Applied Scientist – Autonomous AI & Multimodal Systems

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 143,000 - 193,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. in Seattle seeks world-class researchers to advance agentic AI models for intelligent automation. You will explore autonomous agents, API orchestration, planning, multimodal models, RL and sequential decision making, publishing findings where appropriate.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, apply scalable methods, and deliver high-quality scientific artifacts while contributing to a startup-like engineering culture in a large cloud organization.

Qualifications

• PhD or Master’s degree in CS, CE, ML or related field.
• 3+ years of building models for business application.
• Experience in patents or publications at top-tier conferences or journals.
• Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language.
• Experience in algorithms, data structures, parsing, optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, HPC.

Responsibilities

• Define and implement automated reasoning features using scalable neural and symbolic methods.
• Apply software engineering best practices to ensure high quality 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

Java

C++

Python

Unix/Linux

Education

PhD or Master’s degree

Job description

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. in Seattle seeks world-class researchers to advance agentic AI models for intelligent automation. You will explore autonomous agents, API orchestration, planning, multimodal models, RL and sequential decision making, publishing findings where appropriate.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, apply scalable methods, and deliver high-quality scientific artifacts while contributing to a startup-like engineering culture in a large cloud organization.