Machine Learning Science

The Ads Measurement Science team in the Measurement, Ad Tech, and Data Science (MADS) team of Amazon Ads serves a centralized role developing solutions for a multitude of performance measurement products. We create solutions which measure the comprehensive impact of their ad spend, including sales impacts both online and offline and across timescales, and provide actionable insights that enable our advertisers to optimize their media portfolios. We leverage a host of scientific technologies to accomplish this mission, including Generative AI, classical ML, Causal Inference, Natural Language Processing, and Computer Vision.We are hiring an Economist on the team to develop the next generation of incrementality measurement products, capturing the effect of advertising in driving sales as well as the effects of measurement tools on advertiser engagement with Amazon. As an Economist on the team, you will lead the design, implementation, and validation of large-scale causal inference methodologies to capture these properties. You will communicate your results with science and business leaders, and partner with other scientists and engineers to carry solutions into production.Key job responsibilitiesLeverage deep expertise in causal inference to develop robust, causally grounded ads measurement solutionsDisambiguate problems to propose clear evaluation frameworks and success criteriaWork autonomously and write high quality technical documentsPartner closely with other scientists to deliver large, multi-faceted technical projectsShare and publish works with the broader scientific community through meetings and conferencesCommunicate clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences and leadersContribute new ideas that shape the direction of the team's workMentor more junior scientists and participate in the hiring processBASIC QUALIFICATIONS- PhD in economics or equivalent- Experience in data mining (SQL, ETL, data warehouse, etc.) and using databases in a business environment with large-scale, complex datasets- Experience in implementing modern machine-learning methods (e.g., boosted regression trees, random forests, neural networks)- Deep expertise in causal inference, with articles published in peer-reviewed econometrics journals.- Proficiency in Python or a related programming language. ...

The Automated Reasoning Group in AWS Cloud Operations is looking for an Applied Scientist to work on the intersection of Artificial Intelligence and program analysis to automate the management of cloud compute resources, with an initial view towards reactive, incident-driven remediation, and a longer-term view towards preventative action taken. You will be part of a larger organization that develops tooling for managing a full range of cloud resources with an application-centric view.Each day, hundreds of thousands of developers make billions of transactions worldwide on AWS. They harness the power of the cloud to enable innovative applications, websites, and businesses. Using automated reasoning technology and mathematical proofs, AWS allows customers to answer questions about security, availability, durability, and functional correctness. We call this provable security, absolute assurance in security of the cloud and in the cloud. https://aws.amazon.com/security/provable-security/About the teamYou will be working with a team of automated reasoning specialists as well as software development engineers. We develop automated tools and techniques for code synthesis and analysis.Why 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.Utility Computing (UC)AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations — from foundational services such as Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWS’s services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization, you’ll support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Internet of Things (IoT), Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS, including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.Inclusive Team 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.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- PhD, or Master's degree- 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- 3+ years of building models for business application experience ...

Why this job is awesome?This is SUPER high-visibility work: Our mission is to provide consistent, accurate, and relevant delivery information to every single page on every Amazon-owned site.MILLIONS of customers will be impacted by your contributions: The changes we make directly impact the customer experience on every Amazon site. This is a great position for someone who likes to leverage Machine learning technologies to solve the real customer problems, and also wants to see and measure their direct impact on customers.We are a cross-functional team that owns the ENTIRE delivery experience for customers: From the business requirements to the technical systems that allow us to directly affect the on-site experience from a central service, business and technical team members are integrated so everyone is involved through the entire development process.You will have a chance to develop the state-of-art machine learning, including deep learning and reinforcement learning models, to build targeting, recommendation, and optimization services to impact millions of Amazon customers.- Do you want to join an innovative team of scientists and engineers who use machine learning and statistical techniques to deliver the best delivery experience on every Amazon-owned site?- Are you excited by the prospect of analyzing and modeling terabytes of data on the cloud and create state-of-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 like to innovate and simplify?If yes, then you may be a great fit to join the DEX AI team.Key job responsibilities- Research and implement machine learning techniques to create scalable and effective models in Delivery Experience (DEX) systems- Solve business problems and identify business opportunities to provide the best delivery experience on all Amazon-owned sites.- Design and develop highly innovative machine learning and deep learning models for big data.- Build state-of-art ranking and recommendations models and apply to Amazon search engine.- Analyze and understand large amounts of Amazon’s historical business data to detect patterns, to analyze trends and to identify correlations and causalities- Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large scale data analyses, model development, model validation and model implementationBASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 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 ...

