PR Manager, Retail, CPG & Industries, AWS Communications

Since 2006, AWS has changed the way that companies acquire and use technology by providing a highly-scalable, secure, cost-effective, and flexible technology platform in the cloud. AWS is growing rapidly in the U.S. and around the world with customers ranging from startups to Fortune 500 corporations.AWS Communications is looking for an experienced, versatile PR professional to join its Customer & Industries Comms team. We are seeking an exceptional candidate who will drive high-impact, integrated media relations campaigns that showcase how customers and Amazon are innovating with AWS to create new value for their customers, employees, and overall operations. A core focus of this job will be publicizing the stories of how our retail and consumer packaged goods (CPG) customers rely on AWS to power their businesses with AI, analytics, and other cloud services. AWS supports many of the world’s leading retail and CPG companies, such as Niemen-Marcus, Coca-Cola, Lululemon, Nike, Petco and, of course, Amazon.com. As we sometimes say, “AWS was born from retail, and built for retailers.” Key job responsibilities- Creating and executing proactive, creative, and integrated PR campaigns that align with a pioneering technology business- Developing media strategies that align resources and create a cadence of press opportunities that elevate the AWS story with reporters- Managing complex, fast-moving, and unexpected communications challenges with high judgment and professionalism- Managing relationships with reporters and influencers across business, technology, and the industries- Developing stories with customers and partners about their journey to the cloud and use of AWS services, including AI/ML, data analytics, and industry-specific solutions.- Cultivating and maximizing relationships with customers, including business leaders, technologists, and PR teams- Crafting compelling story ideas, content, and messaging- Leading media programs for AWS-owned and industry/customer/partner events - Managing PR agenciesA day in the lifeYou will use your understanding of the intersection of technology and retail/consumer packaged goods to execute high-impact and creative PR plans. You will work across multiple teams, sometimes with competing stakeholders, to produce a steady cadence of coverage, influence conversations, press engagement, and awareness of cloud computing’s transformational impact across industries. In this role, you will have an opportunity to support creative programs that are worthy of a company that continues to pioneer the cloud.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 7+ years of recent professional communications or public relations experience- Bachelor's degree in communications, public relations, or a related field- Experience working with high-level executives at large technology companies- Track record in communications or PR for high-profile enterprise software/systems companies ...

PR Manager, Seller Experience, Selling Partner Services PR

The Amazon Communications team is seeking a driven, detail-oriented, and savvy PR/Communications professional for the role of Public Relations Manager, Seller Experience. The person who fills this role will be responsible for both proactive and reactive PR activities to support the operations offerings within the Selling Partner Services business, such as Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA), Supply Chain by Amazon, and more, that support the more than two million sellers who sell in Amazon’s store. This person will work closely with business partners to provide PR counsel and guidance, drive PR strategy and execution for key business announcements, work in close collaboration with senior business leaders, and drive messaging and narrative development. The role will also support issues management, helping to manage media escalations while looking around corners to plan ahead for potential issues.This role can be located in Seattle, WA or the Washington, D.C. area.The successful candidate will be a self-starter who can clearly formulate and communicate PR recommendations and plans to both peers and executives, drive collaborative decisions, build relationships internally and externally, and deliver results. He/she will also be comfortable providing counsel and guidance to a wide variety of counterparts crossing a number of disciplines, and will be an expert in clearly communicating complex programs. Additionally, this role will consistently work with a range of media contacts across ecommerce trade and national business publications. The ideal candidate will have strong PR experience, a track record of successfully managing proactive announcements with coverage results, and media relations expertise in both pitching proactive stories on a national scale and managing issues and reactive storylines. Key job responsibilities• Lead PR strategy and programs related to seller operations and logistics • Provide counsel to executives and cross-functional teams on PR approaches and messaging • Manage and guide proactive PR announcements, launches, and narratives • Develop and manage relationships with a range of top-tier media contacts • Write and evolve messaging and talking points in a thoughtful and strategic way • Build, guide, and execute PR plans, including communicating plans internally and securing leadership approvals • Successfully manage complex, fast-moving and unexpected communications challenges, both proactively and reactively • Help manage a third-party agency to support PR activities • Willingness to represent Amazon as a spokespersonBASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 7+ years of recent professional communications or public relations experience- Bachelor's degree ...

PR Specialist, Amazon Health Services Communications

Amazon is seeking a smart, creative, and driven PR Specialist to join the Amazon Health Services communications team. In this role, you will work on product launches, storytelling initiatives, and momentum PR programs.You will have experience planning and executing consumer, business or trade-specific campaigns that reach media, developing impactful launch strategies for products or services, and building effective working relationships with media and industry thought leaders. The successful candidate will be a strong writer, have exceptional attention to detail, demonstrate bias for action, and be able to work collaboratively across internal PR and external agency partners.This role is based out of the Seattle, WA office location.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 5+ years of recent professional communications or public relations experience- Bachelor's degree ...

