Applied Scientist, Amazon Compliance and Safety Services

Amazon Inc.; Asti; Ibrido; EUR 17.000 - 25.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Amazon is seeking an Applied Scientist for the Compliance and Safety Services team. You will research NLP, multimodal modeling, and large language models to enhance product safety and compliance globally, collaborating with engineers, program managers, and product managers to deploy ML solutions across the catalog.

The role focuses on designing new algorithms, evaluating state‑of‑the‑art methods, and publishing research while contributing to roadmaps and cross‑functional initiatives.

Competenze

• Experience programming in Java, C++, Python.
• Bachelor's degree or higher in Engineering, CS, ML, Stats or Physics.
• Experience building ML models or algorithms for business use cases.

Mansioni

• Research and evaluate state‑of‑the‑art NLP, multi‑modal modeling, and LLM techniques.
• Design algorithms to improve safety and compliance with business impact.
• Collaborate with engineers, PMs and product teams to deploy ML solutions.
• Plan data collection, labeling, and auditing to improve models.
• Communicate results to stakeholders and contribute to research roadmap.
• Interface data pipelines with software and publish internal/external research.

Conoscenze

Java

C++

Python

Formazione

Bachelor's degree or higher

Strumenti

scikit-learn

PyTorch

numpy

scipy

Descrizione del lavoro

Applied Scientist, Amazon Compliance and Safety Services

Job ID: 10557565 | Amazon Development Center (Romania) S.R.L.

Amazon's Compliance and Safety Services (CoSS) Team is looking for a smart and creative Applied Scientist to apply and extend state-of-the‑art research in NLP, multi-modal modeling, domain adaptation, continuous learning and large language model to join the Applied Science team. At Amazon, we are working to be the most customer‑centric company on earth. Millions of customers trust us to ensure a safe shopping experience. This is an exciting and challenging position to drive research that will shape new ML solutions for product compliance and safety around the globe in order to achieve best‑in‑class, company‑wide standards around product assurance.

You will research on large amounts of tabular, textual, and product image data from product detail pages, selling partner details and customer feedback, evaluate state‑of‑the‑art algorithms and frameworks, and develop new algorithms to improve safety and compliance mechanisms. You will partner with engineers, technical program managers and product managers to design new ML solutions implemented across the entire Amazon product catalog.

Key job responsibilities

• Research and evaluate state‑of‑the‑art algorithms in NLP, multi-modal modeling, domain adaptation, continuous learning and large language model.
• Design new algorithms that improve on the state‑of‑the‑art to drive business impact, such as synthetic data generation, active learning, grounding LLMs for business use cases.
• Design and plan collection of new labels and audit mechanisms to develop better approaches that will further improve product assurance and customer trust.
• Analyze and convey results to stakeholders and contribute to the research and product roadmap.
• Collaborate with other scientists, engineers, product managers, and business teams to creatively solve problems, measure and estimate risks, and constructively critique peer research.
• Consult with engineering teams to design data and modeling pipelines which successfully interface with new and existing software.
• Publish research publications at internal and external venues.

About the team: The science team delivers custom state‑of‑the‑art algorithms for image and document understanding. The team specializes in developing machine learning solutions to advance compliance capabilities. Their research contributions span multiple domains including multi-modal modeling, unstructured data matching, text extraction from visual documents, and anomaly detection, with findings regularly published in academic venues.

Basic Qualifications

• Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
• Currently has, or is in the process of obtaining, a Bachelor's degree or above in Engineering, Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, Physics, or related fields
• Experience building machine learning models or developing algorithms for business application

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in professional software development
• Experience implementing algorithms using both toolkits and self-developed code
• Experience in patents or publications at top‑tier peer‑reviewed conferences or journals
• Experience working cross functionally across several teams
• Experience with modeling tools such as scikit‑learn, PyTorch, numpy, scipy etc.

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Posted: September 23, 2026 (Updated 7 days ago)

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