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The Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) team is looking for a highly skilled and experienced Applied Scientist, to support the development and implementation of state-of-the-art algorithms and models for supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning through human feedback and and complex reasoning; with a focus across text, image, and video modalities. As an Applied Scientist, you will play a critical role in supporting the development of Generative AI (Gen AI) technologies that can handle Amazon-scale use cases and have a significant impact on our customers' experiences. Key job responsibilities Collaborate with cross-functional teams of engineers, product managers, and scientists to identify and solve complex problems in Gen AI Design and execute experiments to evaluate the performance of different algorithms and models, and iterate quickly to improve results Think big about the arc of development of Gen AI over a multi-year horizon, and identify new opportunities to apply these technologies to solve real-world problems Communicate results and insights to both technical and non-technical audiences, including through presentations and written reports

The Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) team is seeking a dedicated, skilled, and innovative Applied Scientist with a robust background in deep learning, to build industry-leading technology with Large Language Models (LLMs) and multimodal systems. Key job responsibilities As part of the AGI team, the Applied Scientist will collaborate closely with talented colleagues to lead the development of advanced approaches and modeling techniques, driving forward the frontier of LLM technology. This includes innovating model-in-the-loop and human-in-the-loop approaches to ensure the collection of high-quality data, safeguarding data privacy and security for LLM training, and more. The Applied Scientist will also have a direct impact on enhancing customer experiences through state-of-the-art products and services. A day in the life The Applied Scientist with the AGI team will support the science solution design, run experiments, research new algorithms, and find new ways of optimizing the customer experience; while setting examples for the team on good science practice and standards. Besides theoretical analysis and innovation, an Applied Scientist will also work closely with talented engineers and scientists to put algorithms and models into practice. The ideal candidate should be passionate about delivering experiences that delight customers and creating robust solutions. They will also create reliable, scalable and high-performance products that require exceptional technical expertise, and a sound understanding of Machine Learning.

Are you fascinated by the power of Large Language Models (LLM) and applying Generative AI to solve complex challenges within one of Amazon's most significant businesses? Amazon Selection and Catalog Systems (ASCS) builds the systems that host and run the world's largest e-Commerce products catalog, it powers the online buying experience for customers worldwide so they can find, discover and buy anything they want. Amazon's customers rely on the completeness, consistency and correctness of Amazon's product data to make well-informed purchase decisions. We develop LLM applications that make Catalog the best-in-class source of product information for all products worldwide. This problem is challenging due to sheer scale (billions of products in the catalog), diversity (products ranging from electronics to groceries) and multitude of input sources (millions of sellers contributing product data with different quality). We are seeking a passionate, talented, and inventive individual to join the Catalog AI team and help build industry-leading technologies that customers will love. You will apply machine learning and large language model techniques, such as fine-tuning, reinforcement learning, and prompt optimization, to solve real customer problems. You will work closely with scientists and engineers to experiment with new methods, run large-scale evaluations, and bring research ideas into production. Key job responsibilities * Design and implement LLM-based solutions to improve catalog data quality and completeness * Conduct experiments and A/B tests to validate model improvements and measure business impact * Optimize large language models for quality and cost on catalog-specific tasks * Collaborate with engineering teams to deploy models at scale serving billions of products

The Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) team is looking for a passionate, talented, and inventive Principal Applied Scientist with a strong deep learning and generative AI background, to focus on the development of software development skills of Nova foundational models. As a Principal Applied Scientist, you are a trusted part of the technical leadership. You bring business and industry context to science and technology decisions. You set the standard for scientific excellence and make decisions that affect the way we build and integrate algorithms. You solicit differing views across the organization and are willing to change your mind as you learn more. Your artifacts are exemplary and often used as reference across organization. You are a hands-on scientific leader. Your solutions are exemplary in terms of algorithm design, clarity, model structure, efficiency, and extensibility. You tackle intrinsically hard problems, acquiring expertise as needed. You decompose complex problems into straightforward solutions. You amplify your impact by leading scientific reviews within your organization or at your location. You scrutinize and review experimental design, modeling, verification and other research procedures. You probe assumptions, illuminate pitfalls, and foster shared understanding. You align teams toward coherent strategies. You educate, keeping the scientific community up to date on advanced techniques, state of the art approaches, the latest technologies, and trends. You help managers guide the career growth of other scientists by mentoring and play a significant role in hiring and developing scientists and leads. Key job responsibilities You will be responsible for defining key research directions, adopting or inventing new machine learning techniques, conducting rigorous experiments, publishing results, and ensuring that research is translated into practice. You will develop long-term strategies, persuade teams to adopt those strategies, propose goals and deliver on them. You will also participate in organizational planning, hiring, mentorship and leadership development. You will be technically strong and with a passion for building scalable science and engineering solutions. You will serve as a key scientific resource in full-cycle development (conception, design, implementation, testing to documentation, delivery, and maintenance).

The Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) team is looking for a passionate, talented, and inventive Senior Applied Science Manager who will play a key role in the next generation of AI powered foundation models. Key job responsibilities Lead and manage a team of applied and research scientists, and language engineers, data linguists responsible for building foundation models. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure that Amazon’s AI models are aligned with human preferences. Identify and prioritize research opportunities that have the potential to significantly impact our AI systems. Mentor and guide team members to achieve their career goals and objectives. Communicate research findings and progress to senior leadership and stakeholders.

Do you ever struggle to explain your work? How's this: "Do you shop at Amazon?” Every day, tens of millions of customers visit Amazon to discover, research, and buy products. Millions of interactions are processed each hour, as customers navigate and explore our vast selection of products, features, and services around the world. The Amazon Stores Ads Monetization Team’s vision is to enable customers to discover products they love from brand owners around the world. Amazon Stores are the product showroom for the “everything store”, our reach and impact uniquely positions us to innovate on behalf of our customers. The The Amazon Stores Ads Monetization Team’s partners with organizations across Amazon to drive high-quality advertising experiences across geographies, intents, missions, products and businesses; while ensuring a cohesive, lovable shopping experience. We are looking for a Principal Applied Scientist to drive the development signals to optimally blend sponsored and organic recommendations on the site. You will work with science and business leaders from Shopping and Advertising to build Machine Learning (ML) models to determine when, where, and how many ads to show depending on customer characteristics and shopping missions. You will partner with product managers, other scientists, and software engineers to implement your ideas at scale. Key job responsibilities - Partner with teams in Shopping and Ads Amazon to develop signals that let ads program know when and where to serve ads on the Amazon site - Develop ML models to improve ads monetization decisions in Amazon Stores, allowing us to personalize experiences depending on customer characteristics and shopping missions - Collaborate with product managers, scientists, economists, and software developers to incorporate models in production systems - Act as the machine learning authority for the Amazon Stores Advertising team with Amazon senior leaders and other science organizations - Help craft the multi-year science strategy for the organization About the team This role is within a brand-new organization focused on delighting customers while driving revenue. Prospective candidates should have the desire and capability to drive results from the ’ground floor’ of an impactful and important charter.

Are you a scientist interested in pushing the state of the art in machine learning and recommendation systems? Are you interested in working on novel ideas that can positively impact millions of customers? Do you wish you had access to large datasets and tremendous computational resources? Answer yes to any of these questions and you will be a great fit for our team at Amazon. Our team is part of Amazon’s Personalization organization, a high-performing group that leverages Amazon’s expertise in machine learning, big data, distributed systems, and user experience design to deliver the best shopping experiences for our customers. Our team builds large-scale machine-learning solutions that delight customers with personalized content recommendations, at the right time, with the right level of explanation. As an Applied Scientist in our team, you will be responsible for the research, design, and development of new AI technologies for personalization. You will adopt or invent new machine learning and analytical techniques in the realm of recommendations and large language models. You will collaborate with scientists, engineers, and product partners locally and abroad. Your work will include inventing, experimenting with, and launching new features, products and systems. Please visit https://www.amazon.science for more information.

