Amazon Applied Scientist Amazon Connect 

United States, New York, New York 

988130271

The Applied Scientist II will contribute to the development of AI systems. The role requires extending existing scientific techniques and inventing new ones to address specific customer needs at a project level. You should be comfortable working semi-autonomously on difficult problems with visible risks or roadblocks. You'll work closely with technical leaders within the team. We're looking for scientists who can maintain high standards while moving quickly, prioritizing both rapid experimentation and responsible AI development to deliver measurable customer impact.
Key job responsibilities
* Design and implement solutions that extend or adapt scientific approaches for customer needs at the project level
* Deliver components into production that meet high quality standards (efficient, reproducible, testable code)
* Produce research reports demonstrating correctness, scholarship, and scientific rigor
* Work with product and science teams to deliver impactful AI features
* Contribute to operational excellence in the team's deliverables

- 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

- Experience using Unix/Linux
- Experience in professional software development