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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 7 days ago)
    Amazon Industrial Robotics is seeking exceptional talent 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. At Amazon Industrial Robotics 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. We are pioneering the development of systems that: • Enables unprecedented generalization across diverse tasks • Enables contact-rich manipulation in different environments • Seamlessly integrates mobility and manipulation • Leverage mechanical intelligence, multi-modal sensor feedback and advanced control techniques. 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!
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 3132691
    (Updated 19 days ago)
    We are a passionate team applying the latest advances in technology to solve real-world challenges. As a Data Scientist working at the intersection of machine learning and advanced analytics, you will help develop innovative products that enhance customer experiences. Our team values intellectual curiosity while maintaining sharp focus on bringing products to market. Successful candidates demonstrate responsiveness, adaptability, and thrive in our open, collaborative, entrepreneurial environment. Working at the forefront of both academic and applied research, you will join a diverse team of scientists, engineers, and product managers to solve complex business and technology problems using scientific approaches. You will collaborate closely with other teams to implement innovative solutions and drive improvements. At Amazon, we cultivate an inclusive culture through our Leadership Principles, which emphasize seeking diverse perspectives, continuous learning, and building trust. Our global community includes thirteen employee-led affinity groups with 40,000 members across 190 chapters, showcasing our commitment to embracing differences and fostering continuous learning through local, regional, and global programs. We prioritize work-life balance, recognizing it as fundamental to long-term happiness and fulfillment. Our team is committed to supporting your career development through challenging projects, mentorship opportunities, and targeted training programs that help you reach your full potential. Key job responsibilities Key job responsibilities * Deliver data analyses that optimize overall team process and guide decision-making * Deep dive to understand source of anomalies across a variety of datasets including low-level sequencing read data * Identify key metrics that are drivers to achieve team goals; work with senior stakeholders to refine your results * Use modern statistical methods to highlight insights for predictive & generative ML models and assay process * Perform correlation analysis, significance testing, and simulation on high- and low-fidelity datasets for various types of readouts * Generate reports with tables and visualization that support operational cycle analysis and one-off POC experiments * Collaborate with multi-disciplinary domain experts to support your findings and their experiments * Write well-tested scripts that can be promoted by our software teams to production pipelines * Learn about new statistical methods for our domain and adopt them in your work * Work fluently in SQL and Python. Be skilled in generating compelling visualizations. A day in the life New data has just landed and promoted to our datalake. You load the data and verify it's overall integrity by visualizing variation across target subsets. You realize we may have made progress toward our goals and begin to test the validity of your nominal results. At midday you grab lunch with new coworkers and learn about their fields or weird interests (there are many). You generate visualizations for the entire dataset and perform significance tests that reinforce specific findings. You meet with peers in the afternoon to discuss your findings and breakdown the remaining tasks to finalize your group report! About the team Innovators wanted! Are you an entrepreneur? A builder? A dreamer? This role is part of an Amazon Special Projects team that takes the company’s Think Big leadership principle to the limits. We focus on creating entirely new products and services with a goal of positively impacting the lives of our customers. No industries or subject areas are out of bounds. If you’re interested in innovating at scale to address big challenges in the world, this is the team for you.
  • (Updated 3 days ago)
    Do you want a role with deep meaning and the ability to make a major impact? As part of Intelligent Talent Acquisition (ITA), you'll have the opportunity to reinvent the hiring process and deliver unprecedented scale, sophistication, and accuracy for Amazon Talent Acquisition operations. ITA is an industry-leading people science and technology organization made up of scientists, engineers, analysts, product professionals and more, all with the shared goal of connecting the right people to the right jobs in a way that is fair and precise. Last year we delivered over 6 million online candidate assessments, and helped Amazon deliver billions of packages around the world by making it possible to hire hundreds of thousands of workers in the right quantity, at the right location and at exactly the right time. You’ll work on state-of-the-art research, advanced software tools, new AI systems, and machine learning algorithms, leveraging Amazon's in-house tech stack to bring innovative solutions to life. Join ITA in using technologies to transform the hiring landscape and make a meaningful difference in people's lives. Together, we can solve the world's toughest hiring problems. A day in the life As a Research Scientist, you will partner on design and development of AI-powered systems to scale job analyses enterprise-wide, match potential candidates to the jobs they’ll be most successful in, and conduct validation research for top-of-funnel AI-based evaluation tools. You’ll have the opportunity to develop and implement novel research strategies using the latest technology and to build solutions while experiencing Amazon’s customer-focused culture. The ideal scientist must have the ability to work with diverse groups of people and inter-disciplinary cross-functional teams to solve complex business problems. About the team The Lead Generation & Detection Services (LEGENDS) organization is a specialized organization focused on developing AI-driven solutions to enable fair and efficient talent acquisition processes across Amazon. Our work encompasses capabilities across the entire talent acquisition lifecycle, including role creation, recruitment strategy, sourcing, candidate evaluation, and talent deployment. The focus is on utilizing state-of-the-art solutions using Deep Learning, Generative AI, and Large Language Models (LLMs) for recruitment at scale that can support immediate hiring needs as well as longer-term workforce planning for corporate roles. We maintain a portfolio of capabilities such as job-person matching, person screening, duplicate profile detection, and automated applicant evaluation, as well as a foundational competency capability used throughout Amazon to help standardize the assessment of talent interested in Amazon.
