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The Amazon Nova AI Challenge: Trusted Software Agents (the “Competition”) is a university competition sponsored by Amazon.com Services LLC (“Sponsor”), in which 10 teams of college or university students compete to accelerate advances in artificial intelligence (“AI”). In this year’s Competition track student teams will focus on secure multi-turn development of web applications using coding assistants. Each team will take on the role of either a ‘model developer’ or ‘red team’. The model developer teams will focus on building LLM-driven coding assistants that can complete complex software engineering tasks to modify and extend full stack web applications. In addition to adding capabilities, coding assistants built by model developer teams must prevent accidental or purposeful introduction of security vulnerabilities into the application. To this end, model developer teams will also build bots that simulate malicious users. They will use these malicious user bots to test their systems and then use these same bots to test the resilience of opposing model developer teams during the Competition. 

Red teams, in contrast, will develop LLM-enabled bots capable of identifying and exploiting vulnerabilities found in the web applications generated by the model developer teams. In addition, red teams will build bots that simulate benign users that communicate with the coding assistants to complete software engineering tasks. 

See below for the Competition details.

By applying to or participating in the Competition, you agree to these Official Rules. Please read them carefully and completely.

COMPETITION CALENDAR

Applications to participate in the Competition can be submitted starting November 10, 2025,  through 11.59 PM PST December 7, 2025. The Competition will run from February  2026 through September 2026 (the "Competition Period"). The Competition phases are noted in the calendar below. The dates are approximate and are subject to change at the Sponsor’s sole discretion.

Phases

Starts on

Phase 1: Participant Application Period

11/10/2025

Phase 2: Sponsor Application Review Period

12/8/2025

Phase 3: Participant Notification Period and Onboarding

12/22/2025

Bootcamp

2/1/2026

Phase 4: Initial Build Period

2/4/2026

Phase 5: Tournament Period

March 2026

Phase 6: Finals Event

September 2026

Winners Announced

October 2026

COMPETITION OVERVIEW

Participating University or college teams will focus on advancing the capabilities of coding assistants, while improving their robustness with respect to security principles. Participating teams will aim to make coding assistants for full stack web development that are maximally capable and preclude vulnerabilities and cyber security threats. During the Competition, each team will focus either on building coding assistants (i.e. model developer teams) or developing automated red teaming techniques to identify potential exploits (i.e. red teams). In addition to building their coding assistant, each model developer team will also be responsible for developing a simulated malicious user that they can use for testing their coding assistant and then in tournaments use them to test the resilience of coding assistants built by other teams. In addition to building their red teaming system, each red team will also be responsible for developing a simulated benign user that will interactively prompt each competing coding assistant to complete a specified task. In applying to the competition, each team may choose to apply for either the red team role or the model developer role, or they may choose to apply for both roles and be assigned a role at the Sponsor’s discretion. Throughout the competition, red teams and model developer teams will participate in a series of tournaments. The tournaments will have two phases, in the first ‘build’ phase each of the model developer teams will be matched up with simulated benign and malicious users in multi-turn conversation directed toward completion of several specified tasks on one of more software repos. This phase will be evaluated through automatic testing of the functionality required to be added to the application in each task. In the second, ‘validation’ phase, each of the generated repos will be tested by the automated red teaming agents, which will seek out and exercise vulnerabilities in the applications. 

ELIGIBILITY

To be eligible to participate in the Competition, you must: (1) be enrolled as a full-time undergraduate or post-graduate student at an accredited college or university (other than colleges or universities located in any of the Restricted Jurisdictions defined below) (“Universities”) and remain a full-time student in good standing at such college or university while participating in the Competition; (2) be at or above the age of majority in your country, state, province or jurisdiction of residence at the time of entry into the Competition; and (3) not be a person or entity subject to U.S. export controls or sanctions, including citizens of any of the Restricted Jurisdictions . Competition is void in Cuba, Iran, Syria, North Korea, Sudan, the region of Crimea, the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic (DNR) or Luhansk People’s Republic (LNR), and where prohibited by law (each, a “Restricted Jurisdiction”). People who, during the Competition Period, are directors, officers, employees, interns, and contractors (“Personnel”) of Sponsor, its parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, and their respective advertising, promotion and public relations agencies, representatives, and agents (collectively, “Competition Entities”), immediate families members of such Personnel (parents, siblings, children, spouses, and life partners of each) and members of the households of such Personnel (whether related or not) are ineligible to participate in this Competition. Sponsor reserves the right to verify eligibility and to adjudicate any dispute at any time.
Entrants (“Entrants”) must enter as part of an “Entrant Team” consisting of one or more students from a single college or university. An Entrant is only permitted to be part of one Entrant Team. Any Entrant that is part of more than one Entrant Team may be disqualified, and the corresponding Entrant Teams may be disqualified at the sole discretion of Sponsor. Only one member of the Entrant Team may submit an application on behalf of an Entrant Team, but all those listed on the application are Entrants. All prize money payable to Entrant Teams will be split evenly among eligible Entrants of a winning Entrant Team (based on the pre-tax amount of prize money), as identified in the application, as updated as permitted by these Official Rules, and who maintain full-time student status in good standing at their college or university during the entire Competition Period.
Each team must select a faculty advisor, who, with respect to that team, will act as the official representative for the Entrant Team’s university or college (the “Faculty Advisor”). Each Entrant Team must have its own Faculty Advisor; Faculty Advisors may not represent multiple teams. Faculty Advisors are not members of the Entrant Team and will not receive any portion of any prize. Faculty Advisors must remain full-time employees of the Entrant Team university or college during the entire Competition Period. During the Competition Period, but no later than July 15, 2026, the Faculty Advisor may request to remove members from the Entrant Team or to add additional members to the Entrant Team. The Faculty Advisor must provide an explanation of the reason for the removal or addition, and any proposed new member must provide documentation requested by Sponsor and agree to comply with these Official Rules. Changes to the Entrant Team are subject to Sponsor’s approval in its sole discretion. If at any point during the Competition Period, the Entrant Team’s Faculty Advisor cannot continue to serve as a Faculty Advisor, the Entrant Team may submit a request to Sponsor to select a new Faculty Advisor. Changes to the Entrant Team’s Faculty Advisor are subject to Sponsor’s approval in its sole discretion. If an Entrant Team fails to have a Faculty Advisor at any point in time during the Competition, for any reason, the Entrant Team may be disqualified.
Each Entrant must be eligible to participate in this Competition and comply with these Official Rules or the Entrant, and the Entrant Team associated with that Entrant, may be disqualified. This Competition is subject to all applicable federal, state, territorial, provincial, and local laws. Competition is void where prohibited. By participating in the Competition, all Entrants accept and agree to comply with and abide by these Official Rules and the decisions of the Sponsor which will be final and binding, including the Sponsor’s right to verify eligibility, to interpret these Official Rules, and to resolve any disputes relating to this Competition at any time. Only Entrants may work on the Competition or their entries (e.g., developer systems, coding assistants, red-teaming systems, or user simulators), although employees of the Sponsor may provide support to the Entrant Team during the Competition Period, and the Faculty Advisor, and other students and faculty members at an Entrant Team’s university or college may provide support and advice to the Entrant Team and may co-author the Technical Article (as defined below) or other research papers.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS

