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  • IN, TN, Chennai
    Job ID: 3048939
    (Updated 50 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
  • JP, 13, Tokyo
    Job ID: 3042463
    (Updated 38 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, Redmond
    Job ID: 3047064
    (Updated 52 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: 3044663
    (Updated 42 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.
  • US, NY, New York
    Job ID: 3042083
    (Updated 9 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 44 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
  • (Updated 38 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 0 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.
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 3052150
    (Updated 45 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
  • LU, Luxembourg
    Job ID: 3038861
    (Updated 1 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

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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.