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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. The Global Optimization (GO) team within Sponsored Products and Brands at Amazon Ads is re-imagining the advertising stack from the ground up across 20+ marketplaces. We are seeking an experienced Senior Data Scientist to join our team. You will develop scalable analytical approaches to evaluate marketplace performance across the entire Ads stack to uncover regional and marketplace-specific insights, design and run experiments, and shape our development roadmap. We operate as a closely integrated team of Data Scientists, Applied Scientists, and Engineers to translate data-driven insights into measurable business impact. If you're energized by solving complex challenges at international scale and pushing the boundaries of what's possible with GenAI, join us in shaping the future of global advertising at Amazon. Key job responsibilities As a Data Scientist on this team, you will: - Write code to obtain, manipulate, and analyze data to derive business insights. - Apply statistical and ML knowledge to specific business problems and data. - Analyze historical data to identify trends and support optimal decision making. - Formalize assumptions about how our systems are expected to work and develop methods to systematically identify high ROI improvements. About the team SPB Global Optimization (GO) team was created to accelerate growth in non-US markets. We are driving business growth across all marketplaces by creating delightful experiences for shoppers and advertisers alike. We are working backwards from customers to re-imagine Amazon's advertising stack from the ground up, leveraging GenAI to deliver solutions that scale across 20+ marketplaces from day one.

Shape the Future of Visual Intelligence Are you passionate about pushing the boundaries of computer vision and shaping the future of visual intelligence? Join Amazon and embark on an exciting journey where you'll develop cutting-edge algorithms and models that power our groundbreaking computer vision services, including Amazon Rekognition, Amazon Go, Visual Search, and more! At Amazon, we're combining computer vision, mobile robots, advanced end-of-arm tooling, and high-degree of freedom movement to solve real-world problems at an unprecedented scale. As an intern, you'll have the opportunity to build innovative solutions where visual input helps customers shop, anticipate technological advances, work with leading-edge technology, focus on highly targeted customer use-cases, and launch products that solve problems for Amazon customers worldwide. Throughout your journey, you'll have access to unparalleled resources, including state-of-the-art computing infrastructure, cutting-edge research papers, and mentorship from industry luminaries. This immersive experience will not only sharpen your technical skills but also cultivate your ability to think critically, communicate effectively, and thrive in a fast-paced, innovative environment where bold ideas are celebrated. Join us at the forefront of applied science, where your contributions will shape the future of AI and propel humanity forward. Seize this extraordinary opportunity to learn, grow, and leave an indelible mark on the world of technology. Amazon has positions available for Computer Vision Applied Science Internships in, but not limited to, Arlington, VA; Boston, MA; Cupertino, CA; Minneapolis, MN; New York, NY; Portland, OR; Santa Clara, CA; Seattle, WA; Bellevue, WA; Santa Clara, CA; Sunnyvale, CA. Key job responsibilities We are particularly interested in candidates with expertise in: Vision - Language Models, Object Recognition/Detection, Computer Vision, Large Language Models (LLMs), Programming/Scripting Languages, Facial Recognition, Image Retrieval, Deep Learning, Ranking, Video Understanding, Robotics In this role, you will work alongside global experts to develop and implement novel, scalable algorithms and modeling techniques that advance the state-of-the-art in areas of visual intelligence. You will tackle challenging, groundbreaking research problems to help build solutions where visual input helps the customers shop, anticipate technological advances, work with leading edge technology, focus on highly targeted customer use-cases, and launch products that solve problems for Amazon customers. The ideal candidate should possess the ability to work collaboratively with diverse groups and cross-functional teams to solve complex business problems. A successful candidate will be a self-starter, comfortable with ambiguity, with strong attention to detail and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment. A day in the life - Collaborate with Amazon scientists and cross-functional teams to develop and deploy cutting edge computer vision solutions into production. - Dive into complex challenges, leveraging your expertise in areas such as Vision-Language Models, Object Recognition/Detection, Large Language Models (LLMs), Facial Recognition, Image Retrieval, Deep Learning, Ranking, Video Understanding, and Robotics. - Contribute to technical white papers, create technical roadmaps, and drive production-level projects that will support Amazon Science. - Embrace ambiguity, strong attention to detail, and a fast-paced, ever-changing environment as you own the design and development of end-to-end systems. - Engage in knowledge-sharing, mentorship, and career-advancing resources to grow as a well-rounded professional.

