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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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  • US, NJ, Newark
    Job ID: 3185135
    (Updated 7 days ago)
    Employer: Audible, Inc. Title: Data Scientist II Location: 1 Washington Street, Newark, NJ 07102 Duties: Independently own, design, and implement scalable and reliable solutions to support or automate decision making throughout the business. Apply a range of data science techniques and tools combined with subject matter expertise to solve difficult business problems and cases in which the approach is unclear. Acquire data by building the necessary SQL/ETL queries. Import processes through various company specific interfaces for accessing RedShift, and S3/edX storage systems. Deliver artifacts on medium size projects that affect important business decisions. Build relationships with stakeholders and counterparts, and communicate model outputs, observations, and key performance indicators (KPIs) to the management to develop sustainable and consumable products and product features. Explore and analyze data by inspecting univariate distributions and multivariate interactions, constructing appropriate transformations, and tracking down the source and meaning of anomalies. Build production-ready models using statistical modeling, mathematical modeling, econometric modeling, machine learning algorithms, network modeling, social network modeling, natural language processing, large language models and/or genetic algorithms. Validate models against alternative approaches, expected and observed outcome, and other business defined key performance indicators. Implement models that comply with evaluations of the computational demands, accuracy, and reliability of the relevant ETL processes at various stages of production. Position reports to Newark, NJ office; however, telecommuting from a home office may be allowed. Requirements: Requires a Master’s degree in Statistics, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Data Science, Machine Learning, Applied Math, Operations Research, or a related field plus two (2) years of experience as a Data Scientist or other occupation involving data processing and predictive Machine Learning modeling at scale. Experience may be gained concurrently and must include: Two (2) years in each of the following: - Utilizing specialized modelling software including Python or R - Building statistical models and machine learning models using large datasets from multiple resources - Building non-linear models including Neural Nets, Deep Learning, or Gradient Boosting. One (1) year in each of the following: - Building production-ready solutions or applications relying on Large Language Models (LLM), accessed programmatically and beyond just prompting - Evaluating LLM results at scale or fine-tuning LLMs - Building production-ready recommendation systems - Using database technologies including SQL or ETL. Alternatively, will accept a Bachelor’s degree and five (5) years of experience. Salary: $169,550 - 207,500 /year. Multiple positions. Apply online: www.amazon.jobs Job Code: ADBL175.
  • (Updated 2 days ago)
    Amazon's Price Perception and Evaluation team is seeking a driven Applied Scientist to harness planet scale multi-modal datasets, and navigate a continuously evolving competitor landscape, in order to build and scale an advanced self-learning scientific price estimation and product understanding system, regularly generating fresh customer-relevant prices on billions of Amazon and Third Party Seller products worldwide. The Applied Scientist will work closely with other research scientists, machine learning experts, and economists to design and run experiments, research new algorithms, and find new ways to improve Seller Pricing to optimize the Customer experience. The Scientist will partner with technology and product leaders to solve business and technology problems using scientific approaches to build new services that surprise and delight our customers. Key job responsibilities - Research and use of statistical techniques to create scalable solutions for business problems. - Design, build, and deploy effective and innovative ML solutions to provide low prices and increased selection for customers using scientifically-based methods and decision making. - Evaluate the proposed solutions via offline benchmark tests as well as online A/B tests in production. - Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large scale data analyses, model development, validation and implementation. - Publish and present your work at internal and external scientific venues.
