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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: 10543976
    (Updated 3 days ago)
    Are you a scientist interested in pushing the state of the art in machine learning and recommendation systems? Are you interested in working on novel ideas that can positively impact millions of customers? Do you wish you had access to large datasets and tremendous computational resources? Answer yes to any of these questions and you will be a great fit for our team at Amazon. As an Senior 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 and large language 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. Key job responsibilities - Using Amazon’s large-scale computing resources, you will ask research questions about customer behavior, build state-of-the-art models to optimize the shopping experience, and run these models directly on the retail website. - Develop AI solutions for Recommendation systems using Deep learning, LLMs, Reinforcement Learning, distillation, and Optimization methods; - Work closely with engineers and product managers to design, implement and launch AI solutions end-to-end; - Design and conduct offline and online (A/B) experiments to evaluate proposed solutions based on in-depth data analyses; - Effectively communicate technical and non-technical ideas with teammates and stakeholders; - Stay up-to-date with advancements and the latest modeling techniques in the field;
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 10545554
    (Updated 1 days ago)
    Are you excited to figure out not just what is happening but why — and to help build a delivery business that's still taking shape? We're looking for a Data Scientist who thrives on ambiguity and wants to own measurement, modeling, and experimentation across how customers experience Amazon's drone-delivery service. Your work will span the full data-science toolkit: designing and analyzing experiments (A/B tests), deep-diving customer-experience issues to find root causes, building propensity and behavioral models, forecasting demand, and applying causal methods to understand what actually drives our metrics. You'll work with large, evolving operational and customer datasets; partner closely with data engineers, scientists, and business stakeholders; and translate rigorous analysis into clear, decision-ready recommendations. Because the business is early and moving fast, you'll help define the right problems as much as solve them — with real room to explore new methods and shape how we measure and improve as we scale. If you're a curious, collaborative problem-solver who's energized by turning complex, ambiguous data into insight and clear direction, we'd love to hear from you. Key job responsibilities - Design and execute data science solutions using a range of methodologies—including machine learning, statistical modeling, and generative AI techniques—to address business problems where the approach is not immediately clear. - Acquire, transform, and validate large, evolving operational and customer datasets dive deep to investigate anomalies and data quality; and partner with data engineers to bring models and metrics into production. - Design, run, and analyze experiments (A/B and quasi-experimental studies) to measure impact, size opportunities, and guide product and operational decisions. - Deep-dive customer-experience issues and metric movements to identify root causes — the why behind the what, including how our metrics and their drivers relate and translate findings into clear, actionable recommendations. - Communicate complex analyses to technical and non-technical audiences, earn the trust of senior leaders, and influence roadmap and prioritization decisions with your recommendations. - Own your workstream end-to-end, from problem definition through delivery and ongoing measurement partnering across data engineering, product, and business teams as the business scales. A day in the life You might start your morning reviewing model performance metrics before joining a working session with engineers to refine a data pipeline. After lunch, you could be prototyping a new machine learning approach, running experiments, and comparing results against baseline models. Later, you might present preliminary findings to business partners, translating statistical outputs into plain-language recommendations. You will regularly participate in team discussions, scientific reviews, and mentoring conversations that keep you learning and growing.
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 10544622
    (Updated 7 days ago)
    We’re pioneering frontier science solutions to detect and treat product quality issues and enhance post-order experience in Amazon. Our goal is to enhance support for our diverse seller community and foster improved outcomes for both sellers and consumers for broader Amazon ecosystem. We are looking for passionate innovators who are excited about technology, driven by customer experience, and eager to make a lasting impact on the industry. In this role, you'll collaborate with top-tier scientists, engineers, and technical program managers (TPMs) to drive innovation in GenAI foundation models, adapt Large language model to our domain, develop efficient tabular foundation model, innovate on behavior foundation model. You will lead the effort to leverage Amazon's large-scale computing resources to accelerate advances in GenAI and frontier ML solutions. If you’re enthusiastic about joining a dynamic and motivated team, this is your chance to be part of an exciting journey. Apply now and help us shape the future of seller support at Amazon! Key job responsibilities 1. Develop domain-specific foundation models. 2. Apply the domain-specific foundation model to product risk detection, seller interactions capturing, future seller behaviors prediction, and seller responses simulation across varied conditions. 3. Work with business and engineers to develop and deploy the solutions.
