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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: 10502711
    (Updated 0 days ago)
    Are you passionate about data, enjoy solving complex analytical problems, leveraging industry leading agentic AI technologies to derive insight at scale - all in a challenging, fast-paced environment? We are seeking an Applied Scientist to accelerate the growth of Amazon Internal Audit’s Data Science & Risk Intelligence initiatives. The team builds ML and AI solutions that expand self-service data utilization by audit teams, utilizing the right methods to derive deeper patterns, and surface insights to gain holistic perspectives while amplifying potential risk mitigation. Key job responsibilities - Work with audit teams, product managers, engineers, and more senior scientists to deliver machine learning and generative AI products that carry real degrees of ambiguity, scale, and complexity. - Design, build, and evaluate agentic AI systems — multi-agent workflows, retrieval-augmented generation, and tool-using agents — that automate and augment audit work, applying rigorous LLM-as-judge and human-aligned evaluation to measure and improve output quality. - Apply statistical analysis and classical machine learning using SQL and scripting languages like Python/R over large datasets to develop insights and recommendations that strengthen internal audit. - Architect secure, scalable solutions on AWS machine learning and generative AI services (e.g., Bedrock, AgentCore, SageMaker), owning the full lifecycle from prototype through production deployment, monitoring, and iterative improvement, working closely with auditors to understand their business needs. - Build and maintain the team's production and experimentation infrastructure, including deployment pipelines, observability and tracing, and evaluation harnesses. - Advance applied research by exploring emerging techniques and sharing findings through internal and external publications, talks, and conferences. A day in the life As an Applied Scientist, you will help shape and execute a product roadmap that connects risk to the business, building AI products — increasingly centered on large language models and agentic systems — that make audit work more effective and efficient. Your work spans the full arc of applied science: framing ambiguous problems, prototyping with the latest generative AI techniques, building rigorous evaluations, and deploying solutions in production. The ideal candidate pairs a strong foundation in data science and machine learning with a builder's instinct for production architecture, thrives on ambiguity, and stays close to a fast-moving research frontier. About the team Internal Audit’s mission is to help our businesses improve controllership, operational efficiency, and customer experience.
  • IN, KA, Bengaluru
    Job ID: 10492253
    (Updated 1 days ago)
    The Amazon Alexa AI team in India is seeking a talented, self-driven Applied Scientist to work on prototyping, optimizing, and deploying ML algorithms within the realm of Generative AI. Key responsibilities include: - Research, experiment and build Proof Of Concepts advancing the state of the art in AI & ML for GenAI. - Collaborate with cross-functional teams to architect and execute technically rigorous AI projects. - Thrive in dynamic environments, adapting quickly to evolving technical requirements and deadlines. - Engage in effective technical communication (written & spoken) with coordination across teams. - Conduct thorough documentation of algorithms, methodologies, and findings for transparency and reproducibility. - Publish research papers in internal and external venues of repute - Support on-call activities for critical issues
  • (Updated 8 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 subscriptions such as Apple TV+, HBO Max, Peacock, 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 team member, 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! As an Applied Scientist, you will apply state of the art natural language processing and computer vision research to video centric digital media. We are looking for scientists with expertise in vision-language models/multimodal LLMs and long-form content understanding (full movies/episode vs. short clips). You will be dealing with architectures that handle long-context understanding and causal reasoning across extended temporal sequences. Key job responsibilities Our team builds multi-modal machine learning technologies to enrich and understand video content. We aim not only to understand individual components within the content itself, but also their relationships to each other to provide a holistic and broader contextual understanding. This powers the next generation of video understanding and search capabilities for Prime Video. About the team Prime Video's Content Localization, Understanding & Enrichment organization is responsible for 1) enabling Prime Video to "see" and "understand" video content including characters, scenes, dialogue, events & visual elements and 2) delivering localized, accessible content that meets a consistent cinematic quality standard at scale. This team's mission is to deeply understand all content and empower all customers with relevant language options, innovative accessibility assists, and rich title-information across all their content-experiences on Prime Video. We create and publish content on-time that's meaningful, accurate, and accessible to every customer globally. We delight our customers by pushing the boundaries of content understanding and enrichment. Through inclusion and innovation, we do the most fulfilling work of our career.
