Applied Scientist, Amazon Selection and Catalog Systems (ASCS)
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Job Location:
New York City, NY - USA
Yearly Salary:
$ 136000 - 223400
Posted on:
2 days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
At Amazon Selection and Catalog Systems (ASCS) our mission is to power the online buying experience for customers worldwide so they can find discover and buy any product they want. We innovate on behalf of our customers to ensure uniqueness and consistency of product identity and to infer relationships between products in Amazon Catalog to drive the selection gateway for the search and browse experiences on the website. Were solving a fundamental AI challenge: establishing product identity and relationships at unprecedented scale. Using Generative AI Visual Language Models (VLMs) and multimodal reasoning we determine what makes each product unique and how products relate to one another across Amazons catalog. The scale is staggering: billions of products petabytes of multimodal data millions of sellers dozens of languages and infinite product diversityfrom electronics to groceries to digital content.
The research challenges are immense. GenAI and VLMs hold transformative promise for catalog understanding but we operate where traditional methods fail: ambiguous problem spaces incomplete and noisy data inherent uncertainty reasoning across both images and textual data and explaining decisions at scale. Establishing product identities and groupings requires sophisticated models that reason across text images and structured datawhile maintaining accuracy and trust for high-stakes business decisions affecting millions of customers daily.
Amazons Item and Relationship Platform group is looking for an innovative and customer-focused applied scientist to help us make the worlds best product catalog even this role you will partner with technology and business leaders to build new state-of-the-art algorithms models and services to infer product-to-product relationships that matter to our customers. You will pioneer advanced GenAI solutions that power next-generation agentic shopping experiences working in a collaborative environment where you can experiment with massive data from the worlds largest product catalog tackle problems at the frontier of AI research rapidly implement and deploy your algorithmic ideas at scale across millions of customers.
Key job responsibilities
* Formulate novel research problems at the intersection of GenAI multimodal learning and large-scale information retrievaltranslating ambiguous business challenges into tractable scientific frameworks
* Design and implement leading models leveraging VLMs foundation models and agentic architectures to solve product identity relationship inference and catalog understanding at billion-product scale
* Pioneer explainable AI methodologies that balance model performance with scalability requirements for production systems impacting millions of daily customer decisions
* Own end-to-end ML pipelines from research ideation to production deploymentprocessing petabytes of multimodal data with rigorous evaluation frameworks
* Define research roadmaps aligned with business priorities balancing foundational research with incremental product improvements
* Mentor peer scientists and engineers on advanced ML techniques experimental design and scientific rigorbuilding organizational capability in GenAI and multimodal AI
* Represent the team in the broader science communitypublishing findings delivering tech talks and staying at the forefront of GenAI VLM and agentic system research
- PhD or Masters degree and 4 years of CS CE ML or related field experience
- Experience programming in Java C Python or related language
- PhD
- 2 years of CS CE ML or related field experience
- Have publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals
- Proven track record of successfully applying ML-based solutions to complex problems in business science or engineering.
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.
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 for more information. If the country/region youre applying in isnt listed please contact your Recruiting Partner.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $136000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223400/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 This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
The research challenges are immense. GenAI and VLMs hold transformative promise for catalog understanding but we operate where traditional methods fail: ambiguous problem spaces incomplete and noisy data inherent uncertainty reasoning across both images and textual data and explaining decisions at scale. Establishing product identities and groupings requires sophisticated models that reason across text images and structured datawhile maintaining accuracy and trust for high-stakes business decisions affecting millions of customers daily.
Amazons Item and Relationship Platform group is looking for an innovative and customer-focused applied scientist to help us make the worlds best product catalog even this role you will partner with technology and business leaders to build new state-of-the-art algorithms models and services to infer product-to-product relationships that matter to our customers. You will pioneer advanced GenAI solutions that power next-generation agentic shopping experiences working in a collaborative environment where you can experiment with massive data from the worlds largest product catalog tackle problems at the frontier of AI research rapidly implement and deploy your algorithmic ideas at scale across millions of customers.
Key job responsibilities
* Formulate novel research problems at the intersection of GenAI multimodal learning and large-scale information retrievaltranslating ambiguous business challenges into tractable scientific frameworks
* Design and implement leading models leveraging VLMs foundation models and agentic architectures to solve product identity relationship inference and catalog understanding at billion-product scale
* Pioneer explainable AI methodologies that balance model performance with scalability requirements for production systems impacting millions of daily customer decisions
* Own end-to-end ML pipelines from research ideation to production deploymentprocessing petabytes of multimodal data with rigorous evaluation frameworks
* Define research roadmaps aligned with business priorities balancing foundational research with incremental product improvements
* Mentor peer scientists and engineers on advanced ML techniques experimental design and scientific rigorbuilding organizational capability in GenAI and multimodal AI
* Represent the team in the broader science communitypublishing findings delivering tech talks and staying at the forefront of GenAI VLM and agentic system research
- PhD or Masters degree and 4 years of CS CE ML or related field experience
- Experience programming in Java C Python or related language
- PhD
- 2 years of CS CE ML or related field experience
- Have publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals
- Proven track record of successfully applying ML-based solutions to complex problems in business science or engineering.
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.
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 for more information. If the country/region youre applying in isnt listed please contact your Recruiting Partner.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $136000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223400/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 This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
Key Skills
- Laboratory Experience
- Immunoassays
- Machine Learning
- Biochemistry
- Assays
- Research Experience
- Spectroscopy
- Research & Development
- cGMP
- Cell Culture
- Molecular Biology
- Data Analysis Skills
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