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  • (Updated 9 days ago)
    The Amazon Q Developer Science team is looking for an Applied Scientist who is passionate about building services and tools for developers that leverage artificial intelligence (AI) agents and machine learning (ML). You will be part of a team building AI-based services for Amazon Q Developer with the focus on redefining the way developer work. The team works in close collaboration with other AWS AI services such as AWS Bedrock, the AWS IDE Toolkit, and Amazon Sagemaker. If you are excited about working in cloud computing and building new AWS services, then we'd love to talk to you. Key job responsibilities As a senior 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 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. Utility Computing (UC) AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations — from foundational services such as Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWS’s services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization, you’ll support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Internet of Things (IoT), Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS, including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services. Inclusive Team Culture Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness. 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 in the cloud. Mentorship and 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. Diverse Experiences Amazon 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.
  • US, CA, Sunnyvale
    Job ID: 3049125
    (Updated 48 days ago)
    The Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) Team is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Principal Applied Scientist to support adoption and enable customization of the Amazon Nova models. The role focuses on developing state-of-the-art services and tools for model customization, including fine-tuning, reinforcement learning, and knowledge distillation across large language models. As a Principal Applied Scientist, you will play a critical role in developing advanced customization capabilities that enable enterprises to build highly performant application-specific models without the need for training models from scratch. Your work will directly impact how companies and Amazon businesses leverage the Amazon Nova models for their specific use cases. Key job responsibilities In this role, you will: - Lead the development of novel customization techniques including extended post-training, continued pre-training, and advanced knowledge distillation - Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and implement enterprise-ready tooling for various training techniques on Amazon SageMaker - Design and execute experiments to optimize model accuracy, latency, and cost across different customization approaches (SFT, DPO, PPO) - Develop and enhance preference learning algorithms and training curricula for customer-specific applications - Create robust evaluation frameworks for assessing model performance across different domains and use cases - Contribute to the development of the Responsible AI toolkit, including creating training and evaluation datasets for model alignment - Design and implement secure access mechanisms for early model checkpoints and weights - Think big about the evolution of model customization technologies over a multi-year horizon, identifying new opportunities to enhance enterprise AI capabilities - Communicate technical insights and results to both technical and non-technical stakeholders through presentations and documentation - Monitor and analyze trends in AI to continuously refine the customization strategy, ensuring alignment with industry best practices and emerging standards About the team Amazon’s AGI team is focused on building foundational AI to solve real-world problems at scale, delivers value to all existing businesses in Amazon, and enables entirely new services and products for people and enterprises around the world.
  • JP, 13, Tokyo
    Job ID: 3041536
    (Updated 36 days ago)
    The JP Books - Manga team is looking for a Sr. Applied Scientist to lead in our AI related efforts to develop new prototypes and concepts that can then be translated into meaningful technologies impacting millions of customers. In this position, you will be expected to research, design and build/train/tune models and provide recommendations in areas including but not limited to natural language processing (automatic translation, summarization, extraction) and image processing (boundary detection, image understanding, image generation). The ideal candidate will have strong knowledge in the areas of Computer Vision, Translations and or Image understanding/generation. This is the ideal role if you are excited about leveraging science for tangible business impact to the Manga books business. Amazon encourages publications, and you will work within an international team of engineers, all based in Tokyo, Japan while collaborating with partner scientists in Tokyo and Seattle. Key job responsibilities As an Sr. Applied Scientist, your responsibilities will be: - Spot opportunities for innovation using AI for the JP Manga business, and publish to internal or external conferences. - Work closely with other Books scientists and engineers to build, review and improve your model design proposals. - Partner with product managers and other business stakeholders, documenting and explaining your progress in business reviews, and being the technical voice in charge of your product. - Be active in the community, participating in science education/growth activities for Books and Amazon JP - Keep up to date with scientific development in related field About the team Our team develops and owns the experience for Manga books on Amazon in Japan. We build products powering the solutions offered to publishers, authors and customers in Japan and worldwide. We interact with Product Managers and business stakeholders to develop features that allow us to better serve our customers. We place strong emphasis on continuous learning through internal mechanisms for our team to keep on growing their expertise and keep up with the state of the art. Our mission is to establish Amazon Manga as the go-to destination for digital and print Manga.
