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Prime Video is a first-stop entertainment destination offering customers a vast collection of premium programming in one app available across thousands of devices. Prime members can customize their viewing experience and find their favorite movies, series, documentaries, and live sports – including Amazon MGM Studios-produced series and movies; licensed fan favorites; and programming from Prime Video subscriptions such as Apple TV+, HBO Max, Peacock, Crunchyroll and MGM+. All customers, regardless of whether they have a Prime membership or not, can rent or buy titles via the Prime Video Store, and can enjoy even more content for free with ads. Are you interested in shaping the future of entertainment? Prime Video's technology teams are creating best-in-class digital video experience. As a Prime Video team member, you’ll have end-to-end ownership of the product, user experience, design, and technology required to deliver state-of-the-art experiences for our customers. You’ll get to work on projects that are fast-paced, challenging, and varied. You’ll also be able to experiment with new possibilities, take risks, and collaborate with remarkable people. We’ll look for you to bring your diverse perspectives, ideas, and skill-sets to make Prime Video even better for our customers. With global opportunities for talented technologists, you can decide where a career Prime Video Tech takes you! Key job responsibilities We are looking for passionate, hard-working, and talented individuals to help us push the envelope of content localization. We work on a broad array of research areas and applications, including but not limited to multimodal machine translation, speech synthesis, speech analysis, and asset quality assessment. Candidates should be prepared to help drive innovation in one or more areas of machine learning, audio processing, and natural language understanding. The ideal candidate would have experience in audio processing, natural language understanding and machine learning. Familiarity with machine translation, foundational models, and speech synthesis will be a plus. As an Applied Scientist, you should be a strong communicator, able to describe scientifically rigorous work to business stakeholders of varying levels of technical sophistication. You will closely partner with the solution development teams, and should be intensely curious about how the research is moving the needle for business. Strong inter-personal and mentoring skills to develop applied science talent in the team is another important requirement.

The Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) team is seeking a dedicated, skilled, and innovative Applied Science Manager with a robust background in machine learning, statistics, quality assurance, auditing methodologies, and automated evaluation systems to lead a team ensuring the highest standards of data quality, to build industry-leading technology with Large Language Models (LLMs) and multimodal systems. Key job responsibilities As part of the AGI team, an Applied Science Manager will lead and mentor a team of Applied Scientists who develop comprehensive quality strategies and auditing frameworks that safeguard the integrity of data collection workflows. The manager will guide the team in designing auditing strategies with detailed SOPs, quality metrics, and sampling methodologies that align with core scientist team developing Amazon Nova models. The Applied Science Manager will oversee expert-level manual audits, meta-audits to evaluate auditor performance, and provide coaching to uplift overall quality capabilities across the team. The manager will lead research in areas related to HIL data impact to LLM models, and define utility measurement strategies for data generated by AGI-DS for Nova models. The Applied Science Manager will be responsible for recruiting, hiring, and developing team members, conducting performance reviews, setting clear expectations and growth plans, and fostering a culture of scientific excellence and innovation. The manager will communicate with senior leadership, cross-functional technical teams, and customers to collect requirements, describe product features and technical designs, and articulate product strategy. A day in the life An Applied Science Manager with the AGI team will lead quality solution design, guide root cause analysis on data quality issues, drive research into new auditing methodologies, and find innovative ways of optimizing data quality while setting examples for the team on quality assurance best practices and standards. The manager will work closely with talented engineers, domain experts, and vendor teams to put quality strategies and automated judging systems into practice. The manager will also conduct regular 1:1s with team members, provide mentorship and coaching, and ensure the team delivers high-impact results aligned with organizational goals.

