Applied Scientist — AI Autonomy & Planning

Amazon Science; New York (NY); On-site; USD 172,000 - 223,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon Science in New York seeks world-class researchers to advance autonomous agents, planning, and large multimodal models. You will partner with product and engineering teams to translate research into real-world systems and publish findings at leading conferences.

The role emphasizes scalable learning, high-performance computing, and collaboration in an agile environment. Applicants should have a PhD or MS with 4+ years in CS/CE/ML, strong coding skills in Java, C++, and Python, and a track

Qualifications

• 3+ years building models for business applications.
• PhD or Master’s + 4+ years CS/CE/ML experience.
• Publications in top-tier peer-reviewed venues or conferences.
• Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language.
• Experience in algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, high-performance computing.

Responsibilities

• Define and implement new automated reasoning features with scalable approaches.
• Apply software engineering best practices to ensure high-quality deliverables.
• Work in an agile, startup-like development environment.
• Deliver high-quality scientific artifacts.
• Collaborate to drive business decisions.

Skills

Java

C++

Python

Algorithms & data structures

Parallel & distributed computing

High-performance computing

Education

PhD or MS + 4+ years CS/CE/ML

Job description

Amazon Science in New York seeks world-class researchers to advance autonomous agents, planning, and large multimodal models. You will partner with product and engineering teams to translate research into real-world systems and publish findings at leading conferences.

The role emphasizes scalable learning, high-performance computing, and collaboration in an agile environment. Applicants should have a PhD or MS with 4+ years in CS/CE/ML, strong coding skills in Java, C++, and Python, and a track