Amazon's Pricing & Promotions Science is seeking a driven Applied Scientist to harness planet scale multi-modal datasets, and navigate a continuously evolving competitor landscape, in order to regularly generate fresh customer-relevant prices on billions of Amazon and Third Party Seller products worldwide.We are looking for a talented, organized, and customer-focused applied researchers to join our Pricing and Promotions Optimization science group, with a charter to measure, refine, and launch customer-obsessed improvements to our algorithmic pricing and promotion models across all products listed on Amazon.This role requires an individual with exceptional machine learning and reinforcement learning modeling expertise, excellent cross-functional collaboration skills, outstanding business acumen, and an entrepreneurial spirit. We are looking for an experienced innovator, who is a self-starter, comfortable with ambiguity, demonstrates strong attention to detail, and has the ability to work in a fast-paced and ever-changing environment.Key job responsibilities- See the big picture. Understand and influence the long term vision for Amazon's science-based competitive, perception-preserving pricing techniques- Build strong collaborations. Partner with product, engineering, and science teams within Pricing & Promotions to deploy machine learning price estimation and error correction solutions at Amazon scale- Stay informed. Establish mechanisms to stay up to date on latest scientific advancements in machine learning, neural networks, natural language processing, probabilistic forecasting, and multi-objective optimization techniques. Identify opportunities to apply them to relevant Pricing & Promotions business problems- Keep innovating for our customers. Foster an environment that promotes rapid experimentation, continuous learning, and incremental value delivery.- Successfully execute & deliver. Apply your exceptional technical machine learning expertise to incrementally move the needle on some of our hardest pricing problems.A day in the lifeWe are hiring an applied scientist to drive our pricing optimization initiatives. The Price Optimization science team drives cross-domain and cross-system improvements through:* invent and deliver price optimization, simulation, and competitiveness tools for Sellers. * shape and extend our RL optimization platform - a pricing centric tool that automates the optimization of various system parameters and price inputs. * Promotion optimization initiatives exploring CX, discount amount, and cross-product optimization opportunities.* Identifying opportunities to optimally price across systems and contexts (marketplaces, request types, event periods)Price is a highly relevant input into many partner-team architectures, and is highly relevant to the customer, therefore this role creates the opportunity to drive extremely large impact (measured in Bs not Ms), but demands careful thought and clear communication.About the teamAbout the team: the Pricing Discovery and Optimization team within P2 Science owns price quality, discovery and discount optimization initiatives, including criteria for internal price matching, price discovery into search, p13N and SP, pricing bandits, and Promotion type optimization. We leverage planet scale data on billions of Amazon and external competitor products to build advanced optimization models for pricing, elasticity estimation, product substitutability, and optimization. We preserve long term customer trust by ensuring Amazon's prices are always competitive and error free.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 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- 2+ years of hands-on predictive modeling and large data analysis experience- Experience in solving business problems through machine learning, data mining and statistical algorithms ...

