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How to use the world’s richest collection of e-commerce data to improve payments experience for our customers? Amazon Payments Global Data Science team seeks a Senior Data Scientist for building analytical and scientific solutions that will address increasingly complex business questions in the Gift-Cards space. Amazon.com has a culture of data-driven decision-making and demands intelligence that is timely, accurate, and actionable. This team operates at WW level and provides a fast-paced environment where every day brings new challenges and opportunities. As a Senior Data Scientist in this team, you will be driving the Data Science/ML roadmap for business continuity & growth. You will develop statistical and machine learning models to solve for complex business problems in Gift-Cards space, design and run global experiments, and find new ways to optimize the customer experience. You will need to collaborate effectively with internal stakeholders, cross-functional teams to solve problems, create operational efficiencies, and deliver successfully against high organizational standards. You will explore GenAI use-cases within Gift-Cards space and also work on cross-disciplinary efforts with other scientists within Amazon. Key job responsibilities - You should be detail-oriented and must have an aptitude for solving unstructured and ambiguous problems. You should work in a self-directed environment, own tasks and drive them to completion - You should be passionate about working with huge data sets and be someone who loves to bring datasets together to answer business questions - You should demonstrate thorough technical expertise on feature engineering of massive datasets, exploratory data analysis, and model building using state-of-art ML algorithms - Random Forest, Gradient Boosting, SVM, Neural Nets, DL, Reinforcement Learning etc. You should be aware of automating feedback loops for algorithms in production - You should work closely with internal stakeholders like the business teams, engineering teams and partner teams and align them with respect to your focus areas - You should have excellent business and communication skills to be able to work with business owners to develop and define key business questions and build mechanisms that answer those questions We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations: Bengaluru, KA, IND

Are you interested in changing the Digital Reading Experience? We are from Kindle Books Team looking for a set of Scientists to take the reading experience in Kindle to next level with a set of innovations! We envision Kindle as the place where readers find the best manifestation of all written content optimized with features that enable them to get the most out of reading, and creators are able to realize their vision to customers quickly and at scale. Every time customers open their content, regardless of surface, they start or restart their reading in a familiar, useful and engaging place. We achieve this by building a strong foundation of core experiences and act as a force multiplier and partner for content creators (directly or indirectly) to easily innovate on top of Kindle's purpose built content experience stack in a simple and extensible way. We will achieve this by providing a best-in-class reading experience, unique content experiences, and remaining agile in meeting the evolving needs and preferences of our users. Our goal is to foster long-lasting reading habits and make us the preferred destination for enriching literary experiences. We are building a In The Book Science team and looking for Scientists, who are passionate about Reading and are willing to take Reading to the next level. Every Book is a complex structure with different entities, layout, format and semantics, with more than 17MM eBooks in our catalog. We are looking for experts in all domains like core NLP, Generative AI, CV and Deep Learning Techniques for unlocking capabilities like analysis, enhancement, curation, moderation, translation, transformation and generation in Books based on Content structure, features, Intent & Synthesis. Scientists will focus on Inside the book content and semantically learn the different entities to enhance the Reading experience overall (Kindle & beyond). They have an opportunity to influence in 2 major phases of life-cycle - Publishing (Creation of Books process) and Reading experience (building engaging features & representation in the book thereby driving reading engagement). Key job responsibilities - 5+ years of building machine learning models for business application experience - PhD, or Master's degree and 6+ years of applied research experience - Knowledge of programming languages such as C/C++, Python, Java or Perl - Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language - You have expertise in one of the applied science disciplines, such as machine learning, natural language processing, computer vision, Deep learning - You are able to use reasonable assumptions, data, and customer requirements to solve problems. - You initiate the design, development, execution, and implementation of smaller components with input and guidance from team members. - You work with SDEs to deliver solutions into production to benefit customers or an area of the business. - You assume responsibility for the code in your components. You write secure, stable, testable, maintainable code with minimal defects. - You understand basic data structures, algorithms, model evaluation techniques, performance, and optimality tradeoffs. - You follow engineering and scientific method best practices. You get your designs, models, and code reviewed. You test your code and models thoroughly - You participate in team design, scoping and prioritization discussions. You are able to map a business goal to a scientific problem and map business metrics to technical metrics. - You invent, refine and develop your solutions to ensure they are meeting customer needs and team goals. You keep current with research trends in your area of expertise and scrutinize your results. - Experience in mentoring junior scientists A day in the life You will be working with a group of talented scientists on researching algorithm and running experiments to test solutions to improve our experience. This will involve collaboration with partner teams including engineering, PMs, data annotators, and other scientists to discuss data quality, model development and productionizing the same. You will mentor other scientists, review and guide their work, help develop roadmaps for the team. We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations: Banagalore, KA, IND | Bangalore, IND | Bangalore, KA, IND

