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principal applied scientist amazon special projects

Amazon.com

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Innovators wanted! Are you an entrepreneur? A builder? A dreamer? This role is part of an Amazon Special Projects team that takes the company&rsquo;s Think Big leadership principle to the limits. If you&rsquo;re interested in innovating at scale to address big challenges in the world, this is the team for you.
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Our team rewards curiosity while maintaining a laser-focus in bringing products to market. Competitive candidates are responsive, flexible, and able to succeed within an open, collaborative, entrepreneurial, startup-like environment. At the forefront of both academic and applied research in this product area, you have the opportunity to work together with a diverse and talented team of scientists, engineers, and product managers and collaborate with other teams.<br>
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We are seeking a Principal Applied Scientist working on machine learning applications in life sciences. This role combines scientific leadership with hands-on innovation, driving solutions from exploratory research through production-ready solutions deployment, while maintaining high scientific standards. You will work with Amazon's large-scale computing resources to accelerate advances in machine learning applications.<br>
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Key job responsibilities<br>
<ul><li>Lead ML for life science efforts using computational design approaches and ML-based tools.</li><li>Guide teams in applying SOTA ML methods, experimentation design, and modeling approaches.</li><li>Transform complex real world problems into scientific challenges and allocate resources effectively.</li><li>Review requirements, conduct technical architecture reviews, and make informed judgments around technical and business tradeoffs.</li><li>Provide mentorship to Applied Scientists, Research Scientists and Data Scientists while maintaining scientific rigor.</li><li>Collaborate with cross functional teams.</li></ul></div><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b><br>
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS</b></h2><ul><li>Deep expertise in machine learning, with broad knowledge across biology and life science.</li><li>Strong understanding of scientific methodologies and experimental design.</li><li>Ability to develop production-level code and systems.</li><li>Track record of working with cross-functional scientific teams and fostering collaboration.</li><li>10+ years of relevant, broad research experience after a PhD degree in computer science, computational biology or relevant field .</li></ul><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS</b></h2><ul><li>Experience with deep learning frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow).</li><li>Familiarity with high-performance computing environments.</li><li>Experience with ML for science and structural biology tools.</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.<br>
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $179,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $309,400/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.</div>

Principal Applied Scientist, Amazon Special Projects

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The Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) team is looking for a passionate, talented, and inventive Principal Applied Scientist with a strong deep learning background, to lead the development of industry-leading technology with multimodal systems.<br>
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As a Principal Scientist within the Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) organization, you are a trusted part of the technical leadership. You bring business and industry context to science and technology decisions, set the standard for scientific excellence, and make decisions that affect the way we build and integrate algorithms.<br>
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A Principal Applied Scientist will solicit differing views across the organization and are willing to change your mind as you learn more. Your artifacts are exemplary and often used as reference across organization. You are a hands-on scientific leader; develop solutions that are exemplary in terms of algorithm design, clarity, model structure, efficiency, and extensibility; and tackle intrinsically hard problems, acquiring expertise as needed.<br>
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Principal Applied Scientists are expected to decompose complex problems into straightforward solutions. You amplify your impact by leading scientific reviews within your organization or at your location; and scrutinize and review experimental design, modeling, verification and other research procedures. You also probe assumptions, illuminate pitfalls, and foster shared understanding; align teams toward coherent strategies; and educate keeping the scientific community up to date on advanced techniques, state of the art approaches, the latest technologies, and trends.<br>
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AGI Principal Applied Scientists help managers guide the career growth of other scientists by mentoring and play a significant role in hiring and developing scientists and leads. You will play a critical role in driving the development of Generative AI (GenAI) technologies that can handle Amazon-scale use cases and have a significant impact on our customers' experiences.<br>
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Key job responsibilities<br>
You will be responsible for defining key research directions, inventing new machine learning techniques, conducting rigorous experiments, and ensuring that research is translated into practice. You will develop long-term strategies, persuade teams to adopt those strategies, propose goals and deliver on them.<br>
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A Principal Applied Scientist will participate in organizational planning, hiring, mentorship and leadership development. You will also be build scalable science and engineering solutions, and serve as a key scientific resource in full-cycle development (conception, design, implementation, testing to documentation, delivery, and maintenance).</p><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS</b></h2><ul><li>Master's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent, or PhD</li><li>Experience in building complex, real-time systems involving AI, ML, and NLP with successful delivery to customers.</li><li>Experience with project delivery for large, cross-functional projects with evolving requirements.</li></ul><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS</b></h2><ul><li>PhD with specialization in artificial intelligence, natural language processing, machine learning, or computational cognitive science with 10+ years of combined academic and research experience.</li><li>First&#8209;author research on scaling laws, evaluation metrics, data mixture optimization, data efficiency, neural network architectures in top-tier journals and conferences.</li><li>Functional thought leader, sought after for key tech decisions.</li><li>Can successfully sell ideas to an executive level decision maker.</li><li>Mentors and trains the research scientist community on complex technical issues.</li><li>Excellent written and spoken communication skills with successful delivery to customers</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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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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Pursuant to the San Francisco 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.<br>
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $179,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $309,400/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.</div>

