Santa Barbara

Amazon is looking for a highly-motivated Jr. Software Development Engineer (SDE)! Jr. SDEs write real software and collaborate with experienced software engineers who provide guidance and opportunities for ownership on projects that matter to our customers. As a year-round intern, Jr. SDEs become fully integrated into their teams and regularly contribute to impactful deliverables. Your design and code will contribute to solving some of Amazon's most complex technical challenges.The Jr. SDE role is part of Amazon's Jr Developer Program - a year-round internship opportunity that offers a symbiotic relationship between work and school. Jrs. receive 1:1 mentoring throughout their time in the program, receiving guidance and insight from a full-time Amazonian on their team. Because of the internship's extended tenure, our Jrs. become immersed in an Amazon team and gain real-life technical experience. Flexible part-time schedules during the school year and full-time employment over the summer creates an environment where students can succeed in both their work and their education. Santa Barbara has a growing population of Jrs, allowing for deep connections with fellow students engaged in similar roles.We are looking for students to start working with our cohort in June or September 2025.Upon successful completion of the Jr. Developer Program, the opportunity for full-time employment may be available at an Amazon corporate site.Role Highlights:• Part-time work during the school year (16 hours/week)• Full-time work during the summer (40 hours/week)• 1:1 mentoring with an experienced Software Engineer• Effective performance management and integrated opportunities for growth• Currently enrolled in an accredited college or university Bachelor's or Master's degree program.• Majoring in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related STEM field.• Graduating in June 2027 or beyond. • Ability to work year-round until graduation (part-time during the school year and full-time during the summer).• Living within commutable distance to Santa Barbara, CA and able to work in-person year-round.• Programming experience with at least one modern language such as Java, Python, or C++ including object-oriented design.• Previous technical internship(s), if applicable.• Ability to effectively articulate technical challenges and solutions.• Adept at handling ambiguous or undefined problems as well as ability to think abstractly.Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $16.83/hr in our lowest geographic market up to $75.63/hr in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

Amazon’s AGI Information is seeking an exceptional Senior Applied Scientist to drive science advancements in the Structured Information Retrieval team (SIR). SIR is re-inventing structured information retrieval from knowledge graphs for the LLM-era, optimizing for LLM grounding and other LLM-based customer experiences. At the same time, SIR is innovating to optimize knowledge graph ontology for LLM understanding.We're looking for a Sr Applied Scientist to join us in sunny Santa Barbara and help us build this future. As a member of the SIR team, you will have the opportunity to work on interesting cutting edge problems with immediate customer impact. Your initial focus will be on automatic query generation, and you will also have the opportunity to work with scientists working on the other challenges, and with the engineering teams that deliver the science advancements to our customers.A successful candidate has a strong machine learning and LLM background, is a master of state of the art techniques, has a strong publication record, has a desire to push the envelope in one or more of the above areas, and has a track record of delivering to customers. The ideal candidate enjoys operating in dynamic environments, is self-motivated to take on new challenges, and enjoys working with customers, stakeholders and engineering teams to deliver big customer impact, shipping solutions via rapid experimentation and then iterating on user feedback and interactions.Key job responsibilitiesAs a Senior Applied Scientist, you will leverage your technical expertise and experience to demonstrate leadership in tackling large complex problems. You will collaborate with applied scientists and engineers to develop novel algorithms and modeling techniques to build automated retrieval solutions that delivers fresh factual knowledge to our customers. Your first responsibility will be to solve automatic query generation to enable efficient structured information retrieval from the Knowledge graph. You will develop generic solutions that are able to generate queries to retrieve complex information and answer multi hops questions for any domains of knowledge. You will define a roadmap to make progress incrementally and you will insist on scientific rigor, leading by example.- 3+ years of building machine learning models for business application experience- PhD, or Master's degree and 6+ years of applied research experience- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language- Experience with neural deep learning methods and machine learning- Experience with large scale machine learning systems such as profiling and debugging and understanding of system performance and scalability- Hands-on experience with LLMs- Publications at peer-reviewed conferences (e.g. ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, AAAI, IJCAI, SIGIR, ISWC)- Hands-on experience with Natural Language Processing System and graph databases.Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $150,400/year in our lowest geographic market up to $260,000/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.