Applied Scientist II, Brand Experience Science

The Brand Experience (BX) organization creates, builds and leads innovation for Brand Owners in the Amazon store worldwide. Our growing portfolio of BX tools enable Brands to tell their unique Brand and product stories, optimize content through statistical experimentation, solicit and manage reviews to earn Customer trust and grow their business as well as engage with new and loyal Customers through a variety of channels.We are looking for a Applied Scientist to drive data insights and opportunities to improve Brands’ success. As a successful applied scientist on our talented team of scientists and engineers, you will solve complex problems to identify actionable opportunities, and collaborate with engineering, research, and business teams for future innovation. You need to be a sophisticated user and builder of statistical models and put them in production to answer specific business questions. You are an expert at synthesizing and communicating insights and recommendations to audiences of varying levels of technical sophistication. You will continue to contribute to the research community, by working with scientists across Amazon, as well as collaborating with academic researchers and publishing papers (www.aboutamazon.com/research).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 ...

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 ...

Senior Applied Scientist, Product Knowledge

Lead the development of cutting-edge AI models to power Amazon's eCommerce ontology - the authoritative source of product knowledge driving exceptional customer experiences. Applied Scientists in this role solve problems related to product classification, attribute extraction, ontology modeling, data integration and enrichment, and scalable knowledge services. It's challenging due to the vast scale, heterogeneous data sources, and evolving domains, but exciting for pushing boundaries in ML, NLP, and knowledge representation research.If you're passionate about driving innovation at scale, we want to hear from you!Key job responsibilities- Lead the research and development of novel AI solutions to enrich and curate Amazon's product ontology (Product Knowledge) at scale- Develop scalable data processing pipelines and architectures to ingest, transform, and enrich product data from various sources (seller listings, customer reviews, etc.)- Collaborate with engineers to design and implement robust services- Work closely with product managers, stakeholders, and subject matter experts to identify opportunities for innovation and drive the roadmap for Product Knowledge- Mentor and upskill junior scientists and engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and knowledge sharing- Communicate complex technical concepts and research findings effectively to diverse audiences, including leadership, cross-functional teams, and the wider scientific community- Stay up-to-date with the latest advancements in machine learning, natural language processing, knowledge representation, and related fields, and identify opportunities to apply them to Product KnowledgeA day in the lifeThe Amazon product ontology is a structured knowledge base representing product types, attributes, classes, and relationships. It standardizes product data, enabling enhanced customer experiences through improved search and recommendations, streamlined selling processes, and internal data enrichment across Amazon's eCommerce ecosystem.You will work with following stakeholders:- Product Managers represent customer experiences and selling partner experiences- Category Leaders (e.g., apparel, electronics) provide domain knowledge and guidance as subject matter experts- Engineers build and maintain data pipelines and services in production- Ontologists design data models and define guidelines - Other Applied Scientists collaborate on research and innovationAbout the teamThe Product Knowledge team at Amazon is dedicated to creating the industry-standard eCommerce product and services ontology. Our diverse team of applied scientists, engineers, ontologists and subject matter experts build a comprehensive ontology enabling exceptional customer and selling partner experiences through high-quality, contextual product knowledge at scale.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 4+ years of applied research experience- 3+ years of building machine learning models for business application experience- PhD, or Master's degree and 6+ years of applied research experience- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language- Experience with neural deep learning methods and machine learning ...