  • US, CA, San Francisco
    Job ID: 3184510
    (Updated 1 days ago)
    Amazon AGI Autonomy develops foundational capabilities for useful AI agents. We are the research lab behind Amazon Nova Act, a state-of-the-art computer-use agent. Our work combines Large Language Models (LLMs) with Reinforcement Learning (RL) to solve reasoning, planning, and world modeling in the virtual world. We are a small, talent-dense lab with the autonomy to move fast and the long-term commitment to pursue high-risk, high-payoff research. Come be a part of our journey! -- About the team: We are a research engineering team responsible for data ingestion and research tooling that support model development across the lab. The lab’s ability to train state-of-the-art models depends on generating high-quality training data and having useful tools for understanding experimental outcomes. We accelerate research work across the lab while maintaining the operational reliability expected of critical infrastructure. -- About the role: As a frontend engineer on the team, you will build the platform and tooling that power data creation, evaluation, and experimentation across the lab. Your work will be used daily by annotators, engineers, and researchers. This is a hands-on technical leadership role. You will ship a lot of code while defining frontend architecture, shared abstractions, and UI systems across the platform. We are looking for someone with strong engineering fundamentals, sound product judgment, and the ability to build polished UIs in a fast-moving research environment. Key job responsibilities - Be highly productive in the codebase and drive the team’s engineering velocity. - Define and evolve architecture for a research tooling platform with multiple independently evolving tools. - Design and implement reusable UI components, frontend infrastructure, and APIs. - Collaborate directly with Research, Human -Feedback, Product Engineering, and other teams to understand workflows and define requirements. - Write technical RFCs to communicate design decisions and tradeoffs across teams. - Own projects end to end, from technical design through implementation, rollout, and long-term maintenance. - Raise the team’s technical bar through thoughtful code reviews, architectural guidance, and mentorship.
  • US, CA, San Francisco
    Job ID: 3184511
    (Updated 1 days ago)
    Amazon AGI Autonomy develops foundational capabilities for useful AI agents. We are the research lab behind Amazon Nova Act, a state-of-the-art computer-use agent. Our work combines Large Language Models (LLMs) with Reinforcement Learning (RL) to solve reasoning, planning, and world modeling in the virtual world. We are a small, talent-dense lab with the autonomy to move fast and the long-term commitment to pursue high-risk, high-payoff research. Come be a part of our journey! -- About the team: We are a research engineering team responsible for data ingestion and research tooling that support model development across the lab. The lab’s ability to train state-of-the-art models depends on generating high-quality training data and having useful tools for understanding experimental outcomes. We accelerate research work across the lab while maintaining the operational reliability expected of critical infrastructure. -- About the role: As a backend engineer on the team, you will build and operate core services that ingest, process, and distribute large-scale, multi-modal datasets to internal tools and data pipelines across the lab. This is a hands-on technical leadership role. You will ship a lot of code while defining backend architecture and operational standards across the platform. The platform is built primarily in TypeScript today, with plans to introduce Python services in the future. We are looking for someone who can balance rapid experimentation with operational rigor to build reliable services in a fast-moving research environment. Key job responsibilities - Be highly productive in the codebase and drive the team’s engineering velocity. - Design and evolve backend architecture and interfaces for core services. - Define and own standards for production health, performance, and observability. - Collaborate directly with Research, Human Feedback, Product Engineering, and other teams to understand workflows and define requirements. - Write technical RFCs to communicate design decisions and tradeoffs across teams. - Own projects end to end, from technical design through long-term maintenance. - Raise the team’s technical bar through thoughtful code reviews, architectural guidance, and mentorship.