Are you interested in changing the Digital Reading Experience? We are from Kindle Books Team looking for a set of Scientists to take the reading experience in Kindle to next level with a set of innovations! We envision Kindle as the place where readers find the best manifestation of all written content optimized with features that enable them to get the most out of reading, and creators are able to realize their vision to customers quickly and at scale. Every time customers open their content, regardless of surface, they start or restart their reading in a familiar, useful and engaging place. We achieve this by building a strong foundation of core experiences and act as a force multiplier and partner for content creators (directly or indirectly) to easily innovate on top of Kindle's purpose built content experience stack in a simple and extensible way. We will achieve this by providing a best-in-class reading experience, unique content experiences, and remaining agile in meeting the evolving needs and preferences of our users. Our goal is to foster long-lasting reading habits and make us the preferred destination for enriching literary experiences. We are building a In The Book Science team and looking for Scientists, who are passionate about Reading and are willing to take Reading to the next level. Every Book is a complex structure with different entities, layout, format and semantics, with more than 17MM eBooks in our catalog. We are looking for experts in all domains like core NLP, Generative AI, CV and Deep Learning Techniques for unlocking capabilities like analysis, enhancement, curation, moderation, translation, transformation and generation in Books based on Content structure, features, Intent & Synthesis. Scientists will focus on Inside the book content and semantically learn the different entities to enhance the Reading experience overall (Kindle & beyond). They have an opportunity to influence in 2 major phases of life-cycle - Publishing (Creation of Books process) and Reading experience (building engaging features & representation in the book thereby driving reading engagement). Key job responsibilities - 3+ years of building machine learning models for business application experience - PhD, or Master's degree and 2+ years of applied research experience - Knowledge of programming languages such as C/C++, Python, Java or Perl - Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language - You have expertise in one of the applied science disciplines, such as machine learning, natural language processing, computer vision, Deep learning - You are able to use reasonable assumptions, data, and customer requirements to solve problems. - You initiate the design, development, execution, and implementation of smaller components with input and guidance from team members. - You work with SDEs to deliver solutions into production to benefit customers or an area of the business. - You assume responsibility for the code in your components. You write secure, stable, testable, maintainable code with minimal defects. - You understand basic data structures, algorithms, model evaluation techniques, performance, and optimality tradeoffs. - You follow engineering and scientific method best practices. You get your designs, models, and code reviewed. You test your code and models thoroughly - You participate in team design, scoping and prioritization discussions. You are able to map a business goal to a scientific problem and map business metrics to technical metrics. - You invent, refine and develop your solutions to ensure they are meeting customer needs and team goals. You keep current with research trends in your area of expertise and scrutinize your results. A day in the life You will be working with a group of talented scientists on researching algorithm and running experiments to test solutions to improve our experience. This will involve collaboration with partner teams including engineering, PMs, data annotators, and other scientists to discuss data quality, model development and productionizing the same. You will mentor other scientists, review and guide their work, help develop roadmaps for the team. We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations: Bangalore, IND | Bangalore, KA, IND

