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Are you interested in computational advertising and sponsored recommendations? Do you thrive in a fast-paced organization with a significant impact on hundreds of millions of customers? Do you love to innovate at the intersection of customer experience, deep learning, and high-scale machine-learning systems? If so, Amazon Sponsored Products could be the right place for you. The Sponsored Products (SP) Detail Page Experience, Monetization, and Marketplace Intelligence team is responsible for building compelling advertising experiences on one of the most visited destinations on the internet—Amazon’s product detail pages. We focus on delivering personalized, context-aware ads that align with shopper preferences, adapt to seasonal and event-driven moments, and integrate naturally with organic content such as deals, new arrivals, basket-building features, and fast-delivery options. The team operates full-stack—from auction mechanisms to customer-facing experiences—working closely with Amazon Stores to drive the growth of SP on detail pages. Key job responsibilities We are seeking a seasoned and technically proficient leader to own and expand this space. As a single-threaded leader, you will guide the transformation of the detail page into a high-impact surface for product discovery and monetization through scalable, customer-centric advertising solutions—ranging from fully sponsored content to blended ad-organic formats. This role also entails end-to-end responsibility for marketplace operations, including auction allocation and pricing strategies. The successful candidate will apply a diverse set of signals, such as page context, shopper intent, seasonality, regional trends, delivery speed, and return likelihood, as well as deep learning and generative AI models to enhance customer experience, unlock incremental monetization, reduce cost to serve, and drive sustainable advertiser RoAS (return on ad spend). Additionally, the role involves developing real-time dynamic blending systems that optimize ad load and placement to balance business and customer outcomes. This leader will oversee a cross-functional organization of applied scientists, engineers, and product managers, owning core components such as: Tier-1 auction service for detail pages, innovation across large-scale ML, deep learning, and generative AI/LLMs, and design and deployment of new product experiences that improve discovery and deliver business impact. This is a high-impact leadership role at the intersection of personalization, monetization, product innovation, marketplace dynamics, and machine learning—ideal for a strategic, technically fluent, and customer-obsessed leader ready to shape the future of Sponsored Products advertising on Amazon product detail pages.

The Inventory Planning and Control team is looking for an applied scientist to help build next generation models for supply chain systems in the Supply Chain Optimization Technology (SCOT) group. We own the systems that decide where to place hundreds of millions of units of inventory a week, globally, shaping Amazon’s cost structures and value proposition to the customer and ultimately maximizing Amazon’s long term free cash flow. The work is complex and important to Amazon. There are no textbook solutions to the problems we are solving and very few attempts have been made to solve at Amazon's scale, which necessitates deep analytical thinking to solve problems. As a Applied Scientist, you will work with other Scientists, Software Engineers, Product Managers and business teams to understand the current challenges in our inventory systems, map these challenges to scientific models, innovate solutions using techniques in Operations Research, Machine Learning, Statistics, and Optimization and pick the right tools to deploy these solutions at scale. You will be a part of shaping the future of inventory placement systems at Amazon. Your work will be visible to the business leaders in SCOT and will impact on how we serve our customers so that they get the right product at the right time.

Amazon Japan Store Tech (JST) Science team serves as the core science division of JP Store Tech, with the vision to enable and accelerate the best-in-class CX through state-of-the-art machine learning technologies. This team owns the science vision definition, science roadmap planning, and science solution delivery in key business areas in Japan including Search, Customer Growth and Engagement, Personalization and Delivery. As an Applied Scientist, you will design, implement and deliver models on Amazon site, helping millions of customers every day to find quickly what they are looking for. You will propose innovation to build ML models trained on terabytes of product and traffic data, which are evaluated using both offline metrics as well as online metrics from A/B testing. You will then integrate these models into the production system that serves customers, closing the loop through data, modeling, application, and customer feedback. The chosen approaches for model architecture will balance business-defined performance metrics with the needs of millisecond response times. Key job responsibilities * Invent or adapt new scientific approaches, models or algorithms inspired and driven by customers’ needs and benefits at the project level. * Analyze data and identify the gaps in existing solutions, and propose innovative science solutions. * Contribute to research papers that are published at peer-reviewed internal and/or external venues, and contribute to the wider scientific community. * Working with teams worldwide on global projects. About the team Your benefits include: * Working on a high-impact, high-visibility product, with your work improving the experience of millions of customers * The opportunity to use (and innovate) state-of-the-art ML methods to solve real-world problems with tangible customer impact * Being part of a growing team where you can influence the team's mission, direction, and how we achieve our goals

The Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) team is looking for a highly skilled and experienced Applied Scientist, to support the development and implementation of state-of-the-art algorithms and models for supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning through human feedback and and complex reasoning; with a focus across text, image, and video modalities. As an Applied Scientist, you will play a critical role in supporting the development of Generative AI (Gen AI) technologies that can handle Amazon-scale use cases and have a significant impact on our customers' experiences. Key job responsibilities Collaborate with cross-functional teams of engineers, product managers, and scientists to identify and solve complex problems in Gen AI Design and execute experiments to evaluate the performance of different algorithms and models, and iterate quickly to improve results Think big about the arc of development of Gen AI over a multi-year horizon, and identify new opportunities to apply these technologies to solve real-world problems Communicate results and insights to both technical and non-technical audiences, including through presentations and written reports

Amazon is seeking an innovative and high-judgement Senior Applied Scientist to join the Privacy Engineering team in the Amazon Privacy Services org. We own products and programs that deliver technical innovation for ensuring compliance with high-impact, urgent regulation across Amazon services worldwide. The Senior Applied Scientist will contribute to the strategic direction for Amazon’s privacy practices while building/owning the compliance approach for individual regulations such as General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), DMA, Quebec 25 etc. This will require helping to frame, and participating in, high judgment debates and decision making across senior business, technology, legal, and public policy leaders. A great candidate will have a unique combination of experience with innovative data governance technology, high judgement in system architecture decisions and ability to set detailed technical design from ambiguous compliance requirements. You will drive foundational, cross-service decisions, set technical requirements, oversee technical design, and have end to end accountability for delivering technical changes across dozens of different systems. You will have high engagement with WW senior leadership via quarterly reviews, annual organizational planning, and s-team goal updates. Key job responsibilities * Develop information retrieval benchmarks related to code analysis and invent algorithms to optimize identification of privacy requirements and controls. * Develop semantic and syntactic code analysis tools to assess privacy implementations within application code, and automatic code replacement tools to enhance privacy implementations. * Leverage Amazon’s heterogeneous data sources and large-scale computing resources to accelerate advances in generative artificial intelligence for privacy compliance. * Collaborate with other science and engineering teams as well as business stakeholders to maximize the velocity and impact of your contributions. About the team Amazon Privacy Services own products and programs that deliver technical innovation for ensuring Privacy Amazon services worldwide. We are hiring an innovative and high-judgement Senior Applied Scientist to develop AI solutions for builders across Amazon’s consumer and digital businesses including but not limited to Amazon.com, Amazon Ads, Amazon Go, Prime Video, Devices and more. Our ideal candidate is creative, has excellent problem-solving skills, a solid understanding of computer science fundamentals, deep learning and a customer-focused mindset. The Senior Scientist will serve as the resident expert on the development of AI agents for privacy. They build on their experiences to develop LLMs to develop AI implementations across privacy workflows. They will have responsibilities to mentor junior scientists and engineers develop AI skills.

The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Center for Quantum Computing in Pasadena, CA, is looking to hire a Research Scientist specializing in hardware design for cryogenic environements. The candidate should have expertise in 3D CAD (SolidWorks), thermal and structural FEA (Ansys/COMSOL), hardware design for cryogenic applications, design for manufacturing, and mechanical engineering principles. The candidate must have demonstrated driving designs through full product development cycles (requirements, conceptual design, detailed design, manufacturing, integration, and testing). Candidates must have a strong background in both cryogenic mechanical engineering theory and implementation. Working effectively within a cross-functional team environment is critical. Key job responsibilities Our scientists and engineers collaborate across diverse teams and projects to offer state of the art, cost effective solutions for scaling the signal delivery to AWS quantum processor systems at cryogenic temperatures. Equally important is the ability to scale the thermal performance and improve EMI mitigation of the cryogenic environment. You'll bring passion, enthusiasm, and innovation to work on the following: - High density novel packaging solutions for quantum processor units. - Cryogenic mechanical design for novel cryogenic signal conditioning sub-assemblies. - Cryogenic mechanical design for signal delivery systems. - Simulation driven designs (shielding, filtering, etc.) to reduce sources of EMI within the qubit environment. - Own end-to-end product development through requirements, design reports, design reviews, assembly/testing documentation, and final delivery. A day in the life As you design and implement cryogenic hardware solutions, from requirements definition to deployment, you will also: - Participate in requirements, design, and test reviews and communicate with internal stakeholders. - Work cross-functionally to help drive decisions using your unique technical background and skill set. - Refine and define standards and processes for operational excellence. - Work in a high-paced, startup-like environment where you are provided the resources to innovate quickly. 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.

