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Applied Science Manager, Alexa for Shopping (Rufus)

Alexa for Shopping (Rufus) is Amazon's new AI-powered shopping assistant that combines the capabilities of Rufus and Alexa+ to provide a more personalized and intelligent shopping experience. We are building the future of AI-powered commerc

Company

Amazon

Location

Palo Alto, California, USA

Status

Closed

Posted

2026-09-09T00:00:00+00:00

Amazon is hiring an Applied Science Manager for Alexa for Shopping (Rufus), its AI shopping assistant. The manager leads a team on LLM and vision-language model post-training and alignment, sets a science roadmap across new and existing shopping experiences, and works with scientists, engineers, and product managers. The posting asks for management experience, ML/NLP/IR/analytics knowledge, five years building ML models or algorithms, complex software delivery, and a master's degree. Preferred includes a PhD, longer management/ML experience, and LLM post-training with SFT and RL.