Principal Applied Scientist, Automated Reasoning in Identity

Are you passionate about applying formal verification, program analysis, constraint-solving, and theorem proving to real world problems? Do you want to create products that help customers? If so, then we have an exciting opportunity for you. In this role, you will interact with internal teams and external customers to understand their requirements. You will apply your knowledge to propose innovative solutions, create software prototypes, and productize prototypes into production systems using software development tools and methodologies. In addition, you will support and scale your solutions to meet the ever growing demand of customer use.Technical Responsibilities:- Interact with various teams to develop an understanding of their security and safety requirements.- Apply the acquired knowledge to build provably correct and performant software to address identified needs.- Perform analysis of the customer systems using tools developed in-house or externally provided.- Create software prototypes to verify and validate the devised solutions methodologies; integrate the prototypes into production systems using standard software development tools and methodologies.Leadership Responsibilities:- Can present and defend company-wide technical decisions to the internal technical community and represent the company effectively at technical conferences.- Functional thought leader, sought after for key tech decisions. Can successfully sell ideas to an executive level decision maker.- Mentors and trains the research scientist community on complex technical issues.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, or related technical field- At least 7+ years of industrial/academic experience in formal verification, program analysis, constraint-solving, and theorem proving - At least 7+ years of experience with programming languages such as Java, Scala, C/C++, Ruby, or Python and open-source technologies ...

Senior Applied Scientist - Planning and Controls, Amazon Robotics

At Amazon Robotics, we design advanced robotic systems capable of intelligent perception, learning, and action alongside humans, all on a large scale. Our goal is to develop robots that increase productivity and efficiency at the Amazon fulfillment centers while ensuring the safety of workers.We are seeking an Applied Scientist to develop innovative and scalable solutions in motion planning and feedback controls for complex robotic systems. In this role, you will take responsibility for developing robot physics models, performing analysis, and devising and implementing algorithms for the control and estimation of robotic systems. You will collaborate with a world-class team of experts in perception, machine learning, motion planning, and feedback controls to innovate and develop solutions for complex real-world problems.As part of your work, you will investigate applicable academic and industry research to develop, implement, and test solutions that support product features. You will also design and validate production designs. To succeed in this role, you should demonstrate a strong working knowledge of physical systems, a desire to learn from new challenges, and the problem-solving and communication skills to work within a highly interactive and experienced team. Candidates must show a hands-on passion for their work and the ability to communicate their ideas and concepts both verbally and visually.Key job responsibilities- Conduct research, design, implement, and assess feedback control and motion planning algorithms, ensuring integration across various disciplines.- Develop experiments and build prototypes to implement control algorithms, planners, and optimization techniques.- Collaborate closely with software engineering teams to ensure scalable, real-time implementation of algorithms.- Partner with cross-functional engineering teams to deploy algorithms from initial prototyping to production-level implementation.- Engage with stakeholders across hardware, scientific, and operational 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!BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- PhD in engineering, technology, computer science, machine learning, robotics, operations research, statistics, mathematics or equivalent quantitative field- 5+ years of industry or academic research experience- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language- Experience in building machine learning models for business application- 5+ years of industry or academic research experience in applied research and development in robotics, with a focus on motion planning and feedback controls. ...

Applied Scientist II, Fulfillment Planning and Execution Science - Fulfillment Optimization

