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  • (Updated 9 days ago)
    The AWS Center for Quantum Computing is a multi-disciplinary team of scientists, engineers, and technicians, all working to innovate in quantum computing for the benefit of our customers. We are looking to hire a Research Scientist to design and model novel superconducting quantum devices, including qubits, readout and control schemes, and advanced quantum processors. Candidates with a track record of original scientific contributions and/or software development experience will be preferred. We are looking for candidates with strong engineering principles and resourcefulness. Organization and communication skills are essential. About the team 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, including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services. 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. 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 (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness. Mentorship & Career Growth We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional. Work/Life Balance We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.
  • (Updated 8 days ago)
    Are you excited about leveraging state-of-the-art Computer Vision algorithms and large datasets to solve real-world problems? Join Amazon as an Applied Scientist Intern and be at the forefront of AI innovation! As an Applied Scientist Intern, you'll work in a fast-paced, cross-disciplinary team of pioneering researchers. You'll tackle complex problems, developing solutions that either build on existing academic and industrial research or stem from your own innovative thinking. Your work may even find its way into customer-facing products, making a real-world impact. Key job responsibilities - Develop novel solutions and build prototypes - Work on complex problems in Computer Vision and Machine Learning - Contribute to research that could significantly impact Amazon's operations - Collaborate with a diverse team of experts in a fast-paced environment - Collaborate with scientists on writing and submitting papers to Tier-1 conferences (e.g., CVPR, ICCV, NeurIPS, ICML) - Present your research findings to both technical and non-technical audiences Key Opportunities: - Collaborate with leading machine learning researchers - Access cutting-edge tools and hardware (large GPU clusters) - Address challenges at an unparalleled scale - Become a disruptor, innovator, and problem solver in the field of computer vision - Potentially deliver solutions to production in customer-facing applications - Opportunities to become an FTE after the internship Join us in shaping the future of AI at Amazon. Apply now and turn your research into real-world solutions!
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 2830033
    (Updated 4 days ago)
    The CATALST NLP Services team within the Selling Partner Services (SPS) Core Services organization is responsible for simplifying multi-lingual experiences for our customers. We build and leverage various AI services to eliminate language barriers at scale through Machine Translation for Amazon Customers and Sellers WW across 30+ programs within SPS and customers outside of SPS. We leverage state-of-the-art NLP solutions including Large Language Models, Machine Translation, Language Detection, and OCR to provide a full suite of content analysis capabilities. Our customers include Selling Partners, Buyers, Amazon Associates, Amazon Investigators, and various Science teams. In this role, you will be a key owner within our cross-disciplinary team that includes Product Managers, Software Engineers, and Applied Scientists and execute on our 3 Year Plan. You will pioneer new technologies in NLP, machine translation, and machine learning. You will have ownership of the end-to-end development of solutions to complex problems from design to implementation and you will play an integral role in strategic decision-making. You will also work closely with other stakeholders such as engineers, operations teams and product owners to build ML pipelines, platforms and solutions that solve business problems. Key job responsibilities * Participate in the design, development, evaluation, deployment and updating of automated and scalable machine learning models, with a focus on machine translation * Develop and/or apply statistics, NLP and machine learning experiments and methodologies to different applications * Work closely with Scientists and Software Engineers on experimentations, evaluation and implementation * Work closely with business partners to understand the goals and develop solutions to achieve such goals
  • (Updated 1 days ago)
    Exciting opportunity to design, build and deploy the next generation of attribution models to provide advertisers with actionable information that will allow them to optimally allocate advertising dollars.
