Applied Scientist II, Data Intelligence and Governance

Applied Scientist II, Data Intelligence and Governance

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We are seeking an Applied Scientist II to work on the development of an AI-based data intelligence and classification platform that will redefine how security and privacy assessments and enforcement are conducted s mission‑critical platform will leverage AI‑driven autonomous agents to conduct proactive, intelligent security operations across the company.

The platform will integrate deeply with internal security, privacy, engineering, and cloud‑native tools to provide self‑serve, automated insights, verifications, and enforcement mechanisms. This role requires strong technical expertise in AI/ML, LLMs, and distributed cloud infrastructure, as well as thought leadership to drive alignment across multiple teams, customers, and business units.

This is an opportunity to shape the future of AI‑driven security and privacy assurance at an enterprise scale, defining standards, influencing company‑wide security posture, and leading technical innovation at the highest level.

• Architect and define the next‑generation data classification and search matching platform, leading the technical strategy for AI‑driven security automation across applied science and engineering teams
• Build on a multi‑agent LLM framework and influence your organizations in adopting the promising approaches
• Develop a highly scalable, traditional ML‑based as well as LLM‑based intelligent security agent framework that enables internal teams to automate processing of structured and unstructured data
• Combine depth and breadth of domain expertise and provide technical leadership to the entire team while also doing hands‑on work by diving deep into details to diagnose complex system performance problems

The Data Categorization team helps Amazonians understand their data and govern it at scale and ensures experiences delivered by Amazon to our customers uphold our high security and privacy standards. The science team harnesses AI to strengthen Amazon’s privacy and security posture more efficiently and effectively.

• 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
• Experience in any of the following areas: algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, high‑performance computing

• Experience in building speech recognition, machine translation and natural language processing systems (e.g., commercial speech products or government speech projects)
• Experience with popular deep learning frameworks such as MxNet and Tensor Flow
• Experience in professional software development

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

USA, CA, Sunnyvale -  -  USD annually