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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 1 days ago)
    Are you passionate about applying machine learning and advanced statistical techniques to protect one of the world's largest online marketplaces? Do you want to be at the forefront of developing innovative solutions that safeguard Amazon's customers and legitimate sellers while ensuring a fair and trusted shopping experience? Do you thrive in a collaborative environment where diverse perspectives drive breakthrough solutions? If yes, we invite you to join the Amazon Risk Intelligence Science Team. We're seeking an exceptional scientist who can revolutionize how we protect our marketplace through intelligent automation. As a key member of our team, you'll develop and deploy state-of-the-art machine learning systems that analyze millions of seller interactions daily, ensuring the integrity and trustworthiness of Amazon's marketplace while scaling our operations to new heights. Your work will directly impact the safety and security of the shopping experience for hundreds of millions of customers worldwide, while supporting the growth of honest entrepreneurs and businesses. Key job responsibilities • Use machine learning and statistical techniques to create scalable abuse detection solutions that identify fraudulent seller behavior, identity change, and marketplace manipulation schemes • Innovate with the latest GenAI technology to build highly automated solutions for efficient seller verification, transaction monitoring, and risk assessment • Design, develop and deploy end-to-end machine learning solutions in the Amazon production environment to prevent and detect sophisticated abuse patterns across the marketplace • Learn, explore and experiment with the latest machine learning advancements to protect customer trust and maintain marketplace integrity while supporting legitimate selling partners • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop comprehensive risk models that can adapt to evolving abuse patterns and emerging threats About the team You'll be working closely with business partners, science 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.
  • (Updated 9 days ago)
    Customer Experience and Business Trends (CXBT) is looking for an Applied Scientist to join their team. CXBT's mission is to create best-in-class AI agents that seamlessly integrate multimodal inputs like speech, images, and video, enabling natural, empathetic, and adaptive interactions. We leverage advanced architectures, cross-modal learning, interpretability, and responsible AI techniques to provide coherent, context-aware responses augmented by real-time knowledge retrieval. The ideal candidate will have expertise in Large Language Models (LLMs), speech, audio, Natural Language processing (NLP) or multimodal learning to pioneer innovations in data simulation, representation, generation, reasoning, retrieval, and evaluation. Key job responsibilities - Build scalable solutions for real-time conversational experiences, including multilingual support, customizable personalities, and conversational turn-taking. - Develop data simulation approaches that mimic real-world speech interactions. - Research and implement novel algorithms and modeling techniques. - Acquire and curate diverse datasets while ensuring user privacy. - Create robust evaluation metrics and test sets to assess language model performance. - Integrate human feedback to improve data selection and model performance. - Innovate in data representation and model training techniques. - Apply responsible AI practices throughout the development process. A day in the life Our team is dedicated to improving Amazon's products and services through evaluation of the end-to-end customer experience using both internal and external processes and technology. Our mission is to deeply understand our customers' experiences, challenge the status quo, and provide insights that drive innovation to improve that experience. Through our analysis and insights, we inform business decisions that directly impact customer experience as customers of new GenAI and LLM technologies. About the team Customer Experience and Business Trends (CXBT) is an organization made up of a diverse suite of functions dedicated to deeply understanding and improving customer experience, globally. We are a team of builders that develop products, services, ideas, and various ways of leveraging data to influence product and service offerings – for almost every business at Amazon – for every customer (e.g., consumers, developers, sellers/brands, employees, investors, streamers, gamers). Our approach is based on determining the customer need, along with problem solving, and we work backwards from there. We use technical and non-technical approaches and stay aware of industry and business trends. We are a global team, made up of a diverse set of profiles, skills, and backgrounds – including: Product Managers, Software Developers, Computer Vision experts, Solutions Architects, Data Scientists, Business Intelligence Engineers, Business Analysts, Risk Managers, and more.
