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  • (Updated 21 days ago)
    mmPROS Surface Research Science seeks an exceptional Applied Scientist with expertise in forecasting and risk modeling to optimize Amazon's middle mile transportation network, the backbone of its logistics operations. Amazon's middle mile transportation network utilizes a fleet of semi-trucks, trains, and air planes to transport millions of packages per day as well as other freight between warehouses, vendor facilities, and customers, on time and at low cost. The mmPROS Surface Research Science team delivers innovation, models, algorithms, and other scientific solutions to efficiently plan and operate the middle mile surface (truck and rail) transportation network. The team focuses on large-scale problems in vehicle route planning, capacity procurement, network design, forecasting, and equipment re-balancing. Your role will be to build innovative forecasting, risk quantification, and other machine learning models to decide the optimal long-term and short-term strategy for truck capacity procurement and other planning problems. Your models will impact business decisions worth billions of dollars and improve the delivery experience for millions of customers. You will operate as part of a team of innovative, experienced scientists working on machine learning and optimization problems, and you will work in close collaboration with partners across product, engineering, business intelligence, and operations. Key job responsibilities - Design, develop, and implement forecasting models, risk models, and other machine learning models to inform our hardest planning decisions. - Implement machine learning and risk models in Amazon's production software. - Lead and partner with product, engineering, and operations teams to drive modeling and technical design for complex business problems. - Lead complex modeling and data analyses to aid management in making key business decisions and set new policies. - Write documentation for scientific and business audiences. About the team This role is part of mmPROS Surface Research Science. Our mission is to build the most efficient and optimal transportation network on the planet, using our science and technology as our biggest advantage. We aim to leverage cutting edge technologies in optimization, operations research, and machine learning to grow our businesses and solve Amazon's unique logistical challenges. Scientists in the team work in close collaboration with each other and with partners across product, software engineering, business intelligence, and operations. They regularly interact with software engineering teams and business leadership.
  • (Updated 46 days ago)
    Have you ever ordered a product on Amazon and when that box-with-the-smile arrives, you wonder how it got to you so fast? Ever wondered where it came from and how much it cost Amazon? Wondered how Amazon designs its transportation network to scale and reliably deliver hundreds of millions of package to customer’s doorsteps? If so, EU Fulfillment Optimization team is for you. We use mathematical models, business analytics, algorithm design and statistics to improve decision-making capabilities across Operations and Amazon Logistics. Our objective is to create a reference for what the ideal transportation network looks like and build scalable audit mechanisms to assess and reduce the gap to the current network. We do so by treating system defects as gifts and solve anomalies in systems and their behavior to achieve business goals. We are based out of the EU headquarters in Luxembourg and looking for a talented and motivated Senior Applied Scientists to innovate and enhance our outbound network optimization and management products. In this role, you will solve highly visible problems that are important for senior leaders across organizations. Key job responsibilities We want you solve capacity optimization problems and re-define the way we approach resource allocation. You are someone: >> With business acumen with strategic, analytical, and critical thinking, who can understand the business challenge and develop technical and algorithmic solutions to those problems. >> Who understands technical software development life cycle and have experience to drive research teams towards business solutions >> Who drives strategic product communications across organizations providing clarity in decisions >> Has experience to develop scalable applied science solutions
  • GB, MLN, Edinburgh
    Job ID: 2875931
    (Updated 11 days ago)
    Take Earth's most customer-centric company. Mix in hundreds of millions of shoppers spending tens of billions of pounds annually, an exciting opportunity to build next-generation shopping experiences, Amazon’s tremendous computational resources, and our extensive e-Commerce experience. What do you get? The most exciting Recommendations/Personalization position in the industry. Are you passionate about working on disruptive ideas? Are you obsessed with finding and building the most innovative and customer-friendly user experiences? Have you built and launched new experiences that impact shoppers all around the world? This is a unique opportunity that combines the ability to build exciting, new user experiences for Amazon's customers, with the opportunity to work with Big Data, Machine Learning, and other advanced techniques to provide the best personalized experience for hundreds of millions of Amazon's customers. More about the role: Our organization is growing our focus on the shopping experience for health & personal care, groceries, and other nascent product categories. We are responsible for one of the largest and fastest-growing businesses in the company, and are seeking an applied science manager to build a team of world-class software engineers and scientists that will deliver on an Amazon-critical charter. This team will need to deliver experiences that delight customers and create long-term value for the company. This role requires good technical skills, a deep understanding of machine learning approaches, and a passion for melding ML with great user experience/design. You must have a demonstrated ability for optimizing, developing, launching, and maintaining large-scale production systems. As a key member of the team, you will oversee all aspects of the software lifecycle: design, experimentation, implementation, and testing. You should be willing to dive deep when needed, move rapidly with a bias for action, and get things done. You should have an entrepreneurial spirit, love autonomy, know how to deliver, and long for the opportunity to build pioneering solutions to challenging problems. This role will demand resourcefulness and