  • IN, KA, Bengaluru
    Job ID: 3046609
    (Updated 30 days ago)
    RBS (Retail Business Services) Tech team works towards enhancing the customer experience (CX) and their trust in product data by providing technologies to find and fix Amazon CX defects at scale. Our platforms help in improving the CX in all phases of customer journey, including selection, discoverability & fulfilment, buying experience and post-buying experience (product quality and customer returns). The team also develops GenAI platforms for automation of Amazon Stores Operations. As a Sciences team in RBS Tech, we focus on foundational ML research and develop scalable state-of-the-art ML solutions to solve the problems covering customer experience (CX) and Selling partner experience (SPX). We work to solve problems related to multi-modal understanding (text and images), task automation through multi-modal LLM Agents, supervised and unsupervised techniques, multi-task learning, multi-label classification, aspect and topic extraction for Customer Anecdote Mining, image and text similarity and retrieval using NLP and Computer Vision for product groupings and identifying duplicate listings in product search results. Key job responsibilities As a Senior Applied Scientist, you will be responsible to design and deploy scalable GenAI, NLP and Computer Vision solutions that will impact the content visible to millions of customer and solve key customer experience issues. You will develop novel LLM, deep learning and statistical techniques for task automation, text processing, image processing, pattern recognition, and anomaly detection problems. You will define the research and experiments strategy with an iterative execution approach to develop AI/ML models and progressively improve the results over time. You will partner with business and engineering teams to identify and solve large and significantly complex problems that require scientific innovation. You will help the team leverage your expertise, by coaching and mentoring. You will contribute to the professional development of colleagues, improving their technical knowledge and the engineering practices. You will independently as well as guide team to file for patents and/or publish research work where opportunities arise. The RBS org deals with problems that are directly related to the selling partners and end customers and the ML team drives resolution to organization level problems. Therefore, the Senior Applied Scientist role will impact the large product strategy, identifies new business opportunities and provides strategic direction which is very exciting.
  • IN, KA, Bengaluru
    Job ID: 3046615
    (Updated 30 days ago)
    RBS (Retail Business Services) Tech team works towards enhancing the customer experience (CX) and their trust in product data by providing technologies to find and fix Amazon CX defects at scale. Our platforms help in improving the CX in all phases of customer journey, including selection, discoverability & fulfilment, buying experience and post-buying experience (product quality and customer returns). The team also develops GenAI platforms for automation of Amazon Stores Operations. As a Sciences team in RBS Tech, we focus on foundational ML research and develop scalable state-of-the-art ML solutions to solve the problems covering customer experience (CX) and Selling partner experience (SPX). We work to solve problems related to multi-modal understanding (text and images), task automation through multi-modal LLM Agents, supervised and unsupervised techniques, multi-task learning, multi-label classification, aspect and topic extraction for Customer Anecdote Mining, image and text similarity and retrieval using NLP and Computer Vision for product groupings and identifying duplicate listings in product search results. Key job responsibilities As an Applied Scientist, you will be responsible to design and deploy scalable GenAI, NLP and Computer Vision solutions that will impact the content visible to millions of customer and solve key customer experience issues. You will develop novel LLM, deep learning and statistical techniques for task automation, text processing, image processing, pattern recognition, and anomaly detection problems. You will define the research and experiments strategy with an iterative execution approach to develop AI/ML models and progressively improve the results over time. You will partner with business and engineering teams to identify and solve large and significantly complex problems that require scientific innovation. You will help the team leverage your expertise, by coaching and mentoring. You will contribute to the professional development of colleagues, improving their technical knowledge and the engineering practices. You will independently as well as guide team to file for patents and/or publish research work where opportunities arise. The RBS org deals with problems that are directly related to the selling partners and end customers and the ML team drives resolution to organization level problems. Therefore, the Applied Scientist role will impact the large product strategy, identifies new business opportunities and provides strategic direction which is very exciting.