PR Specialist, Seller Experience , Selling Partner Services PR

The Amazon Public Relations team is seeking a driven, detail-oriented, and savvy PR professional for the role of Public Relations Specialist, Seller Experience. The person who fills this role will be responsible for proactive PR activities and storytelling around the many tools and services Amazon offers independent sellers to help them grow their business and thrive selling in Amazon’s store. This person will work with numerous stakeholders within the Selling Partner Services business to mine for new story angles, identify data and insights to support seller-focused narratives, and drive communications programs and announcements for launches of new tools and services, with a particular focus on AI innovation and support for small businesses. This person will work closely with business partners to provide PR counsel and guidance, drive PR strategy for key business announcements, work in close collaboration with business leaders, and drive messaging and narrative development. The role will also support issues management related to seller experience narratives as needed, helping to manage media escalations while looking around corners to plan ahead for potential issues.This role can be located in Seattle, WA or the Washington, D.C. area.The successful candidate will be a self-starter who can clearly formulate and communicate PR recommendations and plans to both peers and executives, drive collaborative decisions, build relationships internally and externally, and deliver results. He/she will also be comfortable providing counsel and guidance to a wide variety of counterparts crossing a number of disciplines, and will be an expert in clearly communicating complex programs. Additionally, this role will consistently work with a range of media contacts across ecommerce trade and national business publications, and must have strong media relations chops. The ideal candidate will have strong B2B PR experience, a track record of successfully managing proactive announcements with coverage results, and media relations expertise in both pitching proactive stories on a national scale and managing issues and reactive storylines. Key job responsibilities• Lead PR strategy and programs related to the many ways we support seller success• Provide counsel to executives and cross-functional teams on PR approaches and messaging • Manage and guide proactive PR announcements, launches, and narratives • Develop and manage relationships with a range of top-tier media contacts • Write and evolve messaging and talking points in a thoughtful and strategic way • Build, guide, and execute PR plans, including communicating plans internally and securing leadership approvals • Successfully manage complex, fast-moving and unexpected communications challenges, both proactively and reactively • Proactively seek out opportunities to create news moments, and pull together strategic recommendations • Help manage a third-party agency to support PR activities • Willingness to represent Amazon as a spokespersonBASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 5+ years of recent professional communications or public relations experience- Bachelor's degree in communications, public relations, or a related field ...

Principal Applied Scientist

At Amazon, we believe that scientific innovation is essential to being the most customer-centric company in the world. Our scientists' ability to have an impact at scale allows us to attract some of the brightest minds in machine learning, artificial intelligence and related fields.Amazon scientists employ the company's working backwards method to identify problems to solve on behalf of customers in research areas ranging from machine learning to operations, GenAI, robotics, quantum computing, computer vision, economics, search, sustainability and more.Learn more about Amazon Science here: https://www.amazon.science/We are hiring across multiple businesses and in many locations across the US. Apply here to learn more about open roles that could be a compelling fit for your background. 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).BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- PhD in one of the following disciplines: Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, Applied Math or a related quantitative field- 8+ 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- 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. ...

Principal Applied Scientist, Amazon

Join an innovative team of scientists and engineers who use machine learning and statistical techniques to create state-of-the-art solutions for providing better value to Amazon's customers. Key job responsibilities“Amazon Science gives you insight into the company’s approach to customer-obsessed scientific innovation. Amazon fundamentally believes that scientific innovation is essential to being the most customer-centric company in the world. It’s the company’s ability to have an impact at scale that allows us to attract some of the brightest minds in artificial intelligence and related fields. Our scientists continue to publish, teach, and engage with the academic community, in addition to utilizing our working backwards method to enrich the way we live and work.”Please visit https://www.amazon.science for more information Do you want to join an innovative team of scientists and engineers who use machine learning and statistical techniques to create state-of-the-art solutions for providing better value to Amazon's customers? Do you want to build advanced algorithmic systems that help optimize millions of transactions every day? Are you excited by the prospect of analyzing and modeling terabytes of data to solve real world problems? Do you like to own end-to-end business problems/metrics and directly impact the profitability of the company? Do you like to innovate and simplify? If yes, then you may be a great fit to join the Machine Learning team for our International Consumer Businesses. The team builds the next generation of Machine Learning solutions for a wide spectrum of problems by leveraging generative-AI and LLMs, in areas such as Recommendations, Search Relevance, Catalog Quality, Online Ads, Pricing, Demand/Forecasting, Computer Vision, and Conversational Systems.A day in the lifeBuild advanced algorithmic systems that help optimize millions of transactions every day.About the teamThe team builds the next generation of Machine Learning services for a wide spectrum of problems in areas such as Recommendations, Search Relevance, Computer Vision, Catalog Quality, Online Ads, Pricing, Demand/Forecasting, and Conversational Systems.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS - Has PhD degree in CS, machine learning, Engineering, Statistics, Operations research, applied math or in a highly quantitative field - 8+ years of hands-on experience developing and implementing machine learning algorithms and models. - Strong demonstrated skills implementing and deploying large scale machine learning applications and tools. - Communication and data presentation skill - Strong problem solving ability. ...

