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Amazon Music is an immersive audio entertainment service that deepens connections between fans, artists, and creators. From personalized music playlists to exclusive podcasts, concert livestreams to artist merch, Amazon Music is innovating at some of the most exciting intersections of music and culture. We offer experiences that serve all listeners with our different tiers of service: Prime members get access to all the music in shuffle mode, and top ad-free podcasts, included with their membership; customers can upgrade to Amazon Music Unlimited for unlimited, on-demand access to 100 million songs, including millions in HD, Ultra HD, and spatial audio; and anyone can listen for free by downloading the Amazon Music app or via Alexa-enabled devices. Join us for the opportunity to influence how Amazon Music engages fans, artists, and creators on a global scale. The Data, Insights, Science and Optimization, Consumer Product and Tech (DISCO CPT) team is looking for an Data Science Lead to join a team of Data Scientists, Analytics Leads, Business Intelligence Engineers and Data Engineers who analyze big data, provide analytics and insights as well as build models and algorithms that power product for personalized experiences. DISCO MPT team focuses on accelerating Amazon Music customer growth by empowering Product teams to make sound, customer-centric decisions through data and insights. We build data pipelines, science models, self-service analytics, insights and dashboards, deliver engagement and retention at scale. In this role, you will lead the analytics and insights efforts for one of the Amazon Music product teams. You will set the science and analytics roadmap and direction for the domain and work with stakeholders and partners to deliver experimentation insights, authoring white papers and models to advance our analytics and science offerings. The ideal candidate must be willing to effectively lead science solutions, prioritize across multiple stakeholders and projects and be ready to jump into a fast-paced, dynamic and fun environment. Key job responsibilities * A Data Science Lead serving this role will act as thought partner to L8s of Product and Engineering organizations * Lead and drive Data Scientists on strategic growth areas: retention, voice + visual engagement, organization-wide experimentation, Gen AI initiatives, and product excellence. * Bridge science, analytics, and engineering to deliver solutions informing strategic decisions on AM technology investments and long-term business performance * Drive experimentation measurement efficiency tooling, and ROI tracking for AM leadership * Build and maintain customer segmentation models to understand streaming behaviors and its impact on key engagement/retention metrics * Develop structural and predictive models using data science workflows to deliver measurable customer results A day in the life * Lead and mentor data scientists specializing in experimentation and customer analytics * Lead strategic relationships across music search, experimentation, music catalog and FPE initiatives * Conduct experimentation and hypothesis testing, build launch measurements, goal benchmarking, and forecasting * Develop science models for targeting and create operational reporting with anomaly detection for product health monitoring * Partner with product managers to translate business questions into actionable science projects * Influence product roadmaps through data-driven insights on customer behavior patterns * Conduct stakeholder meetings and present insights to senior leadership * Identify and resolve customer experience friction points with cross-functional teams * Drive adoption of best practices and innovative solutions across the organization

Amazon.com’s Buyer Risk Prevention (BRP) mission is to make Amazon the safest and most trusted place worldwide to transact online. Amazon runs one of the most dynamic e-commerce marketplaces in the world, with nearly 2 million sellers worldwide selling hundreds of millions of items in ten countries. BRP safeguards every financial transaction across all Amazon sites. As such, BRP designs and builds the software systems, risk models, and operational processes that minimize risk and maximize trust in Amazon.com. The BRP organization is looking for an Applied Scientist for its Payment Risk Mining ML team, whose mission is to combine advanced machine learning techniques to detect negative customer experiences, improve system effectiveness, and prevent bad debt across Amazon. As an Applied Scientist in Risk Mining, you will be responsible for modeling complex problems, discovering insights, and building risk algorithms that identify opportunities through state-of-the-art techniques including statistical models, deep learning, large language models (LLMs), and agentic AI systems. You will explore and implement state of the art approaches such as graph neural networks, anomaly detection, GenAI-powered investigation agents, and multi-agent systems to automate fraud detection and prevention at scale. You will build and deploy production-ready models and automated systems to improve operational efficiency and reduce bad debt. You will collaborate effectively with business and product leaders within BRP and cross-functional teams to build scalable solutions. The ideal candidate should be able to apply a breadth of tools, and advanced ML techniques, from traditional machine learning to emerging agentic frameworks, to take ideas from experimentation to production, driving tangible improvements in fraud detection and prevention. The candidate should be an effective communicator capable of independently driving issues to resolution and communicating insights to non-technical audiences. This is a high-impact role with goals that directly impact the bottom line of the business. Key job responsibilities Own end-to-end development of machine learning models for large-scale risk management systems Analyze large volumes of historical and real-time data to identify fraud patterns and emerging risk trends Design, develop, validate, and deploy innovative models to production environments Apply GenAI/LLM technologies to automate risk evaluation and improve operational efficiency Collaborate closely with software engineering teams to implement scalable, real-time model solutions Partner with operations and business stakeholders to translate risk insights into measurable impact Establish scalable and automated processes for data analysis, model experimentation, validation, and monitoring Track model performance and business metrics; communicate insights clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders Research and implement novel machine learning and statistical methodologies