AWS Agentic AI is looking for a world-class Applied Scientist with a strong deep learning background to help build industry-leading Agentic AI (models, systems, and applications). Our mission is to provide a delightful experience to Amazon’s customers by pushing the envelope in Natural Language Understanding (NLU), AI assisted code development, reasoning and planning with LLMs, LLM training and fine-tuning, and Applied Machine Learning (ML). As part of our AI team in Amazon AWS, you will work alongside internationally recognized experts to develop novel algorithms and modeling techniques to advance the state-of-the-art in Agentic AI. Your work will directly impact millions of our customers in the form of products and services that make use AI technology. You will gain hands on experience with Amazon’s heterogeneous text, structured data sources, and large-scale computing resources to accelerate advances in language understanding. We are looking for experienced scientists who can make complex, autonomous systems understandable and debuggable through intelligent instrumentation and simulation. Key job responsibilities - Develop technical breakthroughs in agentic infrastructure and applications - Mentor and guide junior scientists. - Manage a small team of scientists - Develop technology strategy and roadmap supporting product development - Develop prototypes for key technology, oversee the productization of the prototype, and develop critical assessment for the prototype - Write technical reports summarizing R&D progresses and communicate such progresses with stakeholders - Engage with cross-functional stakeholders to drive alignment and outcomes About the team The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Agentic AI team uses generative AI and foundation models to advance application development. In the space of software development and life cycle management, we see the application of AI anywhere: from the IDE to web-based tools and services, AI helps engineers work many applications. We explore new technologies and find creative solutions. Curiosity and an explorative mindset can find a place here to impact the life of engineers around the world. If you are excited about this space and want to enlighten your peers with new capabilities, this is the team for you.

Amazon Agentic AI is looking for motivated scientists to join its newly created org focusing on agentic AI. This group is entrusted with developing core natural language processing, agents, generative AI, AI reasoning and planning, and model training for AWS, with a focus on code development, broadly defined. You will invent, implement, and deploy state of the art deep learning algorithms and systems. You will build prototypes and explore conceptually new solutions. You will interact closely with our customers and with the academic community. You will be at the heart of a growing and exciting focus area for AWS Agentic AI, a generative AI–powered assistant for enterprise computing, and work with other acclaimed engineers and world famous scientists. As an Applied Scientist, you are recognized for your expertise, advise team members on a range of machine learning topics, and work closely with software engineers to drive the delivery of end-to-end modeling solutions. Your work focuses on ambiguous problem areas where the business problem or opportunity may not yet be defined. The problems that you take on require scientific breakthroughs. You take a long-term view of the business objectives, product roadmaps, technologies, and how they should evolve. You drive mindful discussions with customers, engineers, and scientist peers. You bring perspective and provide context for current technology choices, and make recommendations on the right modeling and component design approach to achieve the desired customer experience and business outcome. 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.

Amazon Agentic AI is looking for world class scientists to join its newly created org focusing on agentic AI. This group is entrusted with developing core natural language processing, agentic AI, generative AI, LLM model training/fine tuning, with a focus on code development, broadly defined. You will invent, implement, and deploy state of the art machine learning algorithms and systems. You will build prototypes and explore conceptually new solutions. You will interact closely with our customers and with the academic community. You will be at the heart of a growing and exciting focus area for AWS Agentic AI, a generative AI–powered assistant for enterprise computing, and work with other acclaimed engineers and world famous scientists. As an Applied Scientist, you are recognized for your expertise, advise team members on a range of machine learning topics, and work closely with software engineers to drive the delivery of end-to-end modeling solutions. Your work focuses on ambiguous problem areas where the business problem or opportunity may not yet be defined. The problems that you take on require scientific breakthroughs. You take a long-term view of the business objectives, product roadmaps, technologies, and how they should evolve. You drive mindful discussions with customers, engineers, and scientist peers. You bring perspective and provide context for current technology choices, and make recommendations on the right modeling and component design approach to achieve the desired customer experience and business outcome. 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.