Are you motivated to explore research in ambiguous spaces? Are you interested in conducting research that will improve the employee and manager experience at Amazon? Do you want to work on an interdisciplinary team of scientists that collaborate rather than compete? Join us at PXT Central Science! The People eXperience and Technology Central Science Team (PXTCS) uses economics, behavioral science, statistics, and machine learning to proactively identify mechanisms and process improvements which simultaneously improve Amazon and the lives, wellbeing, and the value of work to Amazonians. We are an interdisciplinary team that combines the talents of science and engineering to develop and deliver solutions that measurably achieve this goal. We are seeking a senior Applied Scientist with expertise in more than one or more of the following areas: machine learning, natural language processing, computational linguistics, algorithmic fairness, statistical inference, causal modeling, reinforcement learning, Bayesian methods, predictive analytics, decision theory, recommender systems, deep learning, time series modeling. In this role, you will lead and support research efforts within all aspects of the employee lifecycle: from candidate identification to recruiting, to onboarding and talent management, to leadership and development, to finally retention and brand advocacy upon exit. The ideal candidate should have strong problem-solving skills, excellent business acumen, the ability to work independently and collaboratively, and have an expertise in both science and engineering. The ideal candidate is not methods-driven, but driven by the research question at hand; in other words, they will select the appropriate method for the problem, rather than searching for questions to answer with a preferred method. The candidate will need to navigate complex and ambiguous business challenges by asking the right questions, understanding what methodologies to employ, and communicating results to multiple audiences (e.g., technical peers, functional teams, business leaders). About the team We are a collegial and multidisciplinary team of researchers in People eXperience and Technology (PXT) that combines the talents of science and engineering to develop innovative solutions to make Amazon Earth's Best Employer. We leverage data and rigorous analysis to help Amazon attract, retain, and develop one of the world’s largest and most talented workforces.

The GRAISE team (Grocery, Retail & In-Store Experience) within Worldwide Grocery Store Tech (WWGST) builds foundational AI and machine learning systems that power Amazon's in-store grocery technologies. We develop domain-specific models that solve uniquely complex challenges in grocery — from smart shopping carts and inventory intelligence to personalization and store operations. Our mission is to create technology which makes grocery shopping more convenient, economical, personalized, and enjoyable for customers while empowering retailers with operational efficiency. We are looking for a talented and motivated Applied Scientist to join our team. In this role, you will design, develop, and deploy machine learning and computer vision models and algorithms that solve real-world problems at scale. You will work closely with engineering, product, and business teams to translate ambiguous problems into rigorous scientific solutions, and you will own the end-to-end development of models from ideation through production. This is a high-impact role where your work will directly shape the intelligence layer of Amazon's grocery ecosystem. Key job responsibilities - Design and implement machine learning models to solve complex grocery-domain problems. - Conduct exploratory data analysis and develop deep understanding of domain-specific data challenges. - Collaborate with software engineers to productionize models and ensure reliability at scale. - Define and track key metrics to evaluate model performance and business impact. - Communicate findings and recommendations clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders. - Stay current with the latest research and evaluate applicability to team problems. - Contribute to a culture of scientific rigor, experimentation, and continuous improvement. A day in the life As an Applied Scientist on the GRAISE team, you'll spend your days analyzing model performance from overnight experiments, collaborating with engineers to deploy computer vision models to production, and prototyping new approaches using multimodal learning with store video and sensor data. You'll present findings to product and business stakeholders, translating technical results into actionable recommendations. Throughout the day, you'll balance rigorous scientific thinking with practical engineering constraints, knowing your work directly improves the shopping experience for millions of customers in Amazon grocery stores.

Advertising at Amazon is growing incredibly fast and we are responsible for defining and delivering a collection of advertising products that drive discovery and sales. Amazon Business Ads is equally growing fast ($XXXMs to $XBs) and owns engineering and science for the AB WW ad experience. We build business-to-business (“B2B”) specific ad solutions distributed across retail and ad systems for shopper and advertiser experiences. Some include new ad placements or widgets, creatives, sourcing techniques, ad campaign management capabilities and much more! We consider unique AB qualities which are differentiated from the consumer experience such as varying shopper role types, purchasing complexities based on business size and industry (eg education vs healthcare), AB specific features (eg business discounts, buying policies to restrict and prefer products), and AB buyer behaviors (eg buying in bulk). We are seeking a scientific leader who can drive innovation in complex problem areas and new business initiatives. The ideal candidate will: Technical & Research Requirements: * Demonstrate fluency in Python, R, Matlab or other statistical languages and familiarity with deep learning frameworks like PyTorch, TensorFlow * Lead end-to-end solution development from research to prototyping and experimentation * Write and deploy significant parts of scientifically novel software solutions into production Leadership & Influence: * Drive team's scientific agenda by proposing new initiatives and securing management buy-in including PM, SDM * Build consensus on large projects and influence decisions across different teams in Ads Key Leadership Principles: * Dive Deep: Uncover non-obvious insights in data * Deliver Results: Create solutions aligned with customer and product needs * Learn and Be Curious: Demonstrate self-driven desire to explore new research areas * Earn Trust: Build relationships with stakeholders through understanding business needs

