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  • US, WA, Redmond
    Job ID: 3047064
    (Updated 51 days ago)
    Project Kuiper is Amazon’s low Earth orbit satellite broadband network. Its mission is to deliver fast, reliable internet to customers and communities around the world, and we’ve designed the system with the capacity, flexibility, and performance to serve a wide range of customers, from individual households to schools, hospitals, businesses, government agencies, and other organizations operating in locations without reliable connectivity. Export Control Requirement: Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum. Role Overview As a Senior Data Scientist (DS), you will drive the development and implementation of advanced analytics and machine learning solutions. You will work on critical initiatives including natural language processing for non-conformance analysis, statistical process controls (SPC) for test optimization, and equipment predictive maintenance models to enable manufacturing rate acceleration. Your work will directly influence Kuiper’s production manufacturing workflow. You are an analytical problem solver who enjoys diving into data from various businesses, is excited about investigations and algorithms, can multi-task, and can credibly interface between scientists, engineers, and business stakeholders. Your expertise in synthesizing and communicating insights and recommendations to audiences of varying levels of technical sophistication will enable you to answer specific business questions and innovate for the future. Key job responsibilities - Lead the design and implementation of ML/LLM solutions to analyze manufacturing data and identify failure patterns and operational risks - Design predictive models for statistical process control and equipment maintenance optimization - Build production-ready ML pipelines leveraging AWS services (e.g., SageMaker, Bedrock, AWS Glue) - Formalize assumptions about how models are expected to behave, creating definitions of outliers, developing methods to systematically identify these outliers, and explaining why they are reasonable or identifying fixes for them - Develop and test model enhancements, running computational experiments, and fine-tuning model parameters for new models - Collaborate with engineering teams to translate complex manufacturing challenges into data-driven solutions - Drive consensus on metrics and analysis approaches to support business strategy - Write documents and create compelling visualizations and presentations to communicate insights to stakeholders - Mentor team members and drive data science best practices across the organization
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 3052150
    (Updated 44 days ago)
    Are you excited to help customers discover the hottest and best reviewed products? The Discovery Tech organization helps customers discover and engage with new, popular and relevant products across Amazon worldwide. We do this by combining technology, science, and innovation to build new customer-facing features and experiences. You will join the Recommendations team, and will be responsible for creating and building critical services that automatically generate, in real time, personalized product recommendations presented to Amazon customers worldwide. You will leverage machine-learning and statistical models to deliver the best possible shopping experience. We are looking for analytical problem solvers who enjoy diving into data, excited about data science and statistics, can multi-task, and can credibly interface between engineering teams and business stakeholders. Your analytical abilities, business understanding, and technical savvy will be used to identify specific and actionable opportunities to solve existing business problems and look around corners for future opportunities. Your domain spans the design, development, testing, and deployment of data-driven and highly scalable machine learning solutions in product recommendation. As an Applied Scientist, 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. 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. To know more about Amazon science, please visit https://www.amazon.science
  • (Updated 2 days ago)
    Are you interested in shaping the future of entertainment through cutting-edge AI? Prime Video’s technology teams are redefining the digital video experience at scale. As a Principal Applied Scientist at Prime Video, you will be a technical and strategic leader responsible for inventing, developing, and deploying groundbreaking AI solutions that power personalized, relevant, and delightful experiences for millions of global customers. You will help shape the vision and direction of key ML systems that support Prime Video’s mission to deliver AI-powered customer experiences. This role demands a unique blend of deep technical expertise in machine learning and recommendation systems, industry leadership, and strong collaboration skills. You will guide the development of high-impact systems end-to-end—leading innovation from foundational research through production deployment—while mentoring scientists and influencing product and engineering roadmaps. We are looking for a thought leader who brings a strong track record of delivering ML innovations at scale, along with the curiosity and drive to push boundaries. This is a rare opportunity to drive meaningful impact at one of the largest streaming services in the world. Key job responsibilities -Invent, prototype, and productionize large-scale AI solutions across Prime Video’s personalization and discovery ecosystem using deep learning, generative AI, reinforcement learning, and optimization techniques; -Provide technical leadership and influence product vision by collaborating closely with engineers, product managers, and senior stakeholders; -Design and lead high-impact A/B tests and data analyses to validate hypotheses and guide product direction; -Drive technical bar-raising across science and engineering teams through mentorship, design reviews, and collaboration; -Stay ahead of industry trends and emerging research; leverage them to evolve long-term strategy and architecture; -Publish impactful research internally and externally (e.g. top-tier conferences and journals). About the team Prime Video Personalization and Discovery (PVPD) is dedicated to creating a highly personalized content discovery experience that not only delights our customers but also drives both short-and long-term business goals. Our scope includes personalized recommendations, search, marketing, and the advanced machine learning technology and infrastructure that underpins these experiences. Our mission is to automate and enhance customer engagement through personalization, using ML and Generative AI.
