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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.
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  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 10589082
    (Updated 7 days ago)
    Do you want to create the greatest-possible worldwide impact in Robotics? Amazon has the world's most exciting treasure trove of robotics challenges. At Amazon Robotics we build high-performance, real-time robotic systems that can perceive, learn, and act intelligently alongside humans—at Amazon scale. Amazon Robotics invents and scales AI systems for robotics in fulfillment. Our mission is to enable robots to interact safely, efficiently, and fluently high density real-world fulfillment centers. Our AI solutions enable robots to learn from their own experiences, from each other, and from humans to build intelligence that feeds itself. We hire and develop subject matter experts in AI with a focus on 3D perception, computer vision, deep learning, and generative modeling. We target high-impact algorithmic unlocks in areas such as 3D scene understanding and completion, semantic occupancy prediction, multi-view 3D reconstruction, depth estimation, shape completion, and real-time inference - all of which have high-value impact for our current and future fulfillment networks. We are seeking an passionate, hands-on, seasoned Senior Applied Scientist who will be deep in code and algorithms; who is technically strong in building scalable 3D perception systems across semantic scene completion, encoder-decoder and transformer architectures (e.g., VoxFormer, MonoScene), voxelized occupancy prediction, panoptic and instance segmentation, depth estimation, point cloud processing, and multi-view fusion. As a Senior Applied Scientist, you will contribute to the research and development of advanced 3D perception pipelines that enable robots to reason about occluded and partially observed environments; your work along with other top-notch scientists and engineers will deliver the world's most scalable and robust robotic perception systems. You will drive ideas to products using paradigms such as 3D generative models, query-based transformers, masked autoencoder-style completion, and scalable pseudo-ground-truth data generation. As a Senior Applied Scientist, you will also help lead and mentor our team of applied scientists and engineers. You will take on challenging perception problems - such as completing 3D bin scenes from partial observations, integrating multi-camera inputs, and optimizing inference latency for edge deployment - distill requirements, and then deliver solutions that either leverage existing academic and industrial research or utilize your own out-of-the-box but pragmatic thinking. In addition to coming up with novel solutions and prototypes, you will directly contribute to implementation while you lead. A successful candidate has excellent technical depth in 3D computer vision, scientific vision, project management skills, great communication skills, and a drive to achieve results in a collaborative team environment. You should enjoy the process of solving real-world problems that, quite frankly, haven't been solved at scale anywhere before. Along the way, we guarantee you'll get opportunities to be a disruptor, prolific innovator, and a reputed problem solver—someone who truly enables AI and robotics to significantly impact the lives of millions of consumers. Key job responsibilities Architect, design, and implement 3D perception models - including encoder-decoder networks, query-based transformers, and generative architectures- for semantic occupancy prediction and scene completion on robotic platforms. Own the end-to-end model lifecycle: develop scalable training pipelines, optimize inference latency for ARM-based edge processors, and deploy production models that meet real-time performance targets. Design and scale pseudo-ground-truth data generation pipelines - both heuristic-based and learning-based (e.g., SAM3D, shape completion) to produce curated training samples using SageMaker infrastructure. Drive multi-view perception integration by fusing multiple view camera inputs for robust 3D reconstruction in partially observed and occluded bin environments. Influence the team's technical strategy and contribute to the long-term vision and roadmap for 3D perception in fulfillment robotics. Partner with cross-functional stakeholders across engineering, science, and operations teams to define requirements, iterate on system design, and deliver end-to-end solutions from research prototype to production deployment. Maintain high standards by participating in design and code reviews, designing for fault tolerance and operational excellence, and creating mechanisms for continuous improvement. Prototype and validate concepts through simulation, synthetic data evaluation, and live robotic workcell testing using 3D metrics (mIoU, IoU) and affordance-based evaluation frameworks. Mentor applied scientists and engineers, raise the technical bar, and foster a culture of scientific rigor and rapid experimentation. A day in the life Amazon offers a full range of benefits that support you and eligible family members, including domestic partners. 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 If you are not sure that every qualification on the list above describes you exactly, we'd still love to hear from you! At Amazon, we value people with unique backgrounds, experiences, and skillsets. If you’re passionate about this role and want to make an impact on a global scale, please apply!
  • DE, BE, Berlin
    Job ID: 10588542
    (Updated 7 days ago)
    At Audible, we believe stories have the power to transform lives. It’s why we work with some of the world’s leading creators to produce and share audio storytelling with our millions of global listeners. We are dreamers and inventors who come from a wide range of backgrounds and experiences to empower and inspire each other. Imagine your future with us. ABOUT THIS ROLE As a Senior Applied Scientist, you will solve large complex real-world problems at scale, draw inspiration from the latest science and technology to empower undefined/untapped business use cases, delve into customer requirements, collaborate with tech and product teams on design, and create production-ready models that span various domains, including Machine Learning (ML), Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Generative AI, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Reinforcement Learning (RL), real-time and distributed systems. ABOUT YOU Your work will focus on inventing and extending scientific approaches, models, and algorithms driven by customer needs at the product level, framing new research problems even when the problem is ill-defined and no textbook solution exists. You will lead the design, implementation, and delivery of scientifically complex, end-to-end solutions that are deployed into production, defining system-level requirements and writing a significant portion of the critical-path code. You will develop reusable science components and services that resolve architecture deficiencies and customers’ pain points, while making technical trade-offs for long-term/short-term. You will work independently with limited guidance, and your decision-making will consistently incorporate robust, data-driven business and technical judgment. You will drive your team’s scientific agenda, author internal or external peer-reviewed publications that validate the novelty of your work, mentor and develop other scientists, and build consensus across multiple teams. You will have the opportunity to innovate, invent, and think big, and influence the experiences of millions of customers. We are looking for a results-oriented Senior Applied Scientist with deep expertise in ML, NLP, Deep Learning, GenAI, and/or large-scale distributed computation. As an Applied Scientist, you will... - Understand complex, ambiguous use cases across the business and adopt/extend/design/invent solutions/models that are scalable, efficient, and automated, where neither the problem nor the solution is well defined - Work closely with fellow scientists and software engineers (at Audible and Amazon) to build and productionize models, and deliver novel and highly impactful features - Review models of peers for the purpose of reducing and managing risk to the business, while improving customer experience - Lead the design, development, and production deployment of scientifically complex, end-to-end solutions for Content Understanding, Recommendations, and GenAI-based product features, defining system-level requirements - Drive and lead initiatives that employ the most recent advances in ML/AI/GenAI, drive your team’s scientific agenda, and author peer-reviewed publications - Mentor and grow scientists on the team and across Amazon, and push the boundary of innovation ABOUT AUDIBLE Audible is the leading producer and provider of audio storytelling. We spark listeners’ imaginations, offering immersive, cinematic experiences full of inspiration and insight to enrich our customers daily lives. We are a global company with an entrepreneurial spirit. We are dreamers and inventors who are passionate about the positive impact Audible can make for our customers and our neighbors. This spirit courses throughout Audible, supporting a culture of creativity and inclusion built on our People Principles and our mission to build more equitable communities in the cities we call home.
  • (Updated 4 days ago)
    Come shape the future of robotic sensing hardware by building the computer vision and ML systems that define how every robot in Amazon's global fulfillment network sees, senses, and understands the world. This is applied science embedded in a hardware development team where you directly shape what gets built, manufactured, and deployed at scale. As a Senior Applied Scientist on the Amazon Robotics Sensing and Compute hardware team, you will be the ML and perception expert working alongside the Principal Applied Scientist and Principal Hardware Development Engineer to shape the future of deployed and scaled sensing hardware. You will influence sensor selection, compute architecture, optical design, and system level trade offs, ensuring the hardware we build is purpose designed for the algorithms that run on it. You will help define what the next generation of cameras, depth sensors, and edge compute modules need to be, and then prove it with data, experimentation, and production validation. What makes this role unique: -Embedded in the hardware development team, directly influencing what gets designed, manufactured, and shipped -Partner with the Principal Engineers to co define the sensing and compute hardware roadmap for every major Amazon Robotics program -Own the ML experimentation and validation that drives hardware architecture decisions for cameras, depth sensors, and edge compute -Solve perception problems no other company is tackling: safety rated vision, multi modal sensor fusion, and real time inference on resource constrained hardware -Ship to hundreds of fulfillment sites worldwide across autonomous mobile robots, manipulation workcells, barcode sensing, and safety rated human collaborative systems -Your work does not sit in a research queue. It goes into production hardware