Applied Scientist, Delivery Foundation Model

Amazon
Santa Clara, CA, USA / Bellevue, WA, USA2026-01-28ONSITE

About the job

Join the next science and engineering revolution at Amazon's Delivery Foundation Model team, where you'll work alongside world-class scientists and engineers to pioneer the next frontier of logistics through advanced AI and foundation models. We are seeking an exceptional Applied Scientist to help develop innovative foundation models that enable delivery of billions of packages worldwide. In this role, you'll combine highly technical work with scientific leadership, ensuring the team delivers robust solutions for dynamic real-world environments. Your team will leverage Amazon's vast data and computational resources to tackle ambitious problems across a diverse set of Amazon delivery use cases.

Responsibilities

Design and implement novel deep learning architectures combining a multitude of modalities, including image, video, and geospatial data.

Solve computational problems to train foundation models on vast amounts of Amazon data and infer at Amazon scale, taking advantage of latest developments in hardware and deep learning libraries.

As a foundation model developer, collaborate with multiple science and engineering teams to help build adaptations that power use cases across Amazon Last Mile deliveries, improving experience and safety of a delivery driver, an Amazon customer, and improving efficiency of Amazon delivery network.

Drive technical direction for specific research initiatives, ensuring robust performance in production environments.

Qualifications

Minimum

PhD, or Master's degree and 1+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience

4+ years of programming in Java, C++, Python or related language experience

Experience building machine learning models or developing algorithms for business application

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

Experience in any of the following areas: algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, high-performance computing

Preferred

Experience using Unix/Linux

Experience in professional software development