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The Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) team is looking for a passionate, talented, and innovative principal applied scientist with a strong background in deep learning, to help build industry-leading technology with Large Language Models (LLMs) and multimodal systems. Key job responsibilities As a Senior Applied Scientist within the AGI team, you will work with world-class scientists and engineers to develop novel data, modeling and engineering solutions to support the responsible AI initiatives at AGI. Your work will directly impact our customers in the form of products and services that make use of AI technology. You will leverage Amazon’s heterogeneous data sources and large-scale computing resources to accelerate advances in AGI in order to provide the best-possible experience for our customers. About the team Our team has a mission to push the envelope of AGI, in order to provide the best-possible experience for our customers.

Amazon's Pricing and Promotions Science is seeking a strong Applied Scientist II for work on deep causal learning. This work provides business-critical insights into pricing strategies that are of interest to Amazon's most senior leaders. We are looking for a talented, technically skilled scientist with a strong sense of ownership and drive to join the Impact Intelligence team. This team's charter is to build causal models that (a) provide entitlements of key business programs, and (b) generate trustworthy signals for use in a multitude of downstream ML systems that have visible impact on the customer experience worldwide. Key job responsibilities - Build scalable solutions. We operate on large-scale data to drive insights from complex environments. - Approach with rigor. Due to the lack of ground truth inherent in causal questions, we expect our scientists to maintain high standards on the care put into their models. - Stay current. We obsess over what resources we can use to iterate on our model designs, and we expect our scientists to stay up-to-date with the latest approaches to causal learning.

Are you excited about solving complex business problems at scale through Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI)? Are you fascinated about the application of Large Language Models (LLMs) on real-life scenarios? Are you looking to invent solutions using Artificial Intelligence (AI)? If so, we are looking for you to fill a challenging position on Amazon's Trustworthy Shopping Experience (TSE) team. At TSE, our vision is to guarantee customers a worry-free shopping experience by earning their trust that the products they buy are safe, authentic, and compliant with regulations and policy, and giving them the confidence that Amazon stands behind every product and will make it right in the rare chance anything goes wrong. We do this in close partnership with our selling partners and empower them with best-in-class tools and expertise required to offer a high-quality selection of compliant products that customers trust. When we do this consistently, we help selling partners grow their business and power their long-term success. As a Senior Applied Scientist on the team, you will be responsible for delivering the science solutions required to automate complex manual investigation processes, especially by leveraging LLMs. You will handle Amazon scale use-cases with significant impact to the cost of serving Customers. Key job responsibilities - You invent and design new solutions for scientifically-complex problem areas and/or opportunities in existing or new business initiatives. - You design experiments and define the science approach to solve critical business use-cases for automating manual work that involves unstructured text, documents, images, symbols, etc. - Your work focuses on ambiguous problem areas at the product level, where the business problem or opportunity may not yet be crisply defined. - You drive or heavily influence the design of scientifically-complex software solutions or systems, for which you personally write significant parts of the critical scientific novelty. - You provide a system-wide view and design guidance for solutions that can be brand new or evolve from existing ones. - You apply and set the example for best practices in software engineering, and systematically peer review code written by your team members. - You set standards and proactively drive components to use and improve on state-of-the-art techniques. - You autonomously drive thoughtful discussions with customers, engineers, and scientist peers, and build consensus on larger projects and factor complex efforts into independent tasks that can be performed by you and others. About the team Investigation technology Product team in TSE is responsible for the human-in-the-loop products and technology used in the risk investigations at Amazon. The team is also responsible for reducing the cost of performing the investigations, by automating wherever possible and optimizing the experience where manual interventions are needed. The team leverages state-of-the art technology and GenAI to deliver the products and associated goals.

