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Careers

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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  • IN, KA, Bengaluru
    Job ID: 3207573
    (Updated 5 days ago)
    Are you excited by the idea of developing personalized experiences for Amazon customers as they shop? Are you looking for new challenges and to solve hard science problems while applying state-of-the-art recommendation system modeling and GenAI techniques? Join us and you'll help millions of customers make informed purchase decisions while also advancing the state of Amazon's science by publishing research! Key job responsibilities - Participate in the design, development, evaluation, deployment and updating of data-driven models for shopping personalization. - Develop and test new signals for improving recommendation models - Use supervised and uplift learning algorithms to improve customer experience - Design A/B tests and conduct statistical analysis on their results - Work with distributed machine learning and statistical algorithms to harness enormous volumes of data at scale to serve our customers - Work closely with internal stakeholders like the business teams, engineering teams and partner teams and align them with respect to your focus area - Present and publish science research, contributing to Amazon's science community - Mentor junior engineers and scientists. About the team Our team's mission is to surface the right payments-related recommendations to customers at the right time, helping create a rewarding and successful shopping experience for Amazon's customers. Our team's culture is highly collaborative, with an emphasis on supporting each other and learning from one another. We dedicate time each week to focus on personal development and expanding our knowledge as a team. We also highly value having a big impact, both for Amazon's business and for our customers.
  • IN, KA, Bengaluru
    Job ID: 3207578
    (Updated 5 days ago)
    Are you excited by the idea of developing personalized experiences for Amazon customers as they shop? Are you looking for new challenges and to solve hard science problems while applying state-of-the-art recommendation system modeling and GenAI techniques? Join us and you'll help millions of customers make informed purchase decisions while also advancing the state of Amazon's science by publishing research! Key job responsibilities - Participate in the design, development, evaluation, deployment and updating of data-driven models for shopping personalization. - Develop and test new signals for improving recommendation models - Use supervised and uplift learning algorithms to improve customer experience - Contribute to production code and science tooling - Design A/B tests and conduct statistical analysis on their results - Work with distributed machine learning and statistical algorithms to harness enormous volumes of data at scale to serve our customers - Work closely with internal stakeholders like the business teams, engineering teams and partner teams and align them with respect to your focus area - Present and publish science research internally and externally, contributing to Amazon's science community - Mentor junior engineers and scientists. About the team Our team's mission is to surface the right payments-related recommendations to customers at the right time, helping create a rewarding and successful shopping experience for Amazon's customers. Our team's culture is highly collaborative, with an emphasis on supporting each other and learning from one another. We dedicate time each week to focus on personal development and expanding our knowledge as a team. We also highly value having a big impact, both for Amazon's business and for our customers.
  • IN, KA, Bengaluru
    Job ID: 3207580
    (Updated 5 days ago)
    Are you excited by the idea of developing personalized experiences for Amazon customers as they shop? Are you looking for new challenges and to solve hard science problems while applying state-of-the-art recommendation system modeling and GenAI techniques? Join us and you'll help millions of customers make informed purchase decisions while also advancing the state of Amazon's science by publishing research! Key job responsibilities - Participate in the design, development, evaluation, deployment and updating of data-driven models for shopping personalization. - Develop and test new signals for improving recommendation models - Use supervised and uplift learning algorithms to improve customer experience - Design A/B tests and conduct statistical analysis on their results - Work with distributed machine learning and statistical algorithms to harness enormous volumes of data at scale to serve our customers - Work closely with internal stakeholders like the business teams, engineering teams and partner teams and align them with respect to your focus area - Present and publish science research, contributing to Amazon's science community - Mentor junior engineers and scientists. About the team Our team's mission is to surface the right payments-related recommendations to customers at the right time, helping create a rewarding and successful shopping experience for Amazon's customers. Our team's culture is highly collaborative, with an emphasis on supporting each other and learning from one another. We dedicate time each week to focus on personal development and expanding our knowledge as a team. We also highly value having a big impact, both for Amazon's business and for our customers.
  • IN, KA, Bengaluru
    Job ID: 3207585
    (Updated 5 days ago)
    Are you excited by the idea of developing personalized experiences for Amazon customers as they shop? Are you looking for new challenges and to solve hard science problems while applying state-of-the-art recommendation system modeling and GenAI techniques? Join us and you'll help millions of customers make informed purchase decisions while also advancing the state of Amazon's science by publishing research! Key job responsibilities - Participate in the design, development, evaluation, deployment and updating of data-driven models for shopping personalization. - Develop and test new signals for improving recommendation models - Integrate GenAI into Amazon customer shopping experience - Design A/B tests and conduct statistical analysis on their results - Work with distributed machine learning and statistical algorithms to harness enormous volumes of data at scale to serve our customers - Work closely with internal stakeholders like the business teams, engineering teams and partner teams and align them with respect to your focus area - Present and publish science research, contributing to Amazon's science community - Mentor junior engineers and scientists. About the team Our team's mission is to surface the right payments-related recommendations to customers at the right time, helping create a rewarding and successful shopping experience for Amazon's customers. Our team's culture is highly collaborative, with an emphasis on supporting each other and learning from one another. We dedicate time each week to focus on personal development and expanding our knowledge as a team. We also highly value having a big impact, both for Amazon's business and for our customers.
