Machine Learning Science

The Alexa Conversational Assistants Services (CAS) org is looking for a Principal Applied Scientist with a background in Natural Language Processing, Machine/Deep Learning, and Large Language Models (LLMs). You will be working with a team of applied and research scientists to enhance existing features and explore new possibilities with LLM empowerment. You will own high visibility programs with broad visibility and impact. You will interact with a cross-functional team of science, product, and engineering leaders.As a Principal Scientist within Alexa, you are a trusted part of the technical leadership. You bring business and industry context to science and technology decisions. You set the standard for scientific excellence and make decisions that affect the way we build and integrate algorithms. You solicit differing views across the organization and are willing to change your mind as you learn more. Your artifacts are exemplary and often used as reference across organization.You are a hands-on scientific leader. Your solutions are exemplary in terms of algorithm design, clarity, model structure, efficiency, and extensibility. You tackle intrinsically hard problems, acquiring expertise as needed. You decompose complex problems into straightforward solutions.You amplify your impact by leading scientific reviews within your organization or at your location. You scrutinize and review experimental design, modeling, verification and other research procedures. You probe assumptions, illuminate pitfalls, and foster shared understanding. You align teams toward coherent strategies. You educate, keeping the scientific community up to date on advanced techniques, state of the art approaches, the latest technologies, and trends. You help managers guide the career growth of other scientists by mentoring and play a significant role in hiring and developing scientists and leads.We’re looking for a passionate, talented, and inventive Principal Scientist to help build industry-leading conversational technologies that customers love. Our mission is to push the envelope in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Natural Language Understanding (NLU), Machine Learning (ML), Dialog Management, Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), and Audio Signal Processing, in order to provide the best-possible experience for our customers. As a Principal Artificial Intelligence Scientist, you will work with talented peers to develop novel algorithms and modeling techniques to advance the state of the art in spoken language understanding and dialog systems. You will leverage Amazon’s heterogeneous data sources and large-scale computing resources to accelerate advances in artificial intelligence. You will mentor Senior scientists, and work in a fast paced team environment. Your work will directly impact our customers in the form of novel products and services that make use of speech and language technology.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).About the teamAlexa is the groundbreaking cloud-based intelligent agent that powers Echo and other devices designed around your voice. Our team is creating the science and technology behind Alexa. We’re working hard, having fun, and making history. Come join our team! You will have an enormous opportunity to impact the customer experience, design, architecture, and implementation of a cutting edge product used every day by people you know.BASIC QUALIFICATIONSPhD with specialization in artificial intelligence, natural language processing, machine learning, or computational cognitive science 10+ years of combined academic and research experience. Functional thought leader, sought after for key tech decisions. Can successfully sell ideas to an executive level decision maker. Mentors and trains the research scientist community on complex technical issues. Experience developing software in traditional programming languages (C++, Java, etc..). Excellent written and spoken communication skills ...

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 ...

The AWS AI Labs team has a world-leading team of researchers and academics, and we are looking for world-class colleagues to join us and make the AI revolution happen. Our team of scientists have developed the algorithms and models that power AWS computer vision services such as Amazon Rekognition and Amazon Textract. As part of the team, we expect that you will develop innovative solutions to hard problems, and publish your findings at peer reviewed conferences and workshops.AWS is the world-leading provider of cloud services, has fostered the creation and growth of countless new businesses, and is a positive force for good. Our customers bring problems which will give Applied Scientists like you endless opportunities to see your research have a positive and immediate impact in the world. You will have the opportunity to partner with technology and business teams to solve real-world problems, have access to virtually endless data and computational resources, and to world-class engineers and developers that can help bring your ideas into the world.Our research themes include, but are not limited to: multimodal models, few-shot learning, unsupervised and semi-supervised methods, active learning and semi-automated data annotation, large scale image and video detection and recognition, face detection and recognition, OCR and scene text recognition, document understanding, 3D scene and layout understanding. For this role, we are looking for a science manager who has experience working in the intersection of vision, language and audio.We are located in Seattle, Pasadena, Palo Alto (USA) and in Haifa and Tel Aviv (Israel).About the teamAbout AWSDiverse ExperiencesAWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying. Why AWS?Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.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.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 3+ years of scientists or machine learning engineers management experience- Knowledge of ML, NLP, Information Retrieval and Analytics- Experience directly managing scientists or machine learning engineers ...