Principal Applied Scientist, Amazon Prime

Amazon Prime’s Science organization leads the Research & Development towards innovation for Amazon Prime. Amazon Prime is the backbone of Amazon’s consumer business and aspires to be the world’s most engaging, satisfying, and loved membership program, driving growth and profitability. The program serves over 200 million members across 25 countries and is key to Amazon’s customer growth and engagement. Prime Science innovates in Artificial Intelligence and Economics, to develop algorithms and systems for automated marketing, personalization, targeting, and decisioning. To lead Prime’s growth and impact through science and innovation, we are seeking a Principal Applied Scientist, Prime Science, to create and deliver Machine Learning innovation both for customer facing and internal solutions. To be successful in this role you should be recognized as an industry expert who has experience defining a long-term science vision, driven fundamentally from the needs of customers, translating that direction into specific plans for research scientists, applied scientists, engineering, and product teams. This is a role that combines science leadership, organizational ability, technical expertise, product focus, and business understanding.Prime is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion and recognizes that our ability to serve our members is contingent on having diverse backgrounds, ideas, and ways of working on our team. This leader plays a key role as a member of the Prime worldwide leadership team to set the right organizational vision, standards, and mechanisms to ensure Prime is the best place for top talent to thrive. Key job responsibilities- Own and drive the most complex and strategic solutions across the business; responsible for many billions in revenue.- Act as a thought leader and forward thinker, anticipating obstacles to success and helping avoid common failure modes.- Research, build, and deploy innovative machine learning solutions; working across all technical disciplines.- Partner with science, engineering, and product leaders across the business to identify and deliver innovative machine solutions; identify new opportunities, define the vision and execute solutions that continually delight customers.- Hire, mentor, and guide senior scientists; partner with engineering leaders to build efficient and scalable solutions.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- Ph.D. in Machine Learning, Computer Science, or related disciplines.- 10+ years of post-Ph.D. experience, delivering highly effect machine learning solutions that solve real-world problems at a very large scale.- Expert in machine learning, statistics, and experiment design.- Expert in taking machine learning solutions into production at a large scale.- Experience with Large Language Models and Generative AI.- Experience hiring and building teams of applied scientists.- Proven communication and collaboration skills that enable you to earn trust at all levels of a large organization; ability to influence ...

Principal Applied Scientist, Amazon Private Brands

The Amazon Private Brands’ Discovery team develops innovative machine learning solutions to enhance customer awareness of Amazon's private brands and help customers discover products they love. This interdisciplinary team of scientists and engineers incubates and builds disruptive technologies, tackling some of the most complex scientific challenges at Amazon. To achieve this, we leverage a wide range of advanced techniques, including Natural Language Processing (NLP), deep learning, large language models (LLMs), multi-armed bandits, reinforcement learning, Bayesian optimization, causal and statistical inference, and econometrics, to drive discovery throughout the customer journey. Our solutions are not only critical to the success of Amazon's private brands but also serve as a leading example of discovery technologies across Amazon. We are seeking a Principal Scientist to join our team and lead the development of cutting-edge machine learning models and algorithms that will drive innovative discovery solutions for Amazon Private Brands. In this hands-on role, you will apply your expertise to propose solutions, create software prototypes, and successfully transition these prototypes into production systems using modern software development tools and methodologies. You will also be responsible for scaling these solutions to meet the growing and evolving needs of our customers. As a Principal Scientist, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the vision, design, and roadmap for complex, previously unsolved problems, guiding solutions from inception to implementation. Strong verbal and written communication skills, a self-driven mindset, and the ability to deliver high-quality results in a fast-paced environment are essential for success in this role.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 have 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).BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 10+ years minimum of hands-on science application experience- PhD in a relevant technical field (or equivalent experience in some cases)- Strong publication track record ...

Principal Applied Scientist, AWS Health AI

Are you passionate about leveraging AI to revolutionize healthcare and life sciences? AWS Health AI is seeking a visionary Principal Applied Scientist to lead the research and development of applications that reimagine the experiences life sciences researchers and healthcare practitioners. As part of the AWS Solutions organization, we have a vision to provide business applications, leveraging Amazon’s unique experience and expertise, that are used by millions of companies worldwide to manage day-to-day operations. We will accomplish this by accelerating our customers’ businesses through delivery of intuitive and differentiated technology solutions that solve enduring business challenges. We blend vision with curiosity and Amazon’s real-world experience to build opinionated, turnkey solutions. Where customers prefer to buy over build, we become their trusted partner with solutions that are no-brainers to buy and easy to use. As Principal Applied Scientist, you'll lead pioneering research in AI-driven protein design and antibody engineering. You’ll guide a team of scientists to invent and simplify on behalf of life sciences researchers and define novel, generative AI agent based experiences to help those researchers accelerate drug discovery. You will also drive innovation by integrating computational design pipelines with laboratory workflows, creating efficient systems for rational therapeutic design. This is a highly visible and impactful role within AWS, offering the opportunity to shape the future of healthcare technology and drive innovation at a global scale. You 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 be technically fearless, with a passion for building scalable science and engineering solutions.Key job responsibilitiesWhat You'll Do:* Lead a team of talented applied scientists in solving complex healthcare challenges* Develop novel algorithms and modeling techniques for multimodal systems* Drive the science roadmap and innovation strategy for AWS Health AI* Collaborate with cross-functional teams to create impactful products and services* Conduct cutting-edge research and publish in top-tier conferences and journalsAbout the team* Work on meaningful problems that improve lives globally* Access to cutting-edge technology and vast resources* Collaborate with world-class researchers and engineers* Opportunity to publish and present at top conferences* Shape the future of AI in healthcareBASIC QUALIFICATIONSBASIC QUALIFICATIONSWhat We're Looking For:* Strong background in deep learning and multimodal systems* Passion for applying AI to healthcare challenges* Ability to lead and mentor research teams* Experience in developing scalable, secure AI/ML systems* Expertise in areas such as medical imaging, genomics, or clinical decision support* Excellent communication and collaboration skills* PhD with specialization in artificial intelligence, natural language processing, machine learning, biomedical engineering, bioinformatics, medical imaging, genomics, or computational cognitive science* 8+ years of combined academic and research experience using ML to solve problems in natural language processing (NLP), computer vision (CV), computer speech (ASR), and/or other AI domains. Health-domain preferred.* Be a thought-leader: bring passion for innovation and a drive to solve challenging problems that can have a significant impact on healthcare and human well-being* Can successfully sell ideas to an executive level decision maker.* Mentors and trains the research scientist community on complex technical issues.* Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to effectively communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.* Proficiency in Python and ML frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch)* Experience with cloud computing platforms, preferably AWS ...