  • IN, KA, Bengaluru
    Job ID: 3206545
    (Updated 6 days ago)
    RBS (Retail Business Services) Tech team works towards enhancing the customer experience (CX) and their trust in product data by providing technologies to find and fix Amazon CX defects at scale. Our platforms help in improving the CX in all phases of customer journey, including selection, discoverability & fulfilment, buying experience and post-buying experience (product quality and customer returns). The team also develops GenAI platforms for automation of Amazon Stores Operations. As a Sciences team in RBS Tech, we focus on foundational ML research and develop scalable state-of-the-art ML solutions to solve the problems covering customer experience (CX) and Selling partner experience (SPX). We work to solve problems related to multi-modal understanding (text and images), task automation through multi-modal LLM Agents, supervised and unsupervised techniques, multi-task learning, multi-label classification, aspect and topic extraction for Customer Anecdote Mining, image and text similarity and retrieval using NLP and Computer Vision for product groupings and identifying duplicate listings in product search results. Key job responsibilities As an Applied Scientist, you will be responsible to design and deploy scalable GenAI, NLP and Computer Vision solutions that will impact the content visible to millions of customer and solve key customer experience issues. You will develop novel LLM, deep learning and statistical techniques for task automation, text processing, image processing, pattern recognition, and anomaly detection problems. You will define the research and experiments strategy with an iterative execution approach to develop AI/ML models and progressively improve the results over time. You will partner with business and engineering teams to identify and solve large and significantly complex problems that require scientific innovation. You will independently file for patents and/or publish research work where opportunities arise. The RBS org deals with problems that are directly related to the selling partners and end customers and the ML team drives resolution to organization level problems. Therefore, the Applied Scientist role will impact the large product strategy, identifies new business opportunities and provides strategic direction which is very exciting.
  • IN, KA, Bengaluru
    Job ID: 3206546
    (Updated 6 days ago)
    RBS (Retail Business Services) Tech team works towards enhancing the customer experience (CX) and their trust in product data by providing technologies to find and fix Amazon CX defects at scale. Our platforms help in improving the CX in all phases of customer journey, including selection, discoverability & fulfilment, buying experience and post-buying experience (product quality and customer returns). The team also develops GenAI platforms for automation of Amazon Stores Operations. As a Sciences team in RBS Tech, we focus on foundational ML research and develop scalable state-of-the-art ML solutions to solve the problems covering customer experience (CX) and Selling partner experience (SPX). We work to solve problems related to multi-modal understanding (text and images), task automation through multi-modal LLM Agents, supervised and unsupervised techniques, multi-task learning, multi-label classification, aspect and topic extraction for Customer Anecdote Mining, image and text similarity and retrieval using NLP and Computer Vision for product groupings and identifying duplicate listings in product search results. Key job responsibilities As an Applied Scientist, you will be responsible to design and deploy scalable GenAI, NLP and Computer Vision solutions that will impact the content visible to millions of customer and solve key customer experience issues. You will develop novel LLM, deep learning and statistical techniques for task automation, text processing, image processing, pattern recognition, and anomaly detection problems. You will define the research and experiments strategy with an iterative execution approach to develop AI/ML models and progressively improve the results over time. You will partner with business and engineering teams to identify and solve large and significantly complex problems that require scientific innovation. You will help the team leverage your expertise, by coaching and mentoring. You will contribute to the professional development of colleagues, improving their technical knowledge and the engineering practices. You will independently as well as guide team to file for patents and/or publish research work where opportunities arise. The RBS org deals with problems that are directly related to the selling partners and end customers and the ML team drives resolution to organization level problems. Therefore, the Applied Scientist role will impact the large product strategy, identifies new business opportunities and provides strategic direction which is very exciting.
  • (Updated 6 days ago)
    The Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) team is looking for a passionate, talented, and inventive Applied Scientist with a strong deep learning background, to build industry-leading Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) technology with Large Language Models (LLMs) and multimodal systems. Key job responsibilities As an Applied Scientist on our team you will work with talented peers to develop novel algorithms and modeling techniques to advance the state of the art in multi-modal AGI models, with a focus on speech generation. You will leverage Amazon’s heterogeneous data sources and large-scale computing resources to build Machine Learning models for their application in speech generation. This role requires a pragmatic technical leader comfortable with ambiguity, capable of summarizing complex data and models through clear visual and written explanations. About the team The AGI team has a mission to push the envelope in GenAI with LLMs and multimodal systems, in order to provide the best-possible experience for our customers.
