Sr. Applied Scientist, LLM, Natural Language Shopping, Search Quality

Come transform Amazon Search using Large Language Models (LLMs). We are building new approaches to bring in a step change to both Amazon Rufus and Amazon Search.You will innovate with your team to provide delightful answers to customers by incorporating world knowledge in matching and ranking models, and helping the models deeply understand semantic meaning in descriptive and conversational queries such as "light tent for snow camping with my son", “best toys for on the go” or “cheap plus size summer pajamas”.Key job responsibilities- You will analyze large scale datasets- define metrics that reflect customer experience- invent techniques that improve capabilities such as understanding of natural language queries, questions and conversations- test your ideas in controlled experiments- train, fine-tune and align Large Language Models (LLMs).- distill Large Language Models into Fast Language Models and deploy them to operate at Amazon scale with imperceptible latencies- 3+ years of building machine learning models for business application experience- PhD, or Master's degree and 6+ years of applied research experience- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language- Experience with neural deep learning methods and machine learning- Experience with modeling tools such as R, scikit-learn, Spark MLLib, MxNet, Tensorflow, numpy, scipy etc.- Experience with large scale distributed systems such as Hadoop, Spark etc.Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $150,400/year in our lowest geographic market up to $260,000/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

Applied Scientist, BuilderWorks

Are you excited about developing generative AI and foundation models to revolutionize automation, text generation, and machine learning at scale? Are you looking for opportunities to build and deploy them on real problems at truly vast scale? At Amazon BuilderWorks we are on a mission to build high-performance autonomous systems that perceive and act to further improve our world-class builder experience - at Amazon scale.This role is for the Data Reserach Org for Insights Development (DROID) Science team which has deep expertise developing cutting edge AI solutions at scale and successfully applying them to business problems in the Stores, Devices, and Other (SDO) organization. These solutions typically utilize machine learning and GenAI techniques, applied to text, sequences of events, wikis, or customer input from existing or new tooling. The team is comprised of scientists, who develop machine learning and deep learning solutions, analytics, who evaluate the expected business impact for a project and the performance of these solutions, and software engineers, who provide necessary support such as annotation pipelines and machine learning library development.We are looking for an Applied Scientist with expertise in GenAI. You will work alongside other scientists, engineers, product managers and various stakeholders to deploy models at scale across a diverse set of initiatives. If you are a self-motivated individual with a zeal for customer obsession and ownership, and are passionate about applying science for real world problems - this is the team for you.Key job responsibilities- You will be part of a team of scientists and engineers and will work on scaling systems to production along side partner teams.- You will learn how to build robust solutions that operate at Amazon scale, and work with senior technical leaders to grow your skills.- You will face a high level of research ambiguity and problems that require creative, ambitious, and inventive solutions.- You will design and implement scalable solutions and solve complex problems- You will mentor and coach junior software developers- You should be a great communicator and should be motivated to achieve results in a fast-paced, and at times ambiguous, environment- You should be a self-starter with a bias towards independent problem solving.About the teamBuilderWorks tools, libraries, and services empower Amazon builders to deliver solutions for a diversity of internal and external customer use-cases spanning the Stores business as our primary customer with additional support for Devices and Other (SDO) business units across Amazon. The DROID team sits within BuilderWorks and seeks to be the primary source for standardized, actionable metrics and science-driven insights within BuilderWorks. We achieve this through user-focused tools that provide comprehensive access to current and future metrics, solutions that provide measurable impact to cost and engagement through the use of scientific methods, user-accessible data repositories for individual analyses and deep divesDROID Science mission is to provide measurable impact on customer experience and BuilderWorks efficiencies through the use of scientific methods and processes. We quantify the impact of programs in terms of engagement and cost through data science studies. We own the model framework, where we deliver prospective insights and retrospective measurements of the effect that BuilderWorks programs have on builder experience. We partner with BuilderWorks programs to develop a principled and data driven methodology for quantifying the impact of programs on SDO.- 3+ years of building models for business application experience- PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language- Experience in any of the following areas: algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, high-performance computing- Experience using Unix/Linux- Experience in professional software developmentAmazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $136,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $222,200/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

Applied Scientist, Modeling and Optimization (MOP) Team

Amazon’s Modeling and Optimization (MOP) Team is looking for a passionate individual with strong optimization and analytical skills to join us in the endeavor of designing and planning the most complex supply chain in the world.The team is responsible for optimizing the global supply chain for Amazon.com and ensuring that the company is able to inbound goods from seller and vendors, transport them to their target fulfillment center, and deliver to our customers as quickly, accurately, and cost effectively as possible. We work on problems ranging from network design to assortment optimization, in order to support strategic decisions. It is a terrific opportunity to have a direct impact in the business while pushing the boundaries of science.Key job responsibilitiesWe are seeking an experienced scientist who has solid background in Operations Research, Operations Management, Applied Mathematics or other similar domain.In this role, you will develop models and solution algorithms that are innovative and scalable to solve new challenges in the network design space. You will collaborate with other scientists across teams to create integrated solutions that improve fulfillment speed and minimize end-to-end cost. You have deep understanding of business challenges and will provide scientific analysis to support business decision using a range of methodologies. You will also work with engineering teams to identify new data requirements, deploy new models or simplifying existing processes.About the team 3+ years of building models for business application experience- PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience- Experience in patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language- Experience in any of the following areas: algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, high-performance computing- Experience in professional software development- Experience working in supply chain optimizationAmazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $136,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $222,200/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