Prime Video is a first-stop entertainment destination offering customers a vast collection of premium programming in one app available across thousands of devices. Prime members can customize their viewing experience and find their favorite movies, series, documentaries, and live sports – including Amazon MGM Studios-produced series and movies; licensed fan favorites; and programming from Prime Video add-on subscriptions such as Apple TV+, Max, Crunchyroll and MGM+. All customers, regardless of whether they have a Prime membership or not, can rent or buy titles via the Prime Video Store, and can enjoy even more content for free with ads. Are you interested in shaping the future of entertainment? Prime Video's technology teams are creating best-in-class digital video experience. As a Prime Video technologist, you’ll have end-to-end ownership of the product, user experience, design, and technology required to deliver state-of-the-art experiences for our customers. You’ll get to work on projects that are fast-paced, challenging, and varied. You’ll also be able to experiment with new possibilities, take risks, and collaborate with remarkable people. We’ll look for you to bring your diverse perspectives, ideas, and skill-sets to make Prime Video even better for our customers. With global opportunities for talented technologists, you can decide where a career Prime Video Tech takes you! The Prime Video Title Lifecycle Presentation team sits at the intersection of science, experimentation, and customer experience. We leverage data signals and rigorous testing to present the most engaging information about our content to customers at precisely the right moment. Our mission is to ensure every customer interaction with Prime Video content is informed, relevant, and compelling in order to drive discovery and engagement across our vast catalog. We're seeking an Applied Scientist who excels at building sophisticated machine learning systems for content presentation and discovery. The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in: - Multi-modal embeddings for rich metadata representation, enabling nuanced understanding of content attributes and customer preferences - Contextualized ranking systems that adapt to customer intent, viewing context, and real-time signals - Reinforcement learning frameworks that create continuous improvement loops, allowing our systems to learn and optimize from customer interactions over time - General modeling techniques with strong fundamentals in machine learning and statistical methods - Recommender systems experience, with proven ability to build and scale personalization solutions You'll work with cutting-edge technology to solve complex problems in content discovery, leveraging large-scale data to create experiences that delight millions of Prime Video customers worldwide. Key job responsibilities As an Applied Scientist, you will have access to large datasets with billions of images and video to build large-scale machine learning systems. Additionally, you will analyze and model terabytes of text, images, and other types of data to solve real-world problems and translate business and functional requirements into quick prototypes or proofs of concept. We are looking for smart scientists capable of using a variety of domain expertise combined with machine learning and statistical techniques to invent, design, evangelize, and implement state-of-the-art solutions for never-before-solved problems.

