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What is Amazon Science?
Science at Amazon is conducted to enable new customer experiences and address existing customer pain points, whenever there is limited or no existing prior art. Science complements engineering and product disciplines, and is a critical functional skill for all Amazon businesses focused on delivering increased value to their customers. Amazon Science is also a team within Amazon that supports the company's internal science community, and its approach to customer-obsessed science. Moreover, Amazon Science is the company's external website and social channels, featuring the latest news and research, and where you can find information about the conferences the company sponsors, the institutions the company collaborates with, its awards programs, career opportunities, challenges, and more.
What is Amazon's unique approach to science?
Amazon believes in hiring and developing world-class talent in science and engineering, and building teams with multi-disciplinary skills with clear charters and goals. These multi-disciplinary teams employ the company's working backwards method to identify long-term problems to solve on behalf of customers and a staged approach to ensuring teams make rapid progress towards their goals. The combination of world-class elastic computing resources available via Amazon Web Services (AWS), large-scale heterogeneous data resources, and teams' years of experience in building and deploying machine-learning algorithms is key to the science community's ability to deliver innovation at scale.
Where can I find company information about Amazon?
Please visit About Amazon, which is the company's corporate website, complete with international editions. It contains news announcements, original stories, and facts about Amazon, including a press center, sustainability report, and investor relations section.
Research
What areas of research does Amazon focus on?
Amazon scientists are conducting cutting edge research in areas ranging from machine learning to operations, conversational AI, robotics, quantum computing, and more. Learn more on our research areas page.
Are Amazon scientists encouraged to publish?
Yes. Amazon scientists publish hundreds of publications that are accepted at major conferences each year. Find the latest research papers on our publications page.
Where can I find Amazon's publicly available code and datasets?
You can find some of Amazon's publicly available code and datasets associated with academic research in the code and datasets section, or via the Amazon Science accounts on GitHub and Hugging Face.
Careers
How can I apply for a job as a scientist at Amazon?
You can find a list of available science jobs on our careers page. The company recruits talent from around the world for applied scientists, data scientists, economists, research scientists, scholars, academics, PhDs, and interns.
Can I work part-time at Amazon while teaching or studying?
Yes. Qualified applicants can join the company as an Amazon Scholar or Amazon Visiting Academic and work on large-scale technical challenges without leaving their academic institution. Amazon also offers a program for recent PhD graduates. Learn more about Academics at Amazon.
Does Amazon have science internships?
Yes. The company offers internships year round. Projects depend on a student’s area of research and interest, as well as the team they're placed with. View our open internships.
Where do Amazon scientists work?
Amazon scientists are located around the globe. You can learn more about some of our research locations by browsing the map located on our careers page.
Does Amazon offer science education courses?
Yes. Amazon offers a variety of free machine learning classes for everyone from beginners to more experienced practitioners. Visit our ML education page to learn more about these resources.
What is it like to work as a scientist at Amazon?
We’ve interviewed scientists in organizations across Amazon to ask them about their experiences. Visit our working at Amazon section to learn what scientists say about their experiences.
Collaborations
Does Amazon fund academic research?
Yes. Amazon funds research at academic institutions and non-profits worldwide through Amazon Research Awards and other initiatives.
Does Amazon host any challenges?
Yes. Alexa Prize is a series of competitions for university students dedicated to accelerating the field of conversational AI. This is just one of many challenges the company hosts or supports.
Does Amazon collaborate with schools and universities?
Yes. Amazon has a wide range of collaborations with academic institutions in a variety of research areas. Learn more about them on our collaborations page.
Does Amazon provide any other resources?
Yes, we support the science community through a number of resources and programs, including: Amazon ML University, Amazon ML Summer School (India), AWS Cloud Credit for Research, AWS Registry of Open Data, AWS Public Datasets Program, AWS Research and Technical Computing, AWS Global Data Egress Waiver Program, AWS Academy, AWS Educate, Alexa Fund, and Amazon Future Engineer.

