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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 in artificial intelligence and related fields.
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  • US, NY, New York
    Job ID: 3021619
    (Updated 28 days ago)
    About Amazon Advertising: Amazon Advertising operates at the intersection of eCommerce and advertising, offering a rich array of digital display advertising solutions with the goal of helping our customers find and discover anything they want to buy. We help advertisers of all types to reach Amazon customers on Amazon.com, across our other owned and operated sites, on other high quality sites across the web, and on millions of mobile devices. We start with the customer and work backwards in everything we do, including advertising. If you’re interested in joining a rapidly growing team working to build a unique, world-class advertising group with a relentless focus on the customer, you’ve come to the right place. About our team: Our team, CreativeX optimizations, is responsible for tailoring the visual experience of ads to each context in real time. To accomplish this, we are investing in latent-diffusion models, large language models (LLM), reinforced learning (RL), Computer Vision, and related methods. Key job responsibilities We are looking for talented Applied Scientists who are adept at a variety of skills, especially with reinforcement learning and recommendations, and familiarity with LLMs, latent diffusion, or related foundational models that will accelerate our plans to dynamically optimize ad creatives on behalf of advertisers. Every member of the team is expected to build customer (advertiser) facing features, contribute to the collaborative spirit within the team, publish, patent, and bring state-of-the-art research to raise the bar within the team.
  • US, NY, New York
    Job ID: 3018188
    (Updated 53 days ago)
    Employer: Amazon.com Services LLC Position: Research Scientist II (multiple positions available) Location: New York, NY Multiple Positions Available: Interact with various software and business groups to develop an understanding of their business requirements and operational processes. Utilize acquired knowledge and business judgment to build decision-supporting and operational tools to improve the bottom line. Build quantitative mathematical models to represent a wide range of supply chain, transportation and logistics systems. Implement these models and tools through the use of modeling languages and engineering code in software languages such as Java, C++, C# or C. Gather required data for analysis and mathematical model building by writing ad-hoc scripts and database queries. Perform quantitative, economic, and numerical performance analyses of these systems under uncertainty using statistical and optimization tools. Create computer simulations to support operational decision-making. Identify areas with potential for improvement and work with internal teams to generate requirements to realize improvements. Design optimal or near optimal solution methodologies to be used by in-house decision support tools and software. Create software prototypes to verify and validate the devised solutions methodologies. Integrate prototypes into production systems using standard software development tools and methodologies.
  • US, CA, Santa Clara
    Job ID: 3019563
    (Updated 10 days ago)
    The Data and Artificial Intelligence (AI) team is a new function within Customer Engagement Technology. We own the end-to-end process of defining, building, implementing, and monitoring a comprehensive data strategy. We also develop and apply Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), Agentic AI, Data Science, Machine Learning (ML), Ontology, and Natural Language Processing (NLP) to enhance customer service associate and customer experiences. As a Senior Data Scientist, you'll own the definition and implementation of customer-focused, AI-driven innovation in Amazon Customer Service globally, leveraging Data Science, Agentic AI, GenAI, ML, and/or NLP to transform complex business requirements and customer needs into innovative technology solutions. Your expertise will be key in shaping data-driven strategies and addressing complex data challenges. With your expertise in data science, you'll design and develop scalable solutions, prioritize initiatives, drive data-driven insights, and deliver business impact. This position will advance applied data science best practices, leverage data and AI to drive customer experience (CX) improvements, and set new global standards for customer experience. This role requires you to work with a cross-functional team, including scientists, engineers, and product managers, to develop scalable and maintainable AI solutions for both structured and unstructured data. The ideal candidate has strong technical skills in Data Science, ML, NLP, and GenAI, excellent written documentation skills, and experience with big data technologies. Success in this role requires combining deep business knowledge with hands-on technical skills to solve customer problems and address complex technical challenges. Key job responsibilities - Work closely with business stakeholders to identify data science use cases and build consensus on project priorities based on data availability, scientific applicability, implementation challenges, and business impact. - Develop innovative solutions to complex problems, including the extension of conversational assistant functionalities. - Apply technical expertise to implement novel algorithms and modeling solutions, in collaboration with other scientists and engineers. - Analyze data and define metrics to identify actionable insights and measure improvements in customer experience. - Effectively communicate results and insights to both technical and non-technical audiences through written reports, presentations, and internal/external publications. - Collaborate with product management and engineering teams to integrate and optimize models in production systems. A day in the life A typical day as a Senior Data Scientist in the Data and AI team involves combining business expertise with hands-on technical problem-solving skills. The role encompasses