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Join the Personal Robotics Group at Amazon, where you'll help pioneer intelligent robotic products that deliver meaningful customer experiences. As a Senior Applied Scientist, you'll drive technical excellence in robotic task planning, developing and improving algorithms that enable robots to learn and execute complex tasks in dynamic real-world environments, while establishing evaluation and benchmarking methodology to measure system performance. In this role, you will combine hands-on technical work with scientific rigor, researching and developing novel approaches to task planning and understanding, improving models to enhance performance, and designing experiments and benchmarks that drive measurable progress. You'll leverage Amazon's computational resources and robotics infrastructure to tackle ambitious challenges in areas such as task planning, task understanding, reasoning, and human-robot interaction. Key job responsibilities - Research and develop novel approaches to robotic task planning, task understanding, and reasoning to improve system performance - Design and implement evaluation frameworks and benchmarks for robotic planning systems, driving measurable improvements - Explore and fine-tune models to enhance robot capabilities across diverse tasks and environments - Build and maintain datasets and data collection pipelines for training and evaluating models - Define quantitative metrics and success criteria that connect evaluation results to real-world robot performance - Collaborate with engineering teams to integrate research findings and evaluation into development workflows - Partner with cross-functional teams to ensure holistic improvement of robot capabilities - Stay current with the latest advancements in robotics, task planning, and AI research A day in the life - Research and prototype new approaches to improve task planning and understanding capabilities - Design and run experiments to identify limitations of current approaches, documenting findings and proposing improvements - Fine-tune and iterate on models to improve performance across diverse scenarios - Build and iterate on evaluation pipelines that measure system quality and reliability About the team The Personal Robotics Group is pioneering intelligent robotic products that deliver meaningful customer experiences. We're building the next generation of robotic systems that will redefine how customers interact with technology. This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of personal robotics working with world-class teams pushing the boundaries of what's possible in robotic manipulation, locomotion, task planning, and human-robot interaction. Join us if you're passionate about creating the future of personal robotics, solving complex challenges at the intersection of hardware and software, and seeing your innovation deliver transformative customer experiences.

The AWS Marketplace team seeks a talented Applied Scientist to lead the development of our next generation of AI-Powered Discovery systems. The ideal candidate excels in translating complex scientific research into practical, high-impact solutions, demonstrating both technical excellence and a deep understanding of customer needs. They should bring proven depth in personalization, search, and recommendations, while remaining committed to mentoring others and fostering a culture of innovation and collaboration. The position offers a unique opportunity to influence how businesses worldwide discover and adopt software solutions. Key job responsibilities - Lead the research, design, and development of advanced AI/ML systems for information retrieval and personalized recommendation systems - Identify and evaluate emerging scientific techniques and technologies, translating research into practical, scalable solutions - Drive evaluation and hypothesis testing to continuously improve performance and relevance of search and recommendation systems - Collaborate with cross-functional teams, such as Product and Engineering leaders, to translate scientific innovations into customer value - Mentor Scientists and influence scientific approach across the organization About the team The AWS Marketplace & Partner Services Science team is at the forefront of developing and deploying AI/ML systems that serve multiple critical stakeholders: - AWS Customers: Through the AWS Marketplace, we support Discovery tools that streamline cloud adoption and innovation. - AWS Partners: Via Partner Central, we offer advanced tools and insights to enhance collaboration and drive mutual growth. - Internal AWS Sellers: We equip our sales force with data-driven recommendations to better serve our customers and partners. Our primary objective is to accelerate cloud migrations and modernizations, fostering innovation for AWS customers while simultaneously supporting the growth and success of our extensive partner network. 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 conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness. 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. Mentorship 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, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional. Diverse Experiences Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred 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.