Amazon is looking for world class Applied Scientist to join its AWS AI Labs with expertise in AI-assistants focusing on conversational- retrieval augmented generation (RAG), agent orchestration, multi-modal and multi-lingual chat agents, etc. You will be joining a team of applied scientists developing robust and scalable machine learning solutions for enterprise conversational assistants. You will interact in a cross-functional capacity with product and engineering leaders, as well as with our customers and with the academic community. You will be at the heart of a growing and exciting focus area for AWS and work with acclaimed engineers and world-class scientists.We are hiring at the following locations for at levels: Seattle, NYC and Santa ClaraAbout the teamAmazon Q Business is a generative AI–powered assistant that can answer questions, provide summaries, generate content, and take actions, securely completing the tasks based on data and information in your enterprise systems. It empowers employees to be more creative, data-driven, efficient, prepared, and productive. As member of Q team, you’ll work on optimizing large language models in an efficient manner and implementing solutions to enhance and build new functionalities into Q assistant. 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. Why AWS?Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.Inclusive Team 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. BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- PhD, or Master's degree and 6+ years of applied research experience- 3+ years of building machine learning models for business application experience- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language- Experience with neural deep learning methods and machine learning ...

Do you want to join an innovative team of scientists who invent and apply the most advanced machine learning and NLP techniques to create the best customer engagement experience on the earth? Do you want to revolutionize the way how customers solve their issues and get their questions answered? At Customer Engagement Technology (CET), we develop peculiar products that help customers solve problems. We innovate on behalf of customers, developing Bot, self-service, and associate-facing products that delight customers and support our world class customer service workforce. We are looking for talented Postdoctoral Scientists to join our CET Machine Learning team in Seattle, WA for a one-year, full-time research position to work on research and development of task oriented dialogue agents for the customer support domain. We utilize Large Language Models (LLMs) to address challenges within TOD systems, such as Natural Language Generation for generating system responses based, state tracking, decision making etc. We publish our research in top tier NLP and AI venues (EMNLP, ACL, AAAI, etc), and deploy ML powered chatbots primarily in the customer returns domain. Key job responsibilitiesIn this role you will: • Work closely with a senior science advisor, collaborate with other scientists and engineers, and be part of Amazon’s vibrant and diverse global science community. • Publish your innovation in top-tier academic venues and hone your presentation skills. • Be inspired by challenges and opportunities to invent cutting-edge techniques in your area(s) of expertise.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS• PhD in a relevant field, received within 2 years of starting the program • Proven publication record in Machine Learning, Computer Vision, AI, Computer Science, or other related technical fields • Experience in data science and quantitative research • Proficiency in technologies relevant to the subfield• Experience in Natural Language Processing, and in particular Large Language Models ...

Amazon Advertising operates at the intersection of eCommerce and advertising, helping shoppers find and discover anything they want to buy. We help advertisers reach Amazon customers on Amazon.com. Our team drives innovation for the retail shopping site publisher. We are building the ML algorithms that optimize auction levers in the core auction, affecting which ads millions of daily Amazon shoppers see and how those ads are priced. This is a great time to join; we are still in early stages deploying the first generation of algorithms to drive yield and delight shoppers. As we continue building to out our team, we are looking for a Senior Applied Scientist to lead research, design, experiment and implementation of cutting edge algorithms for complex Stores Display publisher use cases. You will collaborate with Amazon demand programs and front-end teams to navigate how the entire advertising stack works end-to-end. You will work collaboratively with software engineers, data engineers, and other scientists on the team to deploy production algorithms that support the billions of ad auctions run daily and set a high bar for science and engineering excellence. This is a rare opportunity to be a foundational member with huge potential for impact and innovating new user experiences at Amazon.Despite being part of a large business, we embrace a start-up mentality. This is an opportunity for massive impact and a lot of autonomy.* Candidates can be based in NYC or Arlington (HQ2) *Key job responsibilitiesAs a Senior Applied Scientist on this team, you will:* Be the technical leader in Machine Learning; lead efforts within this team and across other teams.* Perform hands-on analysis and modeling of enormous data sets to develop insights that increase traffic monetization and retail merchandise sales, without compromising the shopper experience.* Drive end-to-end Machine Learning projects that have a high degree of ambiguity, scale, complexity.* Build machine learning models, perform proof-of-concept, experiment, optimize, and deploy your models into production; work closely with software engineers to assist in productionizing your ML models.* Run A/B experiments, gather data, and perform statistical analysis.* Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large-scale data analysis, machine-learning model development, model validation and serving.* Research new and innovative machine learning approaches.* Recruit Applied Scientists to the team and provide mentorship.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 3+ years of building machine learning models for business application experience- PhD, or Master's degree and 6+ years of applied research experience- Knowledge of programming languages such as C/C++, Python, Java or Perl- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language- Experience with neural deep learning methods and machine learning ...

