Machine Learning Engineer, Routing and Planning Science

Does the idea of creating technology solutions for delivering 11 Billion+ packages across the globe excite you? If yes, come join a fun-loving, diverse, and creative team at Amazon Last Mile! The vision of the team is "To create Earth’s safest, most adaptive, and efficient plans for Last Mile logistics". The Last Mile Delivery Technology team is instrumental in impacting customer satisfaction directly, by devising innovative ways to deliver packages quickly and cost-effectively to the customers, and at scale using Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning and Operations Research solutions. Last Mile Delivery Technology organization supports the design, planning and execution of last mile transportation for Amazon’s various parcel and grocery delivery programs. All these programs require a large number of decision support systems to operate at scale and serve our customers, spanning demand planning, jurisdiction planning, delivery channel and network design, capacity planning for on the road and under the roof at delivery stations, routing inputs and route optimization. While these decision support systems have thus far been approached through the lens of traditional optimization and machine learning, we are looking to re-envision this space and pursue Foundational AI research, to innovate and advance the state of these decision support systems. Specifically, we are looking to develop foundational models (including Large Language Models, Multimodal Language Models, Multimodal Models), and adaptations to serve last mile use cases. Beyond Amazon the work developed will spur new fundamental knowledge and innovation in the logistics space. We are looking for candidates with knowledge and experience in designing and developing state-of-art AI solutions (including development and application of advanced deep learning algorithms, foundational models, multimodal generative AI solutions, reinforcement learning), to join our team. Demonstrated experience scaling and optimizing the training and inference of these models, building real world solutions, to meet the customer use cases is preferred. Proven track record of publishing in major AI conferences and demonstrated experience working in industry will be preferred.Job Location : Bellevue WA or Austin TX.Key job responsibilitiesCandidate will contribute to the development of Foundational AI solutions, to serve the myriad of decision support use cases across last mile. Candidate will be responsible for developing and implementing new machine learning techniques, optimizing training and inference of models, implement scalable science and engineering solutions in support of last mile planning and operations. You will be working with a team of scientists and engineers, helping shape the strategic and tactical vision, and contribute hands on to foundational research efforts in last mile. A day in the lifeSitting at the core of Amazon’s Last Mile business, Routing and Planning (RaP) invents technology solutions that deliver toward the RaP vision: to create earth’s safest, most adaptive, and efficient plans for Last Mile logistics. RaP serves a diverse set of external and internal customers. For Amazon End Customers and transporters, we build solutions to deliver 11B packages and services to arrive at the right place and time, while meeting the growing preference for speed and precision. For internal customers, we build and delivery routing solutions Worldwide adding up to a $1B USD, across multiple amazon businesses ranging from Amazon Logistics, Amazon X-tra Large to Same/Sub-Same Day Deliveries, Fresh and Groceries etc using multiple mode of transports. If the opportunity to innovate, create and deliver first-time solutions alongside world-class engineers and scientists e.g. building a new delivery foundational model from scratch utilizing data at an unprecedented scale in the industry excites you, this is the place for you. About the teamThe Last Mile (LM) Science organization serves two primary functions: (1) maintaining and enhancing the components which provide the essential intelligence in nearly every LM system, and (2) creating the science which will enable the continued growth of Amazon in the future. The systems used on a daily basis by the Last Mile to deliver packages from the station to the customer’s doorstep contains embedded models developed by the science team, or relies on inputs derived from these models. These models determine how efficiently Amazon can serve its customers and at what cost.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience- Experience programming with at least one software programming language ...

Applied Scientist, AWS Industries

Are you looking to work at the forefront of Machine Learning and AI? Would you be excited to apply cutting edge Generative AI algorithms to solve real world problems with significant impact? Machine learning (ML) has been strategic to Amazon from the early years. We are pioneers in areas such as recommendation engines, product search, eCommerce fraud detection, and large-scale optimization of fulfillment center operations. The AWS Industries Team at AWS helps AWS customers implement Generative AI solutions and realize transformational business opportunities for AWS customers in the most strategic industry verticals. This is a team of data scientists, engineers, and architects working step-by-step with customers to build bespoke solutions that harness the power of generative AI.The team helps customers imagine and scope the use cases that will create the greatest value for their businesses, select and train and fine tune the right models, define paths to navigate technical or business challenges, develop proof-of-concepts, and build applications to launch these solutions at scale. The AWS Industries team provides guidance and implements best practices for applying generative AI responsibly and cost efficiently.You will work directly with customers and innovate in a fast-paced organization that contributes to game-changing projects and technologies. You will design and run experiments, research new algorithms, and find new ways of optimizing risk, profitability, and customer experience.We’re looking for Applied Scientists capable of using GenAI and other techniques to design, evangelize, and implement state-of-the-art solutions for never-before-solved problems.Key job responsibilitiesAs an Applied Scientist, you will-- Collaborate with AI/ML scientists, engineers, and architects to research, design, develop, and evaluate cutting-edge generative AI algorithms and build ML systems to address real-world challenges- Interact with customers directly to understand the business problem, help and aid them in implementation of generative AI solutions, deliver briefing and deep dive sessions to customers and guide customer on adoption patterns and paths to production- Create and deliver best practice recommendations, tutorials, blog posts, publications, sample code, and presentations adapted to technical, business, and executive stakeholder. Publish novel developments in internal and external papers, forums, and conferences- Provide customer and market feedback to Product and Engineering teams to help define product directionAbout the teamABOUT AWS:Diverse Experiences Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying. 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.Work/Life Balance We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud. Inclusive Team Culture Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.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. BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- Master's degree in computer science, computer engineering, or related field- 2+ years of building machine learning models or developing algorithms for business application 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 with neural deep learning methods and machine learning ...

