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As part of the AWS Applied AI Solutions organization, we're advancing the frontier of visual reasoning and agentic AI technologies. Our vision is to develop sophisticated AI systems that can understand, interpret, and reason about visual information at human-like levels, enabling breakthrough applications across multiple industries. The Team Our research team is tackling fundamental challenges in visual reasoning that combine generative AI and agentic frameworks. We're investigating novel approaches to how AI systems understand spatial relationships, reason about object interactions, and maintain contextual awareness across time. Working at the intersection of computer vision and large language models, we're developing theoretical frameworks and practical techniques that advance the state-of-the-art in visual AI. Key job responsibilities - Develop a novel agentic AI framework to solve diverse visual AI challenges in the physical world - Advance the theory and practice of multi-modal foundation models for visual understanding - Design new approaches to memory and attention mechanisms for processing continuous visual streams - Create innovative techniques for efficient visual processing that can scale to real-world applications - Research new methods for autonomous decision-making based on visual inputs - Investigate approaches to reduce the computational and data requirements of visual reasoning systems A day in the life As an Applied Scientist, you'll conduct fundamental research in visual reasoning while maintaining a clear path to practical applications. You'll investigate novel architectural approaches, develop new theoretical frameworks, and validate ideas through rigorous experimentation. You'll collaborate with other scientists and engineers to transform research insights into scalable solutions, publish your findings in top-tier conferences, and help shape the future direction of visual AI technology. About the team AWS Solutions As part of the AWS solutions organization, we have a vision to provide business applications, leveraging Amazon's unique experience and expertise, that are used by millions of companies worldwide to manage day-to-day operations. We will accomplish this by accelerating our customers' businesses through delivery of intuitive and differentiated technology solutions that solve enduring business challenges. we blend vision with curiosity and Amazon's real-world experience to build opinionated, turnkey solutions. Where customers prefer to buy over build, we become their trusted partner with solutions that are no-brainers to buy and easy to use. 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.

Amazon Japan Store Tech (JST) Science team serves as the core science division of JP Store Tech, with the vision to enable and accelerate the best-in-class CX through state-of-the-art machine learning technologies. This team owns the science vision definition, science roadmap planning, and science solution delivery in key business areas in Japan including Search, Customer Growth and Engagement, Personalization and Delivery. As an Applied Scientist, you will design, implement and deliver models on Amazon site, helping millions of customers every day to find quickly what they are looking for. You will propose innovation to build ML models trained on terabytes of product and traffic data, which are evaluated using both offline metrics as well as online metrics from A/B testing. You will then integrate these models into the production system that serves customers, closing the loop through data, modeling, application, and customer feedback. The chosen approaches for model architecture will balance business-defined performance metrics with the needs of millisecond response times. Key job responsibilities * Invent or adapt new scientific approaches, models or algorithms inspired and driven by customers’ needs and benefits at the project level. * Analyze data and identify the gaps in existing solutions, and propose innovative science solutions. * Contribute to research papers that are published at peer-reviewed internal and/or external venues, and contribute to the wider scientific community. * Working with teams worldwide on global projects. About the team Your benefits include: * Working on a high-impact, high-visibility product, with your work improving the experience of millions of customers * The opportunity to use (and innovate) state-of-the-art ML methods to solve real-world problems with tangible customer impact * Being part of a growing team where you can influence the team's mission, direction, and how we achieve our goals

Amazon’s Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) organization is developing a next-generation web search system to support RAG applications across Amazon. We are looking for a Applied Scientist with expertise in information retrieval (IR) and ranking to join the team! If you are looking for an opportunity to develop innovative solutions to deep technical problems in web-scale IR, having a massive customer impact, this might be the role for you! As a Applied Scientist, you will work with smart, passionate colleagues in a fast-paced environment. You will invent, develop, and help deploy novel, scalable algorithms to advance the state-of-the-art in our IR stack. You will keep up with relevant research in the field of IR and publish your work in top-tier conferences. You will develop and help lead the execution of multi-year research roadmaps, enabling the team to focus on the right technical challenges to delight our customers. Key job responsibilities As an Applied Scientist, you will apply scientific rigor to your work. You will deliver incrementally, setting up and executing experiments informed by rigorous failure space analysis of prior experiments. You have a knack for writing clear, succinct and informative reports of your experiments. You collaborate and seek guidance from other scientists on your team to define the next experiments. You collaborate closely with engineers to bring your innovations into production. You work continuously with customers and stakeholders to simplify and adapt to deliver for our customers.

