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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.
  • The program is designed for academics from universities around the globe who want to work on large-scale technical challenges while continuing to teach and conduct research at their universities.
  • The program offers recent PhD graduates an opportunity to advance research while working alongside experienced scientists with backgrounds in industry and academia.
  • Our internship roles span research areas to provide hands-on experience working alongside world-class scientists and engineers to advance the state of the art in your field.
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  • CA, BC, Vancouver
    Job ID: 3113600
    (Updated 14 days ago)
    Do you want a role with deep meaning and the ability to make a major impact? As part of Intelligent Talent Acquisition (ITA), you'll have the opportunity to reinvent the hiring process and deliver unprecedented scale, sophistication, and accuracy for Amazon Talent Acquisition operations. ITA is an industry-leading people science and technology organization made up of scientists, engineers, analysts, product professionals and more, all with the shared goal of connecting the right people to the right jobs in a way that is fair and precise. Last year we delivered over 6 million online candidate assessments, and helped Amazon deliver billions of packages around the world by making it possible to hire hundreds of thousands of workers in the right quantity, at the right location and at exactly the right time. You’ll work on state-of-the-art research, advanced software tools, new AI systems, and machine learning algorithms, leveraging Amazon's in-house tech stack to bring innovative solutions to life. Join ITA in using technologies to transform the hiring landscape and make a meaningful difference in people's lives. Together, we can solve the world's toughest hiring problems. Global Hiring Science owns and develops products and services using Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (ML) that enhance recruitment. We collaborate with scientists to build and maintain machine learning solutions for hiring, offering opportunities to both apply and develop ML engineering skills in a production environment. Key job responsibilities • Design and implement advanced AI models using the latest LLM and GenAI technologies to develop fair and accurate machine learning models for hiring. • Clearly and cogently present your work and ideas, and respond effectively to feedback. • Collaborate with cross-functional teams with Research Scientists and Software Engineers to integrate AI-driven products into Amazon’s hiring process. • Stay at the advance of AI research, continuously exploring and implementing new techniques in NLP, LLMs, and GenAI to drive innovation in hiring. • Implement advanced natural language processing models to extract insights from diverse data sources. • Ensure effective teamwork, communication, collaboration, and commitment across multiple teams with competing priorities. • Contribute to the scientific community through publications, presentations, and collaborations with academic institutions. About the team The mission of Global Hiring Science (GHS) is to improve both the efficiency and effectiveness of hiring across Amazon with assessments and interview improvements. We are a team of experts in machine learning, industrial-organizational psychology, data science, and measuring the knowledge, skills, and abilities that it takes to be successful at Amazon.
  • IN, TS, Hyderabad
    Job ID: 3118554
    (Updated 45 days ago)
    Have you ever wondered how Amazon launches and maintains a consistent customer experience across hundreds of countries and languages it serves its customers? Are you passionate about data and mathematics, and hope to impact the experience of millions of customers? Are you obsessed with designing simple algorithmic solutions to very challenging problems? If so, we look forward to hearing from you! At Amazon, we strive to be Earth's most customer-centric company, where both internal and external customers can find and discover anything they want in their own language of preference. Our Translations Services (TS) team plays a pivotal role in expanding the reach of our marketplace worldwide and enables thousands of developers and other stakeholders (Product Managers, Program Managers, Linguists) in developing locale specific solutions. Amazon Translations Services (TS) is seeking a Senior Applied Scientist to be based in our Hyderabad office. As a key member of the Science and Engineering team of TS, this person will be responsible for designing algorithmic solutions based on data and mathematics for translating billions of words annually across 130+ and expanding set of locales. The successful applicant will ensure that there is minimal human touch involved in any language translation and accurate translated text is available to our worldwide customers in a streamlined and optimized manner. With access to vast amounts of data, technology, and a diverse community of talented individuals, you will have the opportunity to make a