that enables the future of Amazon Robotics Key job responsibilities -Partner with the Principal Hardware Development Engineer and Principal Applied Scientist to co define sensing and compute hardware requirements, ensuring ML and perception needs drive sensor selection, optical design, compute architecture, and system level trade offs -Develop and optimize computer vision and deep learning models for robotic perception including object detection, depth estimation, scene understanding, and barcode recognition, purpose built for edge deployment on resource constrained hardware -Lead ML experimentation and validation that directly informs hardware architecture decisions for cameras, depth sensors, and edge compute modules -Design and execute benchmarking frameworks to evaluate sensing hardware performance across diverse robotic use cases, providing data driven recommendations on what to build next -Optimize models for production edge deployment including quantization, pruning, distillation, and inference pipeline tuning to meet strict latency, power, and accuracy requirements -Drive research and experimentation on next generation perception capabilities in collaboration with the Principal Applied Scientist, including multi modal sensor fusion, safety rated vision, and real time inference for autonomous and human collaborative robotics -Collaborate cross functionally with hardware engineers, software developers, and robotics program teams to transition models from prototype through production validation and fleet deployment -Contribute to the sensing and compute hardware roadmap alongside the Principal Applied Scientist, identifying where ML trends and emerging capabilities require new hardware architecture or sensor modalities -Mentor engineers and scientists on ML best practices for embedded systems and production robotics -Publish and present research to advance the state of the art in robotic perception A day in the life In this role you will work at the intersection of machine learning and physical robotics hardware. You will collaborate with hardware engineers to evaluate how your models perform on real sensors and edge compute, run experiments that directly influence what gets built next, and validate perception systems alongside robotics program teams. You will push the boundaries of computer vision for robotic applications while seeing your work deploy on real robots in real fulfillment centers. This is applied science with immediate, measurable impact at a scale no other robotics company can offer. Amazon offers a full range of benefits that support you and eligible family members, including domestic partners. 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 If you are not sure that every qualification on the list above describes you exactly, we'd still love to hear from you! At Amazon, we value people with unique backgrounds, experiences, and skillsets. If you’re passionate about this role and want to make an impact on a global scale, please apply! About the team The Amazon Robotics Sensing and Compute team powers a customer centric ecosystem built for speed, quality, and innovation. We stay ahead of sensing and compute technology, standardize reusable and cost effective modules, and pair them with deep engineering expertise and a robust supply chain. Every customer gets the right solution, whether off the shelf, rapidly customized, or purpose built, easy to integrate and ready to scale. We are a small, fast moving team of builders who own the full stack from optics through edge compute and take pride in shipping production hardware that enables every major robotics program in Amazon's global fulfillment network. If you want your work to matter on day one, this is the team.
  • IN, KA, Bengaluru
    Job ID: 10593286
    (Updated 3 days ago)
    Help millions of authors around the world get their books published, discovered, and supported. As one of the first scientists on our new team in Bengaluru, you'll help turn ideas into models authors rely on every day, building agentic solutions with large language models (LLMs), multimodal models, and fine-tuning. Key job responsibilities - Build the multi-agent system behind KDP's author support assistant: orchestration across specialized agents and tools, personalization, and the evaluation that drives its continuous improvement. - Build multimodal models of book attributes, and use them for similar-book search across languages, catalog quality, and category and keyword recommendations. - Post-train open models on KDP expertise (for example with supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning), and deploy them where they beat general-purpose models on accuracy, cost, or speed. - Work closely with our scientists in the US and with engineering partners to take your work to production, design rigorous offline and online experiments, and write clear readouts with recommendations. About the team Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) lets anyone publish a book. We are the science organization for Amazon's Books business, now building our science teams in Bengaluru. Our team works in three connected areas: a support assistant that answers authors' questions from their own account data, in every language KDP supports; multimodal models that use book attributes to keep the catalog trustworthy and help authors reach the right readers; and fine-tuned models that power the assistant and catalog models with KDP expertise. We serve authors, from first-time writers to full-time publishers. You will work closely with engineering, product, and policy partners. We value safety before speed and shared foundations over one-off fixes. Scientists here get dedicated time for innovation, which can lead to patents and conference papers.