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CA, BC, Vancouver
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Manager, Applied Science, GenAI, Amazon Advertising
US, CA, Sunnyvale
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Applied Scientist
US, NY, New York
Amazon Advertising is one of Amazon's fastest growing and most profitable businesses. Amazon's advertising portfolio helps merchants, retail vendors, and brand owners succeed via native advertising, which grows incremental sales of their products sold through Amazon. The primary goals are to help shoppers discover new products they love, be the most efficient way for advertisers to meet their business objectives, and build a sustainable business that continuously innovates on behalf of customers. Our products and solutions are strategically important to enable our Retail and Marketplace businesses to drive long-term growth. We deliver billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks and break fresh ground in product and technical innovations every day! The ADSP Forecasting team's vision is to build the best in class forecasting products offered by any DSP to allow advertisers to forecast campaign outcomes across the full market funnel. Our goal is to empower advertisers using Amazon demand side platform to make informed decisions by providing predictions and recommendations of supply and ad-performance. Our forecasting models and analytical solutions will also help internal teams (sales, PSC, supply desk etc) to gain insights into forecasted supply, demand and ad performance to make the best business decisions. The team comprises scientists and engineers who own end-to-end projects - data collection, analysis, ideation, and prototyping, to development, metrics and monitoring. The models and services are integrated directly with Amazon's Ads eco system and the forecasts are used to drive key business decisions at the VP/SVP level. We are a team of Applied Scientists and Engineers, who are passionate about solving technical problems in the Ad Forecasting space with models using Machine Learning, Bayesian Statistics, etc. You will join a group of highly talented PhDs with diverse background to design, prototype, and implement models to deliver impact directly to customers. You will have the opportunity to present your work in science communities and to leadership As a Applied Scientist on this team, you will: - Be the technical leader in Machine Learning; lead efforts within this team and across other teams. - Perform hands-on analysis and modeling of enormous data sets to develop insights that increase traffic monetization and merchandise sales, without compromising the shopper experience. - Drive end-to-end Machine Learning projects that have a high degree of ambiguity, scale, complexity. - Build machine learning models, perform proof-of-concept, experiment, optimize, and deploy your models into production; work closely with software engineers to assist in productionizing your ML models. - Run A/B experiments, gather data, and perform statistical analysis. - Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large-scale data analysis, machine-learning model development, model validation and serving. - Research new and innovative machine learning approaches. Why you will love this opportunity: Amazon is investing heavily in building a world-class advertising business. This team defines and delivers a collection of advertising products that drive discovery and sales. Our solutions generate billions in revenue and drive long-term growth for Amazon’s Retail and Marketplace businesses. We deliver billions of ad impressions, millions of clicks daily, and break fresh ground to create world-class products. We are a highly motivated, collaborative, and fun-loving team with an entrepreneurial spirit - with a broad mandate to experiment and innovate. Impact and Career Growth: You will invent new experiences and influence customer-facing shopping experiences to help suppliers grow their retail business and the auction dynamics that leverage native advertising; this is your opportunity to work within the fastest-growing businesses across all of Amazon! Define a long-term science vision for our advertising business, driven from our customers' needs, translating that direction into specific plans for research and applied scientists, as well as engineering and product teams. This role combines science leadership, organizational ability, technical strength, product focus, and business understanding. Team video https://youtu.be/zD_6Lzw8raE
Applied Scientist, AWS Center for Quantum Computing
US, CA, Pasadena
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Applied Scientist, Conversational AI ModEling and Learning
US, WA, Bellevue
Conversational AI ModEling and Learning (CAMEL) team is part of Amazon Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) organization where our mission is to create a best-in-class Conversational AI that is intuitive, intelligent, and responsive, by developing superior Large Language Models (LLM) solutions and services which increase the capabilities built into the model and which enable utilizing thousands of APIs and external knowledge sources to provide the best experience for each request across millions of customers and endpoints. We are looking for a passionate, talented, and resourceful Applied Scientist in the field of LLM, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Natural Language Processing (NLP), Recommender Systems and/or Information Retrieval, to invent and build scalable solutions for a state-of-the-art context-aware conversational AI. A successful candidate will have strong machine learning background and a desire to push the envelope in one or more of the above areas. The ideal candidate would also have hands-on experiences in building Generative AI solutions with LLMs, enjoy operating in dynamic environments, be self-motivated to take on challenging problems to deliver big customer impact, moving fast to ship solutions and then iterating on user feedback and interactions. Key job responsibilities As an Applied Scientist, you will leverage your technical expertise and experience to collaborate with other talented applied scientists and engineers to research and develop novel algorithms and modeling techniques to reduce friction and enable natural and contextual conversations. You will analyze, understand and improve user experiences by leveraging Amazon’s heterogeneous data sources and large-scale computing resources to accelerate advances in artificial intelligence. You will work on core LLM technologies, including Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT), In-Context Learning (ICL), Learning from Human Feedback (LHF), etc. Your work will directly impact our customers in the form of novel products and services .