tackling complex data initiatives, ensuring alignment with customer needs and business objectives, and translating business requirements into practical data science and AI-driven solutions. Working collaboratively with cross-functional teams, this position involves designing and enhancing data science models, focusing on efficiency, precision, and scalability. Daily activities include ensuring data quality, monitoring model performance, and generating actionable insights from vast amounts of information. Each day presents opportunities to resolve complex technical challenges, advance important AI projects, and conceive innovative ways to leverage data in transforming the customer experience. About the team The Data and Artificial Intelligence (AI) team is a new function within Customer Engagement Technology. We own the end-to-end process of defining, building, implementing, and monitoring a comprehensive data strategy. We also develop and apply Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), Agentic AI, Data Science, Machine Learning (ML), Ontology, and Natural Language Processing (NLP) to enhance customer service associate and customer experiences. Amazon offers a full range of benefits that support you and eligible family members, including domestic partners and their children. Benefits can vary by location, the number of regularly scheduled hours you work, length of employment, and job status such as seasonal or temporary employment. The benefits that generally apply to regular, full-time employees include: 1. Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage 2. Maternity and Parental Leave Options 3. Paid Time Off (PTO) 4. 401(k) Plan. 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!
  • US, NY, New York
    Job ID: 3018568
    (Updated 66 days ago)
    MULTIPLE POSITIONS AVAILABLE Employer: AMAZON.COM SERVICES LLC Offered Position: Applied Scientist III Job Location: New York, New York Job Number: AMZ9444056 Position Responsibilities: Participate in the design, development, evaluation, deployment and updating of data-driven models and analytical solutions for machine learning (ML) and/or natural language (NL) applications. Develop and/or apply statistical modeling techniques (e.g. Bayesian models and deep neural networks), optimization methods, and other ML techniques to different applications in business and engineering. Routinely build and deploy ML models on available data, and run and analyze experiments in a production environment. Identify new opportunities for research in order to meet business goals. Research and implement novel ML and statistical approaches to add value to the business. Mentor junior engineers and scientists. Position Requirements: Master’s degree or foreign equivalent degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Engineering, or a related field and two years of research or work experience in the job offered, or as a Research Scientist, Research Assistant, Software Engineer, or a related occupation. Employer will accept a Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Engineering, or a related field and five years of progressive post-baccalaureate research or work experience in the job offered or a related occupation as equivalent to the Master’s degree and two years of research or work experience. Must have one year of research or work experience in the following skill(s): (1) programming in Java, C++, Python, or equivalent programming language; and (2) conducting the analysis and development of various supervised and unsupervised machine learning models for moderately complex projects in business, science, or engineering. Amazon.com is an Equal Opportunity-Affirmative Action Employer – Minority / Female / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation. 40 hours / week, 8:00am-5:00pm, Salary Range $183,800/year to $248,700/year. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, visit: https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits.#0000
  • LU, Luxembourg
    Job ID: 3017920
    (Updated 86 days ago)
    Amazon is looking for talented Postdoctoral Scientists to join our team for a one-year, full-time research position. EU STEP brings together Supply Chain, Network Design, and Transportation Planning teams to improve end-to-end forecasting, network flow, planning, and execution. It also brings together our teams from across the business focused on our Operational Excellence pillars - Amazon Customer Excellence Systems (ACES), Learning, Quality, Service, Sustainability and Reliability Maintenance Engineering (RME) Field teams. This integration strengthens operations and execution while driving quality improvements and enhanced customer experience across the entire value chain. We work backwards from Amazon's customers aiming to make transportation faster, cheaper, safer, more reliable and ecologically sustainable with the technological advances we offer. To that end, we split our time between short-term deliveries focused on business and long-term research that prepare Amazon for the future. Our skills lie in the area of machine learning and optimization; and know how to code efficient algorithmic science solutions. In this position we focus on Demand Forecast for Scheduling and Capacity Management, which includes the subproblems of origin-destination forecasting, week over week end-to-end network demand flow estimation, hour per hour forecast refresh. We experiment and innovate relentlessly. Science is core in our offering to shoppers, advertisers and customers. Our scientists apply machine learning, optimization, causal modeling and game theory at scale to enhance the customer experience, help advertisers reach relevant audiences, and support brand building. We are seeking talented scientists to invent cutting-edge techniques in a variety of areas and innovate on behalf of shoppers, advertisers, and customers. In this role you will: * Work closely with a senior science advisor, collaborate with other scientists and engineers, and be part of Amazon’s vibrant and diverse global science community. * Publish your innovation in top-tier academic venues and hone your presentation skills. * Be inspired by challenges and opportunities to invent cutting-edge techniques in your area(s) of expertise.
  • (Updated 67 days ago)
    Alexa+ is Amazon’s next-generation, AI-powered virtual assistant. Building on the original Alexa, it uses generative AI to deliver a more conversational, personalised, and effective experience. Alexa Sensitive Content Intelligence (ASCI) team is developing responsible AI (RAI) solutions for Alexa+, empowering it to provide useful information responsibly. The team is currently looking for Senior Applied Scientists with a strong background in NLP and/or CV to design and develop ML solutions in the RAI space using generative AI across all languages and countries. A Senior Applied Scientist will be a tech lead for a team of exceptional scientists to develop novel algorithms and modeling techniques to advance the state of the art in NLP or CV related tasks. You will work in a hybrid, fast-paced organization where scientists, engineers, and product managers work together to build customer facing experiences. You will collaborate with and mentor other scientists to raise the bar of scientific research in Amazon. Your work will directly impact our customers in the form of products and services that make use of speech, language, and computer vision technologies. We are looking for a leader with strong technical experiences a passion for building scientific driven solutions in a fast-paced environment. You should have good understanding of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Natural Language Understanding (NLU), Machine Learning (ML), Dialog Management, Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), and Audio Signal Processing where to apply them in different business cases. You leverage your exceptional technical expertise, a sound understanding of the fundamentals of Computer Science, and practical experience of building large-scale distributed systems to creating reliable, scalable, and high-performance products. In addition to technical depth, you must possess exceptional communication skills and understand how to influence key stakeholders. You will be joining a select group of people making history producing one of the most highly rated products in Amazon's history, so if you are looking for a challenging and innovative role where you can solve important problems while growing as a leader, this may be the place for you. Key job responsibilities You'll lead the science solution design, run experiments, research new algorithms, and find new ways of optimizing customer experience. You set examples for the team on good science practice and standards. Besides theoretical analysis and innovation, you will work closely with talented engineers and ML scientists to put your algorithms and models into practice. Your work will directly impact the trust customers place in Alexa, globally. You contribute directly to our growth by hiring smart and motivated Scientists to establish teams that can deliver swiftly and predictably, adjusting in an agile fashion to deliver what our customers need. A day in the life You will be working with a group of talented scientists on researching algorithm and running experiments to test scientific proposal/solutions to improve our sensitive contents detection and mitigation. This will involve collaboration with partner teams including engineering, PMs, data annotators, and other scientists to discuss data quality, policy, and model development. You will mentor other scientists, review and guide their work, help develop roadmaps for the team. You work closely with partner teams across Alexa to deliver platform features that require cross-team leadership. About the hiring group About the team The mission of the Alexa Sensitive Content Intelligence (ASCI) team is to (1) minimize negative surprises to customers caused by sensitive content, (2) detect and prevent potential brand-damaging interactions, and (3) build customer trust through appropriate interactions on sensitive topics. The term “sensitive content” includes within its scope a wide range of categories of content such as offensive content (e.g., hate speech, racist speech), profanity, content that is suitable only for certain age groups, politically polarizing content, and religiously polarizing content. The term “content” refers to any material that is exposed to customers by Alexa (including both 1P and 3P experiences) and includes text, speech, audio, and video.
