Senior AI Scientist: Prototyping Cloud Innovations

Amazon Web Services (AWS); New York (NY); On-site; USD 184,000 - 249,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance (medical, dental, and

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Restricted stock units (RSUs)

Job summary

Amazon Web