Amazon Scholars | Worldwide | Amazon

Position:	Amazon Scholars
Institution:	Amazon
Location:	Worldwide
Duties:	Applications are accepted from academic experts in research areas including, but not limited to, the following: Artificial Intelligence, Avionics, Computer Vision, Data Science, Economics, Machine Learning, Optimization, Natural Language Processing, Quantum Computing, and Robotics; As an Amazon Scholar, your responsibilities may include: Advising business leaders on strategic plans; Diving deep to solve a specific technical problem in an organization’s roadmap, and; Advising junior researchers on methods
Requirements:	PhD in a relevant field or related discipline; 7+ years of relevant work or academic experience; Experience leading technical research projects with multiple stakeholders; Current affiliation with an academic or research institution

Text:	Latest news Research areas Research areas Cloud and systems Developing new technologies that offer increased computing power, expanded database storage, faster content delivery, and other capabilities. Computer vision Helping devices see and understand our visual world. Conversational AI / Natural-language processing Building software and systems that help people communicate with computers naturally, as if communicating with family and friends. Economics Developing sophisticated approaches and systems to deliver the broadest selection of products and services at the lowest prices. Information and knowledge management Structuring the world’s information as it relates to everything available on Amazon. Machine learning Developing algorithms and statistical models that computer systems use to perform tasks without explicit instructions, relying on patterns and inference instead. Operations research and optimization Streamlining operations to deliver orders to you faster, more conveniently, and more economically. Quantum technologies By harnessing the laws of quantum physics, quantum computers have the potential to solve problems that are beyond the reach of today's computers. Robotics Delivering a faster and more consistent customer experience through a variety of robotic technologies. Search and information retrieval Developing advanced techniques to analyze behavioral patterns, lexical matches, and semantic matches to surface the most relevant recommendations in response to your queries. Security, privacy, and abuse prevention Creating a secure suite of hardware, software, and services with privacy, while giving you control over your information. Sustainability Taking a broad, science-based approach to reach net zero carbon by 2040. Conferences & events Publications Academic engagements Blog Careers Menu Latest news Research areas Research areas Cloud and systems Developing new technologies that offer increased computing power, expanded database storage, faster content delivery, and other capabilities. Computer vision Helping devices see and understand our visual world. Conversational AI / Natural-language processing Building software and systems that help people communicate with computers naturally, as if communicating with family and friends. Economics Developing sophisticated approaches and systems to deliver the broadest selection of products and services at the lowest prices. Information and knowledge management Structuring the world’s information as it relates to everything available on Amazon. Machine learning Developing algorithms and statistical models that computer systems use to perform tasks without explicit instructions, relying on patterns and inference instead. Operations research and optimization Streamlining operations to deliver orders to you faster, more conveniently, and more economically. Quantum technologies By harnessing the laws of quantum physics, quantum computers have the potential to solve problems that are beyond the reach of today's computers. Robotics Delivering a faster and more consistent customer experience through a variety of robotic technologies. Search and information retrieval Developing advanced techniques to analyze behavioral patterns, lexical matches, and semantic matches to surface the most relevant recommendations in response to your queries. Security, privacy, and abuse prevention Creating a secure suite of hardware, software, and services with privacy, while giving you control over your information. Sustainability Taking a broad, science-based approach to reach net zero carbon by 2040. Conferences & events Publications Academic engagements Blog Careers Show Search Search Query Submit Search Amazon Scholars Amazon is proud to hire world-class academics as Amazon Scholars to work on large-scale technical challenges while continuing to teach and conduct research at their universities. Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Amazon is deeply invested in R&D with hundreds of researchers and applied scientists committed to innovation across every part of the company.The Amazon Scholars program has broadened opportunities for academics to join Amazon in a flexible capacity, in particular part-time arrangements and sabbaticals.The program is designed for academics from universities around the globe who want to apply research methods in practice and help us solve hard technical challenges without leaving their academic institutions. We believe that Amazon is a unique place to measure the impact of new scientific ideas, given our scale and our ownership of both an information infrastructure and physical infrastructure. You will have a chance to have a ground-up impact on our systems, our business, and most importantly, our customers, through your expertise. I love developing algorithms and building systems that work in every-day products. Being an Amazon Scholar allows me to do this at a scale far beyond my university role. Thorsten Joachims, Professor of Computer Science/ML, Cornell University Applications are accepted from academic experts in research areas including, but not limited to, the following: Artificial Intelligence, Avionics, Computer Vision, Data Science, Economics, Machine Learning, Optimization, Natural Language Processing, Quantum Computing, and Robotics.As an Amazon Scholar, your responsibilities may include:Advising business leaders on strategic plans, Diving deep to solve a specific