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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.
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  • CA, ON, Toronto
    Job ID: 3188618
    (Updated 13 days ago)
    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.
  • US, CA, Sunnyvale
    Job ID: 3190543
    (Updated 23 days ago)
    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
  • US, WA, Bellevue
    Job ID: 3190811
    (Updated 25 days ago)
    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.
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 3193573
    (Updated 25 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 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.
  • US, NY, New York
    Job ID: 3189689
    (Updated 39 days ago)
    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.
  • (Updated 25 days ago)
    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.
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 3199958
    (Updated 12 days ago)
    Are you looking for an opportunity to build an LLM-based enterprise-grade, highly available, large scale solution? Does it excite you to find patterns and build generic, composable solutions to solve complex problems? Are you looking for inventing newer and simpler ways of building solutions? If so, we are looking for you to fill a challenging position in Alexa Enterprise (AE) team. AE brings the power of Alexa voice assistant to enterprise partners in industries such as hospitality and senior living. We are inventing Large Language Models (LLM)-driven interactions to create memorable moments for users while simultaneously boosting partner revenues and reinforcing brand identity. Beyond managed properties, AE extends Alexa's reach to premium third-party electronic devices. AE team is looking for a highly skilled and inventive Applied Scientist, with a strong machine learning background, to lead the development and implementation of state-of-the-art ML systems for Alexa Enterprise use cases. As an Applied Scientist in the team, you will play a critical role in driving the development of conversational assistants, in particular those based on Large Language Models (LLM's), that meet enterprise standards. You will handle Amazon-scale use cases with significant impact on our customers' experiences. Key job responsibilities . You will analyze, understand and improve user experiences by leveraging Amazon’s heterogeneous data sources and large-scale computing resources to accelerate advances in artificial intelligence. . You will work on core LLM technologies, including developing best-in-class modeling, prompt optimization algorithms to enable Conversation AI use cases. . Build and measure novel online & offline metrics for personal digital assistants and customer scenarios, on diverse devices and endpoints. . Create, innovate, and deliver deep learning, policy-based learning, and/or machine learning-based algorithms to deliver customer-impacting results. . Perform model/data analysis and monitor metrics through online A/B testing.
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 3185454
    (Updated 5 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 limits. If you’re interested in innovating at scale to address big challenges in the world, this is the team for you. As a Senior Applied Scientist on our team, you will focus on building state-of-the-art ML models for healthcare. Our team rewards 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 forefront of both academic and applied research in this product area, you have the opportunity to work together with a diverse and talented team of scientists, engineers, and product managers and collaborate with other teams. This role offers a unique opportunity to work on projects that could fundamentally transform healthcare outcomes. Key job responsibilities In this role, you will: • Design and implement novel AI/ML solutions for complex healthcare challenges • Drive advancements in machine learning and data science • Balance theoretical knowledge with practical implementation • Work closely with customers and partners to understand their requirements • Navigate ambiguity and create clarity in early-stage product development • Collaborate with cross-functional teams while fostering innovation in a collaborative work environment to deliver impactful solutions • Establish best practices for ML experimentation, evaluation, development and deployment • Partner with leadership to define roadmap and strategic initiatives You’ll need a strong background in AI/ML, proven leadership skills, and the ability to translate complex concepts into actionable plans. You’ll also need to effectively translate research findings into practical solutions. A day in the life You will solve real-world problems by getting and analyzing large amounts of data, generate insights and opportunities, design simulations and experiments, and develop statistical and ML models. The team is driven by business needs, which requires collaboration with other Scientists, Engineers, and Product Managers across the Special Projects organization. You will prepare written and verbal presentations to share insights to audiences of varying levels of technical sophistication. About the team We represent Amazon's ambitious vision to solve the world's most pressing challenges. We are exploring new approaches to enhance research practices in the healthcare space, leveraging Amazon's scale and technological expertise. We operate with the agility of a startup while backed by Amazon's resources and operational excellence. We're looking for builders who are excited about working on ambitious, undefined problems and are comfortable with ambiguity.
  • US, NJ, Newark
    Job ID: 3185135
    (Updated 26 days ago)
    Employer: Audible, Inc. Title: Data Scientist II Location: 1 Washington Street, Newark, NJ 07102 Duties: Independently own, design, and implement scalable and reliable solutions to support or automate decision making throughout the business. Apply a range of data science techniques and tools combined with subject matter expertise to solve difficult business problems and cases in which the approach is unclear. Acquire data by building the necessary SQL/ETL queries. Import processes through various company specific interfaces for accessing RedShift, and S3/edX storage systems. Deliver artifacts on medium size projects that affect important business decisions. Build relationships with stakeholders and counterparts, and communicate model outputs, observations, and key performance indicators (KPIs) to the management to develop sustainable and consumable products and product features. Explore and analyze data by inspecting univariate distributions and multivariate interactions, constructing appropriate transformations, and tracking down the source and meaning of anomalies. Build production-ready models using statistical modeling, mathematical modeling, econometric modeling, machine learning algorithms, network modeling, social network modeling, natural language processing, large language models and/or genetic algorithms. Validate models against alternative approaches, expected and observed outcome, and other business defined key performance indicators. Implement models that comply with evaluations of the computational demands, accuracy, and reliability of the relevant ETL processes at various stages of production. Position reports to Newark, NJ office; however, telecommuting from a home office may be allowed. Requirements: Requires a Master’s degree in Statistics, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Data Science, Machine Learning, Applied Math, Operations Research, or a related field plus two (2) years of experience as a Data Scientist or other occupation involving data processing and predictive Machine Learning modeling at scale. Experience may be gained concurrently and must include: Two (2) years in each of the following: - Utilizing specialized modelling software including Python or R - Building statistical models and machine learning models using large datasets from multiple resources - Building non-linear models including Neural Nets, Deep Learning, or Gradient Boosting. One (1) year in each of the following: - Building production-ready solutions or applications relying on Large Language Models (LLM), accessed programmatically and beyond just prompting - Evaluating LLM results at scale or fine-tuning LLMs - Building production-ready recommendation systems - Using database technologies including SQL or ETL. Alternatively, will accept a Bachelor’s degree and five (5) years of experience. Salary: $169,550 - 207,500 /year. Multiple positions. Apply online: www.amazon.jobs Job Code: ADBL175.
  • CA, ON, Toronto
    Job ID: 3188585
    (Updated 30 days ago)
    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 actionable insights and recommendations they can share with their advertising accounts, and ingesting Generative AI throughout their end-to-end workflows to improve their work efficiency. As an Applied Scientist on the team focused on creating customer-facing recommendations related to our advertising products and budget allocations, you will bring deep expertise in quantitative modeling techniques such as Sequential Recommender Systems, Deep Learning, Reinforcement Learning or Hidden Markov Models. You have the scientific and technical skills to build and refine models that can be implemented in production, and you leverage Natural Language Processing and Generative AI models to enhance their explainability. 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 Machine Learning and Generative Artificial Intelligence solutions 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. We are truly working on the cutting edge of innovation within Deep Learning, RL, Generative AI and Sequential Recommender Systems within the advertising and sales domains.

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