Amazon Principal Applied Scientist Artificial General Intelligence 

United States, California, Sunnyvale 

229606284

A Principal Applied Scientist will solicit differing views across the organization and are willing to change your mind as you learn more. Your artifacts are exemplary and often used as reference across organization. You are a hands-on scientific leader; develop solutions that are exemplary in terms of algorithm design, clarity, model structure, efficiency, and extensibility; and tackle intrinsically hard problems acquiring expertise as needed.Principal Applied Scientists are expected to decompose complex problems into straightforward solutions. You will amplify your impact by leading scientific reviews within your organization or at your location; and scrutinize and review experimental design, modeling, verification and other research procedures. You will also probe assumptions, illuminate pitfalls, and foster shared understanding; align teams toward coherent strategies; and educate keeping the scientific community up to date on advanced techniques, state of the art approaches, the latest technologies, and trends.Key job responsibilities
You will be responsible for defining key research directions, inventing new machine learning techniques, conducting rigorous experiments, and ensuring that research is translated into practice. You will also develop long-term strategies, persuade teams to adopt those strategies, propose goals and deliver on them.A Principal Applied Scientist will participate in organizational planning, hiring, mentorship and leadership development. You will build scalable science and engineering solutions, and serve as a key scientific resource in full-cycle development (conception, design, implementation, testing to documentation, delivery, and maintenance).

- Graduate degree in Computer Science, Math, or related field.
- Experience in building complex, real-time systems involving AI, ML, and NLP with successful delivery to customers.
- Experience with project delivery for large, cross-functional projects with evolving requirements.

- PhD with specialization in Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, or Computational Cognitive Science
- 10+ years of combined academic and research experience
- First author research on scaling laws, evaluation metrics, data mixture optimization, data efficiency, or neural network architectures in top-tier journals and conferences
- Functional thought leader and sought after for key tech decisions
- Experience influencing decisions at an executive level
- Experience mentoring and training the research scientist community on complex technical issues
- Experience distilling informal customer requirements into problem definitions, dealing with ambiguity and competing objectives
- Excellent written and spoken communication skills with successful delivery to customers