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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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  • (Updated 0 days ago)
    The AWS Marketplace team is looking for an Applied Scientist to help build and improve our AI/ML-Powered Discovery systems. The ideal candidate is passionate about applying machine learning and artificial intelligence to complex information retrieval challenges, with experience in search, recommendations, or personalization. You'll work alongside senior scientists and engineers to develop models and systems that power traditional discovery experiences — such as search ranking, query understanding, and personalized recommendations — built on rich product knowledge graphs and structured metadata. You'll also help extend these foundations into emerging agentic discovery experiences, where AI agents leverage these retrieval and knowledge systems to help customers find and evaluate software solutions. This is a great opportunity to have direct impact on the future of software discovery on AWS Marketplace. Key job responsibilities - Design, develop, and deploy AI/ML models for search ranking, query understanding, recommendation, and discovery systems - Develop and improve information retrieval systems that operate over complex product taxonomies, knowledge graphs, and structured/unstructured metadata - Build relevance models that capture nuanced relationships between customer intent, product capabilities, and domain-specific context - Advance both traditional discovery experiences (search, browse, personalized recommendations) and agentic discovery with multi-agent systems - Conduct experiments and A/B tests to measure and improve the relevance and performance of discovery features - Analyze large-scale datasets to identify patterns, generate insights, and inform model development - Collaborate with engineers and product managers to integrate AI/ML solutions into production systems - Stay current with relevant research in information retrieval, knowledge representation, NLP, and recommendation systems, and apply findings to improve our systems About the team The AWS Marketplace & Partner Services Science team is at the forefront of developing and deploying AI/ML systems that serve multiple critical stakeholders: - AWS Customers: Through the AWS Marketplace, we support Discovery tools that streamline cloud adoption and innovation. - AWS Partners: Via Partner Central, we offer advanced tools and insights to enhance collaboration and drive mutual growth. - Internal AWS Sellers: We equip our sales force with data-driven recommendations to better serve our customers and partners. Our primary objective is to accelerate cloud migrations and modernizations, fostering innovation for AWS customers while simultaneously supporting the growth and success of our extensive partner network. Why AWS Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses. Inclusive Team Culture Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness. 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. 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. 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.
  • (Updated 0 days ago)
    The People eXperience and Technology Central Science (PXTCS) team uses economics, behavioral science, statistics, and machine learning to proactively identify mechanisms and process improvements which simultaneously improve Amazon and the lives, well-being, and the value of work to Amazonians. PXTCS is looking for an economist who can apply economic methods to address business problems. The ideal candidate will work with engineers and computer scientists to estimate models and algorithms on large scale data, design pilots and measure impact, and transform successful prototypes into improved policies and programs at scale. PXTCS is looking for creative thinkers who can combine a strong technical economic toolbox with a desire to learn from other disciplines, and who know how to execute and deliver on big ideas as part of an interdisciplinary technical team. Ideal candidates will work in a team setting with individuals from diverse disciplines and backgrounds. They will work with teammates to develop scientific models and conduct the data analysis, modeling, and experimentation that is necessary for estimating and validating models. They will work closely with engineering teams to develop scalable data resources to support rapid insights, and take successful models and findings into production as new products and services. They will be customer-centric and will communicate scientific approaches and findings to business leaders, listening to and incorporate their feedback, and delivering successful scientific solutions. Key job responsibilities - Design and conduct rigorous evaluations of benefits programs - Support the development and application of structural models - Develop experiments to evaluate the impact of benefits initiatives - Communicate complex findings to business stakeholders in clear, actionable terms - Work with engineering teams to develop scalable tools that automate and streamline evaluation processes A day in the life Work with teammates to apply economic methods to business problems. This might include identifying the appropriate research questions, writing code to implement a DID analysis or estimate a structural model, or writing and presenting a document with findings to business leaders. Our economists also collaborate with partner teams throughout the process, from understanding their challenges, to developing a research agenda that will address those challenges, to help them implement solutions. About the team PXTCS is a multidisciplinary science team that develops innovative solutions to make Amazon Earth's Best Employer
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 10409294
    (Updated 3 days ago)
