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  • 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 Scientist to bring diverse perspectives, ideas, and skill-sets to make Prime Video even better for our customers. You will spend your time as a hands-on machine learning practitioner and a research leader. You will play a key role on the team, building and guiding machine learning models from the ground up. 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 Develop foundation models for content understanding using state-of-the-art deep learning and multimodal learning techniques to analyze video, audio, and text. Build time sequence foundation models to understand and predict customer behavior patterns and viewing trajectories. Work closely with engineers and product managers to design, implement and launch solutions end-to-end across various Prime Video experiences. Design and conduct offline and online (A/B) experiments to evaluate proposed solutions based on in-depth data analyses. Effectively communicate technical and non-technical ideas with teammates and stakeholders. Stay up-to-date with advancements and the latest modeling techniques in foundation models, multimodal learning, and time series analysis. Publish your research findings in top conferences and journals. About the team Prime Video Recommendation Science team owns science solution to power recommendation and personalization experience on various Prime Video surfaces and devices. We work closely with the engineering teams to launch our solutions in production.
  • US, NY, New York
    Job ID: 10524287
    (Updated 3 days ago)
    We are seeking an Applied Scientist to develop and optimize Visual Inertial Odometry (VIO) and sensor fusion systems for our intelligent robots. In this role, you will design, implement, and deploy state estimation and tracking algorithms that enable robots to understand their position and motion in real time, even in challenging and dynamic environments. You will own the full pipeline from algorithm development through embedded deployment, ensuring that perception systems run efficiently on resource-constrained robotic hardware. You will also leverage modern machine learning approaches to push the boundaries of classical perception methods, combining learned representations with geometric techniques to achieve robust, real-time performance. This is a deeply hands-on role. You will work directly with sensors, hardware, and real-world data, while prototyping, testing, and iterating in physical environments. The ideal candidate has strong foundations in VIO and sensor fusion, practical experience optimizing algorithms for embedded platforms, and familiarity with how modern deep learning is transforming perception. Key job responsibilities - Design and implement Visual Inertial Odometry algorithms for robust real-time state estimation on robotic platforms like Sprout - Develop multi-sensor fusion pipelines integrating cameras, IMUs, and other sensing modalities for accurate pose tracking - Optimize perception and tracking algorithms for deployment on embedded hardware (e.g., ARM, GPU-accelerated edge devices) under strict latency and power constraints - Apply modern ML-based perception techniques (learned features, depth estimation, neural odometry) to complement and improve classical geometric approaches - Build and maintain calibration, evaluation, and benchmarking infrastructure for perception systems - Collaborate with hardware, controls, and navigation teams to integrate perception outputs into the robot’s autonomy stack - Lead technical projects from research prototyping through production deployment
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    The Sponsored Products and Brands team at Amazon Ads is re-imagining the advertising landscape through industry leading generative AI technologies, revolutionizing how millions of customers discover products and engage with brands across Amazon.com and beyond. We are at the forefront of re-inventing advertising experiences, bridging human creativity with artificial intelligence to transform every aspect of the advertising lifecycle from ad creation and optimization to performance analysis and customer insights. We are a passionate group of innovators dedicated to developing responsible and intelligent AI technologies that balance the needs of advertisers, enhance the shopping experience, and strengthen the marketplace. If you're energized by solving complex challenges and pushing the boundaries of what's possible with AI, join us in shaping the future of advertising. As a Senior Applied Scientist within the Brand Intelligence team, you will be responsible for improving the quality of underlying agentic solutions and their impact within the ads delivery stack. We are looking for a passionate candidate with technical expertise in agentic systems, continual learning, evaluation, information retrieval, Natural Language Processing (NLP), and Large Language Models (LLM). In addition to having hands-on experience in building ML-based solutions, an ideal candidate should be able to create and articulate a customer-centric science vision, show willingness to continuously learn about new scientific approaches, and enjoy operating in startup-like environment.