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 2838336
    (Updated 0 days ago)
    We are looking for an Applied Scientist that will develop scientific algorithms, and deploy Large Language Model (LLM) solutions to improve the customer experience. The Applied Scientist will work closely with technology and product teams to solve business and technology problems using scientific approaches to build new services that surprise and delight our customers. As an Applied Scientist at Amazon, you will apply scientific principles to support significant invention, develop code, and will be deeply involved in bringing their algorithms to production. You will also work on cross-disciplinary efforts with other scientists within Amazon. Key job responsibilities - Develop scalable efficient solutions for customers using scientifically-based methods, LLM and decision making. - Help support production systems that take inputs from multiple models and make decisions in real time. - Automate feedback loops for algorithms in production. - Utilize Amazon systems and tools to effectively work with terabytes of data. A day in the life If you are not sure that every qualification on the list above describes you exactly, we'd still love to hear from you! At Amazon, we value people with unique backgrounds, experiences, and skillsets. If you’re passionate about this role and want to make an impact on a global scale, please apply! Amazon offers a full range of benefits that support you and eligible family members, including domestic partners and their children. Benefits can vary by location, the number of regularly scheduled hours you work, length of employment, and job status such as seasonal or temporary employment. The benefits that generally apply to regular, full-time employees include: 1. Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage 2. Maternity and Parental Leave Options 3. Paid Time Off (PTO) 4. 401(k) Plan About the team The Shipping and Delivery Support (SDS) Tech team’s mission is to enable successful deliveries through fast and efficient support experiences for our drivers, recipients, and associates. The science team utilizes advanced scientific methods, including LLM to support the business, and improve driver support quality and deliveries efficiency.
  • US, CA, Culver City
    Job ID: 2834108
    (Updated 2 days ago)
    Prime Video is a first-stop entertainment destination offering customers a vast collection of premium programming in one app available across thousands of devices. On Prime Video, customers can find their favorite movies, series, documentaries, and live sports – including Amazon MGM Studios-produced series and movies Road House, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, Fallout, Reacher, The Boys, and The Idea of You; licensed fan favorites Dawson’s Creek and IF; Prime member exclusive access to coverage of live sports including Thursday Night Football, WNBA, and NWSL, and acclaimed sports documentaries including Bye Bye Barry and Federer; and programming from partners such as Apple TV+, Max, Crunchyroll, and MGM+ via Prime Video add-on subscriptions, as well as more than 500 free ad-supported (FAST) Channels. Prime members in the U.S. can share a variety of benefits, including Prime Video, by using Amazon Household. Prime Video is one benefit among many that provides savings, convenience, and entertainment as part of the Prime membership. All customers, regardless of whether they have a Prime membership or not, can rent or buy titles, including blockbusters such as Challengers and The Fall Guy, via the Prime Video Store, and can enjoy content such as Jury Duty and Bosch: Legacy free with ads on Freevee. Customers can also go behind the scenes of their favorite movies and series with exclusive X-Ray access. For more info visit www.amazon.com/primevideo. 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! Prime Video’s Customer Relationship Marketing Technology Team mission is to help Prime Video become the entertainment destination for global customers by delivering holistic, cross-Prime Video customer lifecycle management programs that operate across all offer types and touchpoints both inside and outside of our apps. We build, maintain, and obsess over the relationship we have with our customers, and use relevant content and offers to keep customers excited. Our vision is to make every Amazon customer engaged with Prime Video and the Amazon ecosystem across all points of their lifecycle journeys, from awareness, acquisition, onboarding and activation, engagement, retention, to win-back. Key job responsibilities As Sr. Applied Scientist on the Marketing Technology team, you will lead the Science efforts to maximize the impact of our marketing investments. You will help define the strategy and vision for our Science initiatives, and execute on that vision to develop state of the art models. This role requires an ability to work with huge amounts of highly granular data to build predictive models using advanced ML techniques. You will be responsible for bridging the experimental domain with the production domain by building robust and efficient computational pipelines to scale up models. You will ensure model performance for various use cases, including response prediction models for targeting optimizations and uplift models for incrementality optimizations. You will leverage data-driven decision-making and communicate effectively both verbally and in writing with leaders at all levels. As a leader on the team, you will take on ambiguous projects with a high degree of autonomy and visibility. You will deliver recommendations to senior executives and drive alignment across teams, functions, and organizations.
