2026 Applied Science Intern (Machine Learning, Recommender Systems), Amazon International Machine Learning

Amazon

Amazon

Software Engineering
Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Posted on Jul 30, 2025

DESCRIPTION

Are you excited about leveraging state-of-the-art Deep Learning, Recommender Systems, Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing algorithms on large datasets to solve real-world problems?

As an Applied Scientist Intern, you will based in Amazon's Melbourne office working in a fast-paced, cross-disciplinary team of experienced R&D scientists. You will take on complex problems, work on solutions that leverage existing academic and industrial research, and utilize your own out-of-the-box pragmatic thinking. In addition to coming up with novel solutions and prototypes, you may even deliver these to production in customer facing products.

Please note: This internship is a duration of 6 months full time with a start date in Jan-March 2026.
The successful intern is required to be based in Melbourne and relocation allowance will be provided if you are based outside of Melbourne.

Key job responsibilities
- Develop novel solutions and build prototypes
- Work on complex problems in Machine Learning and Information Retrieval
- Contribute to research that could significantly impact Amazon operations
- Collaborate with a diverse team of experts in a fast-paced environment
- Collaborate with scientists on writing and submitting papers to top conferences, e.g. NeurIPS, ICML, KDD, SIGIR
- Present your research findings to both technical and non-technical audiences

Key Opportunities:
- Work in a team of ML scientists to solve recommender systems problems at the scale of Amazon
- Access to Amazon services and hardware
- Become a disruptor, innovator, and problem solver in the field of information retrieval and recommender systems
- Potentially deliver solutions to production in customer-facing applications
- Opportunities to be hired full-time after the internship


Join us in shaping the future of AI at Amazon. Apply now and turn your research into real-world solutions!