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Posted date: Mar 13, 2025
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Location: Seattle, WA
Estimated salary: $244,200
Range: $179,000 - $309,400
Description
AWS Solutions is a new organization with ambitions to be a leading provider of business applications, leveraging Amazon’s unique experience and expertise, used by millions of companies worldwide to manage day-to-day operations. Our mission is to accelerate our customers’ businesses by delivering intuitive and differentiated technology solutions that solve enduring business challenges. The AWS Solutions organization includes services such as Customer Engagement (Amazon Connect, Amazon Pinpoint, Amazon SES), Autonomous Checkout and Biometric Identity Services (Just Walk Out, Amazon One) for retail and other verticals, Health AI (HealthScribe, Comprehend Medical, HealthLake), and more.To be successful in this mission, we are seeking a visionary Principal Applied Scientist to lead pioneering research and development of new, highly confidential AI applications that reimagine experiences for end-customers (e.g., consumers, patients), frontline workers (e.g., customer service agents, concierge, retail associates, field service, clinicians), and back-office staff (e.g., claims processing, medical coding). As a leading subject matter expert in NLU, deep learning, knowledge representation, foundation models, and reinforcement learning, you will guide a team of scientists to invent novel, generative AI-powered experiences. This role involves defining research directions, developing new ML techniques, conducting rigorous experiments, and ensuring research translates to impactful products. You will be a hands-on technically fearless innovator who is passionate about building scalable scientific solutions. As a trusted advisor, you will set the standard for excellence, invent scalable, scientifically sound solutions across teams, define evaluation methods, and lead complex reviews. This role wields significant influence across AWS, Amazon, and the global research community.
Key job responsibilities
- Lead a team of talented applied scientists in solving complex challenges that companies face today.
- Develop novel algorithms and modeling techniques for multimodal systems.
- Drive the science roadmap and innovation strategy.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to create impactful products and services.
- Conduct ground breaking research and publish in top-tier conferences and journals.
About the team
- Work on meaningful problems that improve lives globally.
- Access to industry leading technology and vast resources.
- Collaborate with world-class researchers and engineers.
- Opportunity to publish and present at top conferences.
- Shape the future of AI for business applications and solutions.
Qualifications
- Passion for applying ground breaking AI to solve complex business challenges at a global scale.- Strong background in deep learning, multimodal systems, and large language models (LLMs), with experience in AI safety and alignment techniques such as supervised fine-tuning, in-context learning, and reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF).
- Own problems end-to-end, and are willing to pick up whatever knowledge you're missing to get the job done.
- Goal-oriented instead of method-oriented, and are not afraid of unglamorous but high-value work when needed.
- Proven ability to lead and mentor interdisciplinary research teams.
- Excellent communication skills, and can present technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences, including C-level executives.
- Ph.D. or advanced degree in computer science, AI, machine learning, NLP, cognitive science, or a related technical field
- 8+ years of combined academic and industry experience in developing scalable, secure AI/ML systems and deploying them in production.
- Proficiency in Python and leading ML frameworks like TensorFlow and PyTorch.
- Experience with cloud computing platforms, ideally AWS.
Extended Qualifications
- Proven track record of leading and delivering successful AI/ML projects in domains such as customer service, sales, and marketing, and/or industry verticals such as healthcare, travel/hospitality, financial services, and retail. Deep understanding of the challenges and opportunities in these areas.- Strong programming skills and experience with machine learning and agentic frameworks and tools, such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, scikit-learn, LangChain, LangGraph, and AWS AI/ML services.
- Strong publication record in top-tier journals and conferences.
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $179,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $309,400/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
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