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General program information

What types of proposals does ARA fund?
The Amazon Research Awards (ARA) program funds academic research and related contributions to open-source projects by top academic researchers around the world. ARA aims to fund projects leading toward a PhD degree or conducted as a part of post-doctoral work.

Is the AWS Machine Learning Research Awards (MLRA) program part of ARA?
Yes, in 2020 the two programs merged and MLRA now funds awards through ARA, under the AWS AI call for proposal.

What is the structure of an ARA award? Can it be extended?
Awards are structured as one-year unrestricted gifts to the Principal Investigator's academic institution or organization, and can include cash and AWS Promotional Credits. Though this funding is not extendable, applicants can submit new proposals for subsequent calls.

What research areas does ARA fund?
ARA funds in a variety of research areas relevant to Amazon, such as applied machine learning, automated reasoning, computer vision, fairness in artificial intelligence, machine learning algorithms and theory, natural language processing, robotics, security, sustainability and more. Please refer to the detailed CFPs for more information.

Applying for an award

Who is eligible to apply?
Researchers from around the world are encouraged to apply. Please refer to the ARA Program Rules for eligibility.

How do I apply?
Please follow the instructions on the specific CFP you are applying to.

What are the timelines for proposal submissions and decisions?
We evaluate research proposals and provide decisions via email to all applicants approximately three months after the submission deadline. Please follow the timeline on the specific CFP you are applying to.

What is an Amazon contact and is one required to apply?
An Amazon contact is an Amazon employee who is aware of the proposal, familiar with the Principal Investigator’s research and may be willing to serve as an Amazon research contact for the proposal, if it is selected. An Amazon contact is not required to submit a proposal. While the ARA team is not able to provide an Amazon contact for the PI prior to submission, all funded proposals will be assigned an Amazon research contact by the review panel.

Is it possible to have multiple faculty members on a single proposal?
Each proposal should be submitted by a single faculty member, who will also supervise the student or post-doc who is to be funded by the award. Other members of the research team can and should be mentioned in the proposal.

Is it possible for one faculty member to be on multiple grants?
Principle Investigators can only submit one proposal at each deadline. When submitting your proposal, you can choose to apply to up to two CFPs. It’s also possible that another CFP may decide to fund your research, if it meets the scope of that CFP. Please follow the instructions when you are submitting your proposal.

What budget expenses will Amazon consider for the award?
A proposed cash budget is generally expected to support one to two graduate students (or a post-doctoral researcher) for one year, plus some conference travel and equipment. The budget should include a list of expected costs specified in USD, and should not include administrative overhead costs. The final award amount will be determined by the awards panel. Please refer to the CFP for specific budget guidelines.

Additionally, proposals may include a request for AWS Promotional Credits1. Proposals should include the requested amount, a short justification, a list of AWS products and any AWS Public Datasets to be used in the proposed research. The final amount of free AWS Promotional Credits will be determined by the awards panel.

Proposal review process

Who will evaluate the proposals and when will I know the outcome of the review?
Project proposals are reviewed by an internal awards panel and the results are communicated approximately three months after the submission deadline. We will communicate the decision to the primary PI listed on each proposal, and will make an announcement on the ARA website. We expect the primary PI to notify the rest of their team about funding decisions.

Will I be able to find out why my proposal was not accepted?
Unfortunately, due to the number of proposals we receive, we are unable to provide detailed reasons a proposal was not accepted.

Award information

What happens after the ARA recipients are announced?
Each project will be assigned an Amazon research contact. The researchers are encouraged to maintain regular communication with their Amazon contact to discuss ongoing research and project progress. We also encourage publishing the outcome of the project and committing any related code to open-source code repositories.

Does Amazon retain any intellectual property and licensing on the material developed during the time period that a student is funded?
ARA funding is distributed as unrestricted gifts to universities. As such, the funding does not result in any transfer or license of any intellectual property rights. Please refer to the ARA Program Rules for more information.

Do recipients have access to Amazon data?
Recipients will have access to Amazon datasets that are already public, such as the Amazon Bin Image Dataset, but not to non-public data.