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 2834135
    (Updated 4 days ago)
    The AWS Training and Certification organization educates customers, partners, and AWS employees globally on AWS products, solutions, and best practices. We are seeking a talented and experienced data scientist to help solve challenging business problems through rigorous analytical methodologies for the AWS Training and Certification organization. As part of the AWS Training and Certification (T&C) Business Insight and Analytics (BIA) team you will define business questions with stakeholders, explore different source data, develop statistical and/or machine learning models, and communicate the insight with business leaders. The right candidate will be passionate about working with large datasets and love to utilize the cutting-edge data science methods to answer complex business questions that support our decision makings as well as operational improvements. We are looking for candidates who have a background in both statistical analysis methodologies and machine-learning models. A successful candidate should have the technical proficiency to query data in a Redshift data warehouse environment, structure data to be leveraged within data science models, and be able to develop insights from the analysis that are delivered to business stakeholders. Key job responsibilities • Clearly define business questions through an extensive requirement definition process with business stakeholders • Translate the business questions into solvable data science problems and select the most appropriate statistical and/or machine learning methodologies to address the problems • Autonomously build the data science models as well as access, gather, and explore source data leveraging SQL skills • Implement statistical methods to solve specific business problems utilizing code (Python, R, etc.). • Own the validation processes to generate the most accurate and usable output data • Develop key insights from the analysis and write both business-facing as well as science summary documents for review • Lead engagements with business stakeholders throughout the data science projects and ensure timely deliverables A day in the life This role's primary focus is working with business stakeholders, business intelligence and data engineers, and other data/research scientists across the teams within AWS T&C and beyond. A typical day will include meetings to define problems or review analysis and time to explore data, test models, and write summary reports. These insights will be used to make better business decisions and implement more productive business processes. About the team As cloud technologies continue to transform businesses, skilled individuals are in high demand. At AWS Training and Certification (T&C), we are passionate about revolutionizing the way people advance their cloud skills and careers. We equip diverse builders of today and tomorrow with the knowledge they need to leverage the power of the AWS Cloud. Join our dynamic, fast-growing team and help us empower our customers to build cloud skills.
  • US, NY, New York
    Job ID: 2833418
    (Updated 3 days ago)
    Join our Private Brand Intelligence (PBI) organization in building Data Science driven solutions at scale to delight our customers with products across our leading private brands such as Amazon Basics, Amazon Essentials, and by Amazon. PBI applies Generative AI, Machine Learning, Statistics, and Economics to derive actionable insights about the complex economy of Amazon’s retail business. We also develop ML/Econ models and algorithms to drive strategic business decisions and improve operations. We are an interdisciplinary team of Scientists, Economists, Engineers, and Product Managers incubating and building day one solutions using cutting-edge technology, to solve some of the toughest business problems at Amazon. You will work with business leaders and economists to translate business and functional requirements into concrete deliverables, including the design, development, testing, and deployment of highly scalable distributed solutions. You will invent and implement scalable ML and econometric models while building tools to help our customers gain and apply insights. This is a unique, high visibility opportunity for someone who wants to have business impact, dive deep into large-scale science problems, enable measurable actions on the Consumer economy, and work closely with scientists and economists. If you are interested in Machine Learning, Generative AI, and large-scale intelligent solutions then this is the role you have been looking for. We are a Day 1 team, with a charter to be disruptive through the use of Data Science and Machine Learning. You will start on green field projects working with engineers to bring our models to life as well as data products that other teams can benefit from. We are an inclusive team, and are looking for Data Scientists that aren't averse to learning and building and or optimizing ML models alongside our engineers, product managers and business partners. As a Data Scientist on the team, you will drive improvements to our business, collaborating with scientists, economists, engineers and highly-engaged stakeholders to deliver actionable insights continuously. We’re truly an agile shop: we work closely with users, deliver features with high frequency, can pivot on a dime when needed, and are passionate about solving customer pain points. We are looking for data science leaders who share our vision for continuously improving the customer experience, who are motivated by challenging business problems and who love thinking big. Key job responsibilities * You will take the lead on large projects that span multiple teams. The problems you solve will be ambiguous, requiring both technical and domain expertise. You will deliver significant benefits to business with minimal assistance. * You need to understand challenges in your teams’ business area, the applicability of relevant data science disciplines, and interactions among systems. You will influence your team’s technical and business strategy by making insightful contributions to team priorities and approach. * You will make solutions simpler. You will optimize connected systems using their dynamics. You will improve the consistency and integration between your team’s solutions and the work being done by related teams. * You will improve the work done by others, either via a collaborative effort or by increasing their scientific knowledge, using specialized tools or advanced techniques. You will lead and actively participate in scientific reviews for your team and others. * You are able to communicate your ideas effectively to achieve the right outcome for your team and customer including when to make appropriate trade-offs. You harmonize discordant views and lead the resolution of contentious issues. * You actively participate in the hiring process and improve the skills and knowledge of others via mentoring.
