At Amazon, PhD and Master’s hires are integral to our research teams where they actively contribute to solving a diverse set of technical problems across large scale platforms using machine learning, large data sets and cloud computing. They assist the benchmarking and future development of existing software applications across Amazon. They also help develop novel and highly scalable applications that optimize Amazon’s systems using cutting edge quantitative techniques in Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Operations Research, and Distributed Computing. Additionally, they help to develop innovative algorithms that model patterns within data to drive automated decisions at scale in all corners of the company, including our ecommerce site, subsidiaries, Amazon Web Services, Seller & Buyer Services, and Digital Media & Kindle.