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Principal Applied Scientist, Items and Relationships Platform

Interested in setting the scientific vision for how every product at Amazon is understood, identified, and connected, with the opportunity to impact every Amazon customer and every selling partner?The Items and Relationships Platform is the

Company

Amazon

Location

Seattle, Washington, USA

Status

Open

Posted

2026-11-02T00:00:00+00:00

Amazon is hiring a principal applied scientist to set the science direction for its Items and Relationships Platform, which determines product identity and how catalog products relate. The work covers multimodal model understanding, entity resolution, relationship inference, calibrated confidence and evaluation, including judging model quality without external ground truth. The posting asks for a PhD, five or more years in predictive modeling, programming experience and a record of mentoring scientists. The role combines research with production systems and final scientific decisions across teams.