  • US, NY, New York
    Job ID: 10525926
    (Updated 3 days ago)
    The Sponsored Products and Brands team at Amazon Ads is re-imagining the advertising landscape through cutting-edge generative AI technologies, revolutionizing how millions of customers discover products and engage with brands across Amazon.com and beyond. We are at the forefront of re-inventing advertising experiences, bridging human creativity with artificial intelligence to transform every aspect of the advertising lifecycle from ad creation and optimization to performance analysis and customer insights. We are a passionate group of innovators dedicated to developing responsible and intelligent AI technologies that balance the needs of advertisers, enhance the shopping experience, and strengthen the marketplace. If you're energized by solving complex challenges and pushing the boundaries of what's possible with AI, join us in shaping the future of advertising. Key job responsibilities - Define and lead science initiatives from problem framing through production deployment in a high-ambiguity environment - Develop and deploy models spanning computer vision, language, and search and retrieval that operate on multimodal inputs at scale - Design and analyze large-scale online experiments to measure impact on shopper and advertiser outcomes - Collaborate with engineering, product, and design to ship science into production A day in the life As an Applied Scientist on the Sponsored Videos team, you will tackle problems at the intersection of computer vision, generative AI, search and retrieval, and personalization. You'll own the full science lifecycle from research and experimentation through online testing and production deployment, working closely with engineering, product, and design partners to bring ideas to market. You should be comfortable working with multimodal signals, building models that operate at scale, and measuring impact through rigorous experimentation. Your work will directly influence the experience of hundreds of millions of shoppers and the outcomes of tens of thousands of advertisers. About the team The Sponsored Videos team within Sponsored Products and Brands develops the science and systems behind video advertising experiences that connect advertisers and shoppers across Amazon. We are on a mission to make Amazon the best-in-class destination for shoppers to discover, engage with, and build affinity with brands through videos.
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 10530529
    (Updated 1 days ago)
    Are you excited about building at the intersection of enterprise AI and customer experience? Are you passionate about applying science to real customer problems? Do you want your work shaped by real-world conditions and validated through customer deployments? The Alexa Enterprise team is looking for a passionate, talented, and inventive Senior Applied Scientist with a strong background in speech and audio machine learning who thrives in a startup-style environment. In this role, you'll set scientific direction and lead the development of techniques to improve speech-to-text accuracy for domain-specific use cases and optimize the performance and latency of end-to-end audio pipelines. You'll lead work across model evaluation and selection, fine-tuning, data and evaluation strategies, and real-time inference optimization. You'll partner closely with software engineers to turn scientific advances into production capabilities, while working with enterprise customers to understand how speech and audio systems perform in their environments. You'll turn improvements inspired by one customer's needs into capabilities that serve many, while influencing teams around a shared scientific vision. We're a small, fast-moving team building AI-powered solutions at the intersection of Alexa AI capabilities and AWS cloud services. Our customers span healthcare, energy, retail, and insurance, and they're deploying in environments where the technical challenges are real and the feedback loops are immediate. Key job responsibilities - Set the scientific direction for improving speech-to-text accuracy across domain-specific use cases and real-world operating conditions - Lead the evaluation, selection, adaptation, and fine-tuning of speech and audio models based on accuracy, latency, cost, reliability, and deployment constraints - Drive improvements to the performance and latency of end-to-end audio pipelines, from signal processing and streaming through inference and transcription - Define datasets, benchmarks, experiments, and evaluation methodologies that reflect customer use cases - Lead the optimization of models and inference pipelines for reliable, real-time operation - Work directly with enterprise customers to understand quality challenges, validate scientific improvements, and identify opportunities for broader platform capabilities - Turn patterns from customer engagements into reusable models, evaluation methods, and scientific capabilities that scale across customers and industries - Influence and collaborate with software engineering and partner teams to productionize models, measure their performance, and continuously improve deployed systems - Write scientific and technical documents, lead reviews, and communicate experimental results and trade-offs to engineering, product, and business leaders - Mentor Applied Scientists and engineers, participate in hiring, and raise the team's science and engineering standards About the team The Alexa Enterprise team builds AI-powered solutions for businesses. We work with enterprise customers across healthcare, energy, retail, and insurance to deploy solutions that transform operations. Our team operates at the intersection of Alexa AI capabilities and AWS cloud services, partnering closely with AWS sales, product, and specialist teams to deliver customer outcomes. Our work brings together applied AI, speech and audio science, real-time systems, and cloud services. Senior Applied Scientists on the team have real ownership, from identifying and framing customer problems through setting scientific direction, experimentation, production integration, and measurement of customer impact. This is an opportunity to lead meaningful scientific work while helping shape a platform in its early stages.