technical problem in an organization’s roadmap, and Advising junior researchers on methods.We’re working on the future here at Amazon. Come join us!Program requirementsBasic qualifications:PhD in a relevant field or related discipline7+ years of relevant work or academic experienceExperience leading technical research projects with multiple stakeholdersCurrent affiliation with an academic or research institutionPreferred qualifications:Recognized expert in the external community in an applied science discipline and routinely applies knowledge from other disciplinesPublications at top-tier, peer-reviewed conferences and/or journalsBroad knowledge of applied mathematics and foundational understanding of algorithms and computational complexityExpert-level research analysis and technical leadership capabilitiesExpert knowledge in modeling and performance, operationalization, and scalability of scientific techniques and establishing decision strategiesAbility to independently lead research development and analysis in a fast-paced environmentProven track record of innovation in creating novel technologies and advancing the state of the artExceptional verbal and written communication and consensus-building skills with both technical and non-technical audiencesResearch locationsAmazon Scholars can work in any Amazon location across the globe where research is being conducted or Amazon has a technical workforce. Scholars can also work remotely, team-permitting.Amazon has research hubs in the following cities: Aachen, Arlington, Atlanta, Austin, Bay Area, Bangalore, Boston, Barcelona, Beijing, Berlin, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Gdansk, Graz, Haifa, Los Angeles, Luxembourg, New York, Pittsburgh, Seattle, Tel Aviv, Tübingen, Turin, and Vancouver.How to applyAccomplished academics who are interested to learn more about how their research may match the challenges, opportunities, and scale of Amazon are encouraged to reach out to academics-interest@amazon.com for more information. Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Meet some of our ScholarsLearn More Julia Hirschberg Amazon ScholarColumbia University Aravind Srinivasan Amazon ScholarUniversity of Maryland John Preskill Amazon ScholarCaltech Matthias Bethge Amazon ScholarUniversity of Tübingen Shipra Agrawal Amazon ScholarColumbia University Emine Yilmaz Amazon ScholarUniversity College London Work with usSee More Jobs Research Scientist, Algorithms, Learning, and Optimization LU, Luxembourg Have you ever wondered how Amazon delivers timely and reliably hundreds of millions of packages to customer’s doorsteps? Are you passionate about data and mathematics, and hope to impact the experience of millions of customers? Are you obsessed with designing simple algorithmic solutions to very challenging problems?If so, we look forward to hearing from you!Amazon Transportation Services is seeking a Research Scientist to be based in the EU Headquarters in Luxembourg. As a key member of the Research Science Team of ATS operations, this person will be responsible for designing algorithmic solutions based on data and mathematics for optimizing the middle-mile Amazon Transportation Network. The successful applicant will ensure that our end-to-end strategies in terms of customer demand fulfillment, routing, consolidation locations, linehaul/airhaul/sea options and last-mile transportation are streamlined and optimized.We welcome candidates with different seniority levels, and the role will be adjusted to candidate’s experience.Tasks/ Responsibilities· Design and prototype algorithmic solutions for standardized processes.· Lead complex time-bound, long-term as well as ad-hoc transportation modelling analyses to help management in decision making.· Communicate to leadership results from business analysis, strategies and tactics (for senior candidates).· Drive large-scale projects to scale and enhance Amazon’s EU transportation network (for senior candidates).· Partner with the planning, linehaul/airhaul and sort center operations teams, while working closely with last-mile, supply chain, and global delivery departments for modeling and optimizing the transportation network of EU. 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The successful applicant will ensure that our end-to-end strategies in terms of customer demand fulfillment, routing, consolidation locations, linehaul/airhaul/sea options and last-mile transportation are streamlined and optimized.We welcome candidates with different seniority levels, and the role will be adjusted to candidate’s experience.Tasks/ Responsibilities· Design and prototype algorithmic solutions for standardized processes.· Lead complex time-bound, long-term as well as ad-hoc transportation modelling analyses to help management in decision making.· Communicate to leadership results from business analysis, strategies and tactics (for senior candidates).· Drive large-scale projects to scale and enhance Amazon’s EU transportation network (for senior candidates).· Partner with the planning, linehaul/airhaul and sort center operations teams, while working closely with last-mile, supply chain, and global delivery departments for modeling and optimizing the transportation network of EU. 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A philosophy of ownership carries through everything we do — from the proprietary technologies we create to the new businesses we launch and grow. You’ll find it in every team across our company; from providing Earth’s biggest selection of products to developing ground-breaking software and devices that change entire industries, Amazon embraces invention and progressive thinking. Amazon is continually evolving; it’s a place where motivated employees thrive, and ownership and accountability lead to meaningful results. It’s as simple as this: we pioneer.With every order made and parcel delivered, customer demand at Amazon is growing. And to meet this demand, and keep our world-class service running smoothly, we're growing our teams across Europe. Delivering hundreds of thousands of products to hundreds of countries worldwide, our Operations teams possess a wide range of skills and experience and this include software developers, data engineers, operations research scientists, and more.About