Applied Scientist II, Customer Engagement Technology

The Customer Engagement Technology team leads AI/LLM-driven customer experience transformation using task-oriented dialogue systems. We develop multi-modal, multi-turn, goal-oriented dialog systems that can handle customer issues at Amazon scale across multiple languages. These systems are designed to adapt to changing company policies and invoke correct APIs to automate solutions to customer problems. Additionally, we enhance associate productivity through response/action recommendation, summarization to capture conversation context succinctly, retrieving precise information from documents to provide useful information to the agent, and machine translation to facilitate smoother conversations when the customer and agent speak different languages.Key focus areas include:1. Task-Oriented Dialog Systems: Building reliable, scalable, and adaptive LLM-based agents for understanding intents, determining eligibilities, making API calls, confirming outcomes, and exploring alternatives across hundreds of customer service intents, while adapting to changing policies.2. Lifelong Learning: Researching continuous learning approaches for injecting new domain knowledge while retaining the model's foundational abilities and prevent catastrophic forgetting.3. Agentic Systems: Developing a modular agentic framework to handle multi domain conversations through appropriate system abstractions.4. Complex Multi-turn Instruction Following: Identifying approaches to guarantee compliance with instructions that specify standard operating procedures for handling multi-turn complex scenarios.5. Inference-Time Adaptability: Researching inference-time scaling methods and improving in-context learning abilities of custom models to enable real-time adaptability to new features, actions, or bug fixes without solely relying on retraining.6. Context Adherence: Exploring methods to ground responses in specific customer attributes, account information, and behavioral data to prevent hallucinations and ensure high-fidelity responses.7. Policy Grounding: Investigating techniques to align bot behavior with evolving company policies by grounding on complex, unstructured policy documents, ensuring consistent and compliant actions.1. End to End Dialog Policy Optimization: Researching alignment approaches to optimize successful dialog completions.2. Scalable Evaluations: Developing automated approaches to evaluate quality of experience, and correctness of agentic resolutionsKey job responsibilities1. Research and development of LLM-based chatbots and conversational AI systems for customer service applications.2. Design and implement state-of-the-art NLP and ML models for tasks such as language understanding, dialogue management, and response generation.3. Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including data scientists, software engineers, and product managers, to integrate LLM-based solutions into Amazon's customer service platforms.4. Develop and implement strategies for data collection, annotation, and model training to ensure high-quality and robust performance of the chatbots.5. Conduct experiments and evaluations to measure the performance of the developed models and systems, and identify areas for improvement.6. Stay up-to-date with the latest advancements in NLP, LLMs, and conversational AI, and explore opportunities to incorporate new techniques and technologies into Amazon's customer service solutions.7. Collaborate with internal and external research communities, participate in conferences and publications, and contribute to the advancement of the field.A day in the lifeWe thrive on solving challenging problems to innovate for our customers. By pushing the boundaries of technology, we create unparalleled experiences that enable us to rapidly adapt in a dynamic environment. Our decisions are guided by data, and we collaborate with engineering, science, and product teams to foster an innovative learning environment.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!Benefits Summary: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 Coverage2. Maternity and Parental Leave Options3. Paid Time Off (PTO)4. 401(k) PlanAbout the teamJoin our team of scientists and engineers who develop and deploy LLM-based Conversational AI systems to enhance Amazon's customer service experience and effectiveness. We work on innovative solutions that help customers solve their issues and get their questions answered efficiently, and associate-facing products that support our customer service associate workforce.- Master's degree- 2+ years of building machine learning models or developing algorithms for business application experience- PhD- 3+ years of building machine learning models or developing algorithms for business application experienceAmazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $136,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $222,200/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