Principal Applied Scientist, Futures Design

Futures Design is the advanced concept design and incubation team within Amazon’s Device and Services Design Group (DDG). We are responsible for exploring and defining think (very) big opportunities globally and locally — so that we can better understand how new products and services might enrich the lives of our customers and so that product teams and leaders can align on where we're going and why we're going there. We focus on a 3–10+ year time frame, with the runway to invent and design category-defining products and transformational customer experiences. Working with Amazon business and technology partners, we use research, design, and prototyping to guide early product development, bring greater clarity to engineering goals, and develop a UX-grounded point of view.Our team is dedicated to unlocking new foundational capabilities in generative AI, guided by the thesis that embedding understanding through human factors, cognitive science, and socioeconomics is crucial to building AI systems that align with human needs. We place particular emphasis on the capabilities of simulacra through agentic systems and experiential/evolutionary learning, which we believe are vital to accelerating the development of AI as an aligned partner. Joining our team will give you the chance to drive key decisions that will impact the lives of millions of Amazon customers. Key job responsibilitiesYou will be responsible for defining key research directions, adopting or inventing new machine learning techniques, conducting rigorous experiments, publishing results, and ensuring that research is translated into practice. You will develop long-term strategies, persuade teams to adopt those strategies, propose goals and deliver on them. You will also participate in organizational planning, hiring, mentorship and leadership development. You will be technically fearless and with a passion for building scalable science and engineering solutions. You will serve as a key scientific resource in full-cycle development (conception, design, implementation, testing to documentation, delivery, and maintenance).A day in the lifeWe're looking for a Principal Applied Scientist to join the growing DDG Futures Design team.You thrive in ambiguity and paradigm shifts – remaking assumptions of how customers engage, devices operate, and builders create. You apply deep expertise that spans design, technology, and product, grounding state-of-the-art emerging technologies through storytelling and a maker's mindset. You learn and adapt technology trends to enduring customer problems through customer empathy, code, and iterative experimentation.You will wear multiple hats to quickly assimilate customer problems, convert them to hypotheses, and test them using efficient technologies and design methods to build stakeholder buy-in. You’ll help your peers unlock challenging scenarios and mature the design studio’s ability to deliver design at scale across a breadth of devices and interaction modalities. You will work around limitations and push capabilities through your work. Your curiosity will inspire those around you and facilitate team growth, while your hands-on, collaborative nature will build trust with your peers and studio partners.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS* PhD with specialization in artificial intelligence, natural language processing, machine learning, or computational cognitive science* 10+ years of combined academic and research experience* Multi-disciplinary expertise with demonstrated application of AI to a human-centered problem space (e.g., human factors or experiential learning)* Functional thought leader, sought after for key tech decisions* Can successfully sell ideas to executive level decision makers* Mentors and trains the research scientist community on complex technical issues* Proven track record of building complex solutions in ambiguous environments* Experience in building complex, real-time systems involving AI, ML, and NLP with successful delivery to customers* Experience developing software in traditional programming languages (e.g., Python, C++, Java)* Excellent written and spoken communication skills* Proven record of developing new approaches, algorithms, application areas, etc.* Extensive research expertise in generative AI, computer vision, machine learning, or NLP* Ability to develop machine learning platform strategies and influence the organization adopting new approaches, concepts, and paradigms ...