Do you want to create the greatest-possible worldwide impact in Robotics? Amazon has the world's most exciting treasure trove of robotics challenges. At Amazon Robotics we build high-performance, real-time robotic systems that can perceive, learn, and act intelligently alongside humans—at Amazon scale. Amazon Robotics invents and scales AI systems for robotics in fulfillment. Our mission is to enable robots to interact safely, efficiently, and fluently high density real-world fulfillment centers. Our AI solutions enable robots to learn from their own experiences, from each other, and from humans to build intelligence that feeds itself.We hire and develop collaborative subject matter experts in AI with a focus on computer vision, deep learning, semi-supervised and unsupervised learning. We target high-impact algorithmic unlocks in areas such as scene and activity understanding, large scale generative models, closed-loop control, robotic grasping and manipulation—all of which have high-value impact for our current and future fulfillment networks.We are seeking a hands-on, seasoned Applied Scientists who will be deep in code and algorithms; who are technically strong in building scalable vision systems across item understanding, pose estimation, class imbalanced classifiers, identification and segmentation. As a Applied Scientist, you will contribute to the research and development of advanced robotic systems; your work along with other top-notch scientists and engineers will deliver the world's most scalable and robust robotic systems. You will drive ideas to products using paradigms such as deep learning, semi supervised learning and active learning.As a Applied Scientist, you will also help lead and mentor our team of applied scientists and engineers. You will take on challenging customer problems, distill customer requirements, and then deliver solutions that either leverage existing academic and industrial research or utilize your own out-of-the-box but pragmatic thinking. In addition to coming up with novel solutions and prototypes, you will directly contribute to implementation while you lead. A successful candidate has excellent technical depth, scientific vision, project management skills, great communication skills, and a drive to achieve results in a collaborative team environment.You should enjoy the process of solving real-world problems that, quite frankly, haven’t been solved at scale anywhere before. Along the way, we guarantee you’ll get opportunities to be a fearless disruptor, prolific innovator, and a reputed problem solver—someone who truly enables AI and robotics to significantly impact the lives of millions of consumers.Key job responsibilitiesArchitect, design, and implement Machine Learning models for vision systems on robotic platformsOptimize, deploy, and support at scale ML models on the edge. Influence the team's strategy and contribute to long-term vision and roadmap.Work with stakeholders across , science, and operations teams to iterate on design and implementation.Maintain high standards by participating in reviews, designing for fault tolerance and operational excellence, and creating mechanisms for continuous improvement.Prototype and test concepts or features, both through simulation and emulators and with live robotic equipmentWork directly with customers and partners to test prototypes and incorporate feedbackMentor other engineer team members.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- 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 developing and implementing deep learning algorithms, particularly with respect to computer vision algorithms- Experience in patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language ...

Join us in a historic endeavour to make Computer Vision accessible to the world with breakthrough research! The AWS AI Labs: Vision team has a world-leading team of researchers and academics, and we are looking for world-class colleagues to join us and make the AI revolution happen. Our team of scientists develops the algorithms and models that have powered AWS AI/ML services such as Amazon Rekognition, Amazon Textract, Amazon Lookout for Vision and Amazon Bedrock. As part of the team, we expect that you will develop innovative solutions to hard problems, and publish your findings at peer reviewed conferences and workshops.AWS is the world-leading provider of cloud services, has fostered the creation and growth of countless new businesses, and is a positive force for good. Our customers bring problems which will give Applied Scientists like you endless opportunities to see your research have a positive and immediate impact in the world. You will have the opportunity to partner with technology and business teams to solve real-world problems, have access to virtually endless data and computational resources, and to world-class engineers and developers that can help bring your ideas into the world. Our research themes include, but are not limited to: few-shot learning, transfer learning, unsupervised / semi-supervised / active learning, vision language and multi-modal modeling, generative modeling, large-scale image and video detection and recognition, face detection and recognition, 3D scene and layout understanding, and OCR and scene text recognition, document understanding.We are hiring for all our locations in the USA (Seattle, Pasadena, Bay Area).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.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.Inclusive Team CultureHere at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.Mentorship & Career GrowthWe’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional. Work/Life BalanceWe value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud. Hybrid WorkWe value innovation and recognize this sometimes requires uninterrupted time to focus on a build. We also value in-person collaboration and time spent face-to-face. Our team affords employees options to work in the office every day or in a flexible, hybrid work model near one of our U.S. Amazon offices.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience- 3+ years of building models for business application experience- Experience in patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language- Experience in any of the following areas: algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, high-performance computingPREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS- Experience building machine learning models or developing algorithms for business application- Experience in multi-modal learning over image/video/language; Experience in visual recognition and object detection.- Experience in model efficiency optimization and distributed parallel machine learning systems- Experience building complex software systems, especially involving deep learning, machine learning and computer vision, that have been successfully delivered to customers- Experience with large scale machine learning systems such as profiling and debugging and understanding of system performance and scalabilityBASIC 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 ...

