Applied Scientist Job at Amazon (Boston)

Applied Scientist & Theoretical Scientist (within Physics)

12-month placement. Play an integral role within the Physics team to support the...

Location

United Kingdom , Aldermaston near Reading

Salary:

23500.00 GBP / Year

AWE

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

Growth mindset
Curiosity
Innovation
Resilience
Teamwork
British Citizen (due to national security requirements)

Job Responsibility

Radiation detection measurements and analysis
Photo, electron and neutron modelling codes
Simulating and measuring material properties in exotic states of matter
Developing new and novel computational algorithms to solve physics problems
Complex mathematical assessments

What we offer

Every other Friday off work (nine-day fortnight)
270 hours of annual leave

Fulltime

Founding Applied Scientist

Koah Labs is building the ad network to power the next generation of AI-native p...

Location

United States , San Francisco

Salary:

Not provided

Koah Labs

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

Advanced degree in Physics, Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering, or a related field
Enjoy identifying and owning challenging problems, forming testable hypotheses, and conducting impactful research to drive significant business impact
Relentless focus on continuous learning and making an impact with an ability to question the status quo
Strong mathematical and statistical modeling skills
Enjoy communicating conclusions to both technical and non-technical audiences alike

Job Responsibility

Design efficient algorithms for real-time bidding systems, building upon the current pricing literature
Create and productionize regression models to predict end conversions based on demographic, audience, and semantic data
Apply privacy-preserving clustering methods to categorize conversational data to improve advertiser outreach
Analyze and pore over data to find alpha that can improve the core ad matching system balancing publisher and advertiser outcomes

What we offer

Meaningful Equity
Offers Bonus

Fulltime

Senior Applied Scientist

PagerDuty, Inc. (NYSE:PD) is a global leader in digital operations management. H...

Location

Portugal , Lisbon

Salary:

Not provided

PagerDuty

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

Graduate degree in computer science, statistics, mathematics, or related quantitative field
7+ years using machine learning and statistical analysis for building data-driven product solutions for large scale systems
Hands on experience in python, SQL and other related tools
Have an entrepreneurial mindset to drive research projects to completion with minimal guidance
Strong ability to justify technical prioritization and communicate scientific work in a clear and effective manner stakeholders, other engineers and Product
Experience working with Engineering teams ensuring a timely delivery

Job Responsibility

Build production-grade ML models and AI-powered solutions to business critical challenges across multiple domains on top of PagerDuty’s data infrastructure
Work both independently and collaboratively with other applied scientists, product managers, engineers, and designers to solve complex problems that deliver business value
Influence leadership and stakeholders to drive more data-informed decisions and to identify impactful AI use-cases across our products
Communicate, align and drive interest within the entire organization to be more data driven
Provide guidance, enablement, technical leadership, and mentorship to other members of the organization
Lead research initiatives using generative AI, agents and traditional ML techniques
Proactively recommend improvements and new approaches to ensure continuous improvement across our existing models and services and tackling technical debt

What we offer

Competitive salary
Comprehensive benefits package from day one
Flexible work arrangements
Company equity
ESPP (Employee Stock Purchase Program)
Retirement or pension plan
Generous paid vacation time
Paid holidays and sick leave
Dutonian Wellness Days & HibernationDuty - companywide paid days off in addition to PTO
Paid parental leave: 22 weeks for pregnant parent, 12 weeks for non-pregnant parent (some countries have longer leave standards and we comply with local laws)

Fulltime

Applied Scientist II

RBS (Retail Business Services) Tech team works towards enhancing the customer ex...