Principal Applied Scientist, Neuron ARG

The AWS Neuron Compiler team is actively seeking applied scientists to join our efforts in developing a state-of-the-art deep learning compiler stack. This stack is designed to optimize application models across diverse domains, including Large Language and Vision, originating from leading frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, and JAX. Your role will involve working closely with our custom-built Machine Learning accelerators, including Inferentia/Trainium, which represent the forefront of AWS innovation for advanced ML capabilities, powering solutions like Generative AI.The Automated Reasoning Group in the AWS Neuron Compiler team works on the intersection of Artificial Intelligence and program analysis to raise the code quality bar in compiler stack. In this role as an Applied Scientist, you'll be instrumental in designing, developing, and deploying analyzers for ML compiler stages and compiler IRs. You will contribute to the design and semantics of DSLs that our customers love when crafting neural architexctures. You will architect and implement business-critical tooling, publish cutting-edge research, and mentor a brilliant team of experienced scientists and engineers. You will need to be technically capable, credible, and curious in your own right as a trusted AWS Neuron engineer, innovating on behalf of our customers. Your responsibilities will involve tackling crucial challenges alongside a talented engineering team, contributing to leading-edge design and research in compiler technology and deep-learning systems software. Strong experience in programming languages, compilers, program analyzers, and program synthesis engines will be a benefit in this role.A background in machine learning and AI accelerators is preferred but not required. We expect a strong publication record in compilers, IR semantics, static analysis or verification.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. 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 in computer science or a related field* A strong publication record* Track record in hands-on compiler or tool development ...

Principal Applied Scientist, Prime Video Client Organization

The Prime Video Global App Experience organization operates at planet-wide scale and is a critical part of Prime Video’s flywheel. Our client apps (mobile, living room, desktop, automotive) are the gateway to the Prime Video experience, enabling customers to quickly find something to watch at which point the app fades in the background and the customer is immersed in the storytelling.We're reinventing how defects are detected in complex client apps, like Prime Video, and machine learning is going to be a key enabler to achieving that vision. The traditional approach of developing end-to-end integration tests on a per client basis isn't feasible at our global scale and large client distribution footprint. That approach to testing also doesn't detect "unknown/unknown" types of defects which occur more often than you'd expect when you operate a worldwide streaming video service used by hundreds of millions of customers. If you are passionate about film, sport or TV and you’re looking for a role where you can maximize your impact as a world class Principal Applied Scientist then come help us achieve our mission of building the most customer-centric, immersive and visually-rich video streaming experience on any device.Key job responsibilitiesAs a Principal Applied Scientist in the Prime Video Global App Experience organization you will leverage your deep subject matter expertise in applied machine learning to prototype and productionalize approaches to detect defects in our client apps. The space is ambiguous. No one is going to tell you which types of defects to work on nor which ML techniques to apply (classical ML, Deep Learning, CVML, NLP, etc) . Your role is to assess the opportunities, tailwinds, headwinds and risks. Then develop a vision and execute on a plan to achieve meaningful outcomes for our customers. At our scale improving CX metrics by just a few basis points can result in the reduction of millions of defects experienced by our customers annually. You will also work with external academic partners to support our in-house talent with direct access to cutting edge research and mentoring.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 10+ years of tech industry or equivalent experience- Experience working effectively with science, data processing, and software engineering teams- Graduate degree in Computer science/Math or related field.- Experience in building complex, real-time systems involving AI, ML, NLP with successful delivery to customers.- Demonstrated track record of project delivery for large, cross-functional projects with evolving requirements. Ability to take a project from requirements gathering and design to actual product launch- Computer Science fundamentals in data structures, algorithm design and complexity analysis.- Ability to develop a machine learning strategy for non-traditional areas such as developer productivity, software quality assurance (testing), availability, app performance/fluidity and latency reduction.- Exceptional customer relationship skills including the ability to discover the true requirements underlying feature requests, recommend alternative technical and business approaches, and lead science efforts to meet aggressive timelines with optimal solutions.- Demonstrated track record of peer-reviewed scientific publications that advance state-of-the art for applied science. ...

Principal Applied Scientist, Sponsored Products, Amazon Sponsored Products

Amazon Sponsored Products is investing heavily in building a world class advertising business and we are responsible for defining and delivering a collection of self-service performance advertising products that drive discovery and sales. Our products are strategically important to Amazon’s Selling Partners and key to driving their long-term growth. We deliver billions of ad impressions and clicks daily and are breaking fresh ground to create world-class products. We are highly motivated, collaborative and fun-loving team with an entrepreneurial spirit and bias for action. With a broad mandate to experiment and innovate, we are growing at an unprecedented rate with a seemingly endless range of new opportunities.This position will be part of the Advertiser Growth organization within Sponsored Products. Our team focuses on launching innovative controls that help advertisers create and manage performant SP campaigns. We develop recommendations to help advertisers use these controls effectively and develop state-of-art ML based optimization services to represent our advertisers in the SP marketplace. We strive to improve the ability for advertisers to help shoppers discover relevant products on customer search, browse and detail pages.Key job responsibilities• Seek to understand in depth the Sponsored Products offering at Amazon and identify areas of opportunities to grow our business using AI/ML solutions.• Mentor and guide the applied scientists in our organization and hold us to a high standard of technical rigor and excellence in ML.• Design and lead organization-wide ML roadmaps to help our Amazon shoppers have a delightful shopping experience while creating long term value for our advertisers.• Work with our engineering partners and draw upon your experience to meet latency and other system constraints.• Identify untapped, high-risk technical and scientific directions, and devise new research directions that you will drive to completion and deliver.• Be responsible for communicating our AI/ML innovations to the broader internal & external scientific community.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS• PhD in Computer Science, Statistics or related field.• 10+ years of applied ML experience in deploying ML solutions to customer facing products.• 2+ years hands-on experience leading multiple ML teams to design products that satisfy a customer need.• Track record of delivering large-scale and high-quality ML solutions.• Experience in taking on & using ML to deliver on business goals. ...

