Amazon Senior Applied Scientist Generative AI Innovation Center 

United States, New York, New York 

662652240

You will work directly with customers and innovate in a fast-paced organization that contributes to game-changing projects and technologies. You will design and run experiments, research new algorithms, and find new ways of optimizing risk, profitability, and customer experience.We’re looking for Applied Scientists capable of using GenAI and other techniques to design, evangelize, and implement state-of-the-art solutions for never-before-solved problems.
Key job responsibilities
• Collaborate with AI/ML scientists and engineers to research, design, develop, and evaluate generative AI solutions to address real-world challenges
• Interact with customers directly to understand their business problems, aid them in implementation of generative AI solutions, brief customers and guide them on adoption patterns and paths to production
• Help customers optimize their solutions through approaches such as model selection, training or tuning, right-sizing, distillation, and hardware optimization
• Provide customer and market feedback to product and engineering teams to help define product direction

- PhD, or Master's degree and 6+ years of applied research experience
- 5+ years of hands on experience with Python to build, train, and evaluate models
- 5+ years of experience in any of the following areas: algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, high-performance computing
- 2+ years of experience with design, development, and optimization of generative AI solutions, algorithms, or technologies
- Experience in patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals

- 2+ years of experience with design, deployment, and evaluation of Large Language Model (LLM)-powered agents and tools and orchestration approaches
- Hands-on experience with model customization techniques such as fine-tuning, continued pre-training, and LLM-as-judge evaluation
- Experience with optimization of models on GPUs, Amazon Silicon, or TPUs
- 2+ years of experience with open source frameworks for building applications powered by LLMs like LangChain, LlamaIndex, and/ or similar tools
- Experience building generative AI applications on AWS using services such as Amazon Bedrock and Amazon SageMaker
- Strong communication skills, with attention to detail and ability to convey rigorous technical concepts and considerations to non-experts
- Scientific thinking and the ability to invent, a track record of thought leadership and contributions that have advanced the field