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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 in artificial intelligence and related fields.
  • 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, MA, Boston
    Job ID: 3128807
    (Updated 16 days ago)
    The Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) team is looking for a highly skilled and experienced Sr. Applied Scientist, to support the development and implementation of state-of-the-art algorithms and models for supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning through human feedback and complex reasoning; with a focus across text, image, and video modalities. As an Sr. Applied Scientist, you will play a critical role in supporting the development of Generative AI (Gen AI) technologies that can handle Amazon-scale use cases and have a significant impact on our customers' experiences. Key job responsibilities Collaborate with cross-functional teams of engineers, product managers, and scientists to identify and solve complex problems in Gen AI Design and execute experiments to evaluate the performance of different algorithms (PT, SFT, RL) and models, and iterate quickly to improve results Think big about the arc of development of Gen AI over a multi-year horizon, and identify new opportunities to apply these technologies to solve real-world problems Communicate results and insights to both technical and non-technical audiences, including through presentations and written reports About the team We are passionate scientists dedicated to pushing the boundaries of innovation in Gen AI with focus on Software Development use cases.
  • IN, HR, Gurugram
    Job ID: 3128865
    (Updated 16 days ago)
    Do you want to join an innovative team of scientists who use machine learning and statistical techniques to create state-of-the-art solutions for providing better value to Amazon’s customers? Do you want to build and deploy advanced ML systems that help optimize millions of transactions every day? Are you excited by the prospect of analyzing and modeling terabytes of data to solve real-world problems? Do you like to own end-to-end business problems/metrics and directly impact the profitability of the company? Do you like to innovate and simplify? If yes, then you may be a great fit to join the Machine Learning team for India Consumer Businesses. Machine Learning, Big Data and related quantitative sciences have been strategic to Amazon from the early years. Amazon has been a pioneer in areas such as recommendation engines, ecommerce fraud detection and large-scale optimization of fulfillment center operations. As Amazon has rapidly grown and diversified, the opportunity for applying machine learning has exploded. We have a very broad collection of practical problems where machine learning systems can dramatically improve the customer experience, reduce cost, and drive speed and automation. These include product bundle recommendations for millions of products, safeguarding financial transactions across by building the risk models, improving catalog quality via extracting product attribute values from structured/unstructured data for millions of products, enhancing address quality by powering customer suggestions We are developing state-of-the-art machine learning solutions to accelerate the Amazon India growth story. Amazon India is an exciting place to be at for a machine learning practitioner. We have the eagerness of a fresh startup to absorb machine learning solutions, and the scale of a mature firm to help support their development at the same time. As part of the India Machine Learning team, you will get to work alongside brilliant minds motivated to solve real-world machine learning problems that make a difference to millions of our customers. We encourage thought leadership and blue ocean thinking in ML. Key job responsibilities Use machine learning and analytical techniques to create scalable solutions for business problems Analyze and extract relevant information from large amounts of Amazon’s historical business data to help automate and optimize key processes Design, develop, evaluate and deploy, innovative and highly scalable ML models Work closely with software engineering teams to drive real-time model implementations Work closely with business partners to identify problems and propose machine learning solutions Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large scale data analyses, model development, model validation and model maintenance Work proactively with engineering teams and product managers to evangelize new algorithms and drive the implementation of large-scale complex ML models in production Leading projects and mentoring other scientists, engineers in the use of ML techniques About the team International Machine Learning Team is responsible for building novel ML solutions that attack India first (and other Emerging Markets across MENA and LatAm) problems and impact the bottom-line and top-line of India business. Learn more about our team from https://www.amazon.science/working-at-amazon/how-rajeev-rastogis-machine-learning-team-in-india-develops-innovations-for-customers-worldwide
  • (Updated 16 days ago)
    The Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) team is looking for a passionate, talented, and inventive Principal Applied Scientist with a strong deep learning background, to lead the development of industry-leading technology with multimodal systems. As a Principal Scientist within the Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) organization, you are a trusted part of the technical leadership. You bring business and industry context to science and technology decisions, set the standard for scientific excellence, and make decisions that affect the way we build and integrate algorithms. A Principal Applied Scientist will solicit differing views across the organization and are willing to change your mind as you learn more. Your artifacts are exemplary and often used as reference across organization. You are a hands-on scientific leader; develop solutions that are exemplary in terms of algorithm design, clarity, model structure, efficiency, and extensibility; and tackle intrinsically hard problems, acquiring expertise as needed. Principal Applied Scientists are expected to decompose complex problems into straightforward solutions. You amplify your impact by leading scientific reviews within your organization or at your location; and scrutinize and review experimental design, modeling, verification and other research procedures. You also probe assumptions, illuminate pitfalls, and foster shared understanding; align teams toward coherent strategies; and educate keeping the scientific community up to date on advanced techniques, state of the art approaches, the latest technologies, and trends. AGI Principal Applied Scientists help managers guide the career growth of other scientists by mentoring and play a significant role in hiring and developing scientists and leads. You will play a critical role in driving the development of Generative AI (GenAI) technologies that can handle Amazon-scale use cases and have a significant impact on our customers' experiences. Key job responsibilities You will be responsible for defining key research directions, inventing new machine learning techniques, conducting rigorous experiments, and ensuring that research is translated into practice. You will develop long-term strategies, persuade teams to adopt those strategies, propose goals and deliver on them. A Principal Applied Scientist will participate in organizational planning, hiring, mentorship and leadership development. You will also be build scalable science and engineering solutions, and serve as a key scientific resource in full-cycle development (conception, design, implementation, testing to documentation, delivery, and maintenance).
