Senior Applied Science Lead, AWS Prototyping & ML

Amazon; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon's AWS Specialist Prototyping team is seeking a Sr. Applied Science Manager to guide science directions for emerging tech in prototyping engagements. You will lead the end-to-end lifecycle from sourcing to transitioning prototypes, driving high-ambiguity projects with scale and complexity.

You will recruit and mentor Applied Scientists, providing technical leadership in ML, computer vision and language models, while establishing team processes and reviews.

Qualifications

• Experience in science or engineering team management.
• Ability to distill informal customer requirements into clear problem definitions and manage ambiguity.
• Practical work applying ML to solve complex, large-scale problems.
• Master's degree in Computer Science (Machine Learning, AI, Statistics, or equivalent).

Responsibilities

• Set the science direction for emerging tech in the AWS Specialist Prototyping team.
• Serve as engagement manager for sourcing, qualifying, scoping, executing, delivering and transitioning Prototyping engagements.
• Drive science prototypes with ambiguity, scale and complexity; lead team in ML/vision/Lang models.
• Recruit, mentor and develop Applied Scientists; establish planning and review processes.

Skills

Team management

Requirements distillation

Applied ML for large scale

Customer engagement

Education

Master's degree in Computer Science

PhD in Computer Science (preferred)

Job description

Amazon's AWS Specialist Prototyping team is seeking a Sr. Applied Science Manager to guide science directions for emerging tech in prototyping engagements. You will lead the end-to-end lifecycle from sourcing to transitioning prototypes, driving high-ambiguity projects with scale and complexity.

You will recruit and mentor Applied Scientists, providing technical leadership in ML, computer vision and language models, while establishing team processes and reviews.