During all phases of the Competition, Sponsor may in its sole discretion require Entrant Teams to provide periodic status updates, reports, or demonstrations of the developer systems, coding assistants, red-teaming system or user simulators. Sponsor may also require Entrant Teams to comply with additional rules, requirements, or procedures that Sponsor determines, in its sole discretion, are necessary for the administration of the Competition. Sponsor may in its sole discretion penalize teams for noncompliance with any rules, requirements, or procedures, including disqualification from the Competition.

Sponsor may provide Entrants selected to participate in the Competition access to generative AI models, software, software platform, software development kits, libraries, APIs, documentation, sample code, data sets, and related materials (“Program Materials ” and “Restricted Program Materials”) that may be used in connection with the Competition. If an Entrant uses any Program Materials or Restricted Program Materials, the Entrant is subject to and agrees to comply with Sponsor’s Program Materials License Agreement or a substantially similar alternative license that may be applied at Sponsor’s sole discretion. Program Materials and Restricted Program Materials may include APIs, data sets, models, model outputs, and other materials that are not public (“Non-Public Materials”).
Each Entrant and Faculty Advisor agrees that they will not disclose, distribute, or otherwise make available any Non-Public Materials to anyone other than other Entrants of their Entrant Team and the Entrant Team’s Faculty Advisor. Each Entrant (and each Faculty Advisor) agrees that they will use Non-Public Materials only in connection with the development of a developer systems, coding assistant, red-teaming system, or user simulator as part of the Competition and in compliance with these Official Rules. Entrants (and Faculty Advisors) may not use Non-Public Materials for any other purpose. Entrants (and Faculty Advisors) must return or destroy all Non-Public Materials (in any form and including, without limitation, all summaries, copies and excerpts of the same) promptly following any request from Sponsor, or if the Entrant Team discontinues the development or operation of its model or red-teaming system. If any Entrant or Faculty Advisor is disqualified from the Competition, leaves the university, or college or otherwise terminates their participation in the Competition, that individual must immediately return or destroy all Non-Public Materials in their possession. Sponsor reserves the right in its sole discretion to impose additional terms and conditions on the use of Program Materials, and to condition access to Program Materials on Entrants’ agreement to those terms and conditions.

Each Entrant Team and Faculty Advisor agrees that they will not copy, disclose, distribute, or otherwise use any output created by a generative AI model during this competition for any purpose other than the development or improvement of their systems as part of this Competition. Entrant Teams may not publish any model output or publish or deploy their systems for any purpose, including in connection with any paper submission, without prior review and approval by Sponsor.

DESCRIPTION OF COMPETITION PHASES

PHASE 1 “Participant Application Period”: Between November  10, 2025 and December 7, 2025, the student leader of each Entrant Team that wishes to enter the Competition may visit  amazon.science/nova-ai-challenge (the “Competition Site”) to submit their entry information via the YouNoodle, Inc. (“YouNoodle”) application portal, including but not limited to: complete names, contact information, and resumes of all Entrant Team members, proof of university or college enrolled status (e.g., verification of enrollment or an uploaded copy of Entrants’ student IDs), name and contact information of up to three sponsoring Faculty Advisor(s) from the Entrant Team’s university or college , and a bio for each Entrant Team member and Faculty advisor(s).

Sponsor will consider applications by multiple different teams from a single institution, but each Entrant Team must have their own Faculty Advisor, and there can be no overlap in the composition of the Entrant Teams or Faculty Advisors. If more than one Entrant Team is accepted from any university or college, the Entrant Teams will be expected to work independently, and any collaboration or coordination among Entrant Teams will be grounds for disqualification.

Entry Applications may be submitted at any time during the Participant Application Period. Only one individual per Entrant Team, preferably the team lead, may submit an Entry Application on behalf of their Entrant Team. Other members of the Entrant Team must accept the invitation to join the team via the YouNoodle application portal. All Entrants must create an account with YouNoodle if they have not done so already to submit an Entry Application or accept an invitation to join an Entrant Team and participate in the Competition. Creating and maintaining a YouNoodle account is free of charge. All Entry Applications must be complete when the Participant Application Period closes at 11:59 pm Pacific Time on the last day of the Participant Application Period. Entry Applications are not complete until all the online prompts and instructions to upload the Entry Application have been properly followed, the Official Rules have been accepted, and all Entrant Team members and the Faculty Advisors have accepted their invitations to join the Entrant Team via the YouNoodle application portal. Entry Applications may not be revised once submitted. Once submitted, Entry Applications will not be returned and become the property of the Sponsor.

Entry terms: Determination of eligibility and compliance with these Official Rules and any other requirements imposed by Sponsor will be in the sole discretion of the Sponsor. By entering, Entrants represent that all information and materials submitted to Sponsor in connection with the Competition:

  1. are the original work of the Entrant Team or an update to an original work of the Entrant Team;
  2. do not infringe or violate the rights of any third party, including but not limited to copyrights, trademarks or copyrighted material not owned by the Entrant Team, contract and licensing rights, rights of publicity or privacy, moral rights, or any other intellectual property rights; and
  3. are not subject to any third-party agreements, and that Sponsor will not be required to pay or incur any sums to any person or entity as a result of its exercise of any rights granted under these Official Rules.

As referenced above, each Entrant Team will be required to apply for at least one role (i.e., either the red-team role or model developer role). Alternatively, Entrant Teams can choose to apply for both roles and Sponsor will assign one of the two roles to a team based on the Entry Application in Sponsor’s sole discretion.

PHASE 2 “Sponsor Application Review Period”: All eligible Entry Applications will be reviewed by the Sponsor. Sponsor will select up to ten (10) Entrant Teams for the Competition in its sole discretion, based on the following criteria:

  • The technical merit of the approach;
  • The novelty of the idea; and
  • An assessment of the Entrant Team’s ability to execute their plan.