Amazon Advertising is one of Amazon's fastest growing and most profitable businesses, responsible for defining and delivering a collection of advertising solutions that drive product discovery and sales. We deliver billions of ad impressions every single day on behalf of our advertisers. You'll work with us to help our Advertising teams make sense of the torrent of data produced by the advertising lifecycle. We are using SOTA generative AI to help teams generate insights faster based on our massive data lake. You will need to invent new techniques for metrics retrieval and SQL generation to ensure we're retrieving accurate and trusted data. You'll create feedback loops to ensure our solution is constantly evaluating itself and improving. Being that this is for a conversational AI position, here is what our bot replied when we prompted it for a job description of who should help build it: Role Overview: We are looking for an exceptional applied scientist to join our team building SpektrBot, a conversational AI assistant that helps data engineers and analysts with their workflows. You will work closely with engineers and product managers to design, implement, and optimize natural language processing models like intent classification, named entity recognition, question answering, etc. that enable our Ads chatbot to understand user requests and have natural conversations. Responsibilities: Study and understand data engineering and analytics workflows to design the right conversational experiences Research, design, and develop NLP/NLU models for intent classification, entity extraction, sentiment analysis etc. Continuously improve models through techniques like active learning, transfer learning etc. Optimize models for metrics like precision, recall, latency, interpretability etc. Implement models within overall bot architecture and integrate with backend systems Collaborate with engineers to productionize and monitor models Stay up-to-date on latest advancements in conversational AI research, specifically in LLMs (multi-agent, chain of thought, autonomous agents) Be familiar with optimizing retrievers in RAG architectures. Key job responsibilities You will test multiple foundational models and fine tune when appropriate. You will create feedback loops that will evaluate performance and improve our systems. You will optimize prompts for better responses from our LLMs. You will build tools to auto-curate metadata using LLMs. A day in the life You will invent new experiences and influence customer-facing shopping experiences to help suppliers grow their retail business and the auction dynamics that leverage native advertising; this is your opportunity to work within the fastest-growing businesses across all of Amazon! Define a long-term science vision for our advertising business, driven from our customers' needs, translating that direction into specific plans for research and applied scientists, as well as engineering and product teams. This role combines science leadership, organizational ability, technical strength, product focus, and business understanding. About the team We have a small scrappy team carved out from a large Ads wide data lake team. We are swimming in petabytes of data that we help the organization make sense of. Our team's mission is to help anyone in the Ads org find the data they need using only natural language. We are a supportive and collaborative team who iterates quickly and shares in each others' successes.

Welcome to the Worldwide Returns & ReCommerce team (WWR&R) at Amazon.com. WWR&R is an agile, innovative organization dedicated to ‘making zero happen’ to benefit our customers, our company, and the environment. Our goal is to achieve the three zeroes: zero cost of returns, zero waste, and zero defects. We do this by developing groundbreaking products and driving truly innovative operational excellence to help customers keep what they buy, recover returned and damaged product value, keep thousands of tons of waste from landfills, and create the best customer returns experience in the world. We have an eye to the future – we create long-term value at Amazon by focusing not just on the bottom line, but on the planet. We are building the most sustainable re-use channel we can by driving multiple aspects of the Circular Economy for Amazon – Returns & ReCommerce. Amazon WWR&R is comprised of business, product, operational, program, software engineering and data teams that manage the life of a returned or damaged product from a customer to the warehouse and on to its next best use. Our work is broad and deep: we train machine learning models to automate routing and find signals to optimize re-use; we invent new channels to give products a second life; we develop highly respected product support to help customers love what they buy; we pilot smarter product evaluations; we work from the customer backward to find ways to make the return experience remarkably delightful and easy; and we do it all while scrutinizing our business with laser focus. You will help create everything from customer-facing and vendor-facing websites to the internal software and tools behind the reverse-logistics process. You can develop scalable, high-availability solutions to solve complex and broad business problems. We are a group that has fun at work while driving incredible customer, business, and environmental impact. We are backed by a strong leadership group dedicated to operational excellence that empowers a reasonable work-life balance. As an established, experienced team, we offer the scope and support needed for substantial career growth. Amazon is earth’s most customer-centric company and through WWRR&S, the earth is our customer too. Come join us and innovate with the Amazon Worldwide Returns & ReCommerce team! Key job responsibilities 3+ years of scientists or machine learning engineers management experience Knowledge of ML, NLP, Information Retrieval and Analytics 4+ years of building machine learning models or developing algorithms for business application experience 2+ years of programming in Java, C++, Python or related language experience Excellent oral and written communication skills, with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts and solutions to all levels of the organization

Are you passionate about solving complex logistics challenges? Our Analytics team is at the forefront of enhancing delivery experiences through data-driven solutions and innovative technology. As a Research Scientist, you will join a team dedicated to optimizing our delivery network, ensuring reliable and efficient service to our customers. We are seeking an enthusiastic, customer-centric professional with strong analytical capabilities to drive impactful projects, implement advanced solutions, and develop scalable processes. In this role, you will have immediate ownership of business-critical challenges and the opportunity to make strategic, data-driven decisions that shape the future of our delivery operations. Your work will directly influence customer experience and operational excellence. The ideal candidate will possess both research science capabilities and program management skills, thriving in an environment that requires independent decision-making and comfort with ambiguity. This role offers the opportunity to make a significant impact on our advanced logistics network while working with pioneering technology and data science applications.

