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The ARA support has substantially helped crystallize our group's formulations and algorithms for fairness in cloud services, efficiency in online advertising, and the tradeoffs between efficiency and fairness in online services.

Aravind Srinivasan, University of Maryland, College Park

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This project has a huge impact on the society and healthcare because it allows to provide timely and accurate diagnosis of neurological speech disorders (e.g., dystonia). The MLRA enabled us to use cutting-edge GPU capabilities to develop, train and validate our deep learning models for diagnosis of neurological speech disorders.

Kristina Simonyan, Harvard Medical School

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The generous award provide by AWS has helped us to pump-prime novel research on the interface of climate science and machine learning. It also allowed us to make significant progress in understanding the benefits of using the cloud for ML focused climate research (on clouds).

Philip Stier, University of Oxford

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The award allowed us to scale up our experiments to learn traffic smoothing algorithms in high fidelity simulations. The RL policies learned from the work are now in the process of being transferred to actual vehicles for field operational testing on California freeways.

Alexandre Bayen, University of California, Berkeley

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Applied Scientist II

US, NY, New York

If you are interested in this position, please apply on Twitch's Career site https://www.twitch.tv/jobs/en/ About Twitch Launched in 2011, Twitch is a global community that comes together each day to create multiplayer entertainment: unique, live, unpredictable experiences created by the interactions of millions. We bring the joy of co-op to everything, from casual gaming to world-class esports to anime marathons, music, and art streams. Twitch also hosts TwitchCon, where we bring everyone together to celebrate and grow their personal interests and passions. We're always live at Twitch. About the Position We are looking for applied scientists to solve challenging and open-ended problems in the domain of user and content safety. As an applied scientist on Twitch's Community team, you will use machine learning to develop data products tackling problems such as harassment, spam, and illegal content. You will use a wide toolbox of ML tools to handle multiple types of data, including user behavior, metadata, and user generated content such as text and video. You will collaborate with a team of passionate scientists and engineers to develop these models and put them into production, where they can help Twitch's creators and viewers succeed and build communities. You will report to an Applied Science Manager. This position can be located in San Francisco, CA; Seattle, WA; and New York, NY. You Will - Build machine learning products to protect Twitch and its users from abusive behavior such as harassment, spam, and violent or illegal content. - Work backwards from customer problems to develop the right solution for the job, whether a classical ML model or a state-of-the-art one. - Collaborate with Community Health's engineering and product management team to productionize your models into flexible data pipelines and ML-based services. - Continue to learn and experiment with new techniques in ML, software engineering, or safety so that we can better help communities on Twitch grow and stay safe. Perks - Medical, Dental, Vision & Disability Insurance - 401(k) - Maternity & Parental Leave - Flexible PTO - Amazon Employee Discount - Monthly Contribution & Discounts for Wellness Related Activities & Programs (e.g., gym memberships, off-site massages, etc.) We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations: New York, NY, USA | San Francisco, CA, USA | Seattle, WA, USA

Applied Scientist II

US, NY, New York

If you are interested in this position, please apply on Twitch's Career site https://www.twitch.tv/jobs/en/ About Twitch Launched in 2011, Twitch is a global community that comes together each day to create multiplayer entertainment: unique, live, unpredictable experiences created by the interactions of millions. We bring the joy of co-op to everything, from casual gaming to world-class esports to anime marathons, music, and art streams. Twitch also hosts TwitchCon, where we bring everyone together to celebrate and grow their personal interests and passions. We're always live at Twitch. About the Position We are looking for applied scientists to solve challenging and open-ended problems in the domain of user and content safety. As an applied scientist on Twitch's Community team, you will use machine learning to develop data products tackling problems such as harassment, spam, and illegal content. You will use a wide toolbox of ML tools to handle multiple types of data, including user behavior, metadata, and user generated content such as text and video. You will collaborate with a team of passionate scientists and engineers to develop these models and put them into production, where they can help Twitch's creators and viewers succeed and build communities. You will report to an Applied Science Manager. This position can be located in San Francisco, CA; Seattle, WA; and New York, NY. You Will - Build machine learning products to protect Twitch and its users from abusive behavior such as harassment, spam, and violent or illegal content. - Work backwards from customer problems to develop the right solution for the job, whether a classical ML model or a state-of-the-art one. - Collaborate with Community Health's engineering and product management team to productionize your models into flexible data pipelines and ML-based services. - Continue to learn and experiment with new techniques in ML, software engineering, or safety so that we can better help communities on Twitch grow and stay safe. Perks - Medical, Dental, Vision & Disability Insurance - 401(k) - Maternity & Parental Leave - Flexible PTO - Amazon Employee Discount - Monthly Contribution & Discounts for Wellness Related Activities & Programs (e.g., gym memberships, off-site massages, etc.) We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations: New York, NY, USA | San Francisco, CA, USA | Seattle, WA, USA