  • (Updated 15 days ago)
    Prime Video is a first-stop entertainment destination offering customers a vast collection of premium programming in one app available across thousands of devices. Prime members can customize their viewing experience and find their favorite movies, series, documentaries, and live sports – including Amazon MGM Studios-produced series and movies; licensed fan favorites; and programming from Prime Video add-on subscriptions such as Apple TV+, Max, Crunchyroll and MGM+. All customers, regardless of whether they have a Prime membership or not, can rent or buy titles via the Prime Video Store, and can enjoy even more content for free with ads. Are you interested in shaping the future of entertainment? Prime Video's technology teams are creating best-in-class digital video experience. As a Prime Video technologist, you’ll have end-to-end ownership of the product, user experience, design, and technology required to deliver state-of-the-art experiences for our customers. You’ll get to work on projects that are fast-paced, challenging, and varied. You’ll also be able to experiment with new possibilities, take risks, and collaborate with remarkable people. We’ll look for you to bring your diverse perspectives, ideas, and skill-sets to make Prime Video even better for our customers. With global opportunities for talented technologists, you can decide where a career Prime Video Tech takes you! Key job responsibilities - Develop ML models for various recommendation & search systems using deep learning, online learning, and optimization methods - Work closely with other scientists, engineers and product managers to expand the depth of our product insights with data, create a variety of experiments to determine the high impact projects to include in planning roadmaps - Stay up-to-date with advancements and the latest modeling techniques in the field - Publish your research findings in top conferences and journals A day in the life We're using advanced approaches such as foundation models to connect information about our videos and customers from a variety of information sources, acquiring and processing data sets on a scale that only a few companies in the world can match. This will enable us to recommend titles effectively, even when we don't have a large behavioral signal (to tackle the cold-start title problem). It will also allow us to find our customer's niche interests, helping them discover groups of titles that they didn't even know existed. We are looking for creative & customer obsessed machine learning scientists who can apply the latest research, state of the art algorithms and ML to build highly scalable page personalization solutions. You'll be a research leader in the space and a hands-on ML practitioner, guiding and collaborating with talented teams of engineers and scientists and senior leaders in the Prime Video organization. You will also have the opportunity to publish your research at internal and external conferences. About the team Prime Video Recommendation Science team owns science solution to power recommendation and personalization experience on various Prime Video surfaces and devices. We work closely with the engineering teams to launch our solutions in production.