Manager, Applied Science, Amazon Advertising

Amazon Advertising is one of Amazon's fastest growing and most profitable businesses, responsible for defining and delivering a collection of advertising products that drive discovery and sales. 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 Science Manager in Machine Learning, you will: - Directly manage and lead a cross-functional team of Applied Scientists, Data Scientists, Economists, and Business Intelligence Engineers.- Develop and manage a research agenda that balances short term deliverables with measurable business impact as well as long term investments.- Lead marketplace design and development based on economic theory and data analysis.- Provide technical and scientific guidance to team members.- Rapidly design, prototype and test many possible hypotheses in a high-ambiguity environment, making use of both quantitative and business judgment- Advance the team's engineering craftsmanship and drive continued scientific innovation as a thought leader and practitioner.- Develop science and engineering roadmaps, run annual planning, and foster cross-team collaboration to execute complex projects.- Perform hands-on data analysis, build machine-learning models, run regular A/B tests, and communicate the impact to senior management.- Collaborate with business and software teams across Amazon Ads.- Stay up to date with recent scientific publications relevant to the team.- Hire and develop top talent, provide technical and career development guidance to scientists and engineers within and across the organization.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- 4+ years of applied research experience- 3+ years of scientists or machine learning engineers management experience- 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 ML, NLP, Information Retrieval and Analytics- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language ...

Applied Scientist, AGI Info - Web & Knowledge Services

Amazon’s AGI Information is seeking an exceptional Applied Scientist to develop science advancements in the Amazon Knowledge Graph team (AKG). AKG is re-inventing knowledge graphs for the LLM-era, optimizing for LLM grounding and other LLM-based customer experiences. At the same time, AKG is innovating to utilize LLMs in the knowledge graph construction pipelines to overcome obstacles that traditional technologies could not overcome.As a member of the AKG Science team, you will have the opportunity to work on interesting cutting edge problems with immediate customer impact. The team is addressing challenges in automating gap detection, data ingestion, fact verification, query optimization and entity resolution. You will work with the entity resolution team to develop generic entity resolution models that work for every class of data in AKG (e.g., people, places, movies, etc.), that scale to hundreds of millions of entities, and that work incrementally. You will collaborate with other scientists to develop entity representations, training data and matching models to solve the problem. You will also work to optimize models to be performant and cost-effective in production.A successful candidate has a strong machine learning and LLM background, identifies and adapts state of the art techniques to solve new problems, builds POCs quickly to identify promising techniques and reject ideas that do not work, and enjoys collaborating with engineering teams to ship solutions incrementally via rapid experimentation. A successful candidate is an avid reader of the scientific literature and works to publish in peer reviewed conferences.Key job responsibilitiesAs an Applied Scientist, you will apply scientific rigor to your work. You will work incrementally, setting up and executing experiments informed by rigorous failure space analysis of prior experiments. You have a knack for writing clear, succinct and informative reports of your experiments. You collaborate and seek guidance from other scientists on your team to define the next experiments. You work with engineers to understand deployment requirements and constraints, and work to address them. You work continuously with customers and stakeholders to simplify and adapt to deliver for our customers.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 ...