Amazon Prime Video is looking for passionate, talented, and inventive Applied Scientists with a strong machine learning background to help build industry-leading Audio, Video and Language technology using GenAI. As part of the AI team in Amazon Prime Video, you will work on developing and fine-tuning LLMs and developing new large multimodal models to advance state-of-the-art in the translation, transcription and generation of multingual cinematic content. You will use the latest GenAI techniques to create and assess cinematic content like videos, audio, and captions, and more. You will design novel approaches to integrate speech, vision, and text for holistic understanding and generation of content, and Collaborate cross-functionally with product managers, engineers, and domain experts to define and deliver high-impact solutions. Your work will directly impact millions of our customers in the form of products and services that make use of speech and language technology on Prime Video content. We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations: Bangalore, KA, IND

Alexa is the voice activated digital assistant powering devices like Amazon Echo, Echo Dot, Echo Show, and Fire TV, which are at the forefront of this latest technology wave. To preserve our customers’ experience and trust, the Alexa Sensitive Content Intelligence (ASCI) team creates policies and builds services and tools through Machine Learning techniques to detect and mitigate sensitive content across Alexa. We are looking for an experienced Senior Applied Scientist to build industry-leading technologies in attribute extraction and sensitive content detection across all languages and countries. A Senior Applied Scientist will be a tech lead for a team of exceptional scientists to develop novel algorithms and modeling techniques to advance the state of the art in NLP or CV related tasks. You will work in a hybrid, fast-paced organization where scientists, engineers, and product managers work together to build customer facing experiences. You will collaborate with and mentor other scientists to raise the bar of scientific research in Amazon. Your work will directly impact our customers in the form of products and services that make use of speech, language, and computer vision technologies. We are looking for a leader with strong technical experiences a passion for building scientific driven solutions in a fast-paced environment. You should have good understanding of NLP models (e.g. LSTM, transformer based models) or CV models (e.g. CNN, AlexNet, ResNet) and where to apply them in different business cases. You leverage your exceptional technical expertise, a sound understanding of the fundamentals of Computer Science, and practical experience of building large-scale distributed systems to creating reliable, scalable, and high-performance products. In addition to technical depth, you must possess exceptional communication skills and understand how to influence key stakeholders. You will be joining a select group of people making history producing one of the most highly rated products in Amazon's history, so if you are looking for a challenging and innovative role where you can solve important problems while growing as a leader, this may be the place for you. Key job responsibilities You'll lead the science solution design, run experiments, research new algorithms, and find new ways of optimizing customer experience. You set examples for the team on good science practice and standards. Besides theoretical analysis and innovation, you will work closely with talented engineers and ML scientists to put your algorithms and models into practice. Your work will directly impact the trust customers place in Alexa, globally. You contribute directly to our growth by hiring smart and motivated Scientists to establish teams that can deliver swiftly and predictably, adjusting in an agile fashion to deliver what our customers need. A day in the life You will be working with a group of talented scientists on researching algorithm and running experiments to test scientific proposal/solutions to improve our sensitive contents detection and mitigation. This will involve collaboration with partner teams including engineering, PMs, data annotators, and other scientists to discuss data quality, policy, and model development. You will mentor other scientists, review and guide their work, help develop roadmaps for the team. You work closely with partner teams across Alexa to deliver platform features that require cross-team leadership. About the hiring group About the team The mission of the Alexa Sensitive Content Intelligence (ASCI) team is to (1) minimize negative surprises to customers caused by sensitive content, (2) detect and prevent potential brand-damaging interactions, and (3) build customer trust through appropriate interactions on sensitive topics. The term “sensitive content” includes within its scope a wide range of categories of content such as offensive content (e.g., hate speech, racist speech), profanity, content that is suitable only for certain age groups, politically polarizing content, and religiously polarizing content. The term “content” refers to any material that is exposed to customers by Alexa (including both 1P and 3P experiences) and includes text, speech, audio, and video. We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations: Bangalore, KA, IND

