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At Audible, we believe stories have the power to transform lives. It’s why we work with some of the world’s leading creators to produce and share audio storytelling with our millions of global listeners. We are dreamers and inventors who come from a wide range of backgrounds and experiences to empower and inspire each other. Imagine your future with us. ABOUT THIS ROLE As an Applied Scientist, you will solve large complex real-world problems at scale, draw inspiration from the latest science and technology to empower undefined/untapped business use cases, delve into customer requirements, collaborate with tech and product teams on design, and create production-ready models that span various domains, including Machine Learning (ML), Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Generative AI, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Reinforcement Learning (RL), real-time and distributed systems. ABOUT YOU Your work will focus on inventing or adapting scientific approaches, models, and algorithms driven by customer needs at the project level. You will develop components and/or end-to-end solutions that are deployed into production or directly support production systems, delivering consistently high-quality work that meets both scientific and engineering best practices. You will develop reusable science components and services that resolve architecture deficiencies and customers’ pain points, while making technical trade-offs for long-term/short- term. You will work semi-autonomously to deliver solutions, contribute to research papers at peer-reviewed venues when appropriate, and document your work thoroughly to enable others to understand and reproduce it. Your decision-making will consistently incorporate robust, data-driven business and technical judgment. You will collaborate with other scientists to raise the bar of both scientific and engineering complexity for the team and to foster valuable scientific partnership opportunities to help/guide science decisions. We work in a highly collaborative, fast-paced environment where scientists, engineers, and product managers work to test and build scalable foundational capabilities, as well as customer facing experiences. You will have the opportunity to innovate and think big within your projects scope, implement optimization services and algorithms, and influence the experiences of millions of customers. We are looking for a results-oriented Applied Scientist with deep knowledge in ML, NLP, Deep Learning, GenAI, and/or large-scale distributed computation. As an Applied Scientist, you will... - Understand use cases across the business and adopt/extend/design/invent solutions/models that are scalable, efficient, and automated for difficult problems that are not well defined - Work closely with fellow scientists and software engineers (at Audible and Amazon) to build and productionize models, deliver novel and highly impactful features - Review models of peers for the purpose of reducing and managing risk to the business, while improving customer experience - Design, develop, and deploy modeling techniques and solutions for Content Understanding, Recommendations, GenAI-based product features, by employing a wide range of methodologies, working from simple to complex - Contribute to initiatives that employ the most recent advances in ML/AI in a fast-paced, experimental environment - Push the boundary of innovation ABOUT AUDIBLE Audible is the leading producer and provider of audio storytelling. We spark listeners’ imaginations, offering immersive, cinematic experiences full of inspiration and insight to enrich our customers daily lives. We are a global company with an entrepreneurial spirit. We are dreamers and inventors who are passionate about the positive impact Audible can make for our customers and our neighbors. This spirit courses throughout Audible, supporting a culture of creativity and inclusion built on our People Principles and our mission to build more equitable communities in the cities we call home.

Amazon's Last Mile Geospatial Science team leverages sate of the art computer vision, generative AI, and deep learning to enhance vehicle navigation and ensure safe, efficient deliveries by enriching map data from billions of satellite, aerial, and street-level images and videos. The role involves building large-scale machine learning systems that analyze terabytes of multimodal data to solve novel problems, translating business requirements into prototypes while prioritizing driver and customer safety. The team seeks scientists who can combine domain expertise with machine learning to invent and implement state-of-the-art solutions in a collaborative environment with direct business impact. Key job responsibilities Successful candidates should have a deep knowledge (both theoretical and practical) of various machine learning algorithms for large scale computer vision problems, the ability to map models into production-worthy code, the communication skills necessary to explain complex technical approaches to a variety of stakeholders and customers, and the excitement to take iterative approaches to tackle big, long term problems. The applied scientist should be proficient with image and video analysis using machine learning, including designing architecture from scratch, modify existing loss functions, full model training, fine-tuning, and evaluating the latest deep learning models. The applied scientist optimizes different models for specific platforms, including edge devices with restricted resources. Generative AI, Multi-modal models, e.g., Large Vision Language Models, zero-shot, few-shot, and semi-supervised learning paradigms are used extensively.

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 scientists 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 Machine Learning 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 ML 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.

