Lead Scientist, Life Sciences AI & LLMs

Socket.dev; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 199,000 - 269,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon's Life Sciences Applied AI Solutions team seeks a Principal Applied Scientist to define research directions for LLM reasoning and agentic AI in drug design and clinical workflows. You will lead advances in model customization, protein design, and therapeutic data applications while guiding teams toward scale-ready solutions.

You will collaborate with life sciences experts to translate research into products used by thousands of scientists, mentoring others, publishing results, and shaping

Qualifications

• PhD required or equivalent research-focused doctorate.
• Experience as senior or principal-level applied scientist.
• Deep expertise in LLMs, reasoning systems, and agentic AI.
• Demonstrated ability to innovate on model customization techniques.
• Domain experience in life sciences or regulatory science.
• Experience translating research into shipped products.

Responsibilities

• Set the scientific vision for LLM reasoning and AI approaches across the portfolio.
• Innovate on reasoning, planning, and agentic methods for complex workflows.
• Develop model customization methods for customers to train better models.
• Advance methods to adapt biological foundation models for therapeutic applications.
• Solve open problems in faithful reasoning and multi-step planning.

Skills

LLM reasoning

Agentic AI

Model customization

Python programming

Deep learning

Research-to-production

Mentoring seniors

Publication mindset

Education

PhD in Machine Learning, Computer Science, Computational Biology, or related field

Tools

PyTorch

JAX

Job description

Amazon's Life Sciences Applied AI Solutions team seeks a Principal Applied Scientist to define research directions for LLM reasoning and agentic AI in drug design and clinical workflows. You will lead advances in model customization, protein design, and therapeutic data applications while guiding teams toward scale-ready solutions.

You will collaborate with life sciences experts to translate research into products used by thousands of scientists, mentoring others, publishing results, and shaping