Senior Applied Scientist, CMO Science

The Campaign Measurement & Optimization (CMO) organization is looking for a Senior Applied Scientist interested in solving one of the most challenging business problems in marketing measurement and developing cutting-edge ML model. Working with our team of data scientists, applied scientists, research scientists, and economists, this leader will help redefine scalable marketing measurement at Amazon and its subsidiaries.The Campaign Measurement & Optimization (CMO) organization’s mission is to be the most trusted source of measurement science solutions to drive marketing investment decisions across Amazon. The CMO team provides incrementality and efficiency measurement services to the marketing stakeholders across Amazon’s lines of business, including Stores, Prime Video, Amazon Devices, Alexa, Amazon Business, Amazon Music, Amazon Fresh, as well as subsidiaries including Audible, Ring, Whole Foods, and more. CMO applies industry leading deep learning based causal inference models to measure omni-channel effectiveness of marketing campaigns from these businesses worldwide. The impact and influence of the organization is tremendous, helping optimize spend decisions on a scale that exceeds many countries’ GDP. Our outputs shape Amazon product and marketing teams’ decisions and therefore how Amazon customers see, use, and value their experience with Amazon.This is a high-impact role with opportunities to develop systems and analyze marketing effectiveness that contributes billions of dollars to the business. As a senior scientist, you will be responsible for leading the design and development of the cutting edge measurement and optimization models, while collaborating with businesses, marketers, and software teams to solve key challenges facing the teams. Such challenges include measuring the incremental impact of multi-channel marketing portfolios, estimating the impact on sparse customer actions, and scaling measurement solutions for WW marketplaces. Unlike many companies who buy existing off-the-shelf marketing measurement systems, we are responsible for studying, designing, and building systems to serve Amazon’s suite of businesses. Our team members have an opportunity to be on the forefront of marketing measurement thought leadership by working on some of the most difficult problems in the industry with some of the best product managers, scientists, economists and software developers in the business.In this role, you will be a technical leader in applied science research with significant scope, impact, and high visibility. You will lead strategic measurement science initiatives in CMO and across various marketing teams, scaling experimentation and development and deployment of the measurement science models, real-time inference, and cross-channel orchestration. As a successful Scientist, you are an analytical problem solver who enjoys diving into data, leads problem solving, guides development of new frameworks, writes code, is excited about investigations and algorithms, and can credibly interface between technical teams and business stakeholders. You are an expert in employing deep learning models to solve business problems, preferably in causal inference. You are a hands-on innovator who can contribute to advancing Marketing measurement technology in a B2C and B2B environment, and push the limits on what’s scientifically possible with a razor sharp focus on measurable customer and business impact. You will also coach and guide scientists in the team to grow the team’s talent and scale the impact of your work.- 4+ years of applied research experience- 3+ years of building machine learning models for business application experience- PhD, or Master's degree and 6+ years of applied research experience- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language- Experience with neural deep learning methods and machine learning- Experience with modeling tools such as R, scikit-learn, Spark MLLib, MxNet, Tensorflow, numpy, scipy etc.- Experience with large scale distributed systems such as Hadoop, Spark etc.Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $150,400/year in our lowest geographic market up to $260,000/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

Applied Scientist, Sponsored Products, Amazon Ads

Amazon continues to invest heavily in building our world class advertising business. Our products are strategically important to our Retail and Marketplace businesses, driving long term growth. We deliver billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks daily, breaking fresh ground to create world-class products. We are highly motivated, collaborative and fun-loving with an entrepreneurial spirit and strong bias for action. With a broad mandate to experiment and innovate, we are growing at an unprecedented rate with a seemingly endless range of new opportunities.The Sponsored Products OSSR team is responsible for all non-search supply and associated experiences.As an Applied Scientist on our team, you will be responsible for defining the science and technical strategy for one of our most impactful strategic initiatives, creating lasting value for Amazon and our advertising customers.Key job responsibilities• Support business, science and engineering strategy and roadmap for Sponsored Products OSSR projects• Drive alignment across organizations for science, engineering and product strategy to achieve business goals• Lead/guide scientists and engineers across teams to develop, test, launch and improve of science models designed to optimize the shopper experience and deliver long term value for Amazon and advertisers• Develop state of the art experimental approaches and ML models.About the teamSponsored Products (SP) is Amazon's largest and fastest growing business. Over the last few years we grown to a multi-billion dollar business. SP ads are shown prominently throughout search and detail pages, allowing shoppers to seamlessly discover products sold on Amazon. Ad experience and market place is one of the highest impact decisions we make. This role has unparalleled opportunity to grow our marketplace and deliver value for advertisers and shoppers.- 3+ years of building models for business application experience- PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language- Experience in any of the following areas: algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, high-performance computing- Experience using Unix/Linux- Experience in professional software developmentAmazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $136,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $222,200/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

Principal Applied Scientist, Automated Reasoning in Identity

Are you passionate about applying formal verification, program analysis, constraint-solving, and theorem proving to real world problems? Do you want to create products that help customers? If so, then we have an exciting opportunity for you. In this role, you will interact with internal teams and external customers to understand their requirements. You will apply your knowledge to propose innovative solutions, create software prototypes, and productize prototypes into production systems using software development tools and methodologies. In addition, you will support and scale your solutions to meet the ever growing demand of customer use.Technical Responsibilities:- Interact with various teams to develop an understanding of their security and safety requirements.- Apply the acquired knowledge to build provably correct and performant software to address identified needs.- Perform analysis of the customer systems using tools developed in-house or externally provided.- Create software prototypes to verify and validate the devised solutions methodologies; integrate the prototypes into production systems using standard software development tools and methodologies.Leadership Responsibilities:- Can present and defend company-wide technical decisions to the internal technical community and represent the company effectively at technical conferences.- Functional thought leader, sought after for key tech decisions. Can successfully sell ideas to an executive level decision maker.- Mentors and trains the research scientist community on complex technical issues.- Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, or related technical field- At least 7+ years of industrial/academic experience in formal verification, program analysis, constraint-solving, and theorem proving - At least 7+ years of experience with programming languages such as Java, Scala, C/C++, Ruby, or Python and open-source technologies- Experience defining and leading a science agenda for ambiguous problems- Ability to work with teams at the interface of automated reasoning and service teams- 10+ years of experience applying techniques in your field to solve complex problems- Ability to establish and manage external partnerships- Broad familiarity with different areas of the automated reasoningAmazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $179,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $309,400/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

