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Amazon.com, Inc.
Senior Applied Scientist, Kumo
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A Research Scientist is responsible for designing, undertaking and analyzing information from controlled laboratory-based investigations, experiments and trials.
$161,478 / year median in Washington
Job Description
Description At AWS, we use Artificial Intelligence to be able to identify every need of a customer across all AWS services before they have to tell us about it and help customers adopt best practices while architecting on the cloud. We are looking for a Senior Applied scientist who will function as a science leader and drive innovation with Gen AI to bring paradigm shift to how the business operates and build "best in the world" experience that customers will love! As part of the AWS Applied AI Solutions organization, we have a vision to provide business applications, leveraging Amazon's unique experience and expertise, that are used by millions of companies worldwide to manage day-to-day operations. We will accomplish this by accelerating our customers' businesses through delivery of intuitive and differentiated technology solutions that solve enduring business challenges. We blend vision with curiosity and Amazon's real-world experience to build opinionated, turnkey solutions. Where customers prefer to buy over build, we become their trusted partner with solutions that are no-brainers to buy and easy to use. Some of the science challenges we work on include building Agentic AI systems for complex use cases such as optimizing customers' cloud architectures, innovating optimization techniques for cost-efficiency in agentic workflows, fine-tuning language models for domain specific use cases, building scalable agentic evaluation systems, designing continual learning systems that incorporate real-time customer and operational feedback to improve model performance over time and developing collaborative filtering approaches that surface personalized recommendations at scale. You will have an opportunity to lead, invent, and design technology that will directly impact every customer across all AWS services. We are building industry-leading technology that cuts across a wide range of ML techniques from Natural Language Processing to Deep Learning and Generative Artificial Intelligence. You will be a key driver in taking something from an idea to an experiment to a prototype and finally to a live production system. As a senior scientist on this team, you will define the science vision and long-term research roadmap for your problem space. You will set technical and research direction and ensure our approaches remain at the frontier of what's possible. You will mentor junior scientists and engineers, helping them grow their technical depth, develop scientific rigor, and navigate ambiguous problem spaces. You will raise the bar for the team through code reviews, science experimentation reviews, and by fostering a culture of experimentation and intellectual curiosity. Key job responsibilities
- Deliver real world production systems at AWS scale.
- Work closely with the business to understand the problem space, identify the opportunities and formulate the problems.
- Use machine learning, data mining, statistical techniques, Generative AI and others to create actionable, meaningful, and scalable solutions for the business problems.
- Analyze and extract relevant information from large amounts of data and derive useful insights.
- Work with software engineering teams to deliver production systems with your ML models
- Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large scale data analyses, model development, model validation and model implementation A day in the life Diverse Experiences AWS values diverse experiences.
- PhD, or Master's degree and 6+ years of applied research experience
- 3+ years of building machine learning models for business application experience
- Knowledge of programming languages such as C/C++, Python, Java or Perl
- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
- Experience with neural deep learning methods and machine learning Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with large scale machine learning systems such as profiling and debugging and understanding of system performance and scalability Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
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Benefits
- Paid Time Off (PTO)
- 401(k) Plans
- Mental Health
- Health and Wellness Programs