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Senior Applied Scientist, AWS Central Economics and Science

Amazon

Amazon

San Francisco, CA, USA
Posted on Apr 7, 2026

Description

AWS is one of Amazon’s largest and fastest growing businesses, serving millions of customers in more than 190 countries. We use cloud computing to reshape the way global enterprises use information technology. We are looking for entrepreneurial, analytical, creative, flexible leaders to help us redefine the information technology industry. If you want to join a fast-paced, innovative team that is making history, this is the place for you.

AWS Central Economics & Science (ACES) drives best practices for objectively applying economics and science in decision making across AWS. The team collaborates with AWS science and business teams to identify, frame, and analyze complex and ambiguous problems of the highest priority. Through data-driven insights and modeling, ACES supports strategic decision-making across the AWS global organization, including sales operations and business performance optimization.

The ACES Sales Channels team is hiring an Applied Scientist (Senior or below) to advance our mission of providing rigorous, causal-inference-driven recommendations for AWS sales optimization. This role will focus on building ML systems with a causal modeling foundation, designing seller incentive mechanisms, and developing intervention strategies across the entire sales motion.

Key job responsibilities
• Causal ML System Development: Build and deploy machine learning models that emphasize causal inference, ensuring recommendations are grounded in valid interventions
• Incentive Design: Define and model incentives that drive desirable behaviors across AWS sales channels, partner programs, and reseller ecosystems
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Work with business stakeholders to understand requirements, validate approaches, and ensure practical applicability of scientific solutions
• Scientific Rigor: Promote findings at internal conferences and contribute to the team's reputation for methodological excellence


A day in the life
The ACES Sales Channels team works on understanding and optimizing AWS's sales channels, both direct (generalist and specialist sellers) and indirect (partners and Marketplace). Our work falls into three core areas: developing rigorous causal measurement and modeling frameworks using cutting-edge economics and statistical methods; designing programs and incentives to improve customer and business outcomes; and building ML-based recommendation systems for sellers, partners, and other AWS stakeholders.

About the team
Why AWS?
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Mentorship & Career Growth
We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.

Hybrid Work
We value innovation and recognize this sometimes requires uninterrupted time to focus on a build. We also value in-person collaboration and time spent face-to-face. Our team affords employees options to work in the office every day or in a flexible, hybrid work model near one of our U.S. Amazon offices.