Principal Applied Scientist, Artificial General Intelligence

<div><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>DESCRIPTION</b></h2><div>
Innovators wanted! Are you an entrepreneur? A builder? A dreamer? This role is part of an Amazon Special Projects team that takes the company&rsquo;s Think Big leadership principle to the limits. If you&rsquo;re interested in innovating at scale to address big challenges in the world, this is the team for you.
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As an Applied Scientist on our team, you will focus on building state-of-the-art ML models for biology. Our team rewards curiosity while maintaining a laser-focus in bringing products to market. Competitive candidates are responsive, flexible, and able to succeed within an open, collaborative, entrepreneurial, startup-like environment. At the forefront of both academic and applied research in this product area, you have the opportunity to work together with a diverse and talented team of scientists, engineers, and product managers and collaborate with other teams.<br>
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Key job responsibilities<br>
<ul><li>Build, adapt and evaluate ML models for life sciences applications</li><li>Collaborate with a cross-functional team of ML scientists, biologists, software engineers and product managers</li></ul></div><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS</b></h2><ul><li>PhD in computer science, machine learning, engineering, or related fields</li><li>Experience with programming languages such as Python, Java, C++</li><li>Expert knowledge of machine learning and deep learning; experience in applying ML to protein biology.</li></ul><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS</b></h2><ul><li>Experience using Unix/Linux</li><li>Experience in professional software development</li><li>Experience in patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals</li><li>Expert knowledge of protein biology and design.</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.<br>
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $136,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223,400/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.</div>