Have you ever wondered how Amazon predicts when your order will arrive and how we ensure that it actually arrives on at the promised date/time? Have you wondered where all those Amazon semi-trucks on the road are headed? Are you passionate about increasing efficiency and reducing carbon footprint? Does the idea of having worldwide impact on Amazon's logistics network including our planes, trucks, and vans sound exciting to you? If so, then we want to talk with you! At Amazon's Supply Chain Optimization Technologies (SCOT), we are tasked with optimizing the fulfilment on customer orders so that we fulfil all orders worldwide in the most intelligent manner while ensuring Amazon customers get their orders on time.Fulfillment Planning & Execution (FPX) Science team within SCOT- Fulfilment Optimization owns and operates OR/ML and simulation systems that continually optimize the distribution of tens of millions of products across Amazon’s warehouses in the most cost-effective manner, utilizing large scale optimization techniques and distributed computing in trying to reduce overall transportation costs while improving the customer experience. We are focused on saving hundreds of millions of dollars using Optimization, machine learning, and scalable distributed software on the cloud that automates and optimizes inventory and shipments to customers under the uncertainty of demand, pricing and supply.We’re looking for a passionate, results-oriented, and inventive scientist who can create and improve models for our outbound transportation planning systems. In addition, you will be working on design, development and evaluation of highly innovative models for solving complex business problems in the area of outbound transportation planning and execution systems. You will work closely with our product managers and software engineers to disambiguate complex supply chain problems and create optimization solutions to solve those problems at scale. You will directly impact our direct customers, and even play with big data and incredible scale in the background.Watch http://bit.ly/amazon-scot to get the big picture. Key job responsibilities* Design, development and evaluation of highly innovative optimization models for solving complex business problems. * Research and apply the latest optimization techniques and best practices from both academia and industry. * Think about customers and how to improve the customer delivery experience. * Use and analytical techniques to create scalable solutions for business problems. * Work closely with software engineering teams to build model implementations and integrate successful models and algorithms in production systems at very large scale. * Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large scale data analyses, model development, model validation and model implementation.A day in the lifeThis is a great role for someone who likes to learn new things. You will have the opportunity to learn all about how Amazon plans for and executes within it's logistics network including Fulfillment Centers, Sort Centers, Delivery Stations, and more. In this role, you will be a design and develop Optimization models with significant scope, impact, and high visibility. Your solutions will impact business segments worth many-billions-of-dollars and geographies spanning multiple countries and markets. From day one, you will be working with bar raising scientists, engineers, and designers. You will also collaborate with the broader science community in Amazon to broaden the horizon of your work. Successful candidates must thrive in fast-paced environments, which encourage collaborative and creative problem solving, be able to measure and estimate risks, constructively critique peer research, and align research focuses with the Amazon's strategic needs. We look for individuals who know how to deliver results and show a desire to develop themselves, their colleagues, and their career.About the teamFulfillment Planning & Execution Science team contains a group of scientists with different technical backgrounds including Machine Learning and Operations Research, who will collaborate closely with you on your projects. Our team directly supports critical functional areas across Fulfillment Optimization and the research needs of the corresponding product and engineering teams. We tackle some of the most mathematically complex challenges in facility and transportation planning and execution to improve Amazon's operational efficiency worldwide and at a scale that is unique to Amazon. We often seek the opportunity of applying hybrid techniques in the space of Operations Research and Machine Learning to tackle some of our biggest technical challenges. We disambiguate complex supply chain problems and create ML and optimization solutions to solve those problems at scale.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 ...

Principal Applied Scientist, Amazon Publisher Cloud

Amazon Publisher Cloud is a game-changing new service, currently in beta, that operates at the intersection of advertising, secure signal collaboration, and cloud services. In this role you will be a key member of an entrepreneurial team tackling some of the most exciting and complex opportunities in digital advertising.Amidst rapid growth and evolving challenges, Amazon Publisher Cloud seeks a Principal Scientist with a deep passion for data, innovation, and the drive to explore new frontiers. This role is perfect for a leader capable of inspiring our team, pioneering cutting-edge strategies, and playing a crucial role in crafting world-class advertising solutions. If you're ready to lead in a culture that prioritizes experimentation, teamwork, and ownership, join us. Together, we'll lead the advancement of advertising, pushing boundaries to ensure our continued success and growth.Key job responsibilitiesAs a Principal Applied Scientist in the team, you will:- Deeply analyze our current offerings to uncover opportunities for business growth through advanced ML solutions.- Provide mentorship to applied scientists and data scientists within the organization, setting a high bar for technical rigor and ML excellence.- Collaborate closely with engineering teams, leveraging your expertise to navigate technical constraints and achieve optimal performance.- Explore and pioneer innovative, high-impact research avenues in uncharted technical and scientific areas, leading them from inception to successful implementation.- Take the lead in sharing our ML breakthroughs with the wider scientific community and external stakeholders.- Research, build, and deploy innovative ML solutions; working across all technical disciplines.About the teamAmazon Publisher Services helps digital publishers around the world build and grow thriving businesses. We provide services and advanced technologies to web, mobile app and advanced TV publishers of all sizes, including many of comScore’s global top 100, to help them monetize their content with demand from multiple programmatic buyers. Our server-side header bidding solutions are fast and reliable across devices, handling billions of queries per day, delivering ads in milliseconds. The result is more profitable advertising for publishers and more relevant ads for customers.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- Ph.D. in Machine Learning, Computer Science, or related disciplines.- Over 10 years of hands-on experience in developing ML solutions for customer-facing products.- At least 2 years of direct experience leading multiple ML projects, with a focus on designing products that effectively meet customer needs.- Demonstrated history of delivering large-scale, high-quality ML projects.- Demonstrated track record of applying ML techniques to deliver measurable business impact. ...

