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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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  • (Updated 109 days ago)
    The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Center for Quantum Computing in Pasadena, CA, is looking to hire a Quantum Research Scientist in the Processor Test and Measurement group. You will join a multi-disciplinary team of theoretical and experimental physicists, materials scientists, and hardware and software engineers working at the forefront of quantum computing. You should have a deep and broad knowledge of experimental measurement techniques. Candidates with a track record of original scientific contributions will be preferred. We are looking for candidates with strong engineering principles, resourcefulness and a bias for action, superior problem solving, and excellent communication skills. Working effectively within a team environment is essential. As a research scientist you will be expected to work on new ideas and stay abreast of the field of experimental quantum computation. Key job responsibilities We are looking to hire a Senior Research Scientist to develop and test novel calibration and optimization tools for Quantum Error Correction on large scale quantum processors. You will be a technical leader on a team of engineers and scientists at the frontier of quantum processor control and error correction. You are expected to develop & lead high-impact research projects that intersect with our engineering roadmap. We are looking for candidates with strong engineering principles and resourcefulness. Organization and communication skills are essential. A day in the life 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. AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations — from foundational services such as Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWS’s services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization, you’ll support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Internet of Things (Iot), Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS. Within AWS UC, Amazon Dedicated Cloud (ADC) roles engage with AWS customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services. Inclusive Team Culture AWS values curiosity and connection. Our employee-led and company-sponsored affinity groups promote inclusion and empower our people to take pride in what makes us unique. Our inclusion events foster stronger, more collaborative teams. Our continual innovation is fueled by the bold ideas, fresh perspectives, and passionate voices our teams bring to everything we do. 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. Export Control Requirement: Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be either 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, or be able to obtain a US export license. If you are unsure if you meet these requirements, please apply and Amazon will review your application for eligibility.
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 3084480
    (Updated 12 days ago)
    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! Key job responsibilities As Applied Scientist at Prime Video, you will have end-to-end ownership of the product, related research and experimentation, applying advanced machine learning techniques in computer vision (CV), natural language processing (NLP), multimedia understanding and so on. You’ll work on diverse projects that enhance Prime Video’s recommendation systems, image/video understanding, and content personalization, driving impactful innovations for our global audience. Other responsibilities include: • Lead cutting-edge research in computer vision and natural language processing, applying it to video-centric media challenges. • Develop scalable machine learning models to enhance media asset generation, content discovery, and personalization. • Collaborate closely with engineering teams to integrate your models into production systems at scale, ensuring optimal performance and reliability. • Actively participate in publishing your research in leading conferences and journals. • You will shape the research strategy, create forward-looking roadmaps, and effectively communicate progress and insights to senior leadership • Stay up-to-date with the latest advancements in AI and machine learning to drive future research initiatives. About the team At Prime Video, we strive to deliver the best-in-class entertainment experiences across devices for millions of customers. Whether it’s developing new personalization algorithms, improving video content discovery, or building robust media processing systems, our scientists and engineers tackle real-world challenges daily. You’ll be part of a fast-paced environment where experimentation, risk-taking, and innovation are encouraged.
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 3070265
    (Updated 17 days ago)
    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! Key job responsibilities - Develop ML models for various recommendation & search systems using deep learning, online learning, and optimization methods - Work closely with other scientists, engineers and product managers to expand the depth of our product insights with data, create a variety of experiments to determine the high impact projects to include in planning roadmaps - Stay up-to-date with advancements and the latest modeling techniques in the field - Publish your research findings in top conferences and journals A day in the life We're using advanced approaches such as foundation models to connect information about our videos and customers from a variety of information sources, acquiring and processing data sets on a scale that only a few companies in the world can match. This will enable us to recommend titles effectively, even when we don't have a large behavioral signal (to tackle the cold-start title problem). It will also allow us to find our customer's niche interests, helping them discover groups of titles that they didn't even know existed. We are looking for creative & customer obsessed machine learning scientists who can apply the latest research, state of the art algorithms and ML to build highly scalable page personalization solutions. You'll be a research leader in the space and a hands-on ML practitioner, guiding and collaborating with talented teams of engineers and scientists and senior leaders in the Prime Video organization. You will also have the opportunity to publish your research at internal and external conferences.
  • US, WA, Bellevue
    Job ID: 3105000
    (Updated 46 days ago)
    As a Sr. Data Scientist on our Learning and Development team, you will play a critical role in driving the design, development, and delivery of learning programs and initiatives aimed at enhancing leadership and associate development within the organization. You will leverage your expertise in learning science, data analysis, and statistical model design to create impactful learning journey roadmap that align with organizational goals and priorities. Key job responsibilities 1) Research and Analysis: - Conduct research on learning and development trends, theories, and best practices related to leadership and associate development. - Analyze data to identify learning needs, performance gaps, and opportunities for improvement within the organization. - Use data-driven insights to inform the design and implementation of learning interventions. 2) Program Design and Development: - Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop comprehensive learning programs focused on leadership development and associate growth. - Design learning experiences using evidence-based instructional strategies, adult learning principles, and innovative technologies. - Create engaging and interactive learning materials, including e-learning modules, instructor-led workshops, and multimedia resources. 3) Evaluation and Continuous Improvement: - Develop evaluation frameworks to assess the effectiveness and impact of learning programs on leadership development and associate performance. - Collect and analyze feedback from participants and stakeholders to identify strengths, areas for improvement, and future learning needs. - Iterate on learning interventions based on evaluation results and feedback to continuously improve program outcomes. 4) Thought Leadership and Collaboration: - Serve as a subject matter expert on learning science, instructional design, and leadership development within the organization. - Collaborate with stakeholders across the company to align learning initiatives with strategic priorities and business objectives. - Share knowledge and best practices with colleagues to foster a culture of continuous learning and development.