these internships:Whatever your background, if you are excited about modeling huge amounts of data and creating state of the art algorithms to solve real world problems, if you have a passion for using mathematical optimization, including linear programming, combinatorial optimization, integer programming, dynamic programming, network flows and algorithms to design optimal or near optimal solution methodologies to be used by in-house decision support tools and software, if you enjoy solving operational challenges by using computer simulations, and if you’re motivated by results and driven enough to achieve them, Amazon is a great place to be. Because it’s only by coming up with new ideas and challenging the status quo that we can continue to be the most customer-centric company on Earth, we’re all about flexibility: we expect you to adapt to changes quickly and we encourage you to try new things.Amazon is looking for ambitious and enthusiastic students to join our unique world as interns. An Amazon EU internship will provide you with an unforgettable experience in a fast-paced, dynamic and international environment; it will boost your resume and will provide a superb introduction to our activities.As an intern in Ops Research and modelling, you could join one of the following teams: Supply Chain, Amazon Logistics, Transportation, Prime Now, Inventory Placement and more.You will put your analytical and technical skills to the test and roll up your sleeves to complete a project that will contribute to improve the functionality and level of service that teams provides to our customers. This could include:· Analyze and solve business problems at their root, stepping back to understand the broader context· Apply advanced statistics and data mining techniques to analyze and make insights from big data (data sets could include: historical production data, volumes, transportation and logistics metrics, simulation/experiment results etc.) in order to forecast, across multiple geographies.· Closely collaborate with operations research scientists, business analysts, BI teams, developers, economists and more on various models’ (including predictive models) development.· Perform quantitative, economic, and/or numerical analysis of the performance of supply chain systems under uncertainty using statistical and optimization tools to find both exact and heuristic solution strategies for optimization problems.· Create computer simulations to support operational decision-making. Identify areas with potential for improvement and work with internal teams to generate requirements that can realize these improvements.· Create software prototypes to verify and validate the devised solutions methodologies; integrate the prototypes into production systems using standard software development tools and methodologies.· Convert statistical output into detailed documents which influence business actions Applied Scientist- X-Ray Engineering, Amazon Video IN, KA, Bangalore Are you interested in shaping the future of movies, television, and digital video? Do you want to define what type and quality of X-Ray experiences should be delivered to Amazon customers? Prime Video X-Ray is a service/platform that enables creation and delivery of deep X-Ray experience for any video from any studio for millions of Amazon customers globally. Prime Video X-Ray is an experience that is growing and delighting customers globally on VoD content, Live Sports and Channels. We are looking for a Senior Applied Scientist who can work on different aspects of the video content, like text metadata, video, audio and images to apply from variety of techniques in computer vision, deep learning, machine learning and image processing algorithms to build visual understanding, metadata extraction and curation systems.You will be contributing to a platform from the very early stages which will process terabytes of video content data. You will collaborate with other research scientists across Amazon to define the scope of the product, identify and initiate investigations of new technologies, prototype, test solutions and deliver an exceptional customer experience.You will work closely with the software development teams to build robust vision-based solutions for customer-facing applications. You should be comfortable with a large degree of ambiguity and relish the idea of solving problems that, frankly, haven’t been solved at scale before. Along the way, we guarantee that you’ll learn a ton, have fun and make a positive impact on millions of people. Senior Data/Machine Learning Engineer MX, DIF, Mexico City At Amazon Web Services (AWS), we’re hiring highly technical Data and Machine Learning engineers to collaborate with our customers and partners on key engagements. Our consultants will develop and deliver proof-of-concept projects, technical workshops, and support implementation projects. These professional services engagements will focus on customer solutions such as Machine Learning, Data and Analytics, HPC and more.In this role, you will work with our partners, customers and focus on our AWS offerings such Amazon Kinesis, AWS Glue, Amazon Redshift, Amazon EMR, Amazon Athena, Amazon SageMaker and more. You will help our customers and partners to remove the constraints that prevent them from leveraging their data to develop business insights.AWS Professional Services engage in a wide variety of projects for customers and partners, providing collective experience from across the AWS customer base and are obsessed about customer success. Our team collaborates across the entire AWS organization to bring access to product and service teams, to get the right solution delivered and drive feature innovation based upon customer needs.You will also have the opportunity to create white papers, writing blogs, build demos and other reusable collateral that can be used by our customers. Most importantly, you will work closely with our Solution Architects, Data Scientists and Service Engineering teams.The ideal candidate will have extensive experience with design, development and operations that leverages deep knowledge in the use of services like Amazon Kinesis, Apache Kafka, Apache Spark, Amazon SageMaker, Amazon EMR, NoSQL technologies and other 3rd parties.This is a customer facing