Senior Applied Scientist, Alexa

We are a part of Amazon Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) organization where our mission is “delight customers through contextual and personalized proactive experiences that keep customers informed, engaged, and productive without cognitive burden”. We are developing advanced systems to deliver engaging, intuitive, and adaptive content recommendations across all Amazon surfaces. We aim to facilitate seamless reasoning and customer experiences, surpassing the capabilities of previous machine learning models. We are looking for a passionate, talented, and resourceful Senior Applied Scientist in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP), Large Language Model (LLM), Recommender Systems and/or Information Retrieval, to invent and build scalable solutions for a state-of-the-art context-aware personal assistant. A successful candidate will have strong machine learning background and a desire to push the envelope in one or more of the above areas. The ideal candidate would also enjoy operating in dynamic environments, be self-motivated to take on challenging problems 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, setting the direction and collaborating with applied scientists and engineers to develop novel algorithms and modeling techniques to enable timely, relevant and delightful recommendations and conversations. Your work will directly impact our customers in the form of products and services that make use of various machine learing, deep learning and language model technologies. You will leverage Amazon’s heterogeneous data sources and large-scale computing resources to accelerate advances in the state of art. BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- PhD in engineering, technology, computer science, machine learning, robotics, operations research, statistics, mathematics or equivalent quantitative field, or Master's degree- 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 ...

Applied Scientist, AGI Personalization

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

Applied Scientist II, NGDE Science

The Next Generation Developer Experience (NGDE) Science team is looking for an Applied Scientist who is passionate about building services and tools for developers that leverage artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). You will be part of a team building AI-based services for Amazon Q Developer with the focus on redefining the way developer work. The team works in close collaboration with other AWS AI services such as AWS Bedrock, the AWS IDE Toolkit, and Amazon Sagemaker. If you are excited about working in cloud computing and building new AWS services, then we'd love to talk to you.Key job responsibilitiesAs an Applied Scientist, you are recognized for your expertise, advise team members on a range of machine learning topics, and work closely with software engineers to drive the delivery of end-to-end modeling solutions. Your work focuses on ambiguous problem areas where the business problem or opportunity may not yet be defined. The problems that you take on require scientific breakthroughs.A day in the lifeDiverse 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. This team is part of AWS Utility Computing: Utility Computing (UC) AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations — from foundational services such as Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWS’s services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization, you’ll support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Internet of Things (Iot), Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS, including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services.About the teamThe Amazon Web Services (AWS) Next Gen DevX (NGDE) team is building Amazon Q for Developers to re-imagine all aspects of how builders create applications. We build AI products that are deployed in the IDE, the AWS console, and in web-based tools and services. We provide developers with AI assistants to generate code, features, and entire applications as well as to interact with AWS. We explore new technologies and find creative solutions, produce original research and bring cutting edge innovation to our customers. Curiosity and an explorative mindset can find a place here to impact the life of engineers around the world. If you are excited about this space, this is the team for you.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience- 5+ years of building models for business application experience- Experience in patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language- Experience in any of the following areas: algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, high-performance computing- Experience in any of the following areas: Deep-learning, Generative AI, and Large Language Models ...

Applied Scientist, Brand Intelligence

We are seeking a motivated and talented Applied Scientist to join our team at Amazon Advertising, where we are on a mission to make Amazon the best in class destination for shoppers to discover, engage and build affinity with brands, making shopping beautiful, delightful, and personal. Our team builds the central Brand Understanding foundation for Amazon ads and beyond. We focus on enabling the Amazon brand ads businesses to align the customer's brand shopping intent with the brand's unique value (e.g., intelligent query/shopper-to-brand understanding, brand value/differentiator attribute extraction, and brand profile building). We provide large-scale offline and online Brand Understanding data services, powered by the latest Machine Learning technologies (e.g., Large Language Models, Multi-Modal Deep Neural Networks, Statistical Modeling). We also enable customer-brand engagement enhancement through intelligent UX and efficient ads serving.About Amazon Advertising:Amazon Advertising operates at the intersection of eCommerce and advertising, offering a rich array of digital display advertising solutions with the goal of helping our customers find and discover anything they want to buy. We help advertisers of all types to reach Amazon customers on Amazon.com, across our other owned and operated sites, on other high quality sites across the web, and on millions of mobile devices. We start with the customer and work backwards in everything we do, including advertising. If you’re interested in joining a rapidly growing team working to build a unique, world-class advertising group with a relentless focus on the customer, you’ve come to the right place.Key job responsibilities- Leverage Large Language Models (LLMs) and transformer-based models, and apply machine learning and natural language understanding techniques to improve the shopper and advertiser experience at Amazon.- Perform hands-on data analysis and modeling with large data sets to develop insights.- Run A/B experiments, evaluate the impact of your optimizations and communicate your results to various business stakeholders- Work closely with product managers and software engineers to design experiments and implement end-to-end solutions- Be a member of the Amazon-wide machine learning community, participating in internal and external hackathons and conferences- Help attract and recruit technical talentBASIC QUALIFICATIONS- PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language- Experience implementing algorithms using both toolkits and self-developed code- 3+ years of practical machine learning experience- 1+ years of building models for business application experience ...