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 10535238
    (Updated 7 days ago)
    Pricing is one of the most consequential decisions Amazon makes — and the science behind it needs to be causally rigorous, not just predictive. The P2 Optimization Science (P2OS) team builds the machine learning systems that power Amazon's pricing decisions at scale: demand lift models, customer lifetime value frameworks, and the experimentation infrastructure that validates whether our pricing changes actually work. We're hiring an Applied Scientist to own causal inference at the intersection of ML and pricing experimentation. This role exists because our team has identified a real gap: the methodological bridge between econometric analysis (owned by our economists) and production-scale ML pipelines (owned by our engineers) needs a practitioner who lives in both worlds. You'll build CATE estimation models, design analysis workflows for pricing weblabs, and develop the reusable causal ML infrastructure that the broader team — including non-ML scientists — can rely on. This is not a research role. The bias here is toward shipping production-quality causal pipelines with real downstream business impact. You'll measure success by what changes in LTV estimates, what pricing errors your models help avoid, and whether the economists on your team can actually use what you build. If you're a scientist who wants to work on hard causal identification problems in a high-stakes production environment — and who finds satisfaction in making rigorous methods accessible to a broader team — this role is for you. Key job responsibilities * Build causal ML pipelines for pricing — Design, train, evaluate, and deploy end-to-end causal estimation models for pricing use cases. * Own the science on heterogeneous treatment effects — Be the team SME on causal ML methodology: identification strategies, model selection, evaluation standards, and the tradeoffs between econometric and ML approaches to causal estimation. * Support pricing experiment analysis — Contribute causal analysis methodology to pricing weblab and A/B test post-analysis; build reusable tooling that economists can use without requiring ML expertise * Connect model outputs to business outcomes — Define, before writing code, what business metric each model moves; deliver model evaluation reports framed around pricing errors avoided and LTV estimate changes. * Evaluate and adopt novel techniques — Assess applicability of emerging causal inference methods (synthetic DiD, generalized random forests, causal representation learning) to Amazon's pricing context; write internal methodology proposals for adoption * Write internal documentation and methodology papers — Produce at least one internal write-up per half that connects a causal ML technique to a concrete pricing use case; make pipelines extensible and well-documented so other scientists can build on them. * Collaborate across disciplines — Partner closely with the Sr. Economist on identification strategy and causal assumptions; work with SDE and DE partners on production deployment; align with PMs on experiment design requirements A day in the life As an Applied Scientist on the P2OS team, your work directly shapes the prices customers see on hundreds of millions of Amazon products. In a given workweek, you might: * Investigate an optimization anomaly in simulation and trace it back to a model input gap or an unmodeled market dynamic * Design an offline evaluation framework to benchmark competing optimization approaches before committing to online testing * Collaborate with Sr. Economists on the identification strategy for the model you're building for a pricing lab * Present a science proposal for incorporating a new competitiveness or inventory signal into an optimization system * Work cross-team with the experimentation platform team on randomization design. * Develop and write up a novel scientific finding — preparing a paper or technical report for submission to a top-tier venue such as KDD, NeurIPS, or the ACM Conference on Economics and Computation
  • US, CA, Sunnyvale
    Job ID: 10535012
    (Updated 17 days ago)
    We are seeking an Applied Scientist to focus on Robot Navigation. In this role, you'll research and develop advanced navigation systems that enable robots to move reliably and safely through complex, dynamic environments. You'll work across a broad spectrum of navigation approaches—from classical methods to learning-based techniques and foundation models—to build robust solutions for autonomous robot navigation. Key job responsibilities - Develop and implement robust navigation systems that enable reliable autonomous operation in complex, dynamic indoor environments with static and dynamic obstacles - Build simulation-based and on-device evaluation frameworks with comprehensive benchmarks and metrics for systematic comparison of navigation methods - Conduct sim-to-real transfer experiments, analyzing performance gaps and developing techniques to ensure reliable real-world navigation performance - Collaborate with world model, manipulation, and other teams to ensure seamless integration of navigation capabilities into the full robot system - Stay current with the latest advances in robot navigation, spatial reasoning, and related fields, and apply relevant findings to improve system performance - Mentor fellow scientists and engineers while maintaining strong individual technical contributions About the team Fauna Robotics, an Amazon company, is building capable, safe, and genuinely delightful robots for everyday life. Our goal is simple: make robots people actually want to live and interact with in everyday human spaces. We believe that future won’t arrive until building for robotics becomes far more accessible. Today, too much effort is spent reinventing the fundamentals. We’re changing that by developing tightly integrated hardware and software systems that make it faster, safer, and more intuitive to create real-world robotic products.