  • US, CA, Sunnyvale
    Job ID: 3136037
    (Updated 2 days ago)
    Help re-invent how millions of people watch TV! Fire TV remains the #1 best-selling streaming media player in the US, with over 100 million active users. Our goal is to be the global leader in delivering entertainment, with the broadest selection of content, innovative devices, and personalized experiences for customers. Our Fire TV Science team is an interdisciplinary group working at the intersection of Language Understanding (LU), Recommender Systems, Information Retrieval, and Machine Learning (ML). Through close collaboration with engineering and product teams, we develop and deploy innovative algorithms that enhance content discovery and customer engagement. Within this team, our Language Understanding sub-team owns all query understanding components and models that power search and content discovery on Fire TV. Our work directly contributes to making our devices delightful to use and indispensable for the household. Key job responsibilities - Be a hands-on lead for our Language Understanding (LU) sub-team, owning all our query understanding components and models - Lead and mentor a team of 6 scientists, fostering their professional development and technical growth while establishing and executing the research vision - Collaborate closely with Search and Recommendations workstreams within the broader Fire TV Science team, contributing to cross-functional initiatives and expanding technical influence beyond the LU domain - Drive end-to-end impact by designing scalable solutions that systematically address technical challenges and deliver lasting customer benefit - Balance and prioritize multiple workstreams spanning long-term research, applied projects, and production support to ensure high-impact outcomes - Drive adoption of state-of-the-art approaches across the organization by staying at the forefront of relevant technological advances, spanning language understanding models, LLM evaluations, prompt engineering, search and personalization models, and more A day in the life As the Language Understanding sub-team lead, you'll balance hands-on technical work with team leadership and cross-functional collaboration. Your day might include conducting and reviewing model evaluations, interfacing with the Alexa central team on LLM routing and architectural design questions, resolving domain conflicts, and brainstorming with Search and Recommendations leads to explore synergies. You'll dive into code to prototype novel query understanding approaches, prioritize production issues, and engage with engineering and product partners on upcoming features. Throughout, you'll challenge the status quo, identify automation opportunities to free time for higher-impact work, and stay current with NLU research. The role involves regular travel between our two sites.
  • (Updated 11 days ago)
    Are you a Master's student interested in machine learning, natural language processing, computer vision, automated reasoning, or robotics? We are looking for skilled scientists capable of putting theory into practice through experimentation and invention, leveraging science techniques and implementing systems to work on massive datasets in an effort to tackle never-before-solved problems. A successful candidate will be a self-starter comfortable with ambiguity, strong attention to detail, and the ability to work in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment. As an Applied Science Intern, you will own the design and development of end-to-end systems. You’ll have the opportunity to create technical roadmaps, and drive production level projects that will support Amazon Science. You will work closely with Amazon scientists, and other science interns to develop solutions and deploy them into production. The ideal scientist must have the ability to work with diverse groups of people and cross-functional teams to solve complex business problems. Amazon Science gives insight into the company’s approach to customer-obsessed scientific innovation. Amazon fundamentally believes that scientific innovation is essential to being the most customer-centric company in the world. It’s the company’s ability to have an impact at scale that allows us to attract some of the brightest minds in artificial intelligence and related fields. Our scientists use our working backwards method to enrich the way we live and work. To ensure a great internship experience, please keep these things in mind. This is a full time internship and requires an individual to work 40 hours a week for the duration of the internship. Amazon requires an intern to be located where their assigned team is. Amazon is happy to provide relocation and housing assistance if you are located 50 miles or further from the office location. For more information on the Amazon Science community please visit https://www.amazon.science.
  • IN, KA, Bengaluru
    Job ID: 3132763
    (Updated 2 days ago)
    We are seeking a talented data scientist to join the Amazon healthcare economics team. Our group of economists, data scientists, and analysts work closely with engineers to tackle a wide range of questions including pricing, experimentation science, personalization, data-driven product strategy/optimizations, internal productivity/incentives, and impact/ROI measurement. The ideal candidate will excel at (and enjoy) wearing many hats, and be able to effectively translate business questions into tractable quantitative frameworks, dive deep into data for analytical insights, and represent the team in a range of settings - from reviews with senior Amazon scientists to reviews with senior Healthcare/Amazon business leaders. As a member of this team, you will dive deep into our data and harness your strong data extraction, transformation, and load (ETL) skills to create data structures, build machine learning models, incorporate generative AI into business decision making, create forecasting , predictive and prescriptive models, build dashboards and visualization to support business strategy and enable GDSP to achieve its goals. If you are passionate about leveraging data-driven insights to shape the future of digital media, if you are motivated to tackle ambiguous situations with technologies to rapidly solve problems, if you are a team player, contribute to the execution of team objectives, and leverage technical knowledge and engineering best practices to rapidly deliver solutions that have a broad business impact, we encourage you to apply and be a part of our dynamic team. Key job responsibilities - Support the development of continuously-evolving business analytics and data models, own the quantitative analysis of the performance of our doctors, partners, markets, and products/services in context of private pricing. - Use machine learning, data mining, and statistical techniques to design/run experiments that solve complex business problems. - Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large scale data analyses, model development, model validation and model implementation. - Build data pipelines, and identify novel data sources to leverage in analytical work – both from within Healthcare/Amazon and from 3P sources - Force multiply the work of the team with compelling data visualizations, presentations, and/or dashboards to drive awareness and adoption of data assets/products/insights - Raise the bar for science/analytical work, both within Healthcare and across the broader Amazon community About the team Amazon’s mission is to make it dramatically easier for customers to access the healthcare products and services they need to get and stay healthy. Towards this mission, we (Health Store and Tech) are building the technology, products and services, that help customers find, buy, and engage with the healthcare solutions they need.