Applied Scientist, Special Projects

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About Sponsored Products and Brands:
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The Sponsored Products and Brands team at Amazon Ads is re-imagining the advertising landscape through industry leading generative AI technologies, revolutionizing how millions of customers discover products and engage with brands across Amazon.com and beyond. We are at the forefront of re-inventing advertising experiences, bridging human creativity with artificial intelligence to transform every aspect of the advertising lifecycle from ad creation and optimization to performance analysis and customer insights. We are a passionate group of innovators dedicated to developing responsible and intelligent AI technologies that balance the needs of advertisers, enhance the shopping experience, and strengthen the marketplace. If you're energized by solving complex challenges and pushing the boundaries of what's possible with AI, join us in shaping the future of advertising.
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About Our Team:
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The Sponsored Brands Impressions-based Offerings team is responsible for evolving the value proposition of Sponsored Brands to drive brand advertising in retail media at scale, helping brands get discovered, acquire new customers and sustainably grow customer lifetime value. We build end-to-end solutions that enable brands to drive discovery, visibility and share of voice. This includes building advertiser controls, shopper experiences, monetization strategies and optimization features. We succeed when (1) shoppers discover, engage and build affinity with brands and (2) brands can grow their business at scale with our advertising products.
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About This Role:<br>
As a Principal Scientist for the team, you will have the opportunity to apply your deep subject matter expertise in the area of ML, LLM and GenAI models. You will invent new product experiences that enable novel advertiser and shopper experiences. This role will liaise with internal Amazon partners and work on bringing state-of-the-art GenAI models to production, and stay abreast of the latest developments in the space of GenAI and identify opportunities to improve the efficiency and productivity of the team. Additionally, you will define a long-term science vision for our advertising business, driven by our customer&rsquo;s needs, and translate it into actionable plans for our team of applied scientists and engineers.<br>
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This role will play a critical role in elevating the team&rsquo;s scientific and technical rigor, identifying and implementing best-in-class algorithms, methodologies, and infrastructure that enable rapid experimentation and scaling. You will communicate learnings to leadership and mentor and grow Applied AI talent across org.<br>
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<ul><li>Develop AI solutions for Sponsored Brands advertiser and shopper experiences. Build monetization and optimization systems that leverage generative models to value and improve campaign performance.</li><li>Define a long-term science vision and roadmap for our Sponsored Brands advertising business, driven from our customers' needs, translating that direction into specific plans for applied scientists and engineering teams. This role combines science leadership, organizational ability, technical strength, product focus, and business understanding.
</li><li>Design and conduct A/B experiments to evaluate proposed solutions based on in-depth data analyses.
</li><li>Effectively communicate technical and non-technical ideas with teammates and stakeholders.</li><li>Stay up-to-date with advancements and the latest modeling techniques in the field.</li><li>Think big about the arc of development of Gen AI over a multi-year horizon and identify new opportunities to apply these technologies to solve real-world problems.</li></ul><br>
#GenAI</div><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS</b></h2><ul><li>PhD in Computer Science, Statistics or related field.</li><li>10+ years of programming in Java, Python or related language.</li><li>10+ years of applied ML experience in building complex, real-time systems involving AI, ML with successful delivery to customers.</li><li>3+ years in LLMs, model fine tuning and prompt engineering.</li><li>3+ years in digital advertising technology.</li></ul><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b><br>
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS</b></h2><ul><li>Demonstrated track record of innovative AI solution development.</li><li>Experience with generative model architectures.</li><li>Research publications or patents in generative AI technologies.</li><li>Experience in Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF), Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and AI model trade-offs (e.g., model size, latency, cost, and output quality).</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.<br>
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $179,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $309,400/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.</div>

Principal Applied Scientist, Sponsored Products and Brands

<div><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>DESCRIPTION</b></h2><p>
The Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) team is looking for a passionate, talented, and inventive Applied Scientist with a strong deep learning background, to build Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) technology with Large Language Models (LLMs) and multimodal systems.
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Key job responsibilities<br>
As an Applied Scientist with the AGI team, you will work with talented peers to support the development of GenAI algorithms and modeling techniques, to advance the state of the art with LLMs. Your work will directly impact our customers in the form of products and services that make use of speech and language technology. You will leverage Amazon&rsquo;s heterogeneous data sources and large-scale computing resources to accelerate advances in GenAI.<br>
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About the team<br>
The AGI team has a mission to push the envelope with GenAI in LLMs and multimodal systems, in order to provide the best-possible experience for our customers.</p><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>1+ years of building models for business application experience</li><li>Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language</li><li>Experience with generative deep learning models applicable to the creation of synthetic humans like CNNs, GANs, VAEs and NF</li></ul><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS</b></h2><ul><li>PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics or related field</li><li>Strong experience with Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) technologies and Large Language Models (LLMs)</li><li>Experience with patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals</li><li>Experience with popular deep learning frameworks, including PyTorch</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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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.<br>
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $136,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223,400/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.</div>