  • IN, KA, Bengaluru
    Job ID: 10593555
    (Updated 3 days ago)
    Help millions of authors around the world get their books published, discovered, and supported. As one of the first scientists on our new team in Bengaluru, you'll help turn ideas into models authors rely on every day, building agentic solutions with large language models (LLMs), multimodal models, and fine-tuning. Key job responsibilities - Build the multi-agent system behind KDP's author support assistant: orchestration across specialized agents and tools, personalization, and the evaluation that drives its continuous improvement. - Build multimodal models of book attributes, and use them for similar-book search across languages, catalog quality, and category and keyword recommendations. - Post-train open models on KDP expertise (for example with supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning), and deploy them where they beat general-purpose models on accuracy, cost, or speed. - Work closely with our scientists in the US and with engineering partners to take your work to production, design rigorous offline and online experiments, and write clear readouts with recommendations. About the team Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) lets anyone publish a book. We are the science organization for Amazon's Books business, now building our science teams in Bengaluru. Our team works in three connected areas: a support assistant that answers authors' questions from their own account data, in every language KDP supports; multimodal models that use book attributes to keep the catalog trustworthy and help authors reach the right readers; and fine-tuned models that power the assistant and catalog models with KDP expertise. We serve authors, from first-time writers to full-time publishers. You will work closely with engineering, product, and policy partners. We value safety before speed and shared foundations over one-off fixes. Scientists here get dedicated time for innovation, which can lead to patents and conference papers.
  • IN, KA, Bengaluru
    Job ID: 10593544
    (Updated 3 days ago)
    Help authors around the world publish their books, reach readers, and get help when they need it. You'll build and lead our first science team in Bengaluru and shape the assistant authors turn to for answers and the models that keep the Books catalog trustworthy. Key job responsibilities - Hire, develop, and retain a high-performing team of applied scientists across levels, and set its practices for experimentation, evaluation, reviews, publishing, and patents - Define the science strategy for how we help authors publish, grow, and succeed, balancing near-term launches with long-term bets - Partner with engineering, product, and policy teams to take science from prototype to production and measure its impact on authors - Write design and planning documents for your area, and present options, risks, and tradeoffs to senior leaders so they can decide - Work closely with our scientists in the US to deliver faster for our authors and improve their experience with our services About the team Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) lets anyone publish a book. We are the science organization for Amazon's Books business, now building our science teams in Bengaluru. Our team works in three connected areas: a support assistant that answers authors' questions from their own account data, in every language KDP supports; multimodal models that use book attributes to keep the catalog trustworthy and help authors reach the right readers; and fine-tuned models that power the assistant and catalog models with KDP expertise. We serve authors, from first-time writers to full-time publishers. We value safety before speed and shared foundations over one-off fixes. Scientists here get dedicated time for innovation, which can lead to patents and conference papers.
  • IN, KA, Bangalore
    Job ID: 10586334
    (Updated 11 days ago)
    Are you passionate about solving complex logistics challenges? Our Analytics team is at the forefront of enhancing delivery experiences through data-driven solutions and innovative technology. As a Research Scientist, you will join a team dedicated to optimizing our delivery network, ensuring reliable and efficient service to our customers. We are seeking an enthusiastic, customer-centric professional with strong analytical capabilities to drive impactful projects, implement advanced solutions, and develop scalable processes. In this role, you will have immediate ownership of business-critical challenges and the opportunity to make strategic, data-driven decisions that shape the future of our delivery operations. Your work will directly influence customer experience and operational excellence. The ideal candidate will possess both research science capabilities and program management skills, thriving in an environment that requires independent decision-making and comfort with ambiguity. This role offers the opportunity to make a significant impact on our advanced logistics network while working with pioneering technology and data science applications. Basic qualifications • 3+ years of building machine learning models for business application experience • Knowledge of programming languages such as C/C++, Python, Java or Perl • Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language • Experience with neural deep learning methods and machine learning Preferred qualifications: • PhD in engineering, technology, computer science, machine learning, robotics, operations research, statistics, mathematics or equivalent quantitative field • 5+ years of extensive relevant research experience • Deep expertise in Machine Learning • Proficiency in programming • Core competency in mathematics and statistics • Track record of successful projects in algorithm design and product development • Publications at peer-reviewed conferences or journals • Strategic thinker with good execution skills • Exhibits excellent business judgment • Effective verbal and written communication skills • Experience working with real-world data sets and building scalable models from big data • Experience with modern modeling tools and frameworks such as R, scikit-learn, Spark MLLib, MxNet, Tensorflow • Experience with large scale distributed systems
  • US, NY, New York
    Job ID: 10587524
    (Updated 10 days ago)