PHASE 3 “Participant Notification Period”: Entrant Teams selected by Sponsor to participate in the Competition will be notified by email at the email address provided in the application portal. Entrant Teams acknowledge that some Entrant Teams may include Entrants and Faculty Advisors who participated in prior competitions and other promotions offered by Sponsor.

Stipends: Each Entrant Team selected to participate in the Initial Build Period will be eligible to receive a restricted research grant of $250,000 U.S. dollars (paid in any number of installments as determined by Sponsor in its sole discretion, subject to Entrant Team’s continued participation in and eligibility for the Competition). These restricted research grants will be awarded to the universities and not the Entrant Teams or any individual Entrant, and will be subject to the university or college signing and returning any agreements or other documents required by Sponsor (including IRS forms W-9 and/or W-8), and to the university or college agreeing in writing that no more than 35% of the research grants may be allocated to administrative fees. Entrant Teams will not be eligible to begin participating in the Competition until all required agreements and other documentation have been completed by the respective university or college. The grants are intended to support two full-time students or the equivalent of two full-time students during the Competition and one month of the Faculty Advisor’s salary. Each university or college will be responsible for allocating and managing the funds within these guidelines and for payment and reporting of any required taxes, withholdings, fees, or duties. Sponsor is not responsible for managing the funds, including their allocation or distribution by the university or college, after they are paid to the university or college. Each member of an Entrant Team whose university or college receives a stipend award, and its Faculty Advisor, will also receive free AWS services to support the development of their model or red-teaming system (subject to reasonable limitations set by Sponsor), and support from the Sponsor as determined by Sponsor.

Stipends are non-transferable except as directed by Sponsor. No stipend substitutions or cash redemptions are allowed except as designated by Sponsor. Except where prohibited by law, all federal, state, provincial, or other tax liabilities or withholdings are the responsibility of the university or college and the Sponsor will not be responsible for any tax deductions which may be necessary, except that Sponsor may withhold taxes as required by law. Universities are responsible for any costs and expenses associated with stipend acceptance and use. If an Entrant Team withdraws from the Competition or does not remain compliant with these Official Rules, Sponsor will be relieved of any obligation to pay any remaining portion of the stipend to the Entrant Team’s university or college All details relating to the stipend not specified herein shall be determined solely by Sponsor.

Boot Camp: Selected Entrant Teams will be invited to a Competition Boot Camp (“Boot Camp”), which Sponsor intends to hold in February 2026 at Sponsor’s headquarters in Seattle, Washington or alternative location as determined by Sponsor. Entrant Teams will be expected to use the stipend towards any uncovered costs associated with the Boot Camp. Faculty Advisors and at least 1 student team member are expected to attend the Boot Camp. In the event that Sponsor is unable to hold a Boot Camp, Sponsor may reschedule or cancel the Boot Camp at its sole discretion, and Sponsor is not required to reimburse any expenses incurred by Entrant Teams.

PHASE 4 “Initial Build Period”: Selected Entrant Teams will develop their model or red-teaming system. Sponsor will provide each Entrant Team with certain Program Materials or Restricted Program Materials by the beginning of the Initial Build Period.

PHASE 5 “Tournament Period”: The Tournament Period will include a series of tournaments. The number of individual tournament rounds, and the exact start and end dates of each of the tournaments will be announced prior to the start of the first tournament. On the start date of each of the tournaments, red teams will submit their red-teaming systems and benign user simulator to the sponsor. On the start date of each of the tournaments. model developer teams will submit their coding assistant and malicious user simulator to the Sponsor. The Sponsor will then execute the build phase of the tournament, matching the different benign user simulators and malicious user simulators with each of the relevant coding assistants. Utility performance will be determined through automated tests associated with each development task. Following the build phase, in the validation phase, the Sponsor will match up each red teaming system with each relevant created applications and use a combination of automated testing and human evaluation to score the identified vulnerabilities and exploits in the applications. Red teams and model developer teams will be ranked separately. Overall ranking of model developer teams will be based on a combination of utility performance on the specified task and defense success in being resilient to exploits attempted by the red teaming bots. Overall ranking of red teams will be based on a combination of utility performance on the specified tasks and attack success in identification and execution of exploits by the red teaming bots.
 Evaluation results may be provided to the Entrant Teams, as determined by Sponsor in its sole discretion. Both red teams and model developer teams may improve their systems in between tournament rounds, after the Sponsor notifies them that a tournament round is complete. Teams may not modify their model or red-teaming systems while the tournament round is ongoing. To move to the Finals Event, teams must meet minimum success criteria that will be established and provided to Entrant Teams during the Tournament Period. Teams that do not meet the criteria at the end of the last tournament may be eliminated following the end of the current Tournament Period. 

Summit: Sponsor at its sole discretion may choose to hold a summit at the end of the Competition where participants discuss their findings and announce the winners of the Competition. Sponsor may elect to provide each finalist Entrant Team reimbursement for the cost of airline tickets (non-refundable coach class booked through Sponsor at least 14 days in advance) to the site of the Summit where Entrant teams will present their innovations from the competition, and the provision of hotel rooms at the site of the Summit or such other event, to permit members of each Entrant Team (up to a maximum number of members determined by Sponsor) and the Faculty Advisor to attend the Summit or such other event. Travel expense subsidies and access to the event may be subject to tax information reporting and withholding to the extent required by law.

Disclosure of Third-Party Funding. If any Entrant Team receives any third-party funding to facilitate its participation in this Competition, such funding must be disclosed to Sponsor no later than the last date of the Tournament Period, along with any requirements imposed on the Entrant Team in connection with the funding. Entrant Teams may not accept or use any third-party funding if acceptance or use of that funding, or any requirements imposed in connection with that funding, conflicts with these Official Rules.

Technical Publication: No later than the first day of the final tournament round in the Tournament period or any other date determined by the Sponsor, all participating Entrant Teams must submit to Sponsor a technical article including (a) the technical approach for their developer systems, coding assistant, red-teaming system, and user simulator, and (b) any comparative experiments performed by the Entrant Team and results of those experiments (a “Technical Article”). Entrant Team’s Technical Article must include sufficient detail to permit other researchers to replicate the work. However, Technical Articles may not include any Non-Public Materials or other confidential information of Sponsor or its affiliates. If a Technical Article does not provide sufficient detail to replicate the work, Sponsor may require the Entrant Team to provide Sponsor any additional information needed to replicate the work. Sponsor will publish the Technical Articles in connection with the Finals Event. Prior to the publication, Sponsor will not disclose Technical Articles to third parties. Entrant Teams may update their Technical Articles prior to the Finals Event.