role. You will be required to travel to client locations and deliver professional services when needed. Data/Machine Learning Engineer MX, DIF, Mexico City At Amazon Web Services (AWS), we’re hiring highly technical Data and Machine Learning engineers to collaborate with our customers and partners on key engagements. Our consultants will develop and deliver proof-of-concept projects, technical workshops, and support implementation projects. These professional services engagements will focus on customer solutions such as Machine Learning, Data and Analytics, HPC and more.In this role, you will work with our partners, customers and focus on our AWS offerings such Amazon Kinesis, AWS Glue, Amazon Redshift, Amazon EMR, Amazon Athena, Amazon SageMaker and more. You will help our customers and partners to remove the constraints that prevent them from leveraging their data to develop business insights.AWS Professional Services engage in a wide variety of projects for customers and partners, providing collective experience from across the AWS customer base and are obsessed about customer success. Our team collaborates across the entire AWS organization to bring access to product and service teams, to get the right solution delivered and drive feature innovation based upon customer needs.You will also have the opportunity to create white papers, writing blogs, build demos and other reusable collateral that can be used by our customers. Most importantly, you will work closely with our Solution Architects, Data Scientists and Service Engineering teams.The ideal candidate will have extensive experience with design, development and operations that leverages deep knowledge in the use of services like Amazon Kinesis, Apache Kafka, Apache Spark, Amazon SageMaker, Amazon EMR, NoSQL technologies and other 3rd parties.This is a customer facing role. You will be required to travel to client locations and deliver professional services when needed. Senior Applied Scientist- Machine Learning US, CA, Sunnyvale As a Senior Machine Learning engineer you will be responsible for developing, optimizing, testing, and deploying hardware edge machine learning solutions used in a range of Amazon devices. You will collaborate closely with a team of machine learning scientists and hardware designers to implement solutions in various areas including speech, vision, robotic perception and sensor fusion. You will also help drive the system architecture, spearhead best practices that enable a quality product, and help coach and develop junior engineers.In this role you will:· Analyze machine learning models for deployment in Amazon device hardware accelerators.· Train and optimize models to work most efficiently on Amazon devices· Develop processes and software automation to automate mapping of machine learning models onto Amazon device hardware accelerators· Work with hardware architects and engineers to implement hardware acceleration for Amazon devices Senior Data Scientist - Amazon Air Science and Technology US, WA, Seattle The Amazon Air Science and Technology team is seeking a Data Scientist to be part of a team solving complex aviation operations problems to reduce cost and improve performance. This is a blue-sky role that gives you a chance to bring optimization modeling, statistical modeling, machine learning advancements to data analytics for customer-facing solutions in complex industrial settings.You will work closely with product, research science and technical leaders throughout Amazon Air, Amazon Delivery Technology and Supply Chain Optimization and will be responsible for influencing funding decisions in areas of investment that you identify as critical future product offerings. You will partner with software developers and data scientists to build end-to-end data pipelines and production code, and you will have exposure to senior leadership as we communicate results and provide scientific guidance to the business. You will analyze large amounts of business data, build the machine learning or optimization models that will enable us to continually delight our customers worldwide.The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in Science work, business analytics and have the aptitude to incorporate new approaches and methodologies while dealing with ambiguities. Excellent business and communication skills are a must to develop and define key business questions and to build data sets that answer those questions. You should have a demonstrated ability to think strategically and analytically about business, product, and technical challenges. Further, you must have the ability to build and communicate compelling value propositions, and work across the organization to achieve consensus. This role requires a strong passion for customers, a high level of comfort navigating ambiguity, and a keen sense of ownership and drive to deliver results.RESPONSIBILITIES:· Utilize code (Python, R, Scala, etc.) for analyzing data and building statistical models to solve specific business problems.· Improve upon existing methodologies by developing new data sources, testing model enhancements, and fine-tuning model parameters.· Collaborate with researchers, software developers, and business leaders to define product requirements and provide analytical support· Directly contribute to the design and development of automated selection systems· Build customer-facing reporting tools to provide insights and metrics which track system performance· Communicate verbally and in writing to business customers and leadership team with various levels of technical knowledge, educating them about our systems, as well as sharing insights and recommendations Applied Scientist - Amazon Air Science and Technology US, WA, Seattle The Amazon Air Science and Technology team is seeking an Applied Scientist to be part of a team solving complex aviation operations problems to reduce cost and improve performance. This is a blue-sky role that gives you a chance to bring optimization modeling, statistical modeling, machine learning advancements to data analytics for customer-facing solutions in complex industrial settings.You will work closely with product, research science and technical leaders throughout Amazon Air, Amazon Delivery Technology and Supply Chain Optimization