Applied Scientist II, Fulfillment Planning and Execution Science - Fulfillment Optimization

Have you ever wondered how Amazon predicts when your order will arrive and how we ensure that it actually arrives on at the promised date/time? Have you wondered where all those Amazon semi-trucks on the road are headed? Are you passionate about increasing efficiency and reducing carbon footprint? Does the idea of having worldwide impact on Amazon's logistics network including our planes, trucks, and vans sound exciting to you? If so, then we want to talk with you! At Amazon's Supply Chain Optimization Technologies (SCOT), we are tasked with optimizing the fulfilment on customer orders so that we fulfil all orders worldwide in the most intelligent manner while ensuring Amazon customers get their orders on time.Fulfillment Planning & Execution (FPX) Science team within SCOT- Fulfilment Optimization owns and operates OR/ML and simulation systems that continually optimize the distribution of tens of millions of products across Amazon’s warehouses in the most cost-effective manner, utilizing large scale optimization techniques and distributed computing in trying to reduce overall transportation costs while improving the customer experience. We are focused on saving hundreds of millions of dollars using Optimization, machine learning, and scalable distributed software on the cloud that automates and optimizes inventory and shipments to customers under the uncertainty of demand, pricing and supply.We’re looking for a passionate, results-oriented, and inventive scientist who can create and improve models for our outbound transportation planning systems. In addition, you will be working on design, development and evaluation of highly innovative models for solving complex business problems in the area of outbound transportation planning and execution systems. You will work closely with our product managers and software engineers to disambiguate complex supply chain problems and create optimization solutions to solve those problems at scale. You will directly impact our direct customers, and even play with big data and incredible scale in the background.Watch to get the big picture. Key job responsibilities* Design, development and evaluation of highly innovative optimization models for solving complex business problems. * Research and apply the latest optimization techniques and best practices from both academia and industry. * Think about customers and how to improve the customer delivery experience. * Use and analytical techniques to create scalable solutions for business problems. * Work closely with software engineering teams to build model implementations and integrate successful models and algorithms in production systems at very large scale. * Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large scale data analyses, model development, model validation and model implementation.A day in the lifeThis is a great role for someone who likes to learn new things. You will have the opportunity to learn all about how Amazon plans for and executes within it's logistics network including Fulfillment Centers, Sort Centers, Delivery Stations, and more. In this role, you will be a design and develop Optimization models with significant scope, impact, and high visibility. Your solutions will impact business segments worth many-billions-of-dollars and geographies spanning multiple countries and markets. From day one, you will be working with bar raising scientists, engineers, and designers. You will also collaborate with the broader science community in Amazon to broaden the horizon of your work. Successful candidates must thrive in fast-paced environments, which encourage collaborative and creative problem solving, be able to measure and estimate risks, constructively critique peer research, and align research focuses with the Amazon's strategic needs. We look for individuals who know how to deliver results and show a desire to develop themselves, their colleagues, and their career.About the teamFulfillment Planning & Execution Science team contains a group of scientists with different technical backgrounds including Machine Learning and Operations Research, who will collaborate closely with you on your projects. Our team directly supports critical functional areas across Fulfillment Optimization and the research needs of the corresponding product and engineering teams. We tackle some of the most mathematically complex challenges in facility and transportation planning and execution to improve Amazon's operational efficiency worldwide and at a scale that is unique to Amazon. We often seek the opportunity of applying hybrid techniques in the space of Operations Research and Machine Learning to tackle some of our biggest technical challenges. We disambiguate complex supply chain problems and create ML and optimization solutions to solve those problems at scale.- 3+ years of building models for business application experience- PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience- Experience in patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language- Experience in any of the following areas: algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, high-performance computing- Experience applying theoretical models in an applied environment- Experience implementing algorithms using both toolkits and self-developed code- Deep technical knowledge of operations research, machine learning and statistical methodologiesAmazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $136,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $222,200/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