Machine Learning Engineer II, Search Science and Data Infrastructure

Amazon Search creates powerful, customer-focused product search solutions and technologies. Whenever a customer visits an Amazon site worldwide and types in a query or browses through product categories, our systems go to work. We delight customers when we accurately understand their intent expressed via a query or image, and reflect that understanding throughout the search page - from layout to the search results and navigation. We make shopping effortless by helping customers easily explore our vast selection, narrowing down a myriad of options to a manageable consideration set while providing key information to make high confidence decisions with low post-purchase regretSearch Science Data Infrastructure team is responsible for delivering high quality and fresh ML model training data, and providing seamless access to all ML artifacts through federated Feature Store infrastructure. This big-data platform provides the ML training data to Amazon search ranking, matching quality, search economics and also powers live-site features, including search suggestions, query understanding, spelling, search result ranking, and personalization. Furthermore, 350+ teams across Amazon consume our datasets to power analytics and behavior models. We are located in downtown Palo Alto, a short walk from numerous shops and restaurants, and right across from the Caltrain station.Key job responsibilitiesAs an ML Engineer you will:- Lead development of services and infrastructure at the intersection of machine learning, big data, and distributed systems. Our products and services empower hundreds of science teams across Amazon to deliver machine learning at scale for ML model training, Feature engineering and Data quality monitoring. - You will help manage machine learning lifecycle and operations using AWS AI services, DL compute resources, and our core search backend services for query understanding, semantic matching, and relevance ranking. - You will build scalable data-intensive infrastructure that processes huge amounts of logs, catalogs, transactional data, and telemetry signals. By doing so, we enable teams to become more data-driven and build robust and explainable ML services. - You will work with partners on data experimentation to advance Amazon product search, making it available across all geographic regions with variety of product search and discovery use cases across many categories.- Lead the design, get your hands dirty and write code, and ultimately deploy big data and machine learning services. These services define the foundation of our search R&D processes, supporting science, product development and production of the world’s largest product search engine.- Possess expert knowledge in performance, large scale distributed system scalability, system architecture, and engineering best practices.- Obsess over operational excellence, evaluate system performance, security, design system metrics and driving quality improvementsBASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience- Experience programming with at least one software programming language- Experience in machine learning, data mining, information retrieval, statistics or natural language processing ...

2025 Applied Science Internship - Gen AI & Large Language Models - United States, PhD Student Science Recruiting

Revolutionize the Future of AI at the Frontier of Applied ScienceAre you a brilliant mind seeking to push the boundaries of what's possible with artificial intelligence? Join our elite team of researchers and engineers at the forefront of applied science, where we're harnessing the latest advancements in natural language processing, deep learning, and generative AI to reshape industries and unlock new realms of innovation.As an Applied Science Intern, you'll have the unique opportunity to work alongside world-renowned experts, gaining invaluable hands-on experience with cutting-edge technologies such as large language models, transformers, and neural networks. You'll dive deep into complex challenges, fine-tuning state-of-the-art models, developing novel algorithms for named entity recognition, and exploring the vast potential of generative AI.This internship is not just about executing tasks – it's about being a driving force behind groundbreaking discoveries. You'll collaborate with cross-functional teams, leveraging your expertise in statistics, recommender systems, and question answering to tackle real-world problems and deliver impactful solutions.Throughout your journey, you'll have access to unparalleled resources, including state-of-the-art computing infrastructure, cutting-edge research papers, and mentorship from industry luminaries. This immersive experience will not only sharpen your technical skills but also cultivate your ability to think critically, communicate effectively, and thrive in a fast-paced, innovative environment where bold ideas are celebrated..Join us at the forefront of applied science, where your contributions will shape the future of AI and propel humanity forward. Seize this extraordinary opportunity to learn, grow, and leave an indelible mark on the world of technology.Amazon has positions available for LLM & GenAI Applied Science Internships in, but not limited to, Bellevue, WA; Boston, MA; Cambridge, MA; New York, NY; Santa Clara, CA; Seattle, WA; Sunnyvale, CA; Pittsburgh, PA.Key job responsibilitiesWe are particularly interested in candidates with expertise in: LLMs, NLP/NLU, Gen AI, Transformers, Fine-Tuning, Recommendation Systems, Deep Learning, NER, Statistics, Neural Networks, Question Answering.In this role, you will work alongside global experts to develop and implement novel, scalable algorithms and modeling techniques that advance the state-of-the-art in areas at the intersection of LLMs and GenAI. You will tackle challenging, groundbreaking research problems on production-scale data, with a focus on recommendation systems, question answering, deep learning and generative AI.The ideal candidate should possess the ability to work collaboratively with diverse groups and cross-functional teams to solve complex business problems. A successful candidate will be a self-starter, comfortable with ambiguity, with strong attention to detail and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment.A day in the life- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to tackle complex challenges in natural language processing, computer vision, and generative AI.- Fine-tune state-of-the-art models and develop novel algorithms to push the boundaries of what's possible.- Explore the vast potential of generative AI and its applications across industries.- Attend cutting-edge research seminars and engage in thought-provoking discussions with industry luminaries.- Leverage state-of-the-art computing infrastructure and access to the latest research papers to fuel your innovation.- Present your groundbreaking work and insights to the team, fostering a culture of knowledge-sharing and continuous learningBASIC QUALIFICATIONS- Are enrolled in a PhD- Are 18 years of age or older- Work 40 hours/week minimum and commit to 12 week internship maximum- Can relocate to where the internship is based- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language- Experience with one or more of the following: Large Language Models, NLP, Natural Language Understanding, Generative AI, Transformers, Fine-tuning, Recommendation Systems, Deep Learning, Named Entity Recognition, Statistics, Neural Networks, Question Answering ...