Applied Scientist, Advertiser Growth Engine
US, NY, New York
Amazon Advertising is one of Amazon's fastest growing and most profitable businesses, responsible for defining and delivering a collection of advertising products that drive discovery and sales. Our products and solutions are strategically important to enable our Retail and Marketplace businesses to drive long-term growth. We deliver billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks and break fresh ground in product and technical innovations every day! Advertiser Growth Engine (AGE) team owns and builds services and applications across Amazon World-Wide Advertising that make advertising across multi-marketplaces as easy as flipping on a switch. We are focused on: (1) expanding Amazon Ads advertiser base, and (2) eliminating localization, operational, and marketplace knowledge gap barrier for Advertisers who advertise across multiple marketplaces. Our products and solutions are strategically important to enable our Retail and Marketplace businesses to drive long-term growth globally. As an Applied Scientist on this team, you will: - Work on end-to-end Machine Learning projects within the AdTech domain. - Perform hands-on analysis and modeling of enormous data sets to develop insights that increase traffic monetization and merchandise sales, without compromising the shopper experience. - Build machine learning models, perform proof-of-concept, experiment, optimize, and deploy your models into production; work closely with software engineers to assist in productionizing your ML models. - Run A/B experiments, gather data, and perform statistical analysis. - Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large-scale data analysis, machine-learning model development, model validation and serving. - Research new and innovative machine learning approaches. - Recruit Applied Scientists to the team and provide mentorship. Why you will love this opportunity: Amazon is investing heavily in building a world-class advertising business. This team defines and delivers a collection of advertising products that drive discovery and sales. Our solutions generate billions in revenue and drive long-term growth for Amazon’s Retail and Marketplace businesses. We deliver billions of ad impressions, millions of clicks daily, and break fresh ground to create world-class products. We are a highly motivated, collaborative, and fun-loving team with an entrepreneurial spirit - with a broad mandate to experiment and innovate. Impact and Career Growth: You will invent new experiences and influence customer-facing shopping experiences to help suppliers grow their retail business and the auction dynamics that leverage native advertising; this is your opportunity to work within the fastest-growing businesses across all of Amazon! Define a long-term science vision for our advertising business, driven from our customers' needs, translating that direction into specific plans for research and applied scientists, as well as engineering and product teams. This role combines science leadership, organizational ability, technical strength, product focus, and business understanding. Team video https://youtu.be/zD_6Lzw8raE
Applied Scientist
US, NY, New York
Amazon Advertising is one of Amazon's fastest growing and most profitable businesses. Amazon's advertising portfolio helps merchants, retail vendors, and brand owners succeed via native advertising, which grows incremental sales of their products sold through Amazon. The primary goals are to help shoppers discover new products they love, be the most efficient way for advertisers to meet their business objectives, and build a sustainable business that continuously innovates on behalf of customers. Our products and solutions are strategically important to enable our Retail and Marketplace businesses to drive long-term growth. We deliver billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks and break fresh ground in product and technical innovations every day! The ADSP Forecasting team's vision is to build the best in class forecasting products offered by any DSP to allow advertisers to forecast campaign outcomes across the full market funnel. Our goal is to empower advertisers using Amazon demand side platform to make informed decisions by providing predictions and recommendations of supply and ad-performance. Our forecasting models and analytical solutions will also help internal teams (sales, PSC, supply desk etc) to gain insights into forecasted supply, demand and ad performance to make the best business decisions. The team comprises scientists and engineers who own end-to-end projects - data collection, analysis, ideation, and prototyping, to development, metrics and monitoring. The models and services are integrated directly with Amazon's Ads eco system and the forecasts are used to drive key business decisions at the VP/SVP level. We are a team of Applied Scientists and Engineers, who are passionate about solving technical problems in the Ad Forecasting space with models using Machine Learning, Bayesian Statistics, etc. You will join a group of highly talented PhDs with diverse background to design, prototype, and implement models to deliver impact directly to customers. You will have the opportunity to present your work in science communities and to leadership As a Applied Scientist on this team, you will: - Be the technical leader in Machine Learning; lead efforts within this team and across other teams. - Perform hands-on analysis and modeling of enormous data sets to develop insights that increase traffic monetization and merchandise sales, without compromising the shopper experience. - Drive end-to-end Machine Learning projects that have a high degree of ambiguity, scale, complexity. - Build machine learning models, perform proof-of-concept, experiment, optimize, and deploy your models into production; work closely with software engineers to assist in productionizing your ML models. - Run A/B experiments, gather data, and perform statistical analysis. - Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large-scale