2026 Fall Applied Science Internship - Reinforcement Learning & Optimization (machine Learning) - United States, Phd Student Science Recruiting

Amazon Amazon · Big Tech · Seattle, WA · Applied Science

This internship focuses on research in Reinforcement Learning and Optimization within Machine Learning, developing and implementing novel algorithms for complex real-world challenges. The role involves working with large-scale data and applying cutting-edge ML techniques.

What you'd actually do

  1. Develop scalable, efficient, automated processes for large scale data analyses, model development, model validation and model implementation.
  2. Design, development and evaluation of highly innovative ML models for solving complex business problems.
  3. Research and apply the latest ML techniques and best practices from both academia and industry.

Skills

Required

  • PhD enrollment
  • Programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
  • Optimization
  • Statistics
  • Reinforcement Learning
  • Causal Inference
  • Large Language Models
  • Time Series
  • Graph Modeling
  • Supervised/Unsupervised Learning
  • Deep Learning
  • Predictive Modeling

Nice to have

  • Publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals
  • Experience in state-of-the-art deep learning models architecture design and deep learning training and optimization and model pruning

What the JD emphasized

  • PhD
  • publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals

Other signals

  • reinforcement learning
  • optimization
  • deep learning
  • large language models