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applied scientist prime video content reasoning enrichment and localization team

Amazon.com

<div><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>DESCRIPTION</b></h2><p>
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 &ndash; including Amazon MGM Studios-produced series and movies; licensed fan favorites; and programming from Prime Video subscriptions such as Apple TV+, HBO Max, Peacock, 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.<br>
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Are you interested in shaping the future of entertainment? Prime Video's technology teams are creating best-in-class digital video experience.
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As a Prime Video team member, you&rsquo;ll have end-to-end ownership of the product, user experience, design, and technology required to deliver state-of-the-art experiences for our customers. You&rsquo;ll get to work on projects that are fast-paced, challenging, and varied. You&rsquo;ll also be able to experiment with new possibilities, take risks, and collaborate with remarkable people.<br>
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We&rsquo;ll look for you to bring your diverse perspectives, ideas, and skill-sets to make Prime Video even better for our customers. With global opportunities for talented technologists, you can decide where a career Prime Video Tech takes you!<br>
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Key job responsibilities<br>
We are looking for passionate, hard-working, and talented individuals to help us push the envelope of content localization. We work on a broad array of research areas and applications, including but not limited to multimodal machine translation, speech synthesis, speech analysis, and asset quality assessment. Candidates should be prepared to help drive innovation in one or more areas of machine learning, audio processing, and natural language understanding.<br>
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The ideal candidate would have experience in audio processing, natural language understanding and machine learning. Familiarity with machine translation, foundational models, and speech synthesis will be a plus. As an Applied Scientist, you should be a strong communicator, able to describe scientifically rigorous work to business stakeholders of varying levels of technical sophistication. You will closely partner with the solution development teams, and should be intensely curious about how the research is moving the needle for business. Strong inter-personal and mentoring skills to develop applied science talent in the team is another important requirement.</p><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS</b></h2><ul><li>3+ years of building models for business application experience</li><li>PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience</li><li>Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language</li><li>Experience in any of the following areas: algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, high-performance computing</li></ul><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS</b></h2><ul><li>4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience</li><li>Have publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals</li></ul><br>
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.<br>
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Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you&rsquo;re applying in isn&rsquo;t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.<p><br>
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life &amp; AD&amp;D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.</p><br>
USA, WA, Seattle - 142,800.00 - 193,200.00 USD annually</div><p></p>

Applied Scientist, Prime Video - Content Reasoning, Enrichment and Localization Team

<div><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>DESCRIPTION</b></h2><div>
Customer Experience and Business Trends (CXBT) is looking for an Applied Scientist to join their team. CXBT's mission is to create best-in-class AI agents that seamlessly integrate multimodal inputs like speech, images, and video, enabling natural, empathetic, and adaptive interactions. We leverage advanced architectures, cross-modal learning, interpretability, and responsible AI techniques to provide coherent, context-aware responses augmented by real-time knowledge retrieval.<br>
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The ideal candidate will have expertise in Large Language Models (LLMs), speech, audio, Natural Language processing (NLP) or multimodal learning to pioneer innovations in data simulation, representation, generation, reasoning, retrieval, and evaluation.<br>
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Key job responsibilities<br>
<ul><li>Build scalable solutions for real-time conversational experiences, including multilingual support, customizable personalities, and conversational turn-taking.</li><li>Develop data simulation approaches that mimic real-world speech interactions.</li><li>Research and implement novel algorithms and modeling techniques.</li><li>Acquire and curate diverse datasets while ensuring user privacy.</li><li>Create robust evaluation metrics and test sets to assess language model performance.</li><li>Integrate human feedback to improve data selection and model performance.</li><li>Innovate in data representation and model training techniques.</li><li>Apply responsible AI practices throughout the development process.</li></ul><br>
A day in the life<br>
Our team is dedicated to improving Amazon's products and services through evaluation of the end-to-end customer experience using both internal and external processes and technology. Our mission is to deeply understand our customers' experiences, challenge the status quo, and provide insights that drive innovation to improve that experience. Through our analysis and insights, we inform business decisions that directly impact customer experience as customers of new GenAI and LLM technologies.<br>
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About the team<br>
Customer Experience and Business Trends (CXBT) is an organization made up of a diverse suite of functions dedicated to deeply understanding and improving customer experience, globally. We are a team of builders that develop products, services, ideas, and various ways of leveraging data to influence product and service offerings &ndash; for almost every business at Amazon &ndash; for every customer (e.g., consumers, developers, sellers/brands, employees, investors, streamers, gamers).<br>
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Our approach is based on determining the customer need, along with problem solving, and we work backwards from there. We use technical and non-technical approaches and stay aware of industry and business trends. We are a global team, made up of a diverse set of profiles, skills, and backgrounds &ndash; including: Product Managers, Software Developers, Computer Vision experts, Solutions Architects, Data Scientists, Business Intelligence Engineers, Business Analysts, Risk Managers, and more.</div><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS</b></h2><ul><li>3+ years of building machine learning models for business application experience</li><li>PhD, or Master's degree and 6+ years of applied research experience</li><li>Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language</li><li>Experience with neural deep learning methods and machine learning</li></ul><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS</b></h2><ul><li>Experience with modeling tools such as R, scikit-learn, Spark MLLib, MxNet, Tensorflow, numpy, scipy etc.</li><li>Experience with large scale distributed systems such as Hadoop, Spark etc.</li></ul><br>
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.<br>
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Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you&rsquo;re applying in isn&rsquo;t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.<p><br>
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life &amp; AD&amp;D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.</p><br>
USA, VA, Arlington - 167,100.00 - 226,100.00 USD annually<br>
USA, WA, Seattle - 167,100.00 - 226,100.00 USD annually</div><p></p>