    The newest business group in AWS, Applied AI Solutions are built by AWS and AWS Partners to deliver applied AI solutions that leverage Amazon's operational expertise and that businesses love and trust for their day-to-day success. Our ambition is to become a partner which companies can rely on to run their business every day, putting AI to work delivering better customer experience, operational excellence and speed. Are you excited about pushing past single-turn chat into agents that run for hours or days, planning, recovering from failure, and accumulating knowledge as they work? Do you want to design the harnesses, memory systems, and context strategies that turn frontier models into reliablen collaborators on real business problems? Do you enjoy the prospect of solving agent problems that haven't been solved at scale anywhere before, including memory decay, belief revision, fact grounding, long-horizon credit assignment, and evaluation of open-ended trajectories? Along the way, you'll get opportunities to be a disruptor, innovator, and a problem solver, someone who truly enables AI agents to create significant impacts. Key job responsibilities You will partner with cross-functional business and engineering teams to identify and deliver high-impact agentic use cases across the Applied AI Solutions portfolio. You will design, develop, and evaluate long-running agents — including orchestration harnesses, memory architectures (episodic recall, semantic facts, revisable beliefs, principled decay), context compaction strategies, and safe, auditable tool and environment designs. You will define evaluation frameworks for agents whose outputs defy single-answer judgment, building trajectory-level evaluations, reward-hacking detection, and human-in-the-loop review patterns. As a senior scientist, you will set technical direction, mentor scientists and engineers, and represent the science org in roadmap and architecture decisions. You will ensure seamless deployment and integration of agents into production systems customers rely on daily. The ideal candidate thrives in ambiguity, builds collaborative relationships, moves fast, and is passionate about customer experience. They hold a strong point of view on where agent capabilities are heading, with the scientific rigor to separate what works from what merely demos well. They lead by example, communicate effectively across audiences, and love solving complex problems at the frontier of applied AI.
  • JP, 13, Tokyo
    Job ID: 10404977
    (Updated 6 days ago)
    We are seeking an exceptional Senior Data Scientist to join our JP Seller Services team, where you will play a pivotal role in enabling seller growth and success on Amazon Marketplace through innovative products, technology, and data-driven solutions. As a key member of JP Seller Services, you will collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders across Amazon to develop sophisticated AI-native science solutions and innovative problem-solving products through advanced analytics, machine learning, statistical modeling and generative AI. These solutions will enable seller business growth on Amazon Marketplace and deliver key strategic decisions impacting our entire business. The ideal candidate combines strong technical depth with the strategic thinking to address complex business problems at scale. Key job responsibilities (1) Implement AI-driven solutions to streamline and accelerate the science model development and evaluation cycle, enabling faster iteration and impact delivery. (2) Develop science-based solutions to optimize seller engagement channel strategies. (3) Build and scale end-to-end AI-native recommendation models using generative AI and ML to identify critical seller challenges and unlock business growth opportunities. (4) Collaborate with stakeholders to transform business insights into rigorous scientific solutions.
  • IN, KA, Bengaluru
    Job ID: 10404195
    (Updated 7 days ago)
    Alexa+ is Amazon’s next-generation, AI-powered assistant. Building on the original Alexa, it uses generative AI to deliver a more conversational, personalized, and effective experience. The Trust CX Innovations team is looking for an Applied Scientist with strong background in Generative AI space to build solutions that help in upholding customer trust for Alexa+. As an Applied Scientist in Trust CX innovations, you will be at the forefront of developing innovative solutions to critical challenges in AI trust and privacy. You'll lead research in trust-preserving machine learning techniques. We are working on revolutionizing the way Amazonians work and collaborate. You will help us achieve new heights of productivity through the power of advanced generative AI technologies. Key job responsibilities - Lead research initiatives in generative AI, focusing on LLMs, multimodal models, and frontier AI capabilities - Develop innovative approaches for model optimization, including prompt engineering, few-shot learning, and efficient fine-tuning - Pioneer new methods for AI safety, alignment, and responsible AI development - Design and execute sophisticated experiments to evaluate model performance and behavior - Lead the development of production-ready AI solutions that scale efficiently - Collaborate with product teams to translate research innovations into practical applications - Guide engineering teams in implementing AI models and systems at scale - Author technical papers for top-tier conferences - File patents for novel AI technologies and applications A day in the life You will be working with a group of talented scientists on researching algorithm and running experiments to test scientific proposal/solutions to improve our trust-preserving experiences. This will involve collaboration with partner teams including engineering, PMs, data annotators, and other scientists to discuss data quality, policy, and model development. You work closely with partner teams across Alexa to deliver platform features that require cross-team leadership. About the team Who We Are: Trust CX Innovations is a strategic innovation team within Amazon Devices & Services that focuses on advancing AI technology while prioritizing customer trust and experience. Our team operates at the intersection of artificial intelligence, privacy engineering and customer-centric design. Our Mission: To pioneer trustworthy AI innovations that delight customers while setting new standards for privacy and responsible technology development. We aim to transform how Amazon builds AI products by creating solutions that balance innovation with customer trust.
