Principal Applied Scientist, Artificial General Intelligence

Principal Applied Scientist, Artificial General Intelligence

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As a Principal Applied 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, 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 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.

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.

• 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 also 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 build scalable science and engineering solutions, and serve as a key scientific resource in full-cycle development (conception, design, implementation, testing to documentation, delivery, and maintenance).

• Graduate degree in Computer Science, Math, or related field.
• 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
• 10+ years of combined academic and research experience
• First author research on scaling laws, evaluation metrics, data mixture optimization, data efficiency, or neural network architectures in top-tier journals and conferences
• Functional thought leader and sought after for key tech decisions
• Experience influencing decisions at an executive level
• Experience mentoring and training the research scientist community on complex technical issues
• Experience distilling informal customer requirements into problem definitions, dealing with ambiguity and competing objectives
• Excellent written and spoken communication skills with successful delivery to customers

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants:
Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position.

These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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