Applied Scientist

Amazon is looking for a passionate, talented, and inventive Applied Scientist with a strong machine learning background to help build industry-leading technology in generative AI and foundational models.

As part of our Generative AI science team in Amazon AWS Bedrock, you will have the opportunity to impact millions of our customers by researching and building innovative algorithms that can optimize the inference engine of a wider range of foundation models.

You will gain hands on experience with Amazon’s large-scale computing resources to accelerate advances in natural language processing, machine learning, and foundation models.

You will work along side a supportive and collaborative team with a healthy mix of scientists and engineers to research and develop state-of-the-art technology for inference optimization.

About AWS

Diverse Experiences

AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply.

If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

Why AWS?

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Inclusive Team Culture

Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences.

Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Mentorship & Career Growth

We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Work / Life Balance

We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture.

When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience
• Experience in patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals
• Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience using Unix / Linux
• Experience in professional software development
• Experience in building speech recognition, machine translation and natural language processing systems (e.g., commercial speech products or government speech projects)
• 3+ years of building machine learning models or developing algorithms for business application experience
• Experience with PyTorch
30+ days ago