Senior Applied Scientist, AWS Marketplace & Partner Services

The AWS Marketplace & Partner Services Science team is hiring an Applied Scientist to develop state-of-the-art recommendations systems, Conversational AI agents, and personalization capabilities within AWS Marketplace. This role will revolutionize discovery of solutions that accelerate customer cloud migrations for our customers, bringing personalization to AWS customers. The ideal candidate is comfortable leading production level recommendations strategies, implementing agent based conversationalAI experience, and mentoring other scientists on the team. You able to evaluate feasibility of scientific approaches and influence business leaders to develop the best experience for our customers. You thrive in a collaborative environment, where mentorship, learning, and teamwork is critical. Key job responsibilities- Work with customers, product managers, scientists, and engineers to deliver production level recommendation experiences- Ability to write production level code and support requirements for MLOps/LLMOps- Mentor Scientists on the team, and guide scientific approach across the organizationAbout the teamThe AWS Marketplace & Partner Services Science team supports science models and recommendations that are deployed directly to AWS Customers (via AWS Marketplace), to our partners (via Partner Central), and to our internal AWS Sellers. Our mission is to accelerate cloud migrations and modernizations, supporting AWS customers to innovate, and the growth of our AWS Partners.- 3+ years of building machine learning models for business application experience- PhD, or Master's degree and 3+ years of applied research experience- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language- Experience with neural deep learning methods and machine learning- Experience deploying recommendation models into production systems.- Experience leveraging Reinforcement Learning / Personalization within recommendations.- Experience with ConversationalAI Agents, ideally coupled with recommendations.Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $150,400/year in our lowest geographic market up to $260,000/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

Applied Scientist II

The Team: Amazon Go is a new kind of store with no lines and no checkout—you just grab and go! Customers simply use the Amazon Go app to enter the store, take what they want from our selection of fresh, delicious meals and grocery essentials, and go!Our checkout-free shopping experience is made possible by our Just Walk Out Technology, which automatically detects when products are taken from or returned to the shelves and keeps track of them in a virtual cart. When you’re done shopping, you can just leave the store. Shortly after, we’ll charge your Amazon account and send you a receipt. Check it out at amazon.com/go. Designed and custom-built by Amazonians, our Just Walk Out Technology uses a variety of technologies including computer vision, sensor fusion, and advanced machine learning. Innovation is part of our DNA! Our goal is to be Earths’ most customer centric company and we are just getting started. We need people who want to join an ambitious program that continues to push the state of the art in computer vision, machine learning, distributed systems and hardware design.The Role: Everyone on the team needs to be entrepreneurial, wear many hats and work in a highly collaborative environment that’s more startup than big company. We’ll need to tackle problems that span a variety of domains: computer vision, image recognition, machine learning, real-time and distributed systems. As a Machine Learning or Computer Vision Research Scientist, you will help solve a variety of technical challenges and mentor other engineers. You will tackle challenging, novel situations every day and given the size of this initiative, you’ll have the opportunity to work with multiple technical teams at Amazon in different locations. You should be comfortable with a degree of ambiguity that’s higher than most projects and relish the idea of solving problems that, frankly, haven’t been solved at scale before - anywhere. Along the way, we guarantee that you’ll learn a ton, have fun and make a positive impact on millions of people.About the teamWhy AWSAmazon 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 CultureHere 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 BalanceWe 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 GrowthWe’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 ExperiencesAmazon 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.- PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience- 3+ years of building models for business application experience- Experience in patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language- Experience in any of the following areas: algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, high-performance computing- Experience using Unix/Linux- Experience in professional software developmentAmazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $136,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $222,200/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

Applied Scientist I, BRP (Buyer Risk Prevention)

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 preventing eCommerce fraud?Are you excited by the prospect of analyzing and modeling terabytes of data and creating state-of-the-art algorithms 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 enjoy collaborating in a diverse team environment?If yes, then you may be a great fit to join the Amazon Buyer Risk Prevention (BRP) Machine Learning group. We are looking for a talented scientist who is passionate to build advanced algorithmic systems that help manage safety of millions of transactions every day.Key job responsibilitiesUse machine learning and statistical techniques to create scalable risk management systemsLearning and understanding large amounts of Amazon’s historical business data for specific instances of risk or broader risk trendsDesign, development and evaluation of highly innovative models for risk managementWorking closely with software engineering teams to drive real-time model implementations and new feature creationsWorking 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 implementationTracking general business activity and providing clear, compelling management reporting on a regular basisResearch and implement novel machine learning and statistical approaches- Master's degree in computer science, mathematics, statistics, machine learning or equivalent quantitative field- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language- Experience with SQL and an RDBMS (e.g., Oracle) or Data Warehouse- Experience implementing algorithms using both toolkits and self-developed code- Have publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journalsAmazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129,400/year in our lowest geographic market up to $212,800/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

Applied Scientist, Artificial General Intelligence

The Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) team is looking for a highly skilled and experienced Applied Scientist, to support the development and implementation of cutting-edge algorithms and models for supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning through human feedback; 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 (GenAI) 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- PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience- 1+ years of building models for business application experience- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language- Experience with popular deep learning frameworks such as MxNet and Tensor Flow- PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field, with a focus on Gen AI and reinforcement learning- Experience in developing and implementing algorithms and models for supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning through human feedback- Programming skills in Python and experience with deep learning frameworks such as Tensor Flow or PyTorch- Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to think creatively and critically about complex problems- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams- Experience with patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journalsAmazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $136,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $222,200/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