Unleash Your Potential as an AI Trailblazer At Amazon, we're on a mission to revolutionize the way people discover and access information. Our Applied Science team is at the forefront of this endeavor, pushing the boundaries of recommender systems and information retrieval. We're seeking brilliant minds to join us as interns and contribute to the development of cutting-edge AI solutions that will shape the future of personalized experiences. As an Applied Science Intern focused on Recommender Systems and Information Retrieval in Machine Learning, you'll have the opportunity to work alongside renowned scientists and engineers, tackling complex challenges in areas such as deep learning, natural language processing, and large-scale distributed systems. Your contributions will directly impact the products and services used by millions of Amazon customers worldwide. Imagine a role where you immerse yourself in groundbreaking research, exploring novel machine learning models for product recommendations, personalized search, and information retrieval tasks. You'll leverage natural language processing and information retrieval techniques to unlock insights from vast repositories of unstructured data, fueling the next generation of AI applications. Throughout your journey, you'll have access to unparalleled resources, including state-of-the-art computing infrastructure, cutting-edge research papers, and mentorship from industry luminaries. This immersive experience will not only sharpen your technical skills but also cultivate your ability to think critically, communicate effectively, and thrive in a fast-paced, innovative environment where bold ideas are celebrated. Join us at the forefront of applied science, where your contributions will shape the future of AI and propel humanity forward. Seize this extraordinary opportunity to learn, grow, and leave an indelible mark on the world of technology. Must be eligible and available for a full-time (40h / week) 12 week internship between May 2026 and September 2026 Amazon has positions available for Machine Learning Applied Science Internships in, but not limited to Arlington, VA; Bellevue, WA; Boston, MA; New York, NY; Palo Alto, CA; San Diego, CA; Santa Clara, CA; Seattle, WA. Key job responsibilities We are particularly interested in candidates with expertise in: Knowledge Graphs and Extraction, Programming/Scripting Languages, Time Series, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Deep Learning,Neural Networks/GNNs, Large Language Models, Data Structures and Algorithms, Graph Modeling, Collaborative Filtering, Learning to Rank, Recommender Systems In this role, you'll collaborate with brilliant minds to develop innovative frameworks and tools that streamline the lifecycle of machine learning assets, from data to deployed models in areas at the intersection of Knowledge Management within Machine Learning. You will conduct groundbreaking research into emerging best practices and innovations in the field of ML operations, knowledge engineering, and information management, proposing novel approaches that could further enhance Amazon's machine learning capabilities. The ideal candidate should possess the ability to work collaboratively with diverse groups and cross-functional teams to solve complex business problems. A successful candidate will be a self-starter, comfortable with ambiguity, with strong attention to detail and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment. A day in the life - Design, implement, and experimentally evaluate new recommendation and search algorithms using large-scale datasets - Develop scalable data processing pipelines to ingest, clean, and featurize diverse data sources for model training - Conduct research into the latest advancements in recommender systems, information retrieval, and related machine learning domains - Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate your innovative solutions into production systems, impacting millions of Amazon customers worldwide - Communicate your findings through captivating presentations, technical documentation, and potential publications, sharing your knowledge with the global AI community

We are seeking an Applied Scientist to lead the development of evaluation frameworks and data collection protocols for robotic capabilities. In this role, you will focus on designing how we measure, stress-test, and improve robot behavior across a wide range of real-world tasks. Your work will play a critical role in shaping how policies are validated and how high-quality datasets are generated to accelerate system performance. You will operate at the intersection of robotics, machine learning, and human-in-the-loop systems, building the infrastructure and methodologies that connect teleoperation, evaluation, and learning. This includes developing evaluation policies, defining task structures, and contributing to operator-facing interfaces that enable scalable and reliable data collection. The ideal candidate is highly experimental, systems-oriented, and comfortable working across software, robotics, and data pipelines, with a strong focus on turning ambiguous capability goals into measurable and actionable evaluation systems. Key job responsibilities - Design and implement evaluation frameworks to measure robot capabilities across structured tasks, edge cases, and real-world scenarios - Develop task definitions, success criteria, and benchmarking methodologies that enable consistent and reproducible evaluation of policies - Create and refine data collection protocols that generate high-quality, task-relevant datasets aligned with model development needs - Build and iterate on teleoperation workflows and operator interfaces to support efficient, reliable, and scalable data collection - Analyze evaluation results and collected data to identify performance gaps, failure modes, and opportunities for targeted data collection - Collaborate with engineering teams to integrate evaluation tooling, logging systems, and data pipelines into the broader robotics stack - Stay current with advances in robotics, evaluation methodologies, and human-in-the-loop learning to continuously improve internal approaches - Lead technical projects from conception through production deployment - Mentor junior scientists and engineers

