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Postdoctoral Science Program Early-career research opportunities alongside experienced industry scientists. AWS Agentic AI call for proposals — Spring 2026 Advancing the frontiers of AI. By Amazon Research Awards team AWS offers a broad and deep set of tools for businesses to create impactful AI solutions faster.

Our mission is to share our learnings and AI capabilities as fully managed services, and put them into the hands of every scientist and developer. AWS Agentic AI aims to advance agentic AI research by funding development of open-source tools and research that benefit the AI community at large, or impactful research related to agents.

We seek proposals related to agentic AI in the areas below: Development and application of no-code / low-code solutions for agentic AI, which facilitate the rapid deployment and management of AI agents at scale AI-enhanced productivity applications, which enable seamless human-AI collaboration and improve automation Multi-agent systems and collaborations, which enable agents to work together securely and effectively Agentic AI for accelerating scientific discoveryin fields including but not limited to health & life sciences, chemistry, materials science, and physics Other topics related to agentic AI development and applications are also welcome, including, but not limited to: Safety and responsible AI for agentic behavior Agent customization, involving post-training the execution model or optimization of prompts, tools, specs, steering files, etc. outside of the model Access methods for data integration and retrieval systems, e.g., vector, lexical, graph, relational, hybrid Enterprise-scale agent operations and governance Application domains, including but not limited to, software engineering, enterprise, healthcare & life sciences, finance, media & entertainment, consumer agentic assistants Submission period: March 25 — May 13, 2026 (11:59PM Pacific Time) .

Decision letters will be sent out in August 2026. Selected Principal Investigators (PIs) may receive the following: Unrestricted funds, no more than $70,000 USD on average AWS Promotional Credits , no more than $50,000 USD on average Training resources, including AWS tutorials and hands-on sessions with Amazon scientists and engineers Awards are structured as one-time unrestricted gifts.

The budget should include a list of expected costs specified in USD, and should not include administrative overhead costs. The final award amount will be determined by the awards panel. Please refer to the ARA program rules on the rules and eligibility page .

Proposals for this CFP should be prepared according to the proposal template and are encouraged to be a maximum of 4 pages, not including Appendices. In addition, to submit a proposal for this CFP, please also include the following information: Please describe how your research differs from or builds upon existing work in your field. What makes your findings, applications, or conceptual framework innovative or unexpected?

Please list the open-source tools you plan to contribute to. Please list the AWS ML tools you will use. ARA will make the funding decisions based on the potential impact to the research community and the quality of the scientific content.

We encourage research that uses machine learning tools, for example AWS AI/ML services (Amazon SageMaker, Amazon AI services, Amazon Bedrock). Expectations from recipients Amazon Research Awards team Applied Scientist - Perception (SLAM/VIO), Fauna We are seeking an Applied Scientist to develop and optimize Visual Inertial Odometry (VIO) and sensor fusion systems for our intelligent robots.

In this role, you will design, implement, and deploy state estimation and tracking algorithms that enable robots to understand their position and motion in real time, even in challenging and dynamic environments. You will own the full pipeline from algorithm development through embedded deployment, ensuring that perception systems run efficiently on resource-constrained robotic hardware.

You will also leverage modern machine learning approaches to push the boundaries of classical perception methods, combining learned representations with geometric techniques to achieve robust, real-time performance. This is a deeply hands-on role. You will work directly with sensors, hardware, and real-world data, while prototyping, testing, and iterating in physical environments.

The ideal candidate has strong foundations in VIO and sensor fusion, practical experience optimizing algorithms for embedded platforms, and familiarity with how modern deep learning is transforming perception.

Key job responsibilities - Design and implement Visual Inertial Odometry algorithms for robust real-time state estimation on robotic platforms like Sprout - Develop multi-sensor fusion pipelines integrating cameras, IMUs, and other sensing modalities for accurate pose tracking - Optimize perception and tracking algorithms for deployment on embedded hardware (e.g., ARM, GPU-accelerated edge devices) under strict latency and power constraints - Apply modern ML-based perception techniques (learned features, depth estimation, neural odometry) to complement and improve classical geometric approaches - Build and maintain calibration, evaluation, and benchmarking infrastructure for perception systems - Collaborate with hardware, controls, and navigation teams to integrate perception outputs into the robot’s autonomy stack - Lead technical projects from research prototyping through production deployment Sr. Research Scientist, Pricing Science Amazon's Worldwide Pricing & Promotions organization is seeking a talented, hands-on Research Scientist to join the Pricing and Promotion Optimization Science (P2OS) team — the optimization "application layer" within Amazon's Pricing Sciences organization.