Are you passionate about transforming how Amazon identifies and addresses security risks through data science and machine learning? Does the prospect of using advanced analytics to drive measurable improvements in application security at scale excite you? As a Data Scientist on the AppStar DNA team (Data & Analytics Engineering), you will build data-driven solutions that help security teams across the AppStar organization identify patterns, prioritize efforts, and measure the impact of security initiatives. You will develop machine learning models, conduct exploratory data analysis, and create predictive algorithms that transform raw security data into actionable insights. Your work will enable security leaders to shift from intuition-based decisions to data-driven strategies backed by rigorous quantitative analysis. You should be passionate about working with huge datasets and someone who loves to bring datasets together to answer business questions. You bring expertise in machine learning, statistical modeling, and data analysis, and you combine that with curiosity and business judgment to solve ambiguous problems at Amazon scale. Amazon is continuously innovating new services and features for our customers. Our engineers invent, build, and sometimes break things to make them easier, faster, better, and more cost-effective. However, no matter what we're building—from websites to web services, AR to AI, drones to devices—security is always our top priority. The Amazon Application Security team focuses on working with our builders to provide experiences that our customers can trust. That means constantly learning new things and solving complex problems to protect the safety, security, and privacy of billions of lives on a global scale. At Amazon, you'll be working with the best minds in technology and security. Learn and be curious here, and accelerate your career growth. You can take pride in knowing that your work is meaningful, having a positive impact on others and making the world a better place. Key job responsibilities * Demonstrate thorough technical knowledge on feature engineering of massive datasets, effective exploratory data analysis, and model building using industry standard AI/ML models and working with Large Language Models * With your broad expertise in a variety of data science disciplines, recommend the right data science strategy and drive solutions to complex or ambiguous problems * Develop machine learning models for pattern recognition, classification, and prediction across security domains * Build clustering algorithms that identify root causes and patterns across thousands of security issues * Create statistical models and forecasting algorithms to predict security performance trends and identify improvement opportunities * Design and implement data correlation pipelines that integrate security signals from multiple sources * Work closely with internal stakeholders like business intelligence engineers, data engineers, security teams, and leadership to influence strategies and align solutions with organizational needs * Innovate by adapting new modeling techniques and procedures to solve never-before-solved security problems * Passionate about working with huge datasets and be someone who loves to bring datasets together to answer business questions. You should have deep expertise in creation and management of datasets * Communicate results to diverse audiences of varying technical backgrounds with effective writing, visualizations, and presentations About the team Why Amazon Security At Amazon, security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. Our organization is responsible for creating and maintaining a high bar for security across all of Amazon's products and services. We offer talented security professionals the chance to accelerate their careers with opportunities to build experience in a wide variety of areas including cloud, devices, retail, entertainment, healthcare, operations, and physical stores. AppStar DNA Team (Data & Analytics Engineering) The AppStar DNA team supports the AppStar organization, which is responsible for securing applications at Amazon. Our team is committed to building world-class data infrastructure that provides the foundation for analytics solutions, enabling visibility into security performance and driving data-informed decision-making across security teams. We work with massive volumes of security data to deliver the infrastructure that powers insights with immediate influence on how Amazon secures its applications and protects customer trust. 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 flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there's nothing we can't achieve. Inclusive Team Culture In Amazon Security, it's in our nature to learn and be curious. Ongoing DEI events and learning experiences inspire us to continue learning and to embrace our uniqueness. Addressing the toughest security challenges requires that we seek out and celebrate a diversity of ideas, perspectives, and voices. Training 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, training, and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.