Applied Scientist

Amazon • Seattle, WA

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About The Position

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.

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.

Requirements

• 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

Nice To Haves

• Experience implementing algorithms using both toolkits and self-developed code
• Have publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals

Responsibilities

• build large-scale machine learning systems
• analyze and model terabytes of text, images, and other types of data to solve real-world problems
• translate business and functional requirements into quick prototypes or proofs of concept
• invent, design, evangelize, and implement state-of-the-art solutions for never-before-solved problems

Benefits

• health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&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
• parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Intern