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As an Applied Scientist on the Science SW team, you will be a versatile generalist who collaborates closely with other scientists and engineers teams to bring research to production across a broad portfolio of problems: from computer-vision perception platforms to building-wide optimization and orchestration. This role combines the scientific application of ML and applied mathematics with a strong product focus. It will be your job to frame ambiguous business problems as tractable scientific problems, and to implement novel ML systems, first-principles models, embedded systems prototypes, and performance optimizations in both prototype and production environments. Key job responsibilities • Own the research and development of scientific and ML solutions across a broad range of problems spanning classical machine learning, statistical modeling, computer vision, optimization, and physics-informed / first-principles modeling in a production environment. • Rapidly ramp on unfamiliar problem domains, frame ambiguous or open-ended business problems as tractable scientific problems, and prototype solutions end to end. • Prototype and evaluate sensing hardware and lightweight, edge-deployable models that run on commodity compute under real-world constraints. • Collaborate across multiple science and engineering teams to integrate your solutions into our deployment architecture. About the team Amazon is building next generation software, hardware, and processes that will run our global network of fulfillment centers that move millions of units of inventory, and ensure customers get what they want when promised. The Science Software team in the One MHS organization unlocks Material Handling Equipment (MHE) innovation through a multiplicity of disciplines within Artificial Intelligence (AI) and applied science, including Computer Vision (CV), Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs), Optimization, Reinforcement Learning, classical Machine Learning, statistical modeling, and sensing-hardware prototyping. Rooted in first principles aligned experimentation, the team is dedicated to building self-optimizing fulfillment centers, developing the models that drive real-time, building-wide orchestration of MHE. We conduct experiments, develop models, and apply machine learning (ML) at scale to optimize throughput, flow, merge, and congestion control, and to improve operational performance across the fulfillment network.

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 a Sr. 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 lead projects end-to-end including problem formulation in collaboration with Product Managers and key stakeholders, lead a team of scientists to build models, design, run, and analyze A/B experiments to improve the experience of millions of Amazon shoppers. Key job responsibilities - Architect next-generation systems that improve Amazon's Search page. - Pioneer breakthrough applied science in multi-modal GenAI applications for advertising, combining text, image, and multi-lingual support. - Develop real-time machine learning algorithms to allocate billions of ads per day in advertising auctions. - Research new and innovative machine learning approaches.

MULTIPLE POSITIONS AVAILABLE Employer: AMAZON.COM SERVICES LLC Offered Position: Data Scientist III Job Location: Sunnyvale, California Job Number: AMZ10087624 Position Responsibilities: Own the data science elements of various products to help with data-based decision making, product performance optimization, and product performance tracking. Work directly with product managers to help drive the design of the product. Work with Technical Product Managers to help drive the build planning. Translate business problems and products into data requirements and metrics. Initiate the design, development, and implementation of scientific analysis projects or deliverables. Own the analysis, modelling, system design, and development of data science solutions for products. Write documents and make presentations that explain model/analysis results to the business. Bridge the degree of uncertainty in both problem definition and data scientific solution approaches. Build consensus on data, metrics, and analysis to drive business and system strategy. 40 hours / week, 8:00am-5:00pm, Salary Range: $183,000/year to $247,600/year. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, visit: https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. Amazon.com is an Equal Opportunity-Affirmative Action Employer – Minority / Female / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation.#0000

The Music Catalog Quality team at Amazon Music serves a key role in developing solutions to ensure and improve the quality of catalog metadata and content across the music streaming experience. We create solutions that detect, measure, and remediate quality issues in music metadata - including artist information, track attributes, versions, content tags, and provide actionable insights that enable continuous improvement of the catalog. We leverage a host of scientific and engineering technologies to accomplish this mission, including Generative AI, classical ML, Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision, and automated data validation pipelines. As an Applied Science Manager on the team, you will lead a team of scientists to define and execute a transformative vision for holistic catalog quality measurement, metadata enrichment, and content integrity. Your team will own the science solutions for foundational quality detection frameworks, metadata validation and correction technologies, state-of-the-art algorithms to identify and resolve catalog anomalies (violative content, duplicative/low value content, misattributed tracks, incorrect metadata), and/or agentic AI solutions that help internal teams quickly surface and fix quality issues to ensure customers receive accurate, complete catalog experiences. Key job responsibilities You independently manage a team of scientists. You identify the needs of your team and effectively grow, hire, and promote scientists to maintain a high-performing team. You have a broad understanding of scientific techniques, several of which may fall out of your specific job function. You define the strategic vision for your team. You establish a roadmap and successfully deliver scientific solutions that innovate on catalog quality detection, metadata enrichment, and content integrity. You define clear goals for your team and effectively prioritize, balancing short-term quality improvements and long-term innovation in catalog intelligence. You establish clear and effective metrics and scientific process to enforce consistent, high-quality artifact delivery and measurable catalog quality improvements. You proactively identify risks and bring them to the attention of your manager, customers, and stakeholders with plans for mitigation before they become roadblocks. You know when to escalate. You communicate ideas effectively, both verbally and in writing, to all types of audiences. You author strategic documentation for your team. You communicate issues and options with leaders in such a way that facilitates understanding and that leads to a decision. You work successfully with customers, leaders, and engineering teams. You foster a constructive dialogue, harmonize discordant views, and lead the resolution of contentious issues. About the team We are a team of scientists and MLEs focused on music catalog quality and metadata intelligence. You will work with colleagues with deep expertise in ML, NLP, CV, Gen AI, and data quality systems with a diverse range of backgrounds. We partner closely with top-notch engineers, product managers, content operations teams, and other scientists with expertise in music metadata, content classification, and building scalable modeling and software solutions that keep the Amazon Music catalog accurate, complete, and trustworthy.