Amazon is seeking a Language Data Scientist to join the Alexa Artificial Intelligence (AI) team as domain expert. This role focuses on expanding analysis and evaluation of speech and interaction data deliverables. The Language Data Scientist is an expert in dialog evaluation processes, working closely with a team of skilled analysts and machine learning scientists and engineers, and is a key member in developing new conventions for relevant annotation workflows. The Language Data Scientist will be asked to handle unique data analysis and research requests that support the training and evaluation of machine learning models and the overall processing of a data collection. Key job responsibilities To be successful in this role, you must have a passion for data, efficiency, and accuracy. Specifically, you will: - Own data analyses for customer-facing features, including launch go/no-go metrics for new features and accuracy metrics for existing features - Handle unique data analysis requests from a range of stakeholders, including quantitative and qualitative analyses to elevate customer experience with speech interfaces - Lead and evaluate changing dialog evaluation conventions, test tooling developments, and pilot processes to support expansion to new data areas - Continuously evaluate workflow tools and processes and offer solutions to ensure they are efficient, high quality, and scalable - Provide expert support for a large and growing team of data analysts - Provide support for ongoing and new data collection efforts as a subject matter expert on conventions and use of the data - Conduct research studies to understand speech and customer-Alexa interactions - Assist scientists, program and product managers, and other stakeholders in defining and validating customer experience metrics

MULTIPLE POSITIONS AVAILABLE Employer: AMAZON DATA SERVICES, INC. Offered Position: Data Scientist III Job Location: Seattle, Washington Job Number: AMZ9706811 Position Responsibilities: Own the data science elements of various products to help with data-based decision making, product performance optimization, and product performance tracking. Work directly with product managers to help drive the design of the product. Work with Technical Product Managers to help drive the build planning. Translate business problems and products into data requirements and metrics. Initiate the design, development, and implementation of scientific analysis projects or deliverables. Own the analysis, modelling, system design, and development of data science solutions for products. Write documents and make presentations that explain model/analysis results to the business. Bridge the degree of uncertainty in both problem definition and data scientific solution approaches. Build consensus on data, metrics, and analysis to drive business and system strategy. Position Requirements: Master's degree or foreign equivalent degree in Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Economics, Engineering, Computer Science or a related field and two years of experience in the job offered or a related occupation. Employer will accept a Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent degree in Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Economics, Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field and five years of progressive post-baccalaureate experience in the job offered or a related occupation as equivalent to the Master's degree and two years of experience. Must have one year of experience in the following skills: (1) building statistical models and machine learning models using large datasets from multiple resources; (2) building complex data analyses by leveraging scripting languages including Python, Java, or related scripting language; and (3) communicating with users, technical teams, and management to collect requirements, evaluate alternatives, and develop processes and tools to support the organization. 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 $165,006/year to $215,300/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

MULTIPLE POSITIONS AVAILABLE Employer: AMAZON WEB SERVICES, INC. Offered Position: Data Scientist III Job Location: Seattle, Washington Job Number: AMZ9674045 Position Responsibilities: Own the data science elements of various products to help with data-based decision making, product performance optimization, and product performance tracking. Work directly with product managers to help drive the design of the product. Work with Technical Product Managers to help drive the build planning. Translate business problems and products into data requirements and metrics. Initiate the design, development, and implementation of scientific analysis projects or deliverables. Own the analysis, modelling, system design, and development of data science solutions for products. Write documents and make presentations that explain model/analysis results to the business. Bridge the degree of uncertainty in both problem definition and data scientific solution approaches. Build consensus on data, metrics, and analysis to drive business and system strategy. Position Requirements: Master's degree or foreign equivalent degree in Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Economics, Engineering, Computer Science or a related field and two years of experience in the job offered or a related occupation. Employer will accept a Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent degree in Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Economics, Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field and five years of progressive post-baccalaureate experience in the job offered or a related occupation as equivalent to the Master's degree and two years of experience. Must have one year of experience in the following skills: (1) building statistical models and machine learning models using large datasets from multiple resources; (2) building complex data analyses by leveraging scripting languages including Python, Java, or related scripting language; and (3) communicating with users, technical teams, and management to collect requirements, evaluate alternatives, and develop processes and tools to support the organization. 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 $163,909/year to $215,300/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