  • (Updated 48 days ago)
    As a Principal Scientist within the Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) organization, 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. You will play a critical role in driving the development of Generative AI (GenAI) technologies that can handle Amazon-scale use cases and have a significant impact on our customers' experiences. Key job responsibilities You will be responsible for defining key research directions, inventing new machine learning techniques, conducting rigorous experiments, 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 exceptional 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). A day in the life Define next‑generation scaling roadmaps and methodologies. Invent metrics and training recipes.  Research early‑signal predictors, automated curricula, and science of scaling. Lead cross‑org initiatives.  Mentor senior scientists and engineers. Own delivery under strict timelines.  Ship production code that cuts iteration latency and quality for Amazon’s flagship multimodal models. About the team Amazon’s AGI team is focused on building foundational AI to solve real-world problems at scale, delivers value to all existing businesses in Amazon, and enables entirely new services and products for people and enterprises around the world.
  • IN, TN, Chennai
    Job ID: 3048939
    (Updated 49 days ago)
    DESCRIPTION The Digital Acceleration (DA) team in India is seeking a talented, self-driven Applied Scientist to work on prototyping, optimizing, and deploying ML algorithms for solving Digital businesses problems. Key job responsibilities - Research, experiment and build Proof Of Concepts advancing the state of the art in AI & ML. - Collaborate with cross-functional teams to architect and execute technically rigorous AI projects. - Thrive in dynamic environments, adapting quickly to evolving technical requirements and deadlines. - Engage in effective technical communication (written & spoken) with coordination across teams. - Conduct thorough documentation of algorithms, methodologies, and findings for transparency and reproducibility. - Publish research papers in internal and external venues of repute - Support on-call activities for critical issues BASIC QUALIFICATIONS - Experience building machine learning models or developing algorithms for business application - PhD, or a Master's degree and experience in CS, CE, ML or related field - Knowledge of programming languages such as C/C++, Python, Java or Perl - Experience in any of the following areas: algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, high-performance computing - Proficiency in coding and software development, with a strong focus on machine learning frameworks. - Understanding of relevant statistical measures such as confidence intervals, significance of error measurements, development and evaluation data sets, etc. - Excellent communication skills (written & spoken) and ability to collaborate effectively in a distributed, cross-functional team setting. PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS - 3+ years of building machine learning models or developing algorithms for business application experience - Have publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals - Track record of diving into data to discover hidden patterns and conducting error/deviation analysis - Ability to develop experimental and analytic plans for data modeling processes, use of strong baselines, ability to accurately determine cause and effect relations - Exceptional level of organization and strong attention to detail - Comfortable working in a fast paced, highly collaborative, dynamic work environment
  • US, NY, New York
    Job ID: 3042079
    (Updated 7 days ago)
    About Amazon Annapurna Labs: Amazon Annapurna Labs team (our organization within AWS UC) is responsible for building innovation in silicon and software for our AWS customers. We are at the forefront of innovation by combining cloud scale with the world’s most talented engineers. Our team covers multiple disciplines including silicon engineering, hardware design, software and operations. Because of our teams breadth of talent, we have been able to improve AWS cloud infrastructure in high-performance machine learning with AWS Neuron, Inferentia and Trainium ML chips, in networking and security with products such as AWS Nitro, Enhanced Network Adapter (ENA), and Elastic Fabric Adapter (EFA), and in computing with AWS Graviton and F1 EC2 instances. About AWS Utility Computing (UC): AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations that continue to set AWS’s services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization, you’ll support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS, including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services. Additionally, this role may involve exposure to and experience with Amazon's growing suite of generative AI services and other cloud computing offerings across the AWS portfolio. About 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. About AWS Neuron: AWS Neuron is the software of Trainium and Inferentia, the AWS Machine Learning chips. Inferentia delivers best-in-class ML inference performance at the lowest cost in the cloud to our AWS customers. Trainium is designed to deliver the best-in-class ML training performance at the lowest training cost in the cloud, and it’s all being enabled by AWS Neuron. Neuron is a Software that include ML compiler and native integration into popular ML frameworks. Our products are being used at scale with external customers like Anthropic and Databricks as well as internal customers like Alexa, Amazon Bedrocks, Amazon Robotics, Amazon Ads, Amazon Rekognition and many more. You will join a dynamic team building and applying AI agents to simplify and accelerate customer adoption of Trainium and Inferentia. As an SDE II you will work with external and internal customers to identify the main obstacles and the opportunities to accelerate their adoption of the Neuron technology. In this role as an Applied Scientist, you'll be instrumental in designing, developing, and deploying AI-driven solutions to port and optimize models to run on our Amazon's AI accelerators. You will architect and implement business-critical tooling, and advance the state of the art. You will need to be technically capable, credible, and curious in your own right as a trusted AWS Neuron engineer, innovating on behalf of our customers. Your responsibilities will involve tackling crucial challenges alongside a talented engineering team, contributing to leading-edge design and research in agentic and deep-learning systems software. A background in machine learning and AI accelerators will be beneficial for this role. A day in the life 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. AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations — from foundational services such as Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWS’s services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization, you’ll support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Internet of Things (Iot), Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS. Within AWS UC, Amazon Dedicated Cloud (ADC) roles engage with AWS customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services. Inclusive Team Culture Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness. Diverse Experiences AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the 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. 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 in the cloud.
