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We are seeking a motivated and talented Applied Scientist to join our team at Amazon AGI (Artificial General Intelligence), advancing the state of the art in AGI models and directly impacting the experience and engagement of customers interacting with Amazon’s products and services. Our team works on diverse projects spanning Large Language Models, Information Retrieval, Natural Language Understanding, and Ads optimization. Key job responsibilities In this role you will: - Leverage Large Language Models (LLMs) and transformer-based models for improving Amazon’s end-user experience and launching new features. - Perform hands-on data analysis and modeling with large data sets to develop insights that increase device usage and customer experience - Apply machine learning and natural language understanding techniques to improve our conversational interfaces and search algorithms - Run A/B experiments, evaluate the impact of your optimizations and communicate your results to various business stakeholders - Work closely with product managers and software engineers to design experiments and implement end-to-end solutions - Be a member of the Amazon-wide machine learning community, participating in internal and external Hackathons and Conferences - Help attract and recruit technical talent We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations: Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Do you want to use your expertise in translating innovative science into impactful products to improve the lives and work of over a million people worldwide? If you do, People eXperience Technology Central Science (PXTCS) would love to talk to you about how to make that a reality. PXTCS is an interdisciplinary team that uses economics, behavioral science, statistics, and machine learning to identify products, mechanisms, and process improvements that both improve Amazonian’s wellbeing and their ability to deliver value for Amazon’s customers. We work with HR teams across Amazon to make Amazon PXT the most scientific human resources organization in the world. As an applied scientist on our team, you will work with business leaders, scientists, and economists to translate business and functional requirements into concrete deliverables, define the science vision and translate it into specific plans for applied scientists, as well as engineering and product teams. You will partner with scientists, economists, and engineers on the design, development, testing, and deployment of scalable ML and econometric models. This is a unique, high visibility opportunity for someone who wants to have impact, dive deep into large-scale solutions, enable measurable actions on the employee experience, and work closely with scientists and economists. This role combines science leadership, organizational ability, and technical strength. Key job responsibilities - Design, develop, and evaluate innovative machine learning solutions to solve diverse challenges and opportunities for Amazon customers - Advance the team's engineering craftsmanship and drive continued scientific innovation as a thought leader and practitioner. - Partner with the engineering team to deploy your models in production. - Partner with scientists from across PXTCS to solve complex problems and use your team’s expertise to accelerate their ability get their work into production. - Work directly with Amazonians from across the company to understand their business problems and help define and implement scalable ML solutions to solve them. We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations: Austin, TX, USA | Chicago, IL, USA | Seattle, WA, USA | Sunnyvale, CA, USA

The Workforce Solutions Analytics and Tech team is looking for a senior Applied Scientist who is interested in solving challenging optimization problems in the labor scheduling and operations efficiency space. We are actively looking to hire senior scientists to lead one or more of these problem spaces. Successful candidates will have a deep knowledge of Operations Research and Machine Learning methods, experience in applying these methods to large-scale business problems, the ability to map models into production-worthy code in Python or Java, the communication skills necessary to explain complex technical approaches to a variety of stakeholders and customers, and the excitement to take iterative approaches to tackle big research challenges. As a member of our team, you'll work on cutting-edge projects that directly impact over a million Amazon associates. This is a high-impact role with opportunities to designing and improving complex labor planning and cost optimization models. The successful candidate will be a self-starter comfortable with ambiguity, with strong attention to detail and outstanding ability in balancing technical leadership with strong business judgment to make the right decisions about model and method choices. Successful candidates must thrive in fast-paced environments, which encourage collaborative and creative problem solving, be able to measure and estimate risks, constructively critique peer research, and align research focuses with the Amazon's strategic needs. Key job responsibilities • Candidates will be responsible for developing solutions to better manage and optimize flexible labor capacity. The successful candidate should have solid research experience in one or more technical areas of Operations Research or Machine Learning. As a senior scientist, you will also help coach/mentor junior scientists on the team. • In this role, you will be a technical leader in applied science research with significant scope, impact, and high visibility. You will lead science initiatives for strategic optimization and capacity planning. They require superior logical thinkers who are able to quickly approach large ambiguous problems, turn high-level business requirements into mathematical models, identify the right solution approach, and contribute to the software development for production systems. • Invent and design new solutions for scientifically-complex problem areas and identify opportunities for invention in existing or new business initiatives. • Successfully deliver large or critical solutions to complex problems in the support of medium-to-large business goals. • Apply mathematical optimization techniques and algorithms to design optimal or near optimal solution methodologies to be used for labor planning. • Research, prototype, simulate, and experiment with these models and participate in the production level deployment in Python or Java. We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations: Seattle, WA, USA