Revolutionize the Future of FinTech with Worldwide Installments Science & Engineering!Are you ready to shape the future of global finance? Join the elite Worldwide Installments team within Amazon Payments (AP) and be at the forefront of innovation where cutting-edge machine learning, advanced econometrics, and state-of-the-art technology converge to redefine the financial landscape.🌟 Our Mission: To create payment experiences and financial services that are unparalleled in trust, value, and ease of use – accessible from anywhere, anytime.🚀 What We Offer:- Unprecedented growth in a rapidly expanding market- Continuous innovation with market-leading features- Groundbreaking ML solutions that directly impact customers🧠 Your Playground:- Access to Amazon's vast data ecosystem- Cutting-edge probabilistic modeling- Real-time decision-making systems affecting millions- Global-scale experimentation and optimization🌍 Your Impact:- Influence the purchasing experience of hundreds of millions of consumers worldwide- Work on the most sophisticated FinTech challenges in the BNPL/Installment space- Collaborate with top-tier professionals across Amazon's global network🔍 We're Seeking:An exceptional talent to spearhead our ML roadmap. This role is your gateway to working with one of the world's most complex and extensive data environments. You'll be at the nexus of data, strategy, and innovation, directly influencing Amazon's global financial strategies.💼 Your Arsenal:- Mastery in managing and deriving insights from massive datasets- Deep expertise in scalable data mining and financial modeling- Strong business acumen and superior communication skills- Ability to translate complex data into actionable business strategies🏆 Why This Role is Unmatched:This position offers unparalleled exposure to the pinnacle of FinTech innovation. You'll be working on challenges that no other company in the world can offer, with resources and scale that are truly unique to Amazon.Join us in revolutionizing global finance. Your expertise could shape how millions of people interact with money in the digital age. This isn't just a job – it's a chance to leave your mark on the future of financial technology.Are you ready to redefine what's possible in FinTech? Apply now and let's build the future together!BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 5+ years of building quantitative solutions as a scientist or science manager experience- 2+ years of scientists or machine learning engineers management experience- 5+ years of applying statistical models for large-scale application and building automated analytical systems experience- PhD in computer science, mathematics, statistics, machine learning or equivalent quantitative field- Knowledge of Python or R or other scripting language ...

AWS AI is looking for passionate, talented, and inventive Applied Scientists with a strong machine learning background to help build industry-leading Conversational AI Systems. Our mission is to provide a delightful experience to Amazon’s customers by pushing the envelope in Natural Language Understanding (NLU), Dialog Systems including Generative AI with Large Language Models (LLMs) and Applied Machine Learning (ML).As part of our AI team in Amazon AWS, you will work alongside internationally recognized experts to develop novel algorithms and modeling techniques to advance the state-of-the-art in human language technology. Your work will directly impact millions of our customers in the form of products and services that make use language technology. You will gain hands on experience with Amazon’s heterogeneous text, structured data sources, and large-scale computing resources to accelerate advances in language understanding.We are hiring in all areas of human language technology: NLU, Dialog Management, Conversational AI, LLMs and Generative AI.A day in the lifeThe Amazon Web Services (AWS) Next Gen DevX (NGDE) team uses generative AI and foundation models to reimagine the experience of all builders on AWS. From the IDE to web-based tools and services, AI will help engineers work on large and small applications. We explore new technologies and find creative solutions. Curiosity and an explorative mindset can find a place here to impact the life of engineers around the world.If you are excited about this space and want to enlighten your peers with new capabilities, this is the team for you.We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:Santa Clara, CA, USAAbout the teamDiverse 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. Why AWS?Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.Inclusive Team 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. BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- PhD, or Master's degree and 10+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience- 8+ 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 ...