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 10530528
    (Updated 1 days ago)
    Are you excited about building at the intersection of enterprise AI and customer experience? Are you passionate about applying science to real customer problems? Do you want your work shaped by real-world conditions and validated through customer deployments? The Alexa Enterprise team is looking for a passionate, talented, and inventive Senior Applied Scientist with a strong background in speech and audio machine learning who thrives in a startup-style environment. In this role, you'll set scientific direction and lead the development of techniques to improve speech-to-text accuracy for domain-specific use cases and optimize the performance and latency of end-to-end audio pipelines. You'll lead work across model evaluation and selection, fine-tuning, data and evaluation strategies, and real-time inference optimization. You'll partner closely with software engineers to turn scientific advances into production capabilities, while working with enterprise customers to understand how speech and audio systems perform in their environments. You'll turn improvements inspired by one customer's needs into capabilities that serve many, while influencing teams around a shared scientific vision. We're a small, fast-moving team building AI-powered solutions at the intersection of Alexa AI capabilities and AWS cloud services. Our customers span healthcare, energy, retail, and insurance, and they're deploying in environments where the technical challenges are real and the feedback loops are immediate. Key job responsibilities - Set the scientific direction for improving speech-to-text accuracy across domain-specific use cases and real-world operating conditions - Lead the evaluation, selection, adaptation, and fine-tuning of speech and audio models based on accuracy, latency, cost, reliability, and deployment constraints - Drive improvements to the performance and latency of end-to-end audio pipelines, from signal processing and streaming through inference and transcription - Define datasets, benchmarks, experiments, and evaluation methodologies that reflect customer use cases - Lead the optimization of models and inference pipelines for reliable, real-time operation - Work directly with enterprise customers to understand quality challenges, validate scientific improvements, and identify opportunities for broader platform capabilities - Turn patterns from customer engagements into reusable models, evaluation methods, and scientific capabilities that scale across customers and industries - Influence and collaborate with software engineering and partner teams to productionize models, measure their performance, and continuously improve deployed systems - Write scientific and technical documents, lead reviews, and communicate experimental results and trade-offs to engineering, product, and business leaders - Mentor Applied Scientists and engineers, participate in hiring, and raise the team's science and engineering standards About the team The Alexa Enterprise team builds AI-powered solutions for businesses. We work with enterprise customers across healthcare, energy, retail, and insurance to deploy solutions that transform operations. Our team operates at the intersection of Alexa AI capabilities and AWS cloud services, partnering closely with AWS sales, product, and specialist teams to deliver customer outcomes. Our work brings together applied AI, speech and audio science, real-time systems, and cloud services. Senior Applied Scientists on the team have real ownership, from identifying and framing customer problems through setting scientific direction, experimentation, production integration, and measurement of customer impact. This is an opportunity to lead meaningful scientific work while helping shape a platform in its early stages.
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 10530527
    (Updated 1 days ago)
    Are you excited about building at the intersection of enterprise AI and customer experience? Are you passionate about applying science to real customer problems? Do you want your work shaped by real-world conditions and validated through customer deployments? The Alexa Enterprise team is looking for a passionate, talented, and inventive Applied Scientist with a strong background in speech and audio machine learning who thrives in a startup-style environment. In this role, you’ll develop and apply scientific techniques to improve speech-to-text accuracy for domain-specific use cases and optimize the performance and latency of end-to-end audio pipelines. You’ll work across model evaluation and selection, fine-tuning, data and evaluation strategies, and real-time inference optimization. You’ll partner closely with software engineers to turn scientific advances into production capabilities, while working with enterprise customers to understand how speech and audio systems perform in their environments. The improvements inspired by one customer’s needs become capabilities that serve many. We’re a small, fast-moving team building AI-powered solutions at the intersection of Alexa AI capabilities and AWS cloud services. Our customers span healthcare, energy, retail, and insurance, and they’re deploying in environments where the technical challenges are real and the feedback loops are immediate. Key job responsibilities - Develop and apply modeling techniques to improve speech-to-text accuracy for domain-specific use cases and real-world operating conditions - Evaluate, select, adapt, and fine-tune speech and audio models based on accuracy, latency, cost, reliability, and deployment constraints - Improve the performance and latency of end-to-end audio pipelines, from signal processing and streaming through inference and transcription - Design datasets, benchmarks, experiments, and evaluation methodologies that reflect customer use cases - Optimize models and inference pipelines for reliable, real-time operation - Work directly with enterprise customers to understand quality challenges, validate scientific improvements, and identify opportunities for broader platform capabilities - Turn patterns from customer engagements into reusable models, evaluation methods, and scientific capabilities that scale across customers and industries - Collaborate with software engineers to productionize models, measure their performance, and continuously improve deployed systems - Write scientific and technical documents, lead reviews, and communicate experimental results and trade-offs to engineering, product, and business stakeholders - Contribute to the team’s scientific direction, mentor teammates, participate in hiring, and improve science and engineering processes About the team The Alexa Enterprise team builds AI-powered solutions for businesses. We work with enterprise customers across healthcare, energy, retail, and insurance to deploy solutions that transform operations. Our team operates at the intersection of Alexa AI capabilities and AWS cloud services, partnering closely with AWS sales, product, and specialist teams to deliver customer outcomes. Our work brings together applied AI, speech and audio science, real-time systems, and cloud services. Applied Scientists on the team have real ownership, from identifying and framing customer problems through experimentation, production integration, and measurement of customer impact. This is an opportunity to solve meaningful scientific problems while helping shape a platform in its early stages.