  • (Updated 16 days ago)
    Revolutionize the Future of AI at the Frontier of Applied Science Are you a brilliant mind seeking to push the boundaries of what's possible with artificial intelligence? Join our elite team of researchers and engineers at the forefront of applied science, where we're harnessing the latest advancements in natural language processing, deep learning, and generative AI to reshape industries and unlock new realms of innovation. As an Applied Science Intern, you'll have the unique opportunity to work alongside world-renowned experts, gaining invaluable hands-on experience with cutting-edge technologies such as large language models, transformers, and neural networks. You'll dive deep into complex challenges, fine-tuning state-of-the-art models, developing novel algorithms for named entity recognition, and exploring the vast potential of generative AI. This internship is not just about executing tasks – it's about being a driving force behind groundbreaking discoveries. You'll collaborate with cross-functional teams, leveraging your expertise in statistics, recommender systems, and question answering to tackle real-world problems and deliver impactful solutions. Throughout your journey, you'll have access to unparalleled resources, including state-of-the-art computing infrastructure, cutting-edge research papers, and mentorship from industry luminaries. This immersive experience will not only sharpen your technical skills but also cultivate your ability to think critically, communicate effectively, and thrive in a fast-paced, innovative environment where bold ideas are celebrated. Join us at the forefront of applied science, where your contributions will shape the future of AI and propel humanity forward. Seize this extraordinary opportunity to learn, grow, and leave an indelible mark on the world of technology. Amazon has positions available for LLM & GenAI Applied Science Internships in, but not limited to, Bellevue, WA; Boston, MA; Cambridge, MA; New York, NY; Santa Clara, CA; Seattle, WA; Sunnyvale, CA; Pittsburgh, PA. Key job responsibilities We are particularly interested in candidates with expertise in: LLMs, NLP/NLU, Gen AI, Transformers, Fine-Tuning, Recommendation Systems, Deep Learning, NER, Statistics, Neural Networks, Question Answering. In this role, you will work alongside global experts to develop and implement novel, scalable algorithms and modeling techniques that advance the state-of-the-art in areas at the intersection of LLMs and GenAI. You will tackle challenging, groundbreaking research problems on production-scale data, with a focus on recommendation systems, question answering, deep learning and generative AI. The ideal candidate should possess the ability to work collaboratively with diverse groups and cross-functional teams to solve complex business problems. A successful candidate will be a self-starter, comfortable with ambiguity, with strong attention to detail and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment. A day in the life - Collaborate with cross-functional teams to tackle complex challenges in natural language processing, computer vision, and generative AI. - Fine-tune state-of-the-art models and develop novel algorithms to push the boundaries of what's possible. - Explore the vast potential of generative AI and its applications across industries. - Attend cutting-edge research seminars and engage in thought-provoking discussions with industry luminaries. - Leverage state-of-the-art computing infrastructure and access to the latest research papers to fuel your innovation. - Present your groundbreaking work and insights to the team, fostering a culture of knowledge-sharing and continuous learning.