willingness to learn on both the technical and business side. The challenges we take on can involve a mix of large-scale distributed systems, big data technologies, machine learning science, and require a keen sense of customer obsession and long-term strategic thinking. About you: You're a former engineer or scientist who can see the bigger picture. While your career is full of individual wins, it is now more fulfilling when your team is able to build, deliver, and impress. You enjoy leading and mentoring others, and want to work on projects that require innovative and creative thinking alongside deep technical problem solving. You challenge yourself and others to constantly come up with better solutions, and can deliver on a technical roadmap that serves our customers and the business optimally. You communicate clearly, and hold yourself and your team to a high bar. As an Applied Science Manager, you will be responsible for ensuring your team successfully delivers on design, development, testing, experimentation, and the operations of algorithms, datasets, and systems your team owns. You should have an established track record of launching customer-facing experiences, deep technical ability, and excellent project management and communication skills. This role requires working closely with product management to define strategy and requirements, and leading a development team from design through delivery and subsequent operation. This position will also require regular communication with senior management on status, risks, and strategy. About our organization: Amazon’s Personalization organization is a small, high-performing group that leverages Amazon’s expertise in machine learning, big data, and distributed systems to deliver the best shopping experiences for our customers. We work end-to-end, from foundational backend systems to future-forward user interfaces. Our team’s culture is centered on rapid prototyping, rigorous experimentation, and data-driven decision-making. We run hundreds of experiments each year and our work has revolutionized e-commerce with features such as “Customers Who Bought Also Bought” and “Recommended for You”. We care deeply about our customers, as well as the well-being and growth of our team members. Amazon’s internal surveys regularly recognize us as one of the best engineering organizations to work for in the company, with visible high-impact work, low operational load, respectful work-life balance, and continual opportunity to learn and grow. This is a track record we are proud of and will continue to uphold. We are looking for creative and innovative leaders with a similar penchant for deeply-technical problem solving and the ability to lead, mentor, and deliver while upholding Amazon’s leadership principles.
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 2853056
    (Updated 21 days ago)
    "We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It's our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better." - Jeff Bezos, Founder & CEO. We didn’t make Amazon a trillion-dollar company, our customers did and we want to ensure that our customers always have a positive experience that keeps them coming back to Amazon. To help achieve this, the Worldwide Defect Elimination (WWDE) team relentlessly focuses on maintaining customer trust by building products that offer appropriate resolutions to resolve issues faced by our customers. WWDE scientists solve complex problems and build scalable solutions to eliminate systemic defects and prevent future issues. As a Sr. Applied Scientist, your role is pivotal in leveraging advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) techniques to address customer issues at scale. You'll lead the development of innovative solutions that detect and organize issues, identify root causes, and route them to resolving teams across the company. You will leverage a spectrum of scientific techniques across both classical ML and Natural Language Processing/Generative AI (NLP/GenAI) to comb over our billions of customer interactions (using a combination of media). In this role, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams (Product, Engineering, Program) and contribute to advancing the state of defect elimination research. Key job responsibilities - Deliver solutions to the core business problems and influencing business partners - Research and develop modeling techniques for NLP, DL, and ML - Establish scientific culture and standards for all the scientists (publication, best practices, reviews, etc.) - Develop scientific talent on the team A day in the life 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: - Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage - Maternity and Parental Leave Options - Paid Time Off (PTO) - 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
  • RO, Iasi
    Job ID: 2841314
    (Updated 77 days ago)
    In Stores Security, we develop authorization solutions using attribute-based access control (ABAC) to enable Amazon to enforce fine-grained access control (FGAC) on sensitive data. We create logging solutions that generate access events from thousands of services for evidence collection. Additionally, we implement rule-based and machine learning systems to monitor access to customer data, detect anomalous activities, and demonstrate compliance. We are seeking a talented, self-directed Applied Scientist to work on the cutting edge security technologies. You'll design and run experiments, research new algorithms, and find new ways of protecting Amazon's customer trust. Besides theoretical analysis and innovation, you will work closely with talented engineers to put your algorithms and models into practice. You should thrive in ambiguous environments that require to find solutions to problems that have not been solved before. You enjoy and succeed in fast paced environments where learning new concepts quickly is a must. You leverage your exceptional technical expertise, a sound understanding of the fundamentals of Computer Science, and practical experience in building large-scale distributed systems. Your strong communication skills enable you to work effectively with both business and technical partners. Key job responsibilities - Process and analyze large data sets using as many techniques as necessary - Deliver scalable models that can analyze large data sets efficiently - Build mathematical models to detect and classify specific data elements with high accuracy - Prototype these models by using high-level modeling languages such as Python. A software team will be working with you to transform prototypes into production. - Create, enhance, and maintain technical documentation, and present to other scientists and business leaders.