Sr. Applied Scientist, Support Products & Services

US, WA, Seattle

Are you fascinated by the power of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Large Language Models (LLM) to transform the way we interact with technology? Are you fascinated by the use of Generative AI to build an advertiser facing solution that predict problems and coach users while they solve real word problems? Are you passionate about applying advanced machine learning techniques to solve complex challenges in the customer service space? If so, Amazon's Support Product & Services (SP&S) team has an exciting opportunity for you as an Applied Scientist. Key job responsibilities • Apply your expertise in LLM models to design, develop, and implement scalable machine learning solutions that address complex language-related challenges in the advertising support center domain. • Use Transformers and apply other NLP techniques like Sentence embeddings, Dimensionality reduction, clustering and topic modeling to identify customer intents and utterances. • Use services like AWS Lex, AWS Bedrock etc. to develop advertising facing solutions • Work closely with teams of scientists and software engineers to drive real-time model implementations and deliver novel and highly impactful solutions. • Automating feedback loops for algorithms in production. • Setup and monitor alarms to detect anomalous data patterns and perform root cause analyses to explain and address them. • Be a member of the Amazon-wide Machine Learning Community, participating in internal and external MeetUps, Hackathons and Conferences. A day in the life You will work closely with a cross functional team of Software Engineers, Product Owners, Data Scientists, and Contact Center experts. You will research and investigate the latest options in industry to apply machine learning and generative AI to real world problems. You will work backwards from customer problems and collaborate with stakeholders to determine how to scale new technology and integrate with complicated help channels used by advertisers everyday. About the team SP&S team provides solutions and libraries that are leveraged by teams all across Amazon Advertising to provide timely and personalized help. The team aims to predict Advertisers problems and proactively surface intelligent guidance to customers at the right time. As a AS, you will help the team to achieve its vision of building and implementing the next generation of Contact Center technology. You will build/leverage LLMs to train them on advertising support domain knowledge and work shoulder to shoulder with stakeholders to externalize to users in novel ways. We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations: Seattle, WA, USA

Data Scientist

SG, Singapore

Do you want to contribute to a team working on cutting edge technology, solve new problems that didn’t exist before, and have the ability to see the impact of your successes? Amazon is shaping the future of digital video entertainment. We seek experienced data scientists who can apply the latest research, state-of-the-art algorithms and machine learning to solve core problems in the video streaming space for Amazon. This is an exciting opportunity for candidates with a deep understanding of large data sets and structures, customer behavior and signals, machine learning algorithms and production pipelines. If you are passionate about solving complex problems in a challenging environment, we would love to talk with you. We are looking for a seasoned data scientist who can help us scale our video streaming and advertising business. He/She will develop and build machine learning models using large data-sets to improve our customer and advertiser experience, and will work closely with technology teams in deploying the models to production. He/She will work in a highly collaborative environment with some of the best engineers, marketers and product managers, and be part of a rapidly growing initiative which is going to become a huge area of growth for Amazon's Advertising business and pioneer the usage of new technology at Amazon scale. Key job responsibilities - Engage in advanced data analysis to uncover trends and correlations. Utilize statistical methods and tools to drive insightful recommendations for business strategies and process improvements. - Use the data insights to design, develop and build scalable and advanced machine learning models, algorithms and implement them in production through robust systems and architectures - Work closely with stakeholders across various departments including product, business analytics, marketing, operations and tech teams and influence business strategy - Be abreast of the advanced research and techniques in the deep-learning and artificial intelligence space, and conduct experiments to give the best output - Identify, develop, manage, and execute data analyses to uncover areas of opportunity and present business recommendations to drive cost benefit analysis and go/no-go decisions on various initiatives - Develop a roadmap and metrics to measure progress of the initiative they own - Lead initiatives for full-scale automation in collaboration with data engineering teams, enhancing data accuracy and operational efficiency We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations: Singapore, SGP

