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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 18 days ago)
    Why this job is awesome? - This is SUPER high-visibility work: Our mission is to provide consistent, accurate, and relevant delivery information to every single page on every Amazon-owned site. - MILLIONS of customers will be impacted by your contributions: The changes we make directly impact the customer experience on every Amazon site. This is a great position for someone who likes to leverage Machine learning technologies to solve the real customer problems, and also wants to see and measure their direct impact on customers. - We are a cross-functional team that owns the ENTIRE delivery experience for customers: From the business requirements to the technical systems that allow us to directly affect the on-site experience from a central service, business and technical team members are integrated so everyone is involved through the entire development process. - Do you want to join an innovative team of scientists and engineers who use optimization, machine learning and Gen-AI techniques to deliver the best delivery experience on every Amazon-owned site? - Are you excited by the prospect of analyzing and modeling terabytes of data on the cloud and create state-of-art algorithms to solve real world problems? - Do you like to own end-to-end business problems/metrics and directly impact the same-day delivery service of Amazon? - Do you like to innovate and simplify? If yes, then you may be a great fit to join the Delivery Experience Machine Learning team! Key job responsibilities · Research and implement Optimization, ML and Gen-AI techniques to create scalable and effective models in Delivery Experience (DEX) systems · Design and develop optimization models and reinforcement learning models to improve quality of same-day selections · Apply LLM technology to empower CX features · Establishing scalable, efficient, automated processes for large scale data analysis and causal inference
  • (Updated 22 days ago)
    As part of the AWS Applied AI Solutions organization, we're advancing the frontier of trust and safety systems for cloud-based communication services. Our vision is to be the trusted foundation for transforming every business with Amazon AI teammates. Our mission is to deliver turnkey, enterprise-grade foundational AI capabilities that create delightful AI powered solutions. We're building sophisticated AI systems that protect infrastructure from evolving threats while enabling legitimate high-volume users to operate without friction, with messaging services at scale as a key application area. Key job responsibilities - Develop advanced machine learning approaches and agentic systems that autonomously adapt to evolving threat patterns across cloud communication services - Create behavioral detection models that quickly identify malicious patterns after onboarding rather than creating friction during signup - Design intelligent resource allocation algorithms that optimize service delivery based on real-time feedback - Develop frameworks operating at scale across diverse usage patterns, analyzing hundreds of thousands of daily active customers - Research novel approaches combining AI agents with trust and safety systems to solve complex security problems - Collaborate with engineering teams to integrate science components into production systems - Conduct rigorous experimentation and establish evaluation frameworks to measure solution performance A day in the life As an Applied Scientist, you'll develop fraud detection algorithms and AI-powered security systems while maintaining a clear path to customer impact. You'll investigate novel approaches to behavioral analysis, develop methods for real-time reputation assessment, and validate ideas through rigorous experimentation. You'll collaborate with other scientists and engineers to transform research insights into scalable solutions, work directly with enterprise customers to understand requirements, and help shape the future of cloud security technology. About the team Our team is a central science organization supporting multiple product teams across AWS Core Services. We tackle fundamental challenges in AI and machine learning that require novel approaches beyond off-the-shelf solutions. Working at the intersection of machine learning, large language models, and domain-specific applications, we develop practical techniques that advance the state-of-the-art while maintaining a clear path to customer impact. Our team builds deep domain expertise across geospatial intelligence, trust and safety systems, autonomous operations, and other critical areas, collaborating closely with engineering teams to transform research insights into scalable production solutions.