  • (Updated 4 days ago)
    Alexa AI is looking for a Principal Applied Scientist to lead the science behind Alexa+, Amazon's LLM-powered conversational assistant. You will own the technical direction for key initiatives spanning large language model fine-tuning, alignment, agentic reasoning, and evaluation — directly shaping the experience for hundreds of millions of customers worldwide. As a Principal Scientist, you are a hands-on technical leader. You define research directions, design and run rigorous experiments, and ensure that research translates into production systems at scale. You decompose ambiguous, hard problems into clear solutions. Your code, models, and documents are exemplary and frequently referenced across the organization. You amplify your impact beyond your own work. You lead scientific reviews, scrutinize experimental design and modeling assumptions, and align teams toward coherent strategies. You mentor senior scientists, contribute significantly to hiring, and keep the broader scientific community current on state-of-the-art techniques. You bring business and industry context to technical decisions and can credibly present to executive leadership. Key job responsibilities Define and drive the science roadmap for conversational AI capabilities powered by large language models Design, implement, and evaluate novel approaches to LLM fine-tuning, alignment (RLHF, DPO), and distillation for production deployment Architect agentic systems — multi-step reasoning, tool use, planning, and orchestration — that work reliably at scale Develop evaluation frameworks and methodologies that go beyond standard benchmarks to capture real-world conversational quality Translate research advances into customer-facing products, working closely with engineering, product, and cross-functional science teams Publish results at top-tier venues and represent Amazon in the broader research community Mentor scientists at all levels and contribute to organizational planning, hiring, and technical culture About the team Alexa AI is building the science and technology behind Alexa+, Amazon's next-generation conversational assistant. Our team works at the intersection of large language models, reinforcement learning from human feedback and verifiable rewards, agentic architectures, and multilingual/multimodal understanding. We operate at massive scale — our models serve customers across dozens of languages and device types. If you want to push the frontier of conversational AI and see your work used by people every day, come join us.
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 3204794
    (Updated 10 days ago)
    Take Earth's most customer-centric company. Mix in hundreds of millions of shoppers spending tens of billions of dollars annually, an exciting opportunity to build next-generation shopping experiences, Amazon’s tremendous computational resources, and our extensive e-Commerce experience. What do you get? The most exciting position in the industry. About our organization: Our team is part of Amazon’s Personalization organization, a high-performing group that leverages Amazon’s expertise in machine learning, big data, distributed systems, and user experience design to deliver the best shopping experiences for our customers. We run global experiments and our work has revolutionized e-commerce with features such as "Keep shopping for", "Tap to explore", “Customers who bought this item also bought”, and “Frequently bought together” among others. Amazon’s internal surveys regularly recognize us as one of the best engineering organizations to work for in the company, with visible high-impact work, low operational load, respectful work-life balance, and continual opportunity to learn and grow. You will play a critical role in ideation for the team. We are building the next generation ML systems that powers the biggest shopping engine on earth, and we hope you will join us! Key job responsibilities As an Applied Scientist on the team you will be working on cutting edge ways to help customers find the right products and content on their shopping journey. Our goal is to help customers achieve their objective seamlessly while shopping on Amazon. We are investing in multiple fronts including but not limited to GenerativeAI, LLMs, transformers, sequence models, reinforcement learning, MABs. This is an opportunity to come in on Day0 and influence the science roadmap of one of the most interesting problem spaces at Amazon - understanding the Amazon customer to build deeply personalized and adaptive shopping experiences. We will be working on applying cutting edge science and research into production to elevate the customer experience. You will be part of a multidisciplinary team, working on one of the largest scale machine learning systems in the company. You will hone your skills in areas such as deep learning and reinforcement learning while building scalable industrial systems. As a member of a highly leveraged team of talented engineers and ML scientists, you will have a unique opportunity to help build infrastructure that accesses petabytes of data to produce and deliver models that deliver state of the art customer experiences. About the team Our mission is to delight every Amazon customer with a consistent and adaptive personalized shopping experience. We achieve our mission through investments in large scale machine learning, distributed systems and user experience with the purpose of delivering the future of shopping on Amazon. We are seeking an Applied Scientist to work on step function science improvements to help achieve SOTA results and to help build new Personalization experiences for Amazon customers.
  • IN, KA, Bengaluru
    Job ID: 3202426
    (Updated 12 days ago)
    The Amazon Alexa AI team in India is seeking a talented, self-driven Applied Scientist to work on prototyping, optimizing, and deploying ML algorithms within the realm of Generative AI. Key responsibilities include: - Research, experiment and build Proof Of Concepts advancing the state of the art in AI & ML for GenAI. - Collaborate with cross-functional teams to architect and execute technically rigorous AI projects. - Thrive in dynamic environments, adapting quickly to evolving technical requirements and deadlines. - Engage in effective technical communication (written & spoken) with coordination across teams. - Conduct thorough documentation of algorithms, methodologies, and findings for transparency and reproducibility. - Publish research papers in internal and external venues of repute - Support on-call activities for critical issues

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