Senior Applied Scientist, NeuroSymbolic

The Automated Reasoning Group is looking for an Applied Scientist with interest in building scalable machine learning systems. You will be part of a world-class team building the next generation of neuro-symbolic tools and services by combining Automated Reasoning and Machine Learning.AWS has the most services and more features within those services, than any other cloud provider–from infrastructure technologies like compute, storage, and databases–to emerging technologies, such as machine learning and artificial intelligence, data lakes and analytics, and Internet of Things.You will apply your knowledge to propose solutions, create software prototypes, and move prototypes into production systems using modern software development tools and methodologies. In addition, you will support and scale your solutions to meet the ever-growing demand of customer use. You will use your strong verbal and written communication skills, are self-driven and own the delivery of high quality results in a fast-paced environment.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. See an Applied Scientist in AWS AI, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the definition, vision, design, roadmap and development of product features from beginning to end. You will:* Define and implement new neuro-symbolic applications that employ scalable and efficient approaches to solve complex problems using Automated Reasoning and Machine Learning* Apply software engineering best practices to ensure a high standard of quality for all team deliverables* Work in an agile, startup-like development environment, where you are always working on the most important stuff* Deliver high-quality scientific artifacts* Work with the team to help drive business decisionsKey job responsibilities* Design and implement scalable neuro-symbolic systems using automated reasoning and machine learning.* Collaborate closely with internal and external users to understand their requirements for AI agents and guardrails.* Proactively identify and explore new opportunities for deploying and leveraging neuro-symbolic solutions across various domains.About the teamWhy 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.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.Diverse ExperiencesAWS 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 CultureHere 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.Mentorship & Career GrowthWe’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 BalanceWe 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.- PhD and 5+ years of post degree experience in an related field- Experience building machine learning models for business applications- Experience with neural deep learning methods and machine learning- Experience with modeling tools such as R, scikit-learn, Spark MLLib, MxNet, Tensorflow, numpy, scipy etc.Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit

Applied Scientist, AGI Data Services

The Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) team is seeking a dedicated, skilled, and innovative Applied Scientist with a robust background in deep learning, to build industry-leading technology with Large Language Models (LLMs) and multimodal systems.Key job responsibilitiesAs part of the AGI team, an Applied Scientist will collaborate closely with talented colleagues to lead the development of advanced approaches and modeling techniques, driving forward the frontier of LLM technology. This includes innovating model-in-the-loop and human-in-the-loop approaches to ensure the collection of high-quality data, safeguarding data privacy and security for LLM training, and more. An Applied Scientist will also have a direct impact on enhancing customer experiences through state-of-the-art products and services that harness the power of speech and language technology. A day in the lifeAn Applied Scientist with the AGI team will support the science solution design, run experiments, research new algorithms, and find new ways of optimizing the customer experience; while setting examples for the team on good science practice and standards. Besides theoretical analysis and innovation, an Applied Scientist will also work closely with talented engineers and scientists to put algorithms and models into practice. The ideal candidate should be passionate about delivering experiences that delight customers and creating robust solutions. They will also create reliable, scalable and high-performance products that require exceptional technical expertise, and a sound understanding of Machine Learning.- PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience- 1+ years of building models for business application experience- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language- Experience with Large Language Models (LLMs) or multimodal architectures- PhD degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering, Machine Learning, Computer Science or related discipline- 4+ years of industry or postdoctoral experience in machine learning- Experience with patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals- Experience with popular deep learning frameworks including MxNet, PyTorch or TensorFlow- Experience in building large-scale machine learning systems- Proficiency in state-of-the-art Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Computer Vision (CV) deep learning modelsAmazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $136,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $222,200/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

Senior Applied Scientist, FireTV

Do you want to re-invent how millions of people consume video content on their TVs, Tablets and Alexa?We are building a cutting edge & free to watch streaming service called Fire TV Channels ( Our goal is to provide customers with a delightful and personalized experience for consuming content across News, Sports, Cooking, Gaming, Entertainment, Lifestyle and more.You will work closely with engineering and product stakeholders to realize our ambitious product vision. You will get to work with Generative AI and other state of the art technologies to help build personalization and recommendation solutions from the ground up. You will be in the driver's seat to present customers with content they will love.Using Amazon’s large-scale computing resources, you will ask research questions about customer behavior, build state-of-the-art models to generate recommendations and run these models to enhance the customer experience. You will participate in the Amazon ML community and mentor Applied Scientists and Software Engineers with a strong interest in and knowledge of ML. Your work will directly benefit customers and you will measure the impact using scientific tools. - 3+ years of building machine learning models for business application experience- PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of applied research experience- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language- Experience with neural deep learning methods and machine learning- Experience with modeling tools such as R, scikit-learn, Spark MLLib, MxNet, Tensorflow, numpy, scipy etc.- Experience with large scale distributed systems such as Hadoop, Spark etc.- Experience with A/B testing- Experience mentoring other scientists- Experience with Generative AI technologiesAmazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $150,400/year in our lowest geographic market up to $260,000/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