  • GB, London
    Job ID: 2833070
    (Updated 3 days ago)
    We are looking for an Economist to work on exciting and challenging business problems related to Amazon Retail’s worldwide product assortment. You will build innovative solutions based on econometrics, machine learning, and experimentation. You will be part of a interdisciplinary team of economists, product managers, engineers, and scientists, and your work will influence finance and business decisions affecting Amazon’s vast product assortment globally. If you have an entrepreneurial spirit, you know how to deliver results fast, and you have a deeply quantitative, highly innovative approach to solving problems, and long for the opportunity to build pioneering solutions to challenging problems, we want to talk to you. Key job responsibilities * Work on a challenging problem that has the potential to significantly impact Amazon’s business position * Develop econometric models and experiments to measure the customer and financial impact of Amazon’s product assortment * Collaborate with other scientists at Amazon to deliver measurable progress and change * Influence business leaders based on empirical findings
  • US, NY, New York
    Job ID: 2828425
    (Updated 9 days ago)
    Amazon is investing heavily in building a world class advertising business and developing a collection of self-service performance advertising products that drive discovery and sales. Our products are strategically important to our Retail and Marketplace businesses for driving long-term growth. We deliver billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks daily and are breaking fresh ground to create world-class products. We are highly motivated, collaborative and fun-loving with an entrepreneurial spirit and bias for action. With a broad mandate to experiment and innovate, we are growing at an unprecedented rate with a seemingly endless range of new opportunities. We are seeking a technical leader for our Supply Science team. This team is within the Sponsored Product team, and works on complex engineering, optimization, econometric, and user-experience problems in order to deliver relevant product ads on Amazon search and detail pages world-wide. The team operates with the dual objective of enhancing the experience of Amazon shoppers and enabling the monetization of our online and mobile page properties. Our work spans ML and Data science across predictive modeling, reinforcement learning (Bandits), adaptive experimentation, causal inference, data engineering. Key job responsibilities Search Supply and Experiences, within Sponsored Products, is seeking an Applied Scientist to join a fast growing team with the mandate of creating new ads experience that elevates the shopping experience for our hundreds of millions customers worldwide. We are looking for a top analytical mind capable of understanding our complex ecosystem of advertisers participating in a pay-per-click model– and leveraging this knowledge to help turn the flywheel of the business. As an Applied Scientist on this team you will: --Build machine learning models, perform proof-of-concept, experiment, optimize, and deploy your models into production. --Run A/B experiments, gather data, and perform statistical analysis. --Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large-scale data analysis, machine-learning model development, model validation and serving. --Work closely with software engineers to assist in productionizing your ML models. --Research new machine learning approaches. A day in the life The successful candidate will be a self-starter comfortable with ambiguity, with strong attention to detail, and with an ability to work in a fast-paced, high-energy and ever-changing environment. The drive and capability to shape the direction is a must. About the team We are a customer-obsessed team of engineers, technologists, product leaders, and scientists. We are focused on continuous exploration of contexts and creatives where advertising delivers value to customers and advertisers. We specifically work on new ads experiences globally with the goal of helping shoppers make the most informed purchase decision. We obsess about our customers and we are continuously innovating on their behalf to enrich their shopping experience on Amazon

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Amazon collaborates with leading academic organizations to drive innovation and to ensure that research is creating solutions whose benefits are shared broadly across all sectors of society.