Location

India , Bengaluru

Salary:

Not provided

Amazon Pforzheim GmbH

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

PhD, or Master's degree
1 year of relevant applied research experience with PhD or 3+ years of applied research experience with a Masters’ degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or related field with specialization in Machine Learning, NLP, Computer Vision, Deep Learning, or GenAI related fields
Should be an expert in either Computer Vision or NLP and have a good understanding of the both
Excellent communication skills

Job Responsibility

Design and deploy scalable GenAI, NLP and Computer Vision solutions that will impact the content visible to millions of customer and solve key customer experience issues
Develop novel LLM, deep learning and statistical techniques for task automation, text processing, image processing, pattern recognition, and anomaly detection problems
Define the research and experiments strategy with an iterative execution approach to develop AI/ML models and progressively improve the results over time
Partner with business and engineering teams to identify and solve large and significantly complex problems that require scientific innovation
Help the team leverage your expertise, by coaching and mentoring
Contribute to the professional development of colleagues, improving their technical knowledge and the engineering practices
Independently as well as guide team to file for patents and/or publish research work where opportunities arise

Applied Scientist II

RBS (Retail Business Services) Tech team works towards enhancing the customer ex...

Location

India , Bengaluru

Salary:

Not provided

Amazon Pforzheim GmbH

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

PhD, or Master's degree
1 year of relevant applied research experience with PhD or 3+ years of applied research experience with a Masters’ degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or related field with specialization in Machine Learning, NLP, Computer Vision, Deep Learning, or GenAI related fields
Should be an expert in either Computer Vision or NLP and have a good understanding of the both
Excellent communication skills

Job Responsibility

Design and deploy scalable GenAI, NLP and Computer Vision solutions that will impact the content visible to millions of customer and solve key customer experience issues
Develop novel LLM, deep learning and statistical techniques for task automation, text processing, image processing, pattern recognition, and anomaly detection problems
Define the research and experiments strategy with an iterative execution approach to develop AI/ML models and progressively improve the results over time
Partner with business and engineering teams to identify and solve large and significantly complex problems that require scientific innovation
Help the team leverage your expertise, by coaching and mentoring
Contribute to the professional development of colleagues, improving their technical knowledge and the engineering practices
Independently as well as guide team to file for patents and/or publish research work where opportunities arise

Applied Optical Scientist

Peak Nano is looking for an Optical Scientist with in-depth knowledge of optics ...

Location

United States

Salary:

Not provided

Peak Nano

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

PhD in Physics, Optics, or Mathematics + 5 years of direct experience
Proficient with MATLAB
Demonstrated ability to design optical systems in Zemax or Code V
Proficient with optical tolerancing and specifying lens fabrication specifications/drawings
2+ years of experience with optical software development
US Citizenship

Job Responsibility

Troubleshoot manufacturing issues via digital modeling
Develop & implement algorithms for design and manufacturing

Fulltime

Sr. Applied Research Scientist

We’re looking for a Sr. Applied Research Scientist to lead efforts in building l...

Location

United States

Salary:

280000.00 - 380000.00 USD / Year

Runway

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

4+ years of relevant ML engineering or research experience in language models
Very strong programming skills and ability to write clean and maintainable research code
Deep interest in building human-in-the-loop systems for creativity
Passion for seeing research through from initial conception to eventual application
Experience mentoring and teaching other researchers
Strong communication, collaboration, and documentation skills

Job Responsibility

Lead efforts in building large language models and vision language models that power Runway’s research and tools, with a focus on multimodal capabilities and reasoning

Fulltime

Sr. Applied Research Scientist

We are building AI to simulate the world through merging art and science. We bel...

Location

United States

Salary:

280000.00 - 380000.00 USD / Year

Runway

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

4+ years of relevant ML engineering or research experience
Very strong programming skills and ability to write clean and maintainable research code
Deep interest in building human-in-the-loop systems for creativity
Passion for seeing research through from initial conception to eventual application
Experience mentoring and teaching other researchers
Strong communication, collaboration, and documentation skills

Job Responsibility

Lead efforts in pretraining the next generation of Runway’s multimodal models

Fulltime

Applied Scientist

Amazon

Location:
United States , Boston ▼
Bellevue

Category:
IT - Software Development

Contract Type:
Not provided

Salary:

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Job Posted:
April 19, 2026

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