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 10537816
    (Updated 7 days ago)
    Trusted by more startups around the world, AWS makes the power of cloud computing accessible for all by giving founders everywhere access to the same technology that powers the world's largest companies. With nearly two decades of experience supporting hundreds of thousands of startups, including 80% of unicorns, we democratize cloud computing to help founders bring their innovative ideas to life. We support founders at every stage of their journey, from initial onboarding and credit programs to AI-powered guidance and scale solutions. Data is central to how we do this: it helps us identify high-potential startups early, personalize the guidance we deliver, and prioritize where we can create the most value for founders and for AWS. We are seeking an Applied Science Manager to lead a team of applied scientists and analysts building the data and machine learning capabilities behind AWS Startups. You will own the science roadmap end-to-end, from the data foundation that unifies signals about founders, startups, and their products, through a portfolio of machine learning models, to the surfaces that put insights in the hands of the teams and products that serve startups. You will balance hands-on technical leadership with people management, setting the technical bar for your team while developing their careers. Key job responsibilities · Lead, coach, and grow a team of applied scientists, business intelligence engineers, and business analysts; hire and develop talent and set a high technical bar. · Own and prioritize the team's science roadmap and set technical direction for its machine learning models and data assets, balancing rapid experimentation with production quality, cost, and reliability. · Scope scientific projects, design and evaluate experiments, and productionize models that deliver measurable impact, establishing measurement, evaluation, and operational-excellence standards so quality and impact are quantified and defensible. · Drive the science behind recommendation systems, startup segmentation and targeting, and fraud detection, delivering models that surface relevant opportunities, group and prioritize startups by need and fit, and protect the business from fraud and abuse. · Partner with product, engineering, design, and go-to-market teams to translate science into scalable products, and communicate strategy, results, and trade-offs clearly to technical and non-technical leaders. · Foster a culture of scientific rigor and rapid experimentation, and proactively identify and escalate risks with clear mitigation plans. About the team The AWS Startups team builds innovative products and platforms that support startup customers throughout their journey, from initial onboarding and credit programs to AI-powered guidance and scale solutions. Our portfolio serves hundreds of thousands of startup customers globally, and we partner with business development, field marketing, and solutions architecture teams worldwide. We are building the next generation of AI-native products that make world-class cloud expertise accessible to every founder.
  • US, NY, New York
    Job ID: 10553014
    (Updated 9 days ago)
    The Sponsored Products and Brands team at Amazon Ads is re-imagining the advertising landscape through industry leading generative AI technologies, revolutionizing how millions of customers discover products and engage with brands across Amazon.com and beyond. We are at the forefront of re-inventing advertising experiences, bridging human creativity with artificial intelligence to transform every aspect of the advertising lifecycle from ad creation and optimization to performance analysis and customer insights. We are a passionate group of innovators dedicated to developing responsible and intelligent AI technologies that balance the needs of advertisers, enhance the shopping experience, and strengthen the marketplace. If you're energized by solving complex challenges and pushing the boundaries of what's possible with AI, join us in shaping the future of advertising! The Amazon Sponsored Products and Brands is looking for a talented Sr. Applied Scientist to join the Global Optimization science team at the forefront of advertising technology innovation. We are working backwards from emerging markets to reimagine Amazon's advertising stack from the ground up, leveraging multilingual and multi-modal GenAI technologies — including semantic hash designs, LLMs, and more — to deliver solutions that scale to non-US marketplaces from day one. This is your opportunity to be part of a small, high-impact team that prototypes, invents, and ships state-of-the-art solutions that will define the future of digital advertising. The ideal candidate combines entrepreneurial drive with deep technical expertise, thriving in ambiguous, fast-moving environments where you define the path forward with minimal structure. Our team regularly goes from ideas on the whiteboard to production-grade experiments. Your Customer Obsession fuels your passion for translating science into real-world value for millions of advertisers and customers worldwide. You are consistently Right, A Lot when navigating complex technical