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  • GB, Cambridge
    Job ID: 3039341
    (Updated 4 days ago)
    Our team builds generative AI solutions that will produce some of the future’s most influential voices in media and art. We develop cutting-edge technologies with Amazon Studios, the provider of original content for Prime Video, with Amazon Game Studios and Alexa, the ground-breaking service that powers the audio for Echo. Do you want to be part of the team developing the future technology that impacts the customer experience of ground-breaking products? Then come join us and make history. We are looking for a passionate, talented, and inventive Applied Scientist with a background in Machine Learning to help build industry-leading Speech, Language, Audio and Video technology. As an Applied Scientist at Amazon you will work with talented peers to develop novel algorithms and generative AI models to drive the state of the art in audio (and vocal arts) generation. Position Responsibilities: * Participate in the design, development, evaluation, deployment and updating of data-driven models for digital vocal arts applications. * Participate in research activities including the application and evaluation and digital vocal and video arts techniques for novel applications. * Research and implement novel ML and statistical approaches to add value to the business. * Mentor junior engineers and scientists.
  • (Updated 3 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.
  • IN, KA, Bangalore
    Job ID: 3035262
    (Updated 65 days ago)
    The Amazon Selection and Catalog Systems team (ASCS) builds global selection and catalog management systems. The Selection Monitoring team is responsible for building the biggest product selection on the planet to satisfy our customers’ all shopping needs. We build platforms, systems and tools to create and take advantage of datasets that contains billions of records, use the latest machine learning, data processing technologies and a broad set of AWS technologies. In order to drive the expansion of Amazon selection, we use cluster-computing technologies such as MapReduce and Spark to process billions of products and find the products/brands not already sold on Amazon. We work with structured and unstructured content such as text and images and apply Machine Learning algorithms such as Clustering, Natural Language processing, Fuzzy matching and Image processing at a massive scale. We are looking for a Manager, Applied Science to tackle ambiguous problems in the areas of data processing, machine learning algorithms and distributed systems of cloud-scale. You are expected to take ownership, dive deep and drive solutions from developing prototypes, doing experiments, design to coding, testing and deployment. The role demands innovation and expects you to push the boundaries. You will get opportunity to work with many tech teams and business teams within Amazon and deliver solutions that will have an impact to both Amazon top-line & bottom line.
  • (Updated 38 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 16 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.
  • (Updated 44 days ago)
    Are you excited about solving complex business problems at scale through GenAI? Are you fascinated about the application of Agentic AI and LLMs on real-life scenarios? Are you looking to invent solutions that drive Autonomous Artificial Intelligence? If so, we are looking for you to fill a challenging position on Amazon's Trustworthy Shopping Experience (TSE) team. At TSE, our vision is to guarantee customers a worry-free shopping experience by earning their trust that the products they buy are safe, authentic, and compliant with regulations and policy, and giving them the confidence that Amazon stands behind every product and will make it right in the rare chance anything goes wrong. We do this in close partnership with our selling partners and empower them with best-in-class tools and expertise required to offer a high-quality selection of compliant products that customers trust. When we do this consistently, we help selling partners grow their business and power their long-term success. As an Applied Scientist on the team, you will be responsible for delivering the science solutions required to automate complex manual investigation processes, especially by leveraging LLMs. You will handle Amazon scale use-cases with significant impact to the cost of serving Customers. Key job responsibilities - You invent and design new solutions for scientifically-complex problem areas and/or opportunities in existing or new business initiatives. - You design experiments and define the science approach to solve critical business use-cases for automating manual work that involves unstructured text, documents, images, symbols, etc. - Your work focuses on ambiguous problem areas at the product level, where the business problem or opportunity may not yet be crisply defined. - You drive or heavily influence the design of scientifically-complex software solutions or systems, for which you personally write significant parts of the critical scientific novelty. - You provide a system-wide view and design guidance for solutions that can be brand new or evolve from existing ones. - You apply and set the example for best practices in software engineering, and systematically peer review code written by your team members. - You set standards and proactively drive components to use and improve on state-of-the-art techniques. - You autonomously drive thoughtful discussions with customers, engineers, and scientist peers, and build consensus on larger projects and factor complex efforts into independent tasks that can be performed by you and others. About the team Investigation technology Product team in TSE is responsible for the human-in-the-loop products and technology used in the risk investigations at Amazon. The team is also responsible for reducing the cost of performing the investigations, by automating wherever possible and optimizing the experience where manual interventions are needed. The team leverages state-of-the art technology and GenAI to deliver the products and associated goals.
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 3039422
    (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 next-level. We focus on creating entirely new products and services with a goal of positively impacting the lives of our customers. No industries or subject areas are out of bounds. If you’re interested in innovating at scale to address big challenges in the world, this is the team for you. Here at Amazon, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have thirteen employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We are constantly learning through programs that are local, regional, and global. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 16 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust. Key job responsibilities * Partner with laboratory science teams on design and analysis of experiments * Originate and lead the development of new data collection workflows with cross-functional partners * Develop and deploy scalable bioinformatics analysis and QC workflows * Evaluate and incorporate novel bioinformatic approaches to solve critical business 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.