  • JP, 13, Tokyo
    Job ID: 3042463
    (Updated 37 days ago)
    Have you ever ordered a product on Amazon and when that box with the smile arrived you wondered how it got to you so fast? Have you wondered where it came from and how much it cost Amazon to deliver it to you? If so, Amazon Logistics (AMZL), Last Mile team is for you. We manage the delivery of tens of millions of products every week to Amazon’s customers, achieving on-time delivery in a cost-effective manner to deliver a smile for our customers. As Amazon continues to build and expand the first party delivery network, this role will be critical to realize this vision. Your team and tech solution will have large impacts to the physical supply chain of Amazon, and play a key role in improving Amazon consumer business’s long-term profitability. If you are interested in diving into a multi-discipline, high impact space this is the team for you. We’re looking for a passionate, results-oriented, and inventive Scientist who can lead from the front towards developing and deploying ML models for our outbound transportation planning systems. In addition, you will be working on design, development and evaluation of highly innovative ML models for solving complex business problems in the area of outbound transportation planning systems. Key job responsibilities As a Science Manager within JP AMZL LMEA team, you will lead a team of data and research scientists towards designing and deploying solutions that will likely draw from a large range of scientific areas such as supervised, semi-supervised unsupervised learning, reinforcement learning, advanced statistical modeling, optimization models and graph models. You will have an opportunity to be on the forefront of supply chain by working on some of the most difficult problems in the industry, with some of the best technical program managers, research scientists, data scientists, engineers, and economists to execute on JP AMZL Science vision and prepare scientific work for production systems integration. You will bring deep technical expertise in the area of Machine Learning and optimization. Other responsibilities include: * Lead a team of data and research scientists towards design, development and evaluation of highly innovative ML/optimization models for solving complex business problems. * Technically lead and mentor the scientists on the team. * Research and apply the latest ML techniques and best practices from both academia and industry. * Use analytical techniques to create scalable solutions for business problems. * Work closely with BI and data engineers to build relevant pipelines for your models at large scale. * Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large scale data analyses, model development, model validation and model implementation. A day in the life In this critical role, you will be a technical leader in operations research or machine learning with significant scope, impact, and visibility. Your solutions have the potential to drive millions of dollars in impact for Amazon last mile business in Japan and other regions. As a science manager on the team, you will engage in all facets of the process from ideation, business analysis and scientific research to development and deployment of advanced models. We are seeking someone who wants to lead projects that require innovative thinking and deep technical problem-solving skills to create production-ready machine learning solutions. A successful candidate is able to quickly approach large ambiguous problems, turn high-level business requirements into mathematical models, identify the right solution approach, and prepare contribution to the software development for production systems. Successful candidates must thrive in fast-paced environments, which encourage collaborative and creative problem solving, be able to measure and estimate risks, constructively critique peer research, and align research focuses with the Amazon's strategic needs. We look for individuals who know how to deliver results and show a desire to develop themselves, their team, and their career.
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 3044663
    (Updated 41 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 an Applied Scientist on our team, you will focus on building state-of-the-art ML models for biology. 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. Key job responsibilities As an Applied Science, you will have access to large datasets with billions of images and video to build large-scale machine learning systems. Additionally, you will analyze and model terabytes of text, images, and other types of data to solve real-world problems and translate business and functional requirements into quick prototypes or proofs of concept. We are looking for smart scientists capable of using a variety of domain expertise combined with machine learning and statistical techniques to invent, design, evangelize, and implement state-of-the-art solutions for never-before-solved problems. About the team Our team highly values work-life balance, mentorship and career growth. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects and offer training that will challenge you to become your best.

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