As a Principal Scientist in Ring and Blink, you will have deep subject matter expertise in the areas of Artificial Intelligence. You will work with multiple teams of scientists and engineers to translate business and functional requirements into concrete deliverables. More specifically, you will provide thought leadership on and lead strategic efforts in Computer Vision (CV) and Machine Learning (ML) areas for Ring and Blink, covering themes including but not limited to 3D vision, SLAM, Classic Deep Learning, and Generative AI, and work with Product, Science, and Engineering teams to deliver short- and long-term CV/ML solutions in production for optimized edge-based solutions to large-scale models. Finally, you will work with academic partners to support our in-house talent with direct access to cutting edge research and mentoring.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- PhD, or Master's degree and 10+ years of Computer Vision and Machine Learning or related field experience- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language- Conduct independent research and development work on advanced computer vision and robotics components covering key product critical perception features such as visual-inertial odometry, SLAM, bundle adjustment, loop closure, sparse and dense environment mapping, and 3D reconstruction. ...

The Think Forward Lab team at Deep Science for Systems & Services (DS3), AWS AI/ML is looking for world class scientists and engineers to join its group working on deployment of autonomous agents. Agents with full autonomy need to be trustworthy and verifiable. The team develops AI systems that exhibit autonomous proficiency across a wide range of domains, demonstrating competency in many (complex) tasks previously performed by human knowledge workers. Such agents sense, plan, and act effectively in interactive and previously unseen environments. To accomplish this goal we are seeking scientists with expertise in large language models, user alignment, neuro-symbolic AI, synthetic data generation and agentic environments. This is a role that combines science knowledge, technical strength, and product focus. It will be your job to develop novel generative AI-based agentic systems and algorithms while working with the engineering team to integrate them into different projects in the AWS AI portfolio of services. You will be at the heart of a growing and exciting focus area for AWS and work with other acclaimed engineers and world famous scientists.Key job responsibilitiesYou will be a hands on contributor to science at Amazon. You will help raise the scientific bar by mentoring, educating, and publishing in your field. You will help build the scientific roadmap for agents, neuro-symbolic AI and LLMs. You will be a technical leader in your domain. You will be a strong mentor and lead for your team. About the teamThe DS3 org encompasses scientists who work closely with different AWS AI/ML product services, innovating on the behalf of our customers customers. About AWS Diverse Experiences AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applyingAWS 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.Why 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.Utility Computing (UC)AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations — from foundational services such as Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWS’s services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization, you’ll support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Internet of Things (IoT), Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS, including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.Inclusive Team 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.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 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 ...

Amazon’s maps play a crucial role in our vehicle navigation, routing, and planning problems to ensure fast and safe deliveries to our customers. As part of the Last Mile Geospatial Science organization, you’ll partner closely with other scientists and engineers in a collegial environment with a clear path to business impact. We have an exciting problem area to augment the maps and routing inputs from satellite/aerial imagery and street videos by leveraging the latest computer vision and deep learning techniques.Key job responsibilitiesSuccessful candidates should have a deep knowledge (both theoretical and practical) of various machine learning algorithms for large scale computer vision problems, the ability to map models into production-worthy code, the communication skills necessary to explain complex technical approaches to a variety of stakeholders and customers, and the excitement to take iterative approaches to tackle big, long term problems. The applied scientist should be proficient with image and video analysis using machine learning, including designing architecture from scratch, modify existing loss functions, full model training, fine-tuning, and evaluating the latest deep learning models. The Applied Scientist optimizes different models for specific platforms, including edge devices with restricted resources. Multi-modal models, e.g., Large Vision Language Models (LVLM), zero-shot, few-shot, and semi-supervised learning paradigms are used extensively.A day in the lifeIf you are not sure that every qualification on the list above describes you exactly, we'd still love to hear from you! At Amazon, we value people with unique backgrounds, experiences, and skillsets. If you’re passionate about this role and want to make an impact on a global scale, please apply!Amazon offers a full range of benefits that support you and eligible family members, including domestic partners and their children. Benefits can vary by location, the number of regularly scheduled hours you work, length of employment, and job status such as seasonal or temporary employment. The benefits that generally apply to regular, full-time employees include:1. Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage2. Maternity and Parental Leave Options3. Paid Time Off (PTO)4. 401(k) PlanBASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 3+ years of deep learning, computer vision, human robotic interaction, algorithms implementation 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 developing and implementing deep learning algorithms, particularly with respect to computer vision algorithms ...