Amazon adjusts prices on hundreds of millions of products daily across a global marketplace; P2OS is the team that makes those prices optimal. P2OS is a small, specialized unit with an outsized charter: develop and maintain the models that determine optimal prices and promotions across Amazon's catalog and merchant programs.

We own the full optimization stack — from price prediction to promotion targeting to competitiveness guardrails — and we measure success in terms of accretive Gross Contribution and Customer Pricing Perception (GCCP).

Our work spans Retail Core, Amazon Business, Fresh, Grocery, and international marketplaces, and we are continually investing in more extensible, generalizable science foundations to keep pace with a growing and evolving business.

We are looking for an innovative, organized, and customer-focused scientist with exceptional machine learning and predictive modeling skills, causal and experimental evaluation experience, and the entrepreneurial spirit to apply state-of-the-art methods to some of the most impactful pricing problems in e-commerce.

You should be comfortable with ambiguity, motivated by measurable business impact, and excited by the opportunity to work at Amazon-scale. Key job responsibilities * Innovate and build. Design, develop, and deploy machine learning models that set optimal prices and promotions across Amazon's global catalog.

Own models end-to-end — from problem formulation and data analysis through offline evaluation, A/B testing, and production launch. * Build a generalizable science foundation. Develop models and evaluation frameworks designed to scale across merchant programs, product categories, and marketplaces — enabling cross-learning and reducing the time and cost of applying science to new business contexts.

* Build and evolve optimization systems. Design and improve optimization systems — including reinforcement learning and multi-objective optimization approaches — that automate price and promotion decisions at scale across millions of products. * Apply generative AI and foundation models.

Identify and pursue opportunities to leverage large language models, embeddings, and generative AI techniques in pricing science — from enriching product representations and extracting competitive signals from unstructured data, to building more capable and explainable pricing systems. * Experiment rigorously. Design and execute A/B tests and causal inference studies to measure the business and customer impact of pricing model changes.

Translate findings into production-ready science improvements. * Stay at the frontier. Establish mechanisms to track the latest advances in reinforcement learning, causal ML, multi-objective optimization, generative AI, and demand modeling — and identify opportunities to apply them to Pricing & Promotions business problems.

* See the big picture. Contribute to the long-term scientific vision for how Amazon sets competitive, perception-preserving prices — balancing profitability, customer trust, and marketplace health. Sr. Applied Scientist, Special Projects Innovators wanted!

Are you an entrepreneur? A builder? A dreamer?

This role is part of an Amazon Special Projects team that takes the company’s Think Big leadership principle to the limits. If you’re interested in innovating at scale to address big challenges in the world, this is the team for you. As an Applied Scientist on our team, you will focus on building state-of-the-art ML models for biology.

Our team rewards curiosity while maintaining a laser-focus in bringing products to market. Competitive candidates are responsive, flexible, and able to succeed within an open, collaborative, entrepreneurial, startup-like environment.

At the forefront of both academic and applied research in this product area, you have the opportunity to work together with a diverse and talented team of scientists, engineers, and product managers and collaborate with other teams.

Key job responsibilities - Build, adapt and evaluate ML models for life sciences applications - Collaborate with a cross-functional team of ML scientists, biologists, software engineers and product managers Economist III - AMZ9898444 MULTIPLE POSITIONS AVAILABLE Employer: AMAZON.

COM SERVICES LLC Offered Position: Economist III Job Location: Boston, Massachusetts Job Number: AMZ9898444 Position Responsibilities: Mentor and guide the applied scientists and economists in our organization and hold us to a high standard of technical rigor and excellence in science. Design and lead roadmaps for complex science projects to help SP have a delightful selling experience while creating long term value for our shoppers.

Work with our engineering partners and draw upon your experience to meet latency and other system constraints. Identify untapped, high-risk technical and scientific directions, and simulate new research directions that you will drive to completion and deliver. Be responsible for communicating our science innovations to the broader internal & external scientific community.

Position Requirements: Ph. D. or foreign equivalent degree in Economics or a related field and two years of research or work experience in the job offered or a related occupation.