  • IT, MI, Milan
    Job ID: 3102949
    (Updated 11 days ago)
    Come be part of Amazon's EU Marketplace organization, where we strive to be the most customer-centric company on earth. The EU 3P Business Intelligence team is at the forefront of leveraging advanced analytics and artificial intelligence to drive the growth of Amazon's Marketplace in Europe. We work with petabytes of data in one of the world's largest data lakes, employing the most advanced tools and techniques to reveal insights that shape the future of e-commerce. We're seeking a Senior Data Scientist to join our team and lead the development of AI and ML solutions that enhance our Seller Services. You'll be part of expanding our GenAI capabilities and scaling their impact across European markets, working with vast amounts of data to drive innovative solutions for our sellers and customers. A successful Data Scientist at Amazon demonstrates bias for action and operates in a startup environment, with leadership skills, and proven ability to build and manage medium-scale modeling projects, identify data requirements, build methodology and tools that are statistically grounded. We need great leaders to think big and design new solutions to solve complex problems using machine learning and Generative AI techniques to improve our marketplace experience. Key job responsibilities As a Senior Data Scientist, you will partner with product management and technical leadership to identify opportunities to innovate the marketplace experience. You will identify new areas of innovation, develop unique scientific solutions, and play a crucial role in shaping innovation for our Sellers. Responsibilities include: [*]Transform complex business problems into analytical solutions by understanding available data and identifying appropriate statistical or ML techniques. [*]Design and develop large-scale AI/ML projects and experiments from inception to deployment, driving solutions to complex or ambiguous business challenges. [*]Leverage broad expertise to recommend optimal strategies and methodologies, solving challenges through statistical modeling, machine learning, optimization, and/or other approaches for quantifiable business impact. [*]Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify opportunities for AI applications. [*]Define and conduct experiments to optimize marketplace efficiency and effectiveness. [*]Communicate insights and recommendations to product, business, and technology partners across both EU and WW organizations. [*]Mentor team members and contribute to building a strong data science and AI culture within the organization.
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 3071364
    (Updated 21 days ago)
    The Worldwide Sustainability (WWS) organization leverages Amazon's size, scale, and inventive culture to build a more resilient and sustainable company. WWS manages our social and environmental impacts globally, driving solutions that enable our customers, businesses, and the world to become more sustainable. We are seeking an experienced science leader to drive foundational innovations in sustainability measurement and planning across Amazon's global operations. This role will tackle complex sustainability challenges across all industrial sectors and geographic regions where Amazon operates, building science-driven capabilities for confident decision-making and investments in sustainability initiatives. You will lead a multidisciplinary team of scientists, economists, engineers, and scholars to deliver transformative solutions across multiple environmental impact areas, including carbon, water, waste, biodiversity, and circularity. Your mission centers on building robust measurement systems that accurately capture our current environmental footprints and track progress through actionable metrics, while developing planning capabilities to project future trajectories, quantify initiative impacts, and align goals with the latest environmental science standards. This role is uniquely positioned at the cutting edge of sustainability science, where your leadership will guide teams in leveraging diverse analytical approaches including AI and machine learning, systems simulation, optimization, and life cycle assessment (LCA) to create cost-effective solutions across Amazon's operations. You will own company-wide sustainability science review mechanisms, ensuring methodological rigor while pioneering generative AI applications that transform how we validate data, align methodologies, and generate insights at scale. Success in this role requires building strong relationships across diverse stakeholder groups, translating complex concepts between sustainability domain experts and business leaders across the organization. You will collaborate closely with engineering teams, program teams, and business units to transform emerging scientific standards into practical, scalable solutions, coordinating project planning and resource allocation across multiple teams and initiatives. Your leadership will be instrumental in developing methodologies and models that help Amazon achieve its sustainability goals. Key job responsibilities - Lead and develop a multidisciplinary team of scientists, economists, and engineers to deliver innovative sustainability solutions - Design and execute unified science strategies for measurement, forecasting, and planning across environmental impact areas (carbon, water, waste, biodiversity, circularity) - Develop integrated methodologies spanning key economic sectors (transportation, buildings, cloud computing, packaging, commodities, products/services) - Guide integration of diverse analytical approaches into measurement and forecasting systems, including AI/ML, simulation, optimization, and life cycle assessment. - Own and oversee company-wide Sustainability Science Review processes to maintain methodological rigor and consistency - Partner with product, engineering, and business teams to translate science insights into operational improvements - Provide strategic guidance on emerging science standards, protocols, and data requirements About the team Diverse Experiences: World Wide Sustainability 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. Inclusive Team Culture: 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 (inclusive diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness. 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 flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.