As an Applied Scientist in the Alexa AI team, you will spearhead the advancement and deployment of state-of-the-art ML/RAG systems that revolutionize how millions of customers interact with Alexa. You'll leverage your expertise in machine learning, natural language processing, and large language models to create reliable, scalable, high-performance products that set new standards in operational excellence. Working at the intersection of research and production, you'll translate latest AI innovations into customer-facing features that delight users daily. Your work will span the full ML lifecycle—from analyzing customer behavior patterns and building novel metrics for personal digital assistants, to deploying automated training pipelines and conducting rigorous A/B testing across diverse devices and endpoints. Collaborating closely with business, engineering, and science teams across Amazon, you'll lead high-visibility programs that automate workflows and deliver measurable customer impact. This role offers the unique opportunity to publish at top-tier conferences while seeing your innovations scale to one of the world's most popular voice assistants, serving millions of customers globally. Key job responsibilities As an Applied Scientist in the Alexa AI team: - You'll analyze and model customer behavior at scale, building novel metrics for personal digital assistants across diverse devices and endpoints. Your work will involve creating deep learning, policy-based learning, and machine learning algorithms that directly impact customer experiences, translating complex data patterns into actionable insights that drive product innovation. - Your technical leadership will extend to building and deploying automated model training and evaluation pipelines, implementing complex machine learning and deep learning algorithms, and conducting rigorous model and data analysis through online A/B testing. You'll research and implement novel approaches that push the boundaries of what's possible in conversational AI. - Beyond model development, you'll ensure operational excellence by taking ownership of production systems, including on-call responsibilities during peak and non-peak hours. Working alongside Software Development Engineers, you'll deploy fixes and handle high-severity issues, ensuring our ML systems maintain the reliability and performance that millions of Alexa customers depend on daily. A day in the life As an Applied Scientist in the Alexa AI team, your day will involve collaborating with talented engineers and scientists to build scalable solutions for our conversational assistant. You'll dive into data analysis, experiment with novel algorithms, and iterate on models based on real-time user feedback. Working in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment, you'll tackle complex technical challenges—from debugging production issues to presenting research findings to stakeholders. Your self-motivated approach will drive you to swiftly deliver impactful solutions while maintaining the high standards that define our mission to revolutionize user experiences for millions of customers. About the team The Alexa AI team develops the intelligence behind one of the world's most popular voice assistants, serving millions of customers globally. We're a diverse group of scientists, engineers, and researchers united by our mission to make Alexa more natural, helpful, and delightful. Our culture thrives on innovation, collaboration, and customer obsession. We tackle some of the most challenging problems in conversational AI—from natural language understanding to personalization at scale. Here, you'll work alongside world-class talent, publish at top-tier conferences, and see your innovations impact customers daily. We move fast, think big, and celebrate both successes and learnings.

