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Principal Applied Scientist, AGI Foundations

Amazon.com Services LLC
Sunnyvale, California, USA
$179K a year
Full-time

As a Principal Scientist within the Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) organization, you are a trusted part of the technical leadership.

You bring business and industry context to science and technology decisions.

You set the standard for scientific excellence and make decisions that affect the way we build and integrate algorithms. You solicit differing views across the organization and are willing to change your mind as you learn more.

Your artifacts are exemplary and often used as reference across organization.

You are a hands-on scientific leader. Your solutions are exemplary in terms of algorithm design, clarity, model structure, efficiency, and extensibility.

You tackle intrinsically hard problems, acquiring expertise as needed. You decompose complex problems into straightforward solutions.

You amplify your impact by leading scientific reviews within your organization or at your location. You scrutinize and review experimental design, modeling, verification and other research procedures.

You probe assumptions, illuminate pitfalls, and foster shared understanding. You align teams toward coherent strategies.

You educate, keeping the scientific community up to date on advanced techniques, state of the art approaches, the latest technologies, and trends.

You help managers guide the career growth of other scientists by mentoring and play a significant role in hiring and developing scientists and leads.

You will play a critical role in driving the development of Generative AI (GenAI) technologies that can handle Amazon-scale use cases and have a significant impact on our customers' experiences.

Key job responsibilities

You will be responsible for defining key research directions, adopting or inventing new machine learning techniques, conducting rigorous experiments, publishing results, and ensuring that research is translated into practice.

You will develop long-term strategies, persuade teams to adopt those strategies, propose goals and deliver on them. You will also participate in organizational planning, hiring, mentorship and leadership development.

You will be technically fearless and with a passion for building scalable science and engineering solutions. You will serve as a key scientific resource in full-cycle development (conception, design, implementation, testing to documentation, delivery, and maintenance).

About the team

The AGI team has a mission to push the envelope with multimodal LLMs and Gen AI in Computer Vision, in order to provide the best-possible experience for our customers.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

PhD with specialization in artificial intelligence, natural language processing, machine learning, or computational cognitive science 10+ years of combined academic and research experience.

Strong publication record in top-tier journals and conferences. Functional thought leader, sought after for key tech decisions.

Can successfully sell ideas to an executive level decision maker. Mentors and trains the research scientist community on complex technical issues.

Experience developing software in traditional programming languages (C++, Java, etc..). Excellent written and spoken communication skills

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Strong software development skills Experience working effectively with science, data processing, and software engineering teams Proven track record of innovation in creating novel algorithms and advancing the state of the art Entrepreneurial spirit combined with strong architectural and problem solving skills

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