and will be responsible for influencing funding decisions in areas of investment that you identify as critical future product offerings. You will partner with software developers and data scientists to build end-to-end data pipelines and production code, and you will have exposure to senior leadership as we communicate results and provide scientific guidance to the business. You will analyze large amounts of business data, build the machine learning or optimization models that will enable us to continually delight our customers worldwide.The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in Science work, business analytics and have the aptitude to incorporate new approaches and methodologies while dealing with ambiguities. Excellent business and communication skills are a must to develop and define key business questions and build models that answer those questions. You should have a demonstrated ability to think strategically and analytically about business, product, and technical challenges. Further, you must have the ability to build and communicate compelling value propositions, and work across the organization to achieve consensus. This role requires a strong passion for customers, a high level of comfort navigating ambiguity, and a keen sense of ownership and drive to deliver results.Tasks/ Responsibilities:· Partnership with the engineering and operations to drive modeling and design for complex business problems.· Design and prototype decision support tools (product) to automate standardized processes and optimize trade-offs across the full decision space.· Contribute to the mid- and long-term strategic planning studies and analysis.· Lead complex transportation modeling analyses to aid management in making key business decisions and set new policies. Principal Applied Scientist ES, B, Barcelona If you get excited by the prospect of solving hard problems using Computer Vision and Machine Learning, enjoy working in a fast-paced environment with thought leaders in the CV space, and are passionate about launching algorithms for maximum customer impact, then we have the perfect role for you!We are looking for Principal Scientist with a deep expertise in computer vision to focus on data-driven image synthesis using deep learning techniques such as GANs and VAEs to help Amazon transform pixels into personalized fashion images. Our team is developing cutting-edge technology to personalize and transform photos, partnering with many different teams across Amazon to apply a mix of workflows, image generation, computer vision, and machine learning to solve problems like virtual try-on at Amazon scale. A strong candidate will have experience leading a team of scientists, working independently on problems, and setting their own research direction.As a Principal Applied Scientist, you will work in a team with other scientists and engineers working on products and prototypes in the field of image synthesis and photo-realistic appearance of people and clothing to create scalable solutions for business problems. You will play a critical role in ideation for the team and run live experiments, with opportunities to publish your work. We are building the next generation of fashion imagery, and we hope you'll join us!This role is located in Barcelona, Spain, but we are open to hiring remote positions across the US and EU.Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us. Economist (HR Central Science) US, WA, Seattle The Human Resources Central Science Team (HRCS) uses economics, behavioral science, statistics, and machine learning to proactively identify mechanisms and process improvements which simultaneously improve Amazon and the lives, wellbeing, and the value of work to Amazonians. We are an interdisciplinary team that combines the talents of science and engineering to develop and deliver solutions that measurably achieve this goal.We are looking for economists who are able to provide structure around complex business problems, hone those complex problems into specific, scientific questions, and test those questions to generate insights. The ideal candidate will work with engineers and computer scientists to estimate models and algorithms on large scale data, design pilots and measure their impact, and transform successful prototypes into improved policies and programs at scale. We are looking for creative thinkers who can combine a strong technical economic toolbox with a desire to learn from other disciplines, and who know how to execute and deliver on big ideas as part of an interdisciplinary technical team.Ideal candidates will work closely with business partners to develop science that solves the most important business challenges. They will work in a team setting with individuals from diverse disciplines and backgrounds. They will serve as an ambassador for science and a scientific resource for business teams, so that scientific processes permeate throughout the HR organization to the benefit of Amazonians and Amazon. Ideal candidates will own the development of scientific models and manage the data analysis, modeling, and experimentation that is necessary for estimating and validating models. They will work closely with engineering teams to develop scalable data resources to support rapid insights, and take successful models and findings into production as new products and services. They will be customer-centric and will communicate scientific approaches and findings to business leaders, listening to and incorporate their feedback, and delivering successful scientific solutions. Economist (HR Central Science) US, WA, Seattle The Human Resources Central Science Team (HRCS) uses economics, behavioral science, statistics, and machine learning to proactively identify mechanisms and process improvements which simultaneously improve Amazon and the lives, wellbeing, and the value of work to Amazonians. We are an interdisciplinary team that combines the talents of science and engineering to develop and deliver solutions that measurably achieve this goal.We are looking for economists who are able to provide structure around complex business problems, hone those complex problems into specific, scientific questions, and test those questions to generate insights. The ideal candidate will work with engineers and