As a Senior Applied Scientist in Amazon Fullfilment Technology, you will lead the development of agentic systems to assist with operational decision making and orchestration. You will work building full agentic systems leveraging multi-agent orchestration, tool use, memory, and action execution. You will train LLMs using a combination of rejection sampling approaches, SFT, continual post-training, and Reinforcement Learning (RL). These systems are deployed to Amazon buildings, and you will also work on rigorous offline and online evaluations. Your work will leverage the latest LLMs to develop capabilities for agentic reasoning, coding and analytics. You will also lead research projects to tackle unsolved problems, mentor interns, and author academic papers to summarize your findings for external publication. Key job responsibilities - Generating training and preference data for specific use cases (reasoning trajectories, tool traces) - Reward modeling and policy optimization for LLMs: DPO, IPO, RLHF/RLAIF with PPO/GRPO, rejection sampling. - Supervised fine-tuning on step-by-step trajectories and tool-use traces - RL for LLMs, Offline RL and off-policy evaluation - Agentic memory/state management; episodic and semantic memory; vector search; grounding with RAG. - Evaluation: developing decision quality metrics, scaling LLM-based evaluations. About the team Amazon Fulfillment Technologies (AFT) powers Amazon’s global fulfillment network. We invent and deliver software, hardware, and data science solutions that orchestrate processes, robots, machines, and people. We harmonize the physical and virtual world so Amazon customers can get what they want, when they want it. Learn more about AFT: https://tinyurl.com/AFTOverview

Have you ever wondered how Amazon predicts when your order will arrive and how we ensure that it actually arrives on at the promised date/time? Have you wondered where all those Amazon semi-trucks on the road are headed? Are you passionate about increasing efficiency and reducing carbon footprint? Does the idea of having worldwide impact on Amazon's logistics network including our planes, trucks, and vans sound exciting to you? If so, then we want to talk with you! At Amazon's Supply Chain Optimization Technologies (SCOT), we are tasked with optimizing the fulfilment on customer orders so that we fulfil all orders worldwide in the most intelligent manner while ensuring Amazon customers get their orders on time. Fulfillment Planning & Execution (FPX) Science team within SCOT- Fulfilment Optimization owns and operates OR/ML and simulation systems that continually optimize the distribution of tens of millions of products across Amazon’s warehouses in the most cost-effective manner, utilizing large scale optimization techniques and distributed computing in trying to reduce overall transportation costs while improving the customer experience. We are focused on saving hundreds of millions of dollars using Optimization, machine learning, and scalable distributed software on the cloud that automates and optimizes inventory and shipments to customers under the uncertainty of demand, pricing and supply. We’re looking for a passionate, results-oriented, and inventive scientist who can create and improve optimization models for our outbound transportation planning systems. In addition, you will be working on design, development and evaluation of highly innovative optimization models for solving complex business problems in the area of outbound transportation planning and execution systems. You will work closely with our product managers and software engineers to disambiguate complex supply chain problems and create optimization solutions to solve those problems at scale. You will directly impact our direct customers, and even play with big data and incredible scale in the background. Watch http://bit.ly/amazon-scot to get the big picture. Key job responsibilities - Design, development and evaluation of highly innovative optimization models for solving complex business problems. - Research and apply the latest optimization techniques and best practices from both academia and industry. - Think about customers and how to improve the customer delivery experience. - Use and analytical techniques to create scalable solutions for business problems. - Work closely with software engineering teams to build model implementations and integrate successful models and algorithms in production systems at very large scale. - Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large scale data analyses, model development, model validation and optimization model implementation. A day in the life This is a great role for someone who likes to learn new things. You will have the opportunity to learn all about how Amazon plans for and executes within it's logistics network including Fulfillment Centers, Sort Centers, Delivery Stations, and more. In this role, you will be a design and develop Optimization models with significant scope, impact, and high visibility. Your solutions will impact business segments worth many-billions-of-dollars and geographies spanning multiple countries and markets. From day one, you will be working with bar raising scientists, engineers, and designers. You will also collaborate with the broader science community in Amazon to broaden the horizon of your work. Successful candidates must thrive in fast-paced environments, which encourage collaborative and creative problem solving, be able to measure and estimate risks, constructively critique peer research, and align research focuses with the Amazon's strategic needs. We look for individuals who know how to deliver results and show a desire to develop themselves, their colleagues, and their career. 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: - Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage - Maternity and Parental Leave Options - Paid Time Off (PTO) - 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 Fulfillment Planning & Execution Science team contains a group of scientists with different technical backgrounds including Machine Learning and Operations Research, who will collaborate closely with you on your projects. Our team directly supports critical functional areas across Fulfillment Optimization and the research needs of the corresponding product and engineering teams. We tackle some of the most mathematically complex challenges in facility and transportation planning and execution to improve Amazon's operational efficiency worldwide and at a scale that is unique to Amazon. We often seek the opportunity of applying hybrid techniques in the space of Operations Research and Machine Learning to tackle some of our biggest technical challenges. We disambiguate complex supply chain problems and create ML and optimization solutions to solve those problems at scale.