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 one of the world’s leading digital video services, and we’re just getting started changing the way millions of people around the world enjoy content. Now available in more than 200 countries and territories, Prime Video offers customers the broadest selection of any on-demand video service, including our critically-acclaimed Amazon Originals Series such as The Boys, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, The Underground Railroad; UK-produced hit Amazon Original series like Good Omens, The Grand Tour, All or Nothing: Tottenham Hotspur and forthcoming drama series like The Power, Jungle and The Rig; exclusive TV shows like Nine Perfect Strangers and Little Fires Everywhere; and movies like Coming 2 America, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm and Without Remorse plus live sport including ATP and WTA Tour and US Open Tennis, Autumn Nations rugby and Premier League football. Amazon Studios is the movies and television development and production arm of Amazon. It is our role to produce original content and license studio programs worldwide in exclusive service of Amazon’s Prime Video customers. We need your passion, innovative ideas, and creativity to help take us to new heights. Do you want to work at the intersection of Engineering, Machine Learning, Data Science, and GenAI? Do you like inventing, growing and learning from the world-class engineers and scientists? If so, we want to hear from you! We are seeking a seasoned senior scientist with expertise in computer vision to join the Amazon Studios AI Labs team. This is a hybrid applied science and engineering team that is developing bleeding edge AI solutions to enhance efficiency, elevate creativity, and ultimately redefine industry standards, ensuring that every decision is accelerated by intelligence and foresight. We need your passion, innovative ideas, and creativity to help take us to new heights. Key job responsibilities We are looking for a Senior Applied Scientist with domain expertise in Computer Vision who wil lead development of new algorithms and E2E solutions. You will be part of a team of applied scientists and software development engineers responsible for research, design, development and deployment of algorithms into production pipelines. As a technologist, you will also drive publications of original work in top-tier conferences in Computer Vision and Machine Learning. You will be expected to deal with ambiguity! We're looking for someone with outstanding analytical abilities and someone comfortable working with cross-functional teams and systems. You must be a self-starter and be able to learn on the go. A day in the life As a senior applied scientist at Amazon, you'll be diving deep into groundbreaking computer vision and ML challenges. Your typical day involves architecting large-scale ML systems, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and mentoring junior scientists. You'll start with stand-ups, then transition to developing novel CV algorithms for product features impacting millions of customers. Afternoons often include technical deep-dives, reviewing research papers, and driving technical strategy discussions with leadership. You'll work with massive datasets, optimize model performance, and ensure production readiness. We value your ability to balance scientific innovation with practical business impact while maintaining Amazon's high technical bar. #AmazonCareers #MachineLearning #ComputerVision About the team This role is in a team that is building a new family of AI products for Amazon Studios. This team is considered strategic and has visibility with Prime Video Amazon Studios leadership at the highest levels. The role offers a chance to build and launch new AI services from the ground up, contribute to exceeding the state of the art in computer vision (CV) and machine learning (ML) technology, and work closely with an exceptional group of product, engineering, and science leaders.

Have you ever wondered how Amazon selects the offer(s) for a given product from potentially hundreds of sellers selling the same item? It is one of the most critical models in Amazon and one of the most visible ones on the web. Whenever you see price, anywhere on Amazon, in any locale, it is calling this model at the backend. This is an opportunity to work with the team, Featured Merchant Algorithm, that develops and maintains this model. It drives one of the most coveted real estate in the e-commerce industry, the “Offer Display” across all surfaces (mobile app, mobile web, desktop, Alexa shopping) worldwide. The team's vision is to simplify Amazon shopping experience by helping customers discover and evaluate offers to find the right option for their shopping journey. We use Machine Learning models to select, rank and feature the most relevant offers to customers. Our model serves hundreds of millions of Amazon customers, handles millions of requests per second for hundreds of millions of products and billions of offers across the world. We are looking for an Applied Scientist to join this high impact, high visibility team. You will lead the development and expansion of the next generation of the featured offer selection models. These new models will incorporate the continually changing preferences of our customers and continue to scale with numerous new programs that Amazon is introducing for our customers. You will work with multiple Amazon businesses and programs to identify big business opportunities and propose new business features and technical systems to improve customer experience. As a team, we own the end-to-end life cycle of models – estimation, simulation and experimentation. We work in the interface of Artificial Intelligence, Statistics and Econometrics. Your work will cut across various sub-disciplines like Causal Inference, Bayesian Modeling, Deep Learning, Counterfactual Estimation and Evaluation, Multi-armed Bandits, and High-dimensional Multivariate Experiments. You will be responsible for the quality of the model and will get the opportunity to present your ideas and share results of your deliverables with Amazon executives and Amazon scholars on a regular basis. As a