Must have two years of research or work experience in the following skill(s): 1) experience in econometrics including experience with program evaluation, forecasting, time series, panel data, or high dimensional problems; 2) experience with economic theory and quantitative methods; and 3) coding in a scripting language such as R, Python, or similar. Amazon.

com is an Equal Opportunity-Affirmative Action Employer – Minority / Female / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation. 40 hours / week, 8:00am-5:00pm, Salary Range $159,200/year to $215,300/year. Amazon is a total compensation company.

Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, visit: https://www. aboutamazon.

com/workplace/employee-benefits. #0000 Principal Applied Scientist, Automated Reasoning Group Applied Scientist, Navigation Amazon is on a mission to redefine the future of automation — and we're looking for exceptional talent to help lead the way.

We are building the next generation of advanced robotic systems that seamlessly blend cutting-edge AI, sophisticated control systems, and novel mechanical design to create adaptable, intelligent automation solutions capable of operating safely alongside humans in dynamic, real-world environments.

At Amazon, we leverage the power of machine learning, artificial intelligence, and advanced robotics to solve some of the most complex operational challenges at a scale unlike anywhere else in the world. Our fleet of robots spans hundreds of facilities globally, working in sophisticated coordination to deliver on our promise of customer excellence — and we're just getting started.

As a Sr. Scientist in Robot Navigation, you will be at the forefront of this transformation — architecting and delivering navigation systems that are intelligent, safe, and scalable.

You will bring deep expertise in learning-based planning and control, a strong understanding of foundation models and their application to embodied agents, and as well as have in-depth understanding of control-theoretic approaches such as model predictive control (MPC)-based trajectory planning. You will develop navigation solutions that seamlessly blend data-driven intelligence with principled control-theoretic guarantees.

Our vision is bold: to build navigation systems that allow robots to move fluidly and safely through dynamic environments — understanding context, anticipating change, and adapting in real time. You will lead research that bridges the gap between cutting-edge academic advances and production grade deployment, collaborating with world-class teams pushing the boundaries of robotic autonomy, manipulation, and human-robot interaction.

Join us in building the next generation of intelligent navigation systems that will define the future of autonomous robotics at scale.

Key job responsibilities - Design, develop, and deploy perception algorithms for robotics systems, including object detection, segmentation, tracking, depth estimation, and scene understanding - Lead research initiatives in computer vision, sensor fusion and 3D perception - Collaborate with cross-functional teams including robotics engineers, software engineers, and product managers to define and deliver perception capabilities - Drive end-to-end ownership of ML models — from data collection and labeling strategy to training, evaluation, and deployment - Mentor junior scientists and engineers; contribute to a culture of technical excellence - Define and track key metrics to measure perception system performance in real-world environments - Publish research findings in top-tier venues (CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ICRA, NeurIPS, etc.) and contribute to patents A day in the life - Train ML models for deployment in simulation and real-world robots, identify and document their limitations post-deployment - Drive technical discussions within your team and with key stakeholders to develop innovative solutions to address identified limitations - Actively contribute to brainstorming sessions on adjacent topics, bringing fresh perspectives that help peers grow and succeed — and in doing so, build lasting trust across the team - Mentor team members while maintaining significant hands-on contribution to technical solutions About the team Our team is a group is a diverse group of scientists and engineers passionate about building intelligent machines.

We value curiosity, rigor, and a bias for action. We believe in learning from failure and iterating quickly toward solutions that matter. Economist II, GMAC Economics Are you excited about using econometrics, experimentation, and machine learning to impact real-world business decisions?

We are looking for an Economist II to work on challenging problems at the intersection of causal inference and machine learning for Prime Video Ads. You will design experiments, build econometric and ML models, and translate findings into decisions that shape how millions of customers experience advertising on Prime Video.

If you have a deeply quantitative approach to problem-solving, enjoy building and implementing models end-to-end, and want to work on problems where rigorous economics meets production-scale ML, we want to talk to you.

Key job responsibilities - Design, execute, and analyze experiments to measure the impact of ad policies on customer behavior and business outcomes - Develop causal inference models (experimental and observational) to estimate short- and long-term effects of strategic initiatives - Collaborate with scientists, engineers, and product teams to deliver measurable business impact - Influence business leaders based on empirical findings Applied Scientist, AWS Automated Reasoning Applied Scientist, AWS Automated Reasoning Applied Scientist, AWS Automated Reasoning Get more from Amazon Science