Senior Applied Scientist, Alexa Smart Home

The 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 intelligent, indispensable companion that automates daily routines, simplifies interaction with appliances and electronics, and alerts when something unusual is detected. You will be part of a team delivering features that are highly anticipated by media and well received by our customers.As a Senior 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. 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 responsibilitiesDeveloping new inference and training techniques to improve the performance of Large Language Models for Smart Home control and Automation.Developing 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 done.About 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- 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 ...

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 Sponsored Products & Brands organization. You'll be working with talented scientists, engineers, and technical program managers to innovate on behalf of our customers. An ideal candidate is able to navigate through ambiguous requirements, working with various partner teams and SDEs and have experience in Natural Language Processing, Ads recommendation systems, information/evidence retrieval and/or LLM prompt engineering. 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!We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:Seattle, WA and New-York, NYKey job responsibilities- Serve as the Science lead in defining the Science charter for the team (for an entirely new space using LLMs) & leading other AS on the team- Build POCs, experiment, optimize and deploy models into production- Partner with other Science teams within the org to deliver features for a net new shopper experience - Run experiments/weblabs and be able to perform statistical analysis- Mentor other scientists on the team- Partnering with Principal PMT and SDM to influence the Product strategyNice to have - Experience in Ads recommendations & information / evidence retrieval - Experience working with Large Language Models & Prompt EngineeringBASIC 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 ...

Senior Applied Scientist, Amazon Customer Service

"We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It's our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better." - Jeff Bezos, Founder & CEO.We didn’t make Amazon a trillion-dollar company, our customers did and we want to ensure that our customers always have a positive experience that keeps them coming back to Amazon. To help achieve this, the Worldwide Defect Elimination (WWDE) team, within Amazon Customer Service, relentlessly focuses on maintaining customer trust by building products that offer appropriate resolutions to resolve issues faced by our customers. WWDE scientists solve complex problems and build scalable solutions to eliminate systemic defects and prevent future issues.As a Sr. Applied Scientist, your role is pivotal in leveraging advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) techniques to address customer issues at scale. You'll lead the development of innovative solutions that detect and organize issues, identify root causes, and route them to resolving teams across the company. You will leverage a spectrum of scientific techniques across both classical ML and Natural Language Processing/Generative AI (NLP/GenAI) to comb over our billions of customer interactions (using a combination of media). In this role, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams (Product, Engineering, Program) and contribute to advancing the state of defect elimination research. Key job responsibilities- Deliver solutions to the core business problems and influencing business partners- Research and develop modeling techniques for NLP, DL, and ML- Establish scientific culture and standards for all the scientists (publication, best practices, reviews, etc.)- Develop scientific talent on the teamA 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:* Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage* Maternity and Parental Leave Options* Paid Time Off (PTO)* 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 applyBASIC QUALIFICATIONS- Master's degree in computer science, machine learning, statistics, mathematics or equivalent quantitative field- 5+ years of building deep learning or machine learning models for business application experience- Deep knowledge in one or more areas of machine learning or deep learning- Proficient with common ML and DL frameworks such as PyTorch- Experience programming in Java, Python or related language ...

Senior Applied Scientist, Amazon Health

About Amazon HealthAmazon Health’s mission is to make it dramatically easier for customers to access the healthcare products and services they need to get and stay healthy. Towards this mission, we (Health Storefront and Shared Tech) are building the technology, products and services, that help customers find, buy, and engage with the healthcare solutions they need.Job summaryWe are seeking an exceptional Senior Applied Scientist to join a team of experts in the field of Health Economics and Health Outcomes Research to work together to break new ground in the world of healthcare to make personalized and empathetic care accessible, convenient, and cost-effective. You will build and deploy state-of-the-art ML models for individual customer and population-level outcomes. You will work with clinical, product, and finance partners to test and deploy models to develop new product offerings and recommend solutions to address customer health care needs. You will work in a highly collaborative environment where you can pursue both near-term productization opportunities to make immediate, meaningful customer impacts while pursuing ambitious, long-term research. You will work on hard science problems that have not been solved before, conduct rapid prototyping to validate your hypothesis, and deploy your algorithmic ideas at scale. You will get the opportunity to pursue work that makes people's lives better and pushes the envelop of science. #everydaybetterKey job responsibilities- Translate Product, Finance and Clinical business and healthcare problems into scientific questions - Build and leverage data pipelines for training and evaluating ML models- Design, implement, and optimize the best-in-class machine learning solutions for forecasting and behavior change- Design and conduct live experiments to validate model performance- Deploy ML solutions into existing and new customer-facing systems and business processesA day in the lifeIn a fast-paced innovation environment, you work closely with product, finance, and clinical teams to understand customer's and business challenges. You translate product and business requirements into science problems. You dive deep into challenging science problems, access and analyze data, and enabling new ML solutions to impact customer experiences. You identify hypothesis and conduct rapid prototyping to learn quickly. You develop and deploy models at scale to pursue productizations. You mentor junior science team members and help influence our org in scientific best practices.About the teamWe are the Health Measurement Science team at HST (Health Store and Technology). The team consists of Scientists and Economists with experience in varied industries, including health care. We are committed to building and deploying the most advanced scientific capabilities and solutions for the products and services at Amazon Health.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 3+ years of building machine learning models for business application experience- PhD in engineering, technology, computer science, machine learning, robotics, operations research, statistics, mathematics or equivalent quantitative field, or Master's degree and 6+ years of building machine learning models for business application experience- Knowledge of programming languages such as C/C++, Python, Java or Perl ...