Applied Scientist (L5), Clinical AI, Health AI

About Amazon HealthAmazon Health’s mission is to make it dramatically easier for customers to access the healthcare products and services they need to get and stay healthy. Towards this mission, we (Health Storefront and Shared Tech) are building the technology, products and services, that help customers find, buy, and engage with the healthcare solutions they need.Job summaryWe are seeking an exceptional Senior Applied Scientist to join a team of experts in the field of machine learning, and work together to break new ground in the world of healthcare to make personalized and empathetic care accessible, convenient, and cost-effective. We leverage and train state-of-the-art large-language-models (LLMs) and develop entirely new experiences to help customers find the right products and services to address their health needs. We work on machine learning problems for intent detection, dialogue systems, and information retrieval. You will work in a highly collaborative environment where you can pursue both near-term productization opportunities to make immediate, meaningful customer impacts while pursuing ambitious, long-term research. You will work on hard science problems that have not been solved before, conduct rapid prototyping to validate your hypothesis, and deploy your algorithmic ideas at scale. You will get the opportunity to pursue work that makes people's lives better and pushes the envelop of science.#everydaybetterKey job responsibilities- Translate product and CX requirements into science metrics and rigorous testing methodologies.- Invent and develop scalable methodologies to evaluate LLM outputs against metrics and guardrails.- Design and implement the best-in-class semantic retrieval system by creating high-quality knowledge base and optimizing embedding models and similarity measures.- Conduct tuning, training, and optimization of LLMs to achieve a compelling CX while reducing operational cost to be scalable.A day in the lifeIn a fast-paced innovation environment, you work closely with product, UX, and business teams to understand customer's challenges. You translate product and business requirements into science problems. You dive deep into challenging science problems, enabling entirely new ML and LLM-driven customer experiences. You identify hypothesis and conduct rapid prototyping to learn quickly. You develop and deploy models at scale to pursue productizations. You mentor junior science team members and help influence our org in scientific best practices.About the teamWe are the Health AI team at HST (Health Store and Technology). The team consists of exceptional ML Scientists with diverse background in healthcare, robotics, customer analytics, and communication. We are committed to building and deploying the most advanced scientific capabilities and solutions for the products and services at Amazon Health.- 3+ years of building models for business application experience- PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience- Experience in patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language- Experience in any of the following areas: algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, high-performance computing- Experience using Unix/Linux- Experience in professional software developmentAmazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $136,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $222,200/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

Applied Scientist II, Amazon

We’re working to improve shopping on Amazon using the conversational capabilities of large language models, and are searching for pioneers who are passionate about technology, innovation, and customer experience, and are ready to make a lasting impact on the industry. You'll be working with talented scientists, engineers, and technical program managers (TPM) to innovate on behalf of our customers. If you're fired up about being part of a dynamic, driven team, then this is your moment to join us on this exciting journey!Key job responsibilitiesWe seek strong Applied Scientists with domain expertise in machine learning and deep learning, transformers, generative models, large language models, computer vision and multimodal models. You will devise innovative solutions at scale, pushing the technological and science boundaries. You will guide the design, modeling, and architectural choices of state-of-the-art large language models and multimodal models. You will devise and implement new algorithms and new learning strategies and paradigms. You will be technically hands-on and drive the execution from ideation to productionization. You will work in collaborative environment with other technical and business leaders, to innovate on behalf of the customer.- 3+ years of building models for business application experience- PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience- Experience in patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language- Experience in any of the following areas: algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, high-performance computing- Experience using Unix/Linux- Experience in professional software development- 3+ years of building models for business application experience- PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience- Experience in patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language- Experience in any of the following areas: algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, high-performance computingAmazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $136,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $222,200/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

Senior Applied Scientist, Artificial General Intelligence

The Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) team is looking for a Senior Applied Scientist to work on pre-training methodologies for Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) models. You will interact closely with our customers and with the academic and research communities. You will be at the heart of a growing and exciting focus area for Amazon, working with other acclaimed engineers and world-famous scientists.Key job responsibilitiesJoin us to work as an integral part of a team that has diverse experience with GenAI models in this space. We work on these areas:- Scaling laws- Hardware-informed efficient model architecture, low-precision training- Optimization methods, learning objectives, curriculum design- Deep learning theories on efficient hyperparameter search and self-supervised learning- Reasoning, self-reflection, interactive learning, data synthesis- Distributed training methods and solutionsAbout the teamThe AGI team has a mission to push the envelope in LLMs and multimodal systems, in order to provide the best-possible experience for our customers.- PhD, or Master's degree and 5+ years of applied research experience- 3+ years of building machine learning models for business application experience- Experience with neural deep learning methods and machine learning- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language- Experience with deep learning frameworks such as Pytorch and JAX.- PhD in engineering, technology, computer science, machine learning, robotics, operations research, statistics, mathematics or equivalent quantitative field, or Master's degree and 6+ years of industry or academic research experience- Experience with patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals- Relevant Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) research experience with LLMs and multimodalities- For system researchers, familiarity with deep learning compilers, auto-parallelization, and XLA/MLIR ecosystemsAmazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $150,400/year in our lowest geographic market up to $260,000/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

