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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, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 3181890
    (Updated 44 days ago)
    The Next Generation Developer Experience (NGDE) Science team is looking for an Applied Scientist who is passionate about building services and tools for developers that leverage artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). You will be part of a team building AI-based services for Amazon Q Developer with the focus on redefining the way developer work. The team works in close collaboration with other AWS AI services such as AWS Bedrock, the AWS IDE Toolkit, and Amazon Sagemaker. If you are excited about working in cloud computing and building new AWS services, then we'd love to talk to you. Key job responsibilities As an Applied Scientist, you are recognized for your expertise, advise team members on a range of machine learning topics, and work closely with software engineers to drive the delivery of end-to-end modeling solutions. Your work focuses on ambiguous problem areas where the business problem or opportunity may not yet be defined. The problems that you take on require scientific breakthroughs. A day in the life 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. 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. 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 & 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. This team is part of AWS Utility Computing: Utility Computing (UC) 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, including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services. About the team The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Next Gen DevX (NGDE) team is building Amazon Q for Developers to re-imagine all aspects of how builders create applications. We build AI products that are deployed in the IDE, the AWS console, and in web-based tools and services. We provide developers with AI assistants to generate code, features, and entire applications as well as to interact with AWS. We explore new technologies and find creative solutions, produce original research and bring cutting edge innovation to our customers. Curiosity and an explorative mindset can find a place here to impact the life of engineers around the world. If you are excited about this space, this is the team for you.
  • (Updated 36 days ago)
    Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) is at the core of Amazon’s “Supply Chain by Amazon” vision, enabling hundreds of thousands of Selling Partners to leverage our world-class fulfillment network. FBA helps sellers in 130+ countries send products into our EU network and deliver to customers in 185+ countries, contributing to billions of units shipped in Europe each year. The FBA EU Analytics team is looking for a Senior Data Scientist to own high-impact BI, science and AI initiatives that shape the future of FBA in Europe. You will develop scalable AI solutions — including machine learning models, causal inference frameworks, and optimization algorithms — and deploy them to production to improve seller experience, ensure compliance, and optimize our end-to-end fulfillment economics (cost, speed, and quality). You will partner with Product, Tech, Operations, Finance, and Legal/Compliance across EU and WW to turn ambiguous business problems into well-framed scientific questions and productionized solutions. This is a high-visibility role with direct exposure to senior leadership and the opportunity to work with some of the world’s richest supply chain and marketplace datasets. Key job responsibilities As a Senior Data Scientist in FBA EU Analytics, you will: Own end-to-end science solutions : o Translate highly ambiguous, complex business problems into clear scientific hypotheses and success metrics. o Drive projects from concept and data discovery through model development, experimentation, deployment, and post-launch monitoring. Build advanced ML / AI / GenAI models o Develop predictive and prescriptive models for demand and volume forecasting, cost-to-serve, risk and fraud detection, and inventory / placement optimization. o Apply causal inference, uplift modeling, and experimentation frameworks to quantify the impact of new policies, tools, and FBA programs. o Leverage Generative AI and LLMs for use cases such as intelligent seller insights, document understanding for compliance, automated reasoning over large datasets, and AI-assisted decision support for internal stakeholders. Shape the AI & Analytics roadmap for FBA EU o Define and drive the Analytics, Data Science, and AI strategy for EU FBA. o “Look around corners” to proactively identify where science and GenAI can create step-change improvements