Applied Scientist II, Personalization

Take Earth's most customer-centric company. Mix in hundreds of millions of shoppers spending tens of billions of dollars annually, an exciting opportunity to build next-generation shopping experiences, Amazon’s tremendous computational resources, and our extensive e-Commerce experience. What do you get? The most exciting position in the industry.About our organization: Our team is part of Amazon’s Personalization organization, a high-performing group that leverages Amazon’s expertise in machine learning, big data, distributed systems, and user experience design to deliver the best shopping experiences for our customers. We run global experiments and our work has revolutionized e-commerce with features such as "Keep shopping for", "Tap to explore", “Customers who bought this item also bought”, and “Frequently bought together” among others. Amazon’s internal surveys regularly recognize us as one of the best engineering organizations to work for in the company, with visible high-impact work, low operational load, respectful work-life balance, and continual opportunity to learn and grow.You will play a critical role in ideation for the team. We are building the next generation ML systems that powers the biggest shopping engine on earth, and we hope you will join us!Key job responsibilitiesAs an Applied Scientist on the team you will be working on cutting edge ways to help customers find the right products and content on their shopping journey. Our goal is to help customers achieve their objective seamlessly while shopping on Amazon. We are investing in multiple fronts including but not limited to GenerativeAI, LLMs, transformers, sequence models, reinforcement learning. This is an opportunity to come in on Day0 and influence the science roadmap of one of the most interesting problem spaces at Amazon - understanding the Amazon customer to build deeply personalized and adaptive shopping experiences. We will be working on applying cutting edge science and research into production to elevate the customer experience. You will be part of a multidisciplinary team, working on one of the largest scale machine learning systems in the company. You will hone your skills in areas such as deep learning and reinforcement learning while building scalable industrial systems. As a member of a highly leveraged team of talented engineers and ML scientists, you will have a unique opportunity to help build infrastructure that accesses petabytes of data to produce and deliver models that deliver state of the art customer experiences. About the teamOur mission is to delight every Amazon customer with a consistent and adaptive personalized shopping experience. We achieve our mission through investments in large scale machine learning, distributed systems and user experience with the purpose of delivering the future of shopping on Amazon. 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 ...

Applied Scientist, Alexa Smart Home

The Alexa Smart Home team is focused on making Alexa the user interface for the home. From the simplest voice commands (turn on the lights, turn down the heat) to use cases spanning home security, home entertainment, and the home environment; we are evolving Alexa into an intelligent, indispensable companion that automates daily routines, simplifies interaction with appliances and electronics, and alerts when something unusual is detected. You can be part of a team delivering features that are highly anticipated by media and well received by our customers.As an Applied Scientist, you will work with other scientists and software developers to design and build the next generation of Smart Home voice control using the latest Large Language Models (LLMs). And, you will have the satisfaction of working on a product your friends and family can relate to, and want to use every day. Key job responsibilities- Develop new inference and training techniques to improve the performance of LLMs for Smart Home control and Automation- Develop robust techniques for synthetic data generation for training large models and maintaining model generalization- Mentoring junior scientists to improve their skills, knowledge, and their ability to get things doneAbout the teamWe are a team of Scientists, Machine Learning Engineers, and Software Developers that work together to make Alexa more insightful and proactive through ambient intelligence, with features like Alexa Hunches that automatically control Smart Home devices.We are interdisciplinary and we act like it. We ask each other questions and value our different perspectives.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 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- 1+ years of building models for business application experience- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language ...

Senior Applied Scientist - SLAM and Calibration, Amazon Robotics

The Amazon Robotics Autonomous Mobility software team develops the autonomy software that powers Proteus, Amazon’s first fully autonomous warehouse robot. We are looking for a Senior Applied Scientist to join our perception and localization team. You will be part of an exceptional group of engineers building the platform and architecture for our onboard mapping, perception, motion planning and control software. In addition, you will collaborate with engineers and scientists across the team to develop and enhance our real-time multi-robot simulation capabilities. Key job responsibilitiesSpecific areas of focus may include (but are not limited too):- Researching, designing, and implementing scientific approaches for sensor calibration, including cameras and LIDARs.- Researching, designing, and implementing scientific approaches for SLAM (simultaneous localization and mapping).- Supporting and improving the large-scale deployment of a SLAM system shared across an autonomous robot fleet.- Evaluating and integrating new sensing modalities into an existing autonomy software stack.- Optimizing runtime performance of autonomy algorithms by exploiting underlying hardware acceleration capabilities.- Building frameworks for large-scale replay and analysis of events in pre-recorded sensor data.- Deliver high quality production level code (C++ or Python) and support systems in production.- Collaborate with other functional teams in a robotics organization.- Collaborate with hardware engineering team members on developing systems from prototyping to production level.- Work with stakeholders across hardware and operations teams to iterate on system design and implementation.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!About the teamWe are a multi-disciplinary team of collaborative Applied Scientists and Software Engineers with expertise in Computer Vision, SLAM, motion planning and controls. Our mission is to deliver a robust software solution the utilizes state-of-the-art sensor technologies and algorithms to enable safe and efficient operation of autonomous mobile robots throughout the Amazon fulfillment and transportation network. We take this mission seriously and work hard to achieve it, but we have a lot of fun along the way. After all, what's more fun than building robots?BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- Proven experience in robotic perception, SLAM, or computer vision.- M.S. or PhD in Engineering, Sciences, Mathematics or similar fields.- Excellent C++ or python programming skills including debugging, performance analysis, and test design. ...