Applied Scientist II, Brand Identity

About Amazon Advertising:Amazon Advertising operates at the intersection of eCommerce and advertising, offering a rich array of digital display advertising solutions with the goal of helping our customers find and discover anything they want to buy. We help advertisers of all types to reach Amazon customers on Amazon.com, across our other owned and operated sites, on other high quality sites across the web, and on millions of mobile devices. We start with the customer and work backwards in everything we do, including advertising. If you’re interested in joining a rapidly growing team working to build a unique, world-class advertising group with a relentless focus on the customer, you’ve come to the right place.About our team:SPB Brand Identity Team is on a mission to make Amazon the best in class destination for all brand needs. Our team builds a centralized brand identity datastore responsible for creating brands, mapping advertisers, products, and ads to brands. This enables our advertisers and customers to tell engaging brand stories through mappings generated and delivered by our team. We also enables customer-brand engagement enhancement through a UI allowing advertisers to self-manage and correct any mappings. Together these mappings are used by dozens of internal teams to generate measurement reports, brand intelligence, similar brands (i.e. substitutes), shopper/brand signals, etc. About this Role:We are looking for a passionate, talented Applied Scientist in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP), Large Language Model (LLM), Ads Recommender Systems, Data Mining and Feature Engineering, and/or Information Retrieval, to invent and build scalable solutions for a state-of-the-art context-aware Brand Understanding. A successful candidate will have strong machine learning background and a desire to push the boundary of one or more of the above areas. The ideal candidate is expected to leading the effort of building key ML features, contribute to the collaborative and innovative spirit within the team, and bring cutting-edge applied research to raise the bar within the team.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 3+ years of building models for business application experience- PhD, or Master's degree and 3+ 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 ...

Principal Applied Scientist , Applied AI

We are seeking a passionate, talented, and inventive individual to join the Applied AI team and help build industry-leading technologies that customers will love. This team offers a unique opportunity to make a significant impact on the customer experience and contribute to the design, architecture, and implementation of a cutting-edge product. The mission of the Applied AI team is to enable organizations within Worldwide Amazon.com Stores to accelerate the adoption of AI technologies across various parts of our business. We are looking for a Senior Applied Scientist to join our Applied AI team to work on LLM-based solutions. We are seeking an experienced Scientist who combines superb technical, research, analytical and leadership capabilities with a demonstrated ability to get the right things done quickly and effectively. This person must be comfortable working with a team of top-notch developers and collaborating with our research teams. We’re looking for someone who innovates, and loves solving hard problems. You will be expected to have an established background in building highly scalable systems and system design, excellent project management skills, great communication skills, and a motivation to achieve results in a fast-paced environment. You should be somebody who enjoys working on complex problems, is customer-centric, and feels strongly about building good software as well as making that software achieve its operational goals. Key job responsibilitiesYou will be responsible for developing and maintaining the systems and tools that enable us to accelerate knowledge operations and work in the intersection of Science and Engineering. A day in the lifeOn our team you will push the boundaries of ML and Generative AI techniques to scale the inputs for hundreds of billions of dollars of annual revenue for our eCommerce business. If you have a passion for AI technologies, a drive to innovate and a desire to make a meaningful impact, we invite you to become a valued member of our team. BASIC QUALIFICATIONS 7+ years of building machine learning models for business application experience PhD, or Master's degree and 6+ years of applied research experienceExperience programming in Java, C++, Python or related languageExperience with large language models and their architectures, and deep learning ...

Applied Scientist III, Alexa & Fire TV Security

The Devices and Services Security team is looking for a passionate, talented, and inventive Senior Applied Scientist with a strong deep learning background, to secure the development of industry-leading Generative AI systems.As a Senior Applied Scientist with the Devices & Services Security team, you will lead the development of novel algorithms and modeling techniques to advance the state of the art with Generative AI systems. Your work will directly impact our customers in the form of products and services that make use of vision and language technology. You will leverage Amazon’s heterogeneous data sources and large-scale computing resources to accelerate development of security solutions with multimodal Large Language Models (LLMs) and Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI).The Devices and Services (D&S) Security team works to ensure that Amazon devices and services are designed and implemented to the high standards required to maintain and enhance customer trust. The team develops security technologies for builder teams, performs penetration testing, and handles and tracks incident responses to resolution. The team is responsible for defining and executing on the security and privacy requirements for the entire organization.A day in the lifeDiverse ExperiencesAmazon Security 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 Amazon Security?At Amazon, security is central to maintaining customer trust and delivering delightful customer experiences. Our organization is responsible for creating and maintaining a high bar for security across all of Amazon’s products and services. We offer talented security professionals the chance to accelerate their careers with opportunities to build experience in a wide variety of areas including cloud, devices, retail, entertainment, healthcare, operations, and physical stores.Inclusive Team CultureIn Amazon Security, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Ongoing DEI events and learning experiences inspire us to continue learning and to embrace our uniqueness. Addressing the toughest security challenges requires that we seek out and celebrate a diversity of ideas, perspectives, and voices.Training & 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, training, 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.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 ...

