Principal Applied Scientist, AWS Agentic AI

Amazon; New York (NY); On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon is seeking a Principal Applied Scientist for its Quick Science team, focusing on generative AI innovations. You'll lead efforts in building and optimizing multi-modal foundation models while collaborating closely with engineering teams.

This role is pivotal in architecting systems for efficient scaling and implementing state-of-the-art LLMs to enhance productivity within the enterprise.

Responsibilities

• Build and optimize multi-modal foundation models.
• Train and fine-tune state-of-the-art LLMs.
• Architect systems that scale efficiently across domains.

Job description

Description

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is looking for a Principal Applied Scientist to join the Quick Science team. Quick is AWS’s enterprise generative AI assistant that helps users answer questions, summarize documents, generate content, take actions, and automate workflows using information across enterprise systems. As a key member of this team, you will lead research and development efforts in generative AI and Agentic AI to enable intelligent agents that perform complex reasoning, automate multi-step workflows, and make enterprise users significantly more productive.

Key Job Responsibilities

You’ll work on building and optimizing multi-modal foundation models, training and fine-tuning state-of-the-art LLMs, and architecting systems that scale efficiently across domains. This role blends science leadership, hands‑on innovation, and deep collaboration with engineering teams to bring research into production.