We are seeking an innovative Senior Applied Scientist to join Amazon's Traffic Engineering organization in developing next-generation bot detection and mitigation capabilities. You will lead the scientific development of real-time anomaly detection systems to identify and counter sophisticated automated threats, including LLM-powered agents, protecting Amazon's websites and subsidiaries worldwide. This is a critical challenge at the intersection of ML and cybersecurity. With GenAI/LLM-powered bots now capable of mimicking human behavior, evading traditional detections, and monetizing attacks, we must revolutionize our approach from reactive to real-time protection. You'll pioneer ML systems that can detect threats in milliseconds instead of days, protecting Amazon assets and compute while ensuring legitimate bot traffic continues to benefit our business. This role offers the unique opportunity to build first-of-its-kind real-time behavior-based ML models that will safeguard Amazon's global infrastructure. Your work will directly impact millions of customers by ensuring the integrity and availability of Amazon's digital presence while advancing the state-of-the-art in automated threat detection and response. Key job responsibilities - Design and develop advanced ML models for real-time detection of programmatic access patterns and anomalous behaviors - Pioneer new approaches in identifying LLM-based agents and emerging automated threats - Drive innovation in applying ML/AI techniques to traffic analysis, classification, pattern recognition and automated response systems - Collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement layered defense strategies - Mentor junior scientists and contribute to the team's technical direction

Are you interested in shaping the future of Advertising and B2B Sales? We are a growing team with an exciting AI-first charter and need your passion, innovative thinking, and creativity to help take our products to new heights. Amazon Advertising is one of Amazon's fastest growing and most profitable businesses, responsible for defining and delivering a collection of advertising products that drive discovery and sales. Our products are strategically important to our businesses driving long term growth. We break fresh ground in product and technical innovations every day! Within the Advertising Sales organization, we are building a central AI/ML team and are seeking top Applied Science talent to help us build new, science-backed services that drive success for our customers. Our goal is to transform the way account teams operate by creating AI agents that help optimize their end-to-end workflows, and developing actionable insights and recommendations they can share with their advertising accounts As an Applied Scientist on the team with a specific focus on creating autonomous AI agents that can operate accurately at large scale, you will bring deep expertise in Natural Language Processing (inc. tokenization, syntactic parsing, named entity recognition (NER), sentiment analysis, text classification), Large Language Models (inc. foundation model fundamentals, post-training, reward modeling, RAG, transformer architecture), Deep Learning, Reinforcement Learning and/or Recommender Systems. You have the scientific and technical skills to build and refine models that can be implemented in production and you continuously measure the performance of your system to drive continuous improvements. You will contribute to chart new courses with our ad sales support technologies, and you have the communication skills necessary to explain complex technical approaches to a variety of stakeholders and customers. You will be part of a team of fellow scientists and engineers taking on iterative approaches to tackle big, long-term problems. You are fluently able to leverage the latest Generative AI systems and services to accelerate and improve your work while maintaining high quality in your work outputs. Key job responsibilities Scientific Modeling - Conceptualize and lead state-of-the-art research on new Reinforcement Learning, Deep Learning, NLP, LLM, (Generative) Artificial Intelligence and Recommender System solutions to create AI agents and optimize all aspects of the Ad Sales business - Lead the technical approach for the design and implementation of successful models and algorithms in support of expert cross-functional teams delivering on demanding projects - Run regular A/B experiments, gather data, and perform statistical analysis - Improve the scalability, efficiency and automation of large-scale data analytics, model training, deployment and serving - Publish scientific findings in reports and papers that can be shared internally and externally Product Development Support - Partner with software engineering and product management teams to support product and service development, define success metrics and measurement approaches, and help drive adoption of innovative new features for our services. - Lead requirements gathering sessions with product teams and business stakeholders - Maintain scientific documentation and knowledge for product initiatives Collaboration & Communication - Work closely with software engineers to deliver end-to-end solutions into production - Translate complex scientific findings into actionable business recommendations for stakeholders and senior management - Provide clear, compelling reports and presentations on a regular basis with respect to your models and services - Communicate with internal teams to showcase results and identify best practices. About the team Sales AI is a central science and engineering organization within Amazon Advertising Sales that powers selling motions and account team workflows via state-of-the-art of AI/ML services. Sales AI is investing in a range of sales intelligence models, including the development of advertiser insights, recommendations and Generative AI-powered applications throughout account team workflows.