Senior Applied Scientist, Customer Experience and Business Trends

<div><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>DESCRIPTION</b></h2><div>
Amazon's Price Perception and Evaluation team is seeking a driven Applied Scientist to harness planet scale multi-modal datasets, and navigate a continuously evolving competitor landscape, in order to build and scale an advanced self-learning scientific price estimation and product understanding system, regularly generating fresh customer-relevant prices on billions of Amazon and Third Party Seller products worldwide.
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The Applied Scientist will work closely with other research scientists, machine learning experts, and economists to design and run experiments, research new algorithms, and find new ways to improve Seller Pricing to optimize the Customer experience. The Scientist will partner with technology and product leaders to solve business and technology problems using scientific approaches to build new services that surprise and delight our customers.<br>
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Key job responsibilities<br>
<ul><li>Research and use of statistical techniques to create scalable solutions for business problems.</li><li>Design, build, and deploy effective and innovative ML solutions to provide low prices and increased selection for customers using scientifically-based methods and decision making.</li><li>Evaluate the proposed solutions via offline benchmark tests as well as online A/B tests in production.</li><li>Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large scale data analyses, model development, validation and implementation.</li><li>Publish and present your work at internal and external scientific venues.</li></ul></div><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS</b></h2><ul><li>3+ years of building models for business application experience</li><li>PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience</li><li>Experience in patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals</li><li>Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language</li></ul><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS</b></h2><ul><li>Experience building machine learning models or developing algorithms for business application</li><li>Experience applying theoretical models in an applied environment</li><li>Usage of generative AI tools to enhance workflow efficiency, with a willingness to learn effective prompting and evaluation practices</li><li>Ability to recognize opportunities where generative AI could enhance products, workflows, or customer experiences</li></ul><br>
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.<br>
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Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you&rsquo;re applying in isn&rsquo;t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.<p><br>
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life &amp; AD&amp;D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.</p><br>
USA, WA, Seattle - 142,800.00 - 193,200.00 USD annually</div><p></p>

