Lead, Applied AI & ML Systems

Amazon Web Services (AWS); New York (NY); On-site; USD 202,000 - 274,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. in New York seeks an Applied Science Manager to lead a new AI/ML focused game unit on the GameLift team.

You will own the technical vision, scientific rigor, and end-to-end delivery of applied science initiatives with measurable customer and commercial impact. The role requires building scalable ML platforms, mentoring scientists and engineers, driving production deployment, and partnering with product and engineering to translate complex problems into

Qualifications

• 3+ years of scientists or ML engineers management experience.
• Knowledge of ML, NLP, Information Retrieval and Analytics.
• Knowledge of machine learning approaches and algorithms.
• Experience building complex, highly scalable systems that involve predictive models or applications of ML.
• Experience communicating with users, other technical teams, and management to collect requirements, describe software product features, and technical designs.
• Experience in building machine learning models for business application.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the technical roadmap for applied science initiatives, balancing frontier research with production delivery requirements and customer timelines.
• Lead rigorous model development processes including algorithm selection, offline evaluation, A/B testing design, and statistical significance assessment, ensuring every production decision is grounded in scientific evidence.
• Architect scalable, reusable ML platforms and inference systems designed to serve multiple products without proportional increases in staffing or rebuild cycles.
• Manage and develop a team of applied scientists and ML engineers, providing technical mentorship, career growth opportunities, and performance management while maintaining a high hiring bar.
• Drive end-to-end AI deployment from research prototyping through production inference, owning latency, availability, and cost targets alongside model quality metrics.
• Establish and enforce scientific standards across all team projects, including peer review mechanisms, documentation requirements, and reproducibility practices.

Skills

ML leadership

Team management

Production ML

Experiment design

Stakeholder comms

Job description

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. in New York seeks an Applied Science Manager to lead a new AI/ML focused game unit on the GameLift team.

You will own the technical vision, scientific rigor, and end-to-end delivery of applied science initiatives with measurable customer and commercial impact. The role requires building scalable ML platforms, mentoring scientists and engineers, driving production deployment, and partnering with product and engineering to translate complex problems into