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  • (Updated 10 days ago)
    Does the idea of creating technology solutions for delivering 11 Billion+ packages across the globe excite you? If yes, come join a fun-loving, diverse, and creative team at Amazon Last Mile! The vision of the team is "To create Earth’s safest, most adaptive, and efficient plans for Last Mile logistics". The Last Mile Delivery Technology team is instrumental in impacting customer satisfaction directly, by devising innovative ways to deliver packages quickly and cost-effectively to the customers, and at scale using Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning and Operations Research solutions. Last Mile Delivery Technology organization supports the design, planning and execution of last mile transportation for Amazon’s various parcel and grocery delivery programs. All these programs require a large number of decision support systems to operate at scale and serve our customers, spanning demand planning, jurisdiction planning, delivery channel and network design, capacity planning for on the road and under the roof at delivery stations, routing inputs and route optimization. While these decision support systems have thus far been approached through the lens of traditional optimization and machine learning, we are looking to re-envision this space and pursue Foundational AI research, to innovate and advance the state of these decision support systems. Specifically, we are looking to develop foundational models (including Large Language Models, Multimodal Language Models, Multimodal Models), and adaptations to serve last mile use cases. Beyond Amazon the work developed will spur new fundamental knowledge and innovation in the logistics space. We are looking for candidates with knowledge and experience in designing and developing state-of-art AI solutions (including development and application of advanced deep learning algorithms, foundational models, multimodal generative AI solutions, reinforcement learning), to join our team. Demonstrated experience scaling and optimizing the training and inference of these models, building real world solutions, to meet the customer use cases is preferred. Proven track record of publishing in major AI conferences and demonstrated experience working in industry will be preferred. Key job responsibilities Candidates will be responsible for developing Foundational AI solutions, to serve the myriad of decision support use cases across last mile. In this role, you will be expected to define new research avenues, explore, adopt, and invent new machine learning techniques, implement scalable science and engineering solutions, contribute software to production systems, conduct rigorous experiments, publish results, influence technical and business leadership and ensuring that research is translated into practice. You will be working with a team of scientists and engineers, helping shape the strategic and tactical vision, and contribute hands on to foundational research efforts in last mile. A day in the life Sitting at the core of Amazon’s Last Mile business, Routing and Planning (RaP) invents technology solutions that deliver toward the RaP vision: to create earth’s safest, most adaptive, and efficient plans for Last Mile logistics. RaP serves a diverse set of external and internal customers. For Amazon End Customers and transporters, we build solutions to deliver 11B packages and services to arrive at the right place and time, while meeting the growing preference for speed and precision. For internal customers, we build and delivery routing solutions Worldwide adding up to a $1B USD, across multiple amazon businesses ranging from Amazon Logistics, Amazon X-tra Large to Same/Sub-Same Day Deliveries, Fresh and Groceries etc using multiple mode of transports. If the opportunity to innovate, create and deliver first-time solutions alongside world-class engineers and scientists e.g. building a new delivery foundational model from scratch utilizing data at an unprecedented scale in the industry excites you, this is the place for you. About the team The Last Mile (LM) Science organization serves two primary functions: (1) maintaining and enhancing the components which provide the essential intelligence in nearly every LM system, and (2) creating the science which will enable the continued growth of Amazon in the future. The systems used on a daily basis by the Last Mile to deliver packages from the station to the customer’s doorstep contains embedded models developed by the science team, or relies on inputs derived from these models. These models determine how efficiently Amazon can serve its customers and at what cost. We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations: Bellevue, WA, USA
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 2610586
    (Updated 13 days ago)
    We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Economist responsible for measuring and understanding how our product and service defects impact customers and then assist teams across Amazon in prioritizing their resolution through insightful analysis and strategic recommendations. You will spearhead efforts to estimate the benefits of different remediation actions to optimize how we respond to customer contacts and and value the impact of changes to our concession policy with the goal of enhancing the overall customer experience across our platform. Key job responsibilities * Development of Causal, Economic, and Machine Learning models at scale. * Lead Scientific Research, coordinate efforts across teams, develop scientific culture. * Lead strategic discussions with senior leaders across the company to guide and inform policies. A day in the life 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! 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 About the team The Worldwide defect elimination team's mission is to understand and resolve all issues impacting customers at scale. The Economics team is a force multiplier within this group, helping to understand the impact of these issues, changes to our policies, and optimizing the customer experience. We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations: Seattle, WA, USA