Data Scientist

SG, Singapore

Do you want to contribute to a team working on cutting edge technology, solve new problems that didn’t exist before, and have the ability to see the impact of your successes? Amazon is shaping the future of digital video entertainment. We seek experienced data scientists who can apply the latest research, state-of-the-art algorithms and machine learning to solve core problems in the video streaming space for Amazon. This is an exciting opportunity for candidates with a deep understanding of large data sets and structures, customer behavior and signals, machine learning algorithms and production pipelines. If you are passionate about solving complex problems in a challenging environment, we would love to talk with you. We are looking for a seasoned data scientist who can help us scale our video streaming and advertising business. He/She will develop and build machine learning models using large data-sets to improve our customer and advertiser experience, and will work closely with technology teams in deploying the models to production. He/She will work in a highly collaborative environment with some of the best engineers, marketers and product managers, and be part of a rapidly growing initiative which is going to become a huge area of growth for Amazon's Advertising business and pioneer the usage of new technology at Amazon scale. Key job responsibilities - Engage in advanced data analysis to uncover trends and correlations. Utilize statistical methods and tools to drive insightful recommendations for business strategies and process improvements. - Use the data insights to design, develop and build scalable and advanced machine learning models, algorithms and implement them in production through robust systems and architectures - Work closely with stakeholders across various departments including product, business analytics, marketing, operations and tech teams and influence business strategy - Be abreast of the advanced research and techniques in the deep-learning and artificial intelligence space, and conduct experiments to give the best output - Identify, develop, manage, and execute data analyses to uncover areas of opportunity and present business recommendations to drive cost benefit analysis and go/no-go decisions on various initiatives - Develop a roadmap and metrics to measure progress of the initiative they own - Lead initiatives for full-scale automation in collaboration with data engineering teams, enhancing data accuracy and operational efficiency We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations: Singapore, SGP

Data Scientist

SG, Singapore

Do you want to contribute to a team working on cutting edge technology, solve new problems that didn’t exist before, and have the ability to see the impact of your successes? Amazon is shaping the future of digital video entertainment. We seek experienced data scientists who can apply the latest research, state-of-the-art algorithms and machine learning to solve core problems in the video streaming space for Amazon. This is an exciting opportunity for candidates with a deep understanding of large data sets and structures, customer behavior and signals, machine learning algorithms and production pipelines. If you are passionate about solving complex problems in a challenging environment, we would love to talk with you. We are looking for a seasoned data scientist who can help us scale our video streaming and advertising business. He/She will develop and build machine learning models using large data-sets to improve our customer and advertiser experience, and will work closely with technology teams in deploying the models to production. He/She will work in a highly collaborative environment with some of the best engineers, marketers and product managers, and be part of a rapidly growing initiative which is going to become a huge area of growth for Amazon's Advertising business and pioneer the usage of new technology at Amazon scale. Key job responsibilities - Engage in advanced data analysis to uncover trends and correlations. Utilize statistical methods and tools to drive insightful recommendations for business strategies and process improvements. - Use the data insights to design, develop and build scalable and advanced machine learning models, algorithms and implement them in production through robust systems and architectures - Work closely with stakeholders across various departments including product, business analytics, marketing, operations and tech teams and influence business strategy - Be abreast of the advanced research and techniques in the deep-learning and artificial intelligence space, and conduct experiments to give the best output - Identify, develop, manage, and execute data analyses to uncover areas of opportunity and present business recommendations to drive cost benefit analysis and go/no-go decisions on various initiatives - Develop a roadmap and metrics to measure progress of the initiative they own - Lead initiatives for full-scale automation in collaboration with data engineering teams, enhancing data accuracy and operational efficiency We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations: Singapore, SGP