Does Amazon accept any legal obligation with respect to submitted proposals?
We are happy to review non-confidential project proposals. As such, project proposals shall not contain any confidential information (please do not include any information in your proposal that you or others consider confidential). Amazon does not accept any legal obligation (whether of confidentiality, compensation, return or otherwise) with respect to any proposals. Amazon reserves the right to implement similar ideas in the future without restriction or obligation. Please refer to the ARA Program Rules for more information.

Additional information

May I speak to someone from the Amazon Research Awards team to find out more?
We provide limited email support via research-awards@amazon.com. Due to the volume of emails we receive, we may not be able to respond to questions where the answer is available on the website.

Can I be added to upcoming CFP announcements?
Yes, please email research-awards@amazon.com to be added to the quarterly CFP email announcement.

Are there any other funding opportunities offered by Amazon?
Yes, please visit the Academic Engagements page for more information. Note that the AWS Machine Learning Research Awards program is part of ARA.

1 Please note that your use of any AWS Promotional Credit is subject to the general AWS Customer Agreement terms or other terms governing your use of AWS Services (“Agreement”). In the event of a conflict between these Rules and the Agreement, the Agreement will control with respect to your access to and use of the Service Offerings. Additionally, any use of AWS Promotional Credit will be in accordance with and subject to the AWS Promotional Credit Terms & Conditions. In the event of a conflict between these Rules and the AWS Promotional Credit Terms & Conditions, the AWS Promotional Credit Terms & Conditions will govern with respect to any AWS Promotional Credit you receive.