Applied Scientist II, Amazon Personalization

Are you passionate about innovating and delivering shopping experiences that empower every Amazon customer based on their unique shopping intent? Are you looking for new challenges and solving hard problems while using top-notch LLM and GenAI techniques? Join us and you'll help millions of customers to make informed purchase decisions from a multi-billion product selection!Key job responsibilitiesYou’ll be utilizing your Generative AI, time series and predictive modeling skills, and creative problem-solving skills to drive new projects from ideation to implementation. You will lead efforts in foundational models to develop new approaches to Personalization, and provide opportunities for scientists and engineers to invent and implement scalable ML recommendations supporting new Customer Experiences. Your science expertise will be leveraged to research and deliver often novel solutions to existing problems, explore emerging problems spaces, and create or organize knowledge around them. You’ll publish papers and file patents. And you’ll work closely with engineers to put your ideas into production. You will participate in the Amazon ML community by authoring scientific papers and submitting them to ML conferences. About the teamThe Discover Innovation team is dedicated to assisting customers in fulfilling their shopping objectives and empowering other Amazon teams by leveraging our deep understanding of customer intent. Our team’s mission is to delight customers by helping them discover the right content at the right time, tailoring the shopping experience to the customer’s intent and unique shopping objectives. We are a team of dedicated Scientists, Engineers, and Designers working together to deliver new, personalized shopping experiences. In tailoring the shopping experience to each customer’s intent, we envision operating seamlessly across Amazon as a talented personal shopping assistant — a partner that is trusted, knowledgeable, and understands your unique preferences. 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 ...

Applied Scientist, CBA

Amazon.com strives to be Earth's most customer-centric company where people can find and discover anything they want to buy online. We hire the world's brightest minds, offering them a fast paced, technologically sophisticated and friendly work environment. Are you seeking an environment where you can drive innovation? Do you want to apply learning techniques and advanced mathematical modeling to solve real world problems? Do you want to play a key role in the future of Amazon's Retail business? This job for you! The Customer Behavior Analytics (CBA) team at Amazon is responsible for the architecture, design, implementation of tools used to understand customer behavior and value generation for all Amazon programs. Come and join us!Amazon’s CBA team is looking for Applied Scientists, who can work at the intersection of machine learning, statistics and economics; and leverage the power of big data to solve complex problems like long-term causal effect estimation.As an applied scientist, you will bring statistical modeling and machine learning advancements to analyze data and develop customer-facing solutions in complex industrial settings. You will be working in a fast-paced, cross-disciplinary team of researchers who are leaders in the field. You will take on challenging problems, distill real requirements, and then deliver solutions that either leverage existing academic and industrial research, or utilize your own out-of-the-box pragmatic thinking. This role requires a pragmatic technical leader comfortable with ambiguity, capable of summarizing complex data and models through clear visual and written explanations. The ideal candidate will have experience with machine learning models and causal inference. Additionally, we are seeking candidates with strong rigor in applied sciences and engineering, creativity, curiosity, and great judgment.Key job responsibilities- Understand and mine the large amount of data, prototype and implement new learning algorithms and prediction techniques to improve long-term causal estimation approaches.- Collaborate with product managers and engineering teams to design and implement solutions for Amazon problems- Design, build, and deploy effective and innovative ML solutions to improve various components of our ML and causal inference pipelines- Publish and present your work at internal and external scientific venues in the fields of ML and causal inference.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience- Knowledge of programming languages such as C/C++, Python, Java or Perl- Experience building machine learning models or developing algorithms for business application- 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 - Perception, Amazon Robotics