Applied Scientist, Price Perception and Evaluation Science

<div><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>DESCRIPTION</b></h2><div>
Customer Experience and Business Trends (CXBT) is looking for an Applied Scientist to join their team. CXBT's mission is to create best-in-class AI agents that seamlessly integrate multimodal inputs like speech, images, and video, enabling natural, empathetic, and adaptive interactions. We leverage advanced architectures, cross-modal learning, interpretability, and responsible AI techniques to provide coherent, context-aware responses augmented by real-time knowledge retrieval.<br>
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The ideal candidate will have expertise in Large Language Models (LLMs), speech, audio, Natural Language processing (NLP) or multimodal learning to pioneer innovations in data simulation, representation, generation, reasoning, retrieval, and evaluation.<br>
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Key job responsibilities<br>
<ul><li>Build scalable solutions for real-time conversational experiences, including multilingual support, customizable personalities, and conversational turn-taking.</li><li>Develop data simulation approaches that mimic real-world speech interactions.</li><li>Research and implement novel algorithms and modeling techniques.</li><li>Acquire and curate diverse datasets while ensuring user privacy.</li><li>Create robust evaluation metrics and test sets to assess language model performance.</li><li>Integrate human feedback to improve data selection and model performance.</li><li>Innovate in data representation and model training techniques.</li><li>Apply responsible AI practices throughout the development process.</li></ul><br>
A day in the life<br>
Our team is dedicated to improving Amazon's products and services through evaluation of the end-to-end customer experience using both internal and external processes and technology. Our mission is to deeply understand our customers' experiences, challenge the status quo, and provide insights that drive innovation to improve that experience. Through our analysis and insights, we inform business decisions that directly impact customer experience as customers of new GenAI and LLM technologies.<br>
<br>
About the team<br>
Customer Experience and Business Trends (CXBT) is an organization made up of a diverse suite of functions dedicated to deeply understanding and improving customer experience, globally. We are a team of builders that develop products, services, ideas, and various ways of leveraging data to influence product and service offerings &ndash; for almost every business at Amazon &ndash; for every customer (e.g., consumers, developers, sellers/brands, employees, investors, streamers, gamers).<br>
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Our approach is based on determining the customer need, along with problem solving, and we work backwards from there. We use technical and non-technical approaches and stay aware of industry and business trends. We are a global team, made up of a diverse set of profiles, skills, and backgrounds &ndash; including: Product Managers, Software Developers, Computer Vision experts, Solutions Architects, Data Scientists, Business Intelligence Engineers, Business Analysts, Risk Managers, and more.</div><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS</b></h2><ul><li>3+ years of building models for business application experience</li><li>PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience</li><li>Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language</li><li>Experience in any of the following areas: algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, high-performance computing</li></ul><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS</b></h2><ul><li>Experience using Unix/Linux</li><li>Experience in professional software development</li></ul><br>
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.<br>
<br>
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you&rsquo;re applying in isn&rsquo;t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.<p><br>
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life &amp; AD&amp;D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.</p><br>
USA, VA, Arlington - 142,800.00 - 193,200.00 USD annually<br>
USA, WA, Seattle - 142,800.00 - 193,200.00 USD annually</div><p></p>

Applied Scientist, Customer Experience and Business Trends

<div><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>DESCRIPTION</b></h2><div>
Amazon's Pricing Science is seeking a driven Applied Scientist to harness planet scale multi-modal datasets, and navigate a continuously evolving competitor landscape, in order to regularly generate fresh customer-relevant prices on billions of Amazon products worldwide.<br>
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We are looking for a talented, organized, and customer-focused applied researchers to join our Pricing Optimization science group, with a charter to measure, refine, and launch customer-obsessed improvements to our pricing algorithms across all products listed on Amazon.<br>
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This role requires an individual with exceptional machine learning and predictive modeling skills, causal and experimental evaluation experience, excellent cross-functional collaboration skills and business acumen, and an entrepreneurial spirit.
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We are looking for an experienced innovator, who is a self-starter, comfortable with ambiguity, demonstrates strong attention to detail, and has the ability to work independently to deliver business impact.<br>
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Key job responsibilities<br>
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<ul><li>See the big picture. Understand and develop science to influence the long term vision for Amazon's science-based competitive, perception-preserving pricing techniques</li></ul><br>
<ul><li>Build strong collaborations. Partner with product, engineering, and data teams within Pricing &amp; Promotions to deploy models at Amazon scale</li></ul><br>
<ul><li>Stay informed. Establish mechanisms to stay up to date on latest scientific advancements in machine learning, reinforcement learning, causal ML, and multi-objective optimization techniques. Identify opportunities to apply them to relevant Pricing &amp; Promotions business problems</li></ul><br>
<ul><li>Keep innovating for our customers. Foster an environment that promotes rapid experimentation, continuous learning, and incremental value delivery.</li></ul><br>
<ul><li>Successfully execute &amp; deliver. Apply your exceptional technical machine learning expertise to incrementally move the needle on some of our hardest pricing problems.</li></ul><br>
A day in the life<br>
We are hiring an applied scientist to drive our pricing optimization initiatives. The Price Optimization science team drives cross-domain and cross-system improvements through:<br>
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<ul><li>invent and deliver price optimization, simulation, and competitiveness tools for Sellers.
</li><li>shape and extend our RL optimization platform - a pricing centric tool that automates the optimization of various system parameters and price inputs.
</li><li>Promotion optimization initiatives exploring CX, discount amount, and cross-product optimization opportunities.</li><li>Identifying opportunities to optimally price across systems and contexts (marketplaces, request types, event periods)</li></ul><br>
Price is a highly relevant input into many partner-team architectures, and is highly relevant to the customer, therefore this role creates the opportunity to drive extremely large impact (measured in Bs not Ms), but demands careful thought and clear communication.<br>
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About the team<br>
About the team: the Pricing Discovery and Optimization team within P2 Science owns price quality, discovery and discount optimization initiatives, including criteria for internal price matching, price discovery into search, p13N and SP, pricing bandits, and Promotion type optimization. We leverage planet scale data on billions of Amazon and external competitor products to build advanced optimization models for pricing, elasticity estimation, product substitutability, and optimization. We preserve long term customer trust by ensuring Amazon's prices are always competitive and error free.</div><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS</b></h2><ul><li>PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience</li><li>Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language</li><li>Experience in any of the following areas: algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, high-performance computing</li><li>2+ years of hands-on predictive modeling and large data analysis experience</li><li>Experience in solving business problems through machine learning, data mining and statistical algorithms</li></ul><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS</b></h2><ul><li>Experience building machine learning models or developing algorithms for business application</li><li>Experience in patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals</li><li>Experience with training and deploying machine learning systems to solve large-scale optimizations</li></ul><br>
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.<br>
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Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you&rsquo;re applying in isn&rsquo;t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.<p><br>
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life &amp; AD&amp;D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.</p><br>
USA, WA, Seattle - 142,800.00 - 193,200.00 USD annually</div><p></p>