  • (Updated 22 days ago)
    As part of the AWS Applied AI Solutions organization, we're advancing the frontier of AI platform capabilities and evaluation methodologies. Our vision is to be the trusted foundation for transforming every business with Amazon AI teammates. Our mission is to deliver turnkey, enterprise-grade foundational AI capabilities that create delightful AI powered solutions. We're building sophisticated AI systems that enable builders to efficiently build, deploy, and operate AI solutions at scale, with particular focus on specialized content processing and runtime evaluation of AI agents. Key job responsibilities - Develop specialized PII and PHI detection methods for domain-specific contexts where general-purpose models struggle with regulatory requirements or specialized language - Create runtime evaluation frameworks for AI agents that identify model drift and trigger automated improvement processes - Research novel approaches to content redaction that balance privacy protection with operational efficiency - Design evaluation methodologies that assess agent performance across diverse operational contexts - Collaborate with platform engineering teams to integrate science components into foundational infrastructure - Conduct rigorous experimentation and establish evaluation frameworks to measure agentic solution performance A day in the life As an Applied Scientist, you'll explore emerging opportunities at the intersection of AI platform capabilities and applied science. You'll investigate novel approaches to specialized content processing, develop methods for agent evaluation, and validate ideas through rigorous experimentation with production systems. You'll collaborate with other scientists and engineers to identify where science can provide differentiation, work directly with platform teams to understand technical constraints, and help shape the future direction of AI platform capabilities as customer signals emerge. About the team Our team is a central science organization supporting multiple product teams across AWS Core Services. We tackle fundamental challenges in AI and machine learning that require novel approaches beyond off-the-shelf solutions. Working at the intersection of machine learning, large language models, and domain-specific applications, we develop practical techniques that advance the state-of-the-art while maintaining a clear path to customer impact. Our team builds deep domain expertise across geospatial intelligence, trust and safety systems, autonomous operations, and other critical areas, collaborating closely with engineering teams to transform research insights into scalable production solutions.
  • ES, M, Madrid
    Job ID: 3189535
    (Updated 23 days ago)
    Amazon is looking for an analytical Data Scientist to tackle critical data quality challenges with our Amazon Books team. You'll dive deep into our vast Books Catalog data to uncover root causes of data issues and their downstream impacts, directly influencing how hundreds of millions of customers discover their next great read. At Amazon Books we believe that reading is essential for a healthy society. As such, we aim to inspire readers by making it easy to read more and get more out of reading. We do this by creating an unmatched book discovery experience for our customers worldwide. We enable customers to discover new books, authors and genres through smart search tools, intelligent interactions and sophisticated recommendations, and we need your help to ensure our data foundation supports these experiences. If you are looking for an opportunity to solve complex analytical problems in a fast-paced environment working within a smart and passionate team, this might be the role for you. You will conduct sophisticated analyses to identify data quality issues, perform root cause analysis to understand systemic problems, and build prototypes that demonstrate potential solutions. You will work at the intersection of data science, business intelligence, and product development to drive data-driven decisions that improve our catalog quality. Key job responsibilities In this role you will: - Conduct deep-dive analyses of Books Catalog data to identify quality issues, patterns, and anomalies that impact downstream applications and customer experiences - Perform rigorous root cause analysis using statistical techniques and data mining to understand the underlying drivers of data quality problems - Build analytical prototypes and proof-of-concepts using ML and agentic technology that demonstrate potential approaches to resolve identified issues - Collaborate with scientists, engineers, and product teams to communicate findings and influence data quality strategies - Design and implement scalable data extraction and analysis pipelines to monitor catalog health and track improvements over time - Translate complex analytical findings into clear, actionable insights for both technical and non-technical stakeholders - Stay current with data science methodologies and apply best practices to ensure reproducible, high-quality analysis A day in the life Day-to-day work varies, but on a typical day you will: - Run exploratory data analyses to investigate specific data quality concerns or validate hypotheses about catalog issues - Build visualizations and statistical models to quantify the impact of data problems on customer-facing applications - Prototype potential solutions using scripting languages and collaborate with engineering teams to assess feasibility - Present findings to stakeholders including product managers, subject matter experts, and engineering leaders, incorporating their feedback into your analysis - Participate in team meetings to review metrics, share insights, and contribute to strategic planning for catalog improvements About the team The team consists of a collaborative group of scientists, product leaders, and dedicated engineering teams. Our aim is to maintain the world's most accurate and descriptive set of books metadata, where every title in our catalog is uniquely characterized via a set of high-quality, concise attributes. We believe this is a foundational capacity for any bookstore. We work with sister teams to leverage our systems to drive a diverse array of customer experiences that enable customers to easily identify their ideal next read.