computer scientists to estimate models and algorithms on large scale data, design pilots and measure their impact, and transform successful prototypes into improved policies and programs at scale. We are looking for creative thinkers who can combine a strong technical economic toolbox with a desire to learn from other disciplines, and who know how to execute and deliver on big ideas as part of an interdisciplinary technical team.Ideal candidates will work closely with business partners to develop science that solves the most important business challenges. They will work in a team setting with individuals from diverse disciplines and backgrounds. They will serve as an ambassador for science and a scientific resource for business teams, so that scientific processes permeate throughout the HR organization to the benefit of Amazonians and Amazon. Ideal candidates will own the development of scientific models and manage the data analysis, modeling, and experimentation that is necessary for estimating and validating models. They will work closely with engineering teams to develop scalable data resources to support rapid insights, and take successful models and findings into production as new products and services. They will be customer-centric and will communicate scientific approaches and findings to business leaders, listening to and incorporate their feedback, and delivering successful scientific solutions. Applied Scientist US, WA, Seattle The Amazon Product Catalog group is hiring a Senior Applied Scientist to help us build the most authoritative product knowledge in existence. Our charter is to capture every relevant fact and relationship for any product on the planet. You will have an enormous opportunity to make a large impact on the design, architecture, and implementation of cutting edge products used every day, by people you know.As a Senior Applied Scientist, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and deploying large-scale data mining solutions and distributed machine learning systems that ultimately make shopping on Amazon delightful and functional. Because the product catalog is the heart of our retail business, your work will directly change how Amazon customers search, find, compare, and buy everything from televisions to groceries. Our catalog contains hundreds of billions of facts, a scale which demands automated, state-of-the-art techniques to identify defects, abuse, incorrect data, and find new relationships between products, facts, and entities.Our domain blurs the boundaries between knowledge graphs, ontologies, entity recognition, image classification, machine translation, entity recognition, and semantic fact extraction. This requires a fast, collaborative environment We not only leverage best-in-class models, but also improve them. You will have the support of a well-established team with a long-term charter, science-smart engineers, language experts, and the latest AWS products and compute resources. You will collaborate closely with teams of software engineers, applied machine learning scientists, product managers, user interface designers, and others in order to influence our business and technical strategy, and play a key role in defining the team’s roadmap.A successful candidate will have an established background in machine learning science, large scale software systems, a strong technical ability, great communication skills, and a motivation to solve new, ambiguous problems.Unique Opportunities· Global impact on hundreds of millions of Amazon customers· Opportunities to publish both internally and externally· Close-knit partnership with science-smart developers - your improvements can roll out in days, not months, because engineers understand your work· Access to Amazon-scale datasets, spanning hundreds of billions of facts· Support from over 100 dedicated language experts and SMEs to label, validate, and test your hypothesis· Challenging, cutting-edge science problems that cross multiple domains (such as textual, semantic and image-aware Transformer models )Key Responsibilities· Develop production-ready machine learning solutions to improve Amazon Product Catalog· Collaborate with and influence scientists and engineers in multiple teams· Refine existing techniques, optimizing accuracy, throughput, and global impact· Publish results internally and externally Machine Learning Scientist - Prime Video Recommendations US, WA, Seattle Want to watch a movie at the end of a long week, but not sure what to choose? Looking for a new show while you wait for the next season of Game of Thrones to start? So are millions of our Prime Video customers. The Prime Video Relevance team helps customers find relevant videos, channels and topics so they can find content they didn’t even known they were looking for, continuing to surprise them with the depth of our catalog.We tailor our recommendations through a variety of machine learning algorithms including deep learning neural networks, that you will help define and extend. We are looking for creative, customer and details obsessed machine learning scientists who can apply the latest research, state of the art algorithms and machine learning to build highly scalable recommendation and personalization systems. You'll have a chance to collaborate with talented teams of engineers and scientists to run these predictions on distributed systems at incredible scale and speed.As a member of the Prime Video Personalization organization, you will spend your time as a hands-on machine learning practitioner and a research leader. You will play a key role on the team, building and guiding machine learning models from the ground up. At then of the day, you will have the reward of seeing your contributions benefit millions of Amazon.com customers worldwide.Some examples of the things we work on:· Using Neural Networks and Deep Learning techniques to find titles that customers will enjoy· Build and operate services that deliver millions of recommendations per second· Extend models and algorithms to support our ever growing ways of consuming content (subscriptions, live, rentals etc), dealing with unique challenges such as observational bias and rapidly scaling dimensions· Constantly experimenting with changes to the underlying algorithms and models to