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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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  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 3144920
    (Updated 12 days ago)
    We are seeking a Senior Applied Scientist to join our team in developing pioneering AI research, Generative AI, Agentic AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), Diffusion and Flow Models, and other advanced Machine Learning and Deep Learning solutions for Amazon Selection and Catalog Systems, within the AI Lab Team. This role offers a unique opportunity to work on AI research and AI products that will shape the future of online shopping experiences. Our team operates at the forefront of AI research and development, working on challenges that directly impact millions of customers worldwide. We push the boundaries of AI at both the foundational and application layers. As a Senior Applied Scientist, you will have the chance to experiment with LLMs and deep learning techniques, apply your research to solve real-world problems at an unprecedented scale, and collaborate with experienced scientists to contribute to Amazon's scientific innovation. Join us in redefining the future of shopping. Your work will directly influence how customers interact with the world's largest online store. Key job responsibilities - Design and implement novel AI solutions for Amazon catalog of products - Develop and train state-of-the-art LLMs, Diffusion Models, and other Generative AI models - Build and deploy autonomous AI Agents in Amazon production ecosystem - Scale AI models to handle billions of diverse products across multiple languages and geographies - Conduct research in areas such as Autonomous AI Agents, Generative AI, Language Modeling, Multi-modality Computer Vision, Diffusion Models, Reinforcement Learning - Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate AI models into Amazon's production ecosystem - Contribute to the scientific community through publications and conference presentations
  • (Updated 7 days ago)
    You will be working with a unique and gifted team developing exciting products for consumers. The team is a multidisciplinary group of engineers and scientists engaged in a fast paced mission to deliver new products. The team faces a challenging task of balancing cost, schedule, and performance requirements. You should be comfortable collaborating in a fast-paced and often uncertain environment, and contributing to innovative solutions, while demonstrating leadership, technical competence, and meticulousness. Your deliverables will include development of thermal solutions, concept design, feature development, product architecture and system validation through to manufacturing release. You will support creative developments through application of analysis and testing of complex electronic assemblies using advanced simulation and experimentation tools and techniques. Key job responsibilities In this role, you will: - Evaluate and optimize thermal solution requirements of consumer electronic products - Use simulation tools like Star-CCM+ or FloTherm XT/EFD for analysis and design of products - Validate design modifications for thermal concerns using simulation and actual prototypes - Establish temperature thresholds for user comfort level and component level considering reliability requirements - Have intimate knowledge of various materials and heat spreaders solutions to resolve thermal issues - Use of programming languages like Python and Matlab for analytical/statistical analyses and automation - Collaborate as part of device team to iterate and optimize design parameters of enclosures and structural parts to establish and deliver project performance objectives - Design and execute of tests using statistical tools to validate analytical models, identify risks and assess design margins - Create and present analytical and experimental results - Develop and apply design guidelines based on project learnings About the team Amazon Lab126 is an inventive research and development company that designs and engineers high-profile consumer electronics. Lab126 began in 2004 as a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc., originally creating the best-selling Kindle family of products. Since then, we have produced devices like Fire tablets, Fire TV and Amazon Echo. What will you help us create?
  • (Updated 1 days ago)
    Amazon Advertising is one of Amazon's fastest growing and most profitable businesses, responsible for defining and delivering a collection of advertising solutions that drive product discovery and sales. We deliver billions of ad impressions every single day on behalf of our advertisers. You'll work with us to help our Advertising teams make sense of the torrent of data produced by the advertising lifecycle. We are using SOTA generative AI to help teams generate insights faster based on our massive data lake. You will need to invent new techniques for metrics retrieval and SQL generation to ensure we're retrieving accurate and trusted data. You'll create feedback loops to ensure our solution is constantly evaluating itself and improving. Being that this is for a conversational AI position, here is what our bot replied when we prompted it for a job description of who should help build it: Role Overview: We are looking for an exceptional applied scientist to join our team building SpektrBot, a conversational AI assistant that helps data engineers and analysts with their workflows. You will work closely with engineers and product managers to design, implement, and optimize natural language processing models like intent classification, named entity recognition, question answering, etc. that enable our Ads chatbot to understand user requests and have natural conversations. Responsibilities: Study and understand data engineering and analytics workflows to design the right conversational experiences Research, design, and develop NLP/NLU models for intent classification, entity extraction, sentiment analysis etc. Continuously improve models through techniques like active learning, transfer learning etc. Optimize models for metrics like precision, recall, latency, interpretability etc. Implement models within overall bot architecture and integrate with backend systems Collaborate with engineers to productionize and monitor models Stay up-to-date on latest advancements in conversational AI research, specifically in LLMs (multi-agent, chain of thought, autonomous agents) Be familiar with optimizing retrievers in RAG architectures. Key job responsibilities You will test multiple foundational models and fine tune when appropriate. You will create feedback loops that will evaluate performance and improve our systems. You will optimize prompts for better responses from our LLMs. You will build tools to auto-curate metadata using LLMs. A day in the life 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. About the team We have a small scrappy team carved out from a large Ads wide data lake team. We are swimming in petabytes of data that we help the organization make sense of. Our team's mission is to help anyone in the Ads org find the data they need using only natural language. We are a supportive and collaborative team who iterates quickly and shares in each others' successes.