Do you want to join an innovative team of scientists who use machine learning and statistical techniques to help Amazon provide the best customer experience by protecting Amazon customers from hackers and bad actors? Do you want to build advanced algorithmic systems that help manage the trust and safety of millions of customer every day? Are you excited by the prospect of analyzing and modeling terabytes of data and create state-of-art algorithms to solve real world problems? Do you like to innovate and simplify? If yes, then you may be a great fit to join the Amazon Account Integrity team. The Amazon Account Integrity team works to ensure that customers are protected from scams and from bad actors trying to access their accounts. Our greatest challenge is protecting customer trust without unjustly harming good customers. To strike the right balance, we invest in mechanisms which allow us to accurately identify and mitigate risk, and to quickly correct and learn from our mistakes. This strategy includes continuously evolving enforcement policies, iterating our Machine Learning risk models, and exercising high‐judgement decision‐making where we cannot apply automation. Key job responsibilities - Use statistical and machine learning techniques to create scalable risk and scam detection systems - Analyzing and understanding large amounts of Amazon’s historical business data for specific instances of risk or broader fraud trends - Design, development and evaluation of highly innovative models for risk management - Working closely with software engineering teams to drive real-time model implementations and new feature creations - Working closely with operations staff to optimize risk management operations - Establishing scalable, efficient, automated processes for large scale data analyses, model development, model validation and model implementation - Tracking general business activity and providing clear, compelling management reporting on a regular basis - Research and implement novel machine learning and statistical approaches

The Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) team is looking for a highly skilled and experienced Applied Scientist, to support the development and implementation of state-of-the-art algorithms and models for supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning through human feedback and and complex reasoning; with a focus across text, image, and video modalities. As an Applied Scientist, you will play a critical role in supporting the development of Generative AI (Gen AI) technologies that can handle Amazon-scale use cases and have a significant impact on our customers' experiences. Key job responsibilities Collaborate with cross-functional teams of engineers, product managers, and scientists to identify and solve complex problems in Gen AI Design and execute experiments to evaluate the performance of different algorithms and models, and iterate quickly to improve results Think big about the arc of development of Gen AI over a multi-year horizon, and identify new opportunities to apply these technologies to solve real-world problems Communicate results and insights to both technical and non-technical audiences, including through presentations and written reports

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

Passionate about books? The Amazon Books personalization team is looking for a talented Applied Scientist II to help develop and implement innovative science solutions to make it easier for millions of customers to find the next book they will love. In this role you will: - Collaborate within a dynamic team of scientists, economists, engineers, analysts, and business partners. - Utilize Amazon's large-scale computing and data resources to analyze customer behavior and product relationships. - Contribute to building and maintaining recommendation models, and assist in running A/B tests on the retail website. - Help develop and implement solutions to improve Amazon's recommendation systems. Key job responsibilities The role involves working with recommender systems that combine Natural Language Processing (NLP), Reinforcement Learning (RL), graph networks, and deep learning to help customers discover their next great read. You will assist in developing recommendation model pipelines, analyze deep learning-based recommendation models, and collaborate with engineering and product teams to improve customer-facing recommendations. As part of the team, you will learn and contribute across these technical areas while developing your skills in the recommendation systems space. A day in the life In your day-to-day role, you will contribute to the development and maintenance of recommendation models, support the implementation of A/B test experiments, and work alongside engineers, product teams, and other scientists to help deploy machine learning solutions to production. You will gain hands-on experience with our recommendation systems while working under the guidance of senior scientists. About the team We are Books Personalization a collaborative group of 5-7 scientists, 2 product leaders, and 2 engineering teams that aims to help find the right next read for customers through high quality personalized book recommendation experiences. Books Personalization is a part of the Books Content Demand organization, which focuses on surfacing the best books for customers wherever they are in their current book journey.

Join the next science and engineering revolution at Amazon's Delivery Foundation Model team, where you'll work alongside world-class scientists and engineers to pioneer the next frontier of logistics through advanced AI and foundation models. We are seeking an exceptional Applied Science Director to lead the development of innovative foundation models that enable delivery of billions of packages worldwide. In this role, you'll combine highly technical work with scientific leadership, ensuring the team delivers robust solutions for dynamic real-world environments. Your team will leverage Amazon's vast data and computational resources to tackle ambitious problems across a diverse set of Amazon delivery use cases. Key job responsibilities - Lead software developers and scientists developing generative, multi-modal foundation models to support Amazon’s worldwide delivery network. - Guide technical direction for specific research initiatives, ensuring robust performance in production environments - Build and manage the model development roadmap in support of critical Last Mile Delivery use cases. - Define goals for model development and adoption, and own all project-related communication to a diverse set of stakeholders. - Hire, develop and manage a team of talented scientists and engineers. A day in the life As a member of the Delivery Foundation Model team, you’ll spend your day on the following: - Develop and implement novel foundation model architectures, working hands-on with data and our extensive training and evaluation infrastructure - Guide and support fellow scientists in solving complex technical challenges, from trajectory planning to efficient multi-task learning - Guide and support fellow engineers in building scalable and reusable infra to support model training, evaluation, and inference - Lead focused technical initiatives from conception through deployment, ensuring successful integration with production systems - Drive technical discussions within the team and and key stakeholders - Conduct experiments and prototype new ideas - Mentor team members while maintaining significant hands-on contribution to technical solutions About the team The Delivery Foundation Model team combines ambitious research vision with real-world impact. Our foundation models provide generative reasoning capabilities required to meet the demands of Amazon's global Last Mile delivery network. We leverage Amazon's unparalleled computational infrastructure and extensive datasets to deploy state-of-the-art foundation models to improve the safety, quality, and efficiency of Amazon deliveries. Our work spans the full spectrum of foundation model development, from multimodal training using images, videos, and sensor data, to sophisticated modeling strategies that can handle diverse real-world scenarios. We build everything end to end, from data preparation to model training and evaluation to inference, along with all the tooling needed to understand and analyze model performance. Join us if you're excited about pushing the boundaries of what's possible in logistics, working with world-class scientists and engineers, and seeing your innovations deployed at unprecedented scale.