  • IN, KA, Bengaluru
    Job ID: 3185729
    (Updated 28 days ago)
    Amazon Advertising is one of Amazon's fastest growing and most profitable businesses, responsible for defining and delivering AI-powered solutions that transform how advertisers make strategic decisions. We deliver billions of ad impressions and process massive volumes of advertiser data every single day. You'll work with us to pioneer breakthrough approaches in how AI agents access and reason over real-time advertiser data at scale. We are using generative AI and agentic systems to help advertising agents provide instant, strategic advice to millions of advertisers. You will need to invent new techniques for agent orchestration, context optimization, and code generation to ensure we're delivering accurate, trustworthy insights with minimal latency and token consumption. You'll create feedback loops to ensure our solutions are constantly evaluating themselves and improving. The Ads Real-Time Data Service team is seeking an exceptional Applied Scientist to research and develop novel approaches for agent-data interaction. The Ads Real-Time Data Service team is solving one of the most critical challenges in advertising AI: instant access to advertiser context. We're building the infrastructure that provides immediate, pre-computed access to advertiser data via Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers—an emerging standard for AI agent-data interaction. We're building summarized data for context using a mix of state of the art techniques like CodeAct and RAG-based embeddings, achieving a fundamental transformation in how AI agents interact with data. This role balances applied research (60%) with productionization (40%), giving you the opportunity to both advance the state of the art and see your innovations deployed at Amazon scale. Key job responsibilities Agent Orchestration & Optimization Research - Research and develop novel algorithms for agent-data interaction patterns that minimize latency, token consumption, and error rates - Design and implement CodeAct pattern variations enabling agents to write and execute analytical code in isolated sandboxes - Investigate multi-agent orchestration strategies for complex advertiser queries requiring data from multiple sources - Develop techniques for automatic query optimization and caching strategies based on agent behavior patterns Large Language Model Context & Token Optimization - Invent new methods for compressing advertiser context representations while preserving semantic meaning and analytical utility - Research optimal metadata generation techniques that help large language models understand and reason over structured advertiser data - Design experiments to measure the impact of different data representations on agent response quality and token efficiency - Develop adaptive context selection algorithms that dynamically choose relevant data based on query intent RAG-Based Embeddings & Semantic Search - Pioneer new RAG-based embedding approaches optimized for real-time advertiser data delivery with sub-second latency - Research and implement semantic search and retrieval techniques for advertiser datasets using vector embeddings - Design advertiser context frameworks that enable automatic schema mapping from advertiser concepts to data representations - Develop evaluation frameworks to measure performance across dimensions of latency, accuracy, and developer experience Experimentation & Productionization - Design and execute rigorous experiments comparing traditional API orchestration versus CodeAct patterns and RAG-based approaches across metrics like success rate, latency, token consumption, and response quality - Analyze large-scale advertiser interaction data to identify patterns, bottlenecks, and optimization opportunities - Collaborate with engineering teams to productionize research innovations and deploy them to advertising agents and skills - Establish evaluation metrics and benchmarks for agent-data interaction performance A day in the life You start your morning analyzing experiment results from overnight runs comparing three evaluations for different RAG-based embedding approaches. The data shows that one of the embedding pattern is returning a significant improvement in accuracy. You create a spec file with the findings and start drafting a technical paper to be shared with Amazon AI forume. Mid-morning, you're in a design session with the engineering team discussing how to optimize RAG-based embeddings for semantic search over advertiser data. You propose using a hybrid approach combining dense and sparse embeddings to represent campaign metadata, enabling agents to find relevant campaigns through natural language queries while maintaining sub-second latency. You sketch out the architecture and discuss trade-offs between embedding model size, search latency, and accuracy. After lunch, you dive into advertiser interaction logs from advertising agents and skills. You're looking for patterns in how advertisers ask questions about their campaigns. You discover that 60% of queries follow a similar structure: filter campaigns by criteria, aggregate metrics, and compare to benchmarks. This insight leads you to design a new pre-computation strategy using RAG-based embeddings that could reduce query latency by 40%. In the afternoon, you collaborate with an Applied Scientist from an advertising agent team. They're seeing inconsistent results when agents try to calculate complex metrics across multiple campaigns. You investigate and discover the issue is related to how the agent interprets the advertiser context. You propose enriching the RAG-based embeddings with richer metadata descriptions and run experiments showing this improves calculation accuracy from 85% to 98%. Late afternoon, you're prototyping a new approach for adaptive context selection using RAG-based embeddings with the spec file you generated earlier. Instead of providing agents with all available advertiser data, you want to dynamically select the most relevant datasets based on query intent using semantic similarity. You build a quick proof-of-concept and test it on historical queries. The results are promising: 30% reduction in tokens with no loss in response quality. About the team The Ads Real-Time Data Service team is a highly motivated, collaborative and fun-loving group of engineers building the foundational platform for Amazon's advertising AI future. We are entrepreneurial and have a bias for action with a broad mandate to experiment and innovate. Our team operates at the intersection of real-time data engineering, AI agent infrastructure, and distributed systems engineering—solving problems that directly impact how millions of advertisers interact with Amazon's advertising products. We value technical excellence, customer obsession, and sustainable engineering practices. Our team includes engineers with diverse backgrounds in distributed systems, real-time data processing, AI/ML infrastructure, and platform engineering. We celebrate innovation (patent submissions encouraged), knowledge sharing (weekly tech talks), and continuous learning. We maintain a sustainable pace with minimal on-call burden, flexible work arrangements, and a strong focus on work-life balance. We're at the forefront of AI-assisted development, using tools like Kiro to accelerate our development cycles from weeks to days.
