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The Annapurna ML team is looking for a Senior Applied Scientist to work on the intersection of Artificial Intelligence and program analysis to raise the code quality bar in our state-of-the-art deep learning compiler stack. This stack is designed to optimize application models across diverse domains, including Large Language and Vision, originating from leading frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, and JAX. Your role will involve working closely with our custom-built Machine Learning accelerators, Inferentia and Trainium, which represent the forefront of Annapurna innovation for advanced ML capabilities, and is the underpinning of Generative AI. As a Senior Applied Scientist, you'll be instrumental in designing, developing, and deploying analyzers for ML compiler stages and compiler IRs. You will architect and implement business-critical tooling, publish research, and mentor a brilliant team of experienced scientists and engineers. You will need to be technically capable, credible, and curious in your own right as a trusted scientist, innovating on behalf of our customers. Your responsibilities will involve tackling crucial challenges alongside a talented engineering team, contributing to leading-edge design and research in compiler technology and deep-learning systems software. Strong experience in programming languages, compilers, program analyzers, and program synthesis engines will be a benefit in this role. A background in machine learning and AI accelerators is preferred but not required. A day in the life Diverse Experiences Amazon 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? 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 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 (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.

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. Calling all inventors to work on exciting new opportunities in Sponsored Products. We are a highly motivated, collaborative and fun-loving group with an entrepreneurial spirit and bias for action. You will join a newly-founded team with a broad mandate to experiment and innovate, with a focus on driving growth of sponsored products ad experiences across Amazon stores worldwide. This broad charter gives us the flexibility to explore and apply scientific techniques to novel product problems. You will have the satisfaction of seeing your work improve the experience of millions of Amazon shoppers worldwide while driving quantifiable revenue impact. More importantly, you will have the opportunity to broaden your technical skills, and be a science leader in an environment that thrives on creativity, experimentation, and product innovation. Key job responsibilities - Tackle and solve challenging science and business problems that balance the interests of advertisers, shoppers, and Amazon. - Drive end-to-end Machine Learning projects that have a high degree of ambiguity, scale, complexity. - Develop real-time machine learning algorithms to allocate billions of ads per day in advertising auctions. - Develop efficient algorithms for multi-objective optimization using deep learning methods to find operating points for the ad marketplace then evolve them - Research new and innovative machine learning approaches. - Recruit Scientists to the team and provide mentorship.

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. Calling all inventors to work on exciting new opportunities in Sponsored Products! You will join a newly-founded team with a broad mandate to experiment and innovate, with a focus on driving growth of sponsored products ad experiences across Amazon stores worldwide. This broad charter gives us the flexibility to explore and apply scientific techniques to novel product problems. You will have the satisfaction of seeing your work improve the experience of millions of Amazon shoppers worldwide while driving quantifiable revenue impact. More importantly, you will have the opportunity to broaden your technical skills, and be a science leader in an environment that thrives on creativity, experimentation, and product innovation. Key job responsibilities - Tackle and solve challenging science and business problems that balance the interests of advertisers, shoppers, and Amazon. - Drive end-to-end Machine Learning projects that have a high degree of ambiguity, scale, complexity. - Develop real-time machine learning algorithms to allocate billions of ads per day in advertising auctions. - Develop efficient algorithms for multi-objective optimization using deep learning methods to find operating points for the ad marketplace then evolve them - Research new and innovative machine learning approaches. - Recruit Scientists to the team and provide mentorship.

Are you excited about applying economic models and methods using large data sets to solve real world business problems? Then join the Economic Decision Science (EDS) team. EDS is an economic science team based in the EU Stores business. The teams goal is to optimize and automate business decision making in the EU business and beyond. An internship at Amazon is an opportunity to work with leading economic researchers on influencing needle-moving business decisions using incomparable datasets and tools. It is an opportunity for PhD students in Economics or related fields. We are looking for detail-oriented, organized, and responsible individuals who are eager to learn how to work with large and complicated data sets. Knowledge of econometrics, as well as basic familiarity with Stata, R, or Python is necessary. Experience with SQL would be a plus. As an Economics Intern, you will be working in a fast-paced, cross-disciplinary team of researchers who are pioneers in the field. You will take on complex problems, and work on solutions that either leverage existing academic and industrial research, or utilize your own out-of-the-box pragmatic thinking. In addition to coming up with novel solutions and prototypes, you may even need to deliver these to production in customer facing products. Roughly 85% of previous intern cohorts have converted to full time scientist employment at Amazon.

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).