  • (Updated 10 days ago)
    Advertising is a complex, multi-sided market with many technologies at play within the industry. The industry is rapidly growing and evolving as viewers are shifting from traditional TV viewing to streaming video and publishers are increasingly adding video content to their online experiences. Amazon’s video advertising is a rising competitor in this industry. Amazon’s service has differentiated assets in our customer & audience insights, exclusive video content, and associated inventory that position us well as an end-to-end service for advertisers and agencies. We are innovating at the intersection of advertising, e-commerce, and entertainment. Amazon Publisher Monetization (APM) is looking for a a passionate and experienced scientist who is adept at a variety of skills; especially in generative AI, computer vision, and large language models that will accelerate our plans to maximize yield via AI-driven contextual targeting, Ads syndication and more. The ideal candidate will be an inventor at heart, they will provide science expertise, rapidly prototype, iterate, and launch, foster the spirit of collaboration and innovation within our larger sister teams and their scientists, and execute against a compelling product roadmap designed to bring AI-led science innovation to solve one of the most challenging problems in advertising. Key job responsibilities This role is focused on shaping our approach to the solving the trifecta of advertising - serving the right ad to the right viewer at the right moment - delivering engaging ads for viewers, improved performance for advertisers, and maximizing the yield of our supply inventory. Responsibilities include: * Partner deeply with Product and Engineering to develop AI-based solutions to generating contextual signals across both video (VOD and Live) and display ads. * Drive end-to-end applied science projects that have a high degree of ambiguity, scale, complexity. * Provide technical/science leadership related to computer vision, large language models and contextual targeting. * Research new and innovative machine learning approaches. * Partner with Applied Scientists across the broader org to make the most of prior art and contribute back to this community the innovation that you come up with.
  • IN, KA, Bengaluru
    Job ID: 10401013
    (Updated 11 days ago)
    Alexa International is looking for passionate, talented, and inventive Senior Applied Scientists to help build industry-leading technology with Large Language Models (LLMs) and multimodal systems, requiring strong deep learning and generative models knowledge. Senior applied scientists will drive cross-team scientific strategy, influence partner teams, and deliver solutions that have broad impact across Alexa's international products and services. Key job responsibilities As a Applied Scientist with II the Alexa International team, you will work with talented peers to develop novel algorithms and modeling techniques to advance the state of the art with LLMs, particularly delivering industry-leading scientific research and applied AI for multi-lingual applications — a challenging area for the industry globally. Your work will directly impact our global customers in the form of products and services that support Alexa+. You will leverage Amazon's heterogeneous data sources and large-scale computing resources to accelerate advances in text, speech, and vision domains. The ideal candidate possesses a solid understanding of machine learning, speech and/or natural language processing, modern LLM architectures, LLM evaluation & tooling, and a passion for pushing boundaries in this vast and quickly evolving field. They thrive in fast-paced environment, like to tackle complex challenges, excel at swiftly delivering impactful solutions while iterating based on user feedback, and are able to influence and align multiple teams around a shared scientific vision. A day in the life * Analyze, understand, and model customer behavior and the customer experience based on large-scale data. * Build novel online & offline evaluation metrics and methodologies for multimodal personal digital assistants. * Fine-tune/post-train LLMs using advanced and innovative techniques like SFT, DPO, Reinforcement Learning (RLHF and RLAIF) for supporting model performance specific to a customer’s location and language. * Quickly experiment and set up experimentation framework for agile model and data analysis or A/B testing. * Contribute through industry-first research to drive innovation forward. * Drive cross-team scientific strategy and influence partner teams on LLM evaluation frameworks, post-training methodologies, and best practices for international speech and language systems. * Lead end-to-end delivery of scientifically complex solutions from research to production, including reusable science components and services that resolve architecture deficiencies across teams. * Serve as a scientific thought leader, communicating solutions clearly to partners, stakeholders, and senior leadership. * Actively mentor junior scientists and contribute to the broader internal and external scientific community through publications and community engagement.