Principal Business Intelligence Engineer, AWS Analytics Engineering

AWS is looking for a Principal Business Intelligence Engineer to join the AWS Analytics Engineering (AAE) team. This is your opportunity to be part of a team that has direct impact on foundational cloud services such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3), Amazon Q Developer, Serverless, Databases, Networking and many more.As a Principal Business Intelligence Engineer, you will be responsible for identifying complex business problems and decomposing them into data questions and designing frameworks and metrics to provide solutions to business stakeowners. You will define and drive comprehensive data strategies that enable informed decision-making for leaders across the organization. Your role involves developing analytical infrastructures and transforming raw facts into meaningful insights that drive business outcomes. You will need to understand the broader BI ecosystem, including how data is generated, transformed into metrics, and how reporting and analysis are built to create actionable insights You will be responsible to create data driven analysis artifacts presented to executive leadership on a regular basis. You will generate insights that directly drive business growth and influence feature and product enhancements. You will get to work with datasets in one of the world's largest data warehousing environments, giving you opportunity to develop and support your hypotheses with data-driven insights and influence product leadership. You will work closely with senior business leaders, finance, and technical teams to analyze many non-standard and unique business problems, creatively problem-solving to deliver actionable output. As you build your service's analytical capabilities, you will be redefining best practices with a cloud-based approach to scalability and automation.Key job responsibilities- Set the standard for BI engineering excellence delivering exemplary solutions that are efficient, stable, extensible, and able to evolve over time.- Define and drive the overall analytics strategy , ensuring alignment with the broader data architecture and business objectives.- Design and implement of robust data models to automate generation of data driven actionable insights across multitude of AWS services. - Research on global economic trends and quantify impact growth of AWS services. - Simplify and improve existing BI solutions, models, and processes, maximizing their efficiency and effectiveness.- Tackle complex, ambiguous problems, leveraging your expertise to invent innovative solutions that drive significant business impact.- Amplify your impact by leading design reviews, probing assumptions, aligning teams, and educating the engineering community on advanced BI technologies and trends.- Serve as a mentor and career advisor, helping managers understand data roles and guide the professional growth of their team members.About the teamThe AWS Analytics Engineering organization supports over 175+ AWS services and products with comprehensive analytics solutions. AAE's primary mission is to empower stakeholders to make data-driven business decisions by providing analytical frameworks, ML products, daily reports, WBRs, analyses/narratives, and self-serve datasets. AAE comprises of cross functional engineers from data and analytics domain and focus on creating information rich datasets with goal to reduce stakeholders' time spent on redundant data gathering tasks and provide fast, easy access to valuable data insightBASIC QUALIFICATIONS- Bachelor's/Master's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent.- 10+ years of experience working directly with product and engineering teams.- 5+ years of experience working with structured/unstructured data sets to perform complex analysis and present documented findings to senior leadership.- Strong written and verbal technical communication skills with ability to present complex information clearly to various audience including executive leadership.- Exceptional technical skills, including expertise in data modeling, SQL, Python, data visualization (e.g. Tableau, QuickSight).- Experience working with GenAI applications to automate extraction of insights from PB scale data sets.- Experience leading design reviews and driving consensus among diverse stakeholders.- Experience owning/driving roadmap strategy and definition. ...

Principal Customer Delivery Architect

As a Principal Customer Delivery Architect, you will serve as a pivotal technology and strategy advisor for AWS's key enterprise customers across the Americas region. This role requires a deep understanding of AWS technologies and the broader technology ecosystem. You will engage directly with CTOs and CIOs to drive strategic technology initiatives, ensuring that AWS services align with and enhance our customers’ IT and business strategies. Your expertise will help our customers enhance their innovation speed, IT efficiency, and the business value derived from their technological investments.You will drive the development of innovative tools and solutions that accelerate the pre-sales cycle for AWS customers, driving technical excellence and innovation. This role requires exceptional business acumen, a commitment to continuous learning, and a deep obsession with customer success. Your ability to deliver strategic, hands-on solutions that create significant technical and business outcomes will be key to achieving the desired impact at scale.AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS) is responsible for driving revenue, adoption, and growth from the largest and fastest growing small- and mid-market accounts to enterprise-level customers including public sector.Key job responsibilitiesStrategic Direction and Development: - Define and develop overall strategic direction to AWS customers and internal AWS teams designing, building, optimizing, transforming or otherwise migrating applications, software, and services on the AWS platform. - Be the point of contact for the AWS Global Leader on accelerating innovation, account strategy, technical execution aligning to increasing business value through cloud adoption, covering people, processes, and technology aspects. - Engage with C-level executives to guide their strategic technology initiatives and support their transformation journeys.- Participate in deep architectural discussions and design exercises to create world-class solutions built on AWS while ensuring solutions are designed for successful deployment in the cloud- Build deep relationships with senior technical individuals within customers to enable them to be cloud advocatesLeadership and Collaboration: - Drive the development of outcome-based business-IT solution proposals in collaboration with sales and solution architecture teams.- Act as the AWS executive technical sponsor for strategic customer initiatives, ensuring alignment with AWS’s Global Service offerings and the customer's strategic goals. - Ensure that the solutions across strategic programs adhere to AWS’s enterprise architecture and security best practices and principles, and achieve intended business outcomes. - Mentor and lead internal teams, fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement within the organization.- Capture and share best-practice knowledge, sales and delivery content amongst the AWS Professional Services communityPartnership Development: - Engage with system integrators and strategic Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) across various customer scenarios to enhance solution offerings. - Identify common patterns in customer needs to drive standardization and repeatability in AWS solutions.About the teamDiverse 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.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- Bachelor’s degree or 10+ years of relevant professional experience.- 10+ years in senior IT roles, including leadership positions, with direct engagement with C-suite executives.- Experience with managing multi-year cloud transformations impacting 10,000+ users across multiple business units and geographies.- 5+ years designing and delivering enterprise-level AWS solutions, driving $50M+ in business value.- 5+ years developing organizational strategies and collaborating across technical and non-technical teams, managing cross-functional teams of 50+ members. ...

