Applied Scientist II - Agentic AI for Foundations & RL

Amazon; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 171,600 - 222,200; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RSUs

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Health insurance

Job summary

Amazon is seeking a scientist to advance foundational models and Agentic AI within AWS. You will lead research across model fine-tuning, context optimization, and agent learning to enable reliable AWS customer agents.

You will shape the science and product roadmap, leveraging large-scale compute to accelerate progress. The role involves collaborating with product and engineering teams to translate research into customer-facing AWS products, with a focus on learning from agent memory and RL-based

Qualifications

• PhD or Master's degree with 4+ years in CS, CE, ML or related field.
• Experience with patents or publications in top-tier venues.

Responsibilities

• Develop short- and long-term science roadmaps for Agent optimization/learning.
• Develop concrete science plans, implement and validate research ideas before production.
• Collaborate with product and engineering to transfer innovations to AWS customer-facing products.

Skills

Java

C++

Python

Education

PhD

Master's degree

Job description

Amazon is seeking a scientist to advance foundational models and Agentic AI within AWS. You will lead research across model fine-tuning, context optimization, and agent learning to enable reliable AWS customer agents.

You will shape the science and product roadmap, leveraging large-scale compute to accelerate progress. The role involves collaborating with product and engineering teams to translate research into customer-facing AWS products, with a focus on learning from agent memory and RL-based