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 10492077
    (Updated 9 days ago)
    The Prime Video Science team leverages the latest in machine learning and AI techniques combined with causal inference to bring scientific rigor to the biggest decisions in entertainment: what content to make, what to license, and where to invest. We build large-scale models that simulate how our global customer base responds to change, and we get to see that work shape what the business does. Prime Video is an industry-leading entertainment business and a critical driver of Amazon Prime subscriptions, contributing to customer loyalty and lifetime value. We're looking for a Data Scientist to help us design the experiments that ground our models in reality, evaluate the AI systems we build, and turn our model and experiment results into insights the business can act on. As a Data Scientist on this team, you will design and analyze experiments, build evaluations for AI systems, and run deep-dive analyses on our models, experiments, and customer data. You will work close to science: probing why a model behaves the way it does, pressure-testing results before they reach senior leaders, and, where it helps, building your own statistical and causal models. The candidate should have strong communication skills and the ability to translate complex, ambiguous analyses into clear findings for both technical and business audiences. The successful candidate will be a self-starter comfortable with ambiguity, with strong attention to detail and the ability to work in a fast-paced and ever-changing environment. Key job responsibilities • Design and analyze randomized experiments that validate and calibrate our models and measure the impact of content and product changes. • Build evaluations and benchmarks for the AI systems the team develops and define what "good" looks like for them. • Run deep-dive analyses on model outputs, experiment results, and customer behavior to surface the story behind the numbers and catch issues before they reach stakeholders. • Apply statistical modeling, causal inference, and data analysis to answer business questions and inform major investment decisions. • Communicate findings to business, finance, engineering, and science stakeholders through clear written analyses and business-facing documents. About the team The Prime Video Science team is a multidisciplinary group of applied scientists, data scientists, economists, and engineers. We take on some of the hardest research questions in the business, and our work carries visibility up to the CFO/CEO level. We pursue ambitious research at the intersection of machine learning, AI, and causal inference, turning that research into innovations that improve customer experience and strengthen business profitability. Few science teams get to work on problems this hard and this impactful; if that combination excites you, we'd love to talk.
  • (Updated 1 days ago)
    Do you want to define the multi-year science vision that transforms how millions of customers experience AWS products? Do you want to influence the AWS investment in Cloud and AI technology and see how your recommendations influencing AWS VP level decisions and driving the growth of AWS business? Do you want to push the boundaries of data science (e.g. statistical modeling, causal inference, econometrics, product growth analytics, and forecasting models) and democratize how AWS senior leaders access analytics insights using agentic analytics system? The AWS Analytics Engineering is at the forefront of leveraging cutting-edge AI/ML technology and infrastructure to redefine how AWS product leaders and teams interact with and derive insights from their product and customer data. Our vision is to use data science methods to enable AWS product teams and business leaders to drive product and revenue growth and create personalized, optimized, and simplified product experiences to delight our customers. We are looking for a customer-focused Principal Data Scientist to lead and define the science strategy across AWS services. In this role, you will set the technical direction for ML-driven product analytics across AWS Compute (EC2), GenAI & Agents, Database & Analytics, and Storage (S3) organizations. You will partner directly with GMs, VPs, and senior product leaders to translate complex business challenges into innovative scientific solutions that directly influence AWS's top line and bottom line. You will analyze underlying product growth insights, understand product growth drivers, and anticipate business risks that need to be surfaced to leadership. As a Principal Data Scientist, you will be the technical thought leader who becomes a thought partner for senior leaders, hands on analyzing business trends and customer insights, drives cross-organizational decision alignment, and raises the bar for scientific rigor across the team. You will operate effectively in ambiguous environments, exercise strong business judgment on high-impact decisions, have high ownership and deep understanding of AWS business, and continuously push the frontier of data science applications at AWS scale. Key job responsibilities - Define and drive the multi-year science vision and data science roadmap for AWS product growth analytics across AWS Compute, Database & Analytics, Storage, AI/ML, and other organizations - Attend AWS WBR to answer critical and timely business and analytics questions to drive clarify on AWS’ product