Senior Applied Scientist, Amazon Personalization

As a Senior Applied Scientist at Amazon, you will be at the forefront of a pioneering initiative to revolutionize customer experiences using Large Language Models (LLMs) and recommender systems. Your expertise will drive the personalization of every interaction across Amazon’s vast ecosystem, ensuring that each message and recommendation resonates personally with our customers.Your mission will be to harness the latest in LLM and machine learning innovations to craft recommender systems that are not just smart, but seem intuitively human. This is more than a technical role—it’s a chance to shape the future of e-commerce by making every user feel like Amazon’s most important customer.If you’re a visionary in the field of applied science, passionate about leveraging LLMs to create impactful, individualized user experiences, we want you. Help us set a new standard for personalization at Amazon, where every interaction is a step towards a more personalized future.Key job responsibilities- 3+ years of building machine learning models for business application experience- PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of applied research experience- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language- Experience with neural deep learning methods and machine learningA day in the lifeYou are an Applied Scientist with an interest in machine learning, data science, search, or recommendation systems. You have great problem solving skills. You love keeping abreast of the latest technology and use it to help you innovate. You have strong leadership qualities, great judgment, clear communication skills, and a track record of delivering great products. You enjoy working hard, having fun, and making history!About the teamOur team has the autonomy to decide where we can have the most impact and get down to experimenting. We love metrics and the fast pace. We analyze data to uncover potential opportunities, generate hypotheses, and test them. We refuse to accept constraints, internal or external, and have a strong bias for action. We imagine, build prototypes, validate ideas, and launch follow-up experiments from the successful ones. 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 ...

Senior Applied Scientist, Amazon Robotics

Do you want to create worldwide impact in robotics while solving challenges at the edge of robotics research? Our collaborative team in Amazon Robotics builds high-performance, real-time robotic systems that can perceive, learn, and act intelligently alongside humans—at Amazon scale. Our mission is to create robots that perform contact-rich tasks safely, efficiently, and dexterously amid the complexity and variety of Amazon warehouses. Our solutions learn from their own experiences, from each other, and from humans to build intelligence that feeds itself.We are seeking an experienced Senior Applied Scientist to join our Motion Planning and Control team. In this role, you will leverage your experience and insights gained from delivering systems to lead us in developing products that are both innovative and scalable. Collaborating with a world-class team of experts in motion planning, control theory, computer vision, machine learning, and robotic hardware design, you will apply the latest research trends to tackle complex real-world challenges. Together, we aim to achieve high-impact algorithmic advancements in areas such as scene and activity understanding, closed-loop control, robotic grasping, and manipulation in high-contact environments - each of which carries significant value for our current and future fulfillment networks. Key job responsibilities• Research, design, implement and evaluate complex motion planning, controls, and decision-making algorithms that improve the performance of systems deployed in real-world conditions.• Apply recent advances in topics such as planning optimization, model-based controllers, or grasp affordance learning to our systems in the lab and in the field.• Lead major initiatives, mentor more junior scientists, and raise the bar for applying science to scalable robotic products.• Work closely with software engineers to drive scalable, real-time implementations.• Collaborate with experts across disciplines including perception, hardware and software to create intelligent, integrated systems and solutions.• Represent Amazon in academia community through publications and scientific presentations.• Work with stakeholders across hardware, science, and operations teams to iterate on systems design and implementation.A day in the lifeAmazon offers a full range of benefits for you and eligible family members, including domestic partners and their children. Benefits can vary by location, the number of regularly scheduled hours you work, length of employment, and job status such as seasonal or temporary employment. The benefits that generally apply to regular, full-time employees include: 1. Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage 2. Maternity and Parental Leave Options 3. Paid Time Off (PTO) 4. 401(k) Plan If you are not sure that every qualification on the list above describes you exactly, we'd still love to hear from you! At Amazon, we value people with unique backgrounds, experiences, and skillsets. If you’re passionate about this role and want to make an impact on a global scale, please apply!BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- PhD, or Master's degree and 6+ years of applied research experience- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language- 5+ years of relevant broad industry or academic applied research experience post PhD in developing algorithms for robotic motion planning, perception, control, and decision-making. ...

