Applied Scientist II, Alexa for Shopping Science UK

Description
We are looking for a passionate, talented, and inventive Applied Scientist with a strong machine learning background to help build industry-leading language technology powering Alexa for Shopping, our AI-driven search and shopping assistant, helping customers with their shopping tasks at every step of their shopping journey.

This innovative role focuses on developing and optimizing language model-powered (LLM/SLM) conversational experiences. The core emphasis is to get the best performance out LLMs/SLMs via careful and methodical instruction design, contextual grounding, informed choices of MCP tools and agent/multi-agent systems, context engineering, model fine-tuning, evaluation frameworks, and experimentation to systematically improve quality, robustness, and customer impact. The work combines scientific rigor with product intuition to systematically raise the bar for conversational AI performance at Amazon scale.

Our mission in conversational shoppi...