Applied Scientist Internship, Amazon
2024
The largest online retailer and technology provider
Job no longer available
The largest online retailer and technology provider
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
1001+ employees
Company mission
To be Earth's most customer-centric company.
Role
Who you are
- Enrolled in a PhD or Master's degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Engineering, Operations Research, Statistics or related fields
- Experience in any programming language such as Python, Java, C++, or similar scripting and programming languages
Desirable
- Publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals
- Experience in design of experiments and statistical analysis
- Experience implementing algorithms using toolkits and self-developed code
- Experience in solving business problems through machine learning, data mining and statistical algorithms
- Familiar with the core undergraduate curriculum of computer science
- Technical fluency; comfort understanding and discussing architectural concepts and algorithms, schedule trade-offs and new opportunities with technical team members
- Excellent critical thinking skills, combined with the ability to present your beliefs clearly and compellingly in both verbal and written form
- Amazon values knowledge of Accessibility in relation to its products, devices, services, websites or environments, so as to be usable by people with disabilities
- Previous corporate work experience is not required
What the job involves
- 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 technical 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 scientist must have the ability to work with diverse groups of people and cross-functional teams to solve complex business problems
Our take
Amazon is the world's largest online retailer, and is well-known for its disruption of well-established industries. The company is present in numerous verticals, including cloud computing with Amazon Web Services, AI with its range of Alexa devices and a global marketplace more commonly referred to as 'the everything store'. Acquisitions include Ring, Twitch, Whole Foods Market, and IMDb.
More recently, Amazon has been focused on leading the "third wave in digital advertising". Many businesses are now shifting ad dollars to retailers, which before would have been spent with online media platforms. Amazon's seen great success in the space, with its revenue from advertising now higher than its Amazon Prime membership scheme, audiobooks and digital music combined. This growth is particularly impressive considering its digital ad rivals (like Snap, Alphabet, and Meta) have suffered declines due to wider macroeconomic factors and Apple's iOS privacy changes.
Despite its dominant market position, Amazon will continue to be challenged over the next decade, including sustaining AWS's cloud dominance in the face of Google and Microsoft. On top of this, the company's e-commerce division is facing profitability problems despite its 2023 post-IPO debt funding of 8 billion. It will need to find new ways to stay above their competitors.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
South Lake Union, Seattle, WA
Leadership
Jeff Bezos
(Founder & Executive Chairman)Jeff is an American business magnate, media proprietor, and investor. As well as founding Amazon, Jeff founded Blue Origin, an aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company and also owns The Washington Post.
Andy Jassy
(President & CEO)Joined Amazon as a Marketing Manager in 1997. Developed AWS with Jeff Bezos, and became CEO of Amazon in 2021.
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