We are seeking an experienced Senior Applied Scientist to develop innovative perception and machine learning solutions for robot workcells in Amazon Fulfillment centers. In this role, you will leverage advanced sensor technologies to develop and implement state-of-the art ML models to enable safe collaboration between human workers and robotic arms. Your solutions will allow Amazon to increase productivity and efficiency while prioritizing employee safety.Key job responsibilities* Design and implement advanced machine learning models for perception tasks such as object detection and scene understanding* Optimize and deploy the ML models on edge devices* Build and test prototype robotic workcell setups to validate the performance of the solution* Collaborate with cross-functional teams to provide inputs and recommendations for the optimal sensor suite to enable a robust solution* Collaborate with Amazon's robotics engineering and operations teams to understand their requirements and develop tailored solutions* Document the architecture, performance, and validation of the final systemA 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 6+ years of applied research experience- 6+ years of building machine learning models for business application experience- Experience with neural deep learning methods and machine learning- Demonstrated expertise in computer vision and machine learning techniques for robotic perception ...

Applied Scientist, GenAI, CreativeX, Amazon Advertising

Amazon Advertising is one of Amazon's fastest growing 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! The Creative X team within Amazon Advertising time aims to democratize access to high-quality creatives (images, videos) by building AI-driven solutions for advertisers. To accomplish this, we are investing in latent-diffusion models, large language models (LLM), computer vision (CV), reinforced learning (RL), and image + video and audio synthesis.You will be part of a close-knit team of applied scientists and product managers who are highly collaborative and at the top of their respective fields. We are looking for talented Applied Scientists who are adept at a variety of skills, especially with computer vision, latent diffusion or related foundational models that will accelerate our plans to generate high-quality creatives on behalf of advertisers. Every member of the team is expected to build customer (advertiser) facing features, contribute to the collaborative spirit within the team, publish, patent, and bring cutting edge research to raise the bar within the team. As an Applied Scientist on this team, you will:* Drive end-to-end GenAI projects that have a high degree of ambiguity, scale and 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.* 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.* Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large-scale data analysis, machine-learning model development, model validation and serving.* Identify and action data collection and labelling in conjunction with team members.* Research new and innovative machine learning approaches.* Present results and explain methods to senior leadership.Why you will love this opportunityAmazon 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.Key job responsibilitiesThis role is focused on computer vision, latent diffusion models, and the related foundational models to produce generative imagery and videos. You will develop core models that will be the foundational of the core advertising-facing tools that we are launching. You will conduct literature reviews to stay on the cutting edge of the field. You will regularly engage with product managers, who will partner with you to productize your work. A day in the lifeOn a day-to-day basis, you will be doing your independent research and work to develop models, you will participate in sprint planning, collaborative sessions with your peers, and demo new models and share results with peers, other partner teams and leadership.About the teamThe team consists of applied scientists and machine learning engineers. We reside in the Creative X organization, which focuses on creating products for advertisers that will improve the quality of the creatives within Amazon Ads.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 3+ years of building ML models- PhD, or Master's degree and 5+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience- Experience programming in Python or C++ or a related language- Experience with GenAI model training and tuning ...

Applied Scientist, Geospatial Science

The Geospatial science team solves problems at the interface of ML/AI and GIS for Amazon's last mile delivery programs. We have access to Earth-scale datasets and use them to solve challenging problems that affect hundreds of thousands of transporters. We are looking for strong candidates to join the transportation science team which owns time estimation, GPS trajectory learning, and sensor fusion from phone data.You will join a team of GIS and ML domain experts and be expected to develop ML models, present research results to stakeholders, and collaborate with SDEs to implement the models in production.Key job responsibilities- Understand business problems and translate them into science problems- Develop ML models- Present research results- Write and publish papers- Write production code- Collaborate with SDEs and other scientistsBASIC 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 ...

