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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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  • IN, KA, Bengaluru
    Job ID: 10408648
    (Updated 9 days ago)
    Are you passionate about building the world's largest low-power, long-range IoT network? Do you want to use data science to expand connectivity for billions of devices and directly shape how Amazon Sidewalk grows its coverage footprint? If turning IoT telemetry into actionable insights excites you, we want to talk. The Amazon Sidewalk team is looking for an analytical and technically skilled Data Scientist to join our team. In this role, you will design, build, and deploy machine learning models and analytical solutions that power Sidewalk's coverage map, optimize network performance, and drive insights from one of the largest mesh IoT networks in the world. Amazon Sidewalk is a shared network that helps devices like Ring, Echo, and third-party IoT endpoints work better at home and beyond the front door. Sidewalk uses Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), 900 MHz LoRa, and FSK radio protocols to extend the working range of low-bandwidth devices through a network of millions of Sidewalk-enabled gateways. This role puts you at the center of understanding and expanding that network. This role offers wide scope, autonomy, and ownership. You will work closely with software engineers, data engineers, and product managers to put algorithms into practice. You should have strong business judgment, excellent written and verbal communication skills, and be willing to take on challenging initiatives both independently and as part of a team. Key job responsibilities - Build and improve Sidewalk's coverage forecast models that predict network availability across BLE, LoRa, and FSK link types for any geographic location. - Analyze gateway telemetry, device event data, and registration statistics from the Sidewalk Data Lakehouse to identify coverage gaps, network health trends, and device behavior patterns. - Develop geospatial models that leverage gateway location data, signal propagation characteristics, and device density to optimize coverage map accuracy. - Design anomaly detection systems to identify gateway outages, data limit issues, key refresh failures, and device provisioning problems at scale. - Research and develop Generative AI and LLM-based solutions for automated device troubleshooting and root cause analysis across the Sidewalk network. - Define and track key network health metrics including coverage scores, gateway online rates, device registration success rates, and data usage patterns. - Drive end-to-end statistical analysis on complex, ambiguous problems such as predicting optimal gateway placement, modeling RF propagation in urban vs. suburban environments, and forecasting network growth. - Partner with engineering teams to productionize models into Sidewalk's cloud services, ensuring coverage predictions and device analytics are available in real time. About the team The Amazon Sidewalk team builds and operates a crowd-sourced IoT network, connecting millions of gateways (Ring, Echo, and third-party devices) to provide low-bandwidth connectivity for IoT endpoints. Our platform handles device provisioning, authentication, data routing across BLE/LoRa/FSK protocols, coverage forecasting, and gateway management. The network supports use cases ranging from smart home device connectivity to asset tracking and pet location services. Our data infrastructure processes hundreds of millions of device events daily serving insights to engineering, product, and partner teams.
  • CA, BC, Vancouver
    Job ID: 3186477
    (Updated 42 days ago)
    The Alexa Daily Essentials team delivers experiences critical to how customers interact with Alexa as part of daily life. Alexa users engage with our products across experiences connected to Timers, Alarms, Calendars, Food, and News. Our experiences include critical time saving techniques, ad-supported news audio and video, and in-depth kitchen guidance aimed at serving the needs of the family from sunset to sundown. As a Data Scientist on our team, you'll work with complex data, develop statistical methodologies, and provide critical product insights that shape how we build and optimize our solutions. You will work closely with your Analytics and Applied Science teammates. You will build frameworks and mechanisms to scale data solutions across our organization. If you are passionate about redefining how AI can improves everyone's daily life, we’d love to hear from you. Key job responsibilities Key job responsibilities Problem-Solving - Analyze complex data to identify patterns, inform product decisions, and understand root causes of anomalies. - Develop analysis and modeling approaches to drive product and engineering actions to identify patterns, insights, and understand root causes of anomalies. Your solutions directly improve the customer experience. - Independently work with product partners to identify problems and opportunities. Apply a range of data science techniques and tools to solve these problems. Use data driven insights to inform product development. Work with cross-disciplinary teams to mechanize your solution into scalable and automated frameworks. Data Infrastructure - Build data pipelines, and identify novel data sources to leverage in analytical work - both from within Alexa and from cross Amazon - Acquire data by building the necessary SQL / ETL queries Communication - Excel at communicating complex ideas to technical and non-technical audiences. - Build relationships with stakeholders and counterparts. Work with stakeholders to translate causal insights into actionable recommendations - Force multiply the work of the team with data visualizations, presentations, and/or dashboards to drive awareness and adoption of data assets and product insights - Collaborate with cross-functional teams. Mentor teammates to foster a culture of continuous learning and development