Principal Economist, Economics & Growth | Rufus

Join us at Amazon as we reinvent shopping again! We're not just talking about improving the existing Amazon shopping experiences, we're building a brand-new world where shopping is effortless and intuitive through the power of generative AI. Leveraging state-of-the-art Large Language Models and generative AI, we're creating a live, two-way natural language conversational experience that is fast, helpful and trustworthy.As people turn to Amazon for deeper insights and understanding about products earlier and earlier in their shopping journeys, we're stepping up to the challenge by synthesizing complex information and multiple perspectives so customers can explore Amazon’s vast catalog to find exactly the products that solve their particular needs. Imagine having a back and forth conversation with an AI assistant helping you to articulate a problem you’re trying solve, effortlessly answering your product questions and giving you trustworthy advice and recommendations for what to buy. Also imagine a world where this same AI assistant reduces your mental load by proactively predicting and then fulfilling your shopping needs without you needing to interfere, thus saving you time and money along the way. We are building such an AI assistant to become the digital manifestation of the helpful salesperson that asks customers what they need, helps them navigate the store, waits unobtrusively while they look over the shelves, and helps them find complementary goods. What does economics have to teach this salesperson? Can we embed lessons from the behavioral literature to help customers? This is an opportunity to embed economic expertise into large scale generative models. This is just the beginning, and the future is yours to shape.We're searching for pioneers who are passionate about using technology and innovation to fundamentally change how customers shop, and who are ready to make a lasting impact on the industry and even disrupting how Amazon serves customers. You'll be a senior technical leader working with talented scientists, economists, engineers, and product leaders to innovate on behalf of our customers and help turn generative AI shopping into Amazon’s next business pillar. Key job responsibilitiesAs the Principal Economist in the Shopping Economics team, you are a senior member of the technical leadership team, working with executives, principal engineers and scietists, and senior product leaders. Your economic thought leadership helps us to build new-to-world customer experiences that solve important problems for customers while creating new business models, ensuring Amazon is optimizing its innovation portfolio to maximally help customers solve their shopping problems. Solving problems like improving the match quality between customers’ heterogeneous needs and Amazon’s nearly infinite selection, articulating the economics of advertising in a conversation, using insights from economics to better align the LLM, and using deep learning techniques to measure substitution patterns and the economic value of engagement. You work with economists, scientists, and engineers Amazon-wide to rethink systems across the company to better optimize for helping customers through their entire shopping journey. You also develop and evangelize new mental models and new ways to measure the economic value of bleeding edge generative AI. As the senior economist in the team, you also guide the work and careers of other economists on the team.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS* PhD in Economics or related field* 7+ years experience applying economics in industry ...

Principal Engineer, Amazon | Multiple Locations, USA

At Amazon, Principal Engineers are both visionary leaders and hands-on builders. As Amazon’s most senior individual contributors, Principal Engineers work on our hardest problems. While many companies this size take their foot-off the gas pedal, at Amazon, it’s still Day 1. This startup mentality, however, does not admit the luxury of a conservative approach. Principal Engineers are asked to venture beyond comfortable approaches to pioneer new spaces, and inspire others as to what’s possible. We are looking for architects and hands-on builders, who are highly attuned to the technical realities of building and operating high-scale systems for services and data. A Principal Engineer should have strong technical judgment and influential skills to facilitate discussions for business-critical designs. The perfect candidate will be able to operate at the Director, VPs and SVP level as a key technical adviser. They should be able to provide both architectural guidance and detailed technical direction while nurturing a continuous delivery culture.We are hiring across multiple businesses and in many locations across the US. Apply here to learn more about open roles that would be a fit for your background. Key job responsibilitiesAs a Principal Software Engineer, you will:Serve as a technical leader on our most demanding, cross-functional projects.Functionally decompose complex problems into simple, straight-forward solutions.Fully and completely understand system inter-dependencies and limitations.Possess expert knowledge in performance, scalability, enterprise system architecture, and engineering best practices.Assist in the career development of others, actively mentoring individuals and the community on advanced technical issues and helping managers guide the career growth of their team membersExert technical influence over multiple teams, increasing their productivity and effectiveness by sharing your deep knowledge and experience. You are a visionary leader, builder and an operator.Balance technical leadership and savvy with strong business judgment to make the right decisions about technology choices.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 10+ years of non-internship professional software development experience- Knowledge of object-oriented design, data structures, and algorithms ...