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 ...

Senior Applied Scientist, ASV - O&O

Amazon Shopping Video (ASV) is a new strategic program in Advertisement that leverages the potential of video to help millions of customers find product inspiration through videos. ASV is seeking an exceptionally skilled and enthusiastic applied scientist to join the Amazon Live team. Our mission is to provide a delightful video experience to Amazon’s customers by pushing the envelope in Computer Vision, image processing and multimodal LLM. You will work collaborate closely with product managers and work alongside with other scientists to develop novel approaches, algorithms and modeling techniques to improve live streaming experience for our customers and influencers. You will conduct research in computer vision and natural language processing to develop new models and algorithms to solve for content personalization, image and video understanding, and recommendation systems. You will collaborate closely with the engineering teams to integrate the models into the production systems. About the teamASV's mission is to help millions of customers find product inspiration, learn more about products they are interested in, and interact with creators and their communities every day across the globe. We enable customers to find relevant content and explore our vast library of product-focused videos on our home experiences across desktop, mobile and FireTV, and throughout their shopping journey on Amazon. We are very much a startup within Amazon aiming to reinvent the way customers use video to shop, and we are looking for motivated, thoughtful self-starters who can partner effectively across our multi-disciplinary teams to drive innovation.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 ...

Senior Applied Scientist, AWS Marketplace & Partner Services

The AWS Marketplace & Partner Services Science team is hiring an Applied Scientist to develop state-of-the-art recommendations systems, Conversational AI agents, and personalization capabilities within AWS Marketplace. This role will revolutionize discovery of solutions that accelerate customer cloud migrations for our customers, bringing personalization to AWS customers. The ideal candidate is comfortable leading production level recommendations strategies, implementing agent based conversationalAI experience, and mentoring other scientists on the team. You able to evaluate feasibility of scientific approaches and influence business leaders to develop the best experience for our customers. You thrive in a collaborative environment, where mentorship, learning, and teamwork is critical. Key job responsibilities- Work with customers, product managers, scientists, and engineers to deliver production level recommendation experiences- Ability to write production level code and support requirements for MLOps/LLMOps- Mentor Scientists on the team, and guide scientific approach across the organizationAbout the teamThe AWS Marketplace & Partner Services Science team supports science models and recommendations that are deployed directly to AWS Customers (via AWS Marketplace), to our partners (via Partner Central), and to our internal AWS Sellers. Our mission is to accelerate cloud migrations and modernizations, supporting AWS customers to innovate, and the growth of our AWS Partners.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 3+ years of building machine learning models for business application experience- PhD, or Master's degree and 3+ years of applied research experience- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language- Experience with neural deep learning methods and machine learning ...

Senior Applied Scientist, AWS Sustainability Tech

AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. In other words, we’re the people who keep the cloud running. We support all AWS data centers and all of the servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling equipment that ensure our customers have continual access to the innovation they rely on. We work on the most challenging problems, with thousands of variables impacting the supply chain — and we’re looking for talented people who want to help. You’ll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles. You’ll collaborate with people across AWS to help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost for our customers. And you’ll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.Are you excited to prototype and launch customer-facing sustainability products? Do you have experience delivering data-driven sustainability solutions at scale? The AWS Infrastructure Sustainability Tech team is seeking a passionate, results-oriented Sr. Applied Scientist to contribute to the research, prototyping, and delivery of customer-facing sustainability products. The AWS Infrastructure Sustainability Tech organization builds solutions to integrate sustainability data across AWS infrastructure and operations and support AWS customer’s sustainability goals, AWS’ progress towards net zero carbon goal, renewable energy management, and other cross-cutting sustainability objectives. A successful candidate will have high influence across teams and sustainability stakeholders to make strategic trade-offs between short term opportunities and long term customer and industry trends. You will partner with AWS service, infrastructure (data centers), and Sustainability stakeholders to build AWS Sustainability products and influence partner teams. The role requires excellent communication skills to drive consensus across stakeholders, as well as the ability to thrive in ambiguous problem spaces. You'll partner with various AWS teams to build sustainability products and influence strategic decisions. This high-impact position offers visibility at the highest levels of AWS leadership and the chance to make a significant contribution to our sustainability efforts. If you're passionate about leveraging science and technology to enable a low-carbon future and are ready to tackle real-world problems without ready-made solutions, we encourage you to apply and join our team of world-leading experts in shaping the future of sustainable cloud computing.Additionally, excellent communication, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills are essential, as is the ability to translate complex sustainability and energy data into customer-facing products. With visibility at the highest levels of AWS leadership, this is an opportunity to make a lasting mark on our sustainability efforts and help unlock the full potential of the AWS Cloud to enable a low-carbon future. If you are a seasoned applied scientist professional excited to drive transformative change, we encourage you to apply.Key job responsibilities- Design, implement, test, deploy, and maintain innovative data and machine learning solutions to accelerate our business.- Collaborate with scientists, engineers, product managers, and stakeholders to design and implement software solutions for science problems- Lead the early investigative / inception phase of strategic sustainability initiatives and effectively influence, negotiate, and communicate with stakeholders to enable hand off of those projects for implementation.-Able to move quickly to building prototypes to unblock core use cases across domains. About the team*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.*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.*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 Growth*We’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 building machine learning models for business application experience- PhD, or Master's degree and 5+ years of applied research experience- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language- Experience in applied research- Experience in building machine learning models for business application ...