  • IN, KA, Bengaluru
    Job ID: 3189505
    (Updated 12 days ago)
    Are you passionate about applying machine learning and data-driven techniques to solve real-world problems at global scale? Amazon is seeking an Applied Scientist who combines curiosity, creativity, and strong analytical skills to build models and algorithms that power customer experiences and business decisions. As an Applied Scientist II, you will work with senior scientists and engineers to design, train, and deploy ML models using large-scale datasets. You will experiment with modern techniques in supervised and unsupervised learning, natural language processing, computer vision, or optimization—depending on the team’s focus area. You’ll also have opportunities to learn Amazon’s scalable infrastructure, experiment platforms, and science best practices. This role is ideal for someone early in their career who enjoys working in collaborative, multidisciplinary teams and is excited by the opportunity to learn, innovate, and deliver measurable impact to customers. Key job responsibilities 1.Collaborate with scientists, engineers, and product managers to define and frame business problems as ML or optimization tasks. 2.Build, train, and evaluate models using large, complex datasets. 3.Implement scalable data pipelines and model-serving systems. 4.Analyze experimental results, draw insights, and refine models to improve accuracy and robustness. 5.Communicate findings and recommendations to technical and non-technical audiences. 6.Continuously learn and apply new algorithms and techniques to improve existing systems.
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 3189728
    (Updated 15 days ago)
    The Stores Economics and Science (SEAS) team is an interdisciplinary science and economics team whose mission is to solve high-risk, high-return problems for the Stores organization. We leverage frontier science, partner with teams across Amazon, and learn from the tools, experience, and perspectives of others. Our work spans rapid responses to pressing leadership questions, collaborative partnerships to help other teams achieve their goals, and multi-year scientific bets with large upside potential. We are looking for an economist who can use data-driven modeling and analyses to make the right trade-offs and solve impactful business problems. We seek creative thinkers who can combine a strong economic toolbox with a desire to learn from others, and who know how to execute and deliver on big ideas. In this role, you will contribute to SEAS' mission in two key ways. First, you will leverage your economic expertise to help design and validate scientific solutions for pressing business challenges. This will involve applying advanced analytical techniques, conducting rigorous data analysis, and proactively proposing high-impact initiatives that can be rapidly prototyped and scaled. Secondly, you will play a crucial role in translating complex economic models and insights into actionable recommendations that directly inform leadership decisions across the organization. This will require strong communication skills to effectively collaborate with cross-functional partners and drive meaningful change. Key job responsibilities - Collaborate with cross-functional partner teams to understand their challenges and translate them into rigorous economic frameworks that can be addressed through data analysis, modeling, and experimentation. - Own the end-to-end development of economic models and analyses, including conducting necessary data gathering, analysis, and validation to drive actionable insights, and - Effectively communicate your economic findings, models, and proposed solutions to senior business stakeholders, incorporating their feedback to refine your work.
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 3179953
    (Updated 29 days ago)
    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.
  • (Updated 29 days ago)
    Are you passionate about applying machine learning and advanced statistical techniques to protect one of the world's largest online marketplaces? Do you want to be at the forefront of developing innovative solutions that safeguard Amazon's customers and legitimate sellers while ensuring a fair and trusted shopping experience? Do you thrive in a collaborative environment where diverse perspectives drive breakthrough solutions? If yes, we invite you to join the Amazon Risk Intelligence Science Team. We're seeking an exceptional scientist who can revolutionize how we protect our marketplace through intelligent automation. As a key member of our team, you'll develop and deploy state-of-the-art machine learning systems that analyze millions of seller interactions daily, ensuring the integrity and trustworthiness of Amazon's marketplace while scaling our operations to new heights. Your work will directly impact the safety and security of the shopping experience for hundreds of millions of customers worldwide, while supporting the growth of honest entrepreneurs and businesses. Key job responsibilities • Use machine learning and statistical techniques to create scalable abuse detection solutions that identify fraudulent seller behavior, account takeovers, and marketplace manipulation schemes • Innovate with the latest GenAI technology to build highly automated solutions for efficient seller verification, transaction monitoring, and risk assessment • Design, develop and deploy end-to-end machine learning solutions in the Amazon production environment to prevent and detect sophisticated abuse patterns across the marketplace • Learn, explore and experiment with the latest machine learning advancements to protect customer trust and maintain marketplace integrity while supporting legitimate selling partners • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop comprehensive risk models that can adapt to evolving abuse patterns and emerging threats About the team 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.