In addition to the required Technical Articles, Entrants may publish other technical articles describing their work (“Additional Articles”). However, prior to submitting any technical articles to any publication, conference, or other venue for publication, Entrant Teams must obtain Sponsor’s written approval. Additional Articles may not include any Non-Public Materials or other confidential information of Sponsor or its affiliates. Entrants must submit any Additional Articles to Sponsor for review and comment at least two weeks prior to the submission deadline and must make, prior to submission, any changes or deletions requested by Sponsor to protect confidential or other sensitive information.

PHASE 6 “Finals Event”: Sponsor will hold a multi-day Finals Event that will be structured as follows. Sponsor will recruit a panel of coding and cybersecurity experts to serve as judges. These human judges will come onsite to the Sponsor’s campus (Entrant teams will not be onsite during the Finals Event) for the Finals Event. Expert human judges will evaluate both red teams and model developer teams’ success in finals. 

Human judges will work with model developer team’s coding assistants as both malicious and benign users and evaluate their effectiveness and ease of use. Human judges will also observe interaction between user simulator and coding assistants and inspect the results of automated security teaming bots. Human judges will conduct manual red teaming of generated applications. The final ranking and determination of winners for model developers will depend on 1) ease of use of coding assistant to complete tasks 2) quality of solution and 3) resistance of the resulting solution to attempted exploits. The final ranking and determination of winners for red teams will depend on 1) effectiveness in automated identification of exploits 2) quality of user simulation. 

Winners Announcement Event: Sponsor may elect to provide each finalist Entrant Team reimbursement for the cost of airline tickets (non-refundable coach class booked through Sponsor at least 14 days in advance) to the site of the event announcing the winners of the Competition, and the provision of hotel rooms at the site of the Event or such other event, to permit members of each finalist Entrant Team (up to a maximum number of members determined by Sponsor) and the Faculty Advisor to attend the Event or such other event. Travel expense subsidies and access to the event may be subject to tax information reporting and withholding to the extent required by law.

PHOTO, UNIVERSITY LOGO AND TEAM WRITE-UP REQUIREMENTS
Each selected Entrant Team must provide a team photo including all the team members and faculty advisor within 15 days of selection. No photo collage of individual pictures will be accepted. The team photos must be rectangular or square. Entrant Team photos that are strongly horizontal or vertical will not be accepted. The Entrant Team must provide a 50-word write-up about each individual team member and faculty advisor(s) within 15 days of selection. The write-up must be written in the third person. Every subsequent reference to the member must be a pronoun or last name. e.g.,: “Tom Smith is a computer science PhD student at ABC university, he/Smith is studying..” When requested by Sponsor, Entrant Teams must provide a high-quality university logo that the Sponsor is free to use for any marketing or promotional content for the Amazon Nova AI Challenge program.

PRIZES

Overall Performance Prize
Following the Finals Event, the two finalist red-teaming systems that attain the two highest ranks among the finalist red-teaming systems and the two finalist coding assistants that attains the two highest ranks among the finalist coding assistants will be the First-Place and Second-Place winners of the Overall Performance prizes. If there is a tie in the scores for any prize, Sponsor will rank the systems based on their Tournament Period performance. Sponsor’s decisions are final and binding in all matters relating to this Competition, including the determination of prize winners.

First-Place Overall Performance Model (1 winner): The Entrant Team that receives the highest rank for a coding assistant will receive $250,000 U.S. dollars awarded in the form of checks divided equally among all members of that Entrant Team.
Second-Place Overall Performance Model (1 winner): The Entrant Team that receives the second highest rank for a coding assistant will receive $100,000 U.S. dollars awarded in the form of checks divided equally among all members of that Entrant Team.
First-Place Overall Performance Red-Teaming System (1 winner): The Entrant Team that receives the highest rank for a red-teaming system will receive $250,000 U.S. dollars awarded in the form of checks divided equally among all members of that Entrant Team.
Second-Place Overall Performance Red-Teaming System (1 winner): The Entrant Team that receives the second highest rank for a red-teaming system will receive $100,000 U.S. dollars awarded in the form of checks divided equally among all members of that Entrant Team.

Prize Conditions: Prizes are non-transferable except as directed by Sponsor. No prize substitutions are allowed. Except where prohibited by law, all federal, state, provincial, or other tax liabilities are the responsibility of the prize winners, Sponsor will not be responsible for any tax deductions which may be necessary, and Sponsor reserves the right to withhold taxes as required by law. Prize winners will be responsible for paying all costs and expenses related to the prize that are not specifically mentioned, including, but not limited to, taxes, withholdings, and any other expenses that might reasonably be incurred by the winner in receiving or using the prize. All prizes awarded will be subject to any taxes Sponsor is required by law to withhold as well as applicable sales, use, gross receipts, goods and service, or similar transaction-based taxes. IF TAXES ARE APPLICABLE TO THE PRIZE(S), IT IS THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE WINNER TO PAY TO THE APPROPRIATE AUTHORITIES. PAYMENTS TO COMPETITION WINNERS ARE SUBJECT TO THE EXPRESS REQUIREMENT THAT THE WINNER SUBMIT TO SPONSOR ALL DOCUMENTATION REQUESTED BY SPONSOR (INCLUDING FORMS W-9 OR W-8BEN AS REQUESTED BY SPONSOR) TO PERMIT COMPLIANCE WITH ALL APPLICABLE STATE, FEDERAL, LOCAL AND FOREIGN (INCLUDING PROVINCIAL) TAX REPORTING AND WITHHOLDING REQUIREMENTS. Prize winners are responsible for ensuring that the tax documentation submitted to Sponsor complies with all applicable tax laws and requirements. If a winner fails to provide the documentation or submits incomplete documentation, the prize may be forfeited and Sponsor may, in its sole discretion, select an alternate winner. Sponsor will divide all awards that are payable to any Entrant Team evenly among the Entrant Team members and distribute accordingly. Designation as a prize winner is subject to Entrant’s proof of compliance with these Official Rules, maintaining compliance with these Official Rules and approval by Sponsor. All details of prizes not specified herein shall be determined solely by Sponsor.