in seller experience, compliance, and operational efficiency. o Prioritize opportunities based on impact, feasibility, and alignment with FBA and Supply Chain by Amazon strategy. Partner closely with engineering and data teams o Collaborate with Scientists, Data Engineers, BIEs, and SDEs to design data models, feature pipelines, and scalable science services (batch and real-time). o Help define and improve data quality, observability, and model monitoring standards across the team. Drive experimentation and decision science at scale o Design and analyze A/B tests and quasi-experiments to evaluate new policies, product features, and operational changes across EU marketplaces. o Build reusable experimentation and measurement frameworks for the wider FBA organization. Influence through narrative and storytelling o Create clear, concise documents and visualizations that “tell the story” of your findings to senior leaders and non-technical stakeholders. o Recommend actions and trade-offs, and influence roadmap and investment decisions using data. o Provide strategic technical guidance to L7+ business partners. Raise the bar for science excellence o Mentor other scientists, BIEs, and analysts on methodology, code practices, and stakeholder engagement. o Create and deliver best practice recommendations, blog posts, and presentations adapted to technical, business, and executive stakeholders. o Promote best practices in reproducible research, model governance, and documentation. A day in the life • Start your day reviewing dashboards for a recently launched GenAI-powered insights tool for Sellers, checking performance, drift, and business KPIs. • Join a working session with Product and Operations to refine problem statements for a new initiative to optimize cross-border inbound flows and FBA fees using a mix of forecasting, optimization, and causal inference. • Spend focused time in code exploring new features and model architectures, leveraging AWS services to accelerate EDA, documentation, and hypothesis generation. • Meet with a Data Engineer to iterate on a new data pipeline that will serve both your models and EU leadership reporting. • Draft the architecture of a new ML model that optimizes the fee rate card for EU FBA Sellers across hundreds of product categories and marketplaces. • Contribute to the MBR document with a summary of EU FBA AI Task Force deliverables from the past month. • Present a new code review best practice to the EU FBA Analytics team and clarify adoption expectations. About the team The FBA EU Analytics team sits at the intersection of science, analytics, and product for the FBA business in Europe. We: • Own core metrics and analytical foundations used by EU and WW leadership to steer the FBA business. • Develop scalable ML, GenAI, and BI solutions that simplify cross-border listing, inbound processes, compliance, and the fulfillment experience for Selling Partners and customers. • Work across EU and global stakeholders in Product, Tech, Operations, Finance, and Legal/Compliance, providing a holistic view of the FBA business. You will join a diverse group of Data Scientists, Business Intelligence Engineers, and Data Engineers who are passionate about combining rigorous science with pragmatic delivery and measurable business impact.
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 3168875
    (Updated 37 days ago)
    Are you passionate about leveraging data to deliver actionable insights that impact daily marketing activities at Amazon? The Customer Targeting team in Amazon is seeking an Applied Scientist to join our team to develop models for optimizing the performance of Amazon’s marketing initiatives across channels and advertising formats. You have experience applying modern machine learning methods to answer key business questions, make strategic and tactical recommendations for change, and work with business leaders to drive these to production. You are entrepreneurial and able to work in a highly collaborative environment. This role requires an individual with strong quantitative modeling skills and experience using statistical methods. The successful candidate will be a self-starter comfortable with ambiguity, with strong attention to detail, an ability to work in a fast-paced and ever-changing environment. You will be expected to: - Leverage knowledge of statistics and optimization to frame decision-making problems for determining marketing spends across channels. - Predict future customer behavior and business conditions through machine learning and predictive modeling. - Use analytical and predictive techniques to build models for optimizing targeting. - Present proposals and results in a clear manner backed by data and coupled with actionable conclusions.
