June 6 - 11, 2021
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NAACL 2021

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Amazon is proud to be a Platinum sponsor of the 2021 annual conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics.

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NAACL 2021 Workshop on Multimodal Artificial Intelligence
Jun 6, 2021, 9:00 AM
Website: http://multicomp.cs.cmu.edu/naacl2021multimodalworkshop/
A first look: Towards explainable textVQA models via visual and textual explanations
Varun Nagaraj Rao, Xingjian Zhen, Karen Hovsepian, Mingwei Shen
2021
Computer vision
Semantic aligned multi-modal transformer for vision-language understanding: A preliminary study on visual QA
Han Ding, Erran Li, Zhiting Hu, Yi Xu, Dilek Hakkani-Tür, Zheng Du, Belinda Zeng
2021
Conversational AI / Natural-language processing
NAACL 2021 TrustNLP: First Workshop on Trustworthy Natural Language Processing
Jun 10, 2021, 9:00 AM
Amazon organizer: Kai-Wei Change (Amazon Visiting Academic)

Website: https://trustnlpworkshop.github.io/
Private release of text embedding vectors
Oluwaseyi Feyisetan, Shiva Prasad Kasiviswanathan
2021
Security, privacy, and abuse prevention
NAACL 2021 Third Workshop on Privacy in Natural Language Processing
Jun 11, 2021, 9:00 AM
Amazon organizers: Oluwaseyi Feyisetan, Shervin Malmasi

Website: http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/event.showcfp?eventid=121571©ownerid=158179
On a utilitarian approach to privacy preserving text generation
Zekun Xu, Abhinav Aggarwal, Oluwaseyi Feyisetan, Nathanael Teissier
2021
Security, privacy, and abuse prevention
NAACL 2021 Workshop on Visually Grounded Interaction and Language (ViGIL)
Jun 10, 2021, 9:00 AM
Website: https://vigilworkshop.github.io/
How important are visual features for visual grounding? It depends
Fan Yang, Prashan Wanigasekara, Mingda Li, Chengwei Su, Emre Barut
2021
Computer vision
VISITRON: Visual semantics-aligned interactively trained object-navigator
Ayush Shrivastava, Karthik Gopalakrishnan, Yang Liu, Robinson Piramuthu, Gokhan Tur, Devi Parikh, Dilek Hakkani-Tür
2021
Computer vision
Birds of a feather session on information extraction
Jun 9, 2021, 6:00 PM
Amazon hosts: Mohit Bansal (Amazon Scholar), Luna Dong, Heng Ji (Amazon Scholar), Dan Roth (Amazon Scholar)

Join this session to discuss 12 potential PhD dissertation topics on information extraction including:

- Keeping IE results in the (neural) IE model
-Extracting propositional semantics from images+text
-Few-shot learning knowledge extraction from semi-structured websites in thousands of domains
-Multi-modal knowledge extraction across texts, images, tables, and semi-structured data ​
-Combining symbolic semantics and distributional semantics for Information Extraction
-Schema-guided Generation for Cross-media cross-lingual Information Extraction and Prediction
-Fact or Fiction: understanding and targeted summarization of long texts
-A broader notion of Grounding
-Quantitative Reasoning from Natural Language Text
-Incremental approaches to entity understanding and discovery
-Integration of structured KB's with large language models
-On the synthesis of retrieval and structured queries

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NAACL 2021 Mexican NLP Summer School
Jun 2, 2021, 9:00 AM
Amazon speakers: Dr. Sujith Ravi, Dr. Heng Ji (Amazon Scholar)

Website: https://ampln.github.io/escuelaverano2021/
NAACL 2021 Deep Learning on Graphs for Natural Language Processing Tutorial
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Amazon organizers: Lingfei Wu, Yu Chen, Heng Ji (Amazon Scholar) and Yunyao Li

Website: https://2021.naacl.org/program/tutorials/#t3-morning-deep-learning-on-graphs-for-natural-language-processing

Webinars

Women in Conversational AI virtual panel discussion
Jun 15, 2021, 1:00 PM
Join five women working in science across various Amazon domains for a 45-minute discussion on their career stories, what got them started in conversational AI, and where they see opportunities to advance opportunities for women in STEM.
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Anna Currey
Applied scientist, AWS AI
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Rashmi Gangadharaiah
Senior research scientist, AWS AI
Maryam Fazel-Zarandi
Maryam Fazel-Zarandi
Senior applied scientist, Alexa AI
Heng Ji
Heng Ji
Professor at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Amazon Scholar
Yang Liu
Yang Liu
Principal applied scientist, Alexa AI
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Heng Ji
Amazon at NAACL 2021: The return of symbolic semantics
Larry Hardesty
June 03, 2021
Amazon Scholar Heng Ji says that deep learning could benefit from the addition of a little linguistic intuition.
