Applied Scientist II, GenAI Evaluation Media (GEM)

Amazon

Seattle, WA

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JOB DETAILS

SKILLS

Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Business Development, Business Model, Business Operations, Business Solutions, C++ Programming Language, Communication Skills, Computer Vision, Corporate Policies, Cross-Functional, Customer Experience, Customer Relations, Customer Support/Service, Deep Learning, Editing, Federal Laws and Regulations, Functional Testing, Java, Knowledge Base, Machine Learning, Metrics, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Product Engineering, Product Testing, Prototyping, Publications, Python Programming/Scripting Language, Research & Development (R&D), Research Skills, State Laws and Regulations, Systems Scalability, Technical Research, Test Automation

LOCATION

Seattle, WA

POSTED

30+ days ago

Description The North America Stores GenAI Evaluation Media (GEM) team is seeking an Applied Scientist to help shape the future of visual shopping experiences. We're building CXs and foundational capabilities to understand, enhance, and generate real-time GenAI imagery, videos and CXs that inspire customers and drive purchase confidence, towards our vision to be the leader in visual media. Specifically, the charter will focus on visual agentic experiences, multi-modal personalization, and real-time image/video generation, looking ahead as customer shopping continues to inspirational assistant-driven experiences. As an Applied Scientist on the team, you will drive the research and development of agentic AI capabilities that inform and guide the customer's shopping journey through visuals. This includes building core science primitives for multimodal understanding, visual content generation and editing, personalized virtual try-on, and automated quality assurance. You will develop the foundational capabilities that enable customers to express and discover styles through multimodal conversation and receive personalized, visual responses that bring their ideas to life. Your scientific approach will emphasize accurate, real-time visual understanding and generation, contextual understanding, and scalable personalization, enabling agentic AI to actively collaborate with customers to achieve their style goals. You will bring together computer vision, natural language processing, generative AI, and human-centered design to create agentic shopping experiences that are as intuitive as talking to a human specialist with a deep domain knowledge base. Success requires establishing robust metrics, collaborating with cross-functional partners, validating asset effectiveness across diverse customer touch points, and staying at the forefront of rapid advances in AI technology. The ideal candidate will have deep technical expertise in Computer Vision, Generative AI, or related fields with a strong ability to connect scientific work to customer and business outcomes. You will partner with scientists, engineers, and stakeholders across Amazon to deliver innovation and uphold a culture of scientific excellence and customer obsession. This role requires both rigorous research skills and practical engineering instincts, with a focus on delivering solutions that scale. This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of visual commerce through applied AI research, building the systems that will define how hundreds of millions of customers discover and evaluate products and styles through visual experiences. Key job responsibilities Innovation & Technical Execution - Develop core science primitives for vision and language understanding, visual content generation and editing, virtual try-on, and automated quality assurance via state-of-the-art computer vision, machine learning, and generative AI - Design and implement visual agentic systems, balancing visual quality, relevance, latency, and cost - Define metrics and success criteria for your scientific initiatives, ensuring rigorous validation across customer touch points - Own end-to-end delivery of research initiatives from problem formulation through experimentation to production deployment - Stay current with latest advances in AI/ML and identify opportunities to apply them to your problem space - Drive development and deployment of scalable agentic systems for visual content understanding and generation - Maintain high scientific and engineering standards in your work - Tackle complex technical problems while maintaining practical focus on customer value - Contribute to the team's culture of scientific excellence through presentations and publications at internal and external science forums Cross-functional Collaboration - Partner with product and engineering teams to deliver customer-facing features - Collaborate with scientists and engineers across multiple teams within Amazon to align on technical approaches - Communicate research findings and technical trade-offs clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders Basic Qualifications - PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience - Experience in building models for business application - Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language Preferred Qualifications - Experience in investigating, designing, prototyping, and delivering new and innovative system solutions - Experience in CS, CE, ML or related field research - Experience building machine learning models or developing algorithms for business application - Experience developing and implementing deep learning algorithms, particularly with respect to computer vision algorithms - Usage of generative AI tools to enhance workflow efficiency, with a willingness to learn effective prompting and evaluation practices. - Ability to recognize opportunities where generative AI could enhance products, workflows, or customer experiences. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status. 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's reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. 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're applying in isn't listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner. 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, CA, Sunnyvale - 171,600.00 - 222,200.00 USD annually USA, WA, Seattle - 142,800.00 - 193,200.00 USD annually

About the Company

Amazon

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Wherever you are in your career exploration, Amazon likely has an opportunity for you. Our research scientists and engineers shape the future of natural language understanding with Alexa. Fulfillment center associates around the globe send customer orders from our warehouses to doorsteps. Product managers set feature requirements, strategy, and marketing messages for brand new customer experiences. And as we grow, we’ll add jobs that haven’t been invented yet.

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Our Leadership Principles
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COMPANY SIZE

10,000 employees or more

INDUSTRY

Other/Not Classified

FOUNDED

1994

WEBSITE

http://Amazon.com/militaryroles

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