decisions, demonstrating the rare ability to identify solutions that drive maximum impact with minimal resources. Whether you're architecting scalable GenAI systems or optimizing multi-task recommendation engines, you cut through complexity to find the solutions that deliver the most results. Your GenAI experience goes beyond theoretical knowledge—you have successfully delivered value with state-of-the-art technologies at Amazon scale, understanding both the promise and practical challenges of deploying machine learning in production environments (evaluations, etc.). You're not just a scientist or just an engineer—you're a builder who sees the bigger picture and knows how to make it reality. Key job responsibilities * Architect next-generation systems that replace legacy monolithic infrastructure with scalable, intelligent solutions that scale worldwide on day one. * Pioneer breakthrough applied science in multi-modal GenAI applications for advertising, combining text, image, and multi-lingual support. * Drive end-to-end innovation from research ideation through production deployment at Amazon scale. * Lead cross-functional collaboration with product, engineering, and business teams to translate science into customer impact. About the team You will join a newly-founded team with a broad mandate to experiment and innovate, with a focus on driving growth of sponsored products ad experiences across non-US marketplaces. This broad charter gives us the flexibility to explore and apply scientific techniques to novel product problems. You will have the satisfaction of seeing your work improve the experience of millions of Amazon shoppers worldwide while driving quantifiable revenue impact. More importantly, you will have the opportunity to broaden your technical skills, and be a science leader in an environment that thrives on creativity, experimentation, and product innovation.
  • IN, TS, Hyderabad
    Job ID: 10533796
    (Updated 7 days ago)
    Have you ever wondered how Amazon launches and maintains a consistent customer experience across hundreds of countries and languages it serves its customers? Are you passionate about data and mathematics, and hope to impact the experience of millions of customers? Are you obsessed with designing simple algorithmic solutions to very challenging problems? If so, we look forward to hearing from you! At Amazon, we strive to be Earth's most customer-centric company, where both internal and external customers can find and discover anything they want in their own language of preference. Our Translations Services (TS) team plays a pivotal role in expanding the reach of our marketplace worldwide and enables thousands of developers and other stakeholders (Product Managers, Program Managers, Linguists) in developing locale specific solutions. Amazon Translations Services (TS) is seeking an Applied Scientist to be based in our Hyderabad office. As a key member of the Science and Engineering team of TS, this person will be responsible for designing algorithmic solutions based on data and mathematics for translating billions of words annually across 130+ and expanding set of locales. The successful applicant will ensure that there is minimal human touch involved in any language translation and accurate translated text is available to our worldwide customers in a streamlined and optimized manner. With access to vast amounts of data, technology, and a diverse community of talented individuals, you will have the opportunity to make a meaningful impact on the way customers and stakeholders engage with Amazon and our platform worldwide. Together, we will drive innovation, solve complex problems, and shape the future of e-commerce. Key job responsibilities * Apply your expertise in LLM models to design, develop, and implement scalable machine learning solutions that address complex language translation-related challenges in the eCommerce space. * Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including software engineers, data scientists, and product managers, to define project requirements, establish success metrics, and deliver high-quality solutions. * Conduct thorough data analysis to gain insights, identify patterns, and drive actionable recommendations that enhance seller performance and customer experiences across various international marketplaces. * Continuously explore and evaluate state-of-the-art modeling techniques and methodologies to improve the accuracy and efficiency of language translation-related systems. * Communicate complex technical concepts effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, providing clear explanations and guidance on proposed solutions and their potential impact. About the team We are a start-up mindset team. As the long-term technical strategy is still taking shape, there is a lot of opportunity for this fresh Science team to innovate by leveraging Gen AI technoligies to build scalable solutions from scratch. Our Vision: Language will not stand in the way of anyone on earth using Amazon products and services. Our Mission: We are the enablers and guardians of translation for Amazon's customers. We do this by offering hands-off-the-wheel service to all Amazon teams, optimizing translation quality and speed at the lowest cost possible.