Conversational AI / Natural-language processing
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Senior Applied Scientist, Alexa AI
US, WA, Seattle
Do you want to join Alexa Artificial Intelligence (AI), the science team behind Amazon’s intelligence voice assistance system? Do you want to utilize cutting-edge deep-learning and machine learning algorithms to delight millions of Alexa users around the world?If your answers to these questions are “yes”, then come join the Alexa AI team, which is in charge of improving Alexa user satisfaction through real-time metrics monitoring and continuous closed-loop learning. The team owns the modules that reduce user perceived defects and frictions through utterance reformulation, contextual and personalized hypothesis ranking.A day in the lifeAs a Senior Applied Scientist, you will be working alongside a team of experienced machine/deep learning scientists and engineers to create data driven machine learning models and solutions on tasks such as sequence-to-sequence query reformulation, graph feature embedding, personalized ranking, etc..About the hiring groupThe Alexa AI team is in charge of improving Alexa user satisfaction through real-time metrics monitoring and continuous closed-loop learning. The team owns the modules that reduce user perceived defects and frictions through utterance reformulation, contextual and personalized hypothesis ranking.Job responsibilitiesYou will be expected to:· Analyze, understand, and model user-behavior and the user-experience based on large scale data, to detect key factors causing satisfaction and dissatisfaction (SAT/DSAT).· Build and measure novel online & offline metrics for personal digital assistants and user scenarios, on diverse devices and endpoints· Create and innovate deep learning and/or machine learning based algorithms for utterance reformulation and contextual hypothesis ranking to reduce user dissatisfaction in various scenarios;· Perform model/data analysis and monitor user-experienced based metrics through online A/B testing;· Research and implement novel machine learning and deep learning algorithms and models.Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.
Science Lead, Grocery CX
US, WA, Seattle
The Fresh Food Fast organization is responsible for transforming the online and offline grocery experience for Amazon. We are seeking a senior science leader to define our long-term science vision, build out a high-performing team and deliver business critical scientific models to increase customer engagement, inform long-term investment decisions, and measure how grocery is contributing to Prime and Amazon.A day in the life· You will influence senior leaders (VP+) across business, product, finance, and engineering functions and you will partner closely with central Amazon teams to pioneer new models to measure grocery’s future impact to Prime and Amazon.· You will manage a team of Data Scientists, Economists and BIEs to deliver results on behalf of customersAbout the hiring groupWe’re a team of Product Managers, Data Scientists, Economists and Business Intelligence Engineers focused on deeply understanding how F3 customers engage with physical and online grocery stores in order to enhance their shopping experience, drive engagement and loyalty, and measure their long-term impact to Amazon.Job responsibilitiesYour team will apply complex scientific methods to challenging business problems including, “How can we encourage customers to shop more frequently?”, and “how should we measure the impact of physical store expansion and technology innovation in those stores (e.g. Just Walk Out Technology)?”. You will power through ambiguity, finding the right solutions to problems and influencing others to align with your approach and help drive results. You will mentor and develop scientists to achieve their goals, raising the bar technically and driving scale and efficiencies to better leverage our data and technologies.Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.
Applied Science Manager
US, CA, Sunnyvale
Are you excited about developing state-of-the-art Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Deep Learning and Natural Language Processing algorithms and designs using large data sets to solve real world problems? Do you have proven analytical capabilities and can multi-task and thrive in a fast-paced environment?The Alexa Artificial Intelligence (AI) team is considering an Applied Science Manager who enjoys solving real-world problems that, quite frankly, have not been solved at scale anywhere before. Along the way, you’ll get opportunities to be a fearless and prolific innovator, and a reputed problem solver—someone who truly enables machine learning to create significant impacts.A day in the lifeAs an Applied Science Manager, you will build, lead and inspire a team of scientists and ML engineers solving problems through innovations in deep learning, Computer vision and machine learning. You will take data driven approach coupled with your strong technical expertise in deep learning/computer vision/ML along to lead a team to ship and deliver products. You will be expected to deal with ambiguity, understand business requirements and map them to technical solutions, collaborate with multiple partner teams and be passionate in tackling challenging problems that deliver a great customer experience through innovative solutions.About the hiring groupAre you excited about developing state-of-the-art Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Deep Learning and Natural Language Processing algorithms and designs using large data sets to solve real world problems? Do you have proven analytical capabilities and can multi-task and thrive in a fast-paced environment?Job responsibilitiesAre you excited about developing state-of-the-art Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Deep Learning and Natural Language Processing algorithms and designs using large data sets to solve real world problems? Do you have proven analytical capabilities and can multi-task and thrive in a fast-paced environment?The Alexa Artificial Intelligence (AI) team is considering an Applied Science Manager who enjoys solving real-world problems that, quite frankly, have not been solved at scale anywhere before. Along the way, you’ll get opportunities to be a fearless and prolific innovator, and a reputed problem solver—someone who truly enables machine learning to create significant impacts.Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.