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.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language- Experience with SQL and an RDBMS (e.g., Oracle) or Data Warehouse ...

At Amazon Robotics, we design advanced robotic systems capable of intelligent perception, learning, and action alongside humans, all on a large scale. Our goal is to develop robots that increase productivity and efficiency at the Amazon fulfillment centers while ensuring the safety of workers.We are seeking an Applied Scientist to develop innovative and scalable solutions in motion planning for complex robotic systems. In this role, you will collaborate with a world-class team of experts in perception, machine learning, motion planning, and feedback controls to innovate and develop solutions for complex real-world problems.As part of your work, you will investigate applicable academic and industry research to develop, implement, and test solutions that support product features. You will also design and validate production designs. To succeed in this role, you should demonstrate a strong working knowledge of physical systems, a desire to learn from new challenges, and the problem-solving and communication skills to work within a highly interactive and experienced team. Candidates must show a hands-on passion for their work and the ability to communicate their ideas and concepts both verbally and visually.Key job responsibilities- Develop and optimize motion planning and trajectory generation algorithms for various robotic applications- Design and implement real-time control strategies for closed loop robotic systems- Conduct simulations and experiments to validate the performance of motion planning algorithms- Collaborate closely with software engineering teams to ensure scalable, real-time implementation of algorithms- Partner with cross-functional engineering teams to deploy algorithms from initial prototyping to production-level implementationA day in the lifeAmazon offers a full range of benefits for you and eligible family members, including domestic partners and their children. Benefits can vary by location, the number of regularly scheduled hours you work, length of employment, and job status such as seasonal or temporary employment. The benefits that generally apply to regular, full-time employees include: 1. Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage 2. Maternity and Parental Leave Options 3. Paid Time Off (PTO) 4. 401(k) Plan If you are not sure that every qualification on the list above describes you exactly, we'd still love to hear from you! At Amazon, we value people with unique backgrounds, experiences, and skillsets. If you’re passionate about this role and want to make an impact on a global scale, please apply!BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of science, technology, engineering or related field experience- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language- 3+ years of building machine learning models or developing algorithms for business application experience- Experience applying theoretical models in an applied environment- Experience in patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals- 3+ years of industry or academic research experience in applied research and development in robotics, with a focus on motion planning for robotic systems. ...

The Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) team is looking for a passionate, talented, and inventive Senior Applied Scientist with a strong deep learning background, to build industry-leading technology with Large Language Models (LLMs) and multi-modal systems. You will lead projects that work on cutting edge technologies including multi-modal model alignment, moderation systems and evaluation.Key job responsibilitiesAs a Senior Applied Scientist with the AGI team, you will lead the development of novel algorithms and modeling techniques, to advance the state of the art with LLMs. Your work will directly impact our customers in the form of products and services that make use of speech and language technology. You will leverage Amazon’s heterogeneous data sources and large-scale computing resources to accelerate advances in generative artificial intelligence (GenAI). You are also expected to publish in top tier conferences. About the teamThe AGI team has a mission to push the envelope in LLMs and multimodal systems. Specifically, we focus on model alignment with an aim to maintain safety while not denting utility, in order to provide the best-possible experience for our customers.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- PhD, or Master's degree and 5+ years of applied research experience- 5+ years of building machine learning models for business application experience- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language- Experience with neural deep learning methods and machine learning ...