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 2848234
    (Updated 21 days ago)
    The Worldwide Defect Elimination (WWDE) team within Amazon Customer Service is seeking a highly skilled economist to estimate the customer impact of each customer service action. Your analysis will assist teams across Amazon to prioritize defect elimination efforts and optimize how we respond to customer contacts. You will partner closely with our product, program, and engineering teams to deliver your findings to users via systems and dashboards that guide Customer Service planning and policies. Key job responsibilities - Develop causal, economic, and machine learning models at scale. - Engage in economic analysis; raise the bar for research. - Inform strategic discussions with senior leaders across the company to guide policies. A day in the life If you are not sure that every qualification on the list above describes you exactly, we'd still love to hear from you! At Amazon, we value people with unique backgrounds, experiences, and skillsets. If you’re passionate about this role and want to make an impact on a global scale, please apply! Amazon offers a full range of benefits that support you and eligible family members, including domestic partners and their children. Benefits can vary by location, the number of regularly scheduled hours you work, length of employment, and job status such as seasonal or temporary employment. The benefits that generally apply to regular, full-time employees include: * Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage * Maternity and Parental Leave Options * Paid Time Off (PTO) * 401(k) Plan About the team The WWDE team's mission is to understand and resolve all issues impacting customers and connect all organizations in Amazon to customer experiences. Our vision is to be the ultimate steward of the Voice of the Customer (VoC), empowering customer service, and Amazon teams to easily measure, listen, and act on customer feedback. The team broadly supports defect detection, root cause identification, and resolution to earn customer trust. The Customer Service Economics & Optimization team is a force multiplier within this group. Through causal analysis, we estimate the effectiveness of our efforts to delight the customer.
  • US, WA, Seattle
    Job ID: 2863543
    (Updated 21 days ago)
    The Worldwide Defect Elimination (WWDE) Team within Amazon Customer Service is seeking a highly skilled economist to estimate the customer impact of each Customer Service action. Your analysis will assist teams across Amazon to prioritize defect elimination efforts and optimize how we respond to customer contacts. You will partner closely with our product, program, and engineering teams to deliver your findings to users via systems and dashboards that guide Customer Service planning and policies. Key job responsibilities - Develop causal, economic, and machine learning models at scale. - Engage in economic analysis; raise the bar for research. - Inform strategic discussions with senior leaders across the company to guide policies. A day in the life If you are not sure that every qualification on the list above describes you exactly, we'd still love to hear from you! At Amazon, we value people with unique backgrounds, experiences, and skillsets. If you’re passionate about this role and want to make an impact on a global scale, please apply! Amazon offers a full range of benefits that support you and eligible family members, including domestic partners and their children. Benefits can vary by location, the number of regularly scheduled hours you work, length of employment, and job status such as seasonal or temporary employment. The benefits that generally apply to regular, full-time employees include: * Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage * Maternity and Parental Leave Options * Paid Time Off (PTO) * 401(k) Plan About the team The WWDE team's mission is to understand and resolve all issues impacting customers and connect all organizations in Amazon to customer experiences. Our vision is to be the ultimate steward of the Voice of the Customer (VoC), empowering CS and Amazon teams to easily measure, listen, and act on customer feedback. The team broadly supports defect detection, root cause identification, and resolution to earn customer trust. The Customer Service Economics & Optimization team is a force multiplier within this group. Through causal analysis, we estimate the effectiveness of our efforts to delight the customer.
  • US, CA, Santa Clara
    Job ID: 2875053
    (Updated 21 days ago)
    Amazon AI is looking for an Applied Scientist to join our science team in the area of Multimodal Learning, Large Language Models, Natural Language Processing and Speech/Audio Representation Learning. Our organization develops the science that drives the cloud-based AI services of AWS. Our mission is to put the power of AI into the hands of every developer. We seek to advance the state of the art in machine learning to create services that delight our customers and meet real-world business needs. As an Applied Scientist you will partner with talented scientists and engineers to design, train, test, and deploy machine learning models. You will contribute to innovative features, improve our services based on customer requirements and help maintain a highly scalable data and model management infrastructure that supports cutting-edge research. You will be responsible for translating business and engineering requirements into deliverables and software products. We are looking for candidates who thrive in an exciting, fast-paced environment and who have a strong personal interest in learning, researching, and creating new technologies with high customer impact. Prior domain knowledge in multimodal learning, unsupervised speech/audio representations, natural language processing, or computer vision is strongly preferred; solid knowledge of fundamentals of statistics, machine learning, and deep learning is required. Candidates should possess strong software engineering skills and several years of industry experience. About the team About AWS 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. This team is part of AWS Utility Computing: 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.