Senior Applied Scientist, Artificial General Intelligence

The Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) team is looking for a passionate, talented, and inventive Senior Applied Scientist with a strong deep learning background, to lead the development of industry-leading technology with multimodal systems. 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 multimodal 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 with multimodal Large Language Models (LLMs) and Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) in Computer Vision.About the teamThe AGI team has a mission to push the envelope with multimodal LLMs and GenAI in Computer Vision, 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- 3+ years of building machine learning models for business application experience- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language ...

Applied Scientist, Amazon Robotics

Are you excited about developing foundation models to revolutionize automation, robotics and computer vision? Are you looking for opportunities to build and deploy them on real problems at truly vast scale? At Amazon Fulfillment Technologies and Robotics we are on a mission to build high-performance autonomous systems that perceive and act to further improve our world-class customer experience - at Amazon scale. We are looking for collaborative scientists, engineers and program managers for a variety of roles.The Amazon Robotics software team is seeking an experienced and senior Applied Scientist to focus on computer vision machine learning models. This includes building multi-viewpoint and time-series computer vision systems. It includes building large-scale models using data from many different tasks and scenes. This work spans from basic research such as cross domain training, to experimenting on prototype in the lab, to running wide-scale A/B tests on robots in our facilities. Key job responsibilities* Research vision - Where should we be focusing our efforts* Research delivery – Proving/dis-proving strategies in offline data or in the lab* Production studies - Insights from production data or ad-hoc experimentation. 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- 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 ...

Senior Applied Scientist , NOSO Science

Amazon Supply Chain forms the backbone of the fastest growing e-commerce business in the world. The sheer growth of the business and the company's mission "to be Earth’s most customer-centric company” makes the customer fulfillment business bigger and more complex with each passing year.The EU SC Science Optimization team is looking for an exceptionally talented Scientist to tackle complex and ambiguous optimization and forecasting problems for our EU/NA fulfillment network.The team owns the optimization of our Supply Chain from our suppliers to our customers. We are also responsible for analyzing the performance of our Supply Chain end-to-end and deploying Operations Research, Machine Learning, Statistics and Econometrics models to improve decision making within our organization, including forecasting, planning and executing our network. We work closely with Supply Chain Optimization Technology (SCOT) teams, who own the systems and the inputs we rely on to plan our networks, the worldwide scientific community, and with our internal EU stakeholders within Supply Chain, Transportation, Store and Finance.We are looking for an experienced candidate having a well-rounded-technical/science background, with a particular expertise in stochastic optimization and probabilistic forecasting, as well as a history of delivering complex scientific projects end-to-end, and is comfortable in developing long term scientific solutions while ensuring the continuous delivery of incremental model improvements and results in an ever-changing operational environment.As an Applied Scientist, you will design, develop and deploy robust and scalable scientific solutions via Operations Research and Machine Learning algorithms, especially in the context of stochastic customer demand and other sources of uncertainty requiring to move past deterministic optimization. You will partner with other tech and science teams, operations, finance to identify opportunities to improve our processes in order to drive efficiency improvements in our Fulfillment Center network flows.This role requires a self-starter aptitude for independent initiative and the ability to influence partner scientific and operational teams so to drive innovation in supply chain planning and execution. You are passionate, results-oriented, and inventive scientist who obsesses over the quality of your solutions and their fast and scalable implementation to address and anticipate customer needs.Key job responsibilitiesBuild state-of-the art, robust and scalable Stochastic Optimization and Probabilistic Forecasting algorithms to drive optimal planning under uncertainty and execution in Amazon end-to-end supply chainDesign and engineer algorithms using Cloud-based state-of-the art software development techniquesThink multiple steps ahead and develop for long term solutions while continuously delivering incremental improvements to existing onesPrototype fast, ensure early adoption via pilots, integrate feedback into the models, and iterateOperationalize (i.e. deliver) your science solutions by closely partnering with internal customers, understand their needs/blockers and influence their roadmapLead complex analysis and clearly communicate results and recommendations to leadershipAct as an active member of the science community by researching, applying and publishing internally/externally the latest OR/ML techniques from both academia and industryBASIC 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- 3+ years of building models for business application experience- 2+ years experience with Stochastic Optimization techniques (e.g. Stochastic Linear Programming, Stochastic Dynamic Programming) and ML for Probabilistic Forecasting- Sharp analytical abilities, excellent written and verbal communication skills- Ability to handle ambiguity and fast-paced environment ...