  • SE, Stockholm
    Job ID: 3142763
    (Updated 14 days ago)
    Come build the future of entertainment with us. Are you interested in shaping the future of movies and television? Do you want to define the next generation of how and what Amazon customers are watching? Prime Video is a premium streaming service that offers customers a vast collection of TV shows and movies - all with the ease of finding what they love to watch in one place. We offer customers thousands of popular movies and TV shows including Amazon Originals and exclusive licensed content to exciting live sports events. We also offer our members the opportunity to subscribe to add-on channels which they can cancel at anytime and to rent or buy new release movies and TV box sets on the Prime Video Store. Prime Video is a fast-paced, growth business - available in over 200 countries and territories worldwide. The team works in a dynamic environment where innovating on behalf of our customers is at the heart of everything we do. If this sounds exciting to you, please read on. The Prime Video Sye Protocol team is looking for an Applied Scientist. This person will deliver features that automatically detect and prevent video quality issues before they reach millions of customers worldwide. You will lead the design of models that scale to very large quantities of video data across multiple dimensions. You will embody scientific rigor, designing and executing experiments to demonstrate the technical effectiveness and business value of your methods. You will work alongside engineering teams to deliver your research into production systems that ensure premium streaming experiences for customers globally. You will have demonstrated technical, teamwork and communication skills, and a motivation to deliver customer value from your research. Our team offers exceptional opportunities for you to grow your technical and non-technical skills and make a global impact. Key job responsibilities - Design, prototype and test many possible hypotheses in a high-ambiguity environment, making use of both quantitative analysis and business judgement to solve complex video defect detection challenges. - Collaborate with software engineers to integrate successful experimental results into Prime Video wide processes and production systems that operate at scale with minimal computational overhead. - Communicate results and insights to both technical and non-technical audiences, including presentations and written reports to stakeholders across engineering, operations, and content teams. A day in the life Your typical day starts investigating overnight video quality alerts and developing breakthrough detection algorithms. You'll collaborate with engineering teams on production deployment, analyze video data to uncover quality patterns, and work with transformers and video language models. About the team You'll join a team focused on delivering premium video experiences through scientific innovation. We build machine learning systems that automatically detect video quality issues across our global streaming platform, collaborating closely with engineering, operations, and content teams to solve video analysis challenges while ensuring customers never experience poor quality. Our team partners with leading universities to develop solutions and advance computer vision and machine learning techniques. We value scientific rigor whilst staying customer-focused, encouraging both innovative and practical solutions that scale globally. There are opportunities for high-impact publications and patent development that advance the entire field.