  • (Updated 10 days ago)
    Come be a part of a rapidly expanding $35 billion-dollar global business. At Amazon Business, a fast-growing startup passionate about building solutions, we set out every day to innovate and disrupt the status quo. We stand at the intersection of tech & retail in the B2B space developing innovative purchasing and procurement solutions to help businesses and organizations thrive. At Amazon Business, we strive to be the most recognized and preferred strategic partner for smart business buying. Bring your insight, imagination and a healthy disregard for the impossible. Join us in building and celebrating the value of Amazon Business to buyers and sellers of all sizes and industries. Unlock your career potential. The Analytics Data Product & Tech (ADAPTech) team is a strategic partner to the WW Sales organization, playing a key role in driving sales productivity through three primary workstreams. First, the Analytics team provides data-driven insights and reporting tools to measure business, customer, and employee performance. Second, the Products and Science team develops transformative tools that help Account Executives (AEs) to prioritize accounts, recommend product features, and engage more effectively with customers. Finally, the Data Management and Governance teams ensure AEs have access to accurate and enriched customer information across our tools. We're seeking an Data Scientist to join our team to improve the productivity and efficiency of AEs. You'll be part of expanding GenAI capabilities and scaling its impact across global markets. A successful Data Scientist at Amazon demonstrates bias for action and operates in a startup environment, with leadership skills, and proven ability to build and manage medium-scale modeling projects, identify data requirements, build methodology and tools that are statistically grounded. We need great leaders to think big and design new solutions to solve complex problems using machine learning (ML) and Generative AI techniques to improve our customers’ experience when using AB. You have hands-on experience making the right decisions about technology, models and methodology choices. Key job responsibilities As a Data Scientist, you will primarily leverage machine learning techniques and generative AI to outreach customers based on their life cycle stage, behavioral patterns, and purchase history. You may also perform text mining and insight analysis of real-time customer conversations and make the model learn and recommend the solutions. Your work will directly impact the trust customers place in Amazon Business. You will partner with product management and technical leadership to identify opportunities to innovate customer journey experiences. You will identify new areas of investment and work to align product roadmaps to deliver on these opportunities. As a science leader, you will not only develop unique scientific solutions, but also play a crucial role in shaping strategies. Additional responsibilities include: - Ability to understand a business problem and the available data and identify what statistical or ML techniques can be applied to answer a business question - Design and lead large projects and experiments from beginning to end, and drive solutions to complex or ambiguous problems - Use broad expertise to recommend the right strategies, methodologies, and solve challenges using statistical modeling, machine learning, optimization, and/or other approaches for quantifiable impact on the business - Build models that measure incremental value, predict growth, define and conduct experiments to optimize engagement of AB customers, and communicate insights and recommendations to product, sales, and finance partners. A day in the life In this role, you will be a technical expert with significant scope and impact. You will work with Technical Product Managers, Data Engineers, other Scientists, and Salesforce developers, to build new and enhance existing ML models to optimize customer experience. You will prototype and test new ideas, iterate quickly, and deploy models to production. Also, you will conduct in-depth data analysis and feature engineering to build robust ML models.
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 3035662
    (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. Our products and solutions are strategically important to enable our Retail and Marketplace businesses to drive long-term growth. We deliver billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks and break fresh ground in product and technical innovations every day! As a Senior Data Scientist on this team you will: - Lead Data Science solutions from beginning to end. - Deliver with independence on challenging large-scale problems with complexity and ambiguity. - Write code (Python, R, Scala, SQL, etc.) to obtain, manipulate, and analyze data. - Build Machine Learning and statistical models to solve specific business problems. - Retrieve, synthesize, and present critical data in a format that is immediately useful to answering specific questions or improving system performance. - Analyze historical data to identify trends and support optimal decision making. - Apply statistical and machine learning knowledge to specific business problems and data. - Formalize assumptions about how our systems should work, create statistical definitions of outliers, and develop methods to systematically identify outliers. Work out why such examples are outliers and define if any actions needed. - Given anecdotes about anomalies or generate automatic scripts to define anomalies, deep dive to explain why they happen, and identify fixes. - Build decision-making models and propose effective solutions for the business problems you define. - Conduct written and verbal presentations to share insights to audiences of varying levels of technical sophistication. Why you will love this opportunity: Amazon has invested 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. 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. Team video ~ https://youtu.be/zD_6Lzw8raE
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 3035677
    (Updated 30 days ago)
    Amazon Advertising is one of Amazon's fastest growing and most profitable businesses. Amazon's advertising portfolio helps merchants, retail vendors, and brand owners succeed via native advertising, which grows incremental sales of their products sold through Amazon. The primary goals are to help shoppers discover new products they love, be the most efficient way for advertisers to meet their business objectives, and build a sustainable business that continuously innovates on behalf of customers. Our products and solutions are strategically important to enable our Retail and Marketplace businesses to drive long-term growth. We deliver billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks and break fresh ground in product and technical innovations every day! As an Applied Scientist on this team, you will: - Be a strong contributor to Machine Learning; lending effort within this team and across other teams. - Perform hands-on analysis and modeling of enormous data sets to develop insights that increase traffic monetization and merchandise sales, without compromising the shopper experience. - Drive end-to-end Machine Learning projects that have a high degree of ambiguity, scale, complexity. - 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. - 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. 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. 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. Team video https://youtu.be/zD_6Lzw8raE

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