Applied Scientist, Pricing and Promotion Optimization

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 ...

Postdoctoral Scientist, Stores Foundational AI

Amazon is looking for talented Postdoctoral Scientists to join our Stores Foundational AI team for a one-year, full-time research position.The Stores Foundational AI team builds foundation models for multiple Amazon entities, such as ASIN, customer, seller and brand. These foundation models are used in downstream applications by various partner teams in Stores. Our team also invests in building foundational large language models, which can power conversational applications as well as machine learning tasks with scarce data (zero/few-shot learning).The postdoc is expected to develop machine learning techniques for Large Language Model (LLM) Alignment. Currently, Alignment techniques for LLMs rely primarily on the annotation of preference between alternative responses followed by policy (LLM) optimization either directly (DPO-style) or after learning one or multiple reward functions (PPO-style). However, the data from such annotation is often noisy and confounded by ambiguity, subjectivity, and multi-dimensionality of preference. The goal of the project is to develop 1) high-quality data annotation procedures with clear instructions, 2) preference models which account for noisiness, ambiguity, subjectivity, and multi-dimensionality of preference annotation, and 3) appropriate algorithms for directly optimizing the policy (LLM) or appropriate loss functions for learning rewards using such preference models.Key job responsibilities• 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, LLM, Optimization, Reinforcement Learning or other related technical fields* Experience in data science and quantitative research* Proficiency in technologies relevant to the subfield ...

Applied Scientist , Prime Video - Personalization and Discovery Science

Prime Video is a first-stop entertainment destination offering customers a vast collection of premium programming in one app available across thousands of devices. Prime members can customize their viewing experience and find their favorite movies, series, documentaries, and live sports – including Amazon MGM Studios-produced series and movies; licensed fan favorites; and programming from Prime Video add-on subscriptions such as Apple TV+, Max, Crunchyroll and MGM+. All customers, regardless of whether they have a Prime membership or not, can rent or buy titles via the Prime Video Store, and can enjoy even more content for free with ads.Are you interested in shaping the future of entertainment? Prime Video's technology teams are creating best-in-class digital video experience.As a Prime Video technologist, you’ll have end-to-end ownership of the product, user experience, design, and technology required to deliver state-of-the-art experiences for our customers. You’ll get to work on projects that are fast-paced, challenging, and varied. You’ll also be able to experiment with new possibilities, take risks, and collaborate with remarkable people.We’ll look for you to bring your diverse perspectives, ideas, and skill-sets to make Prime Video even better for our customers. With global opportunities for talented technologists, you can decide where a career Prime Video Tech takes you!We are looking for a self-motivated, passionate and resourceful Applied Scientist to bring diverse perspectives, ideas, and skill-sets to make Prime Video even better for our customers. You will spend your time as a hands-on machine learning practitioner and a research leader. You will play a key role on the team, building and guiding machine learning models from the ground up. At the end of the day, you will have the reward of seeing your contributions benefit millions of Amazon.com customers worldwide.Key job responsibilities- Develop AI solutions for various Prime Video Search systems using Deep learning, GenAI, Reinforcement Learning, and optimization methods;- Work closely with engineers and product managers to design, implement and launch AI solutions end-to-end;- Design and conduct offline and online (A/B) experiments to evaluate proposed solutions based on in-depth data analyses;- Effectively communicate technical and non-technical ideas with teammates and stakeholders;- Stay up-to-date with advancements and the latest modeling techniques in the field;- Publish your research findings in top conferences and journals.About the teamPrime Video Search Science team owns science solution to power search experience on various devices, from sourcing, relevance, ranking, to name a few. We work closely with the engineering teams to launch our solutions in production.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 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 programming in Java, C++, Python or related language ...

Principal Applied Scientist, Artificial General Intelligence

The Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) team is looking for a highly-skilled Senior Applied Scientist, to lead the development and implementation of cutting-edge algorithms and push the boundaries of efficient inference for Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) models. As a Senior Applied Scientist, you will play a critical role in driving the development of GenAI technologies that can handle Amazon-scale use cases and have a significant impact on our customers' experiences.Key job responsibilities- Design and execute experiments to evaluate the performance of different decoding algorithms and models, and iterate quickly to improve results- Develop deep learning models for compression, system optimization, and inference - Collaborate with cross-functional teams of engineers and scientists to identify and solve complex problems in GenAI- Mentor and guide junior scientists and engineers, and contribute to the overall growth and development of the teamBASIC QUALIFICATIONS PhD with specialization in artificial intelligence, natural language processing, machine learning, or computational cognitive science 10+ years of combined academic and research experience. 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. Experience developing software in traditional programming languages (C++, Java, etc..). Excellent written and spoken communication skills ...