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 3193523
    (Updated 2 days ago)
    Amazon's Pricing Science is seeking a driven Applied Scientist to harness planet scale multi-modal datasets, and navigate a continuously evolving competitor landscape, in order to regularly generate fresh customer-relevant prices on billions of Amazon products worldwide. We are looking for a talented, organized, and customer-focused applied researchers to join our Pricing Optimization science group, with a charter to measure, refine, and launch customer-obsessed improvements to our pricing algorithms across all products listed on Amazon. This role requires an individual with exceptional machine learning and predictive modeling skills, causal and experimental evaluation experience, excellent cross-functional collaboration skills and business acumen, and an entrepreneurial spirit. We are looking for an experienced innovator, who is a self-starter, comfortable with ambiguity, demonstrates strong attention to detail, and has the ability to work independently to deliver business impact. Key job responsibilities - See the big picture. Understand and develop science to influence the long term vision for Amazon's science-based competitive, perception-preserving pricing techniques - Build strong collaborations. Partner with product, engineering, and data teams within Pricing & Promotions to deploy models at Amazon scale - Stay informed. Establish mechanisms to stay up to date on latest scientific advancements in machine learning, reinforcement learning, causal ML, and multi-objective optimization techniques. Identify opportunities to apply them to relevant Pricing & Promotions business problems - Keep innovating for our customers. Foster an environment that promotes rapid experimentation, continuous learning, and incremental value delivery. - Successfully execute & deliver. Apply your exceptional technical machine learning expertise to incrementally move the needle on some of our hardest pricing problems. A day in the life We are hiring an applied scientist to drive our pricing optimization initiatives. The Price Optimization science team drives cross-domain and cross-system improvements through: * invent and deliver price optimization, simulation, and competitiveness tools for Sellers. * shape and extend our RL optimization platform - a pricing centric tool that automates the optimization of various system parameters and price inputs. * Promotion optimization initiatives exploring CX, discount amount, and cross-product optimization opportunities. * Identifying opportunities to optimally price across systems and contexts (marketplaces, request types, event periods) Price is a highly relevant input into many partner-team architectures, and is highly relevant to the customer, therefore this role creates the opportunity to drive extremely large impact (measured in Bs not Ms), but demands careful thought and clear communication. About the team About the team: the Pricing Discovery and Optimization team within P2 Science owns price quality, discovery and discount optimization initiatives, including criteria for internal price matching, price discovery into search, p13N and SP, pricing bandits, and Promotion type optimization. We leverage planet scale data on billions of Amazon and external competitor products to build advanced optimization models for pricing, elasticity estimation, product substitutability, and optimization. We preserve long term customer trust by ensuring Amazon's prices are always competitive and error free.
  • (Updated 15 days ago)
    Are you a MS or PhD student interested in a 2026 internship in the field of machine learning, deep learning, generative AI, large language models, speech technology, robotics, computer vision, optimization, operations research, quantum computing, automated reasoning, or formal methods? If so, we want to hear from you! We are looking for students interested in using a variety of domain expertise to invent, design and implement state-of-the-art solutions for never-before-solved problems. You can find more information about the Amazon Science community as well as our interview process via the links below; https://www.amazon.science/ https://amazon.jobs/content/en/career-programs/university/science https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/university-roles/applied-science Key job responsibilities As an Applied Science Intern, you will own the design and development of end-to-end systems. You’ll have the opportunity to write technical white papers, create roadmaps and drive production level projects that will support Amazon Science. You will work closely with Amazon scientists and other science interns to develop solutions and deploy them into production. You will have the opportunity to design new algorithms, models, or other technical solutions whilst experiencing Amazon’s customer focused culture. The ideal intern must have the ability to work with diverse groups of people and cross-functional teams to solve complex business problems. A day in the life At Amazon, you will grow into the high impact person you know you’re ready to be. Every day will be filled with developing new skills and achieving personal growth. How often can you say that your work changes the world? At Amazon, you’ll say it often. Join us and define tomorrow. Some more benefits of an Amazon Science internship include; • All of our internships offer a competitive stipend/salary • Interns are paired with an experienced manager and mentor(s) • Interns receive invitations to different events such as intern program initiatives or site events • Interns can build their professional and personal network with other Amazon Scientists • Interns can potentially publish work at top tier conferences each year About the team Applicants will be reviewed on a rolling basis and are assigned to teams aligned with their research interests and experience prior to interviews. Start dates are available throughout the year and durations can vary in length from 3-6 months for full time internships. This role may available across multiple locations in the EMEA region (Austria, Estonia, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, UAE, and UK). Please note these are not remote internships.
