2027 Applied Scientist Internship – PhD, Amazon University Talent Acquisition

Amazon Inc.; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 33,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive internship salary

Mentor and manager support

Intern program events

Network with Amazon Scientists

Potential conference publications

Job summary

Amazon Science offers PhD internships in the UK and across the EMEA region. You will design and implement end-to-end systems, publish results where applicable, and ship work to production for real-world impact.

You will work with Amazon scientists and fellow interns on diverse teams, tackling never-before-solved problems. Start dates are available year-round for 3–6 months, with teams including Prime Video Quality Analysis, Rufus Features Science UK, READI, and Automated Reasoning.

Qualifications

• Enrolled in a PhD in computer science, machine learning, or related fields.
• Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language.
• Fluent in English—written and spoken.

Responsibilities

• Own the design and development of end-to-end systems for production.
• Collaborate with Amazon scientists and other interns to deploy solutions.
• Publish findings at top-tier conferences when applicable and drive production-ready projects.

Skills

Java

C++

Python

English fluency

Education

PhD in Computer Science

Tools

Machine learning toolkits

Job description

Description

We're building systems that turn research into real-world impact — ensuring flawless streaming for millions of Prime Video customers, shaping the future of AI-driven shopping with Rufus, advancing speech generation and conversational AI, optimizing large-scale infrastructure through intelligent observability, and transforming how people and jobs find each other. If this sounds interesting to you then we have a range of opportunities for you to explore.

We're looking for PhD students across multiple research domains to invent, design, and implement state-of-the-art solutions for never-before-solved problems. Your work here won't just stay in a notebook — it ships to production and reaches customers worldwide.

Check out the details below including the job responsibilities, team details, and basic qualifications before submitting your application.

You can find more information about the Amazon Science community as well as interview preparation tips via the links below;

• https://www.amazon.science/

• https://amazon.jobs/content/en/career-programs/university/science

• https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/university-roles/applied-science

Key job responsibilities

As an Applied Science Intern, you will own the design and development of end-to-end systems. You'll have the opportunity to write technical white papers, create roadmaps and drive production level projects that will support Amazon Science.

You will work closely with Amazon scientists and other science interns to develop solutions and deploy them into production. You will have the opportunity to design new algorithms, models, or other technical solutions whilst experiencing Amazon's customer focused culture.

The ideal intern should have the ability to work with diverse groups of people and cross-functional teams to solve complex business problems.

A day in the life

You'll spend your first weeks scoping your project with your mentor, then own the research and implementation end-to-end.

Your work could involve building computer vision models that detect quality issues across Prime Video's content library, developing multimodal AI solutions that power Amazon's shopping assistant Rufus, creating automated reasoning tools that verify distributed systems at scale, engineering intelligent observability frameworks for large-scale infrastructure, or advancing recommendation models that connect people with the right jobs — depending on the team you're matched with.

Many interns publish at top-tier conferences or see their work deployed to production before the internship ends. Interns may also be considered for a return offer at the end of their internship, subject to performance evaluation and headcount availability.

Further benefits of an Amazon Science internship include;

• All of our internships offer a competitive salary

• Interns are paired with an experienced manager and mentor(s)

• Interns get invited to different intern program or office events

• Interns can build their professional and personal network with other Amazon Scientists

• Interns can potentially publish work at top tier conferences

About the team

We're hiring interns for multiple teams in the UK, including but not limited to;

• Prime Video Video Quality Analysis – Develops AI and machine learning solutions using computer vision, audio processing, and generative AI to detect and prevent streaming quality issues across Prime Video's vast content library
• Rufus Features Science UK – Shapes AI-driven shopping experiences at Amazon, working on projects from enabling Rufus to take actions on behalf of customers to generating multimodal answers combining text, image, audio, and video.
• READI – Observability, Triage & Peak Readiness – Builds intelligent log analytics and automated performance frameworks that transform system telemetry into actionable insights for large-scale distributed systems.
• Automated Reasoning Group – Ensures program and systems correctness through deductive proof, model checking, formal verification, and runtime conformance monitoring for large-scale distributed systems.

You’ll submit a single application and we’ll match you with science teams best aligned with your research interests.

Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis, and your application stays active until we find a team match or confirm there are no matches available.

Start dates are available throughout the year for durations of between 3–6 months. Please note, each team has different start date and duration preferences — your recruiter will confirm the preferences of the team you’ll match with prior to interviewing.

We offer science internships in multiple locations across the EMEA region and you can indicate your interest in all these locations by applying here (Austria, Estonia, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, UAE, and UK).

Please note we do not offer remote internships.

Basic Qualifications

• Are enrolled in a PhD in computer science, machine learning, engineering, or related fields

• Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language

• Speak, write, and read fluently in English

Preferred Qualifications

• Have publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals

• Experience in solving business problems through machine learning, data mining and statistical algorithms

• Experience in designing experiments and statistical analysis of results

• Experience implementing algorithms using toolkits and self-developed code

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