  • (Updated 14 days ago)
    AI is the most transformational technology of our time, capable of tackling some of humanity’s most challenging problems. That is why Amazon is investing in generative AI (GenAI) and the responsible development and deployment of large language models (LLMs) across all of our businesses. Come build the future of human-technology interaction with us. We are looking for a Research Scientist with strong technical skills which includes coding and natural language processing experience in dataset construction, training and evaluating models, and automatic processing of large datasets. You will play a critical role in driving innovation and advancing the state-of-the-art in natural language processing and machine learning. You will work closely with cross-functional teams, including product managers, language engineers, and other scientists. Key job responsibilities Specifically, the Research Scientist will: • Ensure quality of speech/language/other data throughout all stages of acquisition and processing, including data sourcing/collection, ground truth generation, normalization, transformation, cross-lingual alignment/mapping, etc. • Clean, analyze and select speech/language/other data to achieve goals • Build and test models that elevate the customer experience • Collaborate with colleagues from science, engineering and business backgrounds • Present proposals and results in a clear manner backed by data and coupled with actionable conclusions • Work with engineers to develop efficient data querying infrastructure for both offline and online use cases
  • (Updated 6 days ago)
    Are you a MS or PhD student interested in a 2026 internship in the field of machine learning, deep learning, generative AI, large language models and speech technology, robotics, computer vision, optimization, operations research, quantum computing, automated reasoning, or formal methods? If so, we want to hear from you! We are looking for students interested in using a variety of domain expertise to invent, design and implement state-of-the-art solutions for never-before-solved problems. You can find more information about the Amazon Science community as well as our interview process via the links below; https://www.amazon.science/ https://amazon.jobs/content/en/career-programs/university/science https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/university-roles/applied-science Key job responsibilities As an Applied Science Intern, you will own the design and development of end-to-end systems. You’ll have the opportunity to write technical white papers, create roadmaps and drive production level projects that will support Amazon Science. You will work closely with Amazon scientists and other science interns to develop solutions and deploy them into production. You will have the opportunity to design new algorithms, models, or other technical solutions whilst experiencing Amazon’s customer focused culture. The ideal intern must have the ability to work with diverse groups of people and cross-functional teams to solve complex business problems. A day in the life At Amazon, you will grow into the high impact person you know you’re ready to be. Every day will be filled with developing new skills and achieving personal growth. How often can you say that your work changes the world? At Amazon, you’ll say it often. Join us and define tomorrow. Some more benefits of an Amazon Science internship include; • All of our internships offer a competitive stipend/salary • Interns are paired with an experienced manager and mentor(s) • Interns receive invitations to different events such as intern program initiatives or site events • Interns can build their professional and personal network with other Amazon Scientists • Interns can potentially publish work at top tier conferences each year About the team Applicants will be reviewed on a rolling basis and are assigned to teams aligned with their research interests and experience prior to interviews. Start dates are available throughout the year and durations can vary in length from 3-6 months for full time internships. This role may available across multiple locations in the EMEA region (Austria, Estonia, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Spain, South Africa, UAE, and UK). Please note these are not remote internships.
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 3142464
    (Updated 17 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! Amazon continues to develop its advertising program. Ads run in our Stores (including Consumer Stores, Books, Amazon Business, Whole Foods Market, and Fresh) and Media and Entertainment publishers (including Fire TV, Fire Tablets, Kindle, Alexa, Twitch, Prime Video, Freevee, Amazon Music, MiniTV, Audible, IMDb, and others). In addition to these first-party (1P) publishers, we also deliver ads on third-party (3P) publishers. We have a number of ad products, including Sponsored Products and Sponsored Brands, display and video products for smaller brands, including Sponsored Display and Sponsored TV. We also operate ad tech products, including Amazon Marketing Cloud (a clean-room for advertisers), Amazon Publisher Cloud (a clean-room for publishers), and Amazon DSP (an enterprise-level buying tool that brings together our ad tech for buying video, audio, and display ads). Key job responsibilities This role is focused on developing core models that will be the foundational of the core advertising-facing tools that we are launching. You will conduct literature reviews to stay on the current news in the field. You will regularly engage with product managers and technical program managers, who will partner with you to productize your work.