We are looking for an Applied Scientist who is passionate about building services and tools for developers that leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning. You will be part of a team building Large Language Model (LLM)-based services with the focus on enhancing the developer experience in the Cloud. The team works in close collaboration with other AWS services such as AWS Cloud9, the AWS IDE Toolkit and AWS Bedrock. If you are excited about working in cloud computing and building new AWS services, then we'd love to talk to you.As an Applied Scientist, you are recognized for your expertise, advise team members on a range of machine learning topics, and work closely with software engineers to drive the delivery of end-to-end modeling solutions. Your work focuses on ambiguous problem areas where the business problem or opportunity may not yet be defined. The problems that you take on require scientific breakthroughs.You take a long-term view of the business objectives, product roadmaps, technologies, and how they should evolve. You drive mindful discussions with customers, engineers, and scientist peers. You bring perspective and provide context for current technology choices, and make recommendations on the right modeling and component design approach to achieve the desired customer experience and business outcome.Key job responsibilitiesUnderstand the challenges that developers face when building software today, and develop generalizable solutions.Collaborate with developers and pave the way towards bringing your solution into production systems. Lead cross team projects and ensure technical blockers are resolvedCommunicate and document your research via publishing papers in external scientific venues.About the teamAbout AWSDiverse ExperiencesAWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying. Why AWS?Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.Inclusive Team 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. This team is part of AWS Utility Computing: Utility Computing (UC) AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations — from foundational services such as Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWS’s services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization, you’ll support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Internet of Things (Iot), Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS, including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience- Experience building machine learning models or developing algorithms for business application- Experience in patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language ...

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!BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 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 ...

The Science Tooling And Research (STAR) Team at Amazon Robotics is seeking a passionate Applied Scientist, with a strong track record of industrial research, innovation leadership, and technology transfer, with a focus on ML Applications.At Amazon Robotics, we apply cutting edge advancements in robotics, software development, Big Data, ML and AI to solve real-world challenges that will transform our customers’ experiences in ways we can’t even imagine yet. We operate hundreds of buildings that employ hundreds of thousands of robots teaming up to perform sophisticated, large-scale missions. There are a lot of exciting opportunities ahead of us that can be unlocked by scientific research. Amazon Robotics has a dedicated focus on research and development to continuously explore new opportunities to extend its product lines into new areas.As you could imagine, data is at the heart of our innovation. This role will be participating in creating the ML and AI roadmap, leading science initiatives, and shipping ML products.Key job responsibilitiesYou will be responsible for:- Independently innovating, creating, and iterating modeling solutions for given business problems. Especially, using techniques such as Spatial–temporal ML methods, Optimization, Causal Inference, etc.- Collaborating with other Science, Tech, Ops, and Business leaders to ship and iterate model products.- Promoting best practices and mentoring junior team members on problem solving and communication.- Leading state-of-the-art research work and pursuing internal/external scientific publications.A day in the lifeAmazon offers a full range of benefits that support you and eligible family members, including domestic partners and their children. Benefits can vary by location, the number of regularly scheduled hours you work, length of employment, and job status such as seasonal or temporary employment. The benefits that generally apply to regular, full-time employees include: 1. Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage 2. Maternity and Parental Leave Options 3. Paid Time Off (PTO) 4. 401(k) Plan If you are not sure that every qualification on the list above describes you exactly, we'd still love to hear from you! At Amazon, we value people with unique backgrounds, experiences, and skillsets. If you’re passionate about this role and want to make an impact on a global scale, please apply!BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience- 2+ years of building machine learning models or developing algorithms for business application experience- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language- Experience applying theoretical models in an applied environment ...