  • US, NY, New York
    Job ID: 3042083
    (Updated 8 days ago)
    We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations: New York, NY, USA Amazon Stores Proactive Security is looking for world-class scientists to join the Data Intelligence & Analytics team within Stores Security. You will join a team of engineers and scientists developing advanced techniques to automate security reviews and enhance decision-making processes across Amazon's security operations. This group will be visible across Stores Security teams and to Amazon security leadership as a source of innovative AI solutions that revolutionize how we approach security operations. Each day, thousands of builders and security reviewers interact with our security products and processes, generating vast amounts of security-related data and documentation. The Stores Proactive Security Data Intelligence team owns the transformation of this data into automated, intelligent solutions that streamline security operations. Our team works with security engineers and product teams across Stores Security to ensure that our security review processes are efficient and data-driven. We dive deep into technologies such as large language models, document processing systems, predictive analytics, and machine learning to automatically extract security knowledge, predict risks, and provide insights that enhance security decision-making. You will identify, extend, and prototype advanced AI techniques that can be applied to solve hard problems in security operations. In some cases, your team will invent new approaches for automating security knowledge extraction and decision-making. In other cases, your team will identify and adapt existing approaches from the field of AI/ML. You will work with security experts and software developers to integrate these techniques into Stores Security's mechanisms for reducing manual effort and improving consistency in security operations. Stores Security will look to your team to find the techniques that will radically improve the efficiency and effectiveness of our security processes. While you may not be a security expert yet, in this role you will develop a broad and deep understanding of security operations and automation opportunities. Our team puts a high value on work-life balance. Striking a healthy balance between your personal and professional life is crucial to your happiness and success here, which is why we aren't focused on how many hours you spend at work or online. Instead, we're happy to offer a flexible schedule so you can have a more productive and well-balanced life—both in and outside of work. Key job responsibilities * Rapidly design, prototype and test advanced security analysis and repair techniques in a high-ambiguity environment, making use of both quantitative and business judgment. * Collaborate with software engineers and security engineers to integrate successful experiments into large scale production services. * Report results in a scientifically rigorous way. * Interact with security engineers and related domain experts to dive deep into the types of challenges that need innovative solutions. * Track relevant research in other Amazon science teams and in the broader research community. About the team Diverse Experiences Amazon Security 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. Why Amazon Security? At Amazon, security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. Our organization is responsible for creating and maintaining a high bar for security across all of Amazon’s products and services. We offer talented security professionals the chance to accelerate their careers with opportunities to build experience in a wide variety of areas including cloud, devices, retail, entertainment, healthcare, operations, and physical stores Inclusive Team Culture In Amazon Security, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Ongoing DEI events and learning experiences inspire us to continue learning and to embrace our uniqueness. Addressing the toughest security challenges requires that we seek out and celebrate a diversity of ideas, perspectives, and voices. Training & 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, training, 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 flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.