  • (Updated 1 days ago)
    The Sponsored Products and Brands team at Amazon Ads is re-imagining the advertising landscape through generative AI technologies, revolutionizing how millions of customers discover products and engage with brands across Amazon.com and beyond. We are at the forefront of re-inventing advertising experiences, bridging human creativity with artificial intelligence to transform every aspect of the advertising lifecycle from ad creation and optimization to performance analysis and customer insights. We are a passionate group of innovators dedicated to developing responsible and intelligent AI technologies that balance the needs of advertisers, enhance the shopping experience, and strengthen the marketplace. If you're energized by solving complex challenges and pushing the boundaries of what's possible with AI, join us in shaping the future of advertising. We are looking for a Senior Applied Scientist to build the science that helps Amazon's advertisers grow — with a focus on Cross Border Sellers who face distinct barriers as they scale across multiple marketplaces, and this role is about understanding those pain points deeply and removing them: building intelligent, autonomous solutions that simplify advertising, act efficiently on the advertiser's behalf, and let advertisers accelerate their growth and success. We expect a Senior Scientist to think innovatively about how to reduce the effort and complexity of advertising for these advertisers. Working backwards from their needs — spanning hands-off sellers and global brands with cross-marketplace operations — you will take the lead on medium-to-large, ambiguous problems where neither the problem nor the solution is well defined, invent new methods, validate them through rigorous experimentation, and deliver customer-facing products with measurable business impact. This role combines science depth, product focus, and hands-on engineering: you will raise the science bar, build consensus on approach across product and engineering partners, and mentor scientists and engineers while remaining deeply hands-on with the hardest technical problems. Key job responsibilities As a Senior Applied Scientist on this team you will: - Understand the pain points of Cross border advertisers as they scale across marketplaces, and build science-driven solutions that remove barriers and accelerate their growth and success. - Build agentic and ML systems that autonomously create, structure, and manage ad campaigns on advertisers' behalf, encoding auction and marketplace dynamics (bidding, budget pacing, targeting decisions) while balancing advertiser ROI, shopper experience, and marketplace health. - Innovate on new, simpler ways to advertise powered by GenAI, and push the frontier of existing autonomous programs (e.g., auto-targeting, global lift-and-shift) while proposing and prototyping the next generation of campaign automation. - Develop models across the campaign lifecycle — opportunity discovery, ranking, ad-readiness and demand prediction, and bid/budget optimization — and apply the right approach for each problem, from classical ML to LLM/reasoning methods. - Define and curate the datasets and signals needed to train and evaluate these systems — advertiser and campaign data, cross-marketplace performance, auction and bid/budget signals, impressions, clicks, conversions, and search-term/keyword performance. - Own core parts of the agentic architecture — planning, tool use and integration (e.g., MCP), reasoning frameworks (e.g., ReAct, CoT/ToT), and model customization — and define evaluation and safety methodology so that automated decisions are reliable and trustworthy. - Stay deeply hands-on: write production-quality, critical-path code and build core components that take systems from prototype to launch on large-scale pipelines (Spark/EMR, Airflow) and online serving. - Raise the science bar: mentor scientists and engineers, review designs and experiment plans, and communicate results and tradeoffs clearly to technical and business leaders. About the team Autonomous SP drives growth and simplifies advertising for Amazon's hands-off advertisers by creating and enhancing autonomous campaign solutions. We lead existing successful programs, including auto-targeting and global lift-and-shift, and continually innovate by building new, simpler campaign constructs powered by GenAI to act efficiently on advertisers' behalf. Cross-border Seller Experience (CBSX) focuses on developing targeted solutions for domestic and global advertisers with multi-marketplace operations. By understanding and addressing their unique Seller Central needs, we optimize for cross-marketplace efficiency, improved performance, and streamlined advertising experiences. Our team operates horizontally, delivering impactful solutions that benefit both hands-on and hands-off advertisers globally. Together, we sit within Sponsored Products and Brands, which is re-imagining advertising through the latest generative AI — building responsible, intelligent systems that balance the needs of advertisers, the shopping experience, and marketplace health.