  • US, CA, Pasadena
    Job ID: 3184034
    (Updated 14 days ago)
    The Amazon Center for Quantum Computing (CQC) team is looking for a passionate, talented, and inventive Research Engineer specializing in hardware design for cryogenic environments. The ideal 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 experience driving designs through full product development cycles (requirements, conceptual design, detailed design, manufacturing, integration, and testing). Candidates must also 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 The CQC collaborates across teams and projects to offer state-of-the-art, cost-effective solutions for scaling the signal delivery to 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 will 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 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. 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 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. 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.
  • (Updated 15 days ago)
    Amazon's Pricing & Promotions Science is seeking a driven Applied Scientist to harness planet scale multi-modal datasets, and navigate a continuously evolving competitor landscape, in order to regularly generate fresh customer-relevant prices on billions of Amazon and Third Party Seller products worldwide. We are looking for a talented, organized, and customer-focused applied researchers to join our Pricing and Promotions Optimization science group, with a charter to measure, refine, and launch customer-obsessed improvements to our algorithmic pricing and promotion models across all products listed on Amazon. This role requires an individual with exceptional machine learning and reinforcement learning modeling expertise, excellent cross-functional collaboration skills, business acumen, and an entrepreneurial spirit. We are looking for an experienced innovator, who is a self-starter, comfortable with ambiguity, demonstrates strong attention to detail, and has the ability to work in a fast-paced and ever-changing environment. Key job responsibilities - See the big picture. Understand and influence the long term vision for Amazon's science-based competitive, perception-preserving pricing techniques - Build strong collaborations. Partner with product, engineering, and science teams within Pricing & Promotions to deploy machine learning price estimation and error correction solutions at Amazon scale - Stay informed. Establish mechanisms to stay up to date on latest scientific advancements in machine learning, neural networks, natural language processing, probabilistic forecasting, and multi-objective optimization techniques. Identify opportunities to apply them to relevant Pricing & Promotions business problems - Keep innovating for our customers. Foster an environment that promotes rapid experimentation, continuous learning, and incremental value delivery. - Successfully execute & deliver. Apply your exceptional technical machine learning expertise to incrementally move the needle on some of our hardest pricing problems. A day in the life We are hiring an applied scientist to drive our pricing optimization initiatives. The Price Optimization science team drives cross-domain and cross-system improvements through: - invent and deliver price optimization, simulation, and competitiveness tools for Sellers. - shape and extend our RL optimization platform - a pricing centric tool that automates the optimization of various system parameters and price inputs. - Promotion optimization initiatives exploring CX, discount amount, and cross-product optimization opportunities. - Identifying opportunities to optimally price across systems and contexts (marketplaces, request types, event periods) Price is a highly relevant input into many partner-team architectures, and is highly relevant to the customer, therefore this role creates the opportunity to drive extremely large impact (measured in Bs not Ms), but demands careful thought and clear communication. About the team About the team: the Pricing Discovery and Optimization team within P2 Science owns price quality, discovery and discount optimization initiatives, including criteria for internal price matching, price discovery into search, p13N and SP, pricing bandits, and Promotion type optimization. We leverage planet scale data on billions of Amazon and external competitor products to build advanced optimization models for pricing, elasticity estimation, product substitutability, and optimization. We preserve long term customer trust by ensuring Amazon's prices are always competitive and error free.