  • (Updated 0 days ago)
    The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Center for Quantum Computing in Pasadena, CA, is looking to hire an Applied Scientist on the Device Team, focused on integration R&D for superconducting quantum processors. You will join a multi-disciplinary team of theoretical and experimental physicists, materials scientists, and hardware and software engineers working at the forefront of quantum computing. You should have deep expertise in the design, fabrication, and characterization of superconducting quantum devices, with a strong understanding of how materials, process integration, and device architecture impact qubit coherence and performance. Candidates with a track record of original scientific contributions in superconducting qubit coherence, thin film materials, or Josephson junction engineering will be preferred. We are looking for candidates with strong scientific and engineering principles, resourcefulness and a bias for action, superior problem solving, and excellent communication skills. Working effectively within a team environment is essential. As an Applied Scientist at CQC, you will be expected to drive integration R&D from concept through hardware demonstration and stay abreast of advances in superconducting quantum hardware. Key job responsibilities You will work at the unit cell level to integrate and evaluate new fabrication process modules and device design changes for superconducting quantum processors. This includes designing and executing experiments to assess performance impacts, investigating unexpected results through rigorous analysis and follow-on experiments, and leveraging electromagnetic and circuit-level simulations to interpret findings and connect observations to underlying physical mechanisms. You will coordinate with production and cross-functional teams on engineering lots, short-loop experiments, and prototyping runs to build the scientific foundation for next-generation processor integration at CQC. About the team About the team Why AWS? Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that's why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses. AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations — from foundational services such as Amazon's Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWS's services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization, you'll support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Internet of Things (IoT), Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS. Within AWS UC, Amazon Dedicated Cloud (ADC) roles engage with AWS customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services. Inclusive Team Culture Here at AWS, it's in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness. Diverse Experiences AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn't followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don't let it stop you from applying. 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.
  • (Updated 5 days ago)
    Join Amazon's Customer Delivery Experience (CDE) Science Team as a Applied Scientist I to improve global logistics through data-driven modeling and analysis. Our team applies advanced machine learning and statistical techniques to enhance delivery experiences for millions of customers worldwide. Working collaboratively with Amazon's logistics operations teams, you will implement proven ML solutions and contribute to continuous improvements across our global fulfillment and delivery network. Key job responsibilities - Build and validate predictive models for delivery time estimation using historical delivery data, weather patterns, and traffic information - Implement models to identify delivery exceptions and risk factors using established ML frameworks - Partner with logistics operations teams to understand business requirements and translate them into modeling approaches - Document model methodologies, assumptions, and limitations for team knowledge sharing - Participate in code reviews and contribute to team best practices - Seek feedback from senior team members on proposed solution approaches and methodologies A day in the life The CDE Science Team values diverse perspectives and believes the best models come from teams with varied backgrounds and experiences. You'll have an assigned mentor from day one, regular 1:1s with your manager, and access to Amazon's ML University for continued learning. We support a healthy work-life balance and encourage you to invest in your professional growth through conference attendance and internal science forums. About the team The Customer Delivery Experience (CDE) Science Team combines advanced machine learning with transportation logistics expertise to optimize delivery operations at scale. You'll work alongside data scientists, machine learning engineers, and operations partners to solve complex logistics challenges that directly impact customer satisfaction.
  • (Updated 7 days ago)
    The Sponsored Products and Brands team at Amazon Ads is re-imagining the advertising landscape through novel 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 ecosystem. 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. Key job responsibilities As an applied scientist on our team, you will * Develop AI solutions for Sponsored Products and Brands advertiser and shopper experiences powered by video. You will build recommendation systems that leverage computer vision to develop and improve video performance and outcomes * You invent and design new solutions for scientifically-complex problem areas and/or opportunities in new business initiatives. * You drive or heavily influence the design of scientifically-complex software solutions or systems, for which you personally write significant parts of the critical scientific novelty. You take ownership of these components, providing a system-wide view and design guidance. These systems or solutions can be brand new or evolve from existing ones. * Define a long-term science vision and roadmap for our Sponsored Products and Brands advertising business, driven from our customers' needs, translating that direction into specific plans for applied scientists and engineering teams. This role combines science leadership, organizational ability, technical strength, product focus, and business understanding. * Work closely with engineers and product managers to design, implement and launch AI solutions end-to-end; * Design and conduct A/B experiments to evaluate proposed solutions based on in-depth data analyses; * Think big about the arc of development of Gen AI over a multi-year horizon, and identify new opportunities to apply these technologies to solve real-world problems * Effectively communicate technical and non-technical ideas with teammates and stakeholders; * Translate complex scientific challenges into clear and impactful solutions for business stakeholders. * Mentor and guide junior scientists, fostering a collaborative and high-performing team culture. * Stay up-to-date with advancements and the latest modeling techniques in the field About the team The Sponsored Videos team is responsible for the design, development, and implementation of Sponsored Products and Sponsored Brands Video experiences worldwide. We design and launch video based experiences, aiming to delight shoppers and advertisers worldwide.

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