  • Are you passionate about robotics and research? Do you want to solve real customer problems through innovative technology? Do you enjoy working on scalable research and projects in a collaborative team environment? Do you want to see your science solutions directly impact millions of customers worldwide? At Amazon, we hire the best minds in technology to innovate and build on behalf of our customers. Customer obsession is part of our company DNA, which has made us one of the world's most beloved brands. We’re looking for current PhD students with a passion for robotic research and applications to join us as Robotics Applied Scientist II Intern/Co-ops in 2026 to shape the future of robotics and automation at an unprecedented scale across. For these positions, our Robotics teams at Amazon are looking for students with a specialization in one or more of the research areas in robotics such as: robotics, robotics manipulation (e.g., robot arm, grasping, dexterous manipulation, end of arm tools/end effector), autonomous mobile robots, mobile manipulation, movement, autonomous navigation, locomotion, motion/path planning, controls, perception, sensing, robot learning, artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer vision, large language models, human-robot interaction, robotics simulation, optimization, and more! We're looking for curious minds who think big and want to define tomorrow's technology. At Amazon, you'll grow into the high-impact engineer you know you can be, supported by a culture of learning and mentorship. Every day brings exciting new challenges and opportunities for personal growth. By applying to this role, you will be considered for Robotics Applied Scientist II Intern/Co-op (2026) opportunities across various Robotics teams at Amazon with different robotics research focus, with internship positions available for multiple locations, durations (3 to 6+ months), and year-round start dates (winter, spring, summer, fall). Amazon intern and co-op roles follow the same internship structure. "Intern/Internship" wording refers to both interns and co-ops. Amazon internships across all seasons are full-time positions, and interns should expect to work in office, Monday-Friday, up to 40 hours per week typically between 8am-5pm. Specific team norms around working hours will be communicated by your manager. Interns should not have conflicts such as classes or other employment during the Amazon work-day. Applicants should have a minimum of one quarter/semester/trimester remaining in their studies after their internship concludes. The robotics internship join dates, length, location, and prospective team will be finalized at the time of any applicable job offers. In your application, you will be able to provide your preference of research interests, start dates, internship duration, and location. While your preference will be taken into consideration, we cannot guarantee that we can meet your selection based on several factors including but not limited to the internship availability and business needs of this role. About the team The Personal Robotics Group is pioneering intelligent robotic products that deliver meaningful customer experiences. We're the team behind Amazon Astro, and we're building the next generation of robotic systems that will redefine how customers interact with technology. Our work spans the full spectrum from advanced hardware design to sophisticated software and control systems, combining mechanical innovation, software engineering, dynamic systems modeling, and intelligent algorithms to create robots that are not just functional, but delightful. This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of personal robotics working with world-class teams pushing the boundaries of what's possible in robotic manipulation, locomotion, and human-robot interaction. Join us if you're passionate about creating the future of personal robotics, solving complex challenges at the intersection of hardware and software, and seeing your innovations deliver transformative customer experiences.
  • US, CA, Santa Clara
    Job ID: 3161363
    (Updated 16 days ago)
    Amazon Web Services (AWS) is assembling an elite team of world-class scientists and engineers to pioneer the next generation of AI-driven development tools. Join the Amazon Kiro LLM-Training team and help create groundbreaking generative AI technologies including Kiro IDE and Amazon Q Developer that are transforming the software development landscape. Key job responsibilities As a key member of our team, you'll be at the forefront of innovation, where cutting-edge research meets real-world application: - Push the boundaries of reinforcement learning and post-training methodologies for large language models specialized in code intelligence - Invent and implement state-of-the-art machine learning solutions that operate at unprecedented Amazon scale - Deploy revolutionary products that directly impact the daily workflows of millions of developers worldwide - Break new ground in AI and machine learning, challenging what's possible in intelligent code assistance - Publish and present your pioneering work at premier ML and NLP conferences (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR , ACL, EMNLP) - Accelerate innovation by working directly with customers to rapidly transition research breakthroughs into production systems About the team The AWS Developer Agents and Experiences (DAE) team is reimagining the builder experience through generative AI and foundation models. We're leveraging the latest advances in AI to transform how engineers work from IDE environments to web-based tools and services, empowering developers to tackle projects of any scale with unprecedented efficiency. Broadly, 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. 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. 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 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 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. Hybrid Work We value innovation and recognize this sometimes requires uninterrupted time to focus on a build. We also value in-person collaboration and time spent face-to-face. Our team affords employees options to work in the office every day or in a flexible, hybrid work model near one of our U.S. Amazon offices.