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 3193437
    (Updated 2 days ago)
    AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. In other words, we’re the people who keep the cloud running. We support all AWS data centers and all of the servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling equipment that ensure our customers have continual access to the innovation they rely on. We work on the most challenging problems, with thousands of variables impacting the supply chain — and we’re looking for talented people who want to help. You’ll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles. You’ll collaborate with people across AWS to help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost for our customers. And you’ll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion. Are you an experienced in sustainability science professional who is passionate about making a big impact? Are you interested in a high impact role at the world’s preeminent cloud computing company? The AWS Sustainability Science team is hiring a Sr. Sustainability Scientist. This role will support our sustainability goals by developing scalable methods and models to assess and improve the environmental impacts of AWS data centers and cloud computing services from manufacturing, transportation, use, and end-of-life. This work will drive a deeper understanding of AWS’s environmental impacts, and enable strategic long-term planning. The ideal candidate will have industry experience in driving Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs) of products and services, a data science foundation in forecasting methods, possess a strong understanding of the GHG Protocol and carbon accounting practices, and have a first principles knowledge of cloud infrastructure . The candidate should be comfortable working with imperfect data, identifying sources of uncertainty, and finding public data to fill the gaps where needed. The successful candidate must have strong analytical skills and the ability to apply systems thinking to complex, fast moving problems. The candidate should have familiarity with LCA methods and applications. The successful candidate will act as a subject matter expert, including designing research, gathering data, interpreting results, and developing science-driven narratives. The candidate will operate within a cross-functional project team in gathering and analyzing large amounts of data. Key job responsibilities In this role you will be responsible for: * Developing Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodologies to ensure AWS has an accurate and credible basis for sustainability efforts. * Developing internal LCA models and forecasting methods for AWS infrastructure and services * Conducting deep dives to identify, evaluate, and incubate emerging technologies that are informed by the insights from the models built. * Collaborating with an engineering team to develop dashboards and tools to support long-term planning. * Building and developing relationships with internal and external stakeholders to drive programs to completion A day in the life Each day you will interact with different teams responsible for all aspects of cloud infrastructure. Your work will span the life cycle of our operations and allow you to influence how we develop and implement sustainability practices and new technology. You will have the opportunity to work on projects locally and globally. 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. 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 6 days ago)
    As part of the AWS Applied AI Solutions organization, we're building the future of AI-powered enterprise services across multiple domains. Our vision is to be the trusted foundation for transforming every business with Amazon AI teammates. Our mission is to deliver turnkey, enterprise-grade foundational AI capabilities that create delightful AI powered solutions. We're developing sophisticated AI systems that address complex challenges across autonomous operations, geospatial intelligence, trust and safety, IoT services, and foundational AI platforms. Key job responsibilities - Develop and productize AI solutions that address complex technical challenges requiring novel approaches beyond off-the-shelf tools - Design and implement machine learning systems for diverse applications including video understanding, geospatial optimization, fraud detection, anomaly detection, and automation - Create scalable algorithms and models that generalize across multiple customer use cases and business problems - Conduct rigorous experimentation with state-of-the-art techniques including large language models, computer vision, federated learning, or physics-based modeling, and agentic AI systems - Collaborate with engineering teams to integrate science components into production systems with measurable customer impact - Work directly with product teams to understand requirements, frame ambiguous problems into tractable science solutions, and validate approaches through proof of concepts - Establish evaluation frameworks and best practices for measuring solution performance and business impact - Mentor other scientists and contribute to the broader scientific community through publications when appropriate A day in the life As an Applied Scientist, you'll work on challenging problems that span multiple domains within AWS Core Services. You might develop video processing architectures for autonomous systems, create optimization solvers for geospatial applications, build behavioral detection models for fraud prevention, design anomaly detection systems for IoT devices, or develop specialized AI capabilities for platform services. You'll investigate novel approaches, validate ideas through rigorous experimentation with real data, and collaborate with scientists and engineers to transform research insights into scalable solutions. About the team Our team is a central science organization supporting multiple product teams across AWS Core Services. We tackle fundamental challenges in AI and machine learning that require novel approaches beyond off-the-shelf solutions. Working at the intersection of machine learning, large language models, and domain-specific applications, we develop practical techniques that advance the state-of-the-art while maintaining a clear path to customer impact. Our team builds deep domain expertise across geospatial intelligence, trust and safety systems, autonomous operations, and other critical areas, collaborating closely with engineering teams to transform research insights into scalable production solutions.

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