deliver relevant content to a wide variety of customer experiencesIf you are ready to truly make an impact on a product that is used by millions of people around the world, including your own friends and family, then we would love to talk to you.Amazon.com is an Equal Opportunity-Affirmative Action Employer - Minority / Female / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation Applied Scientist I US, WA, Seattle Interested in modeling and understanding customer behavior through machine learning, artificial intelligence, and data mining over TB scale data with huge business impact on millions of customers? Join our team of Scientists and Engineers developing models to predict customer behavior and optimize the customer experience with Amazon Prime. This includes identifying who our customers are and providing them with personalized relevant content. As an ML expert, you will partner directly with product owners to intake, build, and directly apply your modeling solutions.There are numerous scientific and technical challenges you will get to tackle in this role, such as global scalability of models, combinatorial optimization, cold start problem, accelerated experimentation, short/long term goals modeling, cohort identification in a semi-supervised setting, and multi-step optimization leading to reinforcement learning of the customer journey. We employ techniques from supervised learning, bandits, optimization, and RL.As the central science team within Prime, our expertise gets routinely called upon to weigh in on a variety of topics. We also emphasize the need and value of scientific research and have developed a strong publication and patent record (internally/externally) which you will be a part of.You will also utilize and be exposed to the latest in ML technologies and infrastructure: AWS technologies (EMR/Spark, Redshift, Sagemaker, DynamoDB, S3, ...), various ML algorithms and techniques (XGBoost, Random Forests, Neural Networks, supervised/unsupervised/semi-supervised/reinforcement learning), and statistical modeling techniques.Major responsibilities· · Build and develop machine learning models and supporting infrastructure at TB scale, in coordination with software engineering teams.· · Leverage Bandits and Reinforcement Learning for Recommendation Systems.· · Develop offline policy estimation tools and integrate with reporting systems.· · Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large scale data analyses, model development, model validation and model implementation.· · Analyze and extract relevant information from large amounts of Amazon’s historical business data to help automate and optimize key processes.· · Work closely with the business to understand their problem space, identify the opportunities and formulate the problems.· · Use machine learning, data mining, statistical techniques and others to create actionable, meaningful, and scalable solutions for the business problems.· · Design, develop and evaluate highly innovative models and statistical approaches to understand and predict customer behavior and to solve business problems. Applied Scientist II US, WA, Seattle Interested in modeling and understanding customer behavior through machine learning, artificial intelligence, and data mining over TB scale data with huge business impact on millions of customers? Join our team of Scientists and Engineers developing models to predict customer behavior and optimize the customer experience with Amazon Prime. This includes identifying who our customers are and providing them with personalized relevant content. As an ML expert, you will partner directly with product owners to intake, build, and directly apply your modeling solutions.There are numerous scientific and technical challenges you will get to tackle in this role, such as global scalability of models, combinatorial optimization, cold start problem, accelerated experimentation, short/long term goals modeling, cohort identification in a semi-supervised setting, and multi-step optimization leading to reinforcement learning of the customer journey. We employ techniques from supervised learning, bandits, optimization, and RL.As the central science team within Prime, our expertise gets routinely called upon to weigh in on a variety of topics. We also emphasize the need and value of scientific research and have developed a strong publication and patent record (internally/externally) which you will be a part of.You will also utilize and be exposed to the latest in ML technologies and infrastructure: AWS technologies (EMR/Spark, Redshift, Sagemaker, DynamoDB, S3, ...), various ML algorithms and techniques (XGBoost, Random Forests, Neural Networks, supervised/unsupervised/semi-supervised/reinforcement learning), and statistical modeling techniques.Major responsibilities· · Build and develop machine learning models and supporting infrastructure at TB scale, in coordination with software engineering teams.· · Leverage Bandits and Reinforcement Learning for Recommendation Systems.· · Develop offline policy estimation tools and integrate with reporting systems.· · Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large scale data analyses, model development, model validation and model implementation.· · Analyze and extract relevant information from large amounts of Amazon’s historical business data to help automate and optimize key processes.· · Work closely with the business to understand their problem space, identify the opportunities and formulate the problems.· · Use machine learning, data mining, statistical techniques and others to create actionable, meaningful, and scalable solutions for the business problems.