Applied Scientist, Pricing Science

Alignerr

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  About The Role
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 We&rsquo;re looking for entrepreneurship instructors to help evaluate AI systems trained on startups, innovation, and business planning.
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   Location: Remote
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   Type: Hourly / Task-based Contract
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   Compensation: $35-70 /hour
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   Commitment: 10-40 hours/week
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   Review startup and entrepreneurship scenarios used in AI training.
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   Assess business models, assumptions, and go-to-market logic.
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   Identify unrealistic projections or flawed reasoning.
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   Provide structured feedback to improve practical relevance.
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   Work independently and asynchronously to meet project deadlines.
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   3+ years of experience teaching entrepreneurship or small business.
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   Strong understanding of business models and early-stage decision-making.
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   Able to critically evaluate written business plans and scenarios.
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   Comfortable providing applied, real-world feedback.
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   MBA or entrepreneurship-focused graduate degree.
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   Founder or startup advisory experience.
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   Familiarity with AI or content evaluation workflows.
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   Competitive pay and flexible remote work.
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   Exposure to advanced LLMs and how they&rsquo;re trained.
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   Freelance perks: autonomy, flexibility, and global collaboration.
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   Potential for contract extension.
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Entrepreneurship Instructor (AI Training)

<div><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>DESCRIPTION</b></h2><p>
Sponsored Products and Brands (SPB) is at the heart of Amazon Advertising, helping millions of advertisers&mdash;from small businesses to global brands&mdash;connect with customers at the moments that matter most. Our advertising solutions enable sellers, vendors, and brand owners to grow their businesses by reaching shoppers with relevant, engaging ads across Amazon's store and beyond. We're obsessed with delivering measurable results for advertisers while creating a delightful shopping experience for customers.<br>
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Are you interested in defining the science behind the future of advertising? Sponsored Products and Brands science teams are pioneering breakthrough agentic AI systems&mdash;pushing the boundaries of large language models, autonomous reasoning, planning, and decision-making to build intelligent agents that fundamentally transform how advertisers succeed on Amazon.<br>
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As an SPB applied science leader, you'll have end-to-end ownership of the product and scientific vision, research agenda, model architectures, and evaluation frameworks required to deliver state-of-the-art agentic AI solutions for our advertising customers. You'll get to work on problems that are fast-paced, scientifically rich, and deeply consequential. You'll also be able to explore novel research directions, take bold bets, and collaborate with remarkable scientists, engineers, and product leaders. We'll look for you to bring your diverse perspectives, deep technical expertise, and scientific rigor to make Amazon Advertising even better for our advertisers and customers. With global opportunities for talented scientists and science leaders, you can decide where a career in Amazon Ads Science takes you!<br>
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We are kicking off a new initiative within SPB to leverage agentic AI solutions to revolutionize how advertisers create, manage, and optimize their advertising campaigns. This is a unique opportunity to lead a business-critical applied science initiative from its inception&mdash;defining the scientific charter, establishing foundational research pillars, and building a multi-year science roadmap for transformative impact. As the single-threaded applied science leader, you will build and guide a dedicated team of applied scientists, research scientists, and machine learning engineers, working closely with cross-functional engineering and product partners, to research, develop, and deploy agentic AI systems that fundamentally reimagine the advertiser journey.<br>
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Your charter will begin with advancing the science behind intelligent agents that simplify campaign creation, automate optimization decisions through autonomous reasoning and planning, and deliver personalized advertising strategies at scale. You will pioneer novel approaches in areas such as LLM-based agent architectures, multi-step planning and tool use, retrieval-augmented generation, reinforcement learning from human and business feedback, and robust evaluation methodologies for agentic systems. You will expand to proactively identify and tackle the next generation of AI-powered advertising experiences across the entire SPB portfolio. This high-visibility role places you as the science leader driving our strategy to democratize advertising success&mdash;making it effortless for advertisers of all sizes to achieve their business goals while delivering relevant experiences for Amazon customers.<br>