Applied Scientist, AFT AI

Are you excited about developing cutting-edge generative AI, large language models (LLMs), and foundation models? Are you looking for opportunities to build and deploy them on real-world problems at a truly vast scale with global impact? As part of AFT (Amazon Fulfillment Technologies) AI, a group of over 50 scientists and engineers, we are on a mission to build a new generation of dynamic end-to-end prediction models (and agents) for our warehouses based on GenAI and LLMs. These models will be able to understand and make use of petabytes of human-centered as well as process information, and learn to perceive and act to further improve our world-class customer experience – at Amazon scale.We are looking for an Applied Scientist who will help us build next-level process prediction and shift simulations for all systems in a full warehouse with the help of generative AI, graph neural networks, and LLMs. Together, we will be pushing beyond the state of the art in simulation and optimization of one of the most complex systems in the world: Amazon's Fulfillment Network.Key job responsibilitiesIn this role, you will dive deep into our fulfillment network, understand complex processes, and channel your insights to build large-scale machine learning models (LLMs and Transformer-based GNNs) that will be able to understand and predict the state and future of our buildings, network, and orders.You will face a high level of research ambiguity and problems that require creative, ambitious, and inventive solutions. You will work with and in a team of applied scientists to solve cutting-edge problems going beyond the published state of the art that will drive transformative change on a truly global scale.If you thrive in a dynamic environment and are passionate about pushing the boundaries of generative AI, LLMs, and optimization systems, we want to hear from you.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 Coverage2. Maternity and Parental Leave Options3. 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!About the teamAmazon Fulfillment Technologies (AFT) powers Amazon’s global fulfillment network. We invent and deliver software, hardware, and data science solutions that orchestrate processes, robots, machines, and people. We harmonize the physical and virtual world so Amazon customers can get what they want, when they want it.The AFT AI team has deep expertise developing cutting edge AI solutions at scale and successfully applying them to business problems in the Amazon Fulfillment Network. These solutions typically utilize machine learning and computer vision techniques, applied to text, sequences of events, images or video from existing or new hardware. We influence each stage of innovation from inception to deployment, developing a research plan, creating and testing prototype solutions, and shepherding the production versions to launch.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- PhD, or Master's degree and 3+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language- 1+ years of building models for business application experience ...

Applied Scientist - Operations Research/Optimization, Cognitive Science Team

Are you excited about using decision (optimization) and data (ML) sciences to make multi-million dollar decisions more Data, Science and Analytics Driven? Are you interested in price optimization, promotion planning and what-if simulations to enable in-period promotion and long-term financial planning? Do you want to be a part of a multi disciplinary science team focuses on tackling some of the big business problems with within the Devices business at Amazon? Then this could be the role for you!The Amazon Devices & Services Demand Planning and Product Development (DEPD) team is seeking an outstanding scientist with strong analytical and communication skills to help with pricing optimization and promotion planning for the entire Amazon device family of products and services. Amazon Devices represents a highly complex space with 100+ products across several product categories that includes Echo, Kindle, Fire Tablets, Amazon TVs, Amazon Fire TV sticks, Ring, and other smart home devices for sale both online and in offline retailers globally.We develop scalable and robust state-of-the-art deterministic and stochastic optimization models and algorithms, and what-if scenario planning simulation tools with (linear and dynamic) price optimization and promotion planning. With better price optimization and promotion planning, we manage demand and drive down promotion and supply chain costs, enabling the offer of lower prices and better in-stock selection for our customers globally.We are looking for an Applied Scientist with background in Operations Research, Optimization, Supply Chain, Industrial & Systems Engineering and/or Simulation.In this role, you will have an opportunity to both develop advanced scientific solutions, and drive critical customer and business impacts. You will play a key role to drive end-to-end solutions from understanding our business requirements, exploring a large amount of historical data, building, managing and improving optimization, simulation and HOTW decision models, building prototypes and products, and exploring conceptually new solutions, to working with partner teams for prod deployment that will be used primarily for Promotion Optimization and Scenario Planning Capabilities for in-period promotion, and long-term financial planning. You will collaborate closely with scientists, engineering peers as well as business stakeholders. You will be at the heart of a growing and exciting focus area for Amazon Devices and Services.You are an individual with outstanding analytical abilities, excellent communication skills, and are comfortable working with cross-functional teams and systems. You will be responsible for researching, prototyping, experimenting, analyzing prescriptive optimization models and developing smart automation solutions.Key job responsibilities- Research, design, prototype, experiment and implement advanced optimization algorithms and models to address challenging business problems by using modeling languages such as Python; participate in the production level deployment- Collaborate with cross-functional teams including product management, marketing, and operations to translate model insights into actionable business strategies- Develop and maintain optimization frameworks, libraries, and tools to enable scalable and efficient optimization and automation capabilities - Analyze optimization results, identify bottlenecks, and continuously improve the performance and accuracy of optimization models - Stay up-to-date on the latest academic research and industry best practices in optimization techniques and tools, and identify opportunities to apply new approaches- Create and track accuracy and performance metrics (both technical and business metrics)- Create, enhance, and maintain technical documentation, and present to other scientists, engineers and business leaders- Drive best practices on the team; mentor and guide junior members to achieve their career growth potentialA day in the lifeOur team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded professional and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.About the teamThe vision for Cognitive Science Team is to deliver science-enabled HOTW demand planning and shaping solutions for Devices Product Lines to support our partners’ decision making processes. We will accomplish our vision by (1) utilizing accelerated applied science with optimization, simulation, scenario planning, Machine Learning and Generative AI (in 2025), (2) performing rapid research & innovation, developing incremental products, and automating processes, (3) developing optimized price and promotion planning, (4) developing high confidence long-lead time marquee unit demand forecasts for Amazon Devices.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- Experience in optimization: linear, non-linear, mixed-integer, large-scale, network, robust, stochastic and/or dynamic ...