Machine Learning Engineer, AGI - Web & Knowledge Services

Amazon's AGI Information team is seeking a passionate, talented, and inventive MLE to lead the development of industry-leading systems. As part of our cutting-edge team, you will play a pivotal role in reinventing efficient AI solutions at scale.In this role, you will work alongside renowned researchers and engineers to enable our customers to seamlessly interact with content. You will design, develop, and deploy scalable and efficient machine learning models and systems to power these transformative applications. The scope of these efforts includes defining public APIs, performance tuning and analysis, crafting and implementing compiler and optimization techniques for neural networks, and other general software engineering work.Key job responsibilities* Design and build scalable infrastructure that enables training, evaluating and deploying machine learning models* Design and develop tools for monitoring the performance of machine learning models at scale* Design and develop lineage and artifact tracking infrastructure* Design and develop reproducible ML Pipelines orchestrating various components for ML models.* Optimize model performance, robustness, and efficiency through techniques like model compression, knowledge distillation, and hardware acceleration* Embrace and champion engineering best practices within your group and beyond* Produce clean, high-quality code, tests, and written documentation* Mentor and guide junior engineers, share knowledge, and contribute to an innovative, collaborative cultureBASIC 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, Artificial General Intelligence

The Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) team is looking for a passionate, talented, and inventive Applied Scientist with a strong deep learning background, to build industry-leading Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) technology with Large Language Models (LLMs) and multimodal systems.Key job responsibilitiesAs a Applied Scientist with the AGI team, you will work with talented peers to 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 spoken language understanding.About the teamThe AGI team has a mission to push the envelope in GenAI with LLMs and multimodal systems, in order to provide the best-possible experience for our customers.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience- 1+ years of building models for business application experience- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language- Experience with generative deep learning models applicable to the creation of synthetic humans like CNNs, GANs, VAEs and NF ...

Applied Scientist, AWS Supply Chain

As part of the AWS Solutions organization, we have a vision to provide business applications, leveraging Amazon’s unique experience and expertise, that are used by millions of companies worldwide to manage day-to-day operations. We will accomplish this by accelerating our customers’ businesses through delivery of intuitive and differentiated technology solutions that solve enduring business challenges. We blend vision with curiosity and Amazon’s real-world experience to build opinionated, turnkey solutions. Where customers prefer to buy over build, we become their trusted partner with solutions that are no-brainers to buy and easy to use.Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers a broad set of global compute, storage, database, analytics, application, and deployment services that help organizations move faster, lower IT costs, and scale applications. These services are trusted by the largest enterprises and the hottest start-ups to power a wide variety of workloads including web and mobile applications, data processing and warehousing, storage, archive, and many others.We are looking for an applied scientist to help us define and build a new enterprise application. AWS Applications is building services in Supply Chain Management and is looking for a scientist to tackle complex science problems in Supply Chain including demand planning, supply planning and sustainability which will be used by our customers across a wide range of industries.We operate a fast growing business and our journey has only started. Our mission is to build the most efficient and optimal supply chain software on the planet, using our science and technology as our biggest advantage. We aim to leverage cutting edge technologies in optimization, operations research, and machine learning to grow our businesses.As an Applied Scientist, you’ll design, model, develop and implement state-of-the-art models and solutions used by users worldwide. As part of your role you will regularly interact with software engineering teams and business leadership. The focus of this role is to research, develop, and deploy models to improve state-of-the-art for time series. You will have the opportunity to work on our assistant solution allowing our users to ask data questions in natural language and get intelligent insights and exceptions.Key job responsibilitiesLead and partner with the engineering to drive modeling and technical design for complex business problems.Develop accurate and scalable machine learning models to solve our hardest supply chain problems.Lead complex modeling analyses to aid management in making key business decisions and set product direction.About the teamWhy AWSAmazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.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.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.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 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- PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience- 1+ years of programming in Java, C++, Python or related language experience- Experience in patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals- Experience with neural deep learning methods and machine learning ...