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Data Scientist, Device Economics, Device Economics
US, WA, Seattle
Job summaryAre you excited about using econometrics to make multi-million dollar decisions more Science and Data Driven? Are you interested in supporting Consumer Hardware device concepts from innovative idea inception to launch? Do you want to work on a Economics and Data Science team focused on tackling some of the hardest business questions within the Devices business at Amazon and then scaling those Statistics and Econometrics solutions via internal to Amazon tools? Then this could be the role for you!Amazon.com strives to be Earth's most customer-centric company where people can find and discover anything they want to buy online. We hire the world's brightest minds, offering them a fast paced, technologically sophisticated and friendly work environment. Amazon Devices and Services team is the area of Amazon focused on inventing platforms that delight customers by eliminating friction they have in supplying, entertaining, and managing the home and beyond.The Device Economics team owns demand estimates and pricing recommendations of concept devices before customers know they exist. We support over 100 device-specific analyses a year on hardware and services ranging from Echo Frames to Kindle Paperwhite to Blink Video Camera subscriptions to the Amazon Smart Plug…all prior to launch.. We are a cross-functional Product team working to scale Econometrics through Amazon and beyond by incorporating Science into internal facing tools and making it easier for others to do so as well.In this role, you will support up to senior leadership decision meetings around approving confidential funding requests (PRFAQs) for brand new devices and services, build decisions around how many hardware devices to manufacture prior to receiving any customer signal, and pricing decisions around how to price and promote products and services. You will leverage Science and Tools produced by the Device Economics team such as conjoint demand models to produce these recommendations. As part of the stakeholder-facing arm of the team, you will own relationships with decision makers to help improve the end-customer experience by making the decisions that impact those end-customers more data and Science-driven. In parallel, you will work with Scientists, Economists, Product Managers, and Software Developers to provide meaningful feedback about stakeholder problems to inform business solutions and increase the velocity, quality, and scope behind our recommendations. You will own projects to make progress on Decision Science itself. Through this all, we will invest in your development to pursue your career goals.We are willing to consider L5 candidates across the BA/BIE job families where we'll bar raise your Science skills.
Senior Behavioral Scientist, Alexa Smart Home
US, WA, Seattle
Job summaryAlexa Smart Home Research is looking for a brilliant quantitative researcher to drive a new program to ensure Alexa always delivers a four star experience. In this role, you will define the roadmap for the SH segmentation program, create experiments to evaluate customer behavior and sentiment that drive these higher quality experiences for our target customers. These insights help Alexa Smart Home Marketing and Product teams make data driven decisions about our marketing and product strategies ensuring products are accurately conveyed, appropriately priced and designed, and with each launch we are moving the needle for customers to help them accomplish their ideal smart home.Key job responsibilities· Identify and propose key opportunities for improving the product development and marketing strategy for Alexa products· Develop and execute research projects, including leading all project phases: methodology and study design, data gathering and manipulation, analysis, interpretation and presentation of results· Lead and execute validation and impact studies· Define project requirements, document business and functional specifications, map current and future state business processes· Build automated mechanisms for evaluating, measuring, and deploying the algorithms and/or models you develop.· Bring a deep level of expertise in one of the Research Marketing disciplines (e.g. Statistics)A day in the lifeAs part of your work, you will lead quantitative research projects that build our understand of smart home customers, identifying what works well and areas of improvement for Alexa Smart Home that will ensure we continue to delight our customers. Excellent business and communication skills are a must to develop and define key business questions and to build data sets that answer those questions. You should be able to work with business customers in understanding the business requirements and research impact.About the teamWe are responsible for UX and market research (foundational, market fit, usability and concept testing), Beta launch readiness and voice of the customer. These services product org-wide customer insights that help SH teams connect directly with customers daily, supporting the end-to-end product readiness, and look around the corner to understand customer and competitor trends.
Applied Scientist - Recommendations, Machine Learning, Content Optimization, Personalization
US, CA, Irvine
Job summaryWould you like to work on a greenfield project that'll help improve the shopping experience of millions of Amazon customers? Want to help invent the next generation technologies in recommender and content optimization systems? We’ve got the perfect job for you.We are a team in a fast-paced organization with a huge impact on hundreds of millions of customers. We innovate at the intersection of customer experience, deep learning, and high-scale machine-learning systems.We are looking for Applied Scientists who love big data, and are capable of inventing and applying Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Image processing, Data Mining, Classification and Clustering techniques to solve real world problems and build novel customer facing innovations on Amazon. Our applied scientists work closely with software engineers to put algorithms into practice. They also work in partnership with teams across Amazon to create enormous benefits for our customers.As a member of the our Content Optimization team, you would be expected to move fast, have good judgment on what is and what is not worth exploring, create simple and scalable solutions and identify correct problem sets. You will be surrounded by thought-leaders in the Personalization space who are patent-leaders within Amazon. You will keep the team up-to date with latest academic research in relevant fields.About our team: Our team has the autonomy to decide where we can have the most impact and get down to experimenting. We love metrics and the fast pace. We analyze data to uncover potential opportunities, generate hypotheses, and test them. We refuse to accept constraints, internal or external, and have a strong bias for action. We imagine, build prototypes, validate ideas, and launch follow-up experiments from the successful ones.About our organization: Consider the following problem: every day, millions of customers with unique interests and needs come to Amazon looking for products out of a catalog of over a billion items. Not only do we need to decide what content would be most helpful to customers, we also need to present it in an inspiring manner. The Personalization organization within Amazon is responsible for the secret sauce that not only made Amazon the industry pioneer in building recommender systems at scale, but is also continuing to help raise the bar for building delightful and highly personalized shopping experiences.About you: You are an Applied Scientist with an interest in machine learning, data science, search, or recommendation systems. You have great problem solving skills. You love keeping abreast of the latest technology and use it to help you innovate. You have strong leadership qualities, great judgment, clear communication skills, and a track record of delivering great products. You enjoy working hard, having fun, and making history!
Applied Scientist, Alexa AI, Alexa AI
US, WA, Seattle
Job summaryAre you excited about cutting-edge deep-learning NLP, NLU, and Conversational AI? If so, then come and join the Alexa Artificial Intelligence (AI) team. We are the science team behind Amazon’s intelligence voice assistance system and are responsible for the deep learning technology that is central to the automated ranking and arbitration to optimize for end-to-end customer satisfaction.Key job responsibilitiesAs an Applied 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.A day in the life· Design, build, test and release predictive ML models· Ensure data quality throughout all stages of acquisition and processing, including such areas as data sourcing/collection, ground truth generation, normalization, and transformation.· Collaborate with colleagues from science, engineering and business backgrounds.· Present proposals and results to partner teams in a clear manner backed by data and coupled with actionable conclusions· Work with engineers to develop efficient data querying and inference infrastructure for both offline and online use casesAbout the teamWe are a science and engineering team part of Alexa AI organization. Our mission is to help Alexa decide which action to take in response to customer requests, incorporating a variety of contextual signals including both direct and indirect customer feedback to provide the best response to the customer. Our work directly contributes to improvement in Alexa business and customer metrics.
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