  • (Updated 3 days ago)
    Amazon Industrial Robotics is seeking exceptional talent 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. At Amazon Industrial Robotics 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. - We are pioneering the development of robotics dexterous hands that: - Enable unprecedented generalization across diverse tasks - Are compliant but at the same time impact resistant - Can enable power grasps with the same reliability as fine dexterity and nonprehensile manipulation - Can naturally cope with the uncertainty of the environment - Leverage mechanical intelligence, multi-modal sensor feedback and advanced control techniques. 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 - Design and implement novel sensing and actuation technologies for dexterous manipulation - Develop parallel paths for rapid finger design and prototyping combining different actuation and sensing technologies as well as different finger morphologies - Develop new testing and validation strategies to support fast continuous integration and modularity - Build and test full hand prototypes to validate the performance of the solution - Create hybrid approaches combining different actuation technologies, under-actuation, active and passive compliance - Hand integration into rest of the embodiment - Partner with cross-functional teams to rapidly create new concepts and prototypes - Work with Amazon's robotics engineering and operations teams to grasp their requirements and develop tailored solutions - Document the designs, performance, and validation of the final system
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 3135035
    (Updated 12 days ago)
    Innovators wanted! Are you an entrepreneur? A builder? A dreamer? This role is part of an Amazon Special Projects team that takes the company’s Think Big leadership principle to the limits. If you’re interested in innovating at scale to address big challenges in the world, this is the team for you. As an Applied Scientist on our team, you will focus on building state-of-the-art ML models for biology. Our team rewards curiosity while maintaining a laser-focus in bringing products to market. Competitive candidates are responsive, flexible, and able to succeed within an open, collaborative, entrepreneurial, startup-like environment. At the forefront of both academic and applied research in this product area, you have the opportunity to work together with a diverse and talented team of scientists, engineers, and product managers and collaborate with other teams. Key job responsibilities - Build, adapt and evaluate ML models for life sciences applications - Collaborate with a cross-functional team of ML scientists, biologists, software engineers and product managers
  • IN, KA, Bengaluru
    Job ID: 3133067
    (Updated 4 days ago)
    Amazon is looking for a passionate, talented, and inventive Scientist with a strong machine learning background to help build industry-leading Speech and Language technology. Our mission is to push the envelope in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), Natural Language Understanding (NLU), and Audio Signal Processing, in order to provide the best-possible experience for our customers. As a Speech and Language Scientist, you will work with talented peers to develop novel algorithms and modeling techniques to advance the state of the art in spoken language understanding. Your work will directly impact our customers in the form of products and services that make use of speech and language technology. You will leverage Amazon’s heterogeneous data sources and large-scale computing resources to accelerate advances in spoken language understanding. We are hiring in the area of speech and audio understanding technologies including ASR.
  • IN, KA, Bengaluru
    Job ID: 3133798
    (Updated 17 days ago)
    Amazon Pay strives to be Earth’s most customer-centric payments service. Our mission is to serve customers and merchant partners with the most trusted, friction-less and rewarding payment solutions for their needs on and off Amazon. We are seeking an exceptional Data Scientist III to drive innovation in machine learning and artificial intelligence solutions while leading high-impact initiatives across the organization. Key job responsibilities Technical Excellence Lead end-to-end machine learning projects using PyTorch, AWS SageMaker, and other leading ML frameworks Design and implement complex statistical models and deep learning solutions Develop and optimize MLOps pipelines for model training, evaluation, and deployment Experience with modern LLM frameworks and Generative AI applications Expertise in Python, R, and related data science libraries MLOps & Development Build automated ML pipelines using AWS services (CodePipeline, Lambda, Step Functions) Implement CI/CD practices for ML model deployment and monitoring Create containerized solutions using Docker for scalable model deployment Experience with model optimization and hyperparameter tuning using tools like Optuna Integrate ML solutions with monitoring tools like MLflow Business Impact & Leadership Partner with stakeholders to translate business problems into technical solutions Design and develop business intelligence applications for real-time insights Lead technical initiatives and mentor junior data scientists Drive cross-functional collaboration to deliver innovative solutions Communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences About the team The Amazon Pay Data Products team is a central unit that builds and maintains data products supporting Amazon Pay's growth across multiple markets. We operate at scale, processing 150M+ monthly transactions and managing 12 PB of data infrastructure. Our team consists of Business Intelligence Engineers, Data Engineers, and Product Managers who develop and maintain standardized reporting, data marts, and self-service analytics tools. Our expanded capabilities cover data science and Gen AI wherein we have built our first suite of multi-agent systems.