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 ...

Manager, Applied Science, Sales AI

Are you interested in shaping the future of Advertising and B2B Sales? We are a growing science and engineering team with an exciting charter and need your passion, innovative thinking, and creativity to help take our products to new heights.Amazon Advertising is one of Amazon's fastest growing and most profitable businesses, responsible for defining and delivering a collection of advertising products that drive discovery and sales. Our products are strategically important to our businesses driving long term growth. We deliver billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks and break fresh ground in product and technical innovations every day!Within the Advertising Sales organization, we are building a central AI/ML team and are seeking top science talent to build new, science-backed services to drive success for our customers. Our goal is to transform the way account teams operate by creating actionable insights and recommendations they can share with their advertising accounts, and ingesting Generative AI throughout their end-to-end workflows to improve their work efficiency.As a part of our team, you will bring deep expertise in quantitative modeling (recommender systems, reinforcement learning, and/or generative artificial intelligence) to build and refine models that can be implemented in production. You will be a thought leader as we chart new courses with our ad sales support technologies, and you have the communication skills necessary to explain complex technical approaches to a variety of stakeholders, leaders and customers. We are seeking a true owner who can provide science leadership, establish a vision and charter for the team, foster a collaborative and innovative team environment, and manage a team of scientists and software engineers to drive long-term success. You can build a team, launch AI models in production, write vision documents and build scalable team mechanisms.Why you will love this opportunity: Amazon has invested 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 ads impressions, millions of clicks daily, and break fresh ground to create world-class products. We are a highly motivated, collaborative, and fun-loving team with an entrepreneurial spirit with a broad mandate to experiment and innovate.Impact and Career Growth: You will invent new experiences and influence customer-facing shopping experiences; this is your opportunity to work within the fastest growing businesses across all of Amazon! Define a long-term scientific vision for our advertising sales business, driven from our customers' needs, translating that direction into specific plans for scientists, engineers and product teams. This role combines scientific leadership, organizational ability, technical strength, product focus, and business understanding.Key job responsibilities- Drive end-to-end applied science projects that have a high degree of ambiguity, scale and complexity- Provide technical / science leadership related to large language models, generative image, Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Reinforcement Learning (RL) .- Research new and innovative Machine Learning / Artificial Intelligence approaches.- Recruit high performing Applied Scientists to the team and provide mentorship.- Establish team mechanisms, including team building, planning, and document reviews.About the teamSales AI is a central science and engineering organization within Amazon Advertising Sales that powers selling motions and account team workflows via state-of-the-art of AI/ML services. Sales AI is investing in a range of sales intelligence models, including the development of advertiser insights, recommendations and Generative AI-powered applications throughout account team workflows.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 3+ years of scientists or machine learning engineers management experience- Knowledge of ML, NLP, Information Retrieval and Analytics- PhD, or Master's degree + 4 years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience- 10+ years of building AI models for business applications ...

Principal Applied Scientist, Reinforcement Learning, Supply Chain Optimization Technologies