  • US, MA, N.reading
    Job ID: 10520542
    (Updated 4 days ago)
    Amazon is seeking exceptional talent to help develop the next generation of advanced robotics systems that will transform automation at Amazon's scale. We're building revolutionary robotic systems that combine cutting-edge AI, sophisticated control systems, and advanced mechanical design to create adaptable automation solutions capable of working safely alongside humans in dynamic environments. This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of robotics and automation at an unprecedented scale, working with world-class teams pushing the boundaries of what's possible in robotic dexterous manipulation, locomotion, and human-robot interaction. This role presents an opportunity to shape the future of robotics through innovative applications of deep learning and large language models. At Amazonwe leverage advanced robotics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence to solve complex operational challenges at an unprecedented scale. Our fleet of robots operates across hundreds of facilities worldwide, working in sophisticated coordination to fulfill our mission of customer excellence. The ideal candidate will contribute to research that bridges the gap between theoretical advancement and practical implementation in robotics. You will be part of a team that's revolutionizing how robots learn, adapt, and interact with their environment. Join us in building the next generation of intelligent robotics systems that will transform the future of automation and human-robot collaboration. Key job responsibilities - Collaborate with simulation and robotics experts to translate physical modeling needs into robust, scalable, and maintainable simulation solutions. - Design and implement high-performance simulation modeling and tools for rigid and deformable body simulation. - Identify and optimize performance bottlenecks in simulation pipelines to support real-time and batch simulation workflows. - Help build validation and unit testing pipelines to ensure correctness and physical fidelity of simulation results. - Identify potential sources of sim-to-real gaps and propose modeling and numerical approximations to reduce them. - Stay current with the latest advances in numerical methods, parallel computing, and GPU architectures, and incorporate them into our tools.
  • US, MA, North Reading
    Job ID: 10519878
    (Updated 2 days ago)
    robotics systems that will transform automation at Amazon's scale. We're building revolutionary robotic systems that combine cutting-edge AI, sophisticated control systems, and advanced mechanical design to create adaptable automation solutions capable of working safely alongside humans in dynamic environments. This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of robotics and automation at unprecedented scale, working with world-class teams pushing the boundaries of what's possible in robotic manipulation, locomotion, and human-robot interaction. This role presents an opportunity to shape the future of robotics through innovative applications of deep learning and large language models. At Amazon Industrial Robotics we leverage advanced robotics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence to solve complex operational challenges at unprecedented scale. Our fleet of robots operates across hundreds of facilities worldwide, working in sophisticated coordination to fulfill our mission of customer excellence. We are pioneering the development of robotics foundation models that: Enable unprecedented generalization across diverse tasks Enable unprecedented robustness and reliability, industry-ready Integrate multi-modal learning capabilities (visual, tactile, linguistic) Accelerate skill acquisition through demonstration learning Enhance robotic perception and environmental understanding Streamline development processes through reusable capabilities The ideal candidate will contribute to research that bridges the gap between theoretical advancement and practical implementation in robotics. You will be part of a team that's revolutionizing how robots learn, adapt, and interact with their environment. Join us in building the next generation of intelligent robotics systems that will transform the future of automation and human-robot collaboration. As an Applied Science Manager in the Foundation Model team, you will build and lead a team that develops and improves machine learning systems that help robots perceive, reason, and act in real-world environments. You will set the technical direction for leveraging state-of-the-art models (open source and internal research), evaluating them on representative tasks, and adapting/optimizing them to meet robustness, safety, and performance needs. You will drive the capability roadmap and the evaluation strategy that defines “what the robot brain can do,” and you will sponsor targeted innovation when gaps remain. You’ll collaborate closely with research, controls, hardware, and product teams, and ensure the team’s outputs can be further customized and deployed by downstream teams on specific robot embodiments.

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