Senior Applied Scientist, Prime Video 2D-3D video understanding and scalable visual effects
US, CA, San Francisco
Prime Video is disrupting traditional media with an ever-increasing selection of movies, TV shows, Emmy Award-winning original content, add-on subscriptions including HBO and Showtime, and live events like Thursday Night Football and Major League Baseball. We are a premier provider of digital entertainment worldwide and we continue to grow very quickly! We need your passion, innovative ideas, and creativity to help continue to deliver on our ambitious goals.How often have you had an opportunity to be a founding member of a team solving significant customer problems through innovative AI technology at Amazon scale? We are looking for passionate, hard-working, and talented individuals to join our fast paced, start-up environment to help invent the future and define the next generation of how customers watch videos.Do you want to join an innovative team of scientists who use machine learning and statistical techniques to help Amazon provide the best customer experience by protecting Amazon customers from harmful content? Do you want to build advanced algorithmic systems that help millions of customers every day? Are you excited by the prospect of analyzing and modeling terabytes of data and creating state-of-the-art algorithms to solve real world problems? If yes, then you may be a great fit to join our Amazon Prime Video team. We are expanding our scene understanding team to drive compliance automation and exceptional customer experience using machine learning, computer vision, audio processing, and natural language understanding. Automation of video understanding at scale is our mission and passion. We need to solve problems across many cultures and languages. we have a huge amount of human-labelled data, and operation team to generate labels across many languages. Our team innovates, with many novel patents, inventions, and papers in the motion picture and television industry. We are highly motivated to extend the state of the art.We embrace the challenges of a fast-paced market and evolving technologies, paving the way to universal availability of content. You will be encouraged to see the big picture, be innovative, and positively impact millions of customers. This is a young and evolving business where creativity and drive will have a lasting impact on the way video is enjoyed worldwide.As a senior applied scientist, you will apply your knowledge of deep learning to concrete problems that have broad cross-organizational, global, and technology impact. Your work will focus on training and evaluating models and deploying them to production where we continuously monitor and evaluate. You will work on large engineering efforts that solve significantly complex problems facing global customers. You will be trusted to operate with independence and are often assigned to focus on areas with significant impact on audience satisfaction. You must be equally comfortable digging in to customer requirements as you are drilling into design with development teams and developing production ready learning models. You consistently bring strong, data-driven business and technical judgment to decisions. This is a greenfield with no "off-the-shelf algorithms" that can perform the job. We experiment a lot and it is a must to learn and be curios. You will be encouraged to see the big picture, be innovative, and positively impact millions of customersYou'll work with experienced managers who'll care for you. We'll guide you on your career growth path and there's no shortage of technical challenges.You will work with internal and external stakeholders, cross-functional partners, and end-users around the world at all levels. Our team makes a big impact because nothing is more important to us than pleasing our customers, continually earning their trust, and thinking long term. You are empowered to bring new technologies and deep learning approaches to your solutions.
Senior Applied Scientist, Prime Video 2D-3D video understanding and scalable visual effects
US, CA, San Francisco
How often have you had an opportunity to be a founding member of a team solving significant customer problems through innovative AI technology at Amazon scale? We are looking for passionate, hard-working, and talented individuals to join our fast paced, start-up environment to help invent the future and define the next generation of how customers watch videos. We are disrupting a 100-years old industry through cloud services (AWS), 2D/3D computer vision, generative adversarial networks, scalable visual effects (VFX), and machine learning.Prime Video is disrupting traditional media with an ever-increasing selection of movies, TV shows, Emmy Award-winning original content, add-on subscriptions including HBO and Showtime, and live events like Thursday Night Football and Major League Baseball. We are a premier provider of digital entertainment worldwide and we continue to grow very quickly! We need your passion, innovative ideas, and creativity to help continue to deliver on our ambitious goals.We are building a new team to automatically "understand not just tag" the video content on a scene and a frame level by understanding the setting, objects, actions, and themes depicted in a scene. We are driving visual effects automation and exceptional customer experience using machine learning, 2D/3D computer vision, audio processing, and natural language understanding. Automation of video understanding at scale is our mission and passion. We need to solve problems across many cultures and languages. We have a huge amount of human-labelled data, and operation team to generate labels across many languages. Our team innovates, with many novel patents, inventions, and internal/external papers in the motion picture and television industry. We are highly motivated to extend the state of the art.As a senior applied scientist, you will apply your knowledge of deep learning to concrete problems that have broad cross-organizational, global, and technology impact. Your work will focus on training and evaluating models and deploying them to production where we continuously monitor and evaluate. You will work on large engineering efforts that solve significantly complex problems facing global customers. You will be trusted to operate with independence and are often assigned to focus on areas with significant impact on audience satisfaction. You must be equally comfortable digging in to customer requirements as you are drilling into design with development teams and developing production ready learning models. You consistently bring strong, data-driven business and technical judgment to decisions. This is a greenfield with no "off-the-shelf algorithms" that can perform the job. We experiment a lot and it is a must to learn and be curios. We embrace the challenges of a fast paced market and evolving technologies, paving the way to universal availability of content. You will be encouraged to see the big picture, be innovative, and positively impact millions of customers. This is a young and evolving business where creativity and drive will have a lasting impact on the way video is enjoyed worldwide.You'll work with experienced managers who'll care for you. We'll guide you on your career growth path and there's no shortage of technical challenges.You will work with internal and external stakeholders, cross-functional partners, and end-users around the world at all levels. Our team makes a big impact because nothing is more important to us than pleasing our customers, continually earning their trust, and thinking long term. You are empowered to bring new technologies and deep learning approaches to your solutions.