Senior Applied Scientist, Campaign Measurement & Optimization

The Campaign Measurement & Optimization (CMO) organization is looking for a Senior Applied Scientist interested in solving one of the most challenging business problems in marketing measurement and optimization, a thought leader with deep expertise in ML modeling, and scaling measurement science. Working with our team of data / research / applied scientists, economists, engineers, and product managers, this leader will help redefine marketing investment decision making at Amazon and its subsidiaries.The Campaign Measurement & Optimization (CMO) organization’s mission is to be the most trusted source of measurement science solutions to drive marketing investment decisions across Amazon. The CMO team provides incrementality and efficiency measurement services to the marketing stakeholders across Amazon’s lines of business, including Stores, Prime Video, Amazon Devices, Alexa, Amazon Business, Amazon Music, Amazon Fresh, as well as subsidiaries including Audible, Ring, Whole Foods, and more. CMO applies industry leading deep learning based causal inference models to measure omni-channel effectiveness of marketing campaigns from these businesses worldwide. The impact and influence of the organization is tremendous, helping optimize spend decisions on a scale that exceeds many countries’ GDP. Our outputs shape Amazon product and marketing teams’ decisions and therefore how Amazon customers see, use, and value their experience with Amazon.This is a high-impact role with opportunities to develop systems and analyze marketing effectiveness that contributes billions of dollars to the business. As a Senior Scientist in the team, you will be responsible for designing and developing cutting edge measurement and optimization models, while collaborating with businesses, marketers, and software teams to solve key challenges facing the teams. Such challenges include measuring the incremental impact of multi-billion $$ multi-channel marketing portfolios, developing Deep Learning models for estimating the impact on sparse customer actions, and scaling measurement solutions for WW marketplaces. Unlike many companies who buy existing off-the-shelf marketing measurement systems, we are responsible for studying, designing, and building systems to serve Amazon’s suite of businesses. Our team members have an opportunity to be on the forefront of marketing measurement thought leadership by working on some of the most difficult problems in the industry with some of the best product managers, research scientists, economists and software developers in the business.In this role, you will be a technical leader in Marketing science research with significant scope, impact, and high visibility. You will champion cutting edge ML models using the latest methods in causal estimation and portfolio optimization. You will lead strategic measurement science initiatives in CMO and across various marketing teams, scaling experimentation and measurement science models, real-time inference, and cross-channel orchestration. As a successful scientist, you are an analytical problem solver who enjoys diving into data, leads development of new models, is excited about investigations and algorithms, and can credibly interface between technical teams and business stakeholders. You are an expert in employing deep learning models to solve business problems, preferably in causal inference. You are a hands-on innovator who can contribute to advancing Marketing measurement technology in a B2C and B2B environment, and push the limits on what’s scientifically possible with a razor sharp focus on measurable customer and business impact. You will coach and guide junior scientists to grow the team’s talent and scale the impact of your work.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 ...

