Applied Scientist, Responsible AI & Governance

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

RSUs

Paid time off

Job summary

Amazon.com Services LLC is seeking experts to advance Responsible AI (RAI) across a broad set of AI systems, including generative and agentic applications. You will work on controllability, privacy, safety, fairness, explainability, and governance, collaborating with internal teams and external researchers.

The role emphasizes building scalable AI governance, evaluating alignment with customer and societal expectations, and contributing to security and reliability across Amazon’s AI solutions.

Qualifications

• PhD or Master’s degree with 4+ years in CS/CE/ML or related field.
• Proficient in Java, C++, Python; strong programming experience.

Responsibilities

• Understand in depth the technical and scientific issues related to Responsible AI (RAI).
• Help define strategies, priorities and metrics for RAI.
• Solve open problems in RAI to unblock AI use cases and publish findings.
• Help develop the RAI team.
• Liaise with stakeholders including academia on RAI issues.

Skills

Java

C++

Python

Machine Learning

Education

PhD or Master’s in CS/CE/ML

Job description

Amazon.com Services LLC is seeking experts to advance Responsible AI (RAI) across a broad set of AI systems, including generative and agentic applications. You will work on controllability, privacy, safety, fairness, explainability, and governance, collaborating with internal teams and external researchers.

The role emphasizes building scalable AI governance, evaluating alignment with customer and societal expectations, and contributing to security and reliability across Amazon’s AI solutions.