    We are seeking an Applied Scientist to lead the development of evaluation frameworks and data collection protocols for robotic capabilities. In this role, you will focus on designing how we measure, stress-test, and improve robot behavior across a wide range of real-world tasks. Your work will play a critical role in shaping how policies are validated and how high-quality datasets are generated to accelerate system performance. You will operate at the intersection of robotics, machine learning, and human-in-the-loop systems, building the infrastructure and methodologies that connect teleoperation, evaluation, and learning. This includes developing evaluation policies, defining task structures, and contributing to operator-facing interfaces that enable scalable and reliable data collection. The ideal candidate is highly experimental, systems-oriented, and comfortable working across software, robotics, and data pipelines, with a strong focus on turning ambiguous capability goals into measurable and actionable evaluation systems. Key job responsibilities - Design and implement evaluation frameworks to measure robot capabilities across structured tasks, edge cases, and real-world scenarios - Develop task definitions, success criteria, and benchmarking methodologies that enable consistent and reproducible evaluation of policies - Create and refine data collection protocols that generate high-quality, task-relevant datasets aligned with model development needs - Build and iterate on teleoperation workflows and operator interfaces to support efficient, reliable, and scalable data collection - Analyze evaluation results and collected data to identify performance gaps, failure modes, and opportunities for targeted data collection - Collaborate with engineering teams to integrate evaluation tooling, logging systems, and data pipelines into the broader robotics stack - Stay current with advances in robotics, evaluation methodologies, and human-in-the-loop learning to continuously improve internal approaches - Lead technical projects from conception through production deployment - Mentor junior scientists and engineers About the team Fauna Robotics, an Amazon company, is building capable, safe, and genuinely delightful robots for everyday life. Our goal is simple: make robots people actually want to live and interact with in everyday human spaces. We believe that future won’t arrive until building for robotics becomes far more accessible. Today, too much effort is spent reinventing the fundamentals. We’re changing that by developing tightly integrated hardware and software systems that make it faster, safer, and more intuitive to create real-world robotic products. Our work spans the full stack: mechanical design, control systems, dynamic modeling, and intelligent software. The focus is not just functionality, but experience. We’re building robots that feel responsive, expressive, and genuinely useful. At Fauna, you’ll work at the frontier of this space, helping define how robots move, manipulate, and interact with people in natural environments. It’s an opportunity to solve hard problems across hardware and software with a team focused on making robotics accessible and joyful to build. If you care about making robotics real for everyone and building systems that are as delightful as they are capable, we’re interested in hearing from you.
  • (Updated 8 days ago)
    Do you want to lead the Ads industry and redefine how we measure the effectiveness of Amazon Ads business? Are you passionate about causal inference, Deep Learning & AI, raising the science bar, and connecting leading-edge science research to Amazon-scale implementation? If so, come join Amazon Ads to be a science leader within our Advertising Incrementality Measurement science team! Our work builds the foundations for providing customer-facing advertising measurement tools, furthering internal research & development, and building out Amazon's advertising measurement offerings. Incrementality is a lynchpin for the next generation of Amazon Advertising measurement solutions, and this role will play a key role in the release and expansion of these offerings. We are looking for a thought leader that has an aptitude for delivering customer-focused solutions and who enjoys working on the intersection of Big-Data analytics, Machine/Deep Learning, and Causal Inference. A successful candidate will be a self-starter, comfortable with ambiguity, able to think big and be creative, while still paying careful attention to detail. You should be able to translate how data represents the customer journey, be comfortable dealing with large and complex data sets, and have experience using machine learning and/or econometric modeling to solve business problems. You should have strong analytical and communication skills, be able to work with product managers to define key business questions and work with the engineering team to bring our solutions into production. You will join a highly collaborative and diverse working environment that will empower you to shape the future of Amazon advertising, and also allow you to become part of our large science community. Key job responsibilities • Apply expertise in ML/DL, AI, and causal modeling to develop new models that describe how advertising impacts customers’ actions • Own the end-to-end development of novel scientific models that address the most pressing needs of our business stakeholders and help guide their future actions • Improve upon and simplify our existing solutions and frameworks • Review and audit modeling processes and results for other scientists, both junior and senior • Work with leadership to align our scientific developments with the business strategy • Identify new opportunities that are suggested by the data insights • Bring a department-wide perspective into decision making • Develop and document scientific research to be shared with the greater science community at Amazon About the team AIM is a cross disciplinary team of engineers, product managers, economists, data scientists, and applied scientists with a charter to build scientifically-rigorous causal inference methodologies at scale. Our job is to help customers cut through the noise of the modern advertising landscape and understand what actions, behaviors, and strategies actually have a real, measurable impact on key outcomes. The data we produce becomes the effective ground truth for advertisers and partners making decisions affecting millions in advertising spend.
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 10588446
    (Updated 7 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 extreme. 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. 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.

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