PRIVACY: Entrants and Faculty Advisors acknowledge and agree that Sponsor may collect, store, share, and otherwise use personally identifiable information provided during the application process and the Competition, including, but not limited to, name, mailing address, phone number, and email address. All personally identifiable information collected is subject to and will be used in accordance with Sponsor’s Privacy Notice ( www.amazon.com/privacy) and YouNoodle’s Privacy Policy ( www.younoodle.com/privacy), including for administering the Competition and verifying Entrants’ and Faculty Advisors’ identities, addresses, and telephone numbers in the event an entry qualifies for a prize. YouNoodle’s servers are located in the United States. By participating in this Competition, Entrants and Faculty Advisors authorize the transfer of personal data to the United States for purposes of administering the Competition, conducting publicity about the Competition, and additional purposes consistent with Sponsor’s goals or the Competition goals. By entering the Competition, Entrants and Faculty Advisors consent to Sponsor’s and YouNoodle’s collection, and Sponsor’s use and disclosure of entrants’ personally identifiable information for these purposes. The data controller for information collected by Sponsor is Amazon.com Services LLC, 410 Terry Ave North, Seattle, Washington 98109, USA.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY: By entering the Competition, each Entrant and Entrant Team represents and warrants that he or she has obtained all of the rights, licenses, and permissions in writing that are otherwise necessary for the Entrant Team to operate or distribute the model or red-teaming system and to grant to Sponsor the licenses set forth in these Official Rules and in the Developer Agreement. Entrants MAY NOT submit models or red-teaming systems created by any person other than themselves or their Entrant Team members.
As between Sponsor and Entrant Teams, models or red-teaming systems created by Entrant Teams will remain the property of the respective Entrant Teams or their university or college, excluding any Program Materials or Restricted Program Materials incorporated in the systems, which will remain the property of Sponsor. All output generated by any model or red-teaming system during the course of the Competition will be the property of Sponsor, and Entrant Teams will have limited rights to use the output for the sole purpose of improving or training their modes or systems for the purpose of this Competition. By submitting a model or red-teaming system in this Competition, each Entrant and Entrant Team represents and warrants that they own, or otherwise have the right to use and license, all of the intellectual property and other rights in and to the model or red-teaming system. Each Entrant and Entrant Team hereby grants Sponsor and its affiliates a non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, and royalty-free license to make, have made, use, sell, offer for sale, import, export, license, exploit, promote, reproduce, make available, publicly display, publicly perform, create derivative works of, and otherwise exercise all intellectual property and other rights in and to any concepts, works, inventions, information, designs, programs, software, or other materials that the Entrant or Entrant Team develops or submits in connection with the Competition or the creation of the model or red-teaming system, including any of the foregoing included or described in any Technical Article or other materials provided to Sponsor. In addition, upon Sponsor’s request, all Entrants and Entrant Teams must provide Sponsor all source code, datasets and algorithms developed in connection with the Competition. Each Entrant agrees to do or perform, or cause to be done and performed, all such further acts and things, and execute and deliver all such other agreements, certificates, instruments, and documents as Sponsor may reasonably request in order to carry out the intent and accomplish the purposes of the foregoing license.
Except where prohibited, each Entrant and Entrant Team further consents (and agrees to sign any additional documents required by Sponsor to formalize, effect, or perfect such consent) to Competition Entities’ model or red-teaming systems pursuant to these Official Rules and the use of any Entrant or Entrant Team names, likeness, biographical information, and voice in advertising, publicity, trade, and other marketing and promotional materials (including video, audio, and print through all means of distribution) worldwide without compensation, notice, or approval, and disclaims any ownership rights to the content of such materials.

Waiver, Release, and Limitation of Liability
EACH ENTRANT ACCEPTS THE CONDITIONS STATED IN THESE OFFICIAL RULES, AGREES TO BE BOUND BY THE DECISIONS OF SPONSOR, WARRANTS THAT THE ENTRANT IS ELIGIBLE TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS COMPETITION, AND AGREES TO RELEASE, INDEMNIFY, AND HOLD HARMLESS THE COMPETITION ENTITIES AND THE PERSONNEL OF EACH FROM AND AGAINST ANY AND ALL CLAIMS, LOSSES, LIABILITY, AND DAMAGES OF ANY KIND (INCLUDING REASONABLE ATTORNEYS’ FEES AND EXPENSES) ASSERTED AGAINST ANY OF THEM, INCURRED OR SUSTAINED IN CONNECTION WITH OR ARISING OUT OF ENTRANT’S PARTICIPATION IN THIS COMPETITION OR ANY TRAVEL OR OTHER ACTIVITY RELATED THERETO, USE OF ANY MODEL OR RED-TEAMING SYSTEM OR RIGHTS THEREIN, OR BREACH OF ANY AGREEMENT OR WARRANTY ASSOCIATED WITH THE COMPETITION, INCLUDING THESE OFFICIAL RULES. ANY ATTEMPT TO DELIBERATELY DAMAGE ANY WEBSITE OR UNDERMINE THE LEGITIMATE OPERATION OF THE COMPETITION MAY BE A VIOLATION OF CRIMINAL AND CIVIL LAWS AND, SHOULD SUCH AN ATTEMPT BE MADE, THE COMPETITION ENTITIES AND EACH OF THEIR LICENSEES RESERVE THE RIGHT TO SEEK ANY AND ALL REMEDIES AVAILABLE FROM ANY PERSONS RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY SUCH ATTEMPT TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW.

