Principal Applied Scientist, Artificial General Intelligence

Principal Applied Scientist, Artificial General Intelligence

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The Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) team is looking for a passionate, talented, and inventive Principal Applied Scientist with a strong deep learning background to lead the development of industry‑leading technology with multimodal systems.

As a Principal Scientist within the AGI organization, you are a trusted part of the technical leadership. You bring business and industry context to science and technology decisions, set the standard for scientific excellence, and make decisions that affect the way we build and integrate algorithms.

A Principal Applied Scientist will solicit differing views across the organization, be willing to change your mind as you learn more, and produce artifacts that are exemplary and often used as references across the organization.

You are a hands‑on scientific leader; develop solutions that are exemplary in terms of algorithm design, clarity, model structure, efficiency, and extensibility; and tackle intrinsically hard problems, acquiring expertise as needed.

Principal Applied Scientists are expected to decompose complex problems into straightforward solutions, amplify their impact by leading scientific reviews within their organization or location, and scrutinize and review experimental design, modeling, verification, and other research procedures. You also probe assumptions, illuminate pitfalls, foster shared understanding, align teams toward coherent strategies, and educate the scientific community on advanced techniques, state‑of‑the‑art approaches, and emerging trends.

AGI Principal Applied Scientists 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, inventing new machine learning techniques, conducting rigorous experiments, 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.

A Principal Applied Scientist will participate in organizational planning, hiring, mentorship, and leadership development. You will also build scalable science and engineering solutions, and serve as a key scientific resource in full‑cycle development (concept, design, implementation, testing, documentation, delivery, and maintenance).

• Master’s degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, or equivalent, or PhD
• Experience in building complex, real‑time systems involving AI, ML, and NLP with successful delivery to customers
• Experience with project delivery for large, cross‑functional projects with evolving requirements

• PhD with specialization in artificial intelligence, natural language processing, machine learning, or computational cognitive science with 10+ years of combined academic and research experience
• First‑author research on scaling laws, evaluation metrics, data mixture optimization, data efficiency, and neural network architectures in top‑tier journals and conferences
• Functional thought leader, sought after for key technical decisions
• Ability to successfully sell ideas to an executive‑level decision maker
• Mentors and trains the research scientist community on complex technical issues
• Excellent written and spoken communication skills with successful delivery to customers

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