Data Scientist, 3P Supply

US, CA, Palo Alto

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! Key job responsibilities As a Data Scientist on this team, you will: - Conduct hands-on data analysis, build large-scale machine-learning models and pipelines - Work closely with software engineers on detailed requirements, technical designs and implementation of end-to-end solutions in production - Run regular A/B experiments, gather data, perform statistical analysis, and communicate the impact to senior management - Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large-scale data analysis, machine-learning model development, model validation and serving - Provide technical leadership, research new machine learning approaches to drive continued scientific innovation - Help attract and recruit technical talent - Drive end-to-end optimization projects that have a high degree of ambiguity, scale, complexity. - Build supply optimization 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. To meet Advertiser goals, we process over 3 million ad request per second. This team defines and delivers optimization solutions for this enormous volume of traffic filtering unnecessary ad request and processing only whats in-demand and brings value for our Advertisers. 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 We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations: Palo Alto, CA, USA

Applied Scientist, Amazon Robotics (AR)

US, WA, Seattle

As an Applied Scientist, you will lead and support the invention of foundation models for robotic perception and manipulation. You will collaborate with a team of scientists and engineers to develop new machine learning architectures and training methods and to adapt and fine-tune models for a variety of robotic tasks. You will work with platform teams to integrate these new models into existing and future robotic systems, evaluate their use in deployed systems, and invent new ways for these systems to improve over time. Your work and insights will help define the long-term strategy for the role of AI for computer vision and learned behaviors in Amazon’s autonomous robots. Key job responsibilities - Research vision - Where should we be focusing our efforts in this rapidly developing field - Research delivery – Proving/dis-proving strategies in offline data or in the lab to maximize progress and deliver results - Production studies - Insights from production systems and data A day in the life Every day you will be interacting with scientists and engineers based in Seattle, Boston, and Arlington. You will be interfacing with engineers and scientists building and deploying production systems, and you will interact with the team managing our data lake. You will be connecting the dots by finding the most effective way to exploit our data to impact production. Communication is essential, as well as making quick decisions and moving ahead as quickly as possible to try out ideas, discard the ones that don’t work, and leaning into those that do. Amazon offers a full range of benefits that support you and eligible family members, including domestic partners and their children. Benefits can vary by location, the number of regularly scheduled hours you work, length of employment, and job status such as seasonal or temporary employment. The benefits that generally apply to regular, full-time employees include: 1. Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage 2. Maternity and Parental Leave Options 3. Paid Time Off (PTO) 4. 401(k) Plan If you are not sure that every qualification on the list above describes you exactly, we'd still love to hear from you! At Amazon, we value people with unique backgrounds, experiences, and skillsets. If you’re passionate about this role and want to make an impact on a global scale, please apply! About the team Our team is small but our ambitions are big. We are primarily focused on building perception systems using computer vision and machine learning, but our outputs are grounded in the real physical world. We move fluidly between vision, robotics, and machine learning with a large dose of vision-language foundation models in the mix. Above all, we value creativity, effective communication, and an ability to provide the insights that will move us toward our ambitious goals. We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations: Seattle, WA, USA

