Applied Scientist, Core Search

Benefits

Parental leave

6 weeks From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Non-birth-parent leave

6 weeks From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Family-building benefits

• Fertility benefits: Offered From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026
• Adoption assistance: Offered From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026
• Surrogacy assistance: Offered From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Mental health support

Offered From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Relocation assistance

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Childcare support

Offered From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Learning budget

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Verification

Source-linked checked Jun 7, 2026

Salary

$143K-$193K From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

401(k) match

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Market context

U.S. role benchmark (BLS OEWS)

$111,944 U.S. median for this role

Projected growth (BLS Employment Projections)

+13.7% - Much faster than average

50% above the BLS role benchmark for data and ml aggregate.

Matched to SOC 15-1252 - Data and ML aggregate by role bucket.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, May 2024 and Employment Projections, 2024-2034.

Role

Role function

Data From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Seniority

Mid From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Schedule

Shift type

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Weekend work

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Company

Company stage

Public-company From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Equity

Offered Verified - SEC 10-K source checked Jun 20, 2026

Application

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Assessment

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Deadline

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About this role

Applied Scientist, Core Search Seattle, Washington, USA We are building the next generation of personalized shopping experiences at Amazon through deep understanding of hundreds of millions of customers, billions of products and intricate context. We set out to create a personal shopping partner that is knowledgeable, understands your preferences, and helps you find the right solution for your needs. Key job responsibilities As an Applied Scientist on the team, you will help lead science innovation across multiple teams. You will solve a breadth of problems, ranging from developing state of the art thinking-LLM-based techniques to reason about customers and products; creating semantic representations of products, customers, and context; developing cross-attentive LLM rankers ; training multi-objective ranking and optimization systems; deploying large scale real-time AI systems. You will build tech used by teams across Amazon, while also having a direct connection to hundreds of millions of customers using Amazon to shop. You will improves lives of customers through improvements on offline benchmarks as well as online experiments. About the team We build new experiences powered by Generative models and our new LLM-based AI stack, that provides personalized and multi-modal Natural Language interface to Amazon's billions of products for both hundreds of millions of retail customers as well as internal teams building AI experiences such as Rufus, Alexa+, Interests AI, and multiple confidential initiatives. Come join us on this journey! Basic Qualifications: - PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience - Experience programming in

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