meaningful impact on the way customers and stakeholders engage with Amazon and our platform worldwide. Together, we will drive innovation, solve complex problems, and shape the future of e-commerce. Key job responsibilities * Lead and innovate in applying advanced NLP and LLM techniques to solve complex language translation challenges in e-commerce, driving product-level improvements for our international marketplaces. Drive innovation on Image and Video translation. * Architect and implement novel, scalable machine learning solutions that enhance translation quality evaluation and improve translation pipeline efficiency across multiple teams and systems. * Spearhead cross-functional collaborations to define strategic project requirements, establish organization-wide success metrics, and deliver high-impact solutions aligning with broader business objectives. * Drive comprehensive data analysis to uncover non-obvious insights in multilingual data, relaying findings into actionable strategies that influence product roadmaps and capabilities for language technologies. * Pioneer and implement modeling techniques for machine translation quality assessment and pipeline optimization, leading the team's scientific agenda. Invent new methodologies when existing approaches fall short, advancing the state-of-the-art. * Serve as a recognized expert in LLM applications for e-commerce translation, communicating complex concepts to diverse stakeholders including senior leadership. Influence organization-wide adoption of innovative approaches in language translation technologies. * Actively mentor team members, elevating scientific capabilities and fostering a culture of innovation and rigorous inquiry in machine translation and evaluation. About the team We are a start-up mindset team. As the long-term technical strategy is still taking shape, there is a lot of opportunity for this fresh Science team to innovate by leveraging Gen AI technoligies to build scalable solutions from scratch. Our Vision: Language will not stand in the way of anyone on earth using Amazon products and services. Our Mission: We are the enablers and guardians of translation for Amazon's customers. We do this by offering hands-off-the-wheel service to all Amazon teams, optimizing translation quality and speed at the lowest cost possible.
  • CA, BC, Vancouver
    Job ID: 3114288
    (Updated 14 days ago)
    Do you want a role with deep meaning and the ability to make a major impact? As part of Intelligent Talent Acquisition (ITA), you'll have the opportunity to reinvent the hiring process and deliver unprecedented scale, sophistication, and accuracy for Amazon Talent Acquisition operations. ITA is an industry-leading people science and technology organization made up of scientists, engineers, analysts, product professionals and more, all with the shared goal of connecting the right people to the right jobs in a way that is fair and precise. Last year we delivered over 6 million online candidate assessments, and helped Amazon deliver billions of packages around the world by making it possible to hire hundreds of thousands of workers in the right quantity, at the right location and at exactly the right time. You’ll work on state-of-the-art research, advanced software tools, new AI systems, and machine learning algorithms, leveraging Amazon's in-house tech stack to bring innovative solutions to life. Join ITA in using technologies to transform the hiring landscape and make a meaningful difference in people's lives. Together, we can solve the world's toughest hiring problems. Global Hiring Science owns and develops products and services using Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (ML) that enhance recruitment. We collaborate with scientists to build and maintain machine learning solutions for hiring, offering opportunities to both apply and develop ML engineering skills in a production environment Key job responsibilities • Design and implement advanced AI models using the latest LLM and GenAI technologies to develop fair and accurate machine learning models for hiring. • Clearly and cogently present your work and ideas, and respond effectively to feedback. • Collaborate with cross-functional teams with Research Scientists and Software Engineers to integrate AI-driven products into Amazon’s hiring process. • Stay at the advance of AI research, continuously exploring and implementing new techniques in NLP, LLMs, and GenAI to drive innovation in hiring. • Implement advanced natural language processing models to extract insights from diverse data sources. • Ensure effective teamwork, communication, collaboration, and commitment across multiple teams with competing priorities. • Contribute to the scientific community through publications, presentations, and collaborations with academic institutions. About the team The mission of Global Hiring Science (GHS) is to improve both the efficiency and effectiveness of hiring across Amazon with assessments and interview improvements. We are a team of experts in machine learning, industrial-organizational psychology, data science, and measuring the knowledge, skills, and abilities that it takes to be successful at Amazon.
  • (Updated 30 days ago)
    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. As a core product offering within our advertising portfolio, Sponsored Products (SP) helps merchants, retail vendors, and brand owners succeed via native advertising, which grows incremental sales of their products sold through Amazon. We deliver billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks and break fresh ground in product and technical innovations every day! The Books Advertising team owns the worldwide advertising business for books, including advertiser and shopper experiences. They develop long-term vision and drive improvements for category relevance, auction dynamics, and ad serving. Additionally, they drive advertiser engagement, represent advertisers' voice, and provide operational support for our programs. This means the team owns all book-specific experiences for Sponsored Products, Sponsored Brands, Sponsored Display, Lock Screen Advertising, the Ads Console, and the Public API. Key job responsibilities As an Sr. Data Scientist on this team, you will: Participate in end-to-end Machine Learning projects that have a high degree of ambiguity, scale, complexity. Effectively perform hands-on analysis and research of large data sets to develop insights that increase traffic monetization and merchandise sales, without compromising the shopper experience. Contribute to build machine learning models, perform proof-of-concept, experiment, optimize, and deploy your models into production; work closely with software engineers to assist in productionizing your ML models. Run A/B experiments, gather data, and perform statistical analysis. Help establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large-scale data analysis, machine-learning model development, model validation and serving. Research new and innovative machine learning approaches. A day in the life Why you will love this opportunity: Amazon is investing heavily in building a world-class advertising business. This team defines and delivers a collection of advertising products that drive discovery and sales. Our solutions generate billions in revenue and drive long-term growth for Amazon’s Retail and Marketplace businesses. We deliver billions of ad impressions, millions of clicks daily, and break fresh ground to create world-class products. We are a highly motivated, collaborative, and fun-loving team with an entrepreneurial spirit - with a broad mandate to experiment and innovate. About the team Impact and Career Growth: You will invent new experiences and influence customer-facing shopping experiences to help suppliers grow their retail business and the auction dynamics that leverage native advertising; this is your opportunity to work within the fastest-growing businesses across all of Amazon! Define a long-term science vision for our advertising business, driven from our customers' needs, translating that direction into specific plans for research and applied scientists, as well as engineering and product teams. This role combines science leadership, organizational ability, technical strength, product focus, and business understanding.
  • (Updated 4 days ago)
    Join the next science and engineering revolution at Amazon's Delivery Foundation Model team, where you'll work alongside world-class scientists and engineers to pioneer the next frontier of logistics through advanced AI and foundation models. We are seeking an exceptional Senior Applied Scientist to help develop innovative foundation models that enable delivery of billions of packages worldwide. In this role, you'll combine highly technical work with scientific leadership, ensuring the team delivers robust solutions for dynamic real-world environments. Your team will leverage Amazon's vast data and computational resources to tackle ambitious problems across a diverse set of Amazon delivery use cases. Key job responsibilities - Design and implement novel deep learning architectures combining a multitude of modalities, including image, video, and geospatial data. - Solve computational problems to train foundation models on vast amounts of Amazon data and infer at Amazon scale, taking advantage of latest developments in hardware and deep learning libraries. - As a foundation model developer, collaborate with multiple science and engineering teams to help build adaptations that power use cases across Amazon Last Mile deliveries, improving experience and safety of a delivery driver, an Amazon customer, and improving efficiency of Amazon delivery network. - Guide technical direction for specific research initiatives, ensuring robust performance in production environments. - Mentor fellow scientists while maintaining strong individual technical contributions. A day in the life As a member of the Delivery Foundation Model team, you’ll spend your day on the following: - Develop and implement novel foundation model architectures, working hands-on with data and our extensive training and evaluation infrastructure - Guide and support fellow scientists in solving complex technical challenges, from trajectory planning to efficient multi-task learning - Guide and support fellow engineers in building scalable and reusable infra to support model training, evaluation, and inference - Lead focused technical initiatives from conception through deployment, ensuring successful integration with production systems- Drive technical discussions within the team and and key stakeholders - Conduct experiments and prototype new ideas - Mentor team members while maintaining significant hands-on contribution to technical solutions About the team The Delivery Foundation Model team combines ambitious research vision with real-world impact. Our foundation models provide generative reasoning capabilities required to meet the demands of Amazon's global Last Mile delivery network. We leverage Amazon's unparalleled computational infrastructure and extensive datasets to deploy state-of-the-art foundation models to improve the safety, quality, and efficiency of Amazon deliveries. Our work spans the full spectrum of foundation model development, from multimodal training using images, videos, and sensor data, to sophisticated modeling strategies that can handle diverse real-world scenarios. We build everything end to end, from data preparation to model training and evaluation to inference, along with all the tooling needed to understand and analyze model performance. Join us if you're excited about pushing the boundaries of what's possible in logistics, working with world-class scientists and engineers, and seeing your innovations deployed at unprecedented scale.
  • US, VA, Arlington
    Job ID: 3109163
    (Updated 16 days ago)
    MULTIPLE POSITIONS AVAILABLE Employer: AMAZON.COM SERVICES LLC Offered Position: Economist III Job Location: Arlington, Virginia Job Number: AMZ9442487 Position Responsibilities: Develop advanced structural demand and econometric frameworks for products and services in Amazon Devices. Create and drive the scientific roadmap for the team, and influence partner science teams. Drive cross-functional collaboration with scientists, engineers, and business leaders to integrate economic insights into strategic decision-making processes and shape future initiatives. Communicate insights in writing and verbally, to senior leaders on Product and Finance teams within the company. Actively mentor junior scientists on advanced econometric techniques. Position Requirements: Ph.D. or foreign equivalent degree in Economics or a related field and three years of research or work experience in the job offered or a related occupation. Must have three years of research or work experience in the following skill(s): (1) working with and using econometrics (including with program evaluation, forecasting, time series, panel data, or high dimensional problems), economic theory, and quantitative methods; and (2) building statistical models using R, Python, STATA, or a related software. Amazon.com is an Equal Opportunity-Affirmative Action Employer – Minority / Female / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation. 40 hours / week, 8:00am-5:00pm, Salary Range $159,200/year to $215,300/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.#0000
  • US, CA, Santa Clara
    Job ID: 3117066
    (Updated 39 days ago)
    Amazon Web Services (AWS) is assembling an elite team of world-class scientists and engineers to pioneer the next generation of AI-driven development tools. Join the Amazon Kiro LLM-Training team and help create groundbreaking generative AI technologies including Kiro IDE and Amazon Q Developer that are transforming the software development landscape. Key job responsibilities As a key member of our team, you'll be at the forefront of innovation, where cutting-edge research meets real-world application: - Push the boundaries of reinforcement learning and post-training methodologies for large language models specialized in code intelligence - Invent and implement state-of-the-art machine learning solutions that operate at unprecedented Amazon scale - Deploy revolutionary products that directly impact the daily workflows of millions of developers worldwide - Break new ground in AI and machine learning, challenging what's possible in intelligent code assistance - Publish and present your pioneering work at premier ML and NLP conferences (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR , ACL, EMNLP) - Accelerate innovation by working directly with customers to rapidly transition research breakthroughs into production systems About the team The AWS Developer Agents and Experiences (DAE) team is reimagining the builder experience through generative AI and foundation models. We're leveraging the latest advances in AI to transform how engineers work from IDE environments to web-based tools and services, empowering developers to tackle projects of any scale with unprecedented efficiency. Broadly, 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. Why AWS? Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses. Inclusive Team Culture 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 conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness. 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. Hybrid Work We value innovation and recognize this sometimes requires uninterrupted time to focus on a build. We also value in-person collaboration and time spent face-to-face. Our team affords employees options to work in the office every day or in a flexible, hybrid work model near one of our U.S. Amazon offices.