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 3179994
    (Updated 34 days ago)
    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 exclusive access to coverage of live sports. All customers regardless of whether they have a Prime membership or not, can access programming from subscriptions such as Apple TV, Peacock Premium Plus, HBO Max, FOX One, Crunchyroll and MGM+, as well as more than 900 free ad-support (FAST) Channels, rent or buy titles, and 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! Interested in influencing what customers around the world see when they turn on Prime Video? The Prime Video Personalization and Discovery team matches customers with the right content at the right time, at all touch points throughout the content discovery journey. We are looking for a customer-focused, solutions-oriented Senior Data Scientist to build and guide new data-driven frameworks to understand what makes new personalization and content discovery innovations successful for users and the business. You'll be part of an embedded science team on projects that are fast-paced, challenging, and ultimately influence what millions of customers around the world see when the log into Prime Video. The ideal candidate brings strong problem-solving skills, stakeholder communication skills, and the ability to balance technical rigor with delivery speed and customer impact. You will build cross-functional support within Prime Video, assess business problems, define metrics, and support iterative scientific solutions that balance short-term delivery with long-term science roadmaps. Key job responsibilities - Use advanced statistical and machine learning techniques to extract insights from complex, large-scale data sets - Design and implement end-to-end data science workflows, from data acquisition and cleaning to model development, testing, and deployment - Support scalable, self-service data analyses by building datasets for analytics, reporting and ML use cases - Partner with product stakeholders and science peers to identify strategic data-driven opportunities to improve the customer experience - Communicate findings, conclusions, and recommendations to technical and non-technical stakeholders - Stay up-to-date on the latest data science tools, techniques, and best practices and help evangelize them across the organization
  • US, CA, Sunnyvale
    Job ID: 3180009
    (Updated 34 days ago)
    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 team member, 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. We are looking for an Applied Scientist to push the envelope of AI content generation. As a scientist at Prime Video, you will contribute directly to productions using innovative tools in computer vision, deep learning, and generative AI to transform entertainment experiences. The ideal candidate has deep knowledge in one of: graphics, deep learning, generative AI and/or reinforcement learning and experience applying them real-world problems. You understand tradeoffs between business needs and model complexity, and you take calculated risks in developing rapid prototypes and iterative model improvements. You are excited to learn from and alongside seasoned scientists, engineers, and business leaders. You are an excellent communicator and effectively translate technical findings into production systems and business action (and customer delight). Key job responsibilities • Build generative AI models that create production-ready content, including movie content, localized assets, and visual marketing materials used across Prime Video's global platform. • 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. • Run 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. • Share knowledge and research outcomes via internal and external conferences and journal publications A day in the life In this role, you will invent science and systems for content localization, generation, including graphics and machine learning-based modeling systems. You will work with a team of scientists and product managers to design customer-facing products, and you will work with technology teams to productize and maintain the associated solutions.