  • (Updated 13 days ago)
    As a Senior Applied Scientist in Worldwide Defect Elimination at Amazon, your role is pivotal in leveraging advanced AI and ML techniques to address customer issues at scale. You'll lead the development of innovative solutions that summarize and detect problems, organize them using ontologies, and pinpoint root causes within Amazon systems. Your expertise will drive the identification of responsible stakeholders and enable swift resolution. You will utilize the latest in AI/ML to to develop an LLM ecosystem that can comb over our billions of contacts (using a combination of media). As a part of this role, you will collaborate with a large team of experts in the field and move the state of research forward. Key job responsibilities * Research and Development of Cutting Edge Modeling techniques for NLP, NLU, and Prediction. * Establishing scientific culture and standards for all the scientists (publication, best practices, reviews, etc.) * Delivering solutions to the core business problems above and influencing business partners * Develop scientific talent on the team A day in the life 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! 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 About the team The Worldwide defect elimination team's mission is to understand and resolve all issues impacting customers at scale. The Economics team is a force multiplier within this group, helping to understand the impact of these issues, changes to our policies, and optimizing the customer experience. We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations: Seattle, WA, USA
  • (Updated 11 days ago)
    Amazon is seeking a Language Data Scientist to join the Alexa Artificial Intelligence (AI) team as domain expert. This role focuses on expanding analysis and evaluation of speech and interaction data deliverables. The Language Data Scientist is an expert in dialog evaluation processes, working closely with a team of skilled analysts and machine learning scientists and engineers, and is a key member in developing new conventions for relevant annotation workflows. The Language Data Scientist will be asked to handle unique data analysis and research requests that support the training and evaluation of machine learning models and the overall processing of a data collection. Key job responsibilities To be successful in this role, you must have a passion for data, efficiency, and accuracy. Specifically, you will: - Own data analyses for customer-facing features, including launch go/no-go metrics for new features and accuracy metrics for existing features - Handle unique data analysis requests from a range of stakeholders, including quantitative and qualitative analyses to elevate customer experience with speech interfaces - Lead and evaluate changing dialog evaluation conventions, test tooling developments, and pilot processes to support expansion to new data areas - Continuously evaluate workflow tools and processes and offer solutions to ensure they are efficient, high quality, and scalable - Provide expert support for a large and growing team of data analysts - Provide support for ongoing and new data collection efforts as a subject matter expert on conventions and use of the data - Conduct research studies to understand speech and customer-Alexa interactions - Assist scientists, program and product managers, and other stakeholders in defining and validating customer experience metrics We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations: Boston, MA, USA | Seattle, WA, USA
  • (Updated 11 days ago)
    Amazon is seeking a Language Data Scientist to join the Alexa Artificial Intelligence (AI) team as domain expert. This role focuses on expanding analysis and evaluation of speech and interaction data deliverables. The Language Data Scientist is an expert in dialog evaluation processes, working closely with a team of skilled analysts and machine learning scientists and engineers, and is a key member in developing new conventions for relevant annotation workflows. The Language Data Scientist will be asked to handle unique data analysis and research requests that support the training and evaluation of machine learning models and the overall processing of a data collection. Key job responsibilities To be successful in this role, you must have a passion for data, efficiency, and accuracy. Specifically, you will: - Own data analyses for customer-facing features, including launch go/no-go metrics for new features and accuracy metrics for existing features - Handle unique data analysis requests from a range of stakeholders, including quantitative and qualitative analyses to elevate customer experience with speech interfaces - Lead and evaluate changing dialog evaluation conventions, test tooling developments, and pilot processes to support expansion to new data areas - Continuously evaluate workflow tools and processes and offer solutions to ensure they are efficient, high quality, and scalable - Provide expert support for a large and growing team of data analysts - Provide support for ongoing and new data collection efforts as a subject matter expert on conventions and use of the data - Conduct research studies to understand speech and customer-Alexa interactions - Assist scientists, program and product managers, and other stakeholders in defining and validating customer experience metrics We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations: Boston, MA, USA | Seattle, WA, USA
