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Applied Scientist, Think Forward Labs

Amazon, Santa Clara, California, us, 95053


Job ID: 2832418 | Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc.The Think Forward Lab team at Deep Science for Systems & Services (DS3), AWS AI/ML is looking for world class scientists and engineers to join its group working on deployment of structure-aware next generation systems that can reason over heterogeneous data assets and reduce hallucination making AI systems reliable. The team develops AI systems that utilize structure exhibit autonomous proficiency across a wide range of domains, demonstrating competency in many (complex) tasks previously performed by human knowledge workers. To accomplish this goal we are seeking scientists with expertise in large language models, graph machine learning, user alignment, neuro-symbolic AI, synthetic data generation and agentic environments. This is a role that combines science knowledge, technical strength, and product focus. It will be your job to develop novel generative AI-based agentic systems and algorithms while working with the engineering team to integrate them into different projects in the AWS AI portfolio of services. You will be at the heart of a growing and exciting focus area for AWS and work with other acclaimed engineers and world famous scientists.

Key job responsibilities

You will be a hands-on contributor to science at Amazon. You will help raise the scientific bar by mentoring, educating, and publishing in your field. You will help build the scientific roadmap for graph retrieval augmented generation, agents, neuro-symbolic AI and LLMs. You will be a technical leader in your domain. You will be a strong mentor and lead for your team.

A day in the life

Our team puts a high value on work-life balance. It isn’t about how many hours you spend at home or at work; it’s about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment. We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal lives.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 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

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience in professional software development

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