  • (Updated 0 days ago)
    Have you ever wondered what it takes to transform millions of manual network planning decisions into AI-powered precision? Network Planning Solutions is looking for scientific innovators obsessed with building the AI/ML intelligence that makes orchestrating complex global operations feel effortless. Here, you'll do more than just build models; you'll create 'delight' by discovering and deploying the science that delivers exactly what our customers need, right when they need it. If you're ready to transform complex data patterns into breakthrough AI capabilities that power intuitive human experiences, you've found your team. Network Planning Solutions architects and orchestrates Amazon's customer service network of the future. By building AI-native solutions that continuously learn, predict and optimize, we deliver seamless customer experiences and empower associates with high-value work—driving measurable business impact at a global scale. As a Sr. Manager, Applied Science, you will own the scientific innovation and research initiatives that make this vision possible. You will lead a team of applied scientists and collaborate with cross-functional partners to develop and implement breakthrough scientific solutions that redefine our global network. Key job responsibilities Lead AI/ML Innovation for Network Planning Solutions: - Develop and deploy production-ready demand forecasting algorithms that continuously sense and predict customer demand using real-time signals - Build network optimization algorithms that automatically adjust staffing as conditions evolve across the service network - Architect scalable AI/ML infrastructure supporting automated forecasting and network optimization capabilities across the system Drive Scientific Excellence: - Build and mentor a team of applied scientists to deliver breakthrough AI/ML solutions - Design rigorous experiments to validate hypotheses and quantify business impact - Establish scientific excellence mechanisms including evaluation metrics and peer review processes Enable Strategic Transformation: - Drive scientific innovation from research to production - Design and validate next-generation AI-native models while ensuring robust performance, explainability, and seamless integration with existing systems. - Partner with Engineering, Product, and Operations teams to translate AI/ML capabilities into measurable business outcomes - Navigate ambiguity through experimentation while balancing innovation with operational constraints - Influence senior leadership through scientific rigor, translating complex algorithms into clear business value A day in the life Your day will be a dynamic blend of scientific innovation and strategic problem-solving. You'll collaborate with cross-functional teams, design AI algorithms, and translate complex data patterns into intuitive solutions that drive meaningful business impact. About the team We are Network Planning Solutions, a team of scientific innovators dedicated to reshaping how global service networks operate. Our mission is to create AI-native solutions that continuously learn, predict, and optimize customer experiences. We empower our associates to tackle high-value challenges and drive transformative change at a global scale.
  • (Updated 27 days ago)
    Customer Experience and Business Trends (CXBT) is looking for an Applied Scientist to join their team. CXBT's mission is to create best-in-class AI agents that seamlessly integrate multimodal inputs like speech, images, and video, enabling natural, empathetic, and adaptive interactions. We leverage advanced architectures, cross-modal learning, interpretability, and responsible AI techniques to provide coherent, context-aware responses augmented by real-time knowledge retrieval. The ideal candidate will have expertise in Large Language Models (LLMs), speech, audio, Natural Language processing (NLP) or multimodal learning to pioneer innovations in data simulation, representation, generation, reasoning, retrieval, and evaluation. Key job responsibilities - Build scalable solutions for real-time conversational experiences, including multilingual support, customizable personalities, and conversational turn-taking. - Develop data simulation approaches that mimic real-world speech interactions. - Research and implement novel algorithms and modeling techniques. - Acquire and curate diverse datasets while ensuring user privacy. - Create robust evaluation metrics and test sets to assess language model performance. - Integrate human feedback to improve data selection and model performance. - Innovate in data representation and model training techniques. - Apply responsible AI practices throughout the development process. A day in the life Our team is dedicated to improving Amazon's products and services through evaluation of the end-to-end customer experience using both internal and external processes and technology. Our mission is to deeply understand our customers' experiences, challenge the status quo, and provide insights that drive innovation to improve that experience. Through our analysis and insights, we inform business decisions that directly impact customer experience as customers of new GenAI and LLM technologies. About the team Customer Experience and Business Trends (CXBT) is an organization made up of a diverse suite of functions dedicated to deeply understanding and improving customer experience, globally. We are a team of builders that develop products, services, ideas, and various ways of leveraging data to influence product and service offerings – for almost every business at Amazon – for every customer (e.g., consumers, developers, sellers/brands, employees, investors, streamers, gamers). Our approach is based on determining the customer need, along with problem solving, and we work backwards from there. We use technical and non-technical approaches and stay aware of industry and business trends. We are a global team, made up of a diverse set of profiles, skills, and backgrounds – including: Product Managers, Software Developers, Computer Vision experts, Solutions Architects, Data Scientists, Business Intelligence Engineers, Business Analysts, Risk Managers, and more.

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