data analysis, machine-learning model development, model validation and serving. - Research new and innovative machine learning approaches. Why you will love this opportunity: Amazon is investing heavily in building a world-class advertising business. This team defines and delivers a collection of advertising products that drive discovery and sales. Our solutions generate billions in revenue and drive long-term growth for Amazon’s Retail and Marketplace businesses. We deliver billions of ad impressions, millions of clicks daily, and break fresh ground to create world-class products. We are a highly motivated, collaborative, and fun-loving team with an entrepreneurial spirit - with a broad mandate to experiment and innovate. Impact and Career Growth: You will invent new experiences and influence customer-facing shopping experiences to help suppliers grow their retail business and the auction dynamics that leverage native advertising; this is your opportunity to work within the fastest-growing businesses across all of Amazon! Define a long-term science vision for our advertising business, driven from our customers' needs, translating that direction into specific plans for research and applied scientists, as well as engineering and product teams. This role combines science leadership, organizational ability, technical strength, product focus, and business understanding. Team video https://youtu.be/zD_6Lzw8raE
Applied Scientist III, The ADSP Systems & Control Tiger
US, NY, New York
Amazon Advertising is one of Amazon's fastest growing and most profitable businesses, responsible for defining and delivering a collection of advertising products that drive discovery and sales. Our products are strategically important to our businesses driving long term growth. We deliver billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks every day and break fresh ground in product and technical innovations! Amazon Demand Side Platform (ADSP) within Amazon Ads uses advanced algorithms and trusted data to automatically place relevant ads that drive sales for advertisers while creating a positive user experience. It is the middleman between advertisers and impression exchanges trading ad impressions via real time bidding. The goal of the algorithms is to optimally manage an advertiser‘s marketing budget. The ADSP Systems & Control Tiger (S&C) team within ADSP provides an expertise in algorithms, software, and data; and is charged to make system improvements near and far for the benefit of Amazon Demand Side Platform (ADSP). The majority of improvements are state-of-the-art and all improvements are based on sound system engineering principles. Solutions are implemented in collaboration with partner teams, by partner teams under the guidance of the S&C team, or by the S&C tiger team alone. Improvements involve feedback control algorithms, machine learning, statistical inference, and software development. The work is high-impact and deals with the most challenging scientific problems within ad tech. Key job responsibilities You will play an important role in advancing ADSP by developing new or improving old capabilities of the ADSP bidding engine. The solutions you develop will require careful attention to mathematics, data science, simulations, experimentation, and hypothesis testing. You will leverage the latest advances in feedback control engineering, machine learning, online optimization, nonlinear dynamics, bidding, and statistical inference, to name a few. You will develop mathematical models based on empirical data and first principles; and you will design, analyze, and test feedback and prediction algorithms to improve the bidding on impressions. As a well-rounded scientist, you will be involved in all steps necessary to develop optimization capabilities. This includes some amount of interaction with customers, a lot of science work, and a modest amount of software development. You hold an MS or PhD degree in feedback control, signal processing, operations research, or related fields; and you have a strong working knowledge in at least Python or Matlab, but ideally a solid knowledge with Object Oriented programming in Java. It’s a plus if you have experience in Database query languages such as SQL, Spark or PySpark. Most importantly, you are able to and have a strong interest in expanding your knowledge far beyond your current domain. You must be a team player and must feel comfortable to work with different teams as a cross functional contributor, in different systems developed by different teams. As an Applied Scientist III, you will * Be a technical leader in feedback control, machine learning, optimization, auction theory, and statistical inference within this team and across other teams * Develop, analyze, and implement feedback control and prediction algorithms, and machine learning models, and in collaboration with partner teams deploy algorithms/models into production. * Develop, design, and run A/B experiments, gather data, and perform statistical analysis. * Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for monitoring and feedback. * Work closely with software engineers to assist in productionizing your work. * Research new feedback control, machine learning, and optimization algorithms for improved system performance and robustness. * Recruit Applied Scientists and Data Scientists to the team and mentor scientists on the team. About the team Why you will love this opportunity: Amazon is investing heavily in building a world-class advertising business. This team defines and delivers a collection of advertising products that drive discovery and sales. Our solutions generate billions in revenue and drive long-term growth for Amazon’s Retail and Marketplace businesses. We deliver billions of ad impressions, millions of clicks daily, and break fresh ground to create world-class products. We are a highly motivated, collaborative, and fun-loving team with an entrepreneurial spirit - with a broad mandate to experiment and innovate. Impact and Career Growth: You will invent new experiences and influence customer-facing shopping experiences to help suppliers grow their retail business and the auction dynamics that leverage native advertising; this is your opportunity to work within the fastest-growing businesses across all of Amazon! Define a long-term science vision for our advertising business, driven from our customers' needs, translating that direction into specific plans for research and applied scientists, as well as engineering and product teams. This role combines science leadership, organizational ability, technical strength, product focus, and business understanding. Team video https://youtu.be/zD_6Lzw8raE