Amazon's Weblab team enables experimentation at massive scale to help Amazon build better products for customers. A/B testing is in Amazon's DNA and we're at the core of how Amazon innovates on behalf of customers. We are seeking a skilled and experienced Applied Scientist to help us build the future of experimentation systems at Amazon.About you:You have an entrepreneurial spirit and want to make a big impact on Amazon and its customers. You enjoy enabling intelligent decisions in the face of real-world, noisy data, and have a bias for delivering simple solutions to complex problems. You're a scientist looking for a career where you'll be able to build, to deliver, and to impress. You're a thought leader and you demonstrate this by delivering solutions, not just by having ideas. You challenge yourself and others to come up with better solutions. You develop strong working relationships and thrive in a collaborative and friendly team environment. About us together:We're going to help Amazon innovate faster and smarter by designing and delivering the next generation of data analysis tools and visualizations. Along the way, we're going to face seemingly insurmountable challenges. We're going to argue about how to solve them, and we'll work together to find a solution that is better than each of the proposals we came in with. We'll make complex decisions, but we'll all understand why. We'll be the dream team.We have decades of combined experience on the team in many areas of data science so it's a great environment in which to learn and grow. Many of us have university teaching experience and we're happy to teach. But, we're also like children playing at the edge of a vast unexplored territory; we have a lot to learn and we are all exploring together with a sense of awe and humility.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience- 3+ years of building models for business application experience- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language- Experience in any of the following areas: algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, high-performance computing ...

The Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) team is looking for a passionate, talented, and inventive Applied Scientist with a strong deep learning background, to build industry-leading Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) technology with Large Language Models (LLMs) and multimodal systems.Key job responsibilitiesAs a Applied Scientist with the AGI team, you will work with talented peers to lead the development of novel algorithms and modeling techniques, to advance the state of the art with LLMs. Your work will directly impact our customers in the form of products and services that make use of speech and language technology. You will leverage Amazon’s heterogeneous data sources and large-scale computing resources to accelerate advances in spoken language understanding.About the teamThe AGI team has a mission to push the envelope in GenAI with LLMs and multimodal systems, in order to provide the best-possible experience for our customers.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience- 1+ years of building models for business application experience- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language- Experience with generative deep learning models applicable to the creation of synthetic humans like CNNs, GANs, VAEs and NF ...

At OpsTech Solutions (OTS), we are a technology centric services organization that designs, builds, and sustains the invisible, high-quality network, compute infrastructure and device scaffolding that empowers and protects Amazon’s global Operations. The OTS DataTech team drives enterprise data strategy and support across OTS. Our charter encompasses OTS-wide efforts, including Data as a Product (DaaP), enterprise data infrastructure, AI/ML capability, and supporting specific business-critical programs, fueling innovation and automation for OTS.We are looking for a passionate, talented, and innovative Applied Scientist with a background in developing and implementing state-of-the-art machine learning solutions within the realms of supervised and unsupervised learning, Generative AI (GenAI), and optimization. Key job responsibilitiesIn this role, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the vision, roadmap, design, development, and implementation of science based solutions from beginning to end. - You will contribute to building and maintaining an MLOps Platform that will support end-to-end scientific operations for a wide range of AI/ML use cases. You will be responsible for the seamless integration of scientific products with existing systems, ultimately leading to increased operational efficiency and productivity across OTS. - You will also have the opportunity to leverage our foundational GenAI platform to help OTS customers build GenAI applications for their use cases.- You will be closely partnering with a cross-functional team of stakeholders including with Applied Scientists, Data Scientists, Machine Learning Engineers, Data Engineers, Product Managers, and Technical Program Managers.Come join OTS DataTech as we continue to innovate and pioneer the AI/ML space within OTS!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: - 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 apply!BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- MS or PhD in quantitative field (CS, CE, ML preferred) or equivalent relevant work Strong background in machine learning, including supervised and unsupervised learning algorithms.- Experience developing, building and implementing complex software systems, especially involving ML, that have been successfully delivered to customers.- Knowledge of Generative AI and its applications.- Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Java, or C++.- Strong communication skills, both written and verbal. ...

The Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) team is looking for a passionate, talented, and inventive Applied Science Manager with a strong deep learning background, to lead the development of industry-leading technology with multimodal systems.Key job responsibilitiesAs an Applied Science Manager 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- 5+ years of scientists or machine learning engineers management experience- Experience building machine learning models or developing algorithms for business application- PhD, or Master's degree and 5+ years of applied research experience ...

Amazon's Pricing & Promotions Science is seeking a driven Principal Applied Scientist to harness planet scale multi-modal datasets, and navigate a continuously evolving competitor landscape, in order to build and scale an advanced self-learning scientific price estimation and product understanding system, regularly generating fresh customer-relevant prices on billions of Amazon and Third Party Seller products worldwide.We are looking for a talented, organized, and customer-focused technical leader to join our Product Intelligence science group, with a charter to derive deep neural product relationships, quantify substitution and complementarity effects, and publish trust-preserving probabilistic price ranges on all products listed on Amazon.This role requires an individual with excellent scientific modeling and system design skills, outstanding business acumen, and an entrepreneurial spirit. We are looking for an experienced leader who is a self-starter comfortable with ambiguity, demonstrates strong attention to detail, and has the ability to work in a fast-paced and ever-changing environment.Key job responsibilities- Develop the team. Mentor a highly talented group of applied machine learning scientists & researchers. - See the big picture. Shape long term vision for Amazon's science-based competitive, perception-preserving pricing techniques- Build strong collaborations. Partner with product, engineering, and science teams within Pricing & Promotions to deploy machine learning price estimation and error correction solutions at Amazon scale- Stay informed. Establish mechanisms to stay up to date on latest scientific advancements in machine learning, neural networks, natural language processing, probabilistic forecasting, and multi-objective optimization techniques. Identify opportunities to apply them to relevant Pricing & Promotions business problems- Keep innovating for our customers. Foster an environment that promotes rapid experimentation, continuous learning, and incremental value delivery.- Deliver Impact. Develop, Deploy, and Scale Amazon's next generation foundational price estimation and understanding systemAbout the teamWithin Pricing & Promotions Science, the Product Intelligence team leverages planet scale multi-modal data on billions of Amazon and external competitor products to build advanced machine learning models for product similarity, substitutability, error detection & correction, and probabilistic price estimation. We preserve long term customer trust by ensuring Amazon's prices are always competitive and error freeBASIC QUALIFICATIONS- Ph.D. or Master's degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Financial Modeling, or related field.- 10+ years of broad AI/ML research experience on large-scale industry problems in pricing, time series, forecasting, trading, recommendation, or natural language domains- 5+ years of experience technical leadership of applied science teams- 5+ years of experience with AWS or Amazon ML tech stack and tooling- Expertise in deep learning methods- A track record of balancing project delivery with longer term research, demonstrated via publications, or contributions to the open source community.- Proficiency in programming languages such as Python and frameworks like TensorFlow, PyTorch- Proven written and verbal technical communication with the ability to present complex topics clearly to audiences with varying levels of technical familiarity ...

At AWS, we build and operate AI services responsibly, driving measurable success along multiple Responsible AI dimensions, including safety, fairness, privacy, security, robustness, explainability, and transparency.As a Principal Applied Scientist on this team, you will contribute to:• Understanding in depth the technical and scientific issues related to safety, fairness, privacy, security, robustness, explainability, transparency, and other issues, in both "classical" and generative AI.• Developing new solutions and science best practices in Responsible AI.• Developing our research and innovation agenda.• Defining the strategies, priorities and metrics for technical progress in Responsible AI.• Building and developing the AWS team.• Driving adoption of new science and best practices among service teamsBASIC QUALIFICATIONS• Understanding in depth the technical and scientific issues related to safety, fairness, privacy, security, robustness, explainability, transparency, and other issues, in both "classical" and generative AI.• Developing new solutions and science best practices in Responsible AI.• Developing our research and innovation agenda.• Defining the strategies, priorities and metrics for technical progress in Responsible AI.• Building and developing the AWS team.• Driving adoption of new science and best practices among service teams. ...

The Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) Information team is looking for a passionate, and talented Senior Applied Scientist with a strong experience in cutting-edge LLM technologies. In this role, you will innovate in the fastest-moving fields of current AI research, in particular in how to integrate a broad range of structured and unstructured information into AI systems (e.g. with RAG techniques), and you will get to immediately apply your results in highly visible Amazon products.If you are deeply familiar with LLMs, natural language processing, and machine learning and have experience working in high-performing research teams, this may be the right opportunity for you. Our fast-paced environment requires a high degree of independence in making decisions and driving ambitious research agendas all the way to production. You will work with other science and engineering teams as well as business stakeholders to maximize the velocity and impact of your contributions.Key job responsibilities- Leverage Amazon’s heterogeneous data sources and large-scale computing resources to accelerate advances in generative artificial intelligence (GenAI).- Work with talented peers to lead the development of novel algorithms and modeling techniques to advance the state of the art with LLMs.- Collaborate with other science and engineering teams as well as business stakeholders to maximize the velocity and impact of your contributions. About the teamIt's an exciting time to be a leader in AI research. In Amazon's AGI Information team, you can make your mark by improving information-driven experiences of Amazon customers worldwide. Your work will directly impact our customers in the form of products and services that make use of language and multimodal technology!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 ...

The Ads Measurement Science team in the Measurement, Ad Tech, and Data Science (MADS) team of Amazon Ads serves a centralized role developing solutions for a multitude of performance measurement products. We create solutions which measure the comprehensive impact of their ad spend, including sales impacts both online and offline and across timescales, and provide actionable insights that enable our advertisers to optimize their media portfolios. We leverage a host of scientific technologies to accomplish this mission, including Generative AI, classical ML, Causal Inference, Natural Language Processing, and Computer Vision.We are hiring an Economist on the team to develop the next generation of incrementality measurement products, capturing the effect of advertising in driving sales as well as the effects of measurement tools on advertiser engagement with Amazon. As an Economist on the team, you will lead the design, implementation, and validation of large-scale causal inference methodologies to capture these properties. You will communicate your results with science and business leaders, and partner with other scientists and engineers to carry solutions into production.Key job responsibilitiesLeverage deep expertise in causal inference to develop robust, causally grounded ads measurement solutionsDisambiguate problems to propose clear evaluation frameworks and success criteriaWork autonomously and write high quality technical documentsPartner closely with other scientists to deliver large, multi-faceted technical projectsShare and publish works with the broader scientific community through meetings and conferencesCommunicate clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences and leadersContribute new ideas that shape the direction of the team's workMentor more junior scientists and participate in the hiring processBASIC QUALIFICATIONS- PhD in economics or equivalent- Experience in data mining (SQL, ETL, data warehouse, etc.) and using databases in a business environment with large-scale, complex datasets- Experience in implementing modern machine-learning methods (e.g., boosted regression trees, random forests, neural networks)- Deep expertise in causal inference, with articles published in peer-reviewed econometrics journals.- Proficiency in Python or a related programming language. ...

We’re working to improve shopping on Amazon using the conversational capabilities of large language models, and are searching for pioneers who are passionate about technology, innovation, and customer experience, and are ready to make a lasting impact on the industry. You'll be working with talented scientists, engineers, and technical program managers (TPM) to innovate on behalf of our customers. If you're fired up about being part of a dynamic, driven team, then this is your moment to join us on this exciting journey!Key job responsibilitiesWe seek strong Applied Scientists with domain expertise in machine learning and deep learning, transformers, generative models, large language models, computer vision and multimodal models. You will devise innovative solutions at scale, pushing the technological and science boundaries. You will guide the design, modeling, and architectural choices of state-of-the-art large language models and multimodal models. You will devise and implement new algorithms and new learning strategies and paradigms. You will be technically hands-on and drive the execution from ideation to productionization. You will work in collaborative environment with other technical and business leaders, to innovate on behalf of the customer.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 3+ years of building models for business application experience- PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience- Experience in patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language- Experience in any of the following areas: algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, high-performance computing ...

