Amazon Research Science Internship – Canada for PhD Students
Applicant criteria
- No specific age required
- Both
Opportunity criteria
- Internship
- from: 500
- to: 1500
Opportunity description
Amazon is offering a 2023 Research Science Internship - Machine Learning – Canada. As it’s hiring research science interns to work in a number of domains including Operations Research, Optimization, Speech Technologies, Computer Vision, Robotics, and more! Amazon has positions available for Research Internships in multiple locations across Canada.
Duties & responsibilities
As an intern, you will be challenged to apply theory into practice through experimentation and invention, develop new algorithms using mathematical programming techniques for complex problems, implement prototypes and work with massive datasets. Amazon has a culture of data-driven decision-making, and the expectation is that analytics are timely, accurate, innovative and actionable. Amazon Science gives insight into the company’s approach to customer-obsessed scientific innovation. Amazon fundamentally believes that scientific innovation is essential to being the most customer-centric company in the world. It’s the company’s ability to have an impact at scale that allows us to attract some of the brightest minds in artificial intelligence and related fields.
Eligibility criteria
- Enrolled in a PhD degree or equivalent in computer science, statistics, physics, engineering, or related topics.
- Experience in designing experiments and statistical analysis of results.
- Experience in understanding and ability to implement algorithms using both toolkits and self-developed code.
- Experience with Java, C++, or other programming language, as well as with R, MATLAB, Python, or similar scripting language.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Advanced ability to extract complex data sets, cleaning and analysis
- Experience in developing and implementing algorithms, tailored to particular business needs and tested on large data sets
- Publication(s) at peer-reviewed conferences or journals.
About Amazon:
A multinational technology company focusing on e-commerce, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence in Seattle, Washington. It is one of the Big Four or "Four Horsemen" of technology along with Google, Apple and Facebook due to its market capitalization, disruptive innovation, brand equity and hyper-competitive application process. (Wikipedia)
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