Applied Scientist, Prime Tech, Amazon Prime

Interested in helping build Prime's content and offer experimentation system to drive huge business impact on millions of customers? Join our team of Scientists and Engineers developing algorithms to adaptively generate and experiment on new content, personalize, and optimize the customer experience with Amazon Prime. This includes identifying who our customers are and providing them with personalized relevant content. As an ML lead, you will partner directly with product owners to intake, build, and directly apply your modeling solutions.There are numerous scientific and technical challenges you will get to tackle in this role, such as adaptive experimentation, structured multi-armed bandits and its application to various types of experimentation and multi-step optimization leading to reinforcement learning of the customer journey. We employ techniques from LLM's, Gen AI, deep learning, multi-armed bandits, optimization, and RL.As the central science team within Prime, our expertise gets routinely called upon to weigh in on a variety of topics. We also emphasize the need and value of scientific research and have developed a strong publication and patent record (internally/externally) which you will be a part of.You will also utilize and be exposed to the latest in ML technologies and infrastructure: AWS technologies (EMR/Spark, Redshift, Sagemaker, DynamoDB, S3, ...), various ML algorithms and techniques (Random Forests, Neural Networks, supervised/unsupervised/semi-supervised/reinforcement learning, LLM's), and statistical modeling techniques.Major responsibilities - Build and develop machine learning models and supporting infrastructure at TB scale, in coordination with software engineering teams. - Leverage Bandits and Reinforcement Learning for Experimentation and Optimization Systems. - Develop offline policy estimation tools and integrate with reporting systems. - Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large scale data analyses, model development, model validation and model implementation. - Analyze and extract relevant information from large amounts of Amazon’s historical business data to help automate and optimize key processes. - Work closely with the business to understand their problem space, identify the opportunities and formulate the problems. - Use machine learning, data mining, statistical techniques and others to create actionable, meaningful, and scalable solutions for the business problems. - Design, develop and evaluate highly innovative models and statistical approaches to understand and predict customer behavior and to solve business problems. - 3+ years of building models for business application experience- PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language- Experience in any of the following areas: algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, high-performance computing- Experience using Unix/Linux- Experience in professional software developmentAmazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $136,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $222,200/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

Applied Scientist, Buyer Abuse Prevention ML

Amazon.com’s Buyer Risk Prevention's (BRP) mission is to make Amazon the safest and most trusted place worldwide to transact online. BRP safeguards every financial transaction across all Amazon sites. As such, BRP designs and builds the software systems, risk models, and operational processes that minimize risk and maximize trust in Amazon.com. The BRP organization is looking for an Applied Scientist for the Buyer Abuse team, whose mission is to combine advanced analytics with investigator insight to create mechanisms to proactively and reactively reduce the impact of abuse across Amazon. Key job responsibilitiesAs an Applied Scientist, you will be responsible for modeling complex problems, discovering insights, and building cutting edge risk algorithms that identify opportunities through statistical models, machine learning, and visualization techniques to improve operational efficiency and reduce monetary losses and improve customer trust. You will need to collaborate effectively with business and product leaders within BRP and cross-functional teams to build scalable solutions against high organizational standards. The candidate should be able to apply a breadth of tools, data sources, and ML techniques to answer a wide range of high-impact business questions and proactively present new insights in concise and effective manner. The candidate should be an effective communicator capable of independently driving issues to resolution and communicating insights to non-technical audiences. This is a high impact role with goals that directly impacts the bottom line of the business. Responsibilities: - Invent, implement, and deploy state of the art machine learning algorithms and systems - Build prototypes and explore conceptually new solutions - Define and conduct experiments to validate/reject hypotheses, and communicate insights and recommendations to Product and Tech teams - Take ownership of how ML solutions impact Amazon resources and Customer experience - Develop efficient data querying infrastructure for both offline and online use cases - Collaborate with cross-functional teams from multidisciplinary science, engineering and business backgrounds to enhance current automation processes - Learn and understand a broad range of Amazon’s data resources and know when, how, and which to use and which not to use. - Research and implement novel machine learning and statistical approaches - Maintain technical document and communicate results to diverse audiences with effective writing, visualizations, and presentationsPlease visit for more information- PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language- Experience in any of the following areas: algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, high-performance computing- Experience using Unix/Linux- Experience in professional software developmentAmazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $136,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $222,200/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.