Amazon Advertising is one of Amazon's fastest growing and most profitable businesses. Amazon's advertising portfolio helps merchants, retail vendors, and brand owners succeed via native advertising, which grows incremental sales of their products sold through Amazon. The primary goals are to help shoppers discover new products they love, be the most efficient way for advertisers to meet their business objectives, and build a sustainable business that continuously innovates on behalf of customers. Our products and solutions are strategically important to enable our Retail and Marketplace businesses to drive long-term growth. We deliver billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks and break fresh ground in product and technical innovations every day! As an Applied Scientist on this team, you will: - Be a strong contributor to Machine Learning; lending effort within this team and across other teams.- Perform hands-on analysis and modeling of enormous data sets to develop insights that increase traffic monetization and merchandise sales, without compromising the shopper experience.- Drive end-to-end Machine Learning projects that have a high degree of ambiguity, scale, complexity.- Build machine learning models, perform proof-of-concept, experiment, optimize, and deploy your models into production; work closely with software engineers to assist in productionizing your ML models.- Run A/B experiments, gather data, and perform statistical analysis.- Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large-scale data analysis, machine-learning model development, model validation and serving.- Research new and innovative machine learning approaches.Why you will love this opportunity: Amazon is investing heavily in building a world-class advertising business. This team defines and delivers a collection of advertising products that drive discovery and sales. Our solutions generate billions in revenue and drive long-term growth for Amazon’s Retail and Marketplace businesses. We deliver billions of ad impressions, millions of clicks daily, and break fresh ground to create world-class products. We are a highly motivated, collaborative, and fun-loving team with an entrepreneurial spirit - with a broad mandate to experiment and innovate.Impact and Career Growth: You will invent new experiences and influence customer-facing shopping experiences to help suppliers grow their retail business and the auction dynamics that leverage native advertising; this is your opportunity to work within the fastest-growing businesses across all of Amazon! Define a long-term science vision for our advertising business, driven from our customers' needs, translating that direction into specific plans for research and applied scientists, as well as engineering and product teams. This role combines science leadership, organizational ability, technical strength, product focus, and business understanding.Team video https://youtu.be/zD_6Lzw8raE BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 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 ...

The Amazon Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) Personalization team is looking for a passionate, highly skilled and inventive Applied Scientist with strong machine learning background to build state-of-the-art ML systems for personalizing large-scale, high-quality conversational assistant systems. As a Applied Scientist, you will play a critical role in driving the development of personalization techniques enabling conversational systems, in particular those based on large language models, information retrieval, recommender systems and knowledge graph, to be tailored to customer needs. You will handle Amazon-scale use cases with significant impact on our customers' experiences.Key job responsibilities- Use deep learning, ML and NLP techniques to create scalable solutions for creation and development of language model centric solutions for building personalized assistant systems based on a rich set of structured and unstructured contextual signals- Innovate new methods for contextual knowledge extraction and information retrieval, using language models in combination with other learning techniques, that allows effective grounding in context providers when considering memory, compute, latency and quality- Research in advanced customer understanding and behavior modeling techniques- Collaborate with cross-functional teams of scientists, engineers, and product managers to identify and solve complex problems in personal knowledge aggregation, processing, modeling, and verification- Design and execute experiments to evaluate the performance of state-of-the-art algorithms and models, and iterate quickly to improve results- Think Big on conversational assistant system personalization over a multi-year horizon, and identify new opportunities to apply these technologies to solve real-world problems- Communicate results and insights to both technical and non-technical audiences, including through presentations and written reportsAbout the teamThe AGI Personalization org uses various contextual signals to personalize Large Language Model output for our customers while maintaining privacy and security of customer data. We work across multiple Amazon products, including Alexa, to enhance the user experience by bringing more personal context and relevance to customer interactions.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience- 2+ 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 ...