Senior Video Scientist, Prime Video
US, CA, San Francisco
Are you interested in revolutionizing the way people around the world enjoy live sports video? Come and join us and be part of the Prime Video Playback team. As a video scientist, you will:· Drive novel live encoding optimization to ensure the best live sports streaming experience delivered to millions of global customers.· Utilize the state-of-the-art computer vision and machine learning techniques to achieve content adaptive live sports encoding to maximize quality per bits at Amazon scale.· Innovate in video quality measurement, video content analysis, and video compression technologies to lead the video industry/community.A day in the lifeAs a video scientist in the Prime Video Playback, you will:· Research and prototype innovative ideas in live sports content analysis, quality measurement, and content-adaptive live video encoding.· Drive technical approach and innovation via proof-of-concept prototyping, paper/report writing, technical presentations and patent filing· Collaborate with and influence product and engineering teams for technology productization and deploymentAbout the hiring groupThe Live Encoding Optimization team's charter is to drive the live streaming video quality improvement at reduced bit costs and low latency, ensuring the best Prime Video customer experience across live sports events and live linear channels. Our innovative technical programs drive benefits at multiple levels: (1) Ensure the best live streaming video quality and Quality-of-Service (QoS) metrics for live events and live linear channel customers, (2) Reduce the live encoding (compute and bit) costs and the associated delivery cost, and (3) Elevate the industry-wide recognition of our innovations in content-driven encoding optimization and video quality measurement.Job responsibilitiesAs a video scientist in the Prime Video Playback, this person shall:· Get familiar with the latest development and advances in video processing, video compression, and computer vision and machine learning to video understanding and analysis· Build research prototypes in live sports video content analysis, objective and subjective video quality measurement, and content-adaptive live video encoding.· Document and present technical proposals and implementations to both internal and external stakeholders and partners.· Work closely with engineering and product team to prioritize technology prototyping, productization and deploymentAmazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.
Senior Applied Scientist - Performance Advertising
US, WA, Seattle
Amazon Advertising is one of Amazon's fastest growing and most profitable businesses. As a core product offering within our advertising portfolio, Sponsored Products (SP) helps merchants, retail vendors, and brand owners succeed via native advertising, which grows incremental sales of their products sold through Amazon. The SP team's primary goals are to help shoppers discover new products they love, be the most efficient way for advertisers to meet their business objectives, and build a sustainable business that continuously innovates on behalf of customers. Our products and solutions are strategically important to enable our Retail and Marketplace businesses to drive long-term growth. We deliver billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks and break fresh ground in product and technical innovations every day!Sponsored Products helps merchants, retail vendors, and brand owners succeed via native advertising that grows incremental sales of their products sold through Amazon. The Sponsored Products Ad Marketplace organization optimizes the systems and ad placements to match advertiser demand with publisher supply using a combination of machine learning, big data analytics, ultra-low latency high-volume engineering systems, and quantitative product focus. Our systems and algorithms operate on one of the world's largest product catalogs, matching shoppers with products - with a high relevance bar and strict latency constraints. Our goals are to help buyers discover new products they love, be the most efficient way for advertisers to meet their business objectives, and to build a major, sustainable business that helps Amazon continuously innovate on behalf of all customers.As a Senior Applied Scientist for the Sponsored Products Detail Page Allocation and Pricing team, you will own systems which make the final decision on which ads to show, where to place them on the page and how many ads to place. This also includes selection of various themes that would appear in detail pages. This is a challenging technical and business problem, which requires us to balance the interests of advertisers, shoppers, and Amazon. You'll develop a data-driven product strategy to define the right quantitative measures of shopper impact, using this to evaluate decisions and opportunities. You'll balance a portfolio of pragmatic and long-term investments to drive long term growth of the ads and retail businesses.As a Senior Applied Scientist on this team you will:· Act as the technical leader in Machine Learning and drive full life-cycle Machine Learning projects.· Develop real-time algorithms to allocate billions of ads per day in advertising auctions.· Lead technical efforts within this team and across other teams.· Build machine learning models, perform proof-of-concept, experiment, optimize, and deploy your models into production.· Run A/B experiments, gather data, and perform statistical analysis.· Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large-scale data analysis, machine-learning model development, model validation and serving.· Work closely with software engineers to assist in productionizing your ML models.· Research new machine learning approaches.· Recruit Applied Scientists to the team and act as a mentor to other Scientists on the team.Impact and Career Growth:In this role you will have significant impact on this team as well as drive cross team projects that consist of Applied Scientists, Data Scientists, Economists, and Software Development Engineers. This is a highly visible role that will help take our products to the next level. You will work alongside many of the best and brightest science and engineering talent and the work you deliver will have a direct impact on customers and revenue!Why you love this opportunity:Amazon is investing heavily in building a world class advertising business and we are responsible for defining and delivering a collection of self-service performance advertising products that drive discovery and sales. Our products are strategically important to our Retail and Marketplace businesses driving long term growth. We deliver billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks daily and are breaking fresh ground to create world-class products. We are highly motivated, collaborative and fun-loving with an entrepreneurial spirit and bias for action. With a broad mandate to experiment and innovate, we are growing at an unprecedented rate with a seemingly endless range of new opportunities.Team video ~ https://youtu.be/zD_6Lzw8raE
Research Scientist
US, PA, Pittsburgh
Amazon is looking for a passionate, talented, and inventive Scientist with a strong machine learning background to help build industry-leading Speech and Language technology. Our mission is to push the envelope in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), Natural Language Understanding (NLU), and Audio Signal Processing, in order to provide the best-possible experience for our customers.As a Scientist, you will work with talented peers to develop novel algorithms and modeling techniques to advance the state of the art in spoken language understanding. Your work will directly impact our customers in the form of products and services that make use of speech and language technology. You will leverage Amazon’s heterogeneous data sources and large-scale computing resources to accelerate advances in spoken language understanding.We are hiring in all areas of spoken language understanding: ASR, NLU, text-to-speech (TTS), and Dialog Management.Position Responsibilities:· Participate in the design, development, evaluation, deployment and updating of data-driven models and analytical solutions for machine learning (ML) and/or natural language (NL) applications.· Develop and/or apply statistical modeling techniques (e.g. Bayesian models and deep neural networks), optimization methods, and other ML techniques to different applications in business and engineering.· Routinely build and deploy ML models on available data.· Research and implement novel ML and statistical approaches to add value to the business. Mentor junior engineers and scientists.