growth strategy - Influence senior leaders across multiple organizations by building mental models on AWS growth and anticipate growth risks that should be mitigated - Serve as the technical thought leader and strategic advisor to senior AWS leaders (GM/VP level), translating business objectives into high-impact scientific decisions and identify opportunities that drives overall AWS product and revenue growth - Establish best practices for decision science, including econometrics, statistical modeling, and causal methods - Invent, operationalize, and scale novel analytical frameworks and metrics that enable data-driven product growth and executive decision-making - Mentor junior decision scientists, setting the bar for technical quality through code reviews, design reviews, and hands-on guidance - Communicate findings, conclusions, and strategic recommendations to both technical and non-technical executive audiences through effective verbal and written communication - Identify and champion new science opportunities that expand AAE’s impact across AWS, building the case for investment and driving adoption A day in the life As a Principal Data Scientist in AAE org, you will shape the science strategy that underpins product decisions across multiple AWS organizations. You'll spend your time partnering with VPs and GMs to identify the highest-leverage data science opportunities, architecting novel ML solutions to complex product challenges, and mentoring scientists across the team. You'll drive alignment across cross-functional stakeholders, ensure scientific rigor in our most critical initiatives, and communicate insights that directly influence AWS product roadmaps and growth strategy. You'll balance long-term vision-setting with hands-on technical leadership, diving deep into model architectures and data pipelines when needed. About the team We are a team of scientists and engineers supporting AWS product leaders to make high-impact decisions through sophisticated analytical frameworks, trusted data science methods, and scalable ML products. We come from diverse backgrounds in statistics, computer science, engineering, and business analytics. We specialize in the full end-to-end ML development process, including data ingestion, ETL, model development, and model deployment in production. We support data science needs across AWS EC2, Database & Analytics, and S3 teams using deep learning, graph neural networks, forecasting, reinforcement learning, causal inference, and more. High Impact Projects: We work on high-impact, high-visibility projects that directly influence AWS product roadmaps and senior leaders' decisions. Supportive Team Environment: We are proud of our supportive and inclusive team culture, we have each other's back during ups and downs. Work-Life Balance: We believe 80% of value comes from 20% of work, so we always prioritize our backlog ruthlessly based on business value. Learning Opportunity: Extensive opportunities to understand AWS business and leverage state-of-the-art AI/ML and cloud technology.
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 10497801
    (Updated 3 days ago)
    What happens when you give AI the ability to remember? Not cached responses — real structured memory that compounds over time and transfers across contexts. We're building the science behind this, and we need researchers who want to own the problem end-to-end. This is a founding role on a new team. You won't inherit models or maintain someone else's pipeline. You'll define the research direction, run experiments at scale, and ship what works directly to production. 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 knowledge acquisition and retrieval. You will adopt or invent new machine learning and analytical techniques in the realm of information retrieval, knowledge representation, and large language models. Specific responsibilities include: 1. Design and implement novel approaches to knowledge extraction from heterogeneous, unstructured data sources at organizational scale. 2. Build retrieval systems that match intent to relevant knowledge across domains — solving the "right memory at the right time" problem. 3. Own the quality of memory generation: what to capture, how to structure it, when to surface it, and when to let it decay. 4. Run large-scale experiments using Amazon's compute infrastructure and massive real-world datasets. 5. Develop evaluation frameworks for a system where "quality" means something new — right knowledge, right context, right confidence level. 6. Collaborate with engineers to move from research prototype to production system in weeks, not quarters. 7. Invent new approaches to temporal knowledge management — how memories age, conflict, and compound over time. 8. Publish and patent novel approaches to knowledge acquisition and retrieval at top-tier venues. 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 We're a new team within Personalization, focused on a different kind of recommendation: not "what product should this customer see" but "what knowledge should this AI use right now." Same scale, same rigor, entirely new problem space. The science is at the intersection of information retrieval, knowledge representation, and LLM reasoning — and the right approach hasn't been established yet. The team values innovation 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. We offer creative space with an entrepreneurial work environment focusing on customer obsession.