Are you seeking an environment where you can drive innovation? Do you want to be at the forefront of applying machine learning to solve real world problems? Do you want to play a key role in the future of Amazon's Stores business? Come and join us!The Supply Chain Optimization Technologies (SCOT) group is seeking a Principal Applied Scientist to join our Reinforcement Learning team. Our research team, which includes Sham Kakade and Dean Foster, has published research in top journals and conferences and has a significant impact on the field. Through the launch of several Deep RL models into production, our work also affects decision making in the real world.Key job responsibilitiesKey job responsibilities include:- Design, implement and evaluate models, agents and software prototypes- Technical leadership for a group of highly motivated and talented scientists- Engage key business stakeholders and scientists to surface opportunities for improvement and identify business requirements. - Work closely with partner teams to develop solutions to ambiguous business problems and integrate novel methodology into our team and business.- Work closely with senior science advisor, collaborate with other scientists and engineers, and be part of Amazon’s vibrant and diverse global science community.- Raise the bar of scientific research by innovating and publishingAbout the teamSupply Chain Optimization Technologies (SCOT) owns Amazon’s global inventory planning systems. We decide what, when, where, and how much we should buy to meet Amazon’s business goals and to make our customers happy. We decide how to place and move inventory within Amazon’s fulfillment network. We do this for hundreds of millions of items and hundreds of product lines worth billions of dollars of world-wide. Venturing beyond traditional operations research methods for sequential decision-making in inventory planning, the Reinforcement Learning team is pioneering the application of reinforcement learning techniques for these applications. The team combines empirical research and real world testing, backed by a robust theoretical foundation. Some research publications include:- Deep Inventory Management [https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.03137, NeurIPS 2022 Workshop Presentation] - Learning an Inventory Control Policy with General Inventory Arrival Dynamics [https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.17168]- Meta-Analysis of Randomized Experiments with Applications to Heavy-Tailed Response Data [https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.07602]- What are the Statistical Limits of Offline RL with Linear Function Approximation? [https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.11895, NeurIPS 2021 Workshop Presentation]- A Study on the Calibration of In-context Learning [https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.04021]We encourage collaboration across teammates and recognizes the need to take chances and try new ideas that may fail. Furthermore, our builder culture means that Scientists and Software Development Engineers work closely together to invent and construct at a massive scale.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- PhD in one of the following disciplines: Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, Applied Math or a related quantitative field- 10+ years of relevant, broad research experience after PhD- Publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals in one of these areas: reinforcement learning, deep learning, and machine learning- Fluency in Python, SQL or similar scripting languages and skilled at Java, C++, or other programing languages.- Strong algorithm development experience- Depth and breadth in state-of-the-art machine learning technologies- Strong prior experience with mentorship and/or management of senior scientists and engineers. ...

Postdoctoral Scientist, Stores Foundational AI

Amazon is looking for talented Postdoctoral Scientists to join our Stores Foundational AI team for a one-year, full-time research position.The Stores Foundational AI team builds foundation models for multiple Amazon entities, such as ASIN, customer, seller and brand. These foundation models are used in downstream applications by various partner teams in Stores. Our team also invests in building foundational large language models, which can power conversational applications as well as machine learning tasks with scarce data (zero/few-shot learning).The postdoc is expected to develop machine learning techniques for Large Language Model (LLM) Alignment. Currently, Alignment techniques for LLMs rely primarily on the annotation of preference between alternative responses followed by policy (LLM) optimization either directly (DPO-style) or after learning one or multiple reward functions (PPO-style). However, the data from such annotation is often noisy and confounded by ambiguity, subjectivity, and multi-dimensionality of preference. The goal of the project is to develop 1) high-quality data annotation procedures with clear instructions, 2) preference models which account for noisiness, ambiguity, subjectivity, and multi-dimensionality of preference annotation, and 3) appropriate algorithms for directly optimizing the policy (LLM) or appropriate loss functions for learning rewards using such preference models.Key job responsibilities• Work closely with a senior science advisor, collaborate with other scientists and engineers, and be part of Amazon’s vibrant and diverse global science community.• Publish your innovation in top-tier academic venues and hone your presentation skills.• Be inspired by challenges and opportunities to invent cutting-edge techniques in your area(s) of expertise. BASIC QUALIFICATIONS• PhD in a relevant field, received within 2 years of starting the program• Proven publication record in Machine Learning, LLM, Optimization, Reinforcement Learning or other related technical fields* Experience in data science and quantitative research* Proficiency in technologies relevant to the subfield ...

