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Director, Applied Science, Alexa for Shopping (Rufus)
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Seattle, United States
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Posted
June 27, 2026
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Alexa for Shopping (Rufus) is Amazon's new AI-powered shopping assistant that combines the capabilities of Rufus and Alexa+ to provide a more personalized and intelligent shopping experience. We are building the future of AI-powered commerce, where every customer interaction is conversational, personalized, and proactive.
We are seeking a Director, Applied Science to lead the science vision and execution for the next-generation conversational AI platform. This leader will own the end-to-end science roadmap for a multi-agent architecture powered by large language models (LLMs), SLMs, reinforcement learning (RL), and post-training optimization to deliver the most helpful, accurate, and fastest AI shopping assistant in the industry.
This is a transformational leadership role. You will lead the science that makes this possible: distilling Amazon's vast data assets into rich context, building specialized models through fine-tuning and RL that match frontier ...
Alexa for Shopping (Rufus) is Amazon's new AI-powered shopping assistant that combines the capabilities of Rufus and Alexa+ to provide a more personalized and intelligent shopping experience. We are building the future of AI-powered commerce, where every customer interaction is conversational, personalized, and proactive.
We are seeking a Director, Applied Science to lead the science vision and execution for the next-generation conversational AI platform. This leader will own the end-to-end science roadmap for a multi-agent architecture powered by large language models (LLMs), SLMs, reinforcement learning (RL), and post-training optimization to deliver the most helpful, accurate, and fastest AI shopping assistant in the industry.
This is a transformational leadership role. You will lead the science that makes this possible: distilling Amazon's vast data assets into rich context, building specialized models through fine-tuning and RL that match frontier ...