  • (Updated 3 days ago)
    We're looking for a senior scientist to lead the research direction for a system that gives AI persistent, compounding memory. This is a new problem space — not recommendation, not search, not summarization, though it draws from all three. The right scientist will define what this field becomes. You'll own the scientific roadmap, run a research agenda with real-world deployment targets, and mentor junior scientists. The team is forming now. Your first week will involve scoping experiments, not reading onboarding docs. Key job responsibilities As a Senior Applied Scientist, you will own the scientific roadmap for personalization initiatives, identifying high-impact research directions and translating ambiguous problems into well-defined ML formulations. You will lead end-to-end systems spanning knowledge acquisition, retrieval, and reasoning. Specific responsibilities include: 1. Define the scientific roadmap for knowledge acquisition, representation, and retrieval at organizational scale. 2. Lead research on how AI systems should learn from experience — what to capture, how to generalize, when to forget. 3. Design evaluation frameworks for a system where "quality" means something new — right knowledge, right context, right confidence level. 4. Own end-to-end research from problem formulation through production impact measurement. 5. Mentor Applied Scientists and establish scientific standards for a new team. 6. Partner with engineering leadership to translate research into architecture decisions that shape the product. 7. Drive technical decisions on model architecture, training methodology, and evaluation frameworks, balancing scientific rigor with business impact. 8. Publish at top-tier venues and advance the state of the art in applied knowledge systems. About the team Born out of Amazon's Personalization organization, which pioneered personalization at internet scale. We're applying deep expertise in large-scale ML to a fundamentally new domain where the signal space, objective functions, and evaluation criteria are all open research questions. The team values innovation 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. We offer creative space with an entrepreneurial work environment focusing on customer obsession.
  • US, NY, New York
    Job ID: 10488686
    (Updated 3 days ago)
    We are seeking a Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) Applied Scientist to develop cutting-edge interactions that make robots feel alive, personal, and fun. In this role, you will focus on verbal and non-verbal conversational systems, social dynamics, memory, and long-term relationship formation between robots, their environments, and the people they interact with. Your contributions will be essential in advancing robotics by enabling expressive, socially intelligent, and trustworthy interactions between robots and humans. Key job responsibilities - Develop interactive systems that leverage large language models, multimodal inputs and outputs, reinforcement learning from human feedback, or other advanced techniques to achieve fluid, engaging, and socially appropriate robot behavior - Design and implement intelligent conversational systems that handle turn-taking, grounding, interruption, and incorporates context drawn from a robot's physical environment and shared history with a user - Integrate perceptual sensor streams including gaze, facial expression, gesture, posture, and more to understand social context and produce coherent, lifelike interactions. - Develop memory and personalization systems that allow robots to form lasting relationships with individual users, learn their environments, and adapt their behavior over weeks and months - Stay updated on advancements in HRI, NLP, multimodal AI, and cognitive and social science to apply cutting-edge techniques to robot interaction challenges - Lead technical projects from conception through production deployment - Mentor junior scientists and engineers - Bridge research initiatives with practical engineering implementation
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 10497802
    (Updated 3 days ago)
    We're looking for a senior scientist to lead the research direction for a system that gives AI persistent, compounding memory. This is a new problem space — not recommendation, not search, not summarization, though it draws from all three. The right scientist will define what this field becomes. You'll own the scientific roadmap, run a research agenda with real-world deployment targets, and mentor junior scientists. The team is forming now. Your first week will involve scoping experiments, not reading onboarding docs. Key job responsibilities As a Senior Applied Scientist, you will own the scientific roadmap for personalization initiatives, identifying high-impact research directions and translating ambiguous problems into well-defined ML formulations. You will lead end-to-end systems spanning knowledge acquisition, retrieval, and reasoning. Specific responsibilities include: 1. Define the scientific roadmap for knowledge acquisition, representation, and retrieval at organizational scale. 2. Lead research on how AI systems should learn from experience — what to capture, how to generalize, when to forget. 3. Design evaluation frameworks for a system where "quality" means something new — right knowledge, right context, right confidence level. 4. Own end-to-end research from problem formulation through production impact measurement. 5. Mentor Applied Scientists and establish scientific standards for a new team. 6. Partner with engineering leadership to translate research into architecture decisions that shape the product. 7. Drive technical decisions on model architecture, training methodology, and evaluation frameworks, balancing scientific rigor with business impact. 8. Publish at top-tier venues and advance the state of the art in applied knowledge systems. 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 Born out of Amazon's Personalization organization, which pioneered personalization at internet scale. We're applying deep expertise in large-scale ML to a fundamentally new domain where the signal space, objective functions, and evaluation criteria are all open research questions. The team values innovation 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. We offer creative space with an entrepreneurial work environment focusing on customer obsession.