Applied Scientist , Customer Engagement Technology

Amazon.com is broadly recognized as a leader in providing exceptional Customer Service globally. At Amazon, we are driven by innovation and customer obsession, which is deeply ingrained in everything we do, especially in the Customer Engagement Technology (CET) department. Leveraging conversational Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technology, we strive to predict and resolve customer issues through self-service and automation solutions.The CET team leads AI and Large Language Models (LLM)-driven customer experience transformation using task-oriented dialogue systems. We develop multi-modal, multi-turn, goal-oriented dialog systems that can handle customer issues at Amazon scale across multiple languages. These systems are designed to adapt to changing company policies and invoke correct Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) to automate solutions to customer problems. Additionally, we enhance associate productivity through response/action recommendation, summarization to capture conversation context succinctly, retrieving precise information from documents to provide useful information to the agent, and machine translation to facilitate smoother conversations when the customer and agent speak different languages.Key focus areas include:- Task-Oriented Dialog Systems: Building reliable, scalable, and adaptive LLM-based agents for understanding intents, determining eligibilities, making API calls, confirming outcomes, and exploring alternatives across hundreds of customer service intents, while adapting to changing policies.- Lifelong Learning: Researching continuous learning approaches for injecting new domain knowledge while retaining the model's foundational abilities and preventing catastrophic forgetting.- Agentic Systems: Developing a modular agentic framework to handle multi domain conversations through appropriate system abstractions.- Complex Multi-turn Instruction Following: Identifying approaches to guarantee compliance with instructions that specify standard operating procedures for handling multi-turn complex scenarios.- Inference-Time Adaptability: Researching inference-time scaling methods and improving in-context learning abilities of custom models to enable real-time adaptability to new features, actions, or bug fixes without solely relying on retraining.- Context Adherence: Exploring methods to ground responses in specific customer attributes, account information, and behavioral data to prevent hallucinations and ensure high-fidelity responses.- Policy Grounding: Investigating techniques to align bot behavior with evolving company policies by grounding on complex, unstructured policy documents, ensuring consistent and compliant actions.- End-to-End Dialog Policy Optimization: Researching alignment approaches to optimize successful dialog completions.- Scalable Evaluations: Developing automated approaches to evaluate the quality of experience, and correctness of agentic resolutions.Key job responsibilities- Research and development of LLM-based chatbots and conversational AI systems for customer service applications.- Design and implement state-of-the-art Natural Language Processing (NLP) and ML models for tasks such as language understanding, dialogue management, and response generation.- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including data scientists, software engineers, and product managers, to integrate LLM-based solutions into Amazon's customer service platforms.- Develop and implement strategies for data collection, annotation, and model training to ensure high-quality and robust performance of the chatbots.- Conduct experiments and evaluations to measure the performance of the developed models and systems, and identify areas for improvement.- Stay up-to-date with the latest advancements in NLP, LLMs, and conversational AI, and explore opportunities to incorporate new techniques and technologies into Amazon's customer service solutions.- Collaborate with internal and external research communities, participate in conferences, and contribute to publications to advance the field.A day in the lifeWe thrive on solving challenging problems to innovate for our customers. By pushing the boundaries of technology, we create unparalleled experiences that enable us to rapidly adapt to a dynamic environment. Our decisions are guided by data, and we collaborate with engineering, science, and product teams to foster an innovative and learning environment.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!Benefits Summary: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) PlanAbout the teamJoin our team of scientists and engineers who develop and deploy LLM-based Conversational AI systems to enhance Amazon's customer service experience and effectiveness. We work on innovative solutions that help customers solve their issues and get their questions answered efficiently, and on associate-facing products that support our customer service associate workforce.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- Master's degree- 2+ years of building machine learning models or developing algorithms for business application experience ...

Applied Scientist, Scanless Tech, Amazon Robotics

Are you inspired by invention? Is problem solving through teamwork in your DNA? Do you like the idea of seeing how your work impacts the bigger picture? Answer yes to any of these and you’ll fit right in here at Amazon Robotics. We’re looking for an Applied Scientist who will research, design, and implement machine learning solutions to unsolved, real world problems at Amazon Robotics. We invent new improvements every day. Amazon Robotics empowers a smarter, faster, more consistent customer experience through automation. Amazon Robotics automates fulfillment center operations using various methods of robotic technology including autonomous mobile robots, sophisticated control software, language perception, power management, computer vision, depth sensing, machine learning, object recognition, and semantic understanding of commands. Amazon Robotics has a dedicated focus on research and development to continuously explore new opportunities to extend its product lines into new areas. The Scanless Tech organization builds products that eliminate the need for explicit scanning in the Amazon Fulfillment Network. We research, design, and implement solutions for automated identification of objects and object movement by removing the need for manual scanning of identifiers, like barcodes. We integrate hardware, software, and machine learning, developing products that are solution-agnostic while enabling easy integration from installation to execution. We push the boundaries of current solutions to solve customer challenges and impact many areas of Amazon’s operations. For our associates, our systems affect user experience by improving safety and ergonomics. For our large fleet or robots, they improve overall throughput and efficiency.Come collaborate with us and develop pioneering applications in a highly exciting and innovative environment where your solutions will impact tens of thousands of users for every minute of their working day! Key job responsibilities* Identifying creative solutions for challenging research problems in computer vision• Developing software solutions to test hypotheses and demonstrate new functionality• Prototyping concepts on robots and other workcells to collect data and measure performance• Writing code and unit tests and integrating code with other software and hardware components• Scientific Writing 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!About the teamThe Scanless Tech teams build products that eliminate the need for explicit scanning in the Amazon Fulfillment Network. We research, design, and implement solutions for automated identification of objects and object movement by removing the need for manual scanning of identifiers, like barcodes. We integrate hardware, software, and machine learning, developing products that are solution-agnostic while enabling easy integration from installation to execution. We push the boundaries of current solutions to solve customer challenges.Our solutions directly impact many areas of Amazon’s operations. For our associates, our systems affect user experience by improving safety and ergonomy. For our large fleet or robots, they improve overall throughput and efficiency.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- At least two years of relevant academic research in state-of-the-art approaches for at least one of the following: computer vision, resource allocation, simulations, optimization, planning, or machine learning ...