Amazon Leo is an initiative to launch a constellation of Low Earth Orbit satellites that will provide low-latency, high-speed broadband connectivity to unserved and underserved communities around the world. As a Systems Engineer, this role is primarily responsible for the design, development and integration of communication payload and customer terminal systems. The Role: Be part of the team defining the overall communication system and architecture of Amazon Leo’s broadband wireless network. This is a unique opportunity to innovate and define groundbreaking wireless technology at global scale. The team develops and designs the communication system for Leo and analyzes its overall system level performance such as for overall throughput, latency, system availability, packet loss etc. This role in particular will be responsible for leading the effort in designing and developing advanced technology and solutions for communication system. This role will also be responsible developing advanced physical layer + protocol stacks systems as proof of concept and reference implementation to improve the performance and reliability of the LEO network. In particular this role will be responsible for using concepts from digital signal processing, information theory, wireless communications to develop novel solutions for achieving ultra-high performance LEO network. This role will also be part of a team and develop simulation tools with particular emphasis on modeling the physical layer aspects such as advanced receiver modeling and abstraction, interference cancellation techniques, FEC abstraction models etc. This role will also play a critical role in the integration and verification of various HW and SW sub-systems as a part of system integration and link bring-up and verification. Export Control Requirement: Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.

At Audible, we believe stories have the power to transform lives. It’s why we work with some of the world’s leading creators to produce and share audio storytelling with our millions of global listeners. We are dreamers and inventors who come from a wide range of backgrounds and experiences to empower and inspire each other. Imagine your future with us. ABOUT THIS ROLE As an Applied Scientist, you will solve large complex real-world problems at scale, draw inspiration from the latest science and technology to empower undefined/untapped business use cases, delve into customer requirements, collaborate with tech and product teams on design, and create production-ready models that span various domains, including Machine Learning (ML), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Natural Language Processing (NLP), Reinforcement Learning (RL), real-time and distributed systems. You will be at the forefront of transforming how Audible harnesses the power of AI to enhance productivity, unlock new value, and reimagine how we work. In this unique role, you'll apply ML/AI approaches to solve complex real-world problems while helping build the blueprint for how Audible works with AI. ABOUT YOU You are passionate about applying scientific approaches to real business challenges, with deep expertise in Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, GenAI, and large language models. You thrive in collaborative environments where you can both build solutions and empower others to leverage AI effectively. You have a track record of developing production-ready models that balance scientific excellence with practical implementation. You're excited about not just building AI solutions, but also creating frameworks, evaluation methodologies, and knowledge management systems that elevate how entire organizations work with AI. As an Applied Scientist, you will... - Design and implement innovative AI solutions across our three pillars: driving internal productivity, building the blueprint for how Audible works with AI, and unlocking new value through ML & AI-powered product features - Develop machine learning models, frameworks, and evaluation methodologies that help teams streamline workflows, automate repetitive tasks, and leverage collective knowledge - Enable self-service workflow automation by developing tools that allow non-technical teams to implement their own solutions - Collaborate with product, design and engineering teams to rapidly prototype new product ideas that could unlock new audiences and revenue streams - Build evaluation frameworks to measure AI system quality, effectiveness, and business impact - Mentor and educate colleagues on AI best practices, helping raise the AI fluency across the organization ABOUT AUDIBLE Audible is the leading producer and provider of audio storytelling. We spark listeners’ imaginations, offering immersive, cinematic experiences full of inspiration and insight to enrich our customers daily lives. We are a global company with an entrepreneurial spirit. We are dreamers and inventors who are passionate about the positive impact Audible can make for our customers and our neighbors. This spirit courses throughout Audible, supporting a culture of creativity and inclusion built on our People Principles and our mission to build more equitable communities in the cities we call home.

How can we improve the customer experience by tailoring what we display on our pages based on available data? How do we build models that help us innovate in different ways to enhance customer experience? What is the relationship between what customers do on the site vs. what they actually buy? How do we do all of this without asking the customer a single question? Our team's stated missions is to "grow each customer’s relationship with Amazon by leveraging our deep understanding of them to provide relevant and timely product, program, and content recommendations." Recommendations at Amazon is a way to help customers discover products. Our team strives to better understand how customers shop on Amazon (and elsewhere) and build recommendations models to streamline customers' shopping experience by showing the right products at the right time. Understanding the complexities of customers' shopping needs and helping them explore the depth and breadth of Amazon's catalog is a challenge we take on every day. Using Amazon’s large-scale computing resources, you will ask research questions about customer behavior, build state-of-the-art models to generate recommendations, and run these models directly on the retail website. You will participate in the Amazon ML community and mentor Applied Scientists and software development engineers with a strong interest in and knowledge of ML. Your work will directly benefit customers and the retail business and you will measure the impact using scientific tools. We are looking for a passionate, hard-working, and talented Applied Scientist who has experience building mission critical, high volume applications that customers love. You will have an opportunity to make an enormous impact on the design, architecture, and implementation of cutting edge products used everyday by people you know.

