Applied Scientist - Autonomous AI for Cloud Automation

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

Job summary

Amazon in Santa Clara, CA, USA is seeking world-class researchers to advance agentic AI models for automated decision making. The role focuses on autonomous agents, planning, and large multimodal models, with collaboration across research and engineering teams.

The position supports a hybrid work model near one of our US offices, offers a market salary of $171,600–$222,200 annually plus benefits, and invites applicants with strong publications and PhD or MS in CS/ML fields.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of building models for business application experience.
• PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience.
• Experience in patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals.
• Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language.
• Experience in any of the following areas: algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, high-performance computing.

Responsibilities

• Define and implement new automated reasoning features that employ scalable and efficient approaches to solve complex problems using neural learning and symbolic/formal reasoning.
• Apply software engineering best practices to ensure a high standard of quality for all team deliverables.
• Work in an agile, startup-like development environment.
• Deliver high-quality scientific artifacts.
• Work with the team to help drive business decisions.

Skills

3+ years building models

Java

C++

Python

patents/publications

algorithms & data structures

parsing

numerical optimization

data mining

parallel & distributed computing

high-performance computing

Education

PhD

Master's + 4+ years in CS/CE/ML

Job description

Amazon in Santa Clara, CA, USA is seeking world-class researchers to advance agentic AI models for automated decision making. The role focuses on autonomous agents, planning, and large multimodal models, with collaboration across research and engineering teams.

The position supports a hybrid work model near one of our US offices, offers a market salary of $171,600–$222,200 annually plus benefits, and invites applicants with strong publications and PhD or MS in CS/ML fields.