Applied Scientist, Alexa International Tech

Alexa International Tech (AIT) team is looking for a passionate, talented, and inventive Applied Scientist to help build industry-leading technology with Large Language Models (LLMs) and multimodal systems, requiring strong deep learning and generative models knowledge. Key job responsibilitiesAs an Applied Scientist with the AIT team, you will work with talented peers to develop novel algorithms and modeling techniques to advance the state of the art with LLMs. Your work will directly impact our international customers in the form of products and services that make use of digital assistance technology. You will leverage Amazon’s heterogeneous data sources, unique but diverse international customer nuances and large-scale computing resources to accelerate advances in voice domain in multi-modal setup. The ideal candidate possesses a solid understanding of machine learning fundamentals and a passion for pushing boundaries in this vast and quickly evolving field. They thrive in fast-paced environments to will tackle complex challenges, and excel at swiftly delivering impactful solutions while iterating based on user feedback. A day in the life· Analyze, understand, and model customer behavior and the customer experience based on large scale data. Especially showing passion towards solving for international customer-centric challenges.· Build novel online & offline evaluation metrics an methodologies for personal digital assistants and customer scenarios, on multi-modal devices.· innovate and deliver deep learning based innovation across life-cycle such as policy-based learning, international customer specific model performance tuning.· Quickly experiment and setup experimentation framework for agile model and data analysis or A/B testing· Contribute through industry first research to drive the innovation forward. 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 II, Generative AI Innovation Center

Machine learning (ML) has been strategic to Amazon from the early years. We are pioneers in areas such as recommendation engines, product search, eCommerce fraud detection, and large-scale optimization of fulfillment center operations.The Generative AI team helps AWS customers accelerate the use of Generative AI to solve business and operational challenges and promote innovation in their organization. As an applied scientist, you are proficient in designing and developing advanced ML models to solve diverse challenges and opportunities. You will be working with terabytes of text, images, and other types of data to solve real-world problems. You'll design and run experiments, research new algorithms, and find new ways of optimizing risk, profitability, and customer experience.We’re looking for talented scientists capable of applying ML algorithms and cutting-edge deep learning (DL) and reinforcement learning approaches to areas such as drug discovery, customer segmentation, fraud prevention, capacity planning, predictive maintenance, pricing optimization, call center analytics, player pose estimation, event detection, and virtual assistant among others.Key job responsibilitiesThe primary responsibilities of this role are to:• Design, develop, and evaluate innovative ML models to solve diverse challenges and opportunities across industries• Interact with customer directly to understand their business problems, and help them with defining and implementing scalable Generative AI solutions to solve them• Work closely with account teams, research scientist teams, and product engineering teams to drive model implementations and new solutionA day in the lifeABOUT AWS: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.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.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- 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- Experience with neural deep learning methods and machine learning ...