senior scientist, you will be collaborating with junior scientists to define and enforce broad, company-wide technical standards in statistical modeling, optimization and simulation techniques. Why is this a great opportunity? - We impact the global Amazon retail business: We are at the center of Amazon's retail universe. As a part of the broader Buying Experience org, we work closely with other Retail teams like Search, Pricing, Cart, Checkout, Delivery Experience, Ultra Fast Grocery, Subscribe-n-Save, etc. We build systems that are used every time a customer sees any item on the Amazon website (globally) and help them in making purchase decisions. As a result, we constantly strive to earn and preserve the customer trust. Our impact is typically measured in hundreds of millions of dollars. - We are diverse: Our team is diverse in terms of expertise (SDE/Scientists/Economists/Data Engineer/Product Manager), nationality (10 countries), experience (college graduate to industry veteran), tech-stacks (AWS, Datapath), and office locations (Seattle, Bangalore, Berlin, Vancouver). - We prioritize learning: Work alongside some of Amazon’s smartest engineers, scientists, economists, and product managers. We have one Principal Economist and two Principal SDE in the team to learn from. We regularly take ML courses and present/teach at internal and external forums. We innovate, publish, and file patents. We regularly review our models with academics like Michael Jordan, Guido Imbens, and Alberto Abadie. - We ensure work-life balance: Our team works together to provide work-life harmony for all team members. We recognize that the circumstances of our team members vary, and we balance work across the team so that we are all able to maintain high standards on behalf of our customers, while at the same time allowing for rich and happy personal lives. - We have fun: We find ways to relax and unwind with team events and group lunches. If you are ready to truly make an impact on a product that is used by hundreds of millions of people around the world, including your own friends and family, then we would love to talk to you. Key job responsibilities - Influence: Drive the scientific vision of the team. Present ideas to the senior leadership, build consensus, lead cross-org collaborations, and mentor junior engineers and scientists. - Execution: Deliver tactical solutions with strategic thinking to create reusable scientific components, resolving immediate challenges while building for future scalability. - Knowledge: Keep abreast of the trends in academia and industry – know the state-of-the-art. Publish papers and file patents to contribute to the broader scientific community inside and outside the company. - Scientific complexity: Innovate and extend scientific methods to address customers’ needs or business problems. - Engineering complexity: Partner with engineering to transform complex technical requirements into production solutions while optimizing performance tradeoffs. - Technical judgement: Be a pragmatic problem solver, applying judgment and experience to balance the technical trade-offs and how the applied scientific solution is positioned with respect to the state-of-the-art.

We are seeking a talented Applied Scientist to join our team and help us build innovative systems at the intersection of machine learning and quantitative marketing. We develop new measurement and optimization tools that enable Amazon to make smart marketing investment decisions. This role will impact billions of dollars of decision-making by Amazon’s most strategic businesses. Our most effective tools are released to external advertisers too, defining new industry standards. What makes us unique is our comprehensive data, our world-class engineering systems and a high concentration of some of the most talented scientists and engineers in industry. As a successful candidate, you will be passionate about building scalable systems. You'll be comfortable with ambiguity and have exceptional technical acumen. You'll be up to speed on the latest research, and capable of developing new techniques at the intersection of causal inference, reinforcement learning and quantitative marketing. You will lead other scientists by example, with crisp technical writing and frequent presentations. Key job responsibilities - Build end-to-end causal machine learning solutions. - Perform hands-on analysis and modeling with enormous data sets to better understand how advertising influences shopper behavior. - Run A/B experiments that affect millions of customers to evaluate the impact of your solutions. - Spearhead new research agendas and own delivering on commitments. - Work closely with engineering to design systems that facilitate high velocity science exploration and quick prototype-to-prod timelines. - Develop novel methods at the intersection of causal inference, machine learning and quantitative marketing. - Present original research at internal and external conferences. About the team Our team is a dynamic mix of scientists who are passionate about innovating. We are excited to evaluate our novel causal models and optimization algorithms against ground truth generated by large-scale experiments. We think big, take risks and stay grounded.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world leader in providing a highly reliable, scalable, low-cost infrastructure platform in the cloud that powers hundreds of thousands of businesses in 190 countries around the world! Passionate about building, owning and operating massively scalable systems? Want to make a billion-dollar impact? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you. The AWS Managed Operations (MO) organization was founded in April 2023, with the objective to reduce operational load and toil through long-term engineering projects. MO is building the best-in-class engineering and operations team that will own the day-to-day operations for AWS Regions; improving the availability, reliability, latency, performance and efficiency to operate AWS regions. The AWS Managed Operations Data Science (MODS) Team is looking for a Data Scientist to lead the research and thought leadership to drive our data and insight strategy for AWS. You will be expected to serve as a Full Stack Data Scientist. You will be responsible for driving data-driven transformation across the organization. In this role, you will be responsible for the end-to-end data science lifecycle, from data exploration and feature engineering and ETL to model development. You will leverage a diverse set of tools and technologies, including SQL, Python, Spark, Hugging Face and various machine learning frameworks, to tackle complex business problems and uncover valuable insights. Your product analytics research will provide direction on the technology strategy of the Managed Operations organization. Your Decision Science artifacts will provide insights that inform AWS' Operations and Site Reliability Engineering teams. You will work on ambiguous and complex business and research science problems at scale. You are and comfortable working with cross-functional teams and systems. This position requires that the candidate selected be a U.S. citizen. 10012 Key job responsibilities - Collaboration & Cross Functional Relationships: Interact with business and software teams to understand their business requirements and operational processes - Data Exploration and Analysis: Conduct in-depth exploratory data analysis to understand the structure, quality, and patterns within complex datasets. Apply statistical and machine learning techniques to extract insights, identify trends, and uncover hidden relationships in the data. - Business Insights and Recommendations: Frame business problems into scalable solutions; translate complex data insights and model outputs into actionable recommendations that address the organization's strategic objectives. - Data Pipeline and Infrastructure: Contribute to the design and implementation of data pipelines, data lakes, and other data infrastructure components to support the organization's data-driven initiatives. - Metric Development and Monitoring: Define and develop advanced, customized metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs) that capture the nuances of the organization's strategic objectives and operational complexities. Continuously monitor and evaluate the performance of metrics - Prototype models by using high-level modeling languages such as R or in software languages such as Python. A software team will be working with you to transform prototypes into production. - Documentation & Continuous Improvement: Create, enhance, and maintain technical documentation A day in the life 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. Utility Computing (UC) AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations — from foundational services such as Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWS’s services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization, you’ll support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Internet of Things (IoT), Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS, including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services. Inclusive Team Culture Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness. Work/Life Balance We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud. Mentorship and Career Growth We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional. Diverse Experiences Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying. About the team The MODS team is driven by a shared vision of achieving operational excellence through data analytics and machine learning. We provide actionable insights to allow our stakeholders to manage operational posture and operator experience and drive sustainable, safe, and efficient operations. We define, monitor, and predict metrics to provide recommendations on AWS operations that are diagnostic (why something happened), predictive (what will happen) and prescriptive (best course of action) in nature. We are a customer obsessed team driving lean operations in all of AWS through actionable insights and data strategies that drive process improvement. This position requires that the candidate selected be a U.S. citizen.

We are hiring a Senior Economist with the ability to disambiguate very challenging structural problems in two and multi-sided markets. The right hire will be able to dive deep into the data to come up with stylized facts, build reduced form models that motivate structural assumptions, and build to more complex structural models. The main use case will be understanding how the incremental effects of subsidies to a two sided market relate to sales motions characterized by principal agent problems. Key job responsibilities This role with interface directly with product owners, scientists/economists, and leadership to create multi-year research agendas that drive step change growth for the business. This role is important for the development of the strategic direction of the AWS Central Economics and Science team. The role will also be an important collaborator with other science teams at AWS. A day in the life Our team takes big swings and works on hard cross organizational problems where the optimal success rate is not 100%. We also ask people to grow their skills and stretch and make sure we do it in a supportive and fun environment. It’s about empirically measured impact, advancement, and fun on our team. We work hard during work hours but we also don’t encourage working at nights or on weekends except in very rare, high stakes cases. Burn out isn’t a successful long run strategy. Because we invest in the long run success of our group it’s important to have hobbies, relax and then come to work refreshed, and excited. It makes for bigger impact and faster skill accrual and thus career advancement. About the team Our group is technically rigorous and encourages ongoing academic conference participation and publication. Our leaders are here for you and to enable you to be successful. We believe in being servant leaders focused on influence: good data work has little value if it doesn’t translate into actionable insights that are rolled out and impact the real economy. We are communication centric since being able to explain what we do ensures high success rates and lowers administrative churn. Also: we laugh a lot. If it’s not fun, what’s the point?

