Applied AI Scientist — Life Sciences & Clinical Trials

Amazon Science; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 167,000 - 226,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Science is seeking an Applied Scientist to build models and methods behind life sciences AI products, focusing on clinical trial operations and agentic reasoning. You will design, train, and evaluate systems that reason over complex clinical and operational logic, delivering production-ready solutions.

You will work with senior scientists to own results end-to-end, contribute to research publications, and partner with domain experts to translate science challenges into shipped

Qualifications

• PhD or Master's degree with 6+ years of applied research experience.
• Strong programming in Java, C++, Python or related language.
• Experience with modeling tools and ML frameworks (R, scikit-learn, Spark MLLib, MxNet, TensorFlow, NumPy, SciPy).

Responsibilities

• Design, train, and evaluate LLM-based agentic systems for clinical and operational workflows.
• Build evaluation harnesses to measure reliability and faithfulness in high-stakes domains.
• Collaborate with science, product, and engineering teams to translate challenges into shipped capabilities.

Skills

Java

C++

Python

Education

PhD or Masters + 6+ yrs

Tools

R

scikit-learn

Spark MLLib

MxNet

TensorFlow

NumPy

SciPy

Job description

Amazon Science is seeking an Applied Scientist to build models and methods behind life sciences AI products, focusing on clinical trial operations and agentic reasoning. You will design, train, and evaluate systems that reason over complex clinical and operational logic, delivering production-ready solutions.

You will work with senior scientists to own results end-to-end, contribute to research publications, and partner with domain experts to translate science challenges into shipped