We are looking for a Senior Applied Scientist to join our team that is building revolutionary enterprise applications leveraging machine learning, generative AI, and agentic AI to help millions of companies worldwide manage their day-to-day supply chain operations. Our mission is to accelerate our customers' businesses through intuitive, differentiated technology solutions that solve enduring supply chain challenges. We blend strategic vision with curiosity and Amazon's real-world operational experience to build opinionated, turnkey solutions that make the 'buy versus build' decision a no-brainer for our customers.

As a Senior Applied Scientist, you will design and develop state-of-the-art machine learning models and algorithms that power intelligent supply chain applications at global scale. You will work at the intersection of research and real-world product impact-translating scientific breakthroughs into production systems that serve millions of customers. We operate like a startup within AWS, offering you the opportunity to tackle unprecedented challenges while working with the latest technologies in deep learning, large language models, and optimization.

If you are passionate about pushing the boundaries of applied science, thrive in ambiguous problem spaces, and want to shape the future of supply chain intelligence while having the backing of AWS's extensive resources, we want to hear from you.

Key job responsibilities
• Design, develop, and deploy novel machine learning models for demand forecasting, inventory optimization, anomaly detection, and supply chain decision-making.
• Lead the development of GenAI and Agentic AI solutions that automate complex supply chain workflows and deliver intelligent, adaptive recommendations to customers.
• Formulate real-world business problems as machine learning problems; define data requirements, model architectures, evaluation metrics, and experimentation frameworks.
• Drive end-to-end applied science projects from ideation through experimentation, offline evaluation, A/B testing, and production deployment at scale.
• Publish research findings in top-tier conferences (NeurIPS, ICML, KDD, AAAI) and file patents to advance Amazon's intellectual property.
• Mentor and develop junior scientists; raise the technical bar for the science team through code reviews, design reviews, and knowledge sharing.
• Collaborate closely with engineering, product management, and business stakeholders to translate scientific capabilities into customer-facing product features.
• Influence the technical strategy and scientific roadmap for the organization; identify new areas of investment and emerging opportunities in AI/ML.
• Establish and promote best practices for experimentation, model validation, and responsible AI development across the team.

About the team

The AWS Applied AI Solutions team builds enterprise applications that leverage Amazon's operational expertise to solve real-world supply chain challenges for millions of companies. We operate like a startup within AWS-moving fast, shipping iteratively using state-of-the-art AI technologies. We invest in your growth through mentorship from senior scientists, conference publication support, and internal science reading groups. Amazon values diverse experiences-even if you don't meet all preferred qualifications, we encourage you to apply. If your career hasn't followed a traditional path, don't let that stop you.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- PhD or equivalent research experience

- 6+ years of building machine learning models for business application experience

- Knowledge of programming languages such as C/C++, Python, Java or Perl

- Experience with training and deploying machine learning systems to solve large-scale optimizations, or experience in software development

- Have peer-reviewed scientific contributions in premier journals and conferences

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience in machine learning, data mining, information retrieval, statistics or natural language processing, or experience in developing and deploying LLMs in production on GPUs, Neuron, TPU or other AI acceleration hardware

- Knowledge of supply chain management concepts - forecasting, planning, sourcing, optimization and logistics or equivalent

- 5+ years of building large-scale machine learning and AI solutions at Internet scale experience

- Experience in supply chain

- Experience in practical work applying ML to solve complex problems for large scale applications

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 & 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, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, WA, Seattle - 167,100.00 - 226,100.00 USD annually