Do you want to be part of a team that's revolutionizing Amazon's fulfillment and packaging technology? Are you ready to optimize systems that process tens-of-millions of customer packages daily with the lowest cost to serve and a defect-free customer experience? Do you have a passion for solving complex science challenges and building a sustainable e-commerce experience?

The Robotics Delivery and Packaging Innovation (RDPI) team is seeking an Applied Scientist who will join a team of experts in the field of Machine Learning (ML), Statistics, Operations Research, Computer Vision and Generative AI to work together to break new ground in the world of automated packaging solutions. The RDPI team owns mission-critical automation and packaging solutions that impact billions of customer shipments annually across Amazon’s WW marketplaces. We manage billions of dollars in material spend and packaging labor costs while driving significant reductions in carbon emissions. Our team is revolutionizing e-commerce through advanced packaging automation, innovative sortation technology, and sustainable solutions. We're dramatically reducing single-use plastics across our network while developing next-generation automated solutions that can handle the majority of our packaging needs. We're also transforming our supply chain through strategic investments in paper manufacturing and innovative materials, driving both substantial cost savings and environmental benefits. This is an exciting opportunity to work on large-scale automation challenges that directly impact customer experience, operational efficiency, and environmental sustainability at one of the world's largest e-commerce companies.

You'll work in a collaborative environment where you can pursue ambitious research with many peta-bytes of data, work on problems that haven’t been solved before, quickly implement and deploy your algorithmic ideas at scale, understand whether they succeed via statistically relevant experiments across millions of customers, and publish your research. You'll see the work you do directly improve the packaging experience of Amazon customers in the fulfillment technology space. If you are interested in robotics, computer vision, machine learning, operations research, statistics, big data, and building scalable solutions, this role is for you.

Key job responsibilities
A successful candidate in this role may perform some or all of the following responsibilities:

• Leverage generative AI technologies to develop scalable solutions for automated product compatibility and safety assessments (e.g., evaluating product shipping compatibility, safety requirements, and packaging configurations)
• Develop advanced AI models by extracting predictive features from multiple data sources (product/packaging images, product descriptions, sensor data, geospatial data) to forecast package-related damages and optimize packaging decisions based on customer preference prediction
• Develop and implement computer vision solutions to automate packaging workflows and detect product/packaging defects in real-time operations
• Build causal inference model to capture the downstream impacts of different packaging designs and delivery experience
• Design and implement robotic control algorithms to optimize machine efficiency and meet diverse business objectives

A day in the life
Scientists on our team work daily with dedicated product and engineering partners to bring innovative solutions from concept to production. You'll divide your time between deep technical work—building models, analyzing results, iterating on algorithms—and collaborative activities like design reviews, stakeholder presentations, and cross-functional planning. You'll also have opportunities to support science initiatives across the broader RDPI organization (1500+ people), partnering with diverse teams to solve high-impact problems and scale your solutions across Amazon.

About the team
We are a team of scientists with diverse technical backgrounds spanning Machine Learning, Operations Research, Causal Inference, and Econometrics. We tackle complex, high-impact problems that directly influence Amazon's strategic decisions and financial performance. Our solutions typically require combining multiple methodologies, and you'll work collaboratively with other scientists while partnering closely with product and engineering teams to bring your innovations into production systems. You'll have the opportunity to grow your expertise across disciplines while delivering measurable business impact at scale.

Basic Qualifications

• PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience
• Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
• Experience building machine learning models or developing algorithms for business application
• Experience implementing algorithms using both toolkits and self-developed code
• Experience applying theoretical models in an applied environment

Preferred Qualifications

• PhD, or a Master's degree and experience in state-of-the-art deep learning models architecture design and deep learning training and optimization and model pruning
• Experience in patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals
• Experience in designing experiments and statistical analysis of results
• Experience with deep generative models (GANs, VAEs, diffusion models) for computer vision and image synthesis applications

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

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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, Bellevue - 142,800.00 - 193,200.00 USD annually