Amazon Research Awards

The awards program oﬀers unrestricted funds and AWS Promotional Credits to support research at academic institutions and non-profit organizations in areas that align with our mission to advance customer-obsessed science.

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Research stories

Learn how researchers have leveraged Amazon Research Awards support to innovate faster.
Recipients

Amazon is proud to support the work of these researchers and their projects.

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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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Manager, Applied Scientist

IN, TS, Hyderabad

Welcome to the Worldwide Returns & ReCommerce team (WWR&R) at Amazon.com. WWR&R is an agile, innovative organization dedicated to ‘making zero happen’ to benefit our customers, our company, and the environment. Our goal is to achieve the three zeroes: zero cost of returns, zero waste, and zero defects. We do this by developing products and driving truly innovative operational excellence to help customers keep what they buy, recover returned and damaged product value, keep thousands of tons of waste from landfills, and create the best customer returns experience in the world. We have an eye to the future – we create long-term value at Amazon by focusing not just on the bottom line, but on the planet. We are building the most sustainable… Read more

Applied Scientist, Personalization

GB, MLN, Edinburgh

We’re looking for a Machine Learning Scientist in the Personalization team for our Edinburgh office experienced in generative AI and large models. You will be responsible for developing and disseminating customer-facing personalized recommendation models. This is a hands-on role with global impact working with a team of world-class engineers and scientists across the Edinburgh offices and wider organization. You will lead the design of machine learning models that scale to very large quantities of data, and serve high-scale low-latency recommendations to all customers worldwide. You will embody scientific rigor, designing and executing experiments to demonstrate the technical efficacy and business value of your methods. You will work alongside a… Read more

Senior Data Scientist - APS, Publisher Products

US, CA, Palo Alto

Amazon’s Advertising Technology team builds the technology infrastructure and ad serving systems to manage billions of advertising queries every day. The result is better quality advertising for publishers and more relevant ads for customers. In this organization you’ll experience the benefits of working in a dynamic, entrepreneurial environment, while leveraging the resources of Amazon.com (AMZN), one of the world's leading companies. Amazon Publisher Services (APS) helps publishers of all sizes and on all channels better monetize their content through effective advertising. APS unites publishers with advertisers across devices and media channels. We work with Amazon teams across the globe to solve complex problems for our customers.… Read more

Applied Scientist , Amazon

US, WA, Seattle

Amazon Advertising operates at the intersection of eCommerce and advertising, and is investing heavily in building a world-class advertising business. We are defining and delivering a collection of self-service performance advertising products that drive discovery and sales. Our products are strategically important to our Retail and Marketplace businesses driving long-term growth. We deliver billions of ad impressions and millions of clicks daily and are breaking fresh ground to create world-class products to improve both shopper and advertiser experience. With a broad mandate to experiment and innovate, we grow at an unprecedented rate with a seemingly endless range of new opportunities. The Ad Response Prediction team in Sponsored Products organization… Read more

Sr. Applied Scientist, Prime Video Peak Forecasting

US, WA, Seattle

Prime Video is a first-stop entertainment destination offering customers a vast collection of premium programming in one app available across thousands of devices. Prime members can customize their viewing experience and find their favorite movies, series, documentaries, and live sports – including Amazon MGM Studios-produced series and movies; licensed fan favorites; and programming from Prime Video add-on subscriptions such as Apple TV+, Max, Crunchyroll and MGM+. All customers, regardless of whether they have a Prime membership or not, can rent or buy titles via the Prime Video Store, and can enjoy even more content for free with ads. Are you interested in shaping the future of entertainment? Prime Video's technology teams are… Read more

Applied Scientist, Optimization, Amazon Transportation

US, WA, Bellevue

mmPROS Surface Research Science seeks an exceptional Applied Scientist with expertise in optimization and machine learning to optimize Amazon's middle mile transportation network, the backbone of its logistics operations. Amazon's middle mile transportation network utilizes a fleet of semi-trucks, trains, and airplanes to transport millions of packages and other freight between warehouses, vendor facilities, and customers, on time and at low cost. The Surface Research Science team delivers innovation, models, algorithms, and other scientific solutions to efficiently plan and operate the middle mile surface (truck and rail) transportation network. The team focuses on large-scale problems in vehicle route planning, capacity procurement, network design,… Read more

Economist, P2 Science, Data, and Insights

US, WA, Seattle

We are seeking a economic scientist with demonstrated experience in A/B testing along with related experience with observational causal modeling (e.g. synthetic controls, causal matrix completion). Our team owns "causal inference as a service" for the Pricing and Promotions organization; we run A/B tests on new pricing, promotions, and pricing/promotions CX algorithms and, where experimentation is impractical, conduct observational causal studies. Key job responsibilities We are seeking a senior scientist to help envision, design, and build the next generation of pricing, promotions, and pricing/promotions CX for Amazon. On our team, you will work at the intersection of economic theory, statistical inference, and machine learning to design and… Read more

Applied Scientist, SSG Science

IN, KA, Bengaluru

Amazon Devices is an inventive research and development company that designs and engineer high-profile devices like the Kindle family of products, Fire Tablets, Fire TV, Health Wellness, Amazon Echo & Astro products. This is an exciting opportunity to join Amazon in developing state-of-the-art techniques that bring Gen AI on edge for our consumer products. We are looking for exceptional scientists to join our Applied Science team and help develop the next generation of edge models, and optimize them while doing co-designed with custom ML HW based on a revolutionary architecture. Work hard. Have Fun. Make History. Key job responsibilities - Quantize, prune, distill, finetune Gen AI models to optimize for edge platforms - Fundamentally… Read more

Senior Applied Scientist, Selling Partner Support Engagement

CA, BC, Vancouver

At Amazon, we strive every day to be Earth’s most customer centric company. Selling Partner Support Engagement (SPSE) Science delivers on this by building AI-enhanced experiences and automation that help to provide world class support to our global network of selling partners. We building at the cutting edge of Gen AI applications, working to tackle the many challenges that we confront caused by the volume, diversity, and complexity of our selling partner's needs… and we are always striving to do better. Do you want to join an innovative team who creatively applies techniques ranging from statistics and traditional machine learning to deep learning, natural language processing, and generative models? A team that drives our flywheel of improvement by… Read more

Kuiper Consumer Senior Data Scientist, Project Kuiper

GB, London

Are you passionate about bringing connectivity to underserved customers? Do you want to work in a dynamic team building, launching and operating a satellite service for consumers from the ground up? Project Kuiper is an initiative to launch a constellation of Low Earth Orbit satellites that will provide low-latency, high-speed broadband connectivity to unserved and underserved communities around the world. Project Kuiper is looking for a talented individual to deliver Europe Business Analytics. This role is responsible for developing and optimizing metrics to track business growth, subscriber acquisition, and demand planning; as well as field operations volume, customer contacts, and inventory trends for operational planning in the Europe. The ideal… Read more