Prime Video is an industry leading, high-growth business and a critical driver of Amazon Prime subscriptions, which contributes to customer loyalty and lifetime value. Prime Video is a digital video streaming and download service that offers Amazon customers the ability to rent, purchase or subscribe to a huge catalog of videos. In addition, Prime Video offers a variety of live sport streaming services in multiple locales. The Prime Video Economist team is looking for an Economist to support PV content valuation. As an economist focusing on Prime Video, you will be responsible for understanding the value that the business creates for our customers and to develop new, disruptive innovations to grow global Prime Video usage and customer value. This role requires an individual with strong quantitative modeling skills and the ability to apply statistical/machine learning, structural models, and experimental design methods to large amount of individual level data. The candidate should have strong communication skills, be able to work closely with stakeholders and translate data-driven findings into actionable insights. The successful candidate will be a self-starter comfortable with ambiguity, with strong attention to detail and ability to work in a fast-paced and ever-changing environment. Key job responsibilities The candidate's responsibilities will include: - Build scalable analytic solutions using state of the art tools based on large datasets - Build causal inference models, conduct statistical/machine learning analyses, or design experiments to measure the value of the business and its many features - Partner closely with Business, Finance, Science, and Tech partners to build prototypes and implement production solutions - Independently identify new opportunities for leveraging economic insights and models in the Video business - Develop and execute product workplans from concept, prototype to production incorporating feedback from customers, scientists and business leaders - Write both technical white papers and business-facing documents to clearly explain complex technical concepts to audiences with diverse business/scientific backgrounds

Amazon.com strives to be Earth's most customer-centric company where customers can shop in our stores to find and discover anything they want to buy. We hire the world's brightest minds, offering them a fast paced, technologically sophisticated and friendly work environment. Amazon’s Long-Term Planning & Forecasting team is looking for passionate and talented individuals to help architect the future of the world's most advanced fulfillment network. This role will contribute to developing models that inform multi-billion-dollar investments in inventory, hiring, and other strategic decisions across our global stores. As an Applied Scientist on our team, you will drive multi-billion-dollar investment decisions that shape Amazon's global fulfillment strategy. You will pioneer innovative solutions using operations research, AI, machine learning and statistical techniques, directly influencing Amazon's ability to delight customers while optimizing billions in capital investments. Your insights and recommendations will be presented to the highest levels of senior leadership, helping guide company-wide strategy. Key job responsibilities In this role, you will develop our next-generation regional fulfillment network planning system. - This involves creating sophisticated forecasting models that power network utilization decisions, transforming complex supply chain challenges into elegant mathematical solutions. - You will design and implement novel algorithms that optimize warehouse usage, inventory inbound timing, and labor planning. A day in the life Amazon offers a full range of benefits that support you and eligible family members, including domestic partners and their children. Benefits can vary by location, the number of regularly scheduled hours you work, length of employment, and job status such as seasonal or temporary employment. The benefits that generally apply to regular, full-time employees include: - Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage - Maternity and Parental Leave Options - Paid Time Off (PTO) - 401(k) Plan If you are not sure that every qualification on the list above describes you exactly, we'd still love to hear from you! At Amazon, we value people with unique backgrounds, experiences, and skillsets. If you’re passionate about this role and want to make an impact on a global scale, please apply! About the team Long-Term Planning and Forecasting (LTPF) organization develops forecasting, optimization, and analytics products and services to plan Amazon's topline demand, inventory, and fulfillment capacity and topology, including strategic decisions and Amazon policies to drive key business metrics. This means accelerating the Amazon flywheel by 1) being the definitive source for accurate predictions and bridging of customer demand, inventory, and cube to enable optimization of decisions in the supply chain, and 2) optimizing inventory efficiency, capital allocation, network's topology, and fulfillment resources, aligning with our customer experience and cost-to-serve goals.

MULTIPLE POSITIONS AVAILABLE Employer: AMAZON DEVELOPMENT CENTER U.S., INC. Offered Position: Data Scientist II Job Location: New York, New York Job Number: AMZ9774210 Position Responsibilities: Design and implement scalable and reliable approaches to support or automate decision making throughout the business. Apply a range of data science techniques and tools combined with subject matter expertise to solve difficult business problems and cases in which the solution approach is unclear. Acquire data by building the necessary SQL / ETL queries. Import processes through various company specific interfaces for accessing Oracle, RedShift, and Spark storage systems. Build relationships with stakeholders and counterparts. Analyze data for trends and input validity by inspecting univariate distributions, exploring bivariate relationships, constructing appropriate transformations, and tracking down the source and meaning of anomalies. Build models using statistical modeling, mathematical modeling, econometric modeling, network modeling, social network modeling, natural language processing, machine learning algorithms, genetic algorithms, and neural networks. Validate models against alternative approaches, expected and observed outcome, and other business defined key performance indicators. Implement models that comply with evaluations of the computational demands, accuracy, and reliability of the relevant ETL processes at various stages of production. Position Requirements: Master’s degree or foreign equivalent degree in Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Economics, Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field and one year of experience in the job offered or a related occupation. Employer will accept a Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent degree in Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Economics, Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field and five years of progressive post-baccalaureate experience in the job offered or a related occupation as equivalent to the Master’s degree and one year of experience. Must have one year of experience in the following skill(s): (1) building statistical models and machine learning models using large datasets from multiple resources; (2) writing SQL scripts for analysis and data migration; and (3) applying specialized modelling software including R, Python, or MATLAB. Amazon.com is an Equal Opportunity-Affirmative Action Employer – Minority / Female / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation. 40 hours / week, 8:00am-5:00pm, Salary Range $169,541/year to $207,500/year. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, visit: https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits.#0000