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Applied Scientist II, Central Machine Learning
IN, KA, Bengaluru
Do you want to join an innovative team of scientists who use machine learning and statistical techniques to create state-of-the-art solutions for providing better value to Amazon’s customers? Do you want to build and deploy advanced algorithmic systems that help optimize millions of transactions every day? Are you excited by the prospect of analyzing and modeling terabytes of data to solve real world problems? Do you like to own end-to-end business problems/metrics and directly impact the profitability of the company? Do you like to innovate and simplify? If yes, then you may be a great fit to join the Machine Learning and Data Sciences team for India Consumer Businesses. If you have an entrepreneurial spirit, know how to deliver, love to work with data, are deeply technical, highly innovative and long for the opportunity to build solutions to challenging problems that directly impact the company's bottom-line, we want to talk to you. Major responsibilities - Use machine learning and analytical techniques to create scalable solutions for business problems - Analyze and extract relevant information from large amounts of Amazon’s historical business data to help automate and optimize key processes - Design, development, evaluate and deploy innovative and highly scalable models for predictive learning - Research and implement novel machine learning and statistical approaches - Work closely with software engineering teams to drive real-time model implementations and new feature creations - Work closely with business owners and operations staff to optimize various business operations - Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large scale data analyses, model development, model validation and model implementation - Mentor other scientists and engineers in the use of ML techniques
Applied SCI III - AMZ007408
US, NY, New York
MULTIPLE POSITIONS AVAILABLE Employer: Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. Offered Position: Applied Scientist III - AMZ007408 Job Location: New York, NY Position Responsibilities: Participate in the design, development, evaluation, deployment, and updating of formal reasoning systems for security, privacy, and data protection applications. Drive technical and scientific innovation in security automation, data protection, and privacy-preserving technologies, with a focus on developing scalable solutions for cloud environments. Develop and/or apply formal verification techniques and automated theorem proving methods for different applications in cloud security and privacy. Collaborate with internal and external users to understand requirements and enhance formal verification and automated reasoning capabilities. Lead research and development efforts in AI security, specifically evaluate emerging threats and opportunities, including securing Generative AI systems and designing robust safeguards. Proactively identify and explore new opportunities for deploying and leveraging formal reasoning solutions across various domains.
Applied Scientist, AWS Automated Reasoning
GB, London
The Agentic Automated Reasoning Group is building the next generation of software verification tools combining advances in artificial intelligence, the computational capacity of the cloud, and our deep expertise in the domain. Join us if you want to be a part of this transformational endeavor. The Strata team (https://github.com/strata-org) is seeking an applied scientist with broad interest and expertise in model checking, interactive theorem proving, programming language semantics, and generative AI. You will combine your expertise with that of your coworkers to build new tools that solve code analysis problems previously considered beyond reach. Our application areas span all the way from Infrastructure as Code to high-performance cryptography written in assembly code, while our methods span from interactive theorem proving to automated test generation. 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 job responsibilities Work with customer teams to understand the nature of their software and the properties they need to establish of it. Identify tools and methods capable of addressing the verification needs of customers, including any novel analysis capabilities required. Use techniques spanning property-based testing to model checkers, and interactive theorem provers to establish program properties. Explore generative AI techniques to help customers formalize their requirements, find revealing tests, generate required boiler plate for testing and model checking, and find and repair program proofs. About the team The Agentic Automated Reasoning Group at AWS develops and applies state of the art formal methods and automated reasoning techniques to ensure the security, reliability, and correctness of AWS services and customer applications, with a strong focus on AI based agents. Our work innovates tools and services to perform verification at scale and apply them to build safe and secure systems at AWS. We are also pioneering the use of formal verification and automated reasoning to develop agentic systems, ensuring AI agents operate within defined safety boundaries.
Member of Technical Staff, FAR (Frontier AI & Robotics)
US, CA, San Francisco
Join the next revolution in robotics at Amazon's Frontier AI & Robotics team, where you'll work alongside world-renowned AI pioneers to lead key initiatives in robotic intelligence. As a Member of Technical Staff, you'll spearhead the development of breakthrough foundation models that enable robots to perceive, understand, and interact with the world in unprecedented ways. You'll drive technical excellence in areas such as perception, manipulation, science understanding, sim2real transfer, multi-modal foundation models, and multi-task learning, designing novel algorithms that bridge the gap between state-of-the-art research and real-world deployment at Amazon scale. In this role, you'll combine hands-on technical work with scientific leadership, ensuring your team delivers robust solutions for dynamic real-world environments. You'll leverage Amazon's vast computational resources to tackle ambitious problems in areas like very large multi-modal robotic foundation models and efficient, promptable model architectures that can scale across diverse robotic applications. Key job responsibilities - Lead technical initiatives in robotics foundation models, driving breakthrough approaches through hands-on research and development in areas like open-vocabulary panoptic scene understanding, scaling up multi-modal LLMs, sim2real/real2sim techniques, end-to-end vision-language-action models, efficient model inference, video tokenization - Design and implement novel deep learning architectures that push the boundaries of what robots can understand and accomplish - Guide technical direction for specific research initiatives, ensuring robust performance in production environments - Mentor and support fellow scientists while maintaining strong individual technical contributions - Collaborate with engineering teams to optimize and scale models for real-world applications - Influence technical decisions and implementation strategies within your area of focus A day in the life - Develop and implement novel foundation model architectures, working hands-on with our extensive compute infrastructure - Guide and support fellow scientists in solving complex technical challenges, from sim2real transfer to efficient multi-task learning - Lead focused technical initiatives from conception through deployment, ensuring successful integration with production systems - Drive technical discussions within your team and with key stakeholders - Conduct experiments and prototype new ideas using our massive compute cluster - Mentor team members while maintaining significant hands-on contribution to technical solutions 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 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! About the team At Frontier AI & Robotics, we're not just advancing robotics – we're reimagining it from the ground up. Our team is building the future of intelligent robotics through ground breaking foundation models and end-to-end learned systems. We tackle some of the most challenging problems in AI and robotics, from developing sophisticated perception systems to creating adaptive manipulation strategies that work in complex, real-world scenarios. What sets us apart is our unique combination of ambitious research vision and practical impact. We leverage Amazon's massive computational infrastructure and rich real-world datasets to train and deploy state-of-the-art foundation models. Our work spans the full spectrum of robotics intelligence – from multimodal perception using images, videos, and sensor data, to sophisticated manipulation strategies that can handle diverse real-world scenarios. We're building systems that don't just work in the lab, but scale to meet the demands of Amazon's global operations. Join us if you're excited about pushing the boundaries of what's possible in robotics, working with world-class researchers, and seeing your innovations deployed at unprecedented scale.
Sr. Applied Scientist, Special Projects
US, WA, Seattle
