Amazon Principal Applied Scientist Amazon 

United States, Washington, Seattle 

327818715

Key job responsibilities
As a Principal Applied Scientist with the IRIS team, you will lead the development of novel algorithms and modeling techniques to advance the state of the art with multimodal systems. Your work will directly help our customers and will power unrivaled product discovery, inform customer buying decisions, offer a large selection, and position Amazon as the first stop for shopping online. You will leverage Amazon’s heterogeneous data sources and large-scale computing resources to accelerate development with multimodal Large Language Models (LLMs) and Generative Artificial Intelligence. You will be responsible for defining key research directions, adopting or inventing new machine learning techniques, conducting rigorous experiments, publishing results, and ensuring that research is translated into practice. You will develop long-term strategies, persuade teams to adopt those strategies, propose goals and deliver on them. You will also participate in organizational planning, hiring, mentorship and leadership development. You will be technically fearless and with a passion for building scalable science and engineering solutions.A day in the life

* PhD with specialization in artificial intelligence, natural language processing, or machine learning
* 10+ years of combined academic and research experience.
* Functional thought leader, sought after for key tech decisions and influence ideas to executive level decision maker.
* Mentors and trains the research scientist community on complex technical issues.
* Experience developing software in traditional programming languages (C++, Java, etc..).
* Excellent written and spoken communication skills

* Experience with deep learning frameworks
* Experience with LLMs and multimodal architectures
* Experience with generative deep learning models
* Strong publication record in top-tier journals and conferences.