  • US, CA, Santa Monica
    Job ID: 3037361
    (Updated 43 days ago)
    MULTIPLE POSITIONS AVAILABLE Employer: AMAZON.COM SERVICES LLC Offered Position: Data Scientist II Job Location: Santa Monica, California Job Number: AMZ9443556 Position Responsibilities: Design and implement scalable and reliable approaches 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 solution approach is unclear. Acquire data by building the necessary SQL / ETL queries. Import processes through various company specific interfaces for accessing Oracle, RedShift, and Spark storage systems. Build relationships with stakeholders and counterparts. Analyze data for trends and input validity by inspecting univariate distributions, exploring bivariate relationships, constructing appropriate transformations, and tracking down the source and meaning of anomalies. Build models using statistical modeling, mathematical modeling, econometric modeling, network modeling, social network modeling, natural language processing, machine learning algorithms, genetic algorithms, and neural networks. 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. 40 hours / week, 8:00am-5:00pm, Salary Range $151,694/year to $184,000/year. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, visit: https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. Amazon.com is an Equal Opportunity-Affirmative Action Employer – Minority / Female / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation.#0000
  • LU, Luxembourg
    Job ID: 3038861
    (Updated 0 days ago)
    Amazon is looking for a passionate, talented, and inventive applied scientist with Machine Learning and optionally Search background to join the International Search team. As an applied scientist, you will invent, build and deploy state of the art machine-learning models and systems to enable and enhance the team's mission—real world incarnations of some of the most difficult academic problems. You will work with the largest online retail search application in the world, both in terms of users, catalogue size, and computing resources, and your work will directly impact millions of our customers. You will collaborate with recognized experts in science and engineering to develop novel algorithms and modeling techniques to advance the state-of-the-art in search and natural language processing. You will partner closely with our engineering teams, present your work to product and engineering teams at Amazon, publish scientific papers and apply for patents for your inventions. Key job responsibilities - Work on research projects in machine learning and related fields to create highly innovative customer experiences; - Analyze large amounts of data to discover patterns, find opportunities, and develop highly innovative, scalable algorithms to seize these opportunities; - Validate models via statistically rigorous experiments across millions of customers; - Work closely with software engineering teams to build scalable prototypes for testing, and integrate successful models and algorithms in production systems at very large scale; - Work side by side with fellow applied scientists in the team. About the team Our team is located in our European headquarters in Luxembourg, in the heart of Europe. About Luxembourg: The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg is a diverse and multicultural country located in the heart of Europe, bordered by France, Belgium and Germany, with a total population of around half a million. Luxembourg has Luxembourgish, French and German as national languages, with English spoken by the many expatriates and most locals. Luxembourg is known for banking, steel and a number of EU institutions plus an increasing number of technology-centric organizations. Luxembourg boasts a rich cultural scene and a high standard of living. http://www.promoteluxembourg.com
  • (Updated 6 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 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! We are looking for a self-motivated, passionate and resourceful Applied Science Manager to bring diverse perspectives, ideas, and skill-sets to make Prime Video even better for our customers. You will lead a strong science team and work closely with other science and engineering leaders, product and business partners together to build the best personalized customer experience for Prime Video. At the end of the day, you will have the reward of seeing your contributions benefit millions of Amazon.com customers worldwide. Key job responsibilities - Lead to develop AI solutions for various Prime Video recommendation and personalization systems using Deep learning, GenAI, Reinforcement Learning, recommendation system and optimization methods; - Work closely with engineers and product managers to design, implement and launch AI solutions end-to-end; - Effectively communicate technical and non-technical ideas with teammates and stakeholders; - Stay up-to-date with advancements and the latest modeling techniques in the field; - Hire and grow a science team working in this exciting video personalization domain. About the team Prime Video Recommendation Science team owns science solution to power recommendation and personalization experience on various devices. We work closely with the engineering teams to launch our solutions in production.