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 3189116
    (Updated 23 days ago)
    Amazon Seller Assistant is our flagship GenAI-first, multi-agent system that reimagines seller experience. Our vision is to provide each seller with a proactive, autonomous, agentic assistant that understands their business and helps them navigate the complexities of selling by anticipating their needs, surfacing insights, resolving issues, taking actions on their behalf, and helping them grow. Amazon Seller Assistant helps millions of sellers on Amazon serve billions of customers worldwide. We are seeking a world-class Applied Scientist to help define and build the next generation of Amazon Seller Assistant. You will partner with top-tier product managers and engineers to launch production-grade agentic capabilities at Amazon's scale — owning your problem space end-to-end, from a crisp customer insight to a shipped product that millions of sellers rely on. Key job responsibilities - Use state-of-the-art Agentic AI and Generative AI techniques to create the next generation of the tools that empower Amazon's Selling Partners to succeed. - Design, develop and deploy highly innovative models to interact with Sellers and delight them with solutions. - Work closely with teams of scientists and software engineers to drive real-time model implementations and deliver novel and highly impactful features. - Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large scale data analyses, model benchmarking, model validation and model implementation. - Research and implement novel machine learning and statistical approaches. - Participate in strategic initiatives to employ the most recent advances in AI in a fast-paced, experimental environment. About the team Amazon Seller Assistant team operates at the very frontier of agentic AI and agentic commerce — not as a research group, but as a team shipping production-grade, multi-agent systems used by millions of sellers worldwide. We move with the urgency of a startup and the resources of the world's most customer-obsessed company, transforming the latest breakthroughs in science and engineering into capabilities that sellers rely on every day.
  • (Updated 3 days ago)
    Amazon's Compliance and Safety Services (CoSS) Team is looking for a smart and creative Applied Scientist to apply and extend state-of-the-art research in NLP, multi-modal modeling, domain adaptation, continuous learning and large language model to join the Applied Science team. At Amazon, we are working to be the most customer-centric company on earth. Millions of customers trust us to ensure a safe shopping experience. This is an exciting and challenging position to drive research that will shape new ML solutions for product compliance and safety around the globe in order to achieve best-in-class, company-wide standards around product assurance. You will research on large amounts of tabular, textual, and product image data from product detail pages, selling partner details and customer feedback, evaluate state-of-the-art algorithms and frameworks, and develop new algorithms to improve safety and compliance mechanisms. You will partner with engineers, technical program managers and product managers to design new ML solutions implemented across the entire Amazon product catalog. Key job responsibilities As an Applied Scientist on our team, you will: - Research and Evaluate state-of-the-art algorithms in NLP, multi-modal modeling, domain adaptation, continuous learning and large language model. - Design new algorithms that improve on the state-of-the-art to drive business impact, such as synthetic data generation, active learning, grounding LLMs for business use cases - Design and plan collection of new labels and audit mechanisms to develop better approaches that will further improve product assurance and customer trust. - Analyze and convey results to stakeholders and contribute to the research and product roadmap. - Collaborate with other scientists, engineers, product managers, and business teams to creatively solve problems, measure and estimate risks, and constructively critique peer research - Consult with engineering teams to design data and modeling pipelines which successfully interface with new and existing software - Publish research publications at internal and external venues. About the team The science team delivers custom state-of-the-art algorithms for image and document understanding. The team specializes in developing machine learning solutions to advance compliance capabilities. Their research contributions span multiple domains including multi-modal modeling, unstructured data matching, text extraction from visual documents, and anomaly detection, with findings regularly published in academic venues.