Innovators wanted! Are you an entrepreneur? A builder? A dreamer? This role is part of an Amazon Special Projects team that takes the company’s Think Big leadership principle to the limits. If you’re interested in innovating at scale to address big challenges in the world, this is the team for you. As an Applied Scientist on our team, you will focus on building state-of-the-art ML models for biology. Our team rewards curiosity while maintaining a laser-focus in bringing products to market. Competitive candidates are responsive, flexible, and able to succeed within an open, collaborative, entrepreneurial, startup-like environment. At the forefront of both academic and applied research in this product area, you have the opportunity to work together with a diverse and talented team of scientists, engineers, and product managers and collaborate with other teams. Key job responsibilities - Build, adapt and evaluate ML models for life sciences applications - Collaborate with a cross-functional team of ML scientists, biologists, software engineers and product managers
Research Scientist II, WW Sustainability
US, WA, Seattle
Join us at the forefront of Amazon's sustainability initiatives to work on environmental and social advancements that support Amazon's long-term worldwide sustainability strategy. At Amazon, we're working to be the most customer-centric company on earth. To get there, we need exceptionally talented, bright, and driven people who are passionate about making a meaningful impact on communities and the environment while helping shape the future of sustainable business practices. Sustainability Science and Innovation (SSI) is a multi-disciplinary team within WW Sustainability combining science, analytics, economics, statistics, machine learning, product development, and engineering expertise. We use data across the sustainability imperatives (carbon, water, waste, biodiversity, environmental risk and more) and these skills and capabilities to identify, develop, experiment, and scale the scientific solutions and innovations necessary for Amazon, customers and partners to help them solve their hardest unmet and evolving sustainability needs and goals. The Worldwide Sustainability (WWS) organization is seeking an exceptional scientific leader to join Amazon's Sustainability Science and Innovation team as a Researcher Scientist for Materials Chemistry Innovation. This role focuses on hands-on experimental research in materials chemistry to accelerate the discovery and validation of sustainable materials through systematic synthesis, characterization, and performance testing. You will lead the design and execution of experimental research campaigns targeting catalysts, functional materials, and sustainability-relevant chemistries across multivariate parameter spaces. You will establish scientific strategy and technical roadmaps for materials discovery while leading research initiatives that tackle complex sustainability challenges in critical industrial sectors. This position requires driving breakthrough solutions in materials synthesis and characterization through internal capabilities and strategic partnerships with universities, industry scientists, and government laboratories. You will mentor junior scientists and engineers while collaborating across Amazon's Innovation Lab Network to translate research into scalable solutions. Your leadership will be essential in developing early-stage, cost-effective materials that address significant technical and economic challenges fundamental to Amazon's operations, requiring you to navigate complex trade-offs between immediate deliverables and long-term environmental impact. You will also shape how emerging automation and AI tools are applied to accelerate materials discovery workflows. The ideal candidate demonstrates extensive experience in materials synthesis, advanced characterization techniques, and systematic experimental design for performance validations. You must possess proven ability to lead cross-functional teams, establish research priorities, and drive scientific innovation from concept to implementation. Deep technical expertise in materials testing methods, combined with strategic vision for translating research into practical applications is essential. Experience with high-throughput and combinatorial experimental approaches to efficiently explore large design spaces is highly valued. Your work will establish new paradigms in sustainable materials discovery through rigorous experimental research and performance testing, directly contributing to Amazon's sustainability goals while creating scalable solutions that extend beyond the company's immediate operations. Key job responsibilities - Develop scientific models that help solve complex and ambiguous sustainability problems, and extract strategic learnings from large datasets. - Work closely with applied scientists and software engineers to implement your scientific models. - Support early-stage strategic sustainability initiatives and effectively learn from, collaborate with, and influence stakeholders to scale-up high-value initiatives. - Support research and development of cross-cutting technologies for industrial decarbonization, including building the data foundation and analytics for new AI models. - Drive innovation in key focus areas including packaging materials, building materials, and alternative fuels. About the team Diverse Experiences: World Wide Sustainability (WWS) 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. Inclusive Team Culture: 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 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.
Zappos Data Scientist II, Zappos/Shopbop Catalog Engineering
US, WI, Madison
As a Data Scientist on the Shopbop/Zappos Catalog Tech team, you will design and implement scientific approaches to revolutionize how we manage and enhance our product catalog data for our world-class selection of Shoes, Kids, and Active wear. You will work with Zappos' Senior leadership team to solve complex data challenges through advanced analytics and machine learning - creating innovative solutions and influencing product decisions through data-driven insights. You will lead critical initiatives to reduce catalog errors, accelerate product data capture, and develop state-of-the-art image classification systems for fashion features. You will partner daily with engineering teams and business stakeholders to provide expert guidance on model selection and implementation. As a member of the Zappos technical staff, you will leverage machine learning technologies and have access to industry leaders in AI/ML and E-Commerce to help grow your expertise. You will also routinely collaborate with data science teams across our sister companies at Amazon.com and Shopbop.com. You will push the boundaries of what's possible with applied machine learning and bring innovative solutions to bear for customers (including computer vision, NLP, and advanced ML models). You will think big about how data science can transform our catalog operations and be persistent in delivering robust, scalable solutions. Key job responsibilities Design and implement machine learning approaches to improve catalog data quality. Develop and validate scientific methodologies for automated data capture and classification. Partner with engineering teams to integrate ML models into production systems. Create and present analysis that drives decision-making at the senior leadership level. A day in the life You start the day reviewing model performance metrics, noting some drift in the image classification system that needs investigation. You spend the morning developing a new approach to reduce product attribute errors using recent advances in LLMs. In the afternoon, you meet with engineering teams to advise on model architecture for a new feature, and wrap up by analyzing the results of your latest A/B test on data capture efficiency improvements. About the team Zappos/Shopbop Catalog Tech team owns the software that drives our photostudio, product cataloging, and integration to Amazon's marketplace. We use Amazon's Leadership Principals and Engineering Expertise but have our own fun vibe. We are located in Madison WI, and Las Vegas NV.
Sr Manager, Applied Science, Alexa Connections
US, WA, Seattle
The Alexa Connections team is building the worlds most trusted AI assistant, that helps get things done and creates moments of joy. We build LLM-powered, next-generation communication features that help customers connect within the household with features like announcements and drop-In, and with people they care about with features like calling, emailing and texting. Using GenAI we proactively personalize every single connection moment whether its connecting with grandparents or communicating with kids teachers, and you can do it all hands free with Alexa! We are hiring a mature Sr. Manager of Applied Science who is an entrepreneurial big thinker that invents and then biases towards action to solve highest priority customer problems. Our portfolio initiative range from highly confidential innovations to data driven quality problems that needs sciences solutions. You will be leading a team of scientists and partnering with product, engineering and design organizations to building on the latest AGI/LLM systems. If you are holding out for an opportunity to: - Join a leadership group that moves fast towards big audacious goals - Lead an organization to balance solving towards problems while working towards the long term vision - Be surrounded by super passionate mission driven colleagues who will challenge you to grow every day - Solve difficult challenges using your expertise in science to invest practical solutions - Create applications at a massive scale used by millions of people - Work with AGI/LLM systems to deliver real experiences, not just research And you are experienced with… - Driving applied science projects end-to-end from ideation, analysis, prototyping, development, metrics, and monitoring - Conducting deep analyses on massive user and contextual data sets - Proposing viable modeling ideas to advance optimization or efficiency, with supporting argument, data, or, preferably, preliminary results - Designing, developing, and maintaining scalable ML models and LLM's with automated training, validation, monitoring and reporting - Staying familiar with the field and apply state-of-the-art ML techniques to NLP and related optimization problems - Publishing peer-reviewed scientific papers in top journals and conferences And you constantly look for opportunities to… - Innovate, simplify, reduce waste, and increase efficiency - Use data to make decisions and validate assumptions - Automate processes otherwise performed by humans - Learn from others and help those around you grow ...then lets chat! Key job responsibilities As a senior leader, you will play a critical role in elevating the team’s scientific and technical rigor, identifying and implementing best-in-class algorithms, methodologies, and infrastructure that enable rapid experimentation and scaling. You will establish a long-term vision for continued scientific innovation, setting strategic goals to future-proof the organization’s technical stacks and ML/LLM frameworks to support new and emerging business objectives. Additionally, you will grow talents, fostering a culture of excellence and continuous learning to enhance the organization’s ability to solve complex problems.