Are you interested in shaping the future of Advertising and B2B Sales? We are a growing team with an exciting AI-first charter and need your passion, innovative thinking, and creativity to help take our products to new heights. Amazon Advertising is one of Amazon's fastest growing and most profitable businesses, responsible for defining and delivering a collection of advertising products that drive discovery and sales. Our products are strategically important to our businesses driving long term growth. We break fresh ground in product and technical innovations every day! Within the Advertising Sales organization, we are building a central AI/ML team and are seeking top Applied Science talent to help us build new, science-backed services that drive success for our customers. Our goal is to transform the way account teams operate by creating AI agents that help optimize their end-to-end workflows, and developing actionable insights and recommendations they can share with their advertising accounts As an Applied Scientist on the team with a specific focus on creating autonomous AI agents that can operate accurately at large scale, you will bring deep expertise in Natural Language Processing (inc. tokenization, syntactic parsing, named entity recognition (NER), sentiment analysis, text classification), Large Language Models (inc. foundation model fundamentals, post-training, reward modeling, RAG, transformer architecture), Deep Learning and/or Reinforcement Learning . You have the scientific and technical skills to build and refine models that can be implemented in production and you continuously measure the performance of your system to drive continuous improvements. You will contribute to chart new courses with our ad sales support technologies, and you have the communication skills necessary to explain complex technical approaches to a variety of stakeholders and customers. You will be part of a team of fellow scientists and engineers taking on iterative approaches to tackle big, long-term problems. You are fluently able to leverage the latest Generative AI systems and services to accelerate and improve your work while maintaining high quality in your work outputs. Key job responsibilities Scientific Modeling - Conceptualize and lead state-of-the-art research on new NLP, LLM and (Generative) Artificial Intelligence solutions (inc. post-training, fine-tuning, reward modeling) to optimize all aspects of the Ad Sales business - Lead the technical approach for the design and implementation of successful models and algorithms in support of expert cross-functional teams delivering on demanding projects - Run regular A/B experiments, gather data, and perform statistical analysis - Improve the scalability, efficiency and automation of large-scale data analytics, model training, deployment and serving - Publish scientific findings in reports and papers that can be shared internally and externally Product Development Support - Partner with software engineering and product management teams to support product and service development, define success metrics and measurement approaches, and help drive adoption of innovative new features for our services. - Lead requirements gathering sessions with product teams and business stakeholders - Maintain scientific documentation and knowledge for product initiatives Collaboration & Communication - Work closely with software engineers to deliver end-to-end solutions into production - Translate complex scientific findings into actionable business recommendations for stakeholders and senior management - Provide clear, compelling reports and presentations on a regular basis with respect to your models and services - Communicate with internal teams to showcase results and identify best practices. About the team Sales AI is a central science and engineering organization within Amazon Advertising Sales that powers selling motions and account team workflows via state-of-the-art of AI/ML services. Sales AI is investing in a range of sales intelligence models, including the development of advertiser insights, recommendations and Generative AI-powered applications throughout account team workflows.

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! Our organization is building world-class teams with deep expertise in large-scale recommender systems. This role sits at the intersection of AI research and direct business impact, where recommendation quality directly influences business outcomes and customer satisfaction. You'll be joining a team focused on foundational models for recommender systems and working on production systems that serve millions of customers and shape the future of personalized entertainment experiences. We're seeking talent who can deliver measurable impact on our core business metrics while advancing the state-of-the-art in personalization and recommendation technology. Key job responsibilities - Develop AI solutions for various Prime Video Search & Recommendation systems using Deep Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Optimization Methods, and most importantly, GenAI - Work closely with engineers and product managers to design, implement and launch AI solutions end-to-end - Design and conduct offline and online (A/B) experiments to evaluate proposed solutions based on in-depth data analyses - Effectively communicate technical and non-technical ideas with teammates and stakeholders - Stay up-to-date with advancements and the latest modeling techniques in the field - Publish your research findings in top conferences and journals About the team The Prime Video - Personalization & Discovery Science team owns science solution to power search experience on various devices, from sourcing, relevance, & ranking (to name a few). We are on a mission to deliver an AI-first customer experience. At the heart of this transformation are our recommendation systems -- core, customer-facing components that serve as primary drivers of engagement & growth.