Applied Scientist

Amazon AI is looking for an Applied Scientist to join our science team in the area of Multimodal Learning, Large Language Models, Natural Language Processing and Speech/Audio Representation Learning. Our organization develops the science that drives the cloud-based AI services of AWS. Our mission is to put the power of AI into the hands of every developer. We seek to advance the state of the art in machine learning to create services that delight our customers and meet real-world business needs. As an Applied Scientist you will partner with talented scientists and engineers to design, train, test, and deploy machine learning models. You will contribute to innovative features, improve our services based on customer requirements and help maintain a highlyscalable data and model management infrastructure that supports cutting-edge research. You will be responsible for translating business and engineering requirements into deliverables and software products. We are looking for candidates who thrive in an exciting, fast-paced environment and who have a strong personal interest in learning, researching, and creating new technologies with high customer impact. Prior domain knowledge in multimodal learning, unsupervised speech/audio representations, natural language processing, or computer vision is strongly preferred; solid knowledge of fundamentals of statistics, machine learning, and deep learning is required. Candidates should possess strong software engineering skills and several years of industry experience.About the teamAWS 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 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 - Computer Vision/ Multi-Modal Machine Learning, Last Mile Geospatial, LMDT- Geospatial

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 ...

Applied Scientist, Amazon Prime, Amazon Prime

Interested in helping build Prime's content and offer experimentation system to drive huge business impact on millions of customers? Join our team of Scientists and Engineers developing algorithms to adaptively generate and experiment on new content, personalize, and optimize the customer experience with Amazon Prime. This includes identifying who our customers are and providing them with personalized relevant content. As an ML lead, you will partner directly with product owners to intake, build, and directly apply your modeling solutions.There are numerous scientific and technical challenges you will get to tackle in this role, such as adaptive experimentation, structured multi-armed bandits and its application to various types of experimentation and multi-step optimization leading to reinforcement learning of the customer journey. We employ techniques from supervised learning, multi-armed bandits, optimization, and RL - while this role is focused on leading the space of multi-armed bandit solutions.As the central science team within Prime, our expertise gets routinely called upon to weigh in on a variety of topics. We also emphasize the need and value of scientific research and have developed a strong publication and patent record (internally/externally) which you will be a part of.You will also utilize and be exposed to the latest in ML technologies and infrastructure: AWS technologies (EMR/Spark, Redshift, Sagemaker, DynamoDB, S3, ...), various ML algorithms and techniques (Random Forests, Neural Networks, supervised/unsupervised/semi-supervised/reinforcement learning, LLM's), and statistical modeling techniques.Major responsibilities - Build and develop machine learning models and supporting infrastructure at TB scale, in coordination with software engineering teams. - Leverage Bandits and Reinforcement Learning for Experimentation and Optimization Systems. - Develop offline policy estimation tools and integrate with reporting systems. - Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large scale data analyses, model development, model validation and model implementation. - Analyze and extract relevant information from large amounts of Amazon’s historical business data to help automate and optimize key processes. - Work closely with the business to understand their problem space, identify the opportunities and formulate the problems. - Use machine learning, data mining, statistical techniques and others to create actionable, meaningful, and scalable solutions for the business problems. - Design, develop and evaluate highly innovative models and statistical approaches to understand and predict customer behavior and to solve business problems. BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- Master's degree in computer science, mathematics, statistics, machine learning or equivalent quantitative field- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language- Experience building machine learning models or developing algorithms for business application ...