Machine Learning Engineer, Data and Machine Learning, WWPS US Federal

Are you looking to work at the forefront of Machine Learning and AI? Would you be excited to apply cutting edge Generative AI algorithms to solve real world problems with significant impact? Amazon Web Services (AWS) Professional Services (ProServe) is looking for Machine Learning Engineers who like helping U.S. Federal agencies implement innovative cloud computing solutions and solve technical problems using state-of-the-art language models in the cloud. AWS ProServe engages in a wide variety of projects for customers and partners, providing collective experience from across the AWS customer base and are obsessed about strong success for the Customer. Our team collaborates across the entire AWS organization to bring access to product and service teams, to get the right solution delivered and drive feature innovation based upon customer needs.At AWS, we're hiring experienced Machine Learning Engineers with a background in NLP, generative AI, and document processing to help our customers understand, plan, and implement best practices around leveraging these technologies within their AWS cloud environments. Our consultants deliver proof-of-concept projects, reusable artifacts, reference architectures, and lead implementation projects to assist organizations in harnessing the power of their data and unlocking the potential of advanced NLP and AI capabilities.In this role, you will work closely with customers to deeply understand their data challenges and requirements, and design tailored solutions that best fit their use cases. You should have deep expertise in NLP/NLU, generative AI, and building data-intensive applications at scale. You should possess excellent business acumen and communication skills to collaborate effectively with stakeholders, develop key business questions, and translate requirements into actionable solutions. You will provide guidance and support to other engineers, sharing industry best practices and driving innovation in the field of data science and AI.It is expected to work from one of the above locations (or customer sites) at least 1+ days in a week. This is not a remote position. You are expected to be in the office or with customers as needed.This position requires that the candidate selected be a US Citizen and obtain and maintain a security clearance at the TS/SCI with polygraph level. Upon start, the selected candidate will be sponsored for a commensurate clearance for each government agency for which they perform AWS work.Key job responsibilitiesAs a Machine Learning Engineer, you are proficient in developing and deploying advanced ML models to solve diverse challenges and opportunities. You will be working alongside scientists to develop novel models to solve real-world problems. You'll design and run experiments, research new algorithms, and find new ways of optimizing risk, profitability, and customer experience. You will apply classical ML algorithms and cutting-edge deep learning (DL) approaches to areas within the natural language processing and understanding spaces including GenAI, document processing and understanding, call center analytics, and chat experiences.The primary responsibilities of this role are to:- Interact with customer directly to understand their business problems, and help them with defining and implementing scalable ML/DL solutions to solve them- Work closely with account teams, research scientist teams, and product engineering teams to drive model implementations and new algorithmsAbout 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.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.Work/Life BalanceWe value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.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.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience- Experience programming with at least one software programming language- 2+ years of relevant experience in developing and deploying large scale machine learning or deep learning models and/or systems into production, including batch and real-time data processing, model containerization, CI/CD pipelines, API development, model training and productionizing ML models- Experience using Python and frameworks such as Pytorch, TensorFlow ...