As an Applied Scientist in Amazon Fullfilment Technology, you will lead the development of agentic systems to assist with operational decision making and orchestration. You will work building full agentic systems leveraging multi-agent orchestration, tool use, memory, and action execution. You will train LLMs using a combination of rejection sampling approaches, SFT, continual post-training, and Reinforcement Learning (RL). These systems are deployed to Amazon buildings, and you will also work on rigorous offline and online evaluations. Your work will leverage the latest LLMs to develop capabilities for agentic reasoning, coding and analytics. You will also lead research projects to tackle unsolved problems, mentor interns, and author academic papers to summarize your findings for external publication. Key job responsibilities - Generating training and preference data for specific use cases (reasoning trajectories, tool traces) - Reward modeling and policy optimization for LLMs: DPO, IPO, RLHF/RLAIF with PPO/GRPO, rejection sampling. - Supervised fine-tuning on step-by-step trajectories and tool-use traces - Verbal Reinforcement Learning and Continual Learning - RL for LLMs, Offline RL and off-policy evaluation - Agentic memory/state management; episodic and semantic memory; vector search; grounding with RAG. - Evaluation: developing decision quality metrics, scaling LLM-based evaluations. About the team Amazon Fulfillment Technologies (AFT) powers Amazon’s global fulfillment network. We invent and deliver software, hardware, and data science solutions that orchestrate processes, robots, machines, and people. We harmonize the physical and virtual world so Amazon customers can get what they want, when they want it. Learn more about AFT: https://tinyurl.com/AFTOverview

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. 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.

The Amazon Center for Quantum Computing (CQC) is a multi-disciplinary team of scientists, engineers, and technicians, on a mission to develop a fault-tolerant quantum computer. We are looking to hire an Instrument Control Engineer to join our growing software team. You will work closely with our experimental physics and control hardware development teams to enable their work characterizing, calibrating, and operating novel quantum devices. The ideal candidate should be able to translate high-level science requirements into software implementations (e.g. Python APIs/frameworks, compiler passes, embedded SW, instrument drivers) that are performant, scalable, and intuitive. This requires someone who (1) has a strong desire to work within a team of scientists and engineers, and (2) demonstrates ownership in initiating and driving projects to completion. This role has a particular emphasis on working directly with our control hardware designers and vendors to develop instrument software for test and measurement. Inclusive Team Culture Here at Amazon, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness. Diverse Experiences Amazon 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. Key job responsibilities - Work with control hardware developers, as a “subject matter expert” on the software interfaces around our control hardware - Collaborate with external control hardware vendors to understand and refine integration strategies - Implement instrument drivers and control logic in Python and/or a low-level languages, including C++ or Rust - Contribute to our compiler backend to enable the efficient execution of OpenQASM-based experiments on our next-generation control hardware - Benchmark system performance and help define key performance metrics - Ensure new features are successfully integrated into our Python-based experimental software stack - Partner with scientists to actively contribute to the codebase through mentorship and documentation We are looking for candidates with strong engineering principles, a bias for action, superior problem-solving, and excellent communication skills. Working effectively within a team environment is essential. As an Instrument Control Engineer embedded in a broader science organization, you will have the opportunity to work on new ideas and stay abreast of the field of experimental quantum computation. A day in the life Your time will be spent on projects that extend functional capabilities or performance of our internal research software stack. This requires working backwards from the needs of science staff in the context of our larger experimental roadmap. You will translate science and software requirements into design proposals balancing implementation complexity against time-to-delivery. Once a design proposal has been reviewed and accepted, you’ll drive implementation and coordinate with internal stakeholders to ensure a smooth roll out. Because many high-level experimental goals have cross-cutting requirements, you’ll often work closely with other engineers or scientists or on the team. About the team You will be joining the Software group within the Amazon Center of Quantum Computing. Our team is comprised of scientists and software engineers who are building scalable software that enables quantum computing technologies.