  • (Updated 37 days ago)
    We are seeking an exceptional Applied Scientist to join a team of experts in the field of machine learning, and work together to tackle challenging problems across diverse compliance domains. We leverage and train state-of-the-art multi-modal and large-language-models (LLMs) to detect illegal and unsafe products across the Amazon catalog. We work on machine learning problems for multi-modal classification, intent detection, information retrieval, anomaly and fraud detection, and generative AI. This is an exciting and challenging position to deliver scientific innovations into production systems at Amazon-scale to make immediate, meaningful customer impacts while also pursuing ambitious, long-term research. You will work in a highly collaborative environment where you can analyze and process large amounts of image, text and tabular data. You will work on hard science problems that have not been solved before, conduct rapid prototyping to validate your hypothesis, and deploy your algorithmic ideas at scale. There will be something new to learn every day as we work in an environment with rapidly evolving regulations and adversarial actors looking to outwit your best ideas. Key job responsibilities • Design and evaluate state-of-the-art algorithms and approaches in multi-modal classification, large language models (LLMs), intent detection, information retrieval, anomaly and fraud detection, and generative AI • Translate product and CX requirements into measurable science problems and metrics. • Collaborate with product and tech partners and customers to validate hypothesis, drive adoption, and increase business impact • Key author in writing high quality scientific papers in internal and external peer-reviewed conferences. A day in the life - Understanding customer problems, project timelines, and team/project mechanisms - Proposing science formulations and brainstorming ideas with team to solve business problems - Writing code, and running experiments with re-usable science libraries - Reviewing labels and audit results with investigators and operations associates - Sharing science results with science, product and tech partners and customers - Writing science papers for submission to peer-review venues, and reviewing science papers from other scientists in the team. - Contributing to team retrospectives for continuous improvements - Driving science research collaborations and attending study groups with scientists across Amazon About the team We are a team of applied scientists building AI/ML solutions to make Amazon Earth’s most trusted shopping destination for safe and compliant products.
  • (Updated 37 days ago)
    The Amazon Regulatory Intelligence, Safety, and Compliance (RISC) team is seeking an exceptional Applied Scientist to tackle complex compliance challenges. In this high-impact role, you will leverage your deep technical expertise and customer-obsessed mindset to design and evaluate state-of-the-art algorithms in risk modeling, computer vision, and natural language processing. You will translate complex business requirements into well-defined science problems and work collaboratively with product, engineering, and business stakeholders to drive real-world impact. Staying at the forefront of applied machine learning, you will continuously adapt your skills to tackle new challenges. Contributing to Amazon's scientific thought leadership, you will author high-quality research papers for internal and external conferences. This is an opportunity to apply your technical skills in a fast-paced, highly collaborative environment, making a meaningful difference in the lives of Amazon's customers. If you have a passion for solving complex problems and a customer-centric approach, we encourage you to apply for this exciting role. Key job responsibilities - Explore the use of reinforcement learning, multi-agent systems, and meta-learning to build autonomous AI agents that can adapt to new challenges and support complex decision-making. - Design and evaluate state-of-the-art algorithms and approaches in risk modeling, using techniques such as graph neural networks, deep learning, and boosted trees to detect anomalies, fraud, and policy violations. - Develop advanced multi-modal and large language models to classify product content, understand customer intent, and retrieve relevant information. - Collaborate closely with product managers, engineers, and business stakeholders to validate hypotheses, drive adoption, and maximize the real-world impact of your work. - Translate complex product and customer experience requirements into well-defined, measurable science problems and KPIs, contributing to Amazon's scientific thought leadership through high-quality research papers. A day in the life - Understanding customer problems, project timelines, and team/project mechanisms - Proposing science formulations and brainstorming ideas with team to solve business problems - Writing code, and running experiments with re-usable science libraries - Reviewing labels and audit results with investigators and operations associates - Sharing science results with science, product and tech partners and customers - Contributing to team retrospectives for continuous improvements - Participating in science research collaborations and attending study groups with scientists across Amazon
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 3047466
    (Updated 15 days ago)
    Passionate about books? The Amazon Books Store Experience team is looking for a talented Economist to help invent, design, and measure innovative science solutions to make it easier for millions of customers to find the next book they will love. Key job responsibilities In this role you will: - Partner with cross-functional teams to leverage advanced economic and causal modeling techniques, to drive business insights and decision-making. - Conduct in-depth research and analysis on large, complex data sets to understand customer behavior, pricing dynamics, and the incremental impact of business programs and initiatives. - Design, implement, and maintain scalable econometric and machine learning solutions to automate and improve key measurement and optimization capabilities. - Effectively communicate analysis, insights, and recommendations to influence senior leadership, business strategy and roadmap prioritization. About the team The Books Store Experience team is a core team developing the frameworks and technologies used by dozens of partner teams to develop the best shopping experience for our books customers. The books organization is the oldest organization at Amazon serving customers from the very beginning. This team has a wealth of experience in Amazon and is constantly evolving the technologies we use in order to best serve our customers.

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Amazon collaborates with leading academic organizations to drive innovation and to ensure that research is creating solutions whose benefits are shared broadly across all sectors of society.