Applied Scientist
US, CA, Sunnyvale
The Alexa Artifical Intelligence (AI) team is looking for a top Applied Scientist who can build new products and help us take our products to the next level using multimodal conversational and embodied AI.A day in the lifeAs a Applied Scientist in Alexa AI, you will perform the duties of a Research Scientist, and also be expected to be strong at implementing the algorithm.About the hiring groupOur mission is to produce value to our customers and delight them using state-of-the-art technology. You will be part of the team who will invent the future and provide magical experiences to our users. Amazon is the most customer-centric company in the world. To get there, we need exceptionally talented, bright, and goal-driven people to work on interactive multimodal learning touching language, vision and audio.Job responsibilities● Research, design, implement, analyze and evaluate novel algorithms for human robotinteraction using multimodal deep learning● Be driven by business goals by applying scientific methods to deliver customer value● Develop state-of-the-art algorithms, contribute to Amazon's Intellectual Property andpublish at top-tier conferences● Collaborate closely with team members on developing systems from prototyping toproduction level● Work closely with software engineering teams to drive Amazon scale, real-timeimplementationsAmazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.
Senior Applied Scientist
US, CA, Sunnyvale
Amazon Lab126 is an inventive research and development company that designs and engineers high-profile consumer electronics. Lab126 began in 2004 as a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc., originally creating the best-selling Kindle family of products. Since then, we have produced groundbreaking devices like Fire tablets, Fire TV, and Amazon Echo.The Role:“If you do not work on an important problem, it's unlikely you'll do important work.” – Richard HammingWe have important problems to solve. There are great, world-changing products that should exist, but do not, because the technology to enable them does not exist. Yet. That’s where you come in.We are a smart team of doers that work passionately to apply cutting-edge advances in robotics to solve real-world challenges that will transform our customers’ experiences in ways we can’t even imagine yet. Key responsibilities will be to understand the state of the art, conduct research and develop algorithms by collaborating with cross-functional engineering teams including Amazon Robotics, to put the concepts you develop into production. You will determine where commercially available solution and academic research can be applied to solve Amazon business problems, as well as identify opportunities for innovation. You will use data to train and test algorithms to bring them up to production level quality.If this describes you, come join our team at Lab126 in the heart of Silicon Valley. The team is using probabilistic modeling, machine learning, real-time and distributed systems to convert requirements into concrete deliverables. A researcher on this team will translate business and functional requirements into working code. Comfort with a high degree of ambiguity and ability to solve problems that haven’t been solved to scale before are essential.If you join us, your opportunities will include:· Work on ambiguous problem areas and help formulate the problem statement· Research, design, implement and evaluate novel algorithms· Collaborate closely with team members on developing systems from prototype to production· Work closely with partner engineering teams to drive scalable implementations that can be leveraged by high value customer features
Quantum Research Scientist - Design and Simulation
US, CA, San Francisco
The AWS Center for Quantum Computing is a multi-disciplinary team of scientists, engineers, and technicians, all working to innovate in quantum computing for the benefit of our customers. We are looking to hire a Quantum Research Scientist to design and model novel superconducting quantum devices, including qubits and their readout and control schemes. Candidates with a track record of original scientific contributions will be preferred. We are looking for candidates with strong engineering principles, resourcefulness, and a bias for action. Organization and communication skills are essential.Work/Life BalanceAt the AWS CQC, we understand that developing quantum computing technology is a marathon, not a sprint. Mental and physical wellness is encouraged within our team and throughout AWS. The work/life integration within Amazon encourages a culture where employees work hard and have ownership over their downtime. We are exploring more structured wellness elements including for example meditation, running group meet-ups, and other wellness tips.Mentorship and Career GrowthWe are committed to the growth and development of every member of the Center for Quantum Computing. You will receive career-growth-minded management and mentorship from a software and science team and also have the opportunity to participate in Amazon's science mentorship programs.Inclusive and Diverse CultureHere at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and we host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 14 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.