Applied Scientist, Artificial General Intelligence

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Shape the future of Amazon's device offerings by leading UX design strategy across our most complex, cross-platform experiences. As a Principal UX Designer, you'll drive design excellence for next-generation services that power millions of Amazon devices worldwide - from Echo and Alexa to Fire TV, Kindle, and emerging connected devices.<br>
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You'll be the design leader defining frameworks and methodologies that scale across multiple product lines, working directly with Director+ leadership to set design vision and strategy. This role offers the opportunity to influence architecture decisions, lead cross-organizational design initiatives, and mentor senior designers while solving significantly complex problems where product strategy may be undefined.<br>
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<ul><li>Lead design strategy for horizontally-scaled services supporting all Amazon device product lines</li><li>Drive cross-org alignment on design systems, patterns, and standards that impact millions of customers</li><li>Partner with senior leadership to map business goals to design investments and outcomes</li><li>Mentor and develop design talent across the organization while setting the bar for design excellence</li><li>Influence technical architecture and organizational changes to enable breakthrough customer experiences</li></ul><br>
Key job responsibilities<br>
Strategic Design Leadership:<br>
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<ul><li>Own UX vision and strategy across multiple device software services, ensuring alignment with Amazon's brand identity and business goals</li><li>Define and evangelize design frameworks that create consistency while supporting measurable business requirements</li><li>Lead design reviews and critiques that incorporate market analysis, customer feedback, and usability findings</li></ul>
Cross-Organizational Influence:
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<ul><li>Collaborate with stakeholders to translate business objectives into compelling design strategies</li><li>Drive design decisions that require coordination between multiple teams, balancing technical constraints with customer needs</li><li>Influence architecture decisions to ensure optimal user experience while meeting business requirements</li></ul>
Design Excellence &amp; Innovation:<br>
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<ul><li>Guide the end-to-end design process from concept to implementation across complex device software services</li><li>Establish best practices for information architecture and design specifications that scale across multiple products</li><li>Identify opportunities to simplify complex workflows while maintaining comprehensive functionality</li></ul>
Talent Development &amp; Community Building:<br>
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<ul><li>Mentor senior designers on both craft excellence and strategic thinking</li><li>Present design work to executive leadership, articulating the business value of design decisions</li><li>Foster collaboration with designers across the Devices organization to ensure consistency in common UX patterns and systems</li></ul><br>
A day in the life<br>
As a Principal UX Designer in Device Software and Services, you'll solve complex design challenges impacting both internal teams and end users of Amazon devices.<br>
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Stakeholders &amp; Customers: You'll partner with Engineering Directors, Product leaders, and senior engineers across Amazon's device organization. Your work will serve both internal teams who develop and manage devices and ultimately the millions of customers who use Amazon devices in their homes.<br>
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Problems You'll Solve: You'll unify fragmented console experiences, create scalable design systems across diverse tools, and simplify complex workflows for teams managing multiple device types. You'll help visualize large datasets, design intuitive interfaces for technical processes, and establish design standards that elevate experiences across the organization.<br>
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Your strategic influence will extend beyond individual projects as you mentor other designers and advocate for user-centered approaches in highly technical environments, ultimately shaping how Amazon builds devices that delight customers worldwide.<br>
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About the team<br>
Our Device Software and Services (DS2) team is at the forefront of innovation, developing the software and services that power a wide range of Amazon smart products and digital experiences. As part of DS2, you'll join a group of customer-obsessed innovators solving complex technical problems across web services, mobile, and embedded systems.<br>
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We provide infrastructure-level software services, programs, and operational support for all Amazon device product lines. Our work spans analytics platforms, device management tools, quality assurance systems, and connected device experiences that enable the development and optimization of Amazon devices used by millions of customers worldwide.<br>
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Our design team works across these diverse areas to create intuitive, scalable experiences that make complex technical systems accessible and efficient. We're a growing team passionate about solving challenging problems through thoughtful design, and we value collaboration, customer obsession, and continuous innovation in an environment focused on invention.</div><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS</b></h2><ul><li>12+ years of UX design experience</li><li>Experience with User Interface Design, Information Architecture, and Interaction Design</li><li>Experience leading design projects from concept to implementation</li><li>Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams</li><li>Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience</li></ul><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS</b></h2><ul><li>Experience designing enterprise tools or developer-focused interfaces</li><li>Experience leading and mentoring designers</li><li>Experience working with engineering teams to implement design solutions</li><li>Experience defining design systems or pattern libraries</li><li>Experience using data and research to inform design decisions</li><li>Master's degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, or related field</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.<br>
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $147,600/year in our lowest geographic market up to $244,000/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.</div>