At Amazon, security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. Our mission is to prevent denied entities from transacting with Amazon businesses. We build automatic mechanisms to detect and prevent prohibited transactions with denied entities using a diverse set of algorithms and machine learning techniques. We screen over a billion events every day and develop algorithms which are able to scale and detect suspicious entities . We are still Day 1 and have an exciting road map to build Machine Learning (ML) and Generative AI (LLM) powered detection and resolution systems to help scale Amazon for years to come. We are seeking an Sr. Applied Scientist to join our team and help tackle challenging problems at the forefront of machine learning and artificial intelligence. Working closely with a multidisciplinary team of engineers, data scientists, and domain experts, you will play a crucial role in defining innovative ML/AI-powered customer experiences and solutions. If you have an entrepreneurial mindset, the technical depth to deliver impactful results, and a passion for innovation, we want to hear from you. Key job responsibilities In this role, you will: • Drive the research, design, and development of novel ML/AI models and systems to power critical products and services • Collaborate cross-functionally to deeply understand business requirements, customer needs, and technical constraints • Rapidly prototype, test, and iterate on ML/AI solutions, iterating quickly based on data and feedback • Communicate complex technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders • Mentor and grow a team of talented ML scientists and engineers • Stay up-to-date on the latest advancements in AI/ML and identify opportunities to apply emerging techniques A day in the life - Starting the day by reviewing the latest model performance metrics and identifying areas for improvement - Brainstorming new architectures and approaches with your cross-functional team during a whiteboard session - Diving deep into a complex dataset, leveraging advanced statistical and AI techniques to uncover hidden insights - Prototyping a new model and running a series of experiments to optimize its performance - Preparing a presentation to pitch your latest research findings and recommendations to product and engineering leaders - Mentoring junior scientists, providing guidance on coding best practices and problem-solving strategies 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. 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.

Amazon’s Marketplace business is one of the largest in the world operating in 23 countries. Amazon Marketplace enables millions of Sellers worldwide to list hundreds of millions of products and manage orders for inventory across dozens of different categories and languages. The IN Seller Partner Services Tech organization is responsible for building delightful seller experiences with the vision of being the technology foundation that makes Amazon the #1 choice for sellers of all types and price-sensitive customers in India and emerging markets—transforming how a billion people buy and sell, thereby transforming lives. By making its sellers successful, Amazon can attract and retain sellers on the platform, which in turn offers its customers the best selection, convenience, pricing and experience resulting in multi-billion-dollar business. This organization enables sellers of all stripes across a multitude of business lines existing or new such as Q-Commerce, Pharmacy and Out of country selling. We are looking for a motivated and innovative Applied Scientist with strong analytical skills and practical experience to join our science team. As a key member of our science team, you will provide expertise that helps accelerate the business and make it profitable. You will research, design and improve on the models that will directly impact Amazon’s Selection quality and maximize fee revenue. You will be working in a highly collaborative environment partnering with various science, product management, engineering, operations, finance, business intelligence and analytics teams. You will need to understand the business requirements and translate them into complex analytical outputs. You will design tests to explain performance of the models from impact on customer and cost perspective. You will create ML models to capture features impacting performance. You should be comfortable building prototypes, testing and improving them given the feedback from the real time data. You should be able to present your model and findings to a various range of stakeholders. Looking for candidate with expertise in the areas of machine learning, operations research, and statistics. With expertise in applying theoretical models in an applied environment relying heavily on the latest advances in machine learning, optimization, stochastic modeling, and engineering. The candidate will be expected to work on numerous aspects, such as feature engineering, modeling, probabilistic modeling, hyper-parameter tuning, scalable inference methods and latent variable models. Challenges will involve dealing with very large data sets and requirements on throughput. Key job responsibilities - Design, implement, test, deploy, and maintain innovative science solutions to accelerate our business. - Create experiments and prototype implementations of new learning algorithms and prediction techniques - Collaborate with scientists, engineers, product managers, and stakeholders to design and implement software solutions for science problems - Use best practices to ensure a high standard of quality for all of the team deliverables