  • IN, KA, Bangalore
    Job ID: 3158642
    (Updated 148 days ago)
    Have you ever ordered a product on Amazon and when that box with the smile arrived you wondered how it got to you so fast? Have you wondered where it came from and how much it cost Amazon to deliver it to you? If so, the WW Amazon Logistics, Business Analytics team is for you. We manage the delivery of tens of millions of products every week to Amazon’s customers, achieving on-time delivery in a cost-effective manner. We are looking for an enthusiastic, customer obsessed, Applied Scientist with good analytical skills to help manage projects and operations, implement scheduling solutions, improve metrics, and develop scalable processes and tools. The primary role of an Operations Research Scientist within Amazon is to address business challenges through building a compelling case, and using data to influence change across the organization. This individual will be given responsibility on their first day to own those business challenges and the autonomy to think strategically and make data driven decisions. Decisions and tools made in this role will have significant impact to the customer experience, as it will have a major impact on how the final phase of delivery is done at Amazon. Candidates will be a high potential, strategic and analytic graduate with a PhD in (Operations Research, Statistics, Engineering, and Supply Chain) ready for challenging opportunities in the core of our world class operations space. Great candidates have a history of operations research, and the ability to use data and research to make changes. This role requires robust program management skills and research science skills in order to act on research outcomes. This individual will need to be able to work with a team, but also be comfortable making decisions independently, in what is often times an ambiguous environment. Responsibilities may include: - Develop input and assumptions based preexisting models to estimate the costs and savings opportunities associated with varying levels of network growth and operations - Creating metrics to measure business performance, identify root causes and trends, and prescribe action plans - Managing multiple projects simultaneously - Working with technology teams and product managers to develop new tools and systems to support the growth of the business - Communicating with and supporting various internal stakeholders and external audiences
  • (Updated 0 days ago)
    Amazon’s Customer Behavior Analytics org is looking for an Senior Manager, Applied Science, to spearhead the rapid growth of our Marketing Measurement solutions. The team focuses on building scalable ML and causal inference solutions to estimate the effectiveness of Amazon marketing efforts and provide actionable insights to the various marketing teams within Amazon. This is a high-impact role with opportunities to develop systems that affect investments to the size of billions of dollars. We work closely with business stakeholders and strive to continuously produce tangible impact on the company’s strategic, tactical planning and operations. A successful candidate will be a self-starter, comfortable with ambiguity, able to think big and be creative, while still paying careful attention to detail. You should be able to translate complex business problems into scientific challenge, and deliver data driven solutions - which will allow Amazon to make key investment decisions.You should be able to translate how data represents the customer journey, be comfortable dealing with large and complex data sets, and have experience using machine/deep learning at scale. You should have strong analytical and communication skills, be able to work with stakeholders and partners which include world-wide business leaders, distinguished scientist, economist, product managers and software teams. You will apply your expertise in Economics, ML/DL, statistics, and data-wrangling to identify opportunities for further research and to provide insights that drive larger initiatives. You will join a highly collaborative and diverse working environment that will empower you to shape the future of Amazon marketing, as well allow you to be part of the large science community within the Customer Behavior Analytics (CBA) organization. Key job responsibilities The main responsibilities for this position include: - Apply your expertise in ML/DL and statistical modeling to develop solutions and systems that describe how Amazon’s marketing campaigns impact customers’ actions - Own the end-to-end development of novel causal inference models that address the most pressing needs of our business stakeholders and help guide their future actions - Recruit high performing Economist, Applied Scientists and BIEs to the team and provide mentorship. - Establish team mechanisms, including team building, planning, and document reviews. - Review and audit modeling processes and results from scientists within and outside your team - Work with marketing leadership to align our measurement plan with business strategy - Formalize assumptions about how our models are expected to behave and explain why they are reasonable - Identify new opportunities that are suggested by the data insights - Bring a department-wide perspective into decision making About the team The Customer Behavior Analytics (CBA) organization owns Amazon’s insights pipeline, from data collection to deep analytics. We aspire to be the place where Amazon teams come for answers, a trusted source for data and insights that empower our systems and business leaders to make better decisions. Our outputs shape Amazon product and marketing teams’ decisions and thus how Amazon customers see, use, and value their experience.
