Applied Scientist, Automated Reasoning & Verification

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Boston (MA); On-site; USD 167,000 - 226,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. in Boston seeks an Applied Scientist to advance formal methods, automated reasoning, and neurosymbolic AI across secure and reliable cloud services.

The role emphasizes research, collaboration with product teams, and translating verification capabilities into production systems, with impact on security, durability, and customer trust. You will mentor engineers, publish findings, and tackle long-term verification challenges at scale within a fast-moving

Qualifications

• PhD or equivalent research experience.
• Experience in mathematical logic, formal verification, satisfiability solving (SAT/SMT), mechanical theorem proving, model checking, or program analysis.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement algorithms and formal methods for automated reasoning to verify correctness, security, and reliability of computing systems.
• Solve large or significantly complex problems that require deep knowledge and scientific innovation; own design, implementation, and delivery of solutions with long-term impact.
• Develop new decision procedures, heuristics, and search strategies to improve scalability and accuracy of verification tools; deploy production-grade systems at scale.
• Apply generative AI and machine learning techniques to enhance automated reasoning capabilities, including learning-based heuristics for search and optimization.
• Develop automated reasoning techniques for generative AI and agentic coding systems, ensuring safety and alignment of autonomous software agents; verify AI outputs.
• Conduct original research and publish findings in peer-reviewed venues.
• Collaborate with customer teams to understand software properties and address verification needs; translate capabilities into production systems.
• Provide cross-organizational technical influence and mentor scientists and engineers in formal methods and best practices.

Skills

Formal methods

Automated reasoning

Neurosymbolic AI

Research collaboration

Education

PhD or equivalent

Tools

Lean

Dafny

Isabelle

Coq

Job description

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. in Boston seeks an Applied Scientist to advance formal methods, automated reasoning, and neurosymbolic AI across secure and reliable cloud services.

The role emphasizes research, collaboration with product teams, and translating verification capabilities into production systems, with impact on security, durability, and customer trust. You will mentor engineers, publish findings, and tackle long-term verification challenges at scale within a fast-moving