Do you want to join an innovative team of scientists and engineers who use terabytes of data and create state-of-the-art Generative AI algorithms to push the boundaries of AI creativity? We are building foundational behavioral models for Amazon Stores using Generative AI, LLMs and Large Model training techniques that fuses general world knowledge, customer shopping behavior and Amazon e-commerce domain knowledge. We are looking for scientists who are passionate about technology, innovation, and customer experience, and are ready to make a lasting impact on the industry using intelligent and transformative AI applications. Working closely with cross-functional teams, you will be an essential part of every stage of AI development, from ideation and design to rigorous testing and successful deployment, ensuring our AI projects drive innovation and provide value for our customers. If you’re fired up about being part of a dynamic, driven team, then this is your moment to join us on this exciting journey! Key job responsibilities In this role you will leverage your background and expertise to lead developing foundational behavioral model for Amazon Stores using Generative AI, LLM and Large Model training techniques. On a day-to-day basis, you will: - Research and implement new algorithms and architectures for generative AI applications. - Optimize model performance and scalability for inference and deployment. - Collaborate with other talented applied scientists and engineers to gather and preprocess large datasets and develop an improved training infrastructure that accelerates innovation. - Experiment with SOTA methods to improve generative AI model quality. - Provide technical expertise and guidance to support the integration of generative AI solutions into various products and services.

Do you want to join an innovative team of scientists and engineers who use terabytes of data and create state-of-the-art Generative AI algorithms to push the boundaries of AI creativity? We are building foundational behavioral models for Amazon Stores using Generative AI, LLMs and Large Model training techniques that fuses general world knowledge, customer shopping behavior and Amazon e-commerce domain knowledge. We are looking for scientists who are passionate about technology, innovation, and customer experience, and are ready to make a lasting impact on the industry using intelligent and transformative AI applications. Working closely with cross-functional teams, you will be an essential part of every stage of AI development, from ideation and design to rigorous testing and successful deployment, ensuring our AI projects drive innovation and provide value for our customers. If you’re fired up about being part of a dynamic, driven team, then this is your moment to join us on this exciting journey! Key job responsibilities In this role you will leverage your background and expertise to lead developing foundational behavioral model for Amazon Stores using Generative AI, LLM and Large Model training techniques. On a day-to-day basis, you will: - Research and implement new algorithms and architectures for generative AI applications. - Optimize model performance and scalability for inference and deployment. - Collaborate with other talented applied scientists and engineers to gather and preprocess large datasets and develop an improved training infrastructure that accelerates innovation. - Experiment with SOTA methods to improve generative AI model quality. - Provide technical expertise and guidance to support the integration of generative AI solutions into various products and services.

Employer: Amazon.com Services LLC Position: Applied Scientist II - AMZ27580.1 Location: Nashville, TN Multiple Positions Available: Participate in the design, development, evaluation, deployment and updating of data-driven models and analytical solutions for machine learning (ML) and/or natural language (NL) applications. Develop and/or apply statistical modeling techniques (e.g. Bayesian models and deep neural networks), optimization methods, and other ML techniques to different applications in business and engineering. Routinely build and deploy ML models on available data. Research and implement novel ML and statistical approaches to add value to the business. Mentor junior engineers and scientists. (40 hours / week, 8:00am-5:00pm, Salary Range $136000 - $184000) Amazon.com is an Equal Opportunity – Affirmative Action Employer – Minority / Female / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation #0000

Have you ever ordered a product on Amazon and when that box with the smile arrived, wondered how it got to you so fast? Wondered where it came from and how much it cost Amazon? If so, the Amazon Global Supply Chain Optimization Technology (SCOT) organization is for you. Watch this video to learn more about our organization, SCOT: http://bit.ly/amazon-scot We are the Optimal Sourcing Systems team (OSS) within SCOT and are looking for a Data Scientist II to join us! OSS designs and builds systems that measure and manage Amazon’s supplier capabilities, identify and react to supply disruptions, and prioritizes inbound freight for our global network. OSS software is used by every country Amazon services, and is a critical link to ensuring Amazon offers the products our customers want, at the lowest possible cost. This team under OSS orchestrates and tracks inventory movement into Amazon's network, maintains performance feedback loops, and ensures vendor compliance. The Data Scientist II, in partnership with the Product Management, Operations, and Tech teams, will lead efforts in four areas: 1) Building models to set optimal parameters such as lead times to ensure the accuracy of our Inbound network 2) Building analytical frameworks to identify and drive improvements in purchase order lifecycle management and defect coaching/chargebacks 3) Developing Gen AI solutions related to dispute evaluation and vendor coaching 4) Building models and solutions to enable collaborative inventory planning with vendors The ideal candidate thrives in ambiguous problem spaces, relishes working with large volumes of data, and enjoys the challenge of highly complex supply chain contexts. They can translate complex business logic into scalable models and communicate insights effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Keys to success in this role include exceptional analytics, statistics, judgment, and communication skills. Experience with supply chain optimization, operations research, or vendor management systems is a plus. Key job responsibilities - Collaborate with product managers, science, and engineering teams to design and implement model solutions for Sourcing Execution & Performance systems - Use large datasets or experiments to make causal inferences or predictions - Work with engineers to automate science analysis processes and build scalable measurement solutions - Interpret data, write reports, and make actionable recommendations - Drive technical standards and best practices for the team's Science solutions - Mentor and provide technical guidance to other team members on complex projects