  • (Updated 0 days ago)
    Amazon's Last Mile Simulation and Analytics Team is seeking a Data Scientist to help design and optimize the world's most complex delivery network. You'll partner with process engineers, design engineers, simulation scientists, and innovation teams to solve high-impact problems across both greenfield and brownfield initiatives. In this role, you'll own the Data Science/ML roadmap—developing statistical and machine learning models, designing global experiments, and discovering new ways to enhance the customer experience. You'll translate ambiguous business challenges into mathematical models, contribute to discrete event simulations, and deliver solutions that scale. Success requires thriving in a fast-paced, collaborative environment while aligning research with Amazon's strategic priorities. Key job responsibilities Design and execute large-scale experiments to uncover insights from complex datasets Build scalable, automated pipelines for data analysis, model development, validation, and deployment Develop advanced ML solutions including regression, clustering, simulation, neural networks, and optimization algorithms Partner with cross-functional teams to implement data-driven strategies and measure impact Validate findings against alternative approaches and key performance indicators Build stakeholder relationships to drive improvements and prioritize customer needs
  • US, NY, New York
    Job ID: 3166907
    (Updated 10 days ago)
    As part of the AWS Applied AI Solutions organization, we have a mission to build delightful AI solutions that improve human capabilities and business outcomes. We will accomplish this by accelerating our customers' businesses through delivery of intuitive and differentiated AI 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. The Applied Scientist will contribute to the development of Agentic AI solutions leveraging Gen AI. The role requires extending existing scientific techniques and inventing new ones to address specific customer needs. You should be comfortable working semi-autonomously on difficult problems with visible risks or roadblocks. You'll work closely with technical leaders within the team. We're looking for scientists who can maintain high standards while moving quickly, prioritizing both rapid experimentation and responsible AI development to deliver measurable customer impact. Key job responsibilities * Design and implement solutions that extend or adapt scientific approaches for customer needs * Deliver components into production that meet high quality standards (efficient, reproducible, testable code) * Produce science outputs demonstrating correctness, scholarship, and scientific rigor * Work with product, engineering, and science teams to deliver impactful AI features * Contribute to operational excellence in the team's deliverables About the team AWS Solutions 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.
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 3162943
    (Updated 15 days ago)
    Are you a scientist interested in pushing the state of the art in Information Retrieval, Large Language Models and fine-tuning LLMs? Are you interested in innovating on behalf of millions of customers, helping them accomplish their every day goals? Do you wish you had access to large datasets and tremendous computational resources? Do you want to join a team of capable scientist and engineers, building the future of e-commerce? Answer yes to any of these questions, and you will be a great fit for our team at Amazon. Our team is part of Amazon’s Personalization organization, a high-performing group that leverages Amazon’s expertise in machine learning, generative AI, large-scale data systems, and user experience design to deliver the best shopping experiences for our customers. Our team builds large-scale machine-learning solutions that delight customers with personalized and up-to-date recommendations that are related to their interests. We are a team uniquely placed within Amazon, to have a direct window of opportunity to influence how customers will think about their shopping journey in the future. Key job responsibilities As an Applied Scientist in our team, you will be responsible for the research, design, and development of new AI technologies for personalization. You will adopt or invent new machine learning and analytical techniques in the realm of recommendations, information retrieval and large language models and fine-tuning models. You will collaborate with scientists, engineers, and product partners locally and abroad. Your work will include inventing, experimenting with, and launching new features, products and systems. Please visit https://www.amazon.science for more information. A day in the life You will solve real-world problems by getting and analyzing large amounts of data, generate insights and opportunities, execute experiments, and develop statistical and ML models. The team is driven by business needs, which requires collaboration with other Scientists, Engineers, and Product Managers across the organization. You get to influence stakeholders with clear communication skills. You innovate on behalf of the customer and strategically build features. You will mentor junior members and help them grow. About the team The team values innovations and offers a safe place to try, fail and learn while fostering a culture of continuous improvement. Everyone is a leader and owner for everything we do as a team. Our team offers creative space with entrepreneurial work environment focusing on customer obsession.

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