  • (Updated 133 days ago)
    Have you ever wondered what it takes to transform millions of manual network planning decisions into AI-powered precision? Network Planning Solutions is looking for scientific innovators obsessed with building the AI/ML intelligence that makes orchestrating complex global operations feel effortless. Here, you'll do more than just build models; you'll create 'delight' by discovering and deploying the science that delivers exactly what our customers need, right when they need it. If you're ready to transform complex data patterns into breakthrough AI capabilities that power intuitive human experiences, you've found your team. Network Planning Solutions architects and orchestrates Amazon's customer service network of the future. By building AI-native solutions that continuously learn, predict and optimize, we deliver seamless customer experiences and empower associates with high-value work—driving measurable business impact at a global scale. As a Sr. Manager, Applied Science, you will own the scientific innovation and research initiatives that make this vision possible. You will lead a team of applied scientists and collaborate with cross-functional partners to develop and implement breakthrough scientific solutions that redefine our global network. Key job responsibilities Lead AI/ML Innovation for Network Planning Solutions: - Develop and deploy production-ready demand forecasting algorithms that continuously sense and predict customer demand using real-time signals - Build network optimization algorithms that automatically adjust staffing as conditions evolve across the service network - Architect scalable AI/ML infrastructure supporting automated forecasting and network optimization capabilities across the system Drive Scientific Excellence: - Build and mentor a team of applied scientists to deliver breakthrough AI/ML solutions - Design rigorous experiments to validate hypotheses and quantify business impact - Establish scientific excellence mechanisms including evaluation metrics and peer review processes Enable Strategic Transformation: - Drive scientific innovation from research to production - Design and validate next-generation AI-native models while ensuring robust performance, explainability, and seamless integration with existing systems. - Partner with Engineering, Product, and Operations teams to translate AI/ML capabilities into measurable business outcomes - Navigate ambiguity through experimentation while balancing innovation with operational constraints - Influence senior leadership through scientific rigor, translating complex algorithms into clear business value A day in the life Your day will be a dynamic blend of scientific innovation and strategic problem-solving. You'll collaborate with cross-functional teams, design AI algorithms, and translate complex data patterns into intuitive solutions that drive meaningful business impact. About the team We are Network Planning Solutions, a team of scientific innovators dedicated to reshaping how global service networks operate. Our mission is to create AI-native solutions that continuously learn, predict, and optimize customer experiences. We empower our associates to tackle high-value challenges and drive transformative change at a global scale.
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 3189728
    (Updated 148 days ago)
    The Stores Economics and Science (SEAS) team is an interdisciplinary science and economics team whose mission is to solve high-risk, high-return problems for the Stores organization. We leverage frontier science, partner with teams across Amazon, and learn from the tools, experience, and perspectives of others. Our work spans rapid responses to pressing leadership questions, collaborative partnerships to help other teams achieve their goals, and multi-year scientific bets with large upside potential. We are looking for an economist who can use data-driven modeling and analyses to make the right trade-offs and solve impactful business problems. We seek creative thinkers who can combine a strong economic toolbox with a desire to learn from others, and who know how to execute and deliver on big ideas. In this role, you will contribute to SEAS' mission in two key ways. First, you will leverage your economic expertise to help design and validate scientific solutions for pressing business challenges. This will involve applying advanced analytical techniques, conducting rigorous data analysis, and proactively proposing high-impact initiatives that can be rapidly prototyped and scaled. Secondly, you will play a crucial role in translating complex economic models and insights into actionable recommendations that directly inform leadership decisions across the organization. This will require strong communication skills to effectively collaborate with cross-functional partners and drive meaningful change. Key job responsibilities - Collaborate with cross-functional partner teams to understand their challenges and translate them into rigorous economic frameworks that can be addressed through data analysis, modeling, and experimentation. - Own the end-to-end development of economic models and analyses, including conducting necessary data gathering, analysis, and validation to drive actionable insights, and - Effectively communicate your economic findings, models, and proposed solutions to senior business stakeholders, incorporating their feedback to refine your work.
  • CA, ON, Toronto
    Job ID: 3180095
    (Updated 57 days ago)
    Are you interested in shaping the future of Advertising and B2B Sales? We are a growing science and engineering team with an exciting charter and need your passion, innovative thinking, and creativity to help take our products to new heights. Amazon Advertising is one of Amazon's fastest growing and most profitable businesses, responsible for defining and delivering a collection of advertising products that drive discovery and sales. Our products are strategically important to our businesses driving long term growth. We break fresh ground in product and technical innovations every day! Within the Advertising Sales organization, we are building a central AI/ML team and are seeking top science talent to build new, science-backed services to drive success for our customers. Our goal is to transform the way account teams operate by creating actionable insights and recommendations they can share with their advertising accounts, and ingesting Generative AI throughout their end-to-end workflows to improve their work efficiency. As a part of our team, you will bring deep expertise in Generative AI and quantitative modeling (forecasting, recommender systems, reinforcement learning, causal inferencing or generative artificial intelligence) to build and refine models that can be implemented in production. You will contribute to chart new courses with our ad sales support technologies, and you have the communication skills necessary to explain complex technical approaches to a variety of stakeholders and customers. You will be part of a team of fellow scientists and engineers taking on iterative approaches to tackle big, long-term problems. Why you will love this opportunity: Amazon has invested heavily in building a world-class advertising business. This team defines and delivers a collection of advertising products that drive discovery and sales. Our solutions generate billions in revenue and drive long-term growth for Amazon's Retail and Marketplace businesses. We deliver billions of ads impressions, millions of clicks daily, and break fresh ground to create world-class products. We are a highly motivated, collaborative, and fun-loving team with an entrepreneurial spirit with a broad mandate to experiment and innovate. Impact and Career Growth: You will invent new experiences and influence customer-facing shopping experiences; this is your opportunity to work within the fastest growing businesses across all of Amazon! Define a long-term scientific vision for our advertising sales business, driven from our customers' needs, translating that direction into specific plans for scientists, engineers and product teams. This role combines scientific leadership, organizational ability, technical strength, product focus, and business understanding. Key job responsibilities - Conceptualize and lead state-of-the-art research on new Machine Learning and Generative Artificial Intelligence solutions to optimize all aspects of the Ad Sales business - Guide the technical approach for the design and implementation of successful models and algorithms in support of expert cross-functional teams delivering on demanding projects - Conduct deep data analysis to derive insights to the business, and identify gaps and new opportunities - Run regular A/B experiments, gather data, and perform statistical analysis - Work closely with software engineers to deliver end-to-end solutions into production - Improve the scalability, efficiency and automation of large-scale data analytics, model training, deployment and serving About the team Sales AI is a central science and engineering organization within Amazon Advertising Sales that powers selling motions and account team workflows via state-of-the-art of AI/ML services. Sales AI is investing in a range of sales intelligence models, including the development of advertiser insights, recommendations and Generative AI-powered applications throughout account team workflows.
  • US, NY, New York
    Job ID: 3184564
    (Updated 6 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.