About Amazon Advertising:Amazon Advertising operates at the intersection of eCommerce and advertising, offering a rich array of digital display advertising solutions with the goal of helping our customers find and discover anything they want to buy. We help advertisers of all types to reach Amazon customers on Amazon.com, across our other owned and operated sites, on other high quality sites across the web, and on millions of mobile devices. We start with the customer and work backwards in everything we do, including advertising. If you’re interested in joining a rapidly growing team working to build a unique, world-class advertising group with a relentless focus on the customer, you’ve come to the right place.About our team:Our team, CreativeX optimizations, is responsible for tailoring the visual experience of ads to each context in real time. To accomplish this, we are investing in latent-diffusion models, large language models (LLM), reinforced learning (RL), Computer Vision, and related methods.Key job responsibilitiesWe are looking for talented Applied Scientists who are adept at a variety of skills, especially with reinforcement learning and recommendations, and familiarity with LLMs, latent diffusion, or related foundational models that will accelerate our plans to dynamically optimize ad creatives on behalf of advertisers. Every member of the team is expected to build customer (advertiser) facing features, contribute to the collaborative spirit within the team, publish, patent, and bring cutting edge research to raise the bar within the team.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 ...

Take Earth's most customer-centric company. Mix in hundreds of millions of shoppers spending tens of billions of dollars annually, an exciting opportunity to build next-generation shopping experiences, Amazon’s tremendous computational resources, and our extensive e-Commerce experience. What do you get? The most exciting position in the industry.About our organization: Our team is part of Amazon’s Personalization organization, a high-performing group that leverages Amazon’s expertise in machine learning, big data, distributed systems, and user experience design to deliver the best shopping experiences for our customers. We run global experiments and our work has revolutionized e-commerce with features such as "Keep shopping for", "Tap to explore", “Customers who bought this item also bought”, and “Frequently bought together” among others. Amazon’s internal surveys regularly recognize us as one of the best engineering organizations to work for in the company, with visible high-impact work, low operational load, respectful work-life balance, and continual opportunity to learn and grow.You will play a critical role in ideation for the team. We are building the next generation ML systems that powers the biggest shopping engine on earth, and we hope you will join us!Key job responsibilitiesAs an Applied Scientist on the team you will be working on cutting edge ways to help customers find the right products and content on their shopping journey. Our goal is to help customers achieve their objective seamlessly while shopping on Amazon.We are investing in multiple fronts including but not limited to GenerativeAI, LLMs, transformers, sequence models, reinforcement learning, MABs. This is an opportunity to come in on Day0 and influence the science roadmap of one of the most interesting problem spaces at Amazon - understanding the Amazon customer to build deeply personalized and adaptive shopping experiences. We will be working on applying cutting edge science and research into production to elevate the customer experience. You will be part of a multidisciplinary team, working on one of the largest scale machine learning systems in the company. You will hone your skills in areas such as deep learning and reinforcement learning while building scalable industrial systems. As a member of a highly leveraged team of talented engineers and ML scientists, you will have a unique opportunity to help build infrastructure that accesses petabytes of data to produce and deliver models that deliver state of the art customer experiences.About the teamOur mission is to delight every Amazon customer with a consistent and adaptive personalized shopping experience. We achieve our mission through investments in large scale machine learning, distributed systems and user experience with the purpose of delivering the future of shopping on Amazon. We are seeking an Applied Scientist to work on step function science improvements to help achieve SOTA results and to help build new Personalization experiences for Amazon customers.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 3+ years of building models for business application experience- PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language- Experience in any of the following areas: algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, high-performance computing ...