Are you a brilliant mind seeking to push the boundaries of what's possible with intelligent robotics? Join our elite team of researchers and engineers - led by Pieter Abeel, Rocky Duan, and Peter Chen - at the forefront of applied science, where we're harnessing the latest advancements in large language models (LLMs) and generative AI to reshape the world of robotics and unlock new realms of innovation. As an Applied Science Intern, you'll have the unique opportunity to work alongside world-renowned experts, gaining invaluable hands-on experience with cutting-edge robotics technologies. You'll dive deep into exciting research projects at the intersection of AI and robotics. This internship is not just about executing tasks – it's about being a driving force behind groundbreaking discoveries. You'll collaborate with cross-functional teams, leveraging your expertise in areas such as deep learning, reinforcement learning, computer vision, and motion planning to tackle real-world problems and deliver impactful solutions. Throughout your journey, you'll have access to unparalleled resources, including state-of-the-art computing infrastructure, cutting-edge research papers, and mentorship from industry luminaries. This immersive experience will not only sharpen your technical skills but also cultivate your ability to think critically, communicate effectively, and thrive in a fast-paced, innovative environment where bold ideas are celebrated. Join us at the forefront of applied robotics and AI, where your contributions will shape the future of intelligent systems and propel humanity forward. Seize this extraordinary opportunity to learn, grow, and leave an indelible mark on the world of technology. Amazon has positions available in San Francisco, CA. The ideal candidate should possess: - Strong background in machine learning, deep learning, and/or robotics - Publication record at science conferences such as NeurIPS, CVPR, ICRA, RSS, CoRL, and ICLR. - Experience in areas such as multimodal LLMs, world models, image/video tokenization, real2Sim/Sim2real transfer, bimanual manipulation, open-vocabulary panoptic scene understanding, scaling up multi-modal LLMs, and end-to-end vision-language-action models. - Proficiency in Python, Experience with PyTorch or JAX - Excellent problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and the ability to work collaboratively in a team Join us at the forefront of applied robotics and AI, and be a part of the team that's reshaping the future of intelligent systems. Apply now and embark on an extraordinary journey of discovery and innovation! Key job responsibilities - Develop novel, scalable algorithms and modeling techniques that advance the state-of-the-art in areas at the intersection of LLMs and generative AI for robotics - Tackle challenging, groundbreaking research problems on production-scale data, with a focus on robotic perception, manipulation, and control - Collaborate with cross-functional teams to solve complex business problems, leveraging your expertise in areas such as deep learning, reinforcement learning, computer vision, and motion planning - Demonstrate the ability to work independently, thrive in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment, and communicate effectively with diverse stakeholders

Do you want to be part of a team that's revolutionizing Amazon's fulfillment and packaging technology? Can you commit to optimizing systems that process tens-of-millions of customer packages daily with the lowest cost to serve and a defect-free customer experience? Do you have a passion for solving complex science challenges and building a sustainable e-commerce experience? Your Optimization skills can help make that a reality on the Mechatronics and Sustainable Packaging team. We are seeking a Principal Applied Scientist/Operations Researcher who will join a team of experts in the field of Machine Learning (ML), Statistics, Operational Research, Computer Vision and Generative AI to work together to break new ground in the world of automated packaging solutions. You'll work in a collaborative environment where you can pursue ambitious research with many peta-bytes of data, work on problems that haven’t been solved before, quickly implement and deploy your algorithmic ideas at scale, understand whether they succeed via statistically relevant experiments across millions of customers, and publish your research. You'll see the work you do directly improve the packaging experience of Amazon customers in the fulfillment technology space. If you are interested in robotics, computer vision, machine learning, operations research, statistics, big data, and building scalable solutions, this role is for you. The successful candidate will have a PhD in Operations Research (OR), Computer Science, or Engineering with a strong focus on constrained optimization and 10+ years of practical experience solving complex OR problems. Manufacturing, packaging and/or logistic experience is a plus, but not a requirement Key job responsibilities - Advance exploratory research projects in operations research , machine learning, and related fields to create defect-free packaging customer experiences - Analyze large amounts of Amazon shipments to discover patterns, find opportunities, and develop highly innovative, scalable algorithms to seize these opportunities - Validate new or improved models via statistically relevant experiments across millions of customers - Work closely with software engineering teams to build scalable prototypes for testing, and integrate successful models and algorithms in production systems at very large scale