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 Amazon Brand Store team (such as www.amazon.com/lego) within Sponsored Products and Brands is a core product offering in the Amazon Advertising portfolio. The brand's store are their dedicated place on Amazon to differentiate, grow sales, and build loyalty with millions of shoppers. Our mission is to empower brands of all sizes to tell their story in their own unique voice to consumers. We help brands create engaging shopping experiences that assist shoppers in discovering and evaluating them as part of their purchase decisions. We succeed when we are both useful to shoppers and when brands can attract and retain shopper's attention using our products. A cool case study on brand stores can be found here: https://advertising.amazon.com/library/case-studies/nespresso-brand-store-increases-shopper-engagement. We are looking for a Senior Applied Scientist to lead the generation of data-driven insights that bring long-term value to brands, as well as the ideation and creation of personalized shopping experiences for deep business understanding. You will be expected to identify and solve ambiguous problems and science deficiencies, and to provide informed solutions based on state-of-the-art machine learning research. Impact and Career Growth You will invent new experiences and influence customer-facing shopping experiences to help brands grow their retail businesses. This is your opportunity to work within the fastest-growing businesses across all of Amazon! You'll define a long-term science vision for AI-driven brand shopping experiences, working backwards from our customers' needs and 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. Key job responsibilities As a Senior Applied Scientist on this team, you will: - Be the technical leader in Machine Learning; lead efforts within this team and across other teams. - Perform hands-on analysis and modeling of enormous data sets to develop insights that increase traffic monetization and merchandise sales, without compromising the shopper experience. - Drive end-to-end Machine Learning projects that have a high degree of ambiguity, scale, complexity. - Build machine learning models, perform proof-of-concept, experiment, optimize, and deploy your models into production; work closely with software engineers to assist in productionizing your ML models. - 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. - Research new and innovative machine learning approaches. - Recruit Applied Scientists to the team and provide mentorship.

At AWS, we use Artificial Intelligence to be able to identify every need of a customer across all AWS services before they have to tell us about it and help customers adopt best practices while architecting on the cloud. We are looking for Applied Scientists to drive innovation with Gen AI to bring paradigm shift to how the business operates and build “best in the world” experience that customers will love! Some of the science challenges we work on include building Agentic AI systems, fine-tuning Large language models for domain specific use cases, Reinforcement Learning, automated cloud optimization, generating strategic insights and recommendations from very large datasets. You will have an opportunity to lead, invent, and design tech that will directly impact every customer across all AWS services. We are building industry-leading technology that cuts across a wide range of ML techniques from Natural Language Processing to Deep Learning and Generative Artificial Intelligence. You will be a key driver in taking something from an idea to an experiment to a prototype and finally to a live production system. Our team packs a punch with principal level product, science, engineering, and leadership talent. We are a results focused team and you have the opportunity to lead and establish a culture for the big things to come. We combine the culture of a startup, the innovation and creativity of a R&D Lab, the work-life balance of a mature organization, and technical challenges at the scale of AWS. We offer a playground of opportunities for builders to build, have fun, and make history! About the team ABOUT AWS: Diverse Experiences Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred 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. 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 in the cloud. 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 and AmazeCon conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness. Mentorship 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, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

About us As part of the AWS Applied AI Solutions organization, our vision is to provide business applications, leveraging Amazon’s unique experience and expertise, that are used by millions of companies worldwide to manage day-to-day operations. We will accomplish this by accelerating our customers’ businesses through delivery of intuitive and differentiated technology solutions that solve enduring business challenges. Our team combines Amazon's real-world experience with state-of-art AI to create opinionated, turnkey solutions that are no-brainers to buy and easy to use. We're building applied AI solutions that businesses love and trust. Our ambition is to become the partner companies rely on to run their business every day—putting AI to work to deliver better customer experiences, operational excellence, and faster innovation. We're a fast-moving, scrappy team building a new agentic product from the ground up. If bias for action is your favorite leadership principle, you'll fit right in. The Role We're seeking a talented Applied Scientist with expertise in large language models, agentic systems, and foundational models. You will be responsible for building the state-of-art multi-agent system, using a handful of methods including fine-tunning, reinforcement learning, etc. You'll accelerate our customer-facing features, contribute to our collaborative and innovative culture, and bring state-of-art applied research that raises the bar for the entire team. Key job responsibilities • Drive end-to-end GenAI projects with high complexity and ambiguity from conception to production • Build, optimize, and deploy ML models while collaborating with software engineers for productionization • Research innovative machine learning approaches and identify new opportunities for GenAI applications • Perform hands-on analysis and modeling of large datasets to develop actionable insights • Establish scalable, automated processes for data analysis, model development, and validation • Present results to senior leadership and collaborate with cross-functional teams About the team Diverse Experiences AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred 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 AWS values curiosity and connection. Our employee-led and company-sponsored affinity groups promote inclusion and empower our people to take pride in what makes us unique. Our inclusion events foster stronger, more collaborative teams. Our continual innovation is fueled by the bold ideas, fresh perspectives, and passionate voices our teams bring to everything we do. 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.