Senior Applied Scientist, CloudTune

Amazon’s eCommerce Foundation (eCF) organization provides the core technologies that drive and power Amazon's Stores, Digital, and Other (SDO) businesses. Millions of customer page views and orders per day are enabled by the systems eCF builds from the ground up. CloudTune, within eCF, empowers growth and business agility needs by automatically and efficiently managing AWS capacity and business processes needed to safely meet Amazon’s customer demand. CloudTune serves its primary customers, internal software teams, through forecast driven automation of cost controllership, capacity management and scaling. We predict expected load, and drive procurement and allocation of AWS capacity for new product launches and high velocity events like Prime Day and Cyber Monday. CloudTune, in partnership with Region Flexibility, is driving an SDO-wide program to diversify our use of AWS regions beyond DUB, IAD, and PDX regions. The objective of the Diversify AWS Region Usage (DARU) program is to mitigate the risk of capacity concentration by encouraging teams to design workloads that are region-flexible, utilize AWS automation such as Flexible Fleets to access multiple capacity pools, and optimize workload placement so SDO efficiently utilizes AWS. This is a strategic, highly visible, multi-year program which spans all Amazon business.CloudTune is looking for an experienced Applied Scientist to join our forecasting team and support DARU program. The team develops sophisticated algorithms that involve learning from large amounts of past data, such as actual sales, website traffic, merchandising activities, promotions, similar products and product attributes to forecast the demand for our compute infrastructure. These forecasts are used to determine the level of investment in capital expenditures, promotional activity, engineering efficiency projects and determining financial performance.As a Senior Scientist in CloudTune, you will work with other scientists, software engineers, data engineers, and product managers on a variety of important applied machine learning problems in the area of time series modeling. You will work on statistical problems with a high level of ambiguity. You will analyze and process large amounts of data, develop new algorithms and improve existing approaches based on statistical models, machine learning algorithms and big data solutions to automatically scale Amazon’s compute infrastructure, optimizing the balance between availability risk and cost efficiency for all of Amazon businesses.Key job responsibilities• Process and analyze large data sets, mining additional data sources as needed• Analyze compute scaling metrics to identify business drivers that influence infrastructure expenditures• Build statistical models and drive scalable solutions for multi-year capacity demand forecasting horizons• Prototype these models by using high-level modeling languages such as R or Python• Create, enhance, and maintain technical documentation, and present to other scientists and business leadersBASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 5+ years of building machine learning models for business application experience- PhD, or Master's degree and 7+ years of building machine learning models or developing algorithms for business application experience- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language- Experience with neural deep learning methods and machine learning ...

Senior Applied Scientist, CMO Science

The Campaign Measurement & Optimization (CMO) organization is looking for a Senior Applied Scientist interested in solving one of the most challenging business problems in marketing measurement and developing cutting-edge ML model. Working with our team of data scientists, applied scientists, research scientists, and economists, this leader will help redefine scalable marketing measurement at Amazon and its subsidiaries.The Campaign Measurement & Optimization (CMO) organization’s mission is to be the most trusted source of measurement science solutions to drive marketing investment decisions across Amazon. The CMO team provides incrementality and efficiency measurement services to the marketing stakeholders across Amazon’s lines of business, including Stores, Prime Video, Amazon Devices, Alexa, Amazon Business, Amazon Music, Amazon Fresh, as well as subsidiaries including Audible, Ring, Whole Foods, and more. CMO applies industry leading deep learning based causal inference models to measure omni-channel effectiveness of marketing campaigns from these businesses worldwide. The impact and influence of the organization is tremendous, helping optimize spend decisions on a scale that exceeds many countries’ GDP. Our outputs shape Amazon product and marketing teams’ decisions and therefore how Amazon customers see, use, and value their experience with Amazon.This is a high-impact role with opportunities to develop systems and analyze marketing effectiveness that contributes billions of dollars to the business. As a senior scientist, you will be responsible for leading the design and development of the cutting edge measurement and optimization models, while collaborating with businesses, marketers, and software teams to solve key challenges facing the teams. Such challenges include measuring the incremental impact of multi-channel marketing portfolios, estimating the impact on sparse customer actions, and scaling measurement solutions for WW marketplaces. Unlike many companies who buy existing off-the-shelf marketing measurement systems, we are responsible for studying, designing, and building systems to serve Amazon’s suite of businesses. Our team members have an opportunity to be on the forefront of marketing measurement thought leadership by working on some of the most difficult problems in the industry with some of the best product managers, scientists, economists and software developers in the business.In this role, you will be a technical leader in applied science research with significant scope, impact, and high visibility. You will lead strategic measurement science initiatives in CMO and across various marketing teams, scaling experimentation and development and deployment of the measurement science models, real-time inference, and cross-channel orchestration. As a successful Scientist, you are an analytical problem solver who enjoys diving into data, leads problem solving, guides development of new frameworks, writes code, is excited about investigations and algorithms, and can credibly interface between technical teams and business stakeholders. You are an expert in employing deep learning models to solve business problems, preferably in causal inference. You are a hands-on innovator who can contribute to advancing Marketing measurement technology in a B2C and B2B environment, and push the limits on what’s scientifically possible with a razor sharp focus on measurable customer and business impact. You will also coach and guide scientists in the team to grow the team’s talent and scale the impact of your work.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 ...