  • (Updated 6 days ago)
    Amazon Industrial Robotics is seeking exceptional talent to help develop the next generation of advanced robotics systems that will transform automation at Amazon's scale. We're building revolutionary robotic systems that combine cutting-edge AI, sophisticated control systems, and advanced mechanical design to create adaptable automation solutions capable of working safely alongside humans in dynamic environments. This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of robotics and automation at unprecedented scale, working with world-class teams pushing the boundaries of what's possible in robotic manipulation, locomotion, and human-robot interaction. This role presents an opportunity to shape the future of robotics through innovative applications of deep learning and large language models. We leverage advanced robotics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence to solve complex operational challenges at unprecedented scale. Our fleet of robots operates across hundreds of facilities worldwide, working in sophisticated coordination to fulfill our mission of customer excellence. We are pioneering the development of robotics foundation models that: - Enable unprecedented generalization across diverse tasks - Integrate multi-modal learning capabilities (visual, tactile, linguistic) - Accelerate skill acquisition through demonstration learning - Enhance robotic perception and environmental understanding - Streamline development processes through reusable capabilities The ideal candidate will contribute to research that bridges the gap between theoretical advancement and practical implementation in robotics. You will be part of a team that's revolutionizing how robots learn, adapt, and interact with their environment. Join us in building the next generation of intelligent robotics systems that will transform the future of automation and human-robot collaboration. As an Applied Scientist, you will develop and improve machine learning systems that help robots perceive, reason, and act in real-world environments. You will leverage state-of-the-art models (open source and internal research), evaluate them on representative tasks, and adapt/optimize them to meet robustness, safety, and performance needs. You will invent new algorithms where gaps exist. You’ll collaborate closely with research, controls, hardware, and product-facing teams, and your outputs will be used by downstream teams to further customize and deploy on specific robot embodiments. Key job responsibilities - Leverage state-of-the-art models for targeted tasks, environments, and robot embodiments through fine-tuning and optimization. - Execute rapid, rigorous experimentation with reproducible results and solid engineering practices, closing the gap between sim and real environments. - Build and run capability evaluations/benchmarks to clearly profile performance, generalization, and failure modes. - Contribute to the data and training workflow: collection/curation, dataset quality/provenance, and repeatable training recipes. - Write clean, maintainable, well commented and documented code, contribute to training infrastructure, create tools for model evaluation and testing, and implement necessary APIs - Stay current with latest developments in foundation models and robotics, assist in literature reviews and research documentation, prepare technical reports and presentations, and contribute to research discussions and brainstorming sessions. - Work closely with senior scientists, engineers, and leaders across multiple teams, participate in knowledge sharing, support integration efforts with robotics hardware teams, and help document best practices and methodologies.
  • IN, KA, Bengaluru
    Job ID: 10372897
    (Updated 21 days ago)
    We are embarking on a multi-year journey to improve the shopping experience for customers globally. Amazon Search team creates customer-focused search solutions and technologies that makes shopping delightful and effortless for our customers. Our goal is to understand what customers are looking for in whatever language happens to be their choice at the moment and help them find what they need in Amazon's vast catalog of billions of products. As Amazon expands to new geographies and new interfaces, we are faced with the unique challenge of maintaining the bar on Search Quality due to the diversity in user preferences, multilingual search and data scarcity. We are looking for an applied researcher to work on improving search on Amazon using NLP, ML, and DL technology. As an Applied Scientist, you will lead our efforts in query understanding, semantic matching, and ranking. As part of this role, you will develop high precision, high recall, and low latency solutions for search. Your solutions should work for all languages that Amazon supports and will be used in all Amazon locales world-wide. You will develop scalable science and engineering solutions that work successfully in production. You will work with leaders to develop a strategic vision and long term plans to improve search globally. We are growing our collaborative group of engineers and applied scientists by expanding into new areas.