Principal UX Designer, Device Software and Services

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We are looking for a passionate Applied Scientist to help pioneer the next generation of agentic AI applications for Amazon advertisers. In this role, you will design agentic architectures, develop tools and datasets, and contribute to building systems that can reason, plan, and act autonomously across complex advertiser workflows. You will work at the forefront of applied AI, developing methods for fine-tuning, reinforcement learning, and preference optimization, while helping create evaluation frameworks that ensure safety, reliability, and trust at scale.
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You will work backwards from the needs of advertisers&mdash;delivering customer-facing products that directly help them create, optimize, and grow their campaigns. Beyond building models, you will advance the agent ecosystem by experimenting with and applying core primitives such as tool orchestration, multi-step reasoning, and adaptive preference-driven behavior. This role requires working independently on ambiguous technical problems, collaborating closely with scientists, engineers, and product managers to bring innovative solutions into production.<br>
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Key job responsibilities<br>
<ul><li>Design and build agents to guide advertisers in conversational and non-conversational experience.</li><li>Design and implement advanced model and agent optimization techniques, including supervised fine-tuning, instruction tuning and preference optimization (e.g., DPO/IPO).</li><li>Curate datasets and tools for MCP.
</li><li>Build evaluation pipelines for agent workflows, including automated benchmarks, multi-step reasoning tests, and safety guardrails.</li><li>Develop agentic architectures (e.g., CoT, ToT, ReAct) that integrate planning, tool use, and long-horizon reasoning.</li><li>Prototype and iterate on multi-agent orchestration frameworks and workflows.</li><li>Collaborate with peers across engineering and product to bring scientific innovations into production.</li><li>Stay current with the latest research in LLMs, RL, and agent-based AI, and translate findings into practical applications.</li></ul><br>
About the team<br>
The Sponsored Products and Brands team at Amazon Ads is re-imagining the advertising landscape through the latest generative AI technologies, revolutionizing how millions of customers discover products and engage with brands across Amazon.com and beyond. We are at the forefront of re-inventing advertising experiences, bridging human creativity with artificial intelligence to transform every aspect of the advertising lifecycle from ad creation and optimization to performance analysis and customer insights.<br>
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We are a passionate group of innovators dedicated to developing responsible and intelligent AI technologies that balance the needs of advertisers, enhance the shopping experience, and strengthen the marketplace. If you're energized by solving complex challenges and pushing the boundaries of what's possible with AI, join us in shaping the future of advertising.<br>
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The Advertiser Guidance team within Sponsored Products and Brands is focused on guiding and supporting 1.6MM advertisers to meet their advertising needs of creating and managing ad campaigns. At this scale, the complexity of diverse advertiser goals, campaign types, and market dynamics creates both a massive technical challenge and a transformative opportunity: even small improvements in guidance systems can have outsized impact on advertiser success and Amazon&rsquo;s retail ecosystem.<br>
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Our vision is to build a highly personalized, context-aware agentic advertiser guidance system that leverages LLMs together with tools such as auction simulations, ML models, and optimization algorithms. This agentic framework, will operate across both chat and non-chat experiences in the ad console, scaling to natural language queries as well as proactively delivering guidance based on deep understanding of the advertiser. To execute this vision, we collaborate closely with stakeholders across Ad Console, Sales, and Marketing to identify opportunities&mdash;from high-level product guidance down to granular keyword recommendations&mdash;and deliver them through a tailored, personalized experience. Our work is grounded in state-of-the-art agent architectures, tool integration, reasoning frameworks, and model customization approaches (including tuning, MCP, and preference optimization), ensuring our systems are both scalable and adaptive.</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>3+ years of building models for business application experience</li><li>Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language</li><li>Experience in designing experiments and statistical analysis of results</li></ul><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS</b></h2><ul><li>Experience in professional software development</li><li>Experience in state-of-the-art deep learning models architecture design and deep learning training and optimization and model pruning</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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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 compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $136,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223,400/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.</div>

Applied Scientist II, SPB Advertiser Guidance

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