Applied Scientist III, Customer Service AI

The Applied Scientist will play a critical role in the research, develop, and implementation of solutions to key challenges in developing conversational AI systems that can understand and communicate with customers in a natural and contextually appropriate manner. This involves tackling complex problems in areas such as multi-turn dialogue management, knowledge grounding, and open-ended generation.Key job responsibilities1. Research and development of LLM-based chatbots and conversational AI systems for customer service applications.2. Design and implement state-of-the-art NLP and ML models for tasks such as language understanding, dialogue management, and response generation.3. Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including data scientists, software engineers, and product managers, to integrate LLM-based solutions into Amazon's customer service platforms.4. Develop and implement strategies for data collection, annotation, and model training to ensure high-quality and robust performance of the chatbots.5. Conduct experiments and evaluations to measure the performance of the developed models and systems, and identify areas for improvement.6. Stay up-to-date with the latest advancements in NLP, LLMs, and conversational AI, and explore opportunities to incorporate new techniques and technologies into Amazon's customer service solutions.7. Collaborate with internal and external research communities, participate in conferences and publications, and contribute to the advancement of the field.A day in the lifeWe thrive on solving challenging problems to innovate for our customers. By pushing the boundaries of technology, we create unparalleled experiences that enable us to rapidly adapt in a dynamic environment. Our decisions are guided by data, and we collaborate with engineering, science, and product teams to foster an innovative learning environment.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!Benefits Summary: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) PlanAbout the teamJoin our team of scientists and engineers who develop and deploy LLM-based Conversational AI systems to enhance Amazon's customer service experience and effectiveness. We work on innovative solutions that help customers solve their issues and get their questions answered efficiently, and associate-facing products that support our customer service associate workforce.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- Master's degree- 2+ years of building machine learning models or developing algorithms for business application experience ...

Senior Applied Scientist, Amazon Devices, Device Science and Data Technology

The Amazon Devices team designs and engineers high-profile consumer electronics, including the best-selling Kindle family of products. We have also produced groundbreaking devices like Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Dash, and Amazon Echo. What will you help us create?The Team: How often have you had an opportunity to be a founding member of a team that is solving a significant problem through innovative technology? Would you like to know more about how we are envisioning the use of machine learning and GenAI to solve these problems? If this sounds intriguing, then we’d like to talk to you about a role on our team that's tackling a set of problems requiring significant innovation and scaling.As a Sr. Applied Scientist, you will design, evangelize, and implement state-of-the-art solutions for never-before-solved problems, helping Amazon Devices to provide great products. This role will be a key member of a Science and Data technology team based in Denver, CO. You will work closely with other scientists, machine learning experts, and engineers to design and run experiments, research new algorithms, and find new ways to improve Amazon Device Services & Software products. You will partner with technology and product leaders to solve business and technology problems using scientific approaches to build new services that surprise and delight our customers. Our scientists work closely with software engineers to put algorithms into practice. They also work on cross-disciplinary efforts with other scientists within Amazon.Key job responsibilities- Define proper output business metrics, and build input models to identify patterns and drivers of the output. - Drive actions at scale using scientific methods and decision-making - Design and develop complex mathematical, statistical, Machine Learning, GenAI models and apply them to define strategic and tactical needs and drive the appropriate business and technical solutions - Design experiments, test hypotheses, and build actionable models - Prototype these models by using modeling languages such as R or in software languages such as Python. - Work with software engineering teams to drive scalable, real-time implementations - Utilizing Amazon systems and tools to effectively work with terabytes of dataBASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 5+ 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

Help AWS Build the Future!Amazon Next Generation Developer Experience (NGDE) Organization is looking for world class scientists and engineers to join its team working on AI4Code, LLM, and natural language processing. This group is entrusted with developing core algorithms/capabilities for Amazon Q Developer. At NGDE's science team you will invent, implement, and deploy state of the art AI algorithms and systems for developers. You will build prototypes and explore conceptually new large scale AI solutions. 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. 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.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience- 3+ years of building models for business application experience- Experience in patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language- Experience in any of the following areas: algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, high-performance computing ...

Member of Technical Staff, AGI Autonomy

The Amazon AGI SF Lab is focused on developing new foundational capabilities for useful AI agents that can take actions in the digital and physical worlds. In other words, we’re enabling practical AI that can actually do things for us and make our customers more productive, empowered, and fulfilled. The lab is designed to empower AI researchers and engineers to make major breakthroughs with speed and focus toward this goal. Our philosophy combines the agility of a startup with the resources of Amazon. By keeping the team lean, we’re able to maximize the amount of compute per person. Each team in the lab has the autonomy to move fast and the commitment to pursue high-risk, high-payoff research.Key job responsibilities- Collaborate across AGI Autonomy to align team goals with the broader Autonomy research program- Identify and prioritize research opportunities to unlock the next set of agent capabilities- Mentor and guide team members to achieve their career goals and objectives- Other management activities, e.g., communicating with stakeholders, structuring work, and growing the teamBASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 5+ years of experience in formal management roles (i.e., with at least 3 direct reports)- Expertise in machine vision, autonomous systems, natural language processing, or related AI/ML field- Track record of successful projects in an applied research context ...