AI Security Scientist for Open Source & Cloud

Amazon Science; Herndon (VA); On-site; USD 143,000 - 193,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Job summary

Amazon Science in Herndon, VA is seeking an Applied Scientist to define, design, build, and operate AI-powered security solutions across the full lifecycle of open source software usage.

You will work alongside a team to build intelligent automation that augments manual identification, analysis, and remediation workflows, and provides data-driven insights to AWS leadership. The role requires a PhD or MS with ML focus and 3+ years of model-building experience.

Qualifications

• 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 contributing to open source projects and driving features or fixes upstream into third‑party open source projects used in production systems.

Responsibilities

• Architect and build AI-powered security applications and tooling—Design and implement LLM-based systems for intelligent code scanning, automated solution development/deployment, and remediation alternatives.
• Transform manual processes into high-volume, machine-speed pipelines without sacrificing key quality metrics.
• Collaborate with and influence other leaders across stakeholders.
• Drive proactive security automation—Build systems that identify and remediate security issues in deliverables without explicit builder consent.
• Own operational excellence—Define and maintain SLAs, monitoring, alerting, runbooks, and incident response for services you own; participate in on-call rotation.

Skills

Java

C++

Python

Open source contributions

Algorithms & data structures

Unix/Linux

Machine learning

Education

PhD or MS + 4+ years CS/ML

Job description

Amazon Science in Herndon, VA is seeking an Applied Scientist to define, design, build, and operate AI-powered security solutions across the full lifecycle of open source software usage.

You will work alongside a team to build intelligent automation that augments manual identification, analysis, and remediation workflows, and provides data-driven insights to AWS leadership. The role requires a PhD or MS with ML focus and 3+ years of model-building experience.