Do you want to join an innovative team of scientists who use machine learning and statistical techniques to help Amazon provide the best customer experience by preventing eCommerce fraud? Are you excited by the prospect of analyzing and modeling terabytes of data and creating state-of-the-art algorithms to solve real world problems? Do you like to own end-to-end business problems/metrics and directly impact the profitability of the company? Do you enjoy collaborating in a diverse team environment? If yes, then you may be a great fit to join the Amazon Selling Partner Trust & Store Integrity Science Team. We are looking for a talented scientist who is passionate to build advanced machine learning systems that help manage the safety of millions of transactions every day and scale up our operation with automation. Key job responsibilities Innovate with the latest GenAI/LLM/VLM technology to build highly automated solutions for efficient risk evaluation and automated operations Design, develop and deploy end-to-end machine learning solutions in the Amazon production environment to create impactful business value Learn, explore and experiment with the latest machine learning advancements to create the best customer experience A day in the life You will be working within a dynamic, diverse, and supportive group of scientists who share your passion for innovation and excellence. You'll be working closely with business partners and engineering teams to create end-to-end scalable machine learning solutions that address real-world problems. You will build scalable, efficient, and automated processes for large-scale data analyses, model development, model validation, and model implementation. You will also be providing clear and compelling reports for your solutions and contributing to the ongoing innovation and knowledge-sharing that are central to the team's success.

We are seeking a Sr. Applied Scientist to revolutionize how we deliver personalized advertising solutions to our worldwide customers. In this role, you will build autonomous AI systems that proactively identify advertiser pain points and deliver optimal recommendations across multiple communication channels without requiring explicit customer input. The Challenge How can we deliver the most personalized advertising offerings to our worldwide customers? In the era of Agentic AI, how can we build autonomous systems which identify advertiser pain points and offer best recommendations across multiple communication channels? How do we do this without asking anything to our customers and know what they need? Our Mission Our team's mission is to deliver the best strategy to our WW advertisers whenever and wherever they need it. What You'll Do Using Amazon's large scale computing resources, you will ask research questions about advertiser behavior, build state of the art recommender models to generate recommendations, and deploy these models directly on the ad delivery channels. You will participate in the Amazon ML community and mentor Applied Scientists and software development engineers with a strong interest in and knowledge of ML. Your work will directly benefit advertisers and the retail business and you will measure the impact using scientific tools. What We're Looking For We are looking for a passionate, hard working, and talented Sr. Applied Scientist who has experience building mission critical, high volume applications that customers love. You will have an opportunity to make an enormous impact on the design, architecture, and implementation of new generation ads products seen by millions of customers everyday. About the team The Amazon Ads Marketing Decision Science Team innovates the future of marketing tech by creating interactive conversational agents, visual and text content generation capabilities, recommender systems to give the best strategies to our advertisers to maximize their ROI with one click enablement, behavioral segmentation models to understand our customers in depth, content measurement science to understand the best content components resonating with each customer segment, and many more. Our mission is to personalize the communication strategy of one of the world's top digital advertising tech companies.

Stores Economics and Science (SEAS) is an interdisciplinary science and engineering team in Amazon's Stores organization with a peak-jumping mission: we apply expertise in science and engineering to move from local to global optima in methods, models, and software. We pursue this mission by leveraging frontier science; collaborating with partner teams; and learning from the tools, experience, and perspective of others. We scale by solving problems, first in the small to prove concepts, and then in the large by building scalable solutions. We also help other teams within Amazon scale by hiring and developing the best and embedding them in other business units. In 2024, we are focused on economics and science in areas related to (1) improving delivery speed and lowering cost-to-serve, (2) seller fees and incentives, and (3) emerging machine learning. We also have some ongoing and highly-leveraged collaborations that help partner teams inside Amazon short-circuit months of R&D or otherwise look around corners. We are looking for an Applied Scientist to build and deliver state-of-the-art science and engineering solutions to improve our Stores business. In this role, you will work in a team of scientists and engineers with backgrounds in machine learning, NLP, IR, statistics, and economics to identify bottlenecks in our business, conceive new ideas to overcome those challenges, and deploy scientific solutions in partnership with product teams. Your responsibilities include developing and maintaining the scientific models, benchmarks, and services. Graduate education or hands-on experience in machine learning, optimization, causal inference, Bayesian statistics, deep learning, or other quantitative scientific fields is a big plus. To be successful in this role, you should be a quick learner and comfortable with a high degree of ambiguity.