Alexa is the voice activated digital assistant powering devices like Amazon Echo, Echo Dot, Echo Show, and Fire TV, which are at the forefront of this latest technology wave. To preserve our customers’ experience and trust, the Alexa Sensitive Content Intelligence (ASCI) team creates policies and builds services and tools through Machine Learning techniques to detect and mitigate sensitive content across Alexa. We are looking for an experienced Applied Scientist to build industry-leading technologies in attribute extraction and sensitive content detection across all languages and countries. An Applied Scientist will be working with a team of exceptional scientists to develop novel algorithms and modeling techniques to advance the state of the art in NLP or CV related tasks. You will work in a hybrid, fast-paced organization where scientists, engineers, and product managers work together to build customer facing experiences. You will collaborate with and mentor other scientists to raise the bar of scientific research in Amazon. Your work will directly impact our customers in the form of products and services that make use of speech, language, and computer vision technologies. We are looking for a leader with strong technical experiences a passion for building scientific driven solutions in a fast-paced environment. You should have good understanding of NLP models (e.g. LSTM, transformer based models) or CV models (e.g. CNN, AlexNet, ResNet) and where to apply them in different business cases. You leverage your exceptional technical expertise, a sound understanding of the fundamentals of Computer Science, and practical experience of building large-scale distributed systems to creating reliable, scalable, and high-performance products. In addition to technical depth, you must possess exceptional communication skills and understand how to influence key stakeholders. You will be joining a select group of people making history producing one of the most highly rated products in Amazon's history, so if you are looking for a challenging and innovative role where you can solve important problems while growing as a leader, this may be the place for you. Key job responsibilities You'll participate the science solution design, run experiments, research new algorithms, and find new ways of optimizing customer experience. You set examples for the team on good science practice and standards. Besides theoretical analysis and innovation, you will work closely with talented engineers and ML scientists to put your algorithms and models into practice. Your work will directly impact the trust customers place in Alexa, globally. You contribute directly to our growth by hiring smart and motivated Scientists to establish teams that can deliver swiftly and predictably, adjusting in an agile fashion to deliver what our customers need. A day in the life You will be working with a group of talented scientists on researching algorithm and running experiments to test scientific proposal/solutions to improve our sensitive contents detection and mitigation. This will involve collaboration with partner teams including engineering, PMs, data annotators, and other scientists to discuss data quality, policy, and model development. You will mentor other scientists, review and guide their work, help develop roadmaps for the team. You work closely with partner teams across Alexa to deliver platform features that require cross-team leadership. About the hiring group About the team The mission of the Alexa Sensitive Content Intelligence (ASCI) team is to (1) minimize negative surprises to customers caused by sensitive content, (2) detect and prevent potential brand-damaging interactions, and (3) build customer trust through appropriate interactions on sensitive topics. The term “sensitive content” includes within its scope a wide range of categories of content such as offensive content (e.g., hate speech, racist speech), profanity, content that is suitable only for certain age groups, politically polarizing content, and religiously polarizing content. The term “content” refers to any material that is exposed to customers by Alexa (including both 1P and 3P experiences) and includes text, speech, audio, and video. We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations: Bangalore, KA, IND

Do you want to be part of a new team at Amazon that is making history? Do you want to build technology and new science that millions of people will use? Are you excited about working on large scale Natural Language Processing (NLP), Machine Learning (ML), and Deep Learning (DL)? 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 in new locales. 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 (e.g. is a drone the same as quadcopter?), relevance ranking (what is a "funny halloween costume"?), language identification (did the customer just switch to their mother tongue?), machine translation (猫の餌を注文する). This is a highly visible role with a huge impact on Amazon customers and business. 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. This is a position on Search Quality team in Bangalore (India). We are moving fast to change the way Amazon search works. Together with a multi-disciplinary team you will work on building solutions with NLP/ML/DL at its core. Along the way, you’ll learn a ton, have fun and make a positive impact on millions of people. Come and join us as we invent new ways to delight Amazon customers. Do not hesitate to reach out if you have some of the following: ability to apply state of the art in large scale Machine Learning (e.g. reinforcement learning, semi-weakly-un-supervised deep learning, natural language understanding), curiosity to learn through controlled experimentation or experience with low latency production systems. Apply now or ping Shailendra Agarwal (https://www.linkedin.com/in/shailendra-agarwal-893a3b11/) to learn more about the different ways you can have huge impact with us. We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations: Bangalore, KA, IND