  • US, CA, Sunnyvale
    Job ID: 2850021
    (Updated 21 days ago)
    Are you passionate about pushing the boundaries of computer vision and machine learning to create innovative consumer products? Join Amazon Lab126's Camera and Sensors Group in shaping the future of wearables, Echo devices, Fire TVs, and consumer robotics. About the Role: As a Principal Applied Scientist, you will lead cutting-edge productization of computer vision and machine learning, directly impacting millions of customers worldwide. You'll work with a diverse team of engineers and scientists to solve complex problems and bring revolutionary products to market. Key job responsibilities Key Responsibilities: * Drive strategic vision and long-term roadmap for camera and sensor technologies, influencing product teams and aligning direction across technology, silicon, and devices organizations * Lead groundbreaking ML/CV innovations, focusing on differentiated hardware technologies for advanced camera and sensor capabilities * Architect and implement state-of-the-art ML models for edge computing in consumer products, optimizing for performance and efficiency * Guide the development of next-generation AI-enabled devices, including wearables, Echo devices, Fire TVs, and robotics * Guide the invention and design of next-generation wearables, Echo devices, Fire TVs, and robotics * Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate ML solutions into hardware designs * Mentor and develop team members, fostering innovation and technical excellence About the team At Amazon, we're guided by our Leadership Principles, including "Customer Obsession," "Invent and Simplify," and "Learn and Be Curious." We value innovative thinking and diverse perspectives to solve complex challenges. This role offers a unique opportunity to work on ML applications that directly improve people's daily lives. You'll be part of a collaborative team integrating AI into everyday devices, making advanced technology accessible to all. We're committed to fostering an inclusive environment where everyone can do their best work and maintain a healthy work-life balance.
  • (Updated 34 days ago)
    The Amazon Postdoctoral Science Program offers recent PhD graduates an exciting opportunity to gain hands-on industry experience, apply their specialized knowledge, and collaborate with Amazon's leading scientists. This program is designed for researchers who have completed their PhD within the past two years and are eager to bridge academia and industry, driving innovation at scale. “This program provides an excellent and fun opportunity to work on cutting-edge customer-obsessed research and learn from and collaborate with some of the brightest researchers and leading experts at Amazon,” said Sareh Nabi, a postdoctoral scientist in Amazon Ads who is participating in a postdoc pilot program. “It also provides a great platform to take the skillset I learned and apply it to a wide range of real-world applications on a large scale.” “This is an opportunity for outstanding researchers to work with us on our hardest scientific challenges,” said Jeremy Wyatt, senior manager of Amazon Robotics AI. “Amazon postdoctoral scientists will pursue exploratory work on our hardest problems, gaining industry experience and publishing the results in the best scientific venues.” Postdoctoral scientists will contribute to high-impact research initiatives, advance cutting-edge scientific developments, and publish their work in top-tier scientific journals. Participants will benefit from mentorship, access to Amazon's world-class resources, and exposure to real-world challenges with immediate customer impact. **Focus Areas** We are seeking candidates with expertise in foundational and applied research, particularly in: - Large Language Models (LLMs): Experience developing, fine-tuning, and scaling LLMs for diverse applications. - Graph Databases: Strong understanding of graph theory, data modeling, and implementation of graph database technologies in complex systems. - Mathematical Optimization: Good understanding of mathematical optimization, including mixed-integer optimization, combinatorial optimization, and robust optimization. **Basic Qualifications** - PhD in a relevant field (e.g., Computer Science, Operations Research, Mathematics, Statistics) received within 2 years of program start date. - Proven publication record in areas such as LLM, NLP, Generative AI, Graph Database, or other relevant domains. - Hands-on experience with technologies related to large language models, graph databases, and mathematical optimization. Preferred qualifications Postdocs demonstrate the following preferred job qualifications: - Ability to independently deliver results in a fast-paced environment - Publications at top-tier, peer-reviewed conferences and/or journals such as NurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CIKM, ICDE - Exceptional verbal and written communication skills - Expert knowledge in modeling and performance, operationalization, and scalability of scientific techniques and establishing decision strategies Required application materials: - CV, which lists all peer-reviewed publications and conferences - Research statement that outlines your research achievements and future research interests, and - A journal article or book chapter that demonstrates your domain expertise

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