  • (Updated 19 days ago)
    Are you fascinated by the power of Large Language Models (LLM) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to transform the way we learn and interact with technology? Are you passionate about applying advanced machine learning (ML) techniques to solve complex challenges in the cloud learning space? If so, AWS Training & Certification (T&C) team has an exciting opportunity for you as an Applied Scientist. At AWS T&C, we strive to be leaders in not only how we learn about the latest AI/ML development and AWS services, but also how the same technologies transform the way we learn about them. As an Applied Scientist, you will join a talented and collaborative team that is dedicated to driving innovation and delivering exceptional experiences in our Skill Builder platform for both new learners and seasoned developers. You will be a part of a global team that is focused on transforming how people learn. The position will interact with global leaders and teams across the globe as well as different business and technical organizations. Join us at the AWS T&C Science Team and become a part of a global team that is redefining the future of cloud learning. With access to vast amounts of data, exciting new technology, and a diverse community of talented individuals, you will have the opportunity to make a meaningful impact on the ways how worldwide learners engage with our learning system and builders develop on our platform. Together, we will drive innovation, solve complex problems, and shape the future of future-generation cloud builders. Please visit https://skillbuilder.awsto learn more. Key job responsibilities - Apply your expertise in LLM to design, develop, and implement scalable machine learning solutions that address challenges in discovery and engagement for our international audiences. - Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including software engineers, data engineers, scientists, and product managers, to define project requirements, establish success metrics, and deliver high-quality solutions. - Conduct thorough data analysis to gain insights, identify patterns, and drive actionable recommendations that enhance operational performance and customer experiences across Skill Builder. - Continuously explore and evaluate state-of-the-art techniques and methodologies to improve the accuracy and efficiency of AI/ML systems. - Communicate complex technical concepts effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, providing clear explanations and guidance on proposed solutions and their potential impact. About the team 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. Diverse Experiences AWS 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. 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.
  • US, CA, Culver City
    Job ID: 3140966
    (Updated 11 days ago)
    MULTIPLE POSITIONS AVAILABLE Employer: AMAZON.COM SERVICES LLC Offered Position: Sr Manager, Economist Job Location: Culver City, California Job Number: AMZ9443381 Position Responsibilities: Lead multiple teams of data scientists, economists, and technical professionals to deliver strategically significant economic models and analytical architectures. Establish optimal team structures to meet long-term customer, business, and technological needs. Evaluate and advocate for large-scale scientific initiatives spanning multiple years while prioritizing resolution of systemic problems. Collaborate with executive stakeholders up to S-team level. Drive innovation in scientific methodologies while ensuring data quality, validity, and operational excellence. Identify strategic opportunities for new scientific teams and specializations. Implement closed-loop mechanisms to monitor project health and ensure on-time delivery. Responsible for talent development, creating a positive culture, and conducting talent reviews. 40 hours / week, 8:00am-5:00pm, Salary Range $208,300/year to $281,800/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
  • IN, KA, Bengaluru
    Job ID: 3141754
    (Updated 17 days ago)
    Do you want to join an innovative team of scientists who use machine learning and statistical techniques to create state-of-the-art solutions for providing better value to Amazon’s customers? Do you want to build and deploy advanced algorithmic systems that help optimize millions of transactions every day? Are you excited by the prospect of analyzing and modeling terabytes of data to solve real world problems? Do you like to own end-to-end business problems/metrics and directly impact the profitability of the company? Do you like to innovate and simplify? If yes, then you may be a great fit to join the Machine Learning and Data Sciences team for India Consumer Businesses. If you have an entrepreneurial spirit, know how to deliver, love to work with data, are deeply technical, highly innovative and long for the opportunity to build solutions to challenging problems that directly impact the company's bottom-line, we want to talk to you. Major responsibilities - Use machine learning and analytical techniques to create scalable solutions for business problems - Analyze and extract relevant information from large amounts of Amazon’s historical business data to help automate and optimize key processes - Design, development, evaluate and deploy innovative and highly scalable models for predictive learning - Research and implement novel machine learning and statistical approaches - Work closely with software engineering teams to drive real-time model implementations and new feature creations - Work closely with business owners and operations staff to optimize various business operations - Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large scale data analyses, model development, model validation and model implementation - Mentor other scientists and engineers in the use of ML techniques A day in the life You will solve real-world problems by getting and analyzing large amounts of data, generate insights and opportunities, design simulations and experiments, and develop statistical and ML models. The team is driven by business needs, which requires collaboration with other Scientists, Engineers, and Product Managers across the International Emerging Stores organization. You will prepare written and verbal presentations to share insights to audiences of varying levels of technical sophistication. About the team Central Machine Learning team works closely with the IES business and engineering teams in building ML solutions that create an impact for Emerging Marketplaces. This is a great opportunity to leverage your machine learning and data mining skills to create a direct impact on millions of consumers and end users.

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