Senior Applied Scientist, Devices Economic Value

Amazon's Devices Economic Value team enables measurement and optimization of Amazon Devices long-term value to help Amazon build better products for their customers. Delivering lasting value to customers is in Amazon's DNA and we are at the core of how the Devices business prioritizes its investments in innovation and optimization on behalf of customers. Join us to be a part of the team that is at the core of understanding how Amazon Devices drive deeper customer engagement and helps the business make decisions about how to optimize and balance between short term monetization and long term value creation for Amazon Device users. We are seeking a skilled Senior Applied Scientist to build the future of long term value measurement and optimization for Amazon Devices.About you:We are looking for a talented Senior Applied Scientist to partner with a highly-talented team. You will work closely with engineering and multiple partner teams to continuously identify opportunities to enable and accelerate impactful business initiatives related to measurement and optimization of Devices long-term value. Strong technical skills, judgment and communication skills, and continuous focus on the actionability of our models and insights for our customers are essential for the success in this role.About us together:We're going to help Amazon make better decisions in our Devices business by measuring the long-term value generated via purchase and engagement with devices and integrating it into decision making across the whole business ranging from high level strategic decisions to production level optimizations in promotions, pricing and marketing. Our work will inform some of the biggest decisions in the Devices business. We have decades of combined experience in many areas of science, product and engineering so it's a great environment in which to learn and grow. Optimization for long-term value is one of the most challenging areas of research and development today and this is a chance to learn and enhance how it works in a company that keeps this focus at its core. The candidate's responsibilities will include:- Build Machine Learning models, conduct statistical/machine learning analyses, or design experiments to measure the value of the business and its many features- Partner closely with Business, Finance, Science, and Tech partners to implement production solutions- Independently identify new opportunities for leveraging science insights and models in the Devices business- Write both technical science papers and business-facing documents to clearly explain complex technical conceptsBASIC 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 ...

Senior Applied Scientist, Featured Merchant Algorithm (FMA)

Are you excited by the idea of creating the world's best shopping product and offer evaluation experience? Can you imagine saving millions of shoppers' time worldwide by presenting them with intuitive shopping experience and attractive offers on one of the most visited e-commerce sites? Are you looking forward to solving challenging problems that blend business, scientific, and engineering disciplines? We work with multi-billion product selection and typically measure our impact in $'00 millions. Join us, be part of the shopping revolution, and make history!Key job responsibilities- Utilize artificial intelligence, statistics, econometrics, and creative problem-solving skills to improve one of the most significant ecommerce algorithms that impacts millions of shoppers and sellers in the planet.- Partner closely with engineers to put your research and ideas into production on Amazon.com.- Leverage your science expertise to research and deliver novel solutions to explore emerging problem spaces, and create or organize knowledge around them.- Publish papers and file patents to contribute to the machine learning community.- Present ideas to senior leadership (Sr. Managers and above) and mentor Applied Scientists and Engineers with an interest in artificial intelligence.- Provide scientific consultation and influence teams beyond your immediate group, such as, Personalization, Media content teams, and Ads.About the teamThe Featured Merchant Algorithm (FMA) vision is to provide the world’s best offer evaluation experience, ensuring that Amazon customers see the best and most relevant offers – regardless of seller, brand, store, fulfillment channel, or shopping format – for any item at any point in the shopping journey. As the global authority of offer recommendation, we strive to reduce cognitive load of shoppers and drive competition across programs/offers.We are a team of Scientists, Economists, Engineers, and Designers working together to realize this mission. We operate in a diverse space that includes modeling of customer purchase behavior, advanced simulation, experimentation, evaluation, and compliance. We employ a variety of ML, statistics, reasoning, and econometric techniques.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 ...

Senior Applied Scientist, FireTV

Do you want to re-invent how millions of people consume video content on their TVs, Tablets and Alexa?We are building a cutting edge & free to watch streaming service called Fire TV Channels (https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/21/amazon-launches-fire-tv-channels-app-400-fast-channels/). Our goal is to provide customers with a delightful and personalized experience for consuming content across News, Sports, Cooking, Gaming, Entertainment, Lifestyle and more.You will work closely with engineering and product stakeholders to realize our ambitious product vision. You will get to work with Generative AI and other state of the art technologies to help build personalization and recommendation solutions from the ground up. You will be in the driver's seat to present customers with content they will love.Using Amazon’s large-scale computing resources, you will ask research questions about customer behavior, build state-of-the-art models to generate recommendations and run these models to enhance the customer experience. You will participate in the Amazon ML community and mentor Applied Scientists and Software Engineers with a strong interest in and knowledge of ML. Your work will directly benefit customers and you will measure the impact using scientific tools. BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 3+ years of building machine learning models for business application experience- PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of applied research experience- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language- Experience with neural deep learning methods and machine learning ...