The Decision, Science and Technology (DST) team part of the global Reliability Maintenance Engineering (RME) is looking for a Senior Operations Research Scientist interested in solving challenging optimization problems in the maintenance space. Our mission is to leverage the use of data, science, and technology to improve the efficiency of RME maintenance activities, reduce costs, increase safety and promote sustainability while creating frictionless customer experiences. As a Senior OR Scientist in DST you will be focused on leading the design and development of innovative approaches and solutions by leading technical work supporting RME’s Predictive Maintenance (PdM) and Spare Parts (SP) programs. You will connect with world leaders in your field and you will be tackling customer's natural language challenges by carrying out a systematic review of existing solutions. The appropriate choice of methods and their deployment into effective tools will be the key for the success in this role. The successful candidate will be a self-starter comfortable with ambiguity, with strong attention to detail and outstanding ability in balancing technical leadership with strong business judgment to make the right decisions about model and method choices. Key job responsibilities • Provide technical expertise to support team strategies that will take EU RME towards World Class predictive maintenance practices and processes, driving better equipment up-time and lower repair costs with optimized spare parts inventory and placement • Implement an advanced maintenance framework utilizing Machine Learning technologies to drive equipment performance leading to reduced unplanned downtime • Provide technical expertise to support the development of long-term spares management strategies that will ensure spares availability at an optimal level for local sites and reduce the cost of spares A day in the life As a Senior OR Scientist in DST you will be focused on leading the design and development of innovative approaches and solutions by leading technical work supporting RME’s Predictive Maintenance (PdM) and Spare Parts (SP) programs. You will connect with world leaders in your field and you will be tackling customer's natural language challenges by carrying out a systematic review of existing solutions. The appropriate choice of methods and their deployment into effective tools will be the key for the success in this role. About the team Our mission is to leverage the use of data, science, and technology to improve the efficiency of RME maintenance activities, reduce costs, increase safety and promote sustainability while creating frictionless customer experiences. We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations: Luxembourg, LUX

Amazon.com strives to be Earth's most customer-centric company where customers can shop in our stores to find and discover anything they want to buy. We hire the world's brightest minds, offering them a fast paced, technologically sophisticated and friendly work environment. Economists at Amazon partner closely with senior management, business stakeholders, scientist and engineers, and economist leadership to solve key business problems ranging from Amazon Web Services, Kindle, Prime, inventory planning, international retail, third party merchants, search, pricing, labor and employment planning, effective benefits (health, retirement, etc.) and beyond. Amazon Economists build econometric models using our world class data systems and apply approaches from a variety of skillsets – applied macro/time series, applied micro, econometric theory, empirical IO, empirical health, labor, public economics and related fields are all highly valued skillsets at Amazon. You will work in a fast moving environment to solve business problems as a member of either a cross-functional team embedded within a business unit or a central science and economics organization. You will be expected to develop techniques that apply econometrics to large data sets, address quantitative problems, and contribute to the design of automated systems around the company. We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations: Arlington, VA, USA | Bellevue, WA, USA | Boston, MA, USA | Los Angeles, CA, USA | New York, NY, USA | San Francisco, CA, USA | Seattle, WA, USA | Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Amazon.com strives to be Earth's most customer-centric company where customers can shop in our stores to find and discover anything they want to buy. We hire the world's brightest minds, offering them a fast paced, technologically sophisticated and friendly work environment. Economists at Amazon partner closely with senior management, business stakeholders, scientist and engineers, and economist leadership to solve key business problems ranging from Amazon Web Services, Kindle, Prime, inventory planning, international retail, third party merchants, search, pricing, labor and employment planning, effective benefits (health, retirement, etc.) and beyond. Amazon Economists build econometric models using our world class data systems and apply approaches from a variety of skillsets – applied macro/time series, applied micro, econometric theory, empirical IO, empirical health, labor, public economics and related fields are all highly valued skillsets at Amazon. You will work in a fast moving environment to solve business problems as a member of either a cross-functional team embedded within a business unit or a central science and economics organization. You will be expected to develop techniques that apply econometrics to large data sets, address quantitative problems, and contribute to the design of automated systems around the company. We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations: Arlington, VA, USA | Bellevue, WA, USA | Boston, MA, USA | Los Angeles, CA, USA | New York, NY, USA | San Francisco, CA, USA | Seattle, WA, USA | Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Amazon.com strives to be Earth's most customer-centric company where customers can shop in our stores to find and discover anything they want to buy. We hire the world's brightest minds, offering them a fast paced, technologically sophisticated and friendly work environment. Economists at Amazon partner closely with senior management, business stakeholders, scientist and engineers, and economist leadership to solve key business problems ranging from Amazon Web Services, Kindle, Prime, inventory planning, international