· · Design, develop and evaluate highly innovative models and statistical approaches to understand and predict customer behavior and to solve business problems. Research Scientist US, WA, Seattle Are you excited about powering Amazon’s physical stores’ expansion through the application of Machine Learning and Big Data technologies? Do you thrive in a fast-moving, innovative environment that values data-driven decision making, scalable solutions, and sound scientific practices? We are looking for experienced scientists to build the next level of intelligence that will help Amazon physical stores grow and succeed.Our team is responsible for building the core intelligence, insights, and algorithms that support the real estate acquisition strategies for Amazon physical stores. We are tackling cutting-edge, complex problems — such as predicting the optimal location for new Amazon stores — by bringing together numerous data assets from disparate sources inside and outside of Amazon, and using best-in-class modeling solutions to extract the most information out of them.You will have a proven track-record of delivering solutions using advanced science approaches. You will be comfortable using a variety of tools and data sources to answer high-impact business questions. You will transform one-off models into automated systems. You will be able to break down complex information and insights into clear and concise language and be comfortable presenting your findings to audiences with a broad range of backgrounds.Responsibilities:· Develop production software systems utilizing advanced algorithms to solve business problems.· Analyze and validate data to ensure high data quality and reliable insights.· Partner with data engineering teams across multiple business lines to improve data assets, quality, metrics and insights.· Proactively identify interesting areas for deep dive investigations and future product development.· Design and execute experiments, and analyze experimental results in collaboration with Product Managers, Business Analysts, Economists, and other specialists.· Leverage industry best practices to establish repeatable applied science practices, principles & processes. Economist US, WA, Seattle Global Talent Management (GTM) at Amazon owns a suite of products which helps drive career development for hundreds of thousands of Amazonians across the world. GTM - Science utilizes a wide array of data sources to conduct analytics and create predictive models that fuel recommendations, actions, and insights in nearly a dozen software systems. The team itself is composed of a variety of scientists and engineers with varied backgrounds, coming together to create diverse and innovative solutions to the problems faced by the one of the world’s largest and fastest growing workforces.This role will support the advancement of key workforce planning products owned by the team. The role will be a scientific lead for forecasting in the organization and a thought leader for forecasting applications throughout HR. If you’re interested in building models used regularly by thousands of Amazonians, to inform talent management decisions, this role is for you. You will support interesting, analytical problems, in an environment where you get to learn from other experienced economists and apply econometrics at massive scale.You will build econometric models, using our world class data systems, and apply economic theory to solve business problems in a fast moving environment. Economists at Amazon will be expected to develop new techniques to process large data sets, address quantitative problems, and contribute to design of automated systems around the company.· Build and operationalize econometric and statistical models· Perform model refreshes or updates to analyses as needed· Work collaboratively with economists and research scientists to assist in the design and implementation of analysis to answer challenging HR questions· Interpret and communicate results to outside customers· Aggregate and analyze data pulled from disparate sources (HR, Finance or other business systems) and related industry and external benchmarks; provide insights and a point of view on analysis and recommendations· Assist in the design and delivery of automated, scalable analytical models to stakeholders· Report results in a manner which is both statistically rigorous and compellingly relevant Economist US, VA, Arlington Global Talent Management (GTM) at Amazon owns a suite of products which helps drive career development for hundreds of thousands of Amazonians across the world. GTM - Science utilizes a wide array of data sources to conduct analytics and create predictive models that fuel recommendations, actions, and insights in nearly a dozen software systems. The team itself is composed of a variety of scientists and engineers with varied backgrounds, coming together to create diverse and innovative solutions to the problems faced by the one of the world’s largest and fastest growing workforces.This role will support the advancement of key workforce planning products owned by the team. The role will be a scientific lead for forecasting in the organization and a thought leader for forecasting applications throughout HR. If you’re interested in building models used regularly by thousands of Amazonians, to inform talent management decisions, this role is for you. These are exciting fast-paced businesses in which work on extremely interesting analytical problems, in an environment where you get to learn from other experienced economists and apply econometrics at massive scale.You will build econometric models, using our world class data systems, and apply economic theory to solve business problems in a fast moving environment. Economists at Amazon will be expected to develop new techniques to process large data sets, address quantitative problems, and contribute to design of automated systems around the company.· Build and operationalize econometric and statistical models· Perform model refreshes or updates to analyses as needed· Work collaboratively with economists and research scientists to assist in the design and implementation of analysis to answer challenging HR questions· Interpret and communicate results to outside customers· Aggregate and analyze data pulled from disparate sources (HR, Finance or other business systems) and related industry and external benchmarks; provide insights and a point of view on analysis and recommendations· Assist in the design and delivery of automated, scalable analytical models to stakeholders· Report results in a manner which is both statistically rigorous and compellingly relevant About Latest news Research areas Research areas Cloud and systems Developing new technologies that offer increased computing power, expanded database storage, faster content delivery, and other capabilities. 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