Amazon is seeking an innovative and high-judgement Senior Applied Scientist to join the Privacy Engineering team in the Amazon Privacy Services org. We own products and programs that deliver technical innovation for ensuring compliance with high-impact, urgent regulation across Amazon services worldwide. The Senior Applied Scientist will contribute to the strategic direction for Amazon’s privacy practices while building/owning the compliance approach for individual regulations such as General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), DMA, Quebec 25 etc. This will require helping to frame, and participating in, high judgment debates and decision making across senior business, technology, legal, and public policy leaders. A great candidate will have a unique combination of experience with innovative data governance technology, high judgement in system architecture decisions and ability to set detailed technical design from ambiguous compliance requirements. You will drive foundational, cross-service decisions, set technical requirements, oversee technical design, and have end to end accountability for delivering technical changes across dozens of different systems. You will have high engagement with WW senior leadership via quarterly reviews, annual organizational planning, and s-team goal updates. Key job responsibilities * Develop information retrieval benchmarks related to code analysis and invent algorithms to optimize identification of privacy requirements and controls. * Develop semantic and syntactic code analysis tools to assess privacy implementations within application code, and automatic code replacement tools to enhance privacy implementations. * Leverage Amazon’s heterogeneous data sources and large-scale computing resources to accelerate advances in generative artificial intelligence for privacy compliance. * Collaborate with other science and engineering teams as well as business stakeholders to maximize the velocity and impact of your contributions. About the team Amazon Privacy Services own products and programs that deliver technical innovation for ensuring Privacy Amazon services worldwide. We are hiring an innovative and high-judgement Senior Applied Scientist to develop AI solutions for builders across Amazon’s consumer and digital businesses including but not limited to Amazon.com, Amazon Ads, Amazon Go, Prime Video, Devices and more. Our ideal candidate is creative, has excellent problem-solving skills, a solid understanding of computer science fundamentals, deep learning and a customer-focused mindset. The Senior Scientist will serve as the resident expert on the development of AI agents for privacy. They build on their experiences to develop LLMs to develop AI implementations across privacy workflows. They will have responsibilities to mentor junior scientists and engineers develop AI skills.

Amazon’s builders are able to deliver the magic that gets packages to your front door and safely scale those capabilities to millions of customers because they can find the information they need. Amazon is looking for an Applied Scientist to help drive our discovery strategy for Amazon’s trove of knowledge. 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 customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services. Key job responsibilities * Use deep learning, ML and NLP techniques to create scalable solutions for creation and development of language model centric solutions for building personalized assistant systems based on a rich set of structured and unstructured contextual signals * Innovate new methods for contextual knowledge extraction and information retrieval, using language models in combination with other learning techniques, that allows effective grounding in context providers when considering memory, compute, latency and quality * Research in advanced customer understanding and behavior modeling techniques * Collaborate with cross-functional teams of engineers, product managers, and scientists to identify and solve complex problems in personal knowledge aggregation, processing, modeling, and verification * Design and execute experiments to evaluate the performance of state-of-the-art algorithms and models, and iterate quickly to improve results * Think Big about the arc of development of conversational assistant system personalization over a multi-year horizon, and identify new opportunities to apply these technologies to solve real-world problems * Communicate results and insights to both technical and non-technical audiences, including through presentations and written reports * Mentor and guide junior scientists and engineers, and contribute to the overall growth and development of the team A day in the life The Amazon Software Builder Experience (ASBX) organization has a mission of creating the world’s best builder experience across tens of thousands of software engineers, and all Amazon businesses (e.g., AWS, Amazon Stores, etc.). Our Knowledge Tech team in ASBX owns the discovery tools that software developers use to build and innovate on behalf of our customers. This role is for you if you’re passionate about software development, discovery tools, and having world-wide impact across all of Amazon! In addition to delivering results, we also appreciate establishing a work-life-balance, having fun with our co-workers, and supporting an inclusive and collaborative team environment. 10025 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.