MULTIPLE POSITIONS AVAILABLE Employer: AMAZON WEB SERVICES, INC. Offered Position: Research Scientist II Job Location: Seattle, Washington Job Number: AMZ9698004 Position Responsibilities: Perform and support the main psychometric aspects of exam development and operations, including but not limited to automated test assembly, item and test analyses, optimal item bank design, job task analysis, standard setting, quality assurance, and project planning. Conduct main aspects of psychometric analysis in operational work including performing item analysis using psychometric methods, building optimal test forms and pools via optimization techniques, analyzing and monitoring item bank health, setting pass standards via standard setting studies, and supporting Job Task Analysis (JTA) to define and refresh test blueprints. Conduct main aspects of psychometric analysis in developing and applying statistical and psychometric modeling to evaluate and ensure AWS certification exams’ validity, reliability, applicability, efficiency, and accuracy. Participate in research projects to improve existing operational processes and quality using advanced techniques such as Machine Learning (ML), statistical modeling, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), etc. Develop automation code using R or Python for psychometric workflow pipeline and other tasks to improve operational efficiencies. Present, interpret, and communicate the results of analyses to stakeholders through written and oral reports. Follow the accreditation standards set by ISO/IEC:2012 17024 and the National Council for Certifying Agencies (NCCA) as they relate to valid psychometric practices. Engage with the professional community through conferences and publications. Position Requirements: PhD or foreign equivalent degree in Statistics, Psychometrics, Educational Measurement, Quantitative Psychology, Data Science, Industrial-Organizational (I/O) Psychology, or a related field and one year of research or work experience in the job offered, or as a Research Scientist, Research Assistant, Software Engineer, or a related occupation. Must have 1 year of experience in the following skill(s): 1. large-scale education, licensure, or certification assessment programs. 2. operational psychometric tasks on large-scale education, licensure, or certification assessment programs including item analysis, equating and scaling, item response theory, classical test theory, form and pool assembly, item bank health analysis, standard setting, and job task analysis. 3. at least one of the complex test designs such as linear-on-the-fly testing (LOFT), computerized adaptive testing (CAT). 4. at least one of the following areas including machine learning (ML) or natural language processing (NLP). 5. Programming skills in at least one script-based programming language (R, Python). Amazon.com is an Equal Opportunity-Affirmative Action Employer – Minority / Female / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation. 40 hours / week, 8:00am-5:00pm, Salary Range $136,000/year to $184,000/ year. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, visit: https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits.#0000

MULTIPLE POSITIONS AVAILABLE Employer: AMAZON WEB SERVICES, INC. Offered Position: Data Scientist III Job Location: Boston, Massachusetts Job Number: AMZ9674163 Position Responsibilities: Own the data science elements of various products to help with data-based decision making, product performance optimization, and product performance tracking. Work directly with product managers to help drive the design of the product. Work with Technical Product Managers to help drive the build planning. Translate business problems and products into data requirements and metrics. Initiate the design, development, and implementation of scientific analysis projects or deliverables. Own the analysis, modelling, system design, and development of data science solutions for products. Write documents and make presentations that explain model/analysis results to the business. Bridge the degree of uncertainty in both problem definition and data scientific solution approaches. Build consensus on data, metrics, and analysis to drive business and system strategy. Position Requirements: Master's degree or foreign equivalent degree in Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Economics, Engineering, Computer Science or a related field and two years of experience in the job offered or a related occupation. Employer will accept a Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent degree in Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Economics, Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field and five years of progressive post-baccalaureate experience in the job offered or a related occupation as equivalent to the Master's degree and two years of experience. Must have one year of experience in the following skills: (1) building statistical models and machine learning models using large datasets from multiple resources; (2) building complex data analyses by leveraging scripting languages including Python, Java, or related scripting language; and (3) communicating with users, technical teams, and management to collect requirements, evaluate alternatives, and develop processes and tools to support the organization. Amazon.com is an Equal Opportunity-Affirmative Action Employer – Minority / Female / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation. 40 hours / week, 8:00am-5:00pm, Salary Range $161,803/year to $215,300/year. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, visit: https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits.#0000