Senior Applied Scientist, GenAIIC Custom Model Program

US, VA, Arlington

Are you looking to work at the forefront of Machine Learning and AI? Would you be excited to apply cutting edge Generative AI algorithms to solve real world problems with significant impact? The Generative AI Innovation Center at AWS is a new strategic team that helps AWS customers implement Generative AI solutions and realize transformational business opportunities. This is a team of strategists, data scientists, engineers, and solution architects working step-by-step with customers to build bespoke solutions that harness the power of generative AI. The team helps customers imagine and scope the use cases that will create the greatest value for their businesses, select and train and fine tune the right models, define paths to navigate technical or business challenges, develop proof-of-concepts, and make plans for launching solutions at scale. The GenAI Innovation Center team provides guidance on best practices for applying generative AI responsibly and cost efficiently. You will work directly with customers and innovate in a fast-paced organization that contributes to game-changing projects and technologies. You will design and run experiments, research new algorithms, and find new ways of optimizing risk, profitability, and customer experience. We’re looking for Applied Scientists capable of using GenAI and other techniques to design and implement state-of-the-art solutions for never-before-solved problems. A key focus of this role is GenAI model customization using techniques such as fine-tuning and continued pre-training to help customers build differentiating solutions with their unique data. 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. The AWS Global Support team interacts with leading companies and believes that world-class support is critical to customer success. AWS Support also partners with a global list of customers that are building mission-critical applications on top of AWS services. A day in the life About AWS Diverse Experiences AWS 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 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. We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations: Arlington, VA, USA | Atlanta, GA, USA | Chicago, IL, USA | Denver, CO, USA | Herndon, VA, USA | Jersey City, NJ, USA | New York, NY, USA | Santa Clara, CA, USA | Seattle, WA, USA | Washington, DC, USA

Sr. Data Scientist, Amazon Prime Video Customer Relationships & Marketing Tech

US, WA, Seattle

Prime Video offers customers a vast collection of movies, series, and sports - all available to watch on hundreds of compatible devices. U.S. Prime members can also subscribe to 100+ channels including Max, discovery+, Paramount+ with SHOWTIME, BET+, MGM+, ViX+, PBS KIDS, NBA League Pass, MLB.TV, and STARZ with no extra apps to download, and no cable required. Prime Video is just one of the savings, convenience, and entertainment benefits included in a Prime membership. More than 200 million Prime members in 24 countries around the world enjoy access to Amazon’s enormous selection, exceptional value, and fast delivery. In Prime Video's Customer Relationship and Marketing Tech (CRMT) team, our mission is to build and scale a holistic customer relationship management program and deliver automated and personalized marketing messages to Prime Video customers worldwide. Our team builds, maintains, and obsesses over our customer communication programs delivered in Prime Video’s owned marketing channels and surfaces, including customer emails, app push notifications, WhatsApp, and Amazon.com promotions. Our vision is to make sure every Amazon customer is engaged with Prime Video and the Amazon ecosystem across all points of their lifecycle journey wherever they are. As a Sr. Data Scientist in the Prime Video CRMT team, you will play a critical role in transforming the worldwide Prime Video marketing strategy and customer experience through building science solutions and collaborating with marketing leaders, as well as product and engineering teams. Leveraging cutting-edge statistical techniques, machine learning, causal inference, experiment design, and customer lifecycle segmentation analytics, you will inform and guide business and product strategy, personalize and optimize marketing solutions for Prime Video customers, and deliver timely, relevant, and engaging content across a wide range of marketing channels. Your innovative models will enable Prime Video to better understand customer needs and guide customers to discover content they'll enjoy. We are seeking an experienced and passionate data scientist to join us in revolutionizing the entertainment industry and be part of a team that values innovation, customer needs, and measurable results. Key job responsibilities - Design, implement, experiment, deploy, maintain, and optimize innovative science solutions to enhance the marketing strategy and personalize the customer experience. - Proactively seek out business opportunities and provide science-based frameworks and solutions. Automate and simplify processes and approaches where possible or necessary. - Translate complex and ambiguous business problem statements into clear, actionable science frameworks, maintaining a high standard throughout execution. - Collaborate closely with scientists, engineers, product managers, and marketing leaders to deliver impactful projects. - Present complex analytical results and insights to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, translating data into actionable business strategies. - Keep up-to-date with industry trends and drive innovation by exploring new technologies, methodologies, and best practices in data science and marketing analytics. - Provide guidance and mentorship to junior data scientists, fostering a culture of learning and innovation within the team. We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations: Seattle, WA, USA