Are you interested in changing the Digital Reading Experience? We are from Kindle Books Team looking for a set of Scientists to take the reading experience in Kindle to next level with a set of innovations! We envision Kindle as the place where readers find the best manifestation of all written content optimized with features that enable them to get the most out of reading, and creators are able to realize their vision to customers quickly and at scale. Every time customers open their content, regardless of surface, they start or restart their reading in a familiar, useful and engaging place. We achieve this by building a strong foundation of core experiences and act as a force multiplier and partner for content creators (directly or indirectly) to easily innovate on top of Kindle's purpose built content experience stack in a simple and extensible way. We will achieve this by providing a best-in-class reading experience, unique content experiences, and remaining agile in meeting the evolving needs and preferences of our users. Our goal is to foster long-lasting reading habits and make us the preferred destination for enriching literary experiences. We are building a In The Book Science team and looking for Scientists, who are passionate about Reading and are willing to take Reading to the next level. Every Book is a complex structure with different entities, layout, format and semantics, with more than 17MM eBooks in our catalog. We are looking for experts in all domains like core NLP, Generative AI, CV and Deep Learning Techniques for unlocking capabilities like analysis, enhancement, curation, moderation, translation, transformation and generation in Books based on Content structure, features, Intent & Synthesis. Scientists will focus on Inside the book content and semantically learn the different entities to enhance the Reading experience overall (Kindle & beyond). They have an opportunity to influence in 2 major phases of life-cycle - Publishing (Creation of Books process) and Reading experience (building engaging features & representation in the book thereby driving reading engagement). Key job responsibilities - 3+ years of building machine learning models for business application experience - PhD, or Master's degree and 2+ years of applied research experience - Knowledge of programming languages such as C/C++, Python, Java or Perl - Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language - You have expertise in one of the applied science disciplines, such as machine learning, natural language processing, computer vision, Deep learning - You are able to use reasonable assumptions, data, and customer requirements to solve problems. - You initiate the design, development, execution, and implementation of smaller components with input and guidance from team members. - You work with SDEs to deliver solutions into production to benefit customers or an area of the business. - You assume responsibility for the code in your components. You write secure, stable, testable, maintainable code with minimal defects. - You understand basic data structures, algorithms, model evaluation techniques, performance, and optimality tradeoffs. - You follow engineering and scientific method best practices. You get your designs, models, and code reviewed. You test your code and models thoroughly - You participate in team design, scoping and prioritization discussions. You are able to map a business goal to a scientific problem and map business metrics to technical metrics. - You invent, refine and develop your solutions to ensure they are meeting customer needs and team goals. You keep current with research trends in your area of expertise and scrutinize your results. A day in the life You will be working with a group of talented scientists on researching algorithm and running experiments to test solutions to improve our experience. This will involve collaboration with partner teams including engineering, PMs, data annotators, and other scientists to discuss data quality, model development and productionizing the same. You will mentor other scientists, review and guide their work, help develop roadmaps for the team. We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations: Bangalore, IND | Bangalore, KA, IND

The Amazon Artificial Generative Intelligence (AGI) 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 job responsibilities - 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 We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations: Bengaluru, KA, IND

The Amazon Artificial Generative Intelligence (AGI) 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 job responsibilities - 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 We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations: Bengaluru, KA, IND