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Senior Applied Science Manager, Alexa for Shopping (Rufus)

Palo Alto, California, United States💼 Full-time💰 $218,800–$218,800🗓 2026-09-01 → 2026-09-26

Core

Managing a team to build and align Large Language Models (LLM) and Vision-Language Models (VLM) for Amazon's AI-powered shopping assistant, ensuring personalized and proactive customer experiences.

Role type

Senior Applied Science Manager (LLM/VLM)

Builds

AI shopping assistant features for Amazon customers

Domain

E-commerce, Large Language Models, Vision-Language Models

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Large-scale ML/AI solution building, team management, problem definition from ambiguous requirements, LLM/VLM post-training and alignment

Preferred skills

PhD in CS/ML/AI/Statistics, 10+ years ML application experience, LLM post-training (SFT and RL) experience

Technologies

LLM, VLM, SFT, RL

Responsibilities

Set roadmap and vision for science investments, optimize existing AI shopping experiences, manage a team of scientists and engineers

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with management responsibilities

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