  • (Updated 8 days ago)
    The Amazon Fulfillment Technologies (AFT) Science team is looking for an exceptional Applied Scientist, with strong optimization and analytical skills, to develop production solutions for one of the most complex systems in the world: Amazon’s Fulfillment Network. At AFT Science, we design, build and deploy optimization, simulation, and machine learning solutions to power the production systems running at world wide Amazon Fulfillment Centers. We solve a wide range of problems that are encountered in the network, including labor planning and staffing, demand prioritization, pick assignment and scheduling, and flow process optimization. We are tasked to develop innovative, scalable, and reliable science-driven solutions that are beyond the published state of art in order to run frequently (ranging from every few minutes to every few hours per use case) and continuously in our large scale network. Key job responsibilities As an Applied Scientist, you will work with other scientists, software engineers, product managers, and operations leaders to develop scientific solutions and analytics using a variety of tools and observe direct impact to process efficiency and associate experience in the fulfillment network. Key responsibilities include: * Develop an understanding and domain knowledge of operational processes, system architecture and functions, and business requirements * Deep dive into data and code to identify opportunities for continuous improvement and/or disruptive new approach * Develop scalable mathematical models for production systems to derive optimal or near-optimal solutions for existing and new challenges * Create prototypes and simulations for agile experimentation of devised solutions * Advocate technical solutions to business stakeholders, engineering teams, and senior leadership * Partner with engineers to integrate prototypes into production systems * Design experiment to test new or incremental solutions launched in production and build metrics to track performance A day in the life Amazon offers a full range of benefits that support you and eligible family members, including domestic partners and their children. Benefits can vary by location, the number of regularly scheduled hours you work, length of employment, and job status such as seasonal or temporary employment. The benefits that generally apply to regular, full-time employees include: 1. Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage 2. Maternity and Parental Leave Options 3. Paid Time Off (PTO) 4. 401(k) Plan If you are not sure that every qualification on the list above describes you exactly, we'd still love to hear from you! At Amazon, we value people with unique backgrounds, experiences, and skillsets. If you’re passionate about this role and want to make an impact on a global scale, please apply! About the team Amazon Fulfillment Technology (AFT) designs, develops and operates the end-to-end fulfillment technology solutions for all Amazon Fulfillment Centers (FC). We harmonize the physical and virtual world so Amazon customers can get what they want, when they want it. The AFT Science team has expertise in operations research, optimization, scheduling, planning, simulation, and machine learning. We also have domain expertise in the operational processes within the FCs and their defects. We prioritize advancements that support AFT tech teams and focus areas rather than specific fields of research or individual business partners. We influence each stage of innovation from inception to deployment which includes both developing novel solutions or improving existing approaches. Resulting production systems rely on a diverse set of technologies, our teams therefore invest in multiple specialties as the needs of each focus area evolves.

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