About us As part of the AWS Applied AI Solutions organization, our vision is to provide business applications, leveraging Amazon’s unique experience and expertise, that are used by millions of companies worldwide to manage day-to-day operations. We will accomplish this by accelerating our customers’ businesses through delivery of intuitive and differentiated technology solutions that solve enduring business challenges. Our team combines Amazon's real-world experience with state-of-art AI to create opinionated, turnkey solutions that are no-brainers to buy and easy to use. We're building applied AI solutions that businesses love and trust. Our ambition is to become the partner companies rely on to run their business every day—putting AI to work to deliver better customer experiences, operational excellence, and faster innovation. We're a fast-moving, scrappy team building a new agentic product from the ground up. If bias for action is your favorite leadership principle, you'll fit right in. The Role We're seeking a talented Senior Applied Scientist with expertise in large language models, agentic systems, and foundational models. You will be responsible for building the state-of-art multi-agent system, using a handful of methods including fine-tunning, reinforcement learning, etc. You'll accelerate our customer-facing features, contribute to our collaborative and innovative culture, and bring state-of-art applied research that raises the bar for the entire team. Key job responsibilities • Drive end-to-end GenAI projects with high complexity and ambiguity from conception to production • Build, optimize, and deploy ML models while collaborating with software engineers for productionization • Research innovative machine learning approaches and identify new opportunities for GenAI applications • Perform hands-on analysis and modeling of large datasets to develop actionable insights • Establish scalable, automated processes for data analysis, model development, and validation • Present results to senior leadership and collaborate with cross-functional teams About the team Diverse Experiences AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred 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 AWS values curiosity and connection. Our employee-led and company-sponsored affinity groups promote inclusion and empower our people to take pride in what makes us unique. Our inclusion events foster stronger, more collaborative teams. Our continual innovation is fueled by the bold ideas, fresh perspectives, and passionate voices our teams bring to everything we do. 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.

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. We are the Sponsored Products - Marketplace Intelligence (MI) team. We are looking for an Applied Scientist to help build production ML and bandit solutions to customize the search experience. We determine which ads to show in Amazon search, where to place them, how many ads to place, and to which customers. 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 machine learning, causal inference, and optimization techniques to continuously explore, learn, and optimize the allocation and ranking of ads on the search page. We are an interdisciplinary team with a focus on customer obsession and inventing and simplifying. Our primary focus is on improving the SP experience in search by gaining a deep understanding of shopper pain points and developing new innovative solutions to address them. You will be on the Search Ad Ranking and Interleaving team org - specifically the team that focusses on whole page optimization. Our mission is to personalize and contextualize SP ad allocation on the entire search page. We do this by modeling shopper responses to the number, placement, and quality of ads. We are a data- and hypothesis-driven organization that uses online experimentation, simulation, causal modeling, and online feedback to place ads where they’re useful to shoppers and provide improved discoverability and sales for advertisers. This is a unique opportunity for someone who wants to have broad business impact, a direct impact on customers and the search experience, and get broad exposure to a wide range of scientific techniques (machine learning, bandit learning, optimization, LLMs). We are looking for an Applied Scientist to join Interleaving team in Marketplace Intelligence with a broad mandate to experiment and innovate to grow Sponsored Products. We’d like someone with practical experience with LLMs / GenAI for production to improve how we rank and allocate ads on the page today. If you thrive in a product-focussed and data-driven environment, then this role is for you. As a Applied Scientist on this team, you will help to identify unique opportunities to create customized and delightful shopping experience for our growing marketplaces worldwide. Your job will be to identify big opportunities for the team that can help to grow Sponsored Products business working with retail partner teams, product managers, software engineers and TPMs. You will have opportunity to design, run and analyze / experiments to improve the experience of millions of Amazon shoppers while driving quantifiable revenue impact. More importantly, you will have the opportunity to broaden your technical skills in an environment that thrives on creativity, experimentation, and product innovation. Key job responsibilities * Tackle and solve challenging science and business problems that balance the interests of advertisers, shoppers, and Amazon. * Develop real-time machine learning algorithms to allocate billions of ads per day in advertising auctions. * Develop efficient algorithms for multi-objective optimization and AI control methods to find operating points for the ad marketplace then evolve them * Be an expert at designing and implementing solutions that use a range of data science methodologies to automate data analysis or to solve complex business problems. * Perform hands-on analysis and modeling of enormous data sets to develop insights that improve shopper experience, without compromising Ad revenue in addition to designing metrics for complex systems. * Drive end-to-end machine learning projects that have a high degree of ambiguity, scale, complexity. * Run A/B experiments, gather data, and perform statistical analysis.

