# Applied Scientist II, Amazon Search

Source: https://realanalystjobs.com/job/applied-scientist-ii-amazon-search-amazon-9d427f76
Applied Scientist II, Amazon Search at Amazon, an on-site role based in Bengaluru, India. Experience level: 3+ Years. Posted on 10 August 2026, read from Amazon's own careers page (Amazon), which RealAnalystJobs re-checks daily and removes the role when it closes.

Updated 15 November 2026.

## Key facts

- Company: [Amazon](https://realanalystjobs.com/companies/amazon)
- Location: Bengaluru, India
- Work mode: On-site
- Posted: Aug 10, 2026
- Employment type: Full time
- Experience level: 3+ Years
- Source: Amazon's careers page (Amazon), re-checked daily

Skills: [Python](https://realanalystjobs.com/skills/python)

## Visa sponsorship

The posting does not say.

Amazon had H-1B petitions approved for 12,010 workers in fiscal year 2026 (USCIS). That is history, not a promise for this role. [See the record](https://realanalystjobs.com/companies/amazon#h1b-record)

## About this role

We are embarking on a multi-year journey to improve the shopping experience for customers globally. Amazon Search team creates customer-focused search solutions and technologies that make shopping delightful and effortless for our customers. Our goal is to understand what customers are looking for in whatever language happens to be their choice at the moment and help them find what they need in Amazon's vast catalog of billions of products - starting from the very first keystroke.

As Amazon expands to new interfaces, we are faced with the unique challenge of maintaining the bar on Search Results Quality and Search Autocomplete.

We are looking for a Applied Scientist II to work on improving search on Amazon using NLP, ML, and DL technology. As an Applied Scientist, you will lead our efforts in query understanding, semantic matching, and ranking. You will build systems that anticipate search query intent and surface the right results. As part of this role, you will develop high precision, high recall, and low latency solutions for search. Your solutions should work for all languages that Amazon supports and will be used in all Amazon locales world-wide. You will develop scalable science and engineering solutions that work successfully in production.

Key job responsibilities
As an Applied Scientist on the team, you will lead science innovation to improve the customer search experience through higher-quality search results. You will:
- Develop and deploy ML models to produce relevant search results.
- Design and train semantic matching models (bi-encoders, cross-encoders, and distillation from large foundation models) for ranking and relevance.
- Develop reinforcement learning and reward-modeling approaches to continuously improve search results quality.
- Train multi-objective ranking and scoring systems that balance suggestion diversity, specificity, and relevance.
- Design and implement scalable model architectures optimized for strict latency constraints, including knowledge distillation, quantization, and efficient inference strategies for production deployment.
- Lead end-to-end science projects from problem formulation through production launch, collaborating closely with engineers and scientists within and outside the team to deliver customer-facing impact.

Basic qualifications
- 3+ years of building machine learning models for business application experience
- PhD, or Master's degree
- Experience in patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals
- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
- Experience in any of the following areas: algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, high-performance computing

Preferred qualifications
- Experience using Unix/Linux
- Experience in professional software development

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

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## How to apply

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