We are seeking a Principal Applied Scientist to help develop the next generation of advanced robotics systems that will transform automation at Amazon's scale. We're building revolutionary robotic systems that combine cutting-edge AI, sophisticated control systems, and advanced mechanical design to create adaptable automation solutions capable of working safely alongside humans in dynamic environments. This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of robotics and automation at an unprecedented scale, working with world-class teams pushing the boundaries of what's possible in robotic dexterous manipulation, locomotion, and human-robot interaction. This role presents an opportunity to shape the future of robotics through innovative applications of deep learning and large language models. We leverage advanced robotics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence to solve complex operational challenges at an unprecedented scale. Our fleet of robots operates across hundreds of facilities worldwide, working in sophisticated coordination to fulfill our mission of customer excellence. The ideal candidate will contribute to research that bridges the gap between theoretical advancement and practical implementation in robotics. You will be part of a team that's revolutionizing how robots learn, adapt, and interact with their environment. Join us in building the next generation of intelligent robotics systems that will transform the future of automation and human-robot collaboration. Key job responsibilities - Define and drive the long-term scientific roadmap for whole body control and dexterous manipulation, working with autonomy and delivering artifacts that set the standard for scientific and engineering excellence - Serve as the primary technical authority on whole body control methods — including reinforcement learning, imitation learning, hierarchical quadratic programming, and model-predictive control — across the organization - Identify and tackle intrinsically hard, open-ended research problems in loco-manipulation, acquiring expertise as needed and proposing innovative solutions that span multiple teams - Collaborate with hardware and robotics leads to co-design systems for loco-manipulation, ensuring science solutions are grounded in real-world deployment constraints - Represent scientific capabilities to senior leadership and external partners; communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences - Mentor and develop a community of Applied Scientists and engineers, raising the scientific bar across the organization

Interested in modeling and understanding customer behavior through machine learning, artificial intelligence, and data mining over TB scale data with huge business impact on millions of customers? Join our team of Scientists and Engineers developing models to predict customer behavior and optimize the customer experience with Amazon Prime. This includes identifying who our customers are, modeling customer behavior, and creating personalization systems to optimize the experience. As an ML expert, you will partner directly with product owners to intake, build, and directly apply your modeling solutions. There are numerous scientific and technical challenges you will get to tackle in this role, such as global scalability of models, combinatorial optimization, cold start problem, accelerated experimentation, short/long term goals modeling, GenAI based content creation, foundation modeling, and multi-step optimization leading to reinforcement learning of the customer journey. We employ techniques from GenAI, LLMs, deep learning, supervised learning, bandits, optimization, and RL. As the central science team within Prime, our expertise gets routinely called upon to weigh in on a variety of topics. We also emphasize the need and value of scientific research and have developed a strong publication and patent record (internally/externally) which you will be a part of. You will also utilize and be exposed to the latest in AI/ML technologies and infrastructure: AWS technologies (EMR/Spark, Redshift, Sagemaker, DynamoDB, S3, ...), various AI/ML algorithms and techniques (GenAI, LLMs, transformers, sequential models, Neural Networks, supervised/unsupervised/semi-supervised/reinforcement learning), and statistical modeling techniques. Major responsibilities - Build and develop AI and machine learning models and supporting infrastructure at TB scale, in coordination with software engineering teams. - Leverage GenAI, LLMs, deep learning, reinforcement learning for building production AI/ML systems - Develop backtesting/offline policy estimation tools and integrate with reporting systems. - Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large scale data analyses, model development, model validation and model implementation. - Analyze and extract relevant information from large amounts of Amazon’s historical business data to help automate and optimize key processes. - Work closely with the business to understand their problem space, identify the opportunities and formulate the problems. - Use AI, machine learning, data mining, statistical techniques and others to create actionable, meaningful, and scalable solutions for the business problems. - Design, develop and evaluate highly innovative models and statistical approaches to understand and predict customer behavior and to solve business problems.