Senior Applied Scientist, Fleet Automation and Release Orchestration (FAROS)

Are you interested in the world's largest Cloud Network? Are you interested in applying new methods to extremely hard problems such as anomaly detection to have a lasting impact on business? Do you want to play a key role in the future of AWS's infrastructure? Come and join us! The Fleet Orchestration and Release Automation team is looking for an Applied Scientist Scientists to join our team. Our team owns multiple services that drive the decision-making behind the world's largest Network, and we are looking for excellent Scientists that can help us answer tough and ambiguous questions. Working collaboratively, you will improve and develop solutions to complex problems, such as identifying anomalies in the Network performance across Data-Centers worldwide, or automating the monitoring process of production network after OS or configuration deployments. You will work with a team of Engineers among others to test your solutions and push them into production so the business can meet its goals. You will be the POC for Science based innovation in the org.AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. In other words, we’re the people who keep the cloud running. We support all AWS data centers and all of the servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling equipment that ensure our customers have continual access to the innovation they rely on. We work on the most challenging problems, with thousands of variables impacting the supply chain — and we’re looking for talented people who want to help. You’ll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles. You’ll collaborate with people across AWS to help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost for our customers. And you’ll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.A day in the lifeYou must ensure our solutions meet the needs of our most important customers. You will work with customers to gather requirements, understand the space and impact, generate and test end-to-end proposals to carry the project through all the development stages. You’ll develop algorithms that enable Network Engineers to develop, monitor and operate robust, high-quality networks safely, securely, and reliably deploy it. You will have an opportunity to work directly with complex and high volume data and models to analyze network performance intelligently. You will use your strong leadership and communication skills to educate other team members, provide training and support for our products/models/technologies. You will have access to senior leadership and engineering staff.About the teamWe have created a new team that will own several new highly-visible initiatives and goals that will impact the whole organization as well as benefit across orgs. This includes developing and integrating various science based software solutions and collaborating with multiple teams and customers in order to achieve the goal of building software systems to deploy OS and config changes to the AWS datacenter network reliably. Our goal is to automate the process of identifying regressions in the network allowing teams to take action on it immediately with the long-term goal of providing specific root cause for regressions observed in network performance.Why AWSAmazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.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.Working at AWS in the Core Networking Team • Meet Matt, Director, Core Networking --- https://youtu.be/DqTStjRtjX4 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 ...

Senior Applied Scientist, Futures Design

Futures Design is the advanced concept design and incubation team within Amazon’s Device and Services Design Group (DDG). We are responsible for exploring and defining think (very) big opportunities globally and locally — so that we can better understand how new products and services might enrich the lives of our customers and so that product teams and leaders can align on where we're going and why we're going there. We focus on a 3–10+ year time frame, with the runway to invent and design category-defining products and transformational customer experiences. Working with Amazon business and technology partners, we use research, design, and prototyping to guide early product development, bring greater clarity to engineering goals, and develop a UX-grounded point of view.Our team is dedicated to unlocking new foundational capabilities in generative AI, guided by the thesis that embedding understanding through human factors, cognitive science, and socioeconomics is crucial to building AI systems that align with human needs. We place particular emphasis on the capabilities of simulacra through agentic systems and experiential/evolutionary learning, which we believe are vital to accelerating the development of AI as an aligned partner. Joining our team will give you the chance to drive key decisions that will impact the lives of millions of Amazon customers. Key job responsibilitiesYou will be responsible for defining key research directions, adopting or inventing new machine learning techniques, conducting rigorous experiments, publishing results, and ensuring that research is translated into practice. You will develop long-term strategies, persuade teams to adopt those strategies, propose goals and deliver on them. You will also participate in organizational planning, hiring, mentorship and leadership development. You will be technically fearless and with a passion for building scalable science and engineering solutions. You will serve as a key scientific resource in full-cycle development (conception, design, implementation, testing to documentation, delivery, and maintenance).A day in the lifeWe're looking for a Senior Applied Scientist to join the growing DDG Futures Design team.You thrive in ambiguity and paradigm shifts – remaking assumptions of how customers engage, devices operate, and builders create. You apply deep expertise that spans design, technology, and product, grounding state-of-the-art emerging technologies through storytelling and a maker's mindset. You learn and adapt technology trends to enduring customer problems through customer empathy, code, and iterative experimentation.You will wear multiple hats to quickly assimilate customer problems, convert them to hypotheses, and test them using efficient technologies and design methods to build stakeholder buy-in. You’ll help your peers unlock challenging scenarios and mature the design studio’s ability to deliver design at scale across a breadth of devices and interaction modalities. You will work around limitations and push capabilities through your work. Your curiosity will inspire those around you and facilitate team growth, while your hands-on, collaborative nature will build trust with your peers and studio partners.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 ...