The Smart Home team is focused on making Alexa the user interface for the home. From the simplest voice commands (turn on the lights, turn down the heat) to use cases spanning home security, home entertainment, and the home environment, we are evolving Alexa into intelligent, indispensable companion that automates daily routines, simplifies interaction with appliances and electronics, and alerts when something unusual is detected. You will be part of a team delivering features that are highly anticipated by media and well received by our customers. As a Senior Applied Scientist, you will work with other scientists and software developers to design and build the next generation of Smart Home voice control using the latest Large Language Models. And, you will have the satisfaction of working on a product your friends and family can relate to, and want to use every day. Key job responsibilities - Developing new inference and training techniques to improve the performance of Large Language Models for Smart Home control and Automation - Developing robust techniques for synthetic data generation for training large models and maintaining model generalization - Mentoring junior scientists to improve their skills, knowledge, and their ability to get things done About the team We are a team of Scientists, Machine Learning Engineers, and Software Developers that work together to make Alexa more insightful and proactive through ambient intelligence - with features like Alexa Hunches that automatically control Smart Home devices. We are interdisciplinary and we act like it - we ask each other questions and value our different perspectives.

As part of the AWS Solutions organization, we have a vision to provide business applications, leveraging Amazon’s unique experience and expertise, that are used by millions of companies worldwide to manage day-to-day operations. We will accomplish this by accelerating our customers’ businesses through delivery of intuitive and differentiated technology solutions that solve enduring business challenges. We blend vision with curiosity and Amazon’s real-world experience to build opinionated, turnkey solutions. Where customers prefer to buy over build, we become their trusted partner with solutions that are no-brainers to buy and easy to use. Are you excited about developing state-of-the-art GenAI/Agentic AI based solutions for enterprise applications? Do you have proven analytical capabilities and can multi-task and thrive in a fast-paced environment? You enjoy the prospect of solving real-world problems that, quite frankly, have not been solved at scale anywhere before. Along the way, you’ll get opportunities to be a disruptor, prolific innovator, and a reputed problem solver—someone who truly enables machine learning to create significant impacts. We're seeking a Principal Applied Scientist with the ability to apply deep learning and generative AI techniques to conceptualize, promote, and execute advanced solutions for previously unsolved challenges. As an Applied Scientist at AWS Supply Chain, you will bring AI advancements to customer facing enterprise applications. You will be working in a fast-paced, cross-disciplinary team of researchers who are leaders in the field. You will take on challenging problems, distill real requirements, and then deliver solutions that either leverage existing academic and industrial research, or utilize your own out-of-the-box pragmatic thinking. In addition to coming up with novel solutions and prototypes, you may even need to deliver these to production in customer facing products. 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. 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. 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.

Amazon.com strives to be Earth's most customer-centric company where customers can shop in our stores to find and discover anything they want to buy. We hire the world's brightest minds, offering them a fast paced, technologically sophisticated and friendly work environment. Economists at Amazon partner closely with senior management, business stakeholders, scientist and engineers, and economist leadership to solve key business problems ranging from Amazon Web Services, Kindle, Prime, inventory planning, international retail, third party merchants, search, pricing, labor and employment planning, effective benefits (health, retirement, etc.) and beyond. Amazon Economists build econometric models using our world class data systems and apply approaches from a variety of skillsets – applied macro/time series, applied micro, econometric theory, empirical IO, empirical health, labor, public economics and related fields are all highly valued skillsets at Amazon. You will work in a fast moving environment to solve business problems as a member of either a cross-functional team embedded within a business unit or a central science and economics organization. You will be expected to develop techniques that apply econometrics to large data sets, address quantitative problems, and contribute to the design of automated systems around the company.

Amazon.com strives to be Earth's most customer-centric company where customers can shop in our stores to find and discover anything they want to buy. We hire the world's brightest minds, offering them a fast paced, technologically sophisticated and friendly work environment. Economists at Amazon partner closely with senior management, business stakeholders, scientist and engineers, and economist leadership to solve key business problems ranging from Amazon Web Services, Kindle, Prime, inventory planning, international retail, third party merchants, search, pricing, labor and employment planning, effective benefits (health, retirement, etc.) and beyond. Amazon Economists build econometric models using our world class data systems and apply approaches from a variety of skillsets – applied macro/time series, applied micro, econometric theory, empirical IO, empirical health, labor, public economics and related fields are all highly valued skillsets at Amazon. You will work in a fast moving environment to solve business problems as a member of either a cross-functional team embedded within a business unit or a central science and economics organization. You will be expected to develop techniques that apply econometrics to large data sets, address quantitative problems, and contribute to the design of automated systems around the company.