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 3045775
    (Updated 46 days ago)
    Amazon Science gives you insight into the company’s approach to customer focused scientific innovation. Amazon fundamentally believes that scientific innovation is essential to being the most customer-centric company in the world. It’s the company’s ability to have an impact at scale that allows us to attract some of the brightest minds in artificial intelligence and related fields. Our scientists continue to publish, teach, and engage with the academic community, in addition to utilizing our working backwards method to enrich the way we live and work. Please visit https://www.amazon.science for more information. Are you an expert in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Large Language Models (LLM)? Are you interested in building Agentic AI solutions on complex business problems that have significant global benefit. The Brand Protection team designs and builds high performance AI systems using LLM and machine learning that identify and prevent abuse and counterfeit on behalf of brand owners worldwide. We are looking for a highly talented scientist to help build of our vision for agent-based intellegent automation. As a senior applied scientist on the team, you will use NLP and LLM techniques to built automated AI solutions that thinks like human to assist decision making and eventually make autonomous decisions that impacts millions of brands, selling partners and customers. You will work backwards from data insights and customer feedback to build the right machine learning solutions, collaborate with other domain experts in finding innovative solutions to unsolved problems. You will work closely will product team and engineering partners to launch the solution into production and owning the end-to-end solution. An ideal candidate should have extensive experience driving large-scale Machine Learning initiatives, specially in GenAI and LLM applications, from conception to launch in a rapidly evolving environment. Amazon’s growth requires leaders who move fast, have an entrepreneurial spirit to create new solutions, have an unrelenting tenacity to get things done, and are capable of breaking down and solving complex problems. Major responsibilities: - Understand business challenges by analyzing data and customer feedback - Collaborate with tech and product teams on building ML strategies, experimentation, implementation and continuous improvement - Analyze and extract relevant information from large amounts of both structured and unstructured data to design strategies to solve business problems. - Use NLP, LLM and machine learning techniques to create scalable solutions for business problems - Create business and analytics reports and present to the senior management teams - Research and implement novel AI solutions and publish research papers About the team Here at Selling Partner Services, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have 14 employee-led affinity groups, reaching 10,000+ employees in chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and we host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our DEI Ambassador Program. 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.
  • (Updated 14 days ago)
    As a Senior Applied Scientist on our Agentic AI Professional Services Experience team, you will be instrumental in advancing the frontier of human-agent collaboration for enterprise solutions. You will leverage your deep expertise in machine learning and artificial intelligence to develop intelligent systems that enhance how professionals interact with agentic AI tools, driving innovation in professional services delivery while balancing user experience, ethics, and business outcomes. In this role, you will shape the future of professional services by creating AI agents that augment human capabilities, streamline complex workflows, and deliver unprecedented value to customers. Your work will define how the next generation of professionals collaborate with intelligent systems, establishing new paradigms for productivity, creativity, and problem-solving in enterprise environments. Key job responsibilities - Architect and design AI agent systems that can effectively understand, reason about, and execute professional services workflows - Perform hands-on analysis and modeling of enormous data sets to develop insights that increase service effectiveness and business outcomes, while maintaining exceptional customer experience - Drive end-to-end Machine Learning projects involving agentic AI that navigate high degrees of ambiguity, scale, and complexity - Design and implement advanced machine learning models for agent decision-making, natural language understanding, and contextual reasoning - Conduct proof-of-concept development, experimentation, optimization, and production deployment of AI agent systems - Collaborate closely with software engineers to productionize ML models for agentic AI solutions - Design, execute, and analyze A/B experiments to evaluate agent performance, user satisfaction, and business impact - Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large-scale data analysis, agent behavior modeling, model validation, and serving - Research and implement new approaches for agent learning, reasoning, and interaction with human professionals - Develop frameworks for evaluating agent effectiveness, safety, and alignment with human objectives About the team ABOUT AWS: Diverse Experiences Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred 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. 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. 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. 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 (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness. Mentorship and 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.