Senior Applied Scientist, GTMC

Amazon’s global talent management and compensation (GTMC) organization is looking for a Senior Applied Scientist to join our interdisciplinary science team. The role will lead our strategic science investments to develop and refine Generative AI solutions in our experiences that help more than 1.5 million employees build rewarding careers and shape how we manage Amazon's talent.GTMC is responsible for managing all aspects of Amazon employees' careers, from onboarding to exit. We build intelligent products that are used by employees, their managers and senior leadership to grow, develop and reward Amazon’s talent. The domains we cover include career development, talent evaluation, employee-role matching, promotions, organizational design and succession planning, and new areas that address the evolving needs of our diverse employee base.We are looking for an experienced applied scientist who has experience building, applying and customizing GenAI solutions to solve customer problems. As a senior applied scientist on the team, you will play a critical role in driving the development of GenAI technologies that handle Amazon-scale use cases and have a significant impact on our employees' lives. You will have the opportunity to lead exciting problems, publish and patent your work in one of the most high impact, innovative and unconventional applications of science in the People Experience and Technology space.If this kind of work excites you, reach out to us to find out more!Key job responsibilities- Provide scientific thought leadership in GenAI solution development for our science and engineering teams- Prototype and iterate on GenAI solutions for capabilities across writing feedback, summarization, information retrieval, content generation and orchestration.- Participate in scoping feature and business planning roadmap of GTMC’s science investments- Design and execute science-based product ideas and features, project plans and communicate with stakeholders- Partner with engineers to productionize GenAI and other science models at the scale of Amazon- Mentor and guide junior scientists and engineers, and contribute to the overall growth and development of the teamAbout the teamGTMC's science team is an experienced central interdisciplinary organization of scientists spanning machine learning, economics and research that builds science models for Amazon's worldwide employee-facing talent management products, designs and supports experiments for product features, and measures impact of product and program initiatives across the broader organization. Examples of our work include GenAI-powered summarization and writing assistants, content and people recommendation systems, scalable experimentation products and measuring organizational north star metrics.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 with neural deep learning methods and machine learning- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language- Experience with developing Generative AI solutions for business applications ...

Senior Applied Scientist, Healthcare and Life Science Services

Amazon is looking for world class senior applied scientist to join the AWS Healthcare and Life Science Services team to work on state of the art implementations of biomolecule design workflows. This role is entrusted with developing core machine learning algorithms for AWS customers, to be included in future AWS products. On the AWS Healthcare and Life Science Services Team you will invent, implement, and deploy state of the art machine learning algorithms and systems. You will build prototypes and explore conceptually large scale ML solutions for biomolecule design across different computation platforms. You will interact closely with our customers and with the academic community. You will be at the heart of a growing and exciting focus area for AWS and work with other acclaimed engineers and world famous scientists.The Healthcare and Life Science Services team is a part of the AWS Solutions organization. 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.Key job responsibilitiesAs a key Applied Scientist, you will design workflows that integrate SOTA AI/ML models with complex biological datasets. You will work closely with a team of other Applied Scientists and Solutions Architects to ensure the algorithms and workflows meet out customers scientific and business objectives. Your role will also involve working with AWS service teams, to promote the delivery of AI-powered solutions in the field of biomolecule design.A day in the lifeYou will work with customer scientists, academics, AWS product managers, other AWS scientists, and AWS software development engineers to help customers operate the best solution for AI driven biomolecule design on AWS. You will perform experiments, specify and procure data sets, incorporate commercial and open source models, and push the state of the art in biomolecule design.About the teamDiverse ExperiencesAWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying. Why AWS?Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.Inclusive Team CultureHere at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.Mentorship & Career GrowthWe’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional. Work/Life BalanceWe value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud. 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- Experience building and tuning AI powered molecular design workflows, and an up-to-date knowlege of current Biological Foundation Models (both commercial and open sources) available to customers. ...