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 3175174
    (Updated 1 days ago)
    The Selling Partner Experience (SPX) organization strives to make Amazon the best place for Selling Partners to do business. The SPX AI Lab team is building the AI capabilities powering the Selling Assistant, Amazon's conversational assistant experience for Selling Partners. The Selling Assistant is a trusted partner and a seasoned advisor that’s always available to enable our partners to thrive in Amazon’s stores. It takes away the cognitive load of selling on Amazon by providing a single interface to handle a diverse set of selling needs. The assistant always stays by the seller's side, talks to them in their language, enables them to capitalize on opportunities, and helps them accomplish their business goals with ease. It is powered by the latest advances in Generative AI, going beyond a typical chatbot to provide an intuitive, intelligent, agentic and personalized experience to sellers running real businesses, large and small. Do you want to join an innovative group of scientists, engineers, and product managers who use advanced analytical, statistical, and machine learning techniques to help Amazon create a delightful Selling Partner experience? Are you excited about uncovering insights from massive-scale data, measuring the impact of AI-driven features, and shaping product strategy through rigorous analysis? Do you want to be part of one of Amazon’s most strategic initiatives to understand and improve seller experience? If yes, the SPX AI Lab may be the perfect fit for you. Key job responsibilities -- Respond to Seller feedback and implement fix in Gen AI solution to enhance Seller experience -- Drive deep-dive analytical studies to understand seller pain points, evaluate feature performance, and identify opportunities to improve the Selling Partner experience. -- Design and execute robust causal inference and measurement frameworks, including A/B testing, quasi-experiments, and observational causal methods (e.g., diff-in-diff, synthetic control, propensity score methods). -- Develop scalable analytical pipelines for impact measurement, KPI development, metric integrity validation, and long-term business monitoring. -- Apply NLP and statistical modeling techniques—including topic modeling, clustering, semantic similarity, and classification—to uncover insights from unstructured seller interactions, feedback, and content. -- Partner with scientists, engineers, economists, and product managers to translate ambiguous problems into structured analytical approaches and influence product roadmaps with data-driven recommendations. -- Build and maintain automated analytics tools and dashboards to democratize insights for product, science, and engineering teams. -- Collaborate scientists to evaluate model-driven features, quantify impact, and ensure mechanisms are grounded in rigorous measurement. -- Research and experiment with new analytical and measurement methodologies, ensuring Amazon leverages the latest best practices in causal inference, NLP, and GenAI. About the team SPX AI Lab is a growing team of scientists driving the research and development of the next generation of GenAI experiences that empower Amazon's Selling Partners to succeed. We draw from many science domains, from Natural Language Processing to Computer Vision to Optimization to Economics, to create solutions that seamlessly and automatically engage with Sellers, solve their problems, and help them grow. We strive to radically simplify the seller experience, lowering the cognitive burden of selling on Amazon by making it easy to accomplish critical tasks such as launching new products, understanding and complying with Amazon’s policies and taking actions to grow their business.
  • US, WA, Bellevue
    Job ID: 3184384
    (Updated 2 days ago)
    The NA AMZL Supply Chain organization leads the innovation of Amazon’s Last Mile. We are an Operations org that hires and manages associates to deliver packages next day and sub-same day. Our key vision is to transform the online experience by enabling ultra-fast delivery at lower cost possible. We’re growing in scale and volume, by orders of magnitude. The Execution and Planning Science-Engineering (EPSE) team sits within NA AMZL Supply Chain with the mission to build world-class automated Science-Tech products that enable ultra-fast delivery speeds for Amazon customers and job market opportunities for Amazon associates. We are team of Scientists, Engineers and Tech leaders who invent and implement scalable algorithms for automated decision making in the Operations space. We are looking for an Applied Scientist to contribute to the future of Last Mile associate labor planning. Work will include advising on evolving flexible labor planning programs, optimizing our supply chain network, providing data-driven strategies to improve cost, reliability or speed. Designing, implementing and evaluating experiments, and measuring impact. Work will feed strategic analyses and also be part of production systems. Experience needed in Optimization and Statistics/ML. Key job responsibilities As an Applied Scientist, you’ll design, model, develop and implement state-of-the-art models and solutions. As part of your role you will regularly interact with software engineering teams and business leadership.

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