  • Unlock the Future with Amazon Science! Calling all visionary minds passionate about the transformative power of machine learning! Amazon is seeking boundary-pushing graduate student scientists who can turn revolutionary theory into awe-inspiring reality. Join our team of visionary scientists and embark on a journey to revolutionize the field by harnessing the power of cutting-edge techniques in bayesian optimization, time series, multi-armed bandits and more. At Amazon, we don't just talk about innovation – we live and breathe it. You'll conducting research into the theory and application of deep reinforcement learning. You will work on some of the most difficult problems in the industry with some of the best product managers, scientists, and software engineers in the industry. You will propose and deploy solutions that will likely draw from a range of scientific areas such as supervised, semi-supervised and unsupervised learning, reinforcement learning, advanced statistical modeling, and graph models. Throughout your journey, you'll have access to unparalleled resources, including state-of-the-art computing infrastructure, cutting-edge research papers, and mentorship from industry luminaries. This immersive experience will not only sharpen your technical skills but also cultivate your ability to think critically, communicate effectively, and thrive in a fast-paced, innovative environment where bold ideas are celebrated. Join us at the forefront of applied science, where your contributions will shape the future of AI and propel humanity forward. Seize this extraordinary opportunity to learn, grow, and leave an indelible mark on the world of technology. Amazon has positions available for Machine Learning Applied Science Internships in, but not limited to Arlington, VA; Bellevue, WA; Boston, MA; New York, NY; Palo Alto, CA; San Diego, CA; Santa Clara, CA; Seattle, WA. Key job responsibilities We are particularly interested in candidates with expertise in: Optimization, Programming/Scripting Languages, Statistics, Reinforcement Learning, Causal Inference, Large Language Models, Time Series, Graph Modeling, Supervised/Unsupervised Learning, Deep Learning, Predictive Modeling In this role, you will work alongside global experts to develop and implement novel, scalable algorithms and modeling techniques that advance the state-of-the-art in areas at the intersection of Reinforcement Learning and Optimization within Machine Learning. You will tackle challenging, groundbreaking research problems on production-scale data, with a focus on developing novel RL algorithms and applying them to complex, real-world challenges. The ideal candidate should possess the ability to work collaboratively with diverse groups and cross-functional teams to solve complex business problems. A successful candidate will be a self-starter, comfortable with ambiguity, with strong attention to detail and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment. A day in the life - Develop scalable, efficient, automated processes for large scale data analyses, model development, model validation and model implementation. - Design, development and evaluation of highly innovative ML models for solving complex business problems. - Research and apply the latest ML techniques and best practices from both academia and industry. - Think about customers and how to improve the customer delivery experience. - Use and analytical techniques to create scalable solutions for business problems.
  • Shape the Future of Human-Machine Interaction Are you a master of natural language processing, eager to push the boundaries of conversational AI? Amazon is seeking exceptional graduate students to join our cutting-edge research team, where they will have the opportunity to explore and push the boundaries of natural language processing (NLP), natural language understanding (NLU), and speech recognition technologies. Imagine waking up each morning, fueled by the excitement of tackling complex research problems that have the potential to reshape the world. You'll dive into production-scale data, exploring innovative approaches to natural language understanding, large language models, reinforcement learning with human feedback, conversational AI, and multimodal learning. Your days will be filled with brainstorming sessions, coding sprints, and lively discussions with brilliant minds from diverse backgrounds. Throughout your journey, you'll have access to unparalleled resources, including state-of-the-art computing infrastructure, cutting-edge research papers, and mentorship from industry luminaries. This immersive experience will not only sharpen your technical skills but also cultivate your ability to think critically, communicate effectively, and thrive in a fast-paced, innovative environment where bold ideas are celebrated.. Join us at the forefront of applied science, where your contributions will shape the future of AI and propel humanity forward. Seize this extraordinary opportunity to learn, grow, and leave an indelible mark on the world of technology. Amazon has positions available for Natural Language Processing & Speech Applied Science Internships in, but not limited to, Bellevue, WA; Boston, MA; Cambridge, MA; New York, NY; Santa Clara, CA; Seattle, WA; Sunnyvale, CA. Key job responsibilities We are particularly interested in candidates with expertise in: NLP/NLU, LLMs, Reinforcement Learning, Human Feedback/HITL, Deep Learning, Speech Recognition, Conversational AI, Natural Language Modeling, Multimodal Learning. In this role, you will work alongside global experts to develop and implement novel, scalable algorithms and modeling techniques that advance the state-of-the-art in areas at the intersection of Natural Language Processing and Speech Technologies. You will tackle challenging, groundbreaking research problems on production-scale data, with a focus on natural language processing, speech recognition, text-to-speech (TTS), text recognition, question answering, NLP models (e.g., LSTM, transformer-based models), signal processing, information extraction, conversational modeling, audio processing, speaker detection, large language models, multilingual modeling, and more. The ideal candidate should possess the ability to work collaboratively with diverse groups and cross-functional teams to solve complex business problems. A successful candidate will be a self-starter, comfortable with ambiguity, with strong attention to detail and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment. A day in the life - Develop novel, scalable algorithms and modeling techniques that advance the state-of-the-art in natural language processing, speech recognition, text-to-speech, question answering, and conversational modeling. - Tackle groundbreaking research problems on production-scale data, leveraging techniques such as LSTM, transformer-based models, signal processing, information extraction, audio processing, speaker detection, large language models, and multilingual modeling. - Collaborate with cross-functional teams to solve complex business problems, leveraging your expertise in NLP/NLU, LLMs, reinforcement learning, human feedback/HITL, deep learning, speech recognition, conversational AI, natural language modeling, and multimodal learning. - Thrive in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment, embracing ambiguity and demonstrating strong attention to detail.

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