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Applied Scientist

Amazon Web Services, Inc.
Seattle, Washington, USA
$136K a year
Full-time

Amazon is seeking a passionate, talented, and inventive Applied Scientist with a strong machine learning background and familiarity with LLMs to help build automated insights and generative AI tools to accelerate our customers' journey to the cloud.

This is a high-visibility role with significant impact potential.

About you :

You, as the right candidate, are adept at executing every stage of the machine learning development life cycle in a business setting;

from initial requirements gathering to through final model deployment, including adoption measurement and improvement. You will be working with large volumes of structured and unstructured data spread across multiple databases and can design and implement data pipelines to clean and merge these data for research and modeling.

You will invent, implement, and deploy state of the art machine learning and generative AI algorithms and systems. You will build prototypes and explore conceptually large scale ML solutions.

You will interact closely with our customers and with the academic community.

Beyond mathematical understanding, you have a deep intuition for machine learning algorithms that allows you to translate business problems into the right machine learning, data science, and / or statistical solutions.

You’re able to pick up and grasp new research and identify applications or extensions within the team. You’re talented at communicating your results clearly to business owners in concise, non-technical language.

Key job responsibilities

What you will do

  • Work with a product managers, scientists and engineers to define and build business problems.
  • Research, develop, and deliver machine learning & LLM based solutions in close partnership with end users, other science and engineering teams, and business stakeholders.
  • Use AWS services like SageMaker and Bedrock to deploy scalable ML models in the cloud.

About the team

About AWS

Diverse Experiences

AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred 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.

About Sales, Marketing and Global Services (SMGS)

AWS Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS) is responsible for driving revenue, adoption, and growth from the largest and fastest growing small- and mid-market accounts to enterprise-level customers including public sector.

GSO2024

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations :

Seattle, WA, USA

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

  • 3+ years of building models for business application experience
  • 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
  • Familiarity with LLMs and related optimization methods

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

  • Experience in professional software development
  • PhD in engineering, technology, computer science, machine learning, robotics, operations research, statistics, mathematics or equivalent quantitative field
  • 30+ days ago
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