Applied Scientist II, Data Intelligence and Governance

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Amazon is seeking an Applied Scientist II to build an AI-powered data intelligence and governance platform that scales security and privacy assessments. You will lead AI/ML and distributed cloud initiatives, shaping standards and driving innovation across multiple teams.

You’ll work with security, privacy, engineering, and cloud-native tools to deliver self-serve insights, verifications, and enforcement. This role emphasizes leadership and deep technical execution.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of building models for business applications.
• PhD, or Master’s + 4+ years in CS/CE/ML or related field.
• Publications or patents in top-tier venues preferred.
• Proficient in Java, C++, Python.
• Experience with algorithms, data structures, and distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Architect and define AI-driven data classification and search platform strategies.
• Develop scalable ML and LLM-based security agents for automated processing.
• Lead technical teams while performing hands-on deep-dive debugging.
• Align multiple teams and stakeholders to enterprise security goals.

Skills

Java

C++

Python

Algorithms

Data structures

Numerical optimization

Parallel and distributed computing

High-performance computing

ML concepts

Education

PhD

Master's degree in CS/CE/ML

Tools

MxNet

TensorFlow

Job description

Applied Scientist II, Data Intelligence and Governance

Job ID: 10480925 | Amazon.com Services LLC

We are seeking an Applied Scientist II to work on development of an AI-based data intelligence and classification platform that will redefine how security and privacy assessments and enforcement are conducted at scale. This mission-critical platform will leverage AI-driven autonomous agents to conduct proactive, intelligent security operations across the company.

The platform will integrate deeply with internal security, privacy, engineering, and cloud-native tools to provide self-serve, automated insights, verifications, and enforcement mechanisms. This role requires strong technical expertise in AI/ML, LLMs, and distributed cloud infrastructure, as well as thought leadership to drive alignment across multiple teams, customers, and business units.

This is an opportunity to shape the future of AI-driven security and privacy assurance at an enterprise scale, defining standards, influencing company-wide security posture, and leading technical innovation at the highest level.

Key job responsibilities

• Architect and define the next-generation data classification and search matching platform, leading the technical strategy for AI-driven security automation across applied science and engineering teams
• Build on multi-agent LLM framework, and influence your organizations in adopting the promising approaches
• Develop a highly scalable, traditional ML-based as well as LLM-based intelligent security agent framework that enables internal teams to automate processing of structured and unstructured data
• Combine depth and breadth of domain expertise and provide technical leadership to the entire team while also doing hands-on work by diving deep into details to diagnose complex system performance problems.

About the team

The Data Categorization team helps Amazonians understand their data and govern it at scale and ensures experiences delivered by Amazon to our customers uphold our high security and privacy standards. The science team harnesses AI to strengthen Amazon’s privacy and security posture more efficiently and effectively.

Basic 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in building speech recognition, machine translation and natural language processing systems (e.g., commercial speech products or government speech projects)
• Experience with popular deep learning frameworks such as MxNet and Tensor Flow
• Experience in professional software development

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits .

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