  • US, NY, New York
    Job ID: 3131882
    (Updated 20 days ago)
    About Sponsored Products and Brands 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. About our team The Search Ranking and Interleaving (R&I) team within Sponsored Products and Brands is responsible for determining which ads to show and the quality of ads shown on the search page (e.g., relevance, personalized and contextualized ranking to improve shopper experience, where to place them, and how many ads to show on the search page. This helps shoppers discover new products while helping advertisers put their products in front of the right customers, aligning shoppers’, advertisers’, and Amazon’s interests. To do this, we apply a broad range of GenAI and ML techniques to continuously explore, learn, and optimize the ranking and allocation of ads on the search page. We are an interdisciplinary team with a focus on improving the SP experience in search by gaining a deep understanding of shopper pain points and developing new innovative solutions to address them. A day in the life As an Applied Scientist on this team, you will identify big opportunities for the team to make a direct impact on customers and the search experience. You will work closely with with search and retail partner teams, software engineers and product managers to build scalable real-time GenAI and ML solutions. You will have the opportunity to design, run, and analyze A/B experiments that improve the experience of millions of Amazon shoppers while driving quantifiable revenue impact while broadening your technical skillset. Key job responsibilities - Solve challenging science and business problems that balance the interests of advertisers, shoppers, and Amazon. - Drive end-to-end GenAI & Machine Learning projects that have a high degree of ambiguity, scale, complexity. - Develop real-time machine learning algorithms to allocate billions of ads per day in advertising auctions. - Develop efficient algorithms for multi-objective optimization using deep learning methods to find operating points for the ad marketplace then evolve them - Research new and innovative machine learning approaches.
  • (Updated 19 days ago)
    Innovators wanted! Are you an entrepreneur? A builder? A dreamer? This role is part of an Amazon Special Projects team that takes the company’s Think Big leadership principle to the limits. If you’re interested in innovating at scale to address big challenges in the world, this is the team for you. Our team rewards curiosity while maintaining a laser-focus in bringing products to market. Competitive candidates are responsive, flexible, and able to succeed within an open, collaborative, entrepreneurial, startup-like environment. At the forefront of both academic and applied research in this product area, you have the opportunity to work together with a diverse and talented team of scientists, engineers, and product managers and collaborate with other teams. We are seeking a Principal Applied Scientist working on machine learning applications in life sciences. This role combines scientific leadership with hands-on innovation, driving solutions from exploratory research through production-ready solutions deployment, while maintaining high scientific standards. You will work with Amazon's large-scale computing resources to accelerate advances in machine learning applications. Key job responsibilities - Lead ML for life science efforts using computational design approaches and ML-based tools. - Guide teams in applying SOTA ML methods, experimentation design, and modeling approaches. - Transform complex real world problems into scientific challenges and allocate resources effectively. - Review requirements, conduct technical architecture reviews, and make informed judgments around technical and business tradeoffs. - Provide mentorship to Applied Scientists, Research Scientists and Data Scientists while maintaining scientific rigor. - Collaborate with cross functional teams.
  • US, CA, San Francisco
    Job ID: 3131622
    (Updated 13 days ago)
    Are you interested in a unique opportunity to advance the accuracy and efficiency of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) systems? If so, you're at the right place! We are the AGI Autonomy organization, and we are looking for a driven and talented Member of Technical Staff to join us to build state-of-the art agents. AGI Autonomy is focused on developing new foundational capabilities for useful AI agents that can take actions in the digital and physical worlds. In other words, we’re enabling practical AI that can actually do things for us and make our customers more productive, empowered, and fulfilled. In this role, you will work closely with research teams to design, build, and maintain systems for training and evaluating state-of-the-art agent models. Our team works inside the Amazon AGI SF Lab, an environment designed to empower AI researchers and engineers to work with speed and focus. Our philosophy combines the agility of a startup with the resources of Amazon. Key job responsibilities * Evaluate performance of the training infrastructure, diagnose problems and address any gaps that exist. * Develop reliable infrastructure to schedule training and model evaluation jobs across clusters. * Work closely with researchers to create new techniques, infrastructure, and tooling around emerging research capabilities and evaluating models to meet customer needs. * Manage project prioritization, deliverables, timelines, and stakeholder communication. * Illuminate trade-offs, educate the team on best practices, and influence technical strategy. * Operate in a dynamic environment to deliver high quality software. About the team The Amazon AGI SF Lab is focused on developing new foundational capabilities for enabling useful AI agents that can take actions in the digital and physical worlds. In other words, we’re enabling practical AI that can actually do things for us and make our customers more productive, empowered, and fulfilled. The lab is designed to empower AI researchers and engineers to make major breakthroughs with speed and focus toward this goal. Our philosophy combines the agility of a startup with the resources of Amazon. By keeping the team lean, we’re able to maximize the amount of compute per person. Each team in the lab has the autonomy to move fast and the long-term commitment to pursue high-risk, high-payoff research.

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