Senior Applied Scientist, Amazon Advertising - Sponsored Products & Brands

Amazon is investing heavily in building a world class advertising business and we are responsible for defining and delivering a collection of self-service performance advertising products that drive discovery and sales. 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 and are breaking fresh ground to create world-class products. We are highly motivated, collaborative and fun-loving with an entrepreneurial spirit and 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.This position will be part of the Conversational Ad Experiences team within the Amazon Advertising organization. Our cross-functional team focuses on designing, developing and launching innovative ad experiences delivered to shoppers in conversational contexts. We utilize leading-edge engineering and science technologies in generative AI to help shoppers discover new products and brands through intuitive, conversational, multi-turn interfaces. We also empower advertisers to reach shoppers, using their own voice to explain and demonstrate how their products meet shoppers' needs. We collaborate with various teams across multiple Amazon organizations to push the boundary of what's possible in these fields.We are seeking a science leader for our team within the Sponsored Products & Brands organization. You'll be working with talented scientists, engineers, and product managers to innovate on behalf of our customers. An ideal candidate is able to navigate through ambiguous requirements, working with various partner teams, and has experience in generative AI, large language models (LLMs), information retrieval, and ads recommendation systems. Using a combination of generative AI and online experimentation, our scientists develop insights and optimizations that enable the monetization of Amazon properties while enhancing the experience of hundreds of millions of Amazon shoppers worldwide. 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 responsibilities - Serve as a tech lead for defining the science roadmap for multiple projects in the conversational ad experiences space powered by LLMs- Build POCs, optimize and deploy models into production, run experiments, perform deep dives on experiment data to gather actionable learnings and communicate them to senior leadership- Work closely with software engineers on detailed requirements, technical designs and implementation of end-to-end solutions in production- Work closely with product managers to contribute to our mission, and proactively identify opportunities where cutting edge science can help improve customer experience - Research new machine learning approaches to drive continued scientific innovation- Be a member of the Amazon-wide machine learning community, participating in internal and external meetups, hackathons and conferences- Help attract and recruit technical talent, mentor scientists and engineers in the teamBASIC 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 ...

Applied Scientist II, Bedrock

Amazon is looking for a passionate, talented, and inventive Applied Scientist with a strong machine learning background to help build industry-leading language technology.Our mission is to provide a delightful experience to Amazon’s customers by pushing the envelope in Natural Language Processing (NLP), Generative AI, Large Language Model (LLM), Natural Language Understanding (NLU), Machine Learning (ML), Retrieval-Augmented Generation, Responsible AI, Agent, Evaluation, and Model Adaptation.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, as well as contributing to the wider research community. You will gain hands on experience with Amazon’s heterogeneous text and structured data sources, and large-scale computing resources to accelerate advances in language understanding.The Science team at AWS Bedrock builds science foundations of Bedrock, which is a fully managed service that makes high-performing foundation models available for use through a unified API. We are adamant about continuously learning state-of-the-art NLP/ML/LLM technology and exploring creative ways to delight our customers. In our daily job we are exposed to large scale NLP needs and we apply rigorous research methods to respond to them with efficient and scalable innovative solutions.At AWS Bedrock, you’ll experience the benefits of working in a dynamic, entrepreneurial environment, while leveraging AWS resources, one of the world’s leading cloud companies and you’ll be able to publish your work in top tier conferences and journals.We are building a brand new team to help develop new LLM services for AWS. You will have the opportunity to conduct novel research and influence the science roadmap and direction of the team. Come join this greenfield opportunity!A day in the lifeAWS 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. Hybrid WorkWe value innovation and recognize this sometimes requires uninterrupted time to focus on a build. We also value in-person collaboration and time spent face-to-face. Our team affords employees options to work in the office every day or in a flexible, hybrid work model near one of our U.S. Amazon offices.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 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 ...

Senior Applied Scientist, Ads Search and Relevance

When customers search for products on the Amazon website, they often see brand advertisements displayed right below the search bar. These ads are part of the Sponsored Brands (SB) program. Our team, the SB Search and Relevance team, works on solving challenges to retrieve the most relevant ads for a customer's search query. A customer's search query is typically a short, free-form text consisting of just a few words. Our algorithm needs to understand the customer's underlying intention from this limited information. At the same time, each advertisement consists of various elements like text descriptions, images, videos, and more. Our algorithm also needs to comprehend the content of these ads and identify the most relevant one from the large pool of ad candidates.As Amazon's advertising business is growing rapidly, we are looking for experienced applied scientists. As an Applied Scientist on this team, you will:- Drive end-to-end Machine Learning projects that have a high degree of ambiguity, scale, complexity.- Apply deep learning and natural language processing to improve information retrieval and relevance.- Design and run A/B experiments. Evaluate the impact of your optimizations and communicate your results to various business stakeholders.- Optimize deep learning inference latency by utilizing methods like knowledge distillation.- Work with software development engineers and write code to bring models into production.- Recruit Applied Scientists to the team and provide mentorship.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 fundamentally 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.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- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language- Experience with neural deep learning methods and machine learning ...

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.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 ...