Senior Applied Scientist, Amazon AWS Agentic AI, AWS AI Fundamental Research

Position Overview

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 the AI team in Amazon AWS, you will work alongside internationally recognized experts to develop novel algorithms and modeling techniques that advance the state‑of‑the‑art in generative AI. Your work will directly impact millions of customers through products and services that use speech, vision, and language technology. You will gain hands‑on experience with Amazon’s heterogeneous speech, text, image and structured data sources, and large‑scale computing resources to accelerate advances in machine learning and foundation models.

Key responsibilities include designing and developing agentic evaluation frameworks, defining evaluation methodologies, creating benchmarks, building evaluation models and automated systems that measure agent performance across critical dimensions, and owning the end‑to‑end lifecycle from research, data curation, model training to production deployment. You will collaborate with engineering to deliver evaluation capabilities as AWS services, translate science insights into actionable improvements, mentor junior scientists, and contribute to the broader research community.

• 3+ years of experience building machine learning models for business applications
• PhD or Master’s degree and 6+ years of applied research experience
• Proficiency in programming with Java, C++, Python, or related languages
• Experience with neural deep learning methods and machine learning

• Experience with modeling tools such as R, scikit-learn, Spark MLLib, MxNet, Tensor Flow, Num Py, Sci Py, etc.
• Experience with large‑scale distributed systems such as Hadoop, Spark, etc.

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

Location:

Santa Clara, California (USA)

Salary: $192,200 – $260,000 USD annually

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