Senior Data Scientist - AWS Pinpoint
US, WA, Seattle
Are you passionate about the intersection of cloud computing, Big Data, mobile applications, and digital user engagement?We are looking for senior data scientists who long for the opportunity to be a founding member of the data science team for Pinpoint. You will get a unique opportunity to partner with product and engineering to define the data science roadmap - diving deep to understand our customer needs and make sense of their end-user behavior to surface intelligent insights.You will build next generation cloud technologies that leverage big data and machine learning to improve user engagement with mobile apps and web applications. The insights you surface and machine learning models you create will help the world’s leading social media, gaming, sports, educational, and consumer applications.What does it take to succeed in this role?The successful Data Scientist will have extreme bias for action needed in a startup environment, with outstanding leadership skills, proven ability to build and manage medium-scale modeling projects, identify data requirements, build methodology and tools that are statistically grounded.We are seeking someone who can thrive in a fast-paced, high-energy and fun work environment where we deliver value incrementally and frequently. We value highly technical people who know their subject matter deeply and are willing to learn new areas. We look for individuals who know how to deliver results and show a desire to develop themselves, their colleagues, and their career.Our customers are innovators, and you will have the chance to work with them to understand their challenges and design new offerings. Together, we’ll shape not just our own products, but the direction of the industry.About PinpointAmazon Pinpoint makes it easy to run targeted campaigns to improve user engagement. Pinpoint helps you understand your users’ behavior, define who to target, what messages to send, when to deliver them, and tracks the results of the campaign. Pinpoint enables real-time analytics with dashboards for analyzing user engagement, monetization, user demographics, custom events, and funnels so you can understand how users engage with your application.Learn more about our business at https://aws.amazon.com/pinpoint/
Applied Science Manager III
US, MA, Cambridge
Alexa is the groundbreaking voice service that powers Echo and other devices designed around your voice. Our team is creating the science and technology behind Alexa. We’re working hard, having fun, and making history. Come join our team! You will have an enormous opportunity to impact the customer experience through design, architecture, and implementation of a cutting edge technology in the products used every day by people you know.We’re looking for a passionate, talented and inventive Applied Science Manager to lead a team of world-class scientists to build industry-leading conversational technologies that customers love. Our team's mission is the enable Alexa to understand sounds and vocalization beyond speech. As an Applied Science Manager, you will· Hire, coach and develop world-class scientists in a dynamic and fast-paced environment· Develop technical vision and roadmaps for new initiatives· Lead a team of talented scientists to work backward from customer experience and develop novel signal processing and machine learning solutions to advance the state of the art in voice technologies.· Impact customer experiences through timely deliveries of innovative product solutions.· Work with our talented scientists to dive deep and solve technical problems on a regular basis· Work with the team to contribute and influence the signal processing and machine learning research outside Amazon· Establish and enhance mechanisms to enable the team to innovate and deliver solutions in an agile and timely manner.· Build strong relationship and collaborate with other teams across Alexa to deliver solutions effectively
Sr. Research Scientist
US, WA, Seattle
SCOT Network Topology Optimization science team focuses on research areas and tools that determine Amazon outbound transportation network design as we transition to relying on our internal carrier network and accelerate one-day delivery speed. There are various strategic questions the team is attempting to answer, such as: what is the impact of inventory placement on outbound transportation cost and delivery speed? What is the optimal transportation network design given processing capacity constraints? How can we forecast accurately fulfillment pattern for different customer clusters?. If you are interested in diving into a multi-discipline, high impact space this team is for you. So far, we utilized models from various science disciplines such as: Mixed Integer optimization, Random Forest (or other ML techniques), stochastic/probabilistic model, economic analysis, to name a few.In addition to transportation network, we also use forecasting and optimization techniques to evaluate new facilities recommendation for long term estimates, We use machine learning to approximate the network, and simulation of how our choices will perform. The team is a mixture of Software Engineers, Operations Research Scientists, Applied Scientists, Business Intelligence Engineers and Product Managers.We are looking for a Sr. Research Scientist who has a deep knowledge of analyzing large-scale fulfillment data using Machine learning and optimization. Those who are strong in forecasting space should have a breadth of other ML experience in a production environment using techniques. This role will focus on expanding our reach to analyze various fulfillment and transportation for Amazon's supply chain network worldwide.To help describe some of our challenges, we created a short video about Supply Chain Optimization at Amazon - http://bit.ly/amazon-scotAmazon is an Equal Opportunity-Affirmative Action Employer – Minority / Female / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation / Age
Sr. Applied Scientist - Automated Reasoning
GB, London
Are you passionate about automated reasoning and program analysis? Do you enjoy diving into the complexity of compilers, interpreters and programming languages? Do you want to enable developers around the world to benefit from automated reasoning tools that are sound, scalable and delightful to use? If so, then we have an exciting opportunity for you. The Automated Reasoning Group in AWS Platform is looking for an Applied Scientist who wants to design and implement the next generation of automated reasoning tools and services.Each day, hundreds of thousands of developers make billions of transactions worldwide on AWS. They harness the power of the cloud to enable innovative applications, websites, and businesses. Using automated reasoning technology and mathematical proofs, AWS allows customers to answer questions about security, availability, durability, and functional correctness. We call this provable security, absolute assurance in security of the cloud and in the cloud. https://aws.amazon.com/security/provable-security/Key responsibilities for this role include:· Invent, implement, and deploy state of the art automated reasoning algorithms and systems for provable-security· Rapidly design, prototype and test many possible hypotheses in a high-ambiguity environment, making use of both quantitative and business judgment.· Collaborate with software engineering teams to integrate successful experiments into large scale, highly complex production services.· Report results in a scientifically rigorous way.· Interact with engineers, product managers and related domain experts to dive deep into the types of challenges that we need innovative solutions for.· Work closely with a mentor to expand your career with AWSMentorship & Career GrowthWe have a formal mentor search application that lets you find a mentor that works best for you based on location, job family, job level etc. Your manager can also help you find a mentor or two, because two is better than one. In addition to formal mentors, we work and train together so that we are always learning from one another, and we celebrate and support the career progression of our team members.Inclusion and DiversityOur team is diverse! We drive towards an inclusive culture and work environment. We are intentional about attracting, developing, and retaining amazing talent from diverse backgrounds. Team members are active in Amazon’s 10+ affinity groups, sometimes known as employee resource groups, which bring employees together across businesses and locations around the world. These range from groups such as the Black Employee Network, Latinos at Amazon, Indigenous at Amazon, Families at Amazon, Amazon Women and Engineering, LGBTQ+, Warriors at Amazon (Military), Amazon People With Disabilities, and more.Work/Life BalanceOur team puts a high value on work-life balance. It isn’t about how many hours you spend at home or at work; it’s about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment. We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal lives.