  • US, CA, Santa Clara
    Job ID: 2601859
    (Updated 26 days ago)
    AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations — from foundational services such as Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWS’s services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization, you’ll support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Internet of Things (Iot), Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS. Within AWS UC, Amazon Dedicated Cloud (ADC) roles engage with AWS customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services. AWS AI/ML is looking for world class scientists and engineers to work on foundation models, large-scale representation learning, and distributed learning methods and systems. At AWS AI/ML you will invent, implement, and deploy state of the art machine learning algorithms and systems. You will build prototypes and innovate on new representation learning solutions. You will interact closely with our customers and with the academic and research communities. You will be at the heart of a growing and exciting focus area for AWS and work with other acclaimed engineers and world famous scientists. Large-scale foundation models have been the powerhouse in many of the recent advancements in computer vision, natural language processing, automatic speech recognition, recommendation systems, and time series modeling. Developing such models requires not only skillful modeling in individual modalities, but also understanding of how to synergistically combine them, and how to scale the modeling methods to learn with huge models and on large datasets. Join us to work as an integral part of a team that has diverse experiences in this space. We actively work on these areas: - Hardware-informed efficient model architecture, training objective and curriculum design - Distributed training, accelerated optimization methods - Continual learning, multi-task/meta learning - Reasoning, interactive learning, reinforcement learning - Robustness, privacy, model watermarking - Model compression, distillation, pruning, sparsification, quantization A day in the life Diverse Experiences AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying. Why AWS? Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses. Inclusive Team Culture Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness. Mentorship & Career Growth We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional. Work/Life Balance We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud. Hybrid Work We value innovation and recognize this sometimes requires uninterrupted time to focus on a build. We also value in-person collaboration and time spent face-to-face. Our team affords employees options to work in the office every day or in a flexible, hybrid work model near one of our U.S. Amazon offices. We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations: Santa Clara, CA, USA
  • (Updated 6 days ago)
    This role with partner with the existing Security Experts to validate that security controls are enabled throughout the lifecycle of traditional Machine Learning and Generative AI phases of model development. The security controls will be defined from the early experimentation phases to model fine-tuning to model deployment and ongoing operational governance. AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS) is responsible for driving revenue, adoption, and growth from the largest and fastest growing small- and mid-market accounts to enterprise-level customers including public sector. The AWS Global Support team interacts with leading companies and believes that world-class support is critical to customer success. AWS Support also partners with a global list of customers that are building mission-critical applications on top of AWS services. Key job responsibilities • Lead the development of security guidance on the use of AI/ML, particularly generative AI • Collaborate with security experts to validate and recommend security controls applicable for all phases of AI/ML/Gen AI development lifecycle • Design, build, test, and help deploy ML and generative AI solutions that have measurable business and customer impact in security. • Interact with internal and external customers to understand their business problems and help them in implementation of their generative AI and ML solutions • Facilitate discussions with senior leadership regarding technical / architectural trade-offs, best practices, and risk mitigation • Create and deliver best practice recommendations, tutorials, blog posts, sample code, and presentations adapted to technical, business, and executive stakeholder • Create detailed security documentation of solutions using reference architectures and implementation/configuration guidance • Collaborate with AI/ML peers to research, design, develop, and evaluate cutting-edge generative AI algorithms to address real-world challenges • Provide customer and market feedback to Service and Engineering teams to help define product direction • Work with a cross section of AI experts to develop solutions that will be piloted with customers for their production workloads About the team Diverse Experiences Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying. Why AWS Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses. Work/Life Balance We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud. Inclusive Team Culture Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness. Mentorship and Career Growth We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better- rounded professional. Hybrid Work We value innovation and recognize this sometimes requires uninterrupted time to focus on a build. We also value in- person collaboration and time spent face-to-face. Our team affords employees options to work in the office every day or in a flexible, hybrid work model near one of our Amazon offices. We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations: Austin, TX, USA | Dallas, TX, USA | Herndon, VA, USA | Irvine, CA, USA | New York City, NY, USA | Seattle, WA, USA
