Applied Scientist

Amazon
Seattle, WA, USA2026-03-27ONSITE

About the job

Are you a MS or PhD student interested in a 2024 Applied Science Internship in the fields of Speech, Robotics, Computer Vision, or Machine Learning/Deep Learning? Do you enjoy diving deep into hard technical problems and coming up with solutions that enable successful products that improve the lives of people in a meaningful way? If this describes you, come join our research teams at Amazon.

Responsibilities

As an Applied Scientist, you will have access to large datasets with billions of images and video to build large-scale machine learning systems. Additionally, you will analyze and model terabytes of text, images, and other types of data to solve real-world problems and translate business and functional requirements into quick prototypes or proofs of concept. We are looking for smart scientists capable of using a variety of domain expertise combined with machine learning and statistical techniques to invent, design, evangelize, and implement state-of-the-art solutions for never-before-solved problems.

Qualifications

Minimum

Master's degree in computer science, mathematics, statistics, machine learning or equivalent quantitative field

Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language

Experience with SQL and an RDBMS (e.g., Oracle) or Data Warehouse

Preferred

Experience implementing algorithms using both toolkits and self-developed code

Have publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals