Applied Scientist: Agentic AI for Big Data Systems

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

Job summary

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. in Santa Clara, CA is seeking an Applied Scientist with a strong background in agentic AI/ML to tackle systems problems in databases, programming languages, and distributed systems.

You will design agentic experiences for big data processing, collaborate with a skilled team, and deploy science work at Amazon scale, contributing to industry-leading analytics services.

Qualifications

• PhD or Master's degree with 4+ years in CS/CE/ML required.
• Patents or publications at top venues preferred.
• Experience coding in Java, C++, Python or equivalent.
• Strong background in agentic AI/ML applied to systems problems.

Responsibilities

• Apply agentic AI/ML to big data processing systems at scale.
• Design and implement agentic solutions and ML-powered automation.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, and business partners to deploy in production.
• Present scientific work and mentor peers and interns.

Skills

Agentic AI/ML research experience

Java/C++/Python

Patents or publications

Education

PhD or Master's + 4+ years CS/CE/ML

Tools

Distributed systems: EMR, Spark, Elasticsearch, Hadoop, Pig, Hive

Job description

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. in Santa Clara, CA is seeking an Applied Scientist with a strong background in agentic AI/ML to tackle systems problems in databases, programming languages, and distributed systems.

You will design agentic experiences for big data processing, collaborate with a skilled team, and deploy science work at Amazon scale, contributing to industry-leading analytics services.