Applied Science Manager
US, NY, New York
Amazon Advertising is one of Amazon's fastest growing and most profitable businesses. As a core product offering within our advertising portfolio, Sponsored Products (SP) helps merchants, retail vendors, and brand owners succeed via native advertising, which grows incremental sales of their products sold through Amazon. The SP team's primary goals are to help shoppers discover new products they love, be the most efficient way for advertisers to meet their business objectives, and build a sustainable business that continuously innovates on behalf of customers. Our products and solutions are strategically important to enable our Retail and Marketplace businesses to drive long-term growth. We deliver billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks and break fresh ground in product and technical innovations every day!Sponsored Products helps merchants, retail vendors, and brand owners succeed via native advertising that grows incremental sales of their products sold through Amazon. The Sponsored Products Ad Marketplace organization optimizes the systems and ad placements to match advertiser demand with publisher supply using a combination of machine learning, big data analytics, ultra-low latency high-volume engineering systems, and quantitative product focus. Our goals are to help buyers discover new products they love, be the most efficient way for advertisers to meet their business objectives, and to build a major, sustainable business that helps Amazon continuously innovate on behalf of all customers.We are seeking an Applied Science Manager who is an expert in applied Machine Learning, has a deep passion for building data-driven products, an ability to communicate data insights and scientific vision, and has a proven track record of leading both applied scientists and software engineers to execute complex projects and deliver business impacts.As an Applied Science Manager in Machine Learning, you will:· Lead a group of both applied scientists and software engineers to deliver machine-learning and personalization solutions to production.· Advance team's engineering craftsmanship and drive continued scientific innovation as a thought leader and practitioner.· Develop science and engineering roadmap, run Sprint/quarter and annual planning, and foster cross-team collaboration to execute complex projects.· Perform hands-on data analysis, build machine-learning models, run regular A/B tests, and communicate the impact to senior management.· Hire and develop top talents, provide technical and career development guidance to both scientists and engineers in the organization.Impact and Career Growth:You will invent new shopper and advertiser experiences, and accelerate the pace of Machine Learning and Optimization.Influence customer facing shopping experiences to helping suppliers grow their retail business and the auction dynamics that leverage native advertising, this role will be powering the engine of one the fastest growing businesses at Amazon.Define a long-term science vision for our ad marketplace, driven fundamentally from the needs of our customers, translating that direction into specific plans for research and applied scientists, as well as engineering and product teams.This is a role that combines science leadership, organizational ability, technical strength, product focus and business understanding.Why you love this opportunity:Amazon is investing heavily in building a world class advertising business and we are responsible for defining and delivering a collection of self-service performance advertising products that drive discovery and sales.Our products are strategically important to our Retail and Marketplace businesses driving long term growth. We deliver billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks daily and are breaking fresh ground to create world-class products.We are highly motivated, collaborative and fun-loving with an entrepreneurial spirit and bias for action. With a broad mandate to experiment and innovate, we are growing at an unprecedented rate with a seemingly endless range of new opportunities.Team video ~ https://youtu.be/zD_6Lzw8raE
Applied Scientist
CA, BC, Vancouver
Amazon Science gives you insight into the company’s approach to customer focused scientific innovation. Amazon fundamentally believes that scientific innovation is essential to being the most customer-centric company in the world. It’s the company’s ability to have an impact at scale that allows us to attract some of the brightest minds in artificial intelligence and related fields. Our scientists continue to publish, teach, and engage with the academic community, in addition to utilizing our working backwards method to enrich the way we live and work.Please visit https://www.amazon.science for more information.Are you interested in helping Amazon ensure that customers make great purchase decisions and that the world's most recognized Brands using Amazon are successful listing and selling their products? The Brand Protection team designs and builds high performance software systems using machine learning that identify and prevent abuse on behalf of brand owners worldwide.We are looking for a highly talented scientist to help build of our vision for Brand Protection. As a applied scientist on the team, you will interface directly with Product and Engineer to build hands of the wheel solutions to determine how Selling Partners (e.g. Third Party Sellers and Retail Vendors) list on our catalog. You will work backwards from data insights and customer feedback to build the right machine learning solutions, and resourceful in finding innovative solutions to unsolved problems.This is a global role that will include interaction with Brands, Sellers and internal teams in countries outside of the United States, requiring a strong ability to communicate effectively and understand the different needs of global customers. You should have extensive experience leading multiple Machine Learning initiatives, from conception to launch in a rapidly evolving environment. Amazon’s growth requires leaders who move fast, have an entrepreneurial spirit to create new solutions, have an unrelenting tenacity to get things done, and are capable of breaking down and solving complex problems.Major responsibilities:· Understand business challenges by analyzing data and customer feedback· Collaborate with tech and product teams on model building strategies and model experiment, implementation and continuous improvement· Analyze and extract relevant information from large amounts of both structured and unstructured data to design strategies to solve business problems.· Use CV, NLP and state-of-the-art machine learning techniques to create scalable solutions for business problems· Create business and analytics reports and present to the senior management teams· Research and implement novel machine learning and statistical approaches
Applied Scientist
GB, London
