Principal Applied Scientist: Conversational AI & NLP

Amazon; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 228,700 - 309,400; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon in Santa Clara, CA is seeking a Principal Applied Scientist for Console Science to advance conversational AI. You will lead ML-driven language understanding research, build scalable models, and contribute to generative AI systems powering AWS customer experiences.

The role emphasizes cutting-edge NLP, foundation models, and collaboration with global experts to impact millions of Amazon customers through high-impact language technology projects.

Qualifications

• PhD and 8+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience.
• 8+ years of building models for business application experience.
• Experience in patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals in NLP and Applied Machine Learning.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• The role develops novel algorithms and modeling techniques to advance language understanding and conversational AI.
• Work with experts to push the state-of-the-art in NLU, Dialog Systems, LLMs and Generative AI.

Skills

Machine Learning

NLP

Java

C++

Python

Algorithms & data structures

Distributed computing

HPC

Education

PhD

Job description

Amazon in Santa Clara, CA is seeking a Principal Applied Scientist for Console Science to advance conversational AI. You will lead ML-driven language understanding research, build scalable models, and contribute to generative AI systems powering AWS customer experiences.

The role emphasizes cutting-edge NLP, foundation models, and collaboration with global experts to impact millions of Amazon customers through high-impact language technology projects.