  • US, CA, Sunnyvale
    Job ID: 10532967
    (Updated 4 days ago)
    Amazon is on a mission to redefine the future of automation — and we're looking for exceptional talent to help lead the way. We are building the next generation of advanced robotic systems that seamlessly blend cutting-edge AI, sophisticated control systems, and novel mechanical design to create adaptable, intelligent automation solutions capable of operating safely alongside humans in dynamic, real-world environments. At Amazon, we leverage the power of machine learning, artificial intelligence, and advanced robotics to solve some of the most complex operational challenges at a scale unlike anywhere else in the world. Our fleet of robots spans hundreds of facilities globally, working in sophisticated coordination to deliver on our promise of customer excellence — and we're just getting started. As a Sr. Scientist in Robot Navigation, you will be at the forefront of this transformation — architecting and delivering navigation systems that are intelligent, safe, and scalable. You will bring deep expertise in learning-based planning and control, a strong understanding of foundation models and their application to embodied agents, and as well as have in-depth understanding of control-theoretic approaches such as model predictive control (MPC)-based trajectory planning. You will develop navigation solutions that seamlessly blend data-driven intelligence with principled control-theoretic guarantees. Our vision is bold: to build navigation systems that allow robots to move fluidly and safely through dynamic environments — understanding context, anticipating change, and adapting in real time. You will lead research that bridges the gap between cutting-edge academic advances and production grade deployment, collaborating with world-class teams pushing the boundaries of robotic autonomy, manipulation, and human-robot interaction. Join us in building the next generation of intelligent navigation systems that will define the future of autonomous robotics at scale. Key job responsibilities - Design, develop, and deploy perception algorithms for robotics systems, including object detection, segmentation, tracking, depth estimation, and scene understanding - Lead research initiatives in computer vision, sensor fusion and 3D perception - Collaborate with cross-functional teams including robotics engineers, software engineers, and product managers to define and deliver perception capabilities - Drive end-to-end ownership of ML models — from data collection and labeling strategy to training, evaluation, and deployment - Mentor junior scientists and engineers; contribute to a culture of technical excellence - Define and track key metrics to measure perception system performance in real-world environments - Publish research findings in top-tier venues (CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ICRA, NeurIPS, etc.) and contribute to patents A day in the life - Train ML models for deployment in simulation and real-world robots, identify and document their limitations post-deployment - Drive technical discussions within your team and with key stakeholders to develop innovative solutions to address identified limitations - Actively contribute to brainstorming sessions on adjacent topics, bringing fresh perspectives that help peers grow and succeed — and in doing so, build lasting trust across the team - Mentor team members while maintaining significant hands-on contribution to technical solutions About the team Our team is a group is a diverse group of scientists and engineers passionate about building intelligent machines. We value curiosity, rigor, and a bias for action. We believe in learning from failure and iterating quickly toward solutions that matter.
  • (Updated 16 days ago)
    Have you ever wondered how we give voice to devices — even when they're offline? The Text-to-Speech on Device team at Amazon builds AI-powered voice models that run locally on hardware with limited resources, serving customers across Alexa, automotive, and accessibility experiences for visually impaired users. We sit at the intersection of speech generation, generative AI, and on-device machine learning, and we're looking for a curious, collaborative Applied Scientist to help us push what's possible. In this role, you will research and develop production-ready speech generation models optimized for constrained environments. You will work across the full model lifecycle — from early experimentation and prototyping through to integration on real devices. If you're excited about solving hard scientific problems that directly improve how millions of people interact with technology, we'd love to hear from you. Key job responsibilities - Design and develop end-to-end machine learning models for on-device speech generation, from early research and experimentation through production-ready deployment. - Research and apply advanced techniques in generative AI, model compression, and knowledge distillation to deliver high-quality voice models within tight hardware constraints. - Propose and validate novel scientific approaches by authoring detailed technical specifications and contributing to peer-reviewed publications when appropriate. - Evaluate model performance rigorously, identify improvement opportunities, and iterate on training and inference pipelines to optimize quality and efficiency. - Collaborate with science and engineering teams across cloud and device platforms to bring speech generation capabilities from research prototypes to integrated product experiences. About the team The Text-to-Speech on Device team builds low-footprint AI models for speech generation that run locally on devices such as Android and FireOS platforms. Our models require significantly less computation than cloud-hosted alternatives, enabling offline voice experiences for Alexa, automotive partners, and accessibility solutions. We work closely with device engineering teams and cloud-based speech science teams to deliver the best possible experience for our customers. Our focus in the coming years is expanding the range of voices and languages we support while continuing to improve naturalness and efficiency on constrained hardware.

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