  • CA, BC, Vancouver
    Job ID: 3182132
    (Updated 32 days ago)
    Join our Amazon Private Brands Selection Guidance organization in building science and tech solutions at scale to delight our customers with products across our leading private brands such as Amazon Basics, Amazon Essentials, and by Amazon. The Selection Guidance team applies Generative AI, Machine Learning, Statistics, and Economics solutions to drive our private brands product assortment, strategic business decisions, and product inputs such as title, price, merchandising and ordering. We are an interdisciplinary team of Scientists, Economists, Engineers, and Product Managers incubating and building day one solutions using novel technology, to solve some of the toughest business problems at Amazon. As a Data Scientist you will investigate business problems using data, invent novel solutions and prototypes, and directly contribute to bringing your ideas to life through production implementation. Current research areas include named entity recognition, product substitutes, pricing optimization, agentic AI, and large language models. You will review and guide scientists across the team on their designs and implementations, and raise the team bar for science research and prototypes. This is a unique, high visibility opportunity for someone who wants to develop ambitious science solutions and have direct business and customer impact. Key job responsibilities - Partner with business stakeholders to deeply understand APB business problems and frame ambiguous business problems as science problems and solutions. - Perform data analysis and build data pipelines to drive business decisions. - Invent novel science solutions, develop prototypes, and deploy production software to solve business problems. - Review and guide science solutions across the team. - Publish and socialize your and the team's research across Amazon and external avenues as appropriate - Leverage industry best practices to establish repeatable applied science practices, principles & processes.
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 3180430
    (Updated 4 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 next level. 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. As a Senior Research Scientist, you will work with a unique and gifted team developing exciting products for consumers and collaborate with cross-functional teams. Our team rewards intellectual 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 intersection of both academic and applied research in this product area, you have the opportunity to work together with some of the most talented scientists, engineers, and product managers. Here at Amazon, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have thirteen employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We are constantly learning through programs that are local, regional, and global. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 16 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust. Our team highly values work-life balance, mentorship and career growth. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects and offer training that will challenge you to become your best.
  • (Updated 8 days ago)
    Amazon Ads is building Ads Agent, an AI-powered agent that understands advertiser intent, reasons over campaign strategy, and executes across the full Amazon Ads portfolio. If you want to work at the frontier of agentic AI and large language models while directly impacting a multi-billion dollar business, this is your team. We are seeking an experienced Applied Scientist passionate about building intelligent agents that reason, plan, and act across complex advertising workflows. Ads Agent is an AI agent that simplifies how advertisers plan, launch, and optimize campaigns. Powered by AI, Ads Agent works alongside advertisers to automate time-consuming tasks, like identifying targeting segments, adjusting pacing across hundreds of campaigns, and generating SQL queries for advanced analytics. It also provides data-driven recommendations and simplifies analysis—all while providing transparency and control. With a broad mandate to experiment and innovate, we need applied scientists to define and build the future of advertising. Key job responsibilities - Design, build, and evaluate agentic systems that plan multi-step workflows, invoke tools, and take autonomous actions across Amazon Ads products on behalf of advertisers. - Define evaluation frameworks and benchmarks for agent reliability, correctness, safety, and advertiser satisfaction. - Analyze agent behavior through deep data analysis and rigorous A/B experimentation to identify failure modes, measure effectiveness, and derive business insights. - Partner with engineers, product managers, and UX designers to ship end-to-end agent experiences that are scalable, efficient, and reliable at Amazon scale. About the team We are a small, fast-moving team building a unified AI-native interface to all of Amazon Advertising. We sit at the intersection of large language models, agentic AI, and one of the world's most complex advertising ecosystems. If you want to shape how millions of advertisers interact with Amazon Ads, come build with us.

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