Come build the future of entertainment with us. Are you interested in shaping the future of movies and television? Do you want to define the next generation of how and what Amazon customers are watching?Prime Video is a premium streaming service that offers customers a vast collection of TV shows and movies - all with the ease of finding what they love to watch in one place. We offer customers thousands of popular movies and TV shows from Originals and Exclusive content to exciting live sports events. We also offer our members the opportunity to subscribe to add-on channels which they can cancel at anytime and to rent or buy new release movies and TV box sets on the Prime Video Store. Prime Video is a fast-paced, growth business - available in over 240 countries and territories worldwide. The team works in a dynamic environment where innovating on behalf of our customers is at the heart of everything we do. If this sounds exciting to you, please read on.A day in the lifeTo help a growing organization quickly deliver more features to Prime Video customers, Prime Video’s Automated Excellence organization is innovating on behalf of our global software development team consisting of thousands of engineers. We build services and utilities that make developer’s lives easier and more productive, and that help them deliver at higher levels of quality.About the hiring groupPart of the Automated Excellence organization, the Automated Reasoning team applies deep and cutting-edge automated reasoning techniques to detect defects automatically in Prime Video’s core systems and device-level code. The tools we build are mission-critical to the software development and release cycle of many Prime Video engineering organizations, and will represent a huge step forward in the sophistication of our approach to automated Quality Assurance. Your work on this team will help us address a new dimension of scale our business faces as we deliver our applications on an ever-expanding set of client devices.Job responsibilitiesYou will have the opportunity to apply your deep knowledge of automated reasoning techniques, such as static analysis, formal verification, symbolic execution, etc., to concrete problems our product and engineering teams face on a daily basis. You will collaborate with team members to design and deliver enterprise-scale systems that will be used by both internal and external customers. You will have the opportunity to analyse and verify code to solve real-world problems and translate business and functional requirements into quick prototypes or proofs of concept. You will help set and continuously evolve a culture of innovation and curiosity that helps us find and solve our customers’ biggest problems.We strive to be a fast-moving, creative, and high-impact organization, but we think it is equally important to be collaborative, supporting, and high-trust in the way we work. We want to come to work every day loving not only what we do, but who we have the privilege of working with. Come help us make all of this a reality.
Data Scientist - Brand Advertising & Shopping Experience
US, NY, New York
Amazon Advertising is one of Amazon's fastest growing and most profitable businesses. As a core product offering within our advertising portfolio, Sponsored Products (SP) helps merchants, retail vendors, and brand owners succeed via native advertising, which grows incremental sales of their products sold through Amazon. The SP team's primary goals are to help shoppers discover new products they love, be the most efficient way for advertisers to meet their business objectives, and build a sustainable business that continuously innovates on behalf of customers. Our products and solutions are strategically important to enable our Retail and Marketplace businesses to drive long-term growth. We deliver billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks and break fresh ground in product and technical innovations every day!The Brand Advertising Measurement (BAM) team strives to reinvent the way advertisers and agencies build brands and drive performance by raising the bar on measurements. Our engineers and scientists are pioneering major innovations at scale and paving new roads in data-driven advertising and measurements. We are using the full suite of AWS services while leveraging Amazon’s unique combination of real-time shopping data and off-Amazon signals.As a Data Scientist on the Brand Advertising Measurement team you will:· Solve real-world problems by analyzing large amounts of business data, diving deep to identify business insights and opportunities, designing simulations and experiments, developing statistical and ML models by tailoring to business needs, and collaborating with Scientists, Engineers, BIE's, and Product Managers.· Utilize code (Python, R, Scala, etc.) to analyze data and build statistical models to solve specific business problems.· Apply statistical or machine learning knowledge to specific business problems and data.· Build decision-making models and propose solution for the business problem you defined· Translate business questions and concerns into specific quantitative questions that can be answered with available data using sound methodologies. In cases where questions cannot be answered with available data, work with engineers to produce the required data.· Deliver with independence on challenging large scale problems with ambiguity.· Retrieve, synthesize, and present critical data in a format that is immediately useful to answering specific questions or improving system performance.· Analyze historical data to identify trends and support decision making.· Improve upon existing methodologies by developing new data sources, testing model enhancements, and fine-tuning model parameters.· Provide requirements to develop analytic capabilities, platforms, and pipelines.· Formalize assumptions about how our systems are expected to work, create statistical definition of the outlier, and develop methods to systematically identify these outliers. Work out why such examples are outliers and define if any actions needed.· Given anecdotes about anomalies or generate automatic scripts to define anomalies, deep dive to explain why they happen, and identify fixes.· Conduct written and verbal presentation to share insights and recommendations to audiences of varying levels of technical sophistication.Why you love this opportunityAmazon is investing heavily in building a world-class advertising business. This team is responsible for defining and delivering a collection of advertising products that drive discovery and sales. Our solutions generate billions in revenue and drive long-term growth for Amazon’s Retail and Marketplace businesses. We deliver billions of ad impressions, millions of clicks daily, and break fresh ground to create world-class products. We are highly motivated, collaborative, and fun-loving team with an entrepreneurial spirit - with a broad mandate to experiment and innovate.Impact and Career GrowthYou will invent new experiences and influence customer-facing shopping experiences to help suppliers grow their retail business and the auction dynamics that leverage native advertising; this is your opportunity to work within the fastest-growing businesses across all of Amazon! Define a long-term science vision for our advertising business, driven fundamentally from our customers' needs, translating that direction into specific plans for research and applied scientists, as well as engineering and product teams. This role combines science leadership, organizational ability, technical strength, product focus, and business understanding.Team video - https://youtu.be/zD_6Lzw8raE
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