Do you want to be part of a team that's revolutionizing Amazon's fulfillment and packaging technology? Can you commit to optimizing systems that process tens-of-millions of customer packages daily with the lowest cost to serve and a defect-free customer experience? Do you have a passion for solving complex science challenges and building a sustainable e-commerce experience?Your statistical and machine learning skills can help make that a reality on the Mechatronics and Sustainable Packaging team. We are seeking a Principal Applied Scientist who will join a team of experts in the field of Statistics, Operational Research, Machine Learning (ML), Computer Vision and Generative AI to work together to break new ground in the world of automated packaging solutions. You'll work in a collaborative environment where you can pursue ambitious research with many peta-bytes of data, work on problems that haven’t been solved before, quickly implement and deploy your algorithmic ideas at scale, understand whether they succeed via statistically relevant experiments across millions of customers, and publish your research. You'll see the work you do directly improve the packaging experience of Amazon customers in the fulfillment technology space. If you are interested in robotics, computer vision, machine learning, statistics, big data, and building scalable solutions, this role is for you.The successful candidate will have a PhD in Computer Science, Statistics, or Engineering with a strong focus on data analysis, machine learning, generative AI or a related field, and 10+ years of practical experience solving complex problems in computer vision, anomaly detection, robotics. or multi-modal classification systems. Manufacturing, packaging and/or logistic experience is a plus, but not a requirementKey job responsibilities- Advance exploratory research projects in machine learning, statistics and related fields to create defect-free packaging customer experiences- Analyze large amounts of Amazon shipments to discover patterns, find opportunities, and develop highly innovative, scalable algorithms to seize these opportunities- Validate new or improved models via statistically relevant experiments across millions of customers- Work closely with software engineering teams to build scalable prototypes for testing, and integrate successful models and algorithms in production systems at very large scaleBASIC QUALIFICATIONS-Ph.D. degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Machine Learning, or a related field with publications in refereed academic conferences and journals-10+ years of experience of solving difficult machine learning, optimization, or statistical business problems-Experience programming in Python, Java, C++ or a related language-Proven track in leading, mentoring, and growing teams of scientists -Demonstrated ability to serve as a technical lead -Excellent writing skills for presenting business cases and scientific models with rigorous analyses that support results/conclusions to influence important decisions. -Strong fundamentals in problem solving, algorithm design and complexity analysis ...

Amazon Music is an immersive audio entertainment service that deepens connections between fans, artists, and creators. From personalized music playlists to exclusive podcasts, concert livestreams to artist merch, Amazon Music is innovating at some of the most exciting intersections of music and culture. We offer experiences that serve all listeners with our different tiers of service: Prime members get access to all the music in shuffle mode, and top ad-free podcasts, included with their membership; customers can upgrade to Amazon Music Unlimited for unlimited, on-demand access to 100 million songs, including millions in HD, Ultra HD, and spatial audio; and anyone can listen for free by downloading the Amazon Music app or via Alexa-enabled devices. Join us for the opportunity to influence how Amazon Music engages fans, artists, and creators on a global scale. Learn more at https://www.amazon.com/music.The Data, Insights, Science and Optimization, Consumer Product and Tech (DISCO CPT) team is looking for a Data Scientist to join a team of Data Scientists, Business Intelligence Engineers and Data Engineers who analyze big data, provide analytics and insights as well as build models and algorithms that power the Music product experiences. DISCO CPT team focuses on accelerating Amazon Music customer growth by empowering Product teams to make sound, customer-centric decisions through data and insights. We build data pipelines, self-service analytics, insights and predictive models enabling acquisition, engagement and retention at scale with personalized customer touchpoints. In this role, you will set the science vision and direction for the team and collaborate with internal stakeholders across product, science and finance teams to scale and advance our science offerings. The ideal candidate must be willing to effectively lead large scale science solutions, prioritize across multiple stakeholders and projects and be ready to jump into a fast-paced, dynamic and fun environment.Key job responsibilitiesKey job responsibilities• Lead research and development of models and science products powering personalized recommendations• Partner with Product leaders at Amazon Music to develop science-driven business strategy• Partner with science, marketing and product teams across Amazon entertainment and subscription businesses• Educate and evangelize across internal teams on analytics, insights and measurement by writing whitepapers and knowledge documentation and delivering learning sessions.• Lead DISCO CPT science practice and provide coaching to a distributed team of scientists* Develop models to determine drivers of key performance metrics like MAU and HPC and automate the process of deep diving into variances in these metrics**Experimentation and A/B Testing:*** Collaborate with product and engineering teams to design rigorous experiments to evaluate the impact of new features or algorithms (e.g., the Playlist Song Recommendation experiments).* Analyze the results of these experiments, identify learning, and provide recommendations to optimize the solutions* Partner with Sr. Data Scientists to analyze and propose key experimentation success and guardrail metrics for business * Evangelize the use of experimentation and advanced analytics science across the organizationBASIC QUALIFICATIONS- Bachelor's degree- 3+ years of data querying languages (e.g. SQL), scripting languages (e.g. Python) or statistical/mathematical software (e.g. R, SAS, Matlab, etc.) experience- 3+ years of machine learning/statistical modeling data analysis tools and techniques, and parameters that affect their performance experience- 2+ years of data scientist experience- Experience applying theoretical models in an applied environment ...

The Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) team is looking for a passionate, talented, and innovative principal applied scientist with a strong background in deep learning, to help build industry-leading technology with Large Language Models (LLMs) and multimodal systems.Key job responsibilitiesAs a Principal Applied Scientist within the AGI team, you will work with world-class scientists and engineers to develop novel data, modeling and engineering solutions to support the responsible AI initiatives at AGI. Your work will directly impact our customers in the form of products and services that make use of AI technology. You will leverage Amazon’s heterogeneous data sources and large-scale computing resources to accelerate advances in AGI in order to provide the best-possible experience for our customers.About the teamOur team has a mission to push the envelope of AGI, in order to provide the best-possible experience for our customers.BASIC QUALIFICATIONSPhD with specialization in artificial intelligence, natural language processing, machine learning, with 10+ years of combined academic and research experience. Strong publication record in top-tier journals and 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. Experience developing software in traditional programming languages (C++, Java, etc..). Excellent written and spoken communication skills ...

AWS Support is looking for a high caliber Applied Scientist to build AI/GenAI experiences and foundations for Kumo Intelligent Tooling — the organization that owns products and services used by 10,000+ AWS Support staff to help 40,000+ unique monthly AWS customers, and is responsible for AWS Support’s strategic initiative to transform its business and delivery model through GenAI.We are looking for a Principal Scientist to join us and spearhead the AI revolution through intelligent solutions that assist customers and Support staff to troubleshoot and resolve technical issues. You are a hands-on contributor and will apply your knowledge to propose solutions, create software prototypes, and productize prototypes into production systems using modern software development tools and methodologies. In addition, you will support and scale your solutions to meet ever-growing customer needs use cases. You have strong verbal and written communication skills, are self-driven and deliver high quality results in a fast-paced environment.You will play a pivotal role in shaping the definition, vision, design, roadmap and development of solutions from beginning to end for hard, previously unsolved problems.Key job responsibilities- Lead and conduct advanced research in Large Language Models (LLMs), GenAI, and Deep Learning, with a focus on developing novel algorithms, architectures, and methodologies for technical support.- Stay up-to-date with the latest advancements in AI, LLMs, and GenAI, and identify opportunities to leverage cutting-edge technologies to deliver new Support offerings and capabilities to AWS customers.- Lead by example, demonstrating technical excellence that other scientists aspire to follow, fostering a culture of innovation and knowledge sharing, and taking time to mentor and develop team members- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including scientists, engineers, and product managers, to translate research findings into practical applications.- Partner across AWS AI/GenAI service teams to influence and drive investment prioritization and product direction.- Evangelize our AI/GenAI innovations, results, and impact to customers, partners, and AWS senior leaders.About the teamKumo is the global product and engineering organization for AWS Support, a multi-billion $ business. Our mission is to empower innovators to get the most out of cloud services. We build technology that reimagines how people and automation combine to solve problems, remove risks, build with excellence, and drive business impact. We own critical cloud services used by all AWS customers to build, optimize, and operate at scale, including AWS Health, Trusted Advisor, Well-Architected, re:Post, Support Center, and AWS Managed Services. We also own services that enable AWS support teams to provide mission-critical, customer-obsessed support to our customers, including Command Center (the console platform for 14,000 frontline staff and technical account managers), Kumo Case Management (the contact center platform for technical support), Tool Contribution (the platform for support staff to build and reuse troubleshooting tools), and Business Case Authorization (the service for controlling access to customer metadata based on business justifications). AWS Kumo is a dynamic, agile, and collaborative team of individuals with diverse backgrounds, located around the globe with larger teams in the U.S., Canada, and South Africa.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- Graduate degree (MS or PhD) in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Computational Linguistics, or a related field, with a strong focus on Natural Language Processing, Large Language Models, and Generative AI.- 7+ years of experience in AI and Machine Learning in industry.- Proven experience with a track record of thought leadership and contributions that have advanced business and customer results through AI. - Strong record of delivery in industry and ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment. - Excellent written and verbal communication skills. ...