Sr. Applied Science Manager, AWS Specialist Prototyping Team

Amazon Inc.; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon seeks a Sr. Applied Science Manager for the AWS Specialist Prototyping Team in the UK. You will lead a customer-facing applied science program, shaping the science direction and delivering rapid prototyping engagements with emerging technologies.

You will recruit and mentor scientists, collaborating with cross-functional teams to transition successful prototypes into production, while navigating ambiguity and complex customer needs.

Qualifications

• Experience leading science/engineering teams.
• Translating customer requirements into clear problems.
• Hands-on ML work for large-scale applications.

Responsibilities

• Set science direction for emerging tech in prototyping.
• Source, qualify, scope, execute and deliver prototyping engagements.
• Recruit and mentor applied scientists.

Skills

Team management

Ambiguity handling

Applied ML

Leadership

Education

Master's in CS/ML

PhD preferred

Tools

LLMs

Generative models

Job description

Sr. Applied Science Manager, AWS Specialist Prototyping Team

Job ID: 10572000 | AWS EMEA SARL (UK Branch)

Core to Amazon’s DNA is its methodology around executing experiments and prototypes to find the quickest way to prove new ideas, technologies, and business models in a real-world environment. AWS Specialist Prototyping team provides hands‑on support to qualified customers & partners to discover the art of the possible with AWS and accelerate their path to production.

If you are a highly creative problem solver who works to inspire, motivate, and define innovative solutions; are passionate about technology, understand cloud architectures & platforms, and are quick to pick up emerging technologies; are adept at working with customers to experiment with innovative approaches, and validate the technical feasibility of solutions - this could be the role for you!

Key job responsibilities

A Sr. Applied Science Manager in the AWS Specialist Prototyping team sets the science direction for the team on emerging tech that represents the most innovative and challenging use cases for our customers. They ensure the success of this unique customer facing applied science execution team by serving as the engagement manager responsible for sourcing, qualifying, scoping, executing, delivering and transitioning Prototyping engagements. They drive science prototypes that have a high degree of ambiguity, scale and complexity. They provide technical and science leadership related to large language models, generative multi-modal models and computer vision. They recruit high performing Applied Scientists to the team and provide mentorship. They establish team mechanisms, including team building, planning, and document reviews.

About the team

The Worldwide Specialist Organization (WWSO) is part of AWS and is responsible for driving revenue, adoption, and growth from the largest and fastest growing small- and mid-market accounts to enterprise-level customers including public sector. We work backwards from our customer’s most complex and business critical problems to build and execute go-to-market plans that turn AWS ideas into multi-billion-dollar businesses. WWSO teams include business development, specialist and technical solutions architecture. As part of WWSO, you'll provide expertise across the entire life cycle of an AWS customer initiative, from developing ideas for new services to accelerating the adoption of established businesses. We pride ourselves on thinking big, delivering exceptional results for our customers, and working across AWS as #OneTeam.

Within WWSO, the AWS Specialist Prototyping team's mission is to accelerate customer innovation by transforming complex business challenges into novel AWS solutions through rapid prototyping and experimentation.

Get a sample of the work we have done with customers here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqIGzNtM670&list=PL9NTgqXfVhb79tN35dpbKSO-q4OdfBu_d

Large language models we have created are here: https://huggingface.co/aws-prototyping/

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Basic Qualifications

• Experience in science or engineering team management
• Experience distilling informal customer requirements into problem definitions, dealing with ambiguity and competing objectives
• Experience in practical work applying ML to solve complex problems for large scale applications
• Master's degree in Computer Science (Machine Learning, AI, Statistics, or equivalent)

Preferred Qualifications

• PhD in Computer Science (Machine Learning, AI, Statistics, or equivalent)
• Experience with one of the following areas: machine learning technologies, Reinforcement Learning, Deep Learning, Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing (NLP) or related applications
• Experience managing and quantifying improvements in customer experience or value for the business resulting from research outcomes
• Experience hiring and leading experienced scientists as well as having a successful record of developing junior members from academia or industry to a successful career track
• Experience in a customer-facing role, engaging with customer executives, technologists or partners to solve business problems with advanced technologies

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