Senior Applied Scientist, Applied AI Solutions GTM
US, TX, Dallas
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Applied AI Solutions (AAIS) is on a mission to make AI real for enterprises. We build and deploy production AI solutions that drive measurable business outcomes at scale, bringing together applied scientists, AI architects, business development professionals, and GTM specialists to help customers move from AI experimentation to production impact. Within AAIS, the GTM Acceleration team activates the field, measures impact, and scales what works. We are the connective tissue between AAIS product and science teams and the worldwide field organization, ensuring our AI solutions reach customers effectively, that we quantify the value we deliver, and that we build repeatable motions that scale globally. We are looking for an Applied Scientist who will serve as a force multiplier across our customer engagement teams, building the analytical foundations, predictive models, and reusable tooling that power our go-to-market strategy. You will work at the intersection of data science, machine learning, and business strategy, building models that quantify our value proposition, and creating scalable analytical assets that accelerate every engagement. This is a highly visible, high-impact role where your work directly influences how we demonstrate and measure the value of AWS AI solutions for enterprise customers. You will operate with significant autonomy, owning the scientific direction of your projects while collaborating with software engineers, product managers, and business stakeholders. You will identify the right methodology for each problem, whether that is a classical statistical approach, a modern deep learning technique, or a novel combination, and communicate your findings clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences. This role spans Connect Customer initiatives and across the Applied AI solution portfolio, offering the opportunity to pioneer data science approaches that scale intelligent analytics worldwide. If you thrive at the intersection of rigorous science and customer-facing impact and are energized by translating complex model outputs into business decisions, we want to talk to you. Key job responsibilities Design, develop, and deploy statistical models and machine learning pipelines to drive product improvements, business decisions, and customer outcomes Work directly with customers during production pilots to build and deploy AI solutions that demonstrate measurable business value Design and execute A/B experiments and causal inference analyses to measure the impact of new features and model changes Build ROI models, business case tools, and forecasting systems for demand prediction, capacity planning, workforce optimization, and value quantification Apply NLP and generative AI techniques to extract insights from structured and unstructured data at scale, and partner with software engineers to productionize models with reliability, monitoring, and operational excellence Build and own customer analytics capabilities including segmentation (by size tier, AI adoption, product penetration, entitlement), usage trend analysis, propensity modeling, and foundational datasets combining service usage with sales data Create self-service analytics platforms and automated insight delivery mechanisms that enable leadership to pull strategic intelligence on demand Enable field teams with reusable analytical assets, diagnostic notebooks, benchmarking studies, and scalable tooling that accelerate customer engagements Own success metrics and create mechanisms to measure model performance, adoption, and business impact across customer cohorts Define strategic frameworks and GTM recommendations by segment, translating data patterns and market signals into actionable go-to-market motions and investment priorities Communicate findings and technical trade-offs to senior leadership and customer executives through written documents (6-pagers, science reviews) and presentations, operating as a shared resource across 2-3 teams simultaneously About the team Diverse Experiences AWS 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. Inclusive Team Culture AWS values curiosity and connection. Our employee-led and company-sponsored affinity groups promote inclusion and empower our people to take pride in what makes us unique. Our inclusion events foster stronger, more collaborative teams. Our continual innovation is fueled by the bold ideas, fresh perspectives, and passionate voices our teams bring to everything we do. 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.
Data Scientist, AWS Compliance & Security Assurance
US, WA, Seattle
The AWS Compliance & Security Assurance Engineering team builds tools and services that scale AWS's ability to exceed security and compliance expectations for our regulators, auditors, and customers globally. We create efficiencies for our teams while maintaining transparency for our customers. As a Data Scientist on our data team, you'll have a unique opportunity to build solutions that scale security assurance capabilities through AI-driven approaches. You'll leverage advanced analytics, machine learning techniques, and state-of-the-art AI technologies on top of highly complex datasets to transform our security assurance operations. You'll also help shape our data science roadmap, fostering data-driven decision-making and delivering significant business impact through innovative methodologies. The ideal candidate brings a strong background in automation by leveraging GenAI Large Language Models (LLMs), combined with experience analyzing complex datasets and a proven ability to transform business needs into deliverables. If you're passionate about applying AI to security challenges in a dynamic environment that offers startup-like autonomy with enterprise impact, we want to hear from you. Key job responsibilities * Analyze and extract hidden insights from complex, large-scale datasets using advanced statistical and AI techniques, using hands-on expertise in data wrangling and manipulation. * Identify high-impact business improvement opportunities, lead the design and execution of data science initiatives to address them. * Apply statistical and ML knowledge to specific business problems and data. * Leverage Vision Language Models (VLMs) and Large Language Models (LLMs) to analyze document/image structure, perform content understanding and metadata extraction. * Rapidly prototype and test AI solutions, while iterating quickly based on data and feedback. * Collaborate cross-functionally to deeply understand business requirements, customer needs, and technical constraints; transforming discovered information into data-driven solutions and actionable recommendations. * Communicate complex technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders; present compelling insights and evidence-based recommendations to leadership. * Stay up-to-date on the latest advancements in AI and identify opportunities to apply emerging techniques to the space. * Collaborate with Business Intelligence, Data Engineers and SDEs to drive the collection of new data and refinement of existing data sources to continually improve data quality. * Actively participate in team design reviews, data modeling discussions, brainstorming activities while mentoring colleagues in state-of-the-art AI tools and methodologies. About the team Diverse Experiences Amazon Security 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 Amazon Security? At Amazon, security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. Our organization is responsible for creating and maintaining a high bar for security across all of Amazon’s products and services. We offer talented security professionals the chance to accelerate their careers with opportunities to build experience in a wide variety of areas including cloud, devices, retail, entertainment, healthcare, operations, and physical stores. Inclusive Team Culture In Amazon Security, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Ongoing DEI events and learning experiences inspire us to continue learning and to embrace our uniqueness. Addressing the toughest security challenges requires that we seek out and celebrate a diversity of ideas, perspectives, and voices. Training & 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, training, 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 flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.
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