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Key job responsibilities<br>
Build, mentor, and lead a new, high-performing applied science organization of applied scientists, research scientists, and engineers, fostering a culture of scientific excellence, innovation, customer obsession, and ownership.<br>
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Define, own, and drive the long-term scientific and product vision and research strategy for agentic AI-powered advertising experiences across Sponsored Products and Brands&mdash;identifying the highest-impact research problems and charting a path from exploration to production.<br>
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Lead the research, design, and development of novel agentic AI models and systems&mdash;including LLM-based agent architectures, multi-agent orchestration, planning and reasoning frameworks, tool-use mechanisms, and retrieval-augmented generation pipelines&mdash;that deliver measurable value for advertisers and create delightful, intuitive experiences.<br>
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Establish rigorous scientific methodology and evaluation frameworks for assessing agent performance, reliability, safety, and advertiser outcomes, setting a high bar for experimentation, reproducibility, and offline-to-online consistency.<br>
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Partner closely with senior business, engineering, and product leaders across Amazon Advertising to translate advertiser pain points and business opportunities into well-defined science problems, and deliver cohesive, production-ready solutions that drive advertiser success.<br>
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Drive execution from research to production at scale, ensuring models and agentic systems meet high standards for quality, robustness, latency, safety, and reliability for mission-critical advertising services operating at Amazon scale.<br>
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Champion a culture of scientific inquiry and technical depth that encourages bold experimentation, publication of novel research, relentless simplification, and continuous improvement.<br>
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Communicate your team's scientific vision, research breakthroughs, strategy, and progress to senior leadership and key stakeholders, ensuring alignment with broader Amazon Advertising objectives and contributing to Amazon's position at the forefront of applied AI.<br>
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Develop a science roadmap directly tied to advertiser outcomes, revenue growth, and business plans, delivering on commitments for high-impact research and modeling initiatives that shape the future of AI-powered digital advertising.</p><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS</b></h2><p>
Ph.D. in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Statistics, or a related quantitative field, or equivalent combination of M.S. and relevant experience.<br>
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10+ years experience in applied science, machine learning, GenAI/LLMs or AI research, with a strong track record of developing and deploying models and systems into production at scale.<br>
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5+ years experience managing and growing applied science or machine learning teams, including hiring, mentoring, and developing senior scientific talent.<br>
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Deep hands-on expertise in one or more of the following: large language models (LLMs), natural language processing, deep learning, reinforcement learning, or multi-agent systems.<br>
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Experience partnering with engineering, product, and program management teams to translate scientific research into customer-facing products and measurable business outcomes.<br>
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Proficiency in modern ML frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX) and programming languages commonly used in ML research and production (e.g., Python, Scala, Java).</p><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>
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Direct experience building or leading research and development of agentic AI systems, including LLM-based autonomous agents, multi-step planning and reasoning, tool use, and multi-agent orchestration.<br>
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Experience with large-scale LLM fine-tuning, prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF), and alignment techniques.<br>
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8+ years experience managing and growing applied science or machine learning teams, including hiring, mentoring, and developing senior scientific talent.<br>
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Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.<br>
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Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company&rsquo;s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.<br>
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Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you&rsquo;re applying in isn&rsquo;t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.</p><p><br>
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life &amp; AD&amp;D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.</p><br>
USA, CA, Palo Alto - 251,600.00 - 340,300.00 USD annually<br>
USA, NY, New York - 240,600.00 - 325,500.00 USD annually<br>
USA, WA, Seattle - 218,800.00 - 295,900.00 USD annually</div><p></p>

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