Applied Scientist, AI & AGI Security — Flexible Hours

Amazon Inc.; Seattle, Northern (WA, KY); Hybrid; USD 184,000 - 249,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon is seeking an Applied Scientist III to advance security validation and monitoring for AI systems at scale. You will own streams on real-time agent monitoring, automated remediation, AI validation, and asset discovery across the company.

Basic qualifications include 5+ years building ML models and a PhD or Master's with 6+ years of research, plus strong Java/C++/Python skills and DL experience. The role combines research with production delivery in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of building machine learning models for business applications.
• PhD, or Master's degree with 6+ years of applied research experience.
• Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language.
• Experience with neural deep learning methods and machine learning.

Responsibilities

• Identify and frame new research challenges in AI security where problems are ill-defined and require novel scientific paradigms at the product level.
• Contribute to the team's scientific agenda for agent monitoring, protection, remediation, validation research, and AI asset discovery.
• Publish research results at peer-reviewed internal and external venues when appropriate.
• Articulate key scientific challenges of current and future AI security threats and deliver novel research to address them.
• Design, implementation, and delivery of scientifically complex security solutions into production—both new systems and evolutions of existing ones.
• Write significant portions of critical-path code for detection models, validation engines, protection technologies, and asset discovery / classification systems.
• Assess and select technologies for production systems (e.g., data protection, private inference, graph-based anomaly detection, NLP-based service classification, code/traffic analysis for AI fingerprinting).
• Use best practices in scientific methodology and software engineering; provide insightful peer reviews.

Skills

ML model building

Programming in Java/C++/Python

Education

PhD or Master with 6+ years research

Tools

R

scikit-learn

Spark MLLib

MxNet

TensorFlow

numpy

scipy

Hadoop

Spark

Job description

Amazon is seeking an Applied Scientist III to advance security validation and monitoring for AI systems at scale. You will own streams on real-time agent monitoring, automated remediation, AI validation, and asset discovery across the company.

Basic qualifications include 5+ years building ML models and a PhD or Master's with 6+ years of research, plus strong Java/C++/Python skills and DL experience. The role combines research with production delivery in a fast-paced environment.