  • (Updated 55 days ago)
    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 AI solutions for various Prime Video Recommendation and Personalization systems using Deep learning, GenAI, Reinforcement Learning, and optimization methods; - Work closely with engineers and product managers to design, implement and launch AI solutions end-to-end; - 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 the field; - 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.
  • (Updated 17 days ago)
    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 with Recommender System or Search Ranking or Ads Ranking experience 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 ML models for various recommendation & search systems using deep learning, online learning, and optimization methods - Work closely with other scientists, engineers and product managers to expand the depth of our product insights with data, create a variety of experiments to determine the high impact projects to include in planning roadmaps - Stay up-to-date with advancements and the latest modeling techniques in the field - Publish your research findings in top conferences and journals A day in the life We're using advanced approaches such as foundation models to connect information about our videos and customers from a variety of information sources, acquiring and processing data sets on a scale that only a few companies in the world can match. This will enable us to recommend titles effectively, even when we don't have a large behavioral signal (to tackle the cold-start title problem). It will also allow us to find our customer's niche interests, helping them discover groups of titles that they didn't even know existed. We are looking for creative & customer obsessed machine learning scientists who can apply the latest research, state of the art algorithms and ML to build highly scalable page personalization solutions. You'll be a research leader in the space and a hands-on ML practitioner, guiding and collaborating with talented teams of engineers and scientists and senior leaders in the Prime Video organization. You will also have the opportunity to publish your research at internal and external conferences. About the team Prime Video Recommendation/Search Science team owns science solution to power search experience on various devices, from sourcing, relevance, ranking, to name a few. We work closely with the engineering teams to launch our solutions in production.
  • US, WA, Bellevue
    Job ID: 3069068
    (Updated 10 days ago)
    Amazon LEO is Amazon’s low Earth orbit satellite network. Our mission is to deliver fast, reliable internet connectivity to customers beyond the reach of existing networks. From individual households to schools, hospitals, businesses, and government agencies, Amazon Leo will serve people and organizations operating in locations without reliable connectivity. The Amazon LEO Global Capacity Planning team owns designing, implementing, and operating systems that support the planning, management, and optimization of LEO network resources worldwide. We are looking for a talented scientist to implement LEO's long-term vision and strategy for capacity simulations and inventory optimization. This effort will be instrumental in helping LEO execute on its business plans globally. As one of our valued team members, you will be obsessed with matching our standards for operational excellence with a relentless focus on delivering results. Key job responsibilities In this role, you will: Work cross-functionally with product, business development, and various technical teams (engineering, science, R&D, simulations, etc.) to implement the long-term vision, strategy, and architecture for capacity simulations and inventory optimization. Design and deliver modern, flexible, scalable solutions to complex optimization problems for operating and planning satellite resources. Contribute to short and long terms technical roadmap definition efforts to predict future inventory availability and key operational and financial metrics across the network. Design and deliver systems that can keep up with the rapid pace of optimization improvements and simulating how they interact with each other. Analyze large amounts of satellite and business data to identify simulation and optimization opportunities. Synthesize and communicate insights and recommendations to audiences of varying levels of technical sophistication to drive change across LEO. 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.
  • (Updated 47 days ago)
    Are you passionate about leading the design and development of computer vision solutions that can revolutionize the visual content in our catalog? Join our high-performing Computer Vision team where our mission is to create next-generation media content for our catalog, delivering an unparalleled shopping experience for our customers. As a Senior Applied Scientist in our international Machine Learning team, you will spearhead the design and development of advanced generative models (image, video, and 3D) in computer vision that will enhance shopping experience of our customers. You will partner directly with senior stakeholders to better understand business problems, dissect, design and sometimes build prototypes. You will lead and encourage productive scientific discussions to identify the most effective scientific methodologies. Join our team of high-performing researchers dedicated to advancing computer vision technology at Amazon and elevate our catalog to simplify our customers' purchasing decisions. #austechjobs Key job responsibilities - Lead the scientific development of scalable computer vision solutions to revolutionise our catalog's media content. - Spearhead data analysis initiatives, extracting actionable insights from Amazon's vast datasets to drive content automation and enhancement. - Architect, implement, and optimise sota generative AI models tailored to our specific business needs. - Lead the discussions with cross-functional teams and business stakeholders to align technical solutions with strategic objectives. - Pioneer research initiatives that address complex customer challenges and push the boundaries of AI in e-commerce. - Mentor and guide junior scientists and interns, fostering a culture of innovation and continuous learning. - Contribute to the scientific community by conducting and publishing research at top-tier CV/ML conferences. - Drive technical decision-making and set the direction for building future AI models.

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