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! As an Applied Scientist in the Prime Video Playback Intelligence Organization, you will have deep subject matter expertise in applied machine learning and data science, with specializations in video streaming optimization, information retrieval, anomaly detection and root-causing systems, large language models and generative AI across various modalities. Key job responsibilities - Work with multiple teams of scientists, engineers, and product managers to translate business and functional requirements into concrete deliverables leading strategic efforts to enhance customer quality of experiences. - Work on problems spaces such as: improving the customer playback quality of experience across Video on Demand, Live Events and Linear Content. - Reduce the time/cost/effort to optimize the customer experience as well as detect, root-cause, and mitigate defects in the customer experience. You’ll seek to understand the depth and nuance of streaming video at scale and identify opportunities to grow our business and improve customer quality of experience via principled ML/AI solutions. - Lead integration of new algorithms and processes into existing modeling stacks, simplify and streamline the existing modeling stacks, and develop testing and evaluation strategies. Ultimately, you'll work backwards from the desired outcomes and lead the way on determining the ideal solution (statistical techniques, traditional ML, GenAI, etc). A day in the life We love solving challenging and hard problems in our quest to innovate on behalf of our customers and provide the best video streaming experience. We push the boundaries to leverage and invent technologies which help create unrivaled experiences for our customers to help us move fast in a growing and changing environment. We use data to guide our decisions, work closely with our engineering and product counterparts, and partner with other Science teams as well as academic institutions to learn and guide in an environment of innovation.

Selection Monitoring team is responsible for making the biggest catalog on the planet even bigger. In order to drive expansion of the Amazon catalog, we develop advanced ML/AI technologies to process billions of products and algorithmically find products not already sold on Amazon. We work with structured, semi-structured and Visually Rich Documents using deep learning, NLP and image processing. The role demands a high-performing and flexible candidate who can take responsibility for success of the system and drive solutions from research, prototype, design, coding and deployment. We are looking for Applied Scientists to tackle challenging problems in the areas of Information Extraction, Efficient crawling at internet scale, developing ML models for website comprehension and agents to take multi-step decisions. You should have depth and breadth of knowledge in text mining, information extraction from Visually Rich Documents, semi structured data (HTML) and advanced machine learning. You should also have programming and design skills to manipulate Semi-Structured and unstructured data and systems that work at internet scale. You will encounter many challenges, including: - Scale (build models to handle billions of pages), - Accuracy (requirements for precision and recall) - Speed (generate predictions for millions of new or changed pages with low latency) - Diversity (models need to work across different languages, market places and data sources) You will help us to - Build a scalable system which can algorithmically extract information from world wide web. - Intelligently cluster web pages, segment and classify regions, extract relevant information and structure the data available on semi-structured web. - Build systems that will use existing Knowledge Base to perform open information extraction at scale from visually rich documents. Key job responsibilities - Use AI, NLP and advances in LLMs/SLMs and agentic systems to create scalable solutions for business problems. - Efficiently Crawl web, Automate extraction of relevant information from large amounts of Visually Rich Documents and optimize key processes. - Design, develop, evaluate and deploy, innovative and highly scalable ML models, esp. leveraging latest advances in RL-based fine tuning methods like DPO, GRPO etc. - Work closely with software engineering teams to drive real-time model implementations. - Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large scale model development, model validation and model maintenance. - Lead projects and mentor other scientists, engineers in the use of ML techniques. - Publish innovation in research forums.

Alexa International Science team is looking for a passionate, talented, and inventive Senior Applied Scientist to help build industry-leading technology with Large Language Models (LLMs) and multimodal systems, requiring strong deep learning and generative models knowledge. At this level, you will drive cross-team scientific strategy, influence partner teams, and deliver solutions that have broad impact across Alexa's international products and services. Key job responsibilities As a Senior Applied Scientist with the Alexa International team, you will work with talented peers to develop novel algorithms and modeling techniques to advance the state of the art with LLMs, particularly delivering industry-leading scientific research and applied AI for multi-lingual applications — a challenging area for the industry globally. Your work will directly impact our global customers in the form of products and services that support Alexa+. You will leverage Amazon's heterogeneous data sources and large-scale computing resources to accelerate advances in text, speech, and vision domains. The ideal candidate possesses a solid understanding of machine learning, speech and/or natural language processing, modern LLM architectures, LLM evaluation & tooling, and a passion for pushing boundaries in this vast and quickly evolving field. They thrive in fast-paced environment, like to tackle complex challenges, excel at swiftly delivering impactful solutions while iterating based on user feedback, and are able to influence and align multiple teams around a shared scientific vision.