  • (Updated 7 days ago)
    As a Principal Applied Scientist on our Agentic AI Professional Services Experience team, you will serve as the foremost technical authority and thought leader in the development and deployment of agentic AI systems. This advanced-level scientific position requires exceptional expertise in deep learning, large language models, and AI agent architectures to help build our industry-leading Agentic AI portfolio (models, systems, and applications). You will be responsible for setting the scientific vision, driving innovation, and representing the company's AI capabilities to senior leadership at customer organizations while ensuring our solutions deliver transformative value across enterprise environments. Our mission is to provide a delightful experience to customers by pushing the envelope in NLP/NLU, AI-assisted code development, reasoning and planning with LLMs, LLM training and fine-tuning, and Applied Machine Learning within professional service contexts. As a principal scientist, you will be the bridge between scientific advancement, business strategy, and customer needs. Key job responsibilities Scientific Leadership - Define and drive the scientific vision and roadmap for our Agentic AI professional services portfolio - Lead research and development initiatives to advance the state-of-the-art in agent-based AI systems - Collaborate with senior scientists across the organization to pioneer novel approaches to agent learning, reasoning, and interaction - Publish innovative research at top-tier conferences and influence the broader scientific community - Evaluate emerging research and identify opportunities to integrate techniques into our agent architecture Technical Excellence - Architect complex multi-agent systems that can effectively understand, reason about, and execute professional services workflows at enterprise scale - Lead the design and implementation of sophisticated machine learning models for agent decision-making, planning, and reasoning - Drive breakthroughs in areas such as LLM fine-tuning, reinforcement learning from human feedback, and agent alignment - Establish rigorous evaluation frameworks and metrics for measuring agent effectiveness, safety, and business impact - Set technical standards and guide implementation of best practices across the organization Customer & Business Impact - Translate complex technical concepts into clear business value propositions for diverse stakeholders - Lead high-visibility technical delivery for strategic customers - Analyze complex enterprise problems and design AI agent solutions that deliver measurable business outcomes About the team ABOUT AWS: Diverse Experiences Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred 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. 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. 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. 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 (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness. Mentorship and 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.
  • (Updated 87 days ago)
    Project Kuiper is an initiative to increase global broadband access through a constellation of 3,236 satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO). Its mission is to bring fast, affordable broadband to unserved and underserved communities around the world. Project Kuiper will help close the digital divide by delivering fast, affordable broadband to a wide range of customers, including consumers, businesses, government agencies, and other organizations operating in places without reliable connectivity. Do you get excited by aerospace, space exploration, and/or satellites? Do you want to help build solutions at Project Kuiper to transform the space industry? If so, then we would love to talk! Key job responsibilities Work cross-functionally with product, business development, and various technical teams (engineering, science, simulations, etc.) to execute on the long-term vision, strategy, and architecture for the science-based global demand forecast Design and deliver modern, flexible, scalable solutions to integrate data from a variety of sources and systems, increasing forecast accuracy over time Work closely with the capacity planning science team to ensure that demand forecasts feed seamlessly into their systems to deliver continuous optimization of resources. Lead short and long terms technical roadmap definition efforts to deliver solutions that meet business needs in pre-launch, early-launch, and mature business phases Synthesize and communicate insights and recommendations to audiences of varying levels of technical sophistication to drive change across Kuiper. Export Control Requirement: Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum. About the team The Kuiper Global Demand Planning team's mission is to map customer demand across space and time. We enable Kuiper's long-term success by delivering actionable insights and scientific forecasts across geographies and customer segments to empower long range planning, capacity simulations, business strategy, and hardware manufacturing recommendations through scalable tools and durable mechanisms.

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Amazon collaborates with leading academic organizations to drive innovation and to ensure that research is creating solutions whose benefits are shared broadly across all sectors of society.