Principal Engineer, AWS Hardware Engineering

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Hardware Engineering (HWEng) team creates compute and storage server designs for Amazon’s innovative web services. Our designs are industry-leading in performance, frugality and operational excellence, and are critical to the success of the AWS business and the more than one million customers who use AWS today. Our Principal Engineers help establish technical standards and drive Amazon’s overall technical architecture, engineering practices, and engineering methodologies. They work on our hardest problems, building high quality, architecturally sound systems that are aligned with our business needs. They think globally when building systems, ensuring Amazon.com builds high performing, scalable systems that fit well together.The AWS Hardware Development team creates compute, storage, and edge-server designs that drive innovation across our web services. We own the hardware design life cycle, manage systems that ensure every piece of server hardware is healthy and manageable, and build essential software that interfaces with cutting-edge embedded systems all over the world. If you want to do work that makes an impact, you belong at AWS.You’ll work in a fast-paced, collaborative culture that offers more opportunities to take risks, extend your skills, and transform how our customers run their businesses. The scope and scale of AWS drives continual change, so you’ll embrace ambiguity and collaborate to create custom solutions that delight our customers and advance our technology. Join our team and help us redefine what’s possible with the cloud.Principal Engineers are pragmatic visionaries who can translate business needs into workable technology solutions. Their expertise is deep and broad. They are hands on, producing both detailed technical work and high-level architectural designs.Ideal skill-sets include: Hardware Development, Thermal and Mechanical Design, Firmware and Embedded Systems, Quality and Reliability, Test, and Materials BASIC QUALIFICATIONS• 10+ years of experience in server technologies, including: electrical, mechanical, thermal, and software.• 8+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems ...

Principal Finance Manager, Advertising Creative, Trust and Support (ACTS)

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 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 Kindles, tablets, and 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 experience with a relentless focus on the customer, you’ve come to the right place.ACTS Finance team is looking for an Principal Finance Manager to lead the finance support for Advertising Trust Operations (ATO). This team provides critical support to ensure that our customers have less likelihood of experiencing a defective Ad. ATO provides creative and policy moderation supports for both Sponsored Ads and DVA-SS focuses, playing a critical role in delivering Advertising self service revenue. This role will lead the end to end financial support for ATO, partnering closely with Director of operations. Principal finance manager will partner with business teams including both technology and operations in creating and reviewing business opportunities, setting up metrics, creating financial models and driving automation and productivity improvement. The successful candidate will be thoughtful, analytical, and has demonstrated ability to effectively influence the decisions of senior business leaders through clear verbal and written communication, financial analysis, and logical reasoning. The role operates in a fast-paced, global, autonomous and results-oriented environment, and will be an important member of the business leadership team. This role requires excellent communication and organization skills, including the ability to anticipate, identify and communicate risks to senior leadership (including directors and VPs) across geographies and time zones.Key job responsibilitiesKey job responsibilities* Develop financial insights and narratives during all planning, forecasting, and reporting cycles.* Manage and develop the financial planning and analysis processes, including long range planning, and OP1/OP2 planning processes.* Partner with finance teams across Advertising to standardize, streamline, and prioritize improvements, remove roadblocks, and increase the reliability and efficiency of reporting.* Partner with the business team to drive alignment between financial forecast and business plan of record.* Support ad-hoc requests and assist in various requests from finance and business executives.* Identify and create business metrics to understand the operational and financial health of the business and drive improvement* Influence others, insist on the highest standards, have bias for action and challenge the status quo* Identify operating improvements, deep dive on cost structures, and analyze business opportunities/investments.* Assess impact of new business ideas and initiatives* Partner with Product, Tech and Science to drive the prioritization of the roadmaps to drive efficiency. BASIC QUALIFICATIONS- 12+ years of tax, finance or a related analytical field experience- 7+ years of finance technology, forecast & budgeting, or other finance-focused competency experience- Experience with Tableau, Python, SQB, Quicksight, Cognos or or other BI packages ...

Principal Finance Manager, AWS Corporate Development Finance

Amazon seeks a Principal Finance Manager to partner with the company’s Corporate Development organization and other senior business leaders, focusing on the Amazon Web Services segment (AWS).Key job responsibilitiesThe person in this high visibility role will be responsible for evaluating a wide range of business opportunities, including M&A, investments, and other and strategic opportunities. In addition, the person in this position will assist in leading due diligence efforts and conduct extensive research on industries, potential partners, and competitors, communicating findings and recommendations to members of Amazon's senior management and executive team. This role will likely manage 1-3 individuals (either immediately or in the near future), depending on the capabilities of the candidate. About the teamThis role will be focused on analyzing opportunities across a number of areas across Cloud Computing and Enterprise Software As a member/leader of a small but highly impactful team, this role both reviews the analysis of others, as well as serves as an individual contributor as projects require.BASIC QUALIFICATIONS 10+ years of corporate development, private equity, investment banking, or other transaction-related / due diligence experience BA / BS degree required ...