Senior Data Scientist, Advertiser Success
US, WA, Seattle
We are seeking an entrepreneurial, innovative and self-driven Senior Data Scientist to join our team. Your mission will be to leverage science, technology, and data analysis to help advertisers and hundreds of thousands of independent sellers grow their business on WW Amazon marketplaces by understanding how brand ads are working for them and coming up with scaled recommendations. You can change the life of local business owners while taking ownership to solve scientific challenges from analyzing millions of global advertising campaigns and generating brand insights and recommendations for all our advertisers. The Sponsored Brands Advertiser Control team is a versatile environment, with a wide variety of challenges. We guide advertisers to make informed decisions by recommendations, sharing insights, and forecasts. We help advertisers deliver effective campaigns automatically by optimizing campaign settings on behalf of them. We enable advertisers to achieve brand advertising goals with maximum efficiency. We have the opportunity to deliver social impact, own technical problems, thought diversity, and business impact. Why you will love this opportunity: Amazon is investing heavily in building a world-class advertising business. This team defines and delivers a collection of advertising products that drive discovery and sales. Our solutions generate billions in revenue and drive long-term growth for Amazon’s Retail and Marketplace businesses. We deliver billions of ad impressions, millions of clicks daily, and break fresh ground to create world-class products. We are a highly motivated, collaborative, and fun-loving team with an entrepreneurial spirit - with a broad mandate to experiment and innovate. Impact and Career Growth: You will invent new experiences and influence customer-facing shopping experiences to help suppliers grow their retail business and the auction dynamics that leverage native advertising; this is your opportunity to work within the fastest-growing businesses across all of Amazon! Define a long-term science vision for our advertising business, driven from our customers' needs, translating that direction into specific plans for scientists, as well as engineering and product teams. This role combines science leadership, organizational ability, technical strength, product focus, and business understanding. Amazon Advertising is one of Amazon's fastest growing and most profitable businesses, responsible for defining and delivering a collection of advertising products that drive discovery and sales. Our products and solutions are strategically important to enable our Retail and Marketplace businesses to drive long-term growth. We deliver billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks and break fresh ground in product and technical innovations every day! As a Senior Data Scientist on this team you will: - Lead Data Science solutions from beginning to end. - Deliver with independence on challenging large-scale problems with ambiguity and complexity. - Influence multiple teams and able to work closely with business teams, build consensus, and advise business leaders. - Write code (Python, R, Scala, SQL, etc.) to obtain, manipulate, analyze data, and build dashboards. - Build Statistical and Machine Learning models to solve specific business problems. - Retrieve, synthesize, and present critical data in a format that is immediately useful to answering specific questions or improving system performance. - Analyze historical data to identify trends and support optimal decision making. - Apply statistical and machine learning knowledge to specific business problems and data. - Formalize assumptions about how our systems should work, create statistical definitions of outliers, and develop methods to systematically identify outliers. Work out why such examples are outliers and define if any actions needed. - Given anecdotes about anomalies or generate automatic scripts to define anomalies, deep dive to explain why they happen, and identify fixes. - Build decision-making models and propose effective solutions for the business problems you define. - Conduct written and verbal presentations to share insights to audiences of varying levels of technical sophistication. Team video https://youtu.be/zD_6Lzw8raE
Research Scientist, Design and Simulation, AWS Center for Quantum Computing
US, CA, San Francisco
The AWS Center for Quantum Computing is a multi-disciplinary team of scientists, engineers, and technicians, all working to innovate in quantum computing for the benefit of our customers. We are looking to hire a Research Scientist to design and model novel superconducting quantum devices, including qubits, readout and control schemes, and advanced quantum processors. Candidates with a track record of original scientific contributions and/or software development experience will be preferred. We are looking for candidates with strong engineering principles and resourcefulness. Organization and communication skills are essential. About the team 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. Diverse Experiences AWS 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 Culture Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness. Mentorship & Career Growth We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional. Work/Life Balance We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.
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