retail, third party merchants, search, pricing, labor and employment planning, effective benefits (health, retirement, etc.) and beyond. Amazon Economists build econometric models using our world class data systems and apply approaches from a variety of skillsets – applied macro/time series, applied micro, econometric theory, empirical IO, empirical health, labor, public economics and related fields are all highly valued skillsets at Amazon. You will work in a fast moving environment to solve business problems as a member of either a cross-functional team embedded within a business unit or a central science and economics organization. You will be expected to develop techniques that apply econometrics to large data sets, address quantitative problems, and contribute to the design of automated systems around the company. We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations: Arlington, VA, USA | Bellevue, WA, USA | Boston, MA, USA | Los Angeles, CA, USA | New York, NY, USA | San Francisco, CA, USA | Seattle, WA, USA | Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Amazon.com strives to be Earth's most customer-centric company where customers can shop in our stores to find and discover anything they want to buy. We hire the world's brightest minds, offering them a fast paced, technologically sophisticated and friendly work environment. Economists at Amazon partner closely with senior management, business stakeholders, scientist and engineers, and economist leadership to solve key business problems ranging from Amazon Web Services, Kindle, Prime, inventory planning, international retail, third party merchants, search, pricing, labor and employment planning, effective benefits (health, retirement, etc.) and beyond. Amazon Economists build econometric models using our world class data systems and apply approaches from a variety of skillsets – applied macro/time series, applied micro, econometric theory, empirical IO, empirical health, labor, public economics and related fields are all highly valued skillsets at Amazon. You will work in a fast moving environment to solve business problems as a member of either a cross-functional team embedded within a business unit or a central science and economics organization. You will be expected to develop techniques that apply econometrics to large data sets, address quantitative problems, and contribute to the design of automated systems around the company. We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations: Arlington, VA, USA | Bellevue, WA, USA | Boston, MA, USA | Los Angeles, CA, USA | New York, NY, USA | San Francisco, CA, USA | Seattle, WA, USA | Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Amazon.com strives to be Earth's most customer-centric company where customers can shop in our stores to find and discover anything they want to buy. We hire the world's brightest minds, offering them a fast paced, technologically sophisticated and friendly work environment. Economists in the Forecasting, Macroeconomics & Finance field document, interpret and forecast Amazon business dynamics. This track is well suited for economists adept at combining cutting edge times-series statistical methods with strong economic analysis and intuition. This track could be a good fit for candidates with research experience in: macroeconometrics and/or empirical macroeconomics; international macroeconomics; time-series econometrics; forecasting; financial econometrics and/or empirical finance; and the use of micro and panel data to improve and validate traditional aggregate models. Economists at Amazon are expected to work directly with our senior management and scientists from other fields on key business problems faced across Amazon, including retail, cloud computing, third party merchants, search, Kindle, streaming video, and operations. The Forecasting, Macroeconomics & Finance field utilizes methods at the frontier of economics to develop formal models to understand the past and the present, predict the future, and identify relevant risks and opportunities. For example, we analyze the internal and external drivers of growth and profitability and how these drivers interact with the customer experience in the short, medium and long-term. We build econometric models of dynamic systems, using our world class data tools, formalizing problems using rigorous science to solve business issues and further delight customers. We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations: Arlington, VA, USA | Bellevue, WA, USA | Boston, MA, USA | Los Angeles, CA, USA | New York, NY, USA | San Francisco, CA, USA | Seattle, WA, USA | Sunnyvale, CA, USA

Amazon.com strives to be Earth's most customer-centric company where customers can shop in our stores to find and discover anything they want to buy. We hire the world's brightest minds, offering them a fast paced, technologically sophisticated and friendly work environment. Economists in the Forecasting, Macroeconomics & Finance field document, interpret and forecast Amazon business dynamics. This track is well suited for economists adept at combining cutting edge times-series statistical methods with strong economic analysis and intuition. This track could be a good fit for candidates with research experience in: macroeconometrics and/or empirical macroeconomics; international macroeconomics; time-series econometrics; forecasting; financial econometrics and/or empirical finance; and the use of micro and panel data to improve and validate traditional aggregate models. Economists at Amazon are expected to work directly with our senior management and scientists from other fields on key business problems faced across Amazon, including retail, cloud computing, third party merchants, search, Kindle, streaming video, and operations. The Forecasting, Macroeconomics & Finance field utilizes methods at the frontier of economics to develop formal models to understand the past and the present, predict the future, and identify relevant risks and opportunities. For example, we analyze the internal and external drivers of growth and profitability and how these drivers interact with the customer experience in the short, medium and long-term. We build econometric models of dynamic systems, using our world class data tools, formalizing problems using rigorous science to solve business issues and further delight customers. We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations: Arlington, VA, USA | Bellevue, WA, USA | Boston, MA, USA | Los Angeles, CA, USA | New York, NY, USA | San Francisco, CA, USA | Seattle, WA, USA | Sunnyvale, CA, USA