Applied Scientist: Agentic AI for Big Data

Amazon; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 172,000 - 222,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. in Santa Clara, CA seeks an Applied Scientist for the Data Processing Agents science team. You will apply agentic AI/ML to big data processing, collaborating with engineering, product leaders, and customers to drive scalable, production-ready solutions.

You will design and benchmark science features, build ML-powered automation for workloads, and publish your work within the company while advancing your expertise in a fast-moving cloud environment.

Qualifications

• PhD or Master’s degree with 4+ years in CS, CE, ML or related field
• Proven record of patents or publications in top-tier venues
• Proficient in Java, C++, Python or related language
• 3+ years researching agentic AI/ML for systems in programming languages, databases, or distributed systems

Responsibilities

• Define science features with product leaders and customers
• Design, benchmark and publish science plans and implementations
• Collaborate with engineering to productionize science work at AWS scale
• Mentor interns and peers in methods and results

Skills

Java

C++

Python

Agentic AI/ML

Databases

Distributed systems

Education

PhD

Master's degree

Tools

EMR

Spark

Elasticsearch

Hadoop

Pig

Hive

Job description

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. in Santa Clara, CA seeks an Applied Scientist for the Data Processing Agents science team. You will apply agentic AI/ML to big data processing, collaborating with engineering, product leaders, and customers to drive scalable, production-ready solutions.

You will design and benchmark science features, build ML-powered automation for workloads, and publish your work within the company while advancing your expertise in a fast-moving cloud environment.