  • GB, Cambridge
    Job ID: 2602816
    (Updated 11 days ago)
    The Artificial General Intelligence team (AGI) has an exciting position for an Applied Scientist with a strong background NLP and Large Language Models to help us develop state-of-the-art conversational systems. As part of this team, you will collaborate with talented scientists and software engineers to enable conversational assistants capabilities to support the use of external tools and sources of information, and develop novel reasoning capabilities to revolutionise the user experience for millions of Alexa customers. Key job responsibilities As an Applied Scientist, you will develop innovative solutions to complex problems to extend the functionalities of conversational assistants . You will use your technical expertise to research and implement novel algorithms and modelling solutions in collaboration with other scientists and engineers. You will analyse customer behaviours and define metrics to enable the identification of actionable insights and measure improvements in customer experience. You will communicate results and insights to both technical and non-technical audiences through written reports, presentations and external publications. We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations: Cambridge, GBR | London, GBR
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 2620744
    (Updated 2 days ago)
    Amazon is looking for a passionate, talented, and inventive Applied Scientist with a strong machine learning background to help build industry-leading technology using generative AI. As a part of the Devices organization, we are re-imagining how customers interact with their Echo, Fire TV and other smart devices. Our goal is to build harness the power of large language models (LLMs) to empower customers to have natural and ambient conversations with their devices. This is a rare opportunity to develop cutting edge AI/ML technologies in these areas and apply them to problems of this magnitude. We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations: Seattle, WA, USA
  • (Updated 17 days ago)
    Prime Video offers customers a vast collection of movies, series, and sports—all available to watch on hundreds of compatible devices. U.S. Prime members can also subscribe to 100+ channels that include Max, Discovery+, Paramount+ with Showtime, BET+, MGM+, ViX+, PBS Kids, NBA League Pass, MLB.TV, and STARZ with no extra apps to download, and no cable required. Prime Video is just one of the savings, convenience, and entertainment benefits included in a Prime membership. More than 200 million Prime members in 25 countries around the world enjoy access to Amazon’s enormous selection, exceptional value, and fast delivery. Are you interested in shaping the future of entertainment? Prime Video's technology teams are creating a 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 As a Senior Data Scientist at Prime Video, you will work with massive datasets, provide guidance to product teams on metrics of success, and influence feature launch decisions through statistical analysis of the outcomes of A/B experiments. You will develop machine learning models to facilitate understanding of customers’ streaming behavior and build predictive models to inform personalization and ranking systems. You will work closely other scientists, economists and engineers to research new ways to improve operational efficiency of deployed models and metrics. A successful candidate will have a strong proven expertise in statistical modeling, machine learning, and experiment design, along with a solid practical understanding of strengths and weakness of various scientific approaches. They have excellent communication skills, and can effectively communicate complex technical concepts with technical and non-technical audiences. They will be agile and capable of adapting to a fast-paced environment. They have an excellent track-record of delivering on impactful projects, simplifying their approaches where necessary. A successful data scientist will own end-to-end team goals, operate with autonomy, and strive to meet deliverables in a timely manner, and with high quality. About the team The customer and search intelligence team is a team of data scientists within Prime Video’s discovery organization. The team owns success metrics used for Prime Video search, and machine learning models that increase our understanding of customers’ streaming interests. The artifacts developed, and managed by the team feed into online systems that are responsible for personalization and search relevance. The team values diversity, collaboration and learning, and is excited to welcome a new member whose passion and creativity will help the team to continue innovating on behalf of our customers. We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations: Seattle, WA, USA

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