  • (Updated 17 days ago)
    Transform global logistics by developing innovative technological solutions that optimize complex international shipping networks. Join a dynamic team where your advanced scientific expertise will directly impact millions of packages moving across borders, solving intricate transportation challenges through groundbreaking applied science. Key job responsibilities - Develop advanced deep learning and generative AI applications for sophisticated product classification systems - Lead complex modeling analyses to support strategic business decision-making and policy development - Partner with engineering and operations teams to design transformative machine learning solutions for transportation challenges - Design and document technical strategies and applied science roadmaps - Innovate and provide technological direction in international imports and exports logistics A day in the life Your workday will be an exciting blend of data exploration, innovative problem-solving, and collaborative technology development. You'll dive into complex datasets, design sophisticated machine learning models, engage with cross-functional teams, and create technological solutions that reshape international shipping capabilities. About the team We are a passionate group of scientists and engineers dedicated to building comprehensive transportation technologies. Our mission is to create highly scalable, intelligent systems that enable seamless international package movement. By pushing technological boundaries, we're reimagining global logistics through innovative applied science. Amazon offers a full range of benefits that support you and eligible family members, including domestic partners and their children. Benefits can vary by location, the number of regularly scheduled hours you work, length of employment, and job status such as seasonal or temporary employment. The benefits that generally apply to regular, full-time employees include: 1. Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage 2. Maternity and Parental Leave Options 3. Paid Time Off (PTO) 4. 401(k) Plan Learn more about our benefits here: https://www.amazon.jobs/en/internal/benefits/us-benefits-and-stock
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 3109417
    (Updated 15 days ago)
    The AWS Supply Chain organization is looking for a Sr. Manager of Applied Science to lead science and data teams working on innovative AI-powered supply chain solutions. As part of the AWS Solutions organization, we have a vision to provide business applications, leveraging Amazon’s unique experience and expertise, that are used by millions of companies worldwide to manage day-to-day operations. We will accomplish this by accelerating our customers’ businesses through delivery of intuitive and differentiated technology solutions that solve enduring business challenges. We blend vision with curiosity and Amazon’s real-world experience to build opinionated, turnkey solutions. Where customers prefer to buy over build, we become their trusted partner with solutions that are no-brainers to buy and easy to use. Are you excited about developing state-of-the-art GenAI/Agentic AI based solutions for enterprise applications? As a Sr. Manager of Applied Scientist at AWS Supply Chain, you will bring AI advancements to customer facing enterprise applications. In this role, you will drive the technical vision and strategy for your team while fostering a culture of innovation and scientific excellence. You will be leading a fast-paced, cross-disciplinary team of researchers who are leaders in the field. You will take on challenging problems, distill real requirements, and then deliver solutions that either leverage existing academic and industrial research, or utilize your own out-of-the-box pragmatic thinking. In addition to coming up with novel solutions and prototypes, you may even need to deliver these to production in customer facing products. Key job responsibilities Building and mentoring teams of Applied Scientists, ML Engineers, and Data Scientists. Setting technical direction and research strategy aligned with business goals. Driving innovation in Supply Chains systems using AI/ML models and AI Agents. Collaborating with cross-functional teams to translate research into production. Managing project portfolios and resource allocation.
  • US, NY, New York
    Job ID: 3108476
    (Updated 64 days ago)
    Employer: Twitch Interactive, Inc. Position: Data Scientist III Location: New York, NY Multiple Positions Available: Own the data science elements of various products to help with data-based decision making, product performance optimization, and product performance tracking. Work directly with product managers to help drive the design of the product. Work with Technical Product Managers to help drive the build planning. Translate business problems and products into data requirements and metrics. Initiate the design, development, and implementation of scientific analysis projects or deliverables. Own the analysis, modelling, system design, and development of data science solutions for products. Write documents and make presentations that explain model/analysis results to the business. Bridge the degree of uncertainty in both problem definition and data scientific solution approaches. Build consensus on data, metrics, and analysis to drive business and system strategy. (40 hours / week, 8:00am-5:00pm, Salary Range $175100 - $236900) Amazon.com is an Equal Opportunity – Affirmative Action Employer – Minority / Female / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation

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