Senior Applied Scientist, Responsible AI & Safety

Amazon Inc.; Asti; Hybrid; EUR 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Inc. is seeking a Senior Applied Scientist to lead Responsible AI initiatives for Alexa+. You will design and evaluate AI safety systems at scale, advance models that understand human values across cultures, and collaborate across teams to ensure trust at Amazon's global reach.

You will mentor researchers, prototype agentic architectures, and deploy production systems that detect and fix issues in real time, shaping how users experience safe, reliable conversations every day.

Qualifications

• PhD or Master’s with 6+ years of applied research.
• 4+ years building ML models for business applications.
• Proficient in Java, C++, Python.
• Experience with NLP and large language models.

Responsibilities

• Lead Responsible AI research for production-ready safety systems.
• Develop evaluation methods to assess model safety.
• Collaborate with engineers to deploy multi-agent safety solutions.
• Mentor teams and guide go/no-go decisions.

Skills

NLP

LLMs

Java

C++

Python

Deep learning

ML systems

Education

PhD

Master’s +6 yrs exp

Job description

Amazon Inc. is seeking a Senior Applied Scientist to lead Responsible AI initiatives for Alexa+. You will design and evaluate AI safety systems at scale, advance models that understand human values across cultures, and collaborate across teams to ensure trust at Amazon's global reach.

You will mentor researchers, prototype agentic architectures, and deploy production systems that detect and fix issues in real time, shaping how users experience safe, reliable conversations every day.