across all devices, modalities, and languages worldwide. We work on frontier AI safety challenges—and we're looking for scientists who want to help shape the future of trustworthy AI.
  • US, CA, San Diego
    Job ID: 10386675
    (Updated 12 days ago)
    We are looking for detail-oriented, organized, and responsible individuals who are eager to learn how to apply their macroeconomics and forecasting skillsets to solve real world problems. The intern will work in the area of forecasting, developing models to improve the success of new product launches in Private Brands. Our PhD Economist Internship Program offers hands-on experience in applied economics, supported by mentorship, structured feedback, and professional development. Interns work on real business and research problems, building skills that prepare them for full-time economist roles at Amazon and beyond. You will learn how to build data sets and perform applied econometric analysis collaborating with economists, scientists, and product managers. These skills will translate well into writing applied chapters in your dissertation and provide you with work experience that may help you with placement. These are full-time positions at 40 hours per week, with compensation being awarded on an hourly basis About the team The Amazon Private Brands Intelligence team applies Machine Learning, Statistics and Econometrics/economics to solve high-impact business problems, develop prototypes for Amazon-scale science solutions, and optimize key business functions of Amazon Private Brands and other Amazon orgs. We are an interdisciplinary team, using science and technology and leveraging the strengths of engineers and scientists to build solutions for some of the toughest business problems at Amazon, covering areas such as pricing, discovery, negotiation, forecasting, supply chain and product selection/development.
  • (Updated 11 days ago)
    The Amazon Center for Quantum Computing in Pasadena, CA, is looking to hire an Applied Science intern who will specialize in hardware signal train design for quantum computing. Working alongside other scientists and engineers, you will design and validate hardware performing the control and readout functions for Amazon quantum processors, from room to cryogenic temperatures. Candidates must have a solid background in analog or mixed-signal design at the PCB level. Working effectively within a cross-functional team environment is critical. Key job responsibilities Our scientists and engineers collaborate across diverse teams and projects to offer state of the art, cost effective solutions for the control of Amazon quantum processor systems. You’ll bring a passion for innovation and collaboration to: Design cryogenic and room temperature printed circuit board based hardware, used for signal conditioning and control functions. Develop tests to validate hardware with both benchtop and cryogenic test setups with quantum devices. Explore enabling control technologies necessary for Amazon to produce commercially viable quantum computers. About the team 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. 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 Amazon, 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, NY, New York
    Job ID: 10389245
    (Updated 8 days ago)
    The Sponsored Products and Brands team at Amazon Ads is re-imagining the advertising landscape through industry leading generative AI technologies, revolutionizing how millions of customers discover products and engage with brands across Amazon.com and beyond. We are at the forefront of re-inventing advertising experiences, bridging human creativity with artificial intelligence to transform every aspect of the advertising lifecycle from ad creation and optimization to performance analysis and customer insights. We are a passionate group of innovators dedicated to developing responsible and intelligent AI technologies that balance the needs of advertisers, enhance the shopping experience, and strengthen the marketplace. If you're energized by solving complex challenges and pushing the boundaries of what's possible with AI, join us in shaping the future of advertising. We are seeking an experienced Data Scientist to join the Sponsored Products Auction team. This team is responsible for building and evaluating mechanisms to rank and price billions of ad impressions per day. We're looking for a Data Scientist to define measures of auction efficiency and produce insights into the quality of inputs to our auction (supply, demand, ML model predictions). This role will also be responsible for exploratory data analysis to identify opportunities for improvement of the system and working closely with Economists, Applied Scientists and Engineers to improve our product. As a Data Scientist on this team, you will: - Solve real-world problems by getting and analyzing large amounts of data, diving deep to identify business insights and opportunities, design simulations and experiments, developing statistical and ML models by tailoring to business needs, and collaborating with Scientists, Engineers, BIE's, and Product Managers. - Write code (Python, R, Scala, SQL, etc.) to obtain, manipulate, and analyze data - Apply statistical and machine learning knowledge to specific business problems and data. - Build decision-making models and propose solution for the business problem you define. - Retrieve, synthesize, and present critical data in a format that is immediately useful to answering specific questions or improving system performance. - Analyze historical data to identify trends and support optimal decision making. - Formalize assumptions about how our systems are expected to work, create statistical definition of the outlier, and develop methods to systematically identify outliers. Work out why such examples are outliers and define if any actions needed. - Given anecdotes about anomalies or generate automatic scripts to define anomalies, deep dive to explain why they happen, and identify fixes. - Conduct written and verbal presentations to share insights to audiences of varying levels of technical sophistication. Why you will love this opportunity: Amazon is investing heavily in building a world-class advertising business. This team defines and delivers a collection of advertising products that drive discovery and sales. Our solutions generate billions in revenue and drive long-term growth for Amazon’s Retail and Marketplace businesses. We deliver billions of ad impressions, millions of clicks daily, and break fresh ground to create world-class products. We are a highly motivated, collaborative, and fun-loving team with an entrepreneurial spirit - with a broad mandate to experiment and innovate. Impact and Career Growth: You will invent new experiences and influence customer-facing shopping experiences to help suppliers grow their retail business and the auction dynamics that leverage native advertising; this is your opportunity to work within the fastest-growing businesses across all of Amazon! Define a long-term science vision for our advertising business, driven from our customers' needs, translating that direction into specific plans for research and applied scientists, as well as engineering and product teams. This role combines science leadership, organizational ability, technical strength, product focus, and business understanding. Team video https://youtu.be/zD_6Lzw8raE
  • US, NY, New York
    Job ID: 10392772
    (Updated 5 days ago)
    We are looking for detail-oriented, organized, and responsible individuals who are eager to learn how to apply their macroeconomics and forecasting skillsets to solve real world problems. The intern will work in the area of forecasting, developing models to improve the success of new product launches in Private Brands. Our PhD Economist Internship Program offers hands-on experience in applied economics, supported by mentorship, structured feedback, and professional development. Interns work on real business and research problems, building skills that prepare them for full-time economist roles at Amazon and beyond. You will learn how to build data sets and perform applied econometric analysis collaborating with economists, scientists, and product managers. These skills will translate well into writing applied chapters in your dissertation and provide you with work experience that may help you with placement. These are full-time positions at 40 hours per week, with compensation being awarded on an hourly basis About the team The Amazon Private Brands Intelligence team applies Machine Learning, Statistics and Econometrics/economics to solve high-impact business problems, develop prototypes for Amazon-scale science solutions, and optimize key business functions of Amazon Private Brands and other Amazon orgs. We are an interdisciplinary team, using science and technology and leveraging the strengths of engineers and scientists to build solutions for some of the toughest business problems at Amazon, covering areas such as pricing, discovery, negotiation, forecasting, supply chain and product selection/development.
  • (Updated 4 days ago)
    Amazon’s Modeling and Optimization (MOP) Team is looking for a passionate individual with strong optimization and analytical skills to join us in the endeavor of designing and improving the most complex transportation and fulfillment network in the world. The team is responsible for optimizing the global transportation and fulfillment network for Amazon.com and ensuring that the company is able to deliver our customers’ products to them as quickly, accurately, and cost effectively as possible. We design the network that delivers products from vendors and sellers to end customers, through both Amazon’s internal network as well as external partners, using multiple transportation modes. Optimizing the end-to-end network requires deep understanding of inventory management, placement, transportation, and supply chain management. Only through innovative and strategic thing, we will make the right capital investments in technology, buildings and equipment that allows for long-term success. Key job responsibilities We are seeking an experienced scientist who has a solid background in Operations Research, Supply Chain Management, Applied Mathematics, or other similar domain. In this role, you will develop and deploy models and tools that are innovative and scalable to solve new challenges in Amazon's global fulfillment network. You will collaborate with other scientists across teams to create integrated solutions that improves fulfillment speed, cost, and carbon emission. You have deep understanding of business challenges and provide scientific analysis to support business decision using a range of methodologies. You design science tool platforms, deploy models, create data pipelines, or simplify existing processes. About the team https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7089317294417346561/
  • US, WA, Bellevue
    Job ID: 10394243
    (Updated 3 days ago)
    The WW Operations IPAT team is revolutionizing Amazon's financial forecasting through TrendCast, an innovative, automated, science-based top-down forecast modeling that's transforming how we predict Worldwide Operations costs. This innovation approach leverages key performance indicators to generate automated, transparent forecasts with unprecedented frequency. By moving beyond traditional bottom-up planning, TrendCast empowers leadership with real-time insights, enabling swift identification of both risks and opportunities. As our operational scope rapidly expands into Generative AI, we are also building an intelligent, GenAI-powered Finance Knowledge Base to further reduce the workload on finance teams and facilitate leadership’s decision-making process. We are seeking a driven Data Scientist to help build out these advanced analytical and AI-driven solutions. Key job responsibilities In this role, you will be a core contributor to our data science initiatives, working at the intersection of traditional machine learning and Generative AI. You will work closely with senior scientists, engineering, and finance stakeholders to translate complex business problems into scalable models. Your work will directly impact our financial forecasting accuracy (TrendCast) and help develop intuitive, LLM-powered tools that allow finance teams to query, synthesize, and extract insights from our extensive financial knowledge base. A day in the life - Develop, train, and evaluate machine learning and statistical models for financial forecasting, ensuring solutions are scalable for large-scale operational challenges. - Design and implement Generative AI applications, specifically building and optimizing Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines and LLM-based agents to power our internal Finance Knowledge Base. - Drive modeling projects from data exploration and feature engineering to model deployment and monitoring, working collaboratively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders. - Build and maintain robust data pipelines, utilizing distributed computing frameworks to process and analyze petabyte-scale financial and operational datasets. - Develop a deep understanding of key business metrics and KPIs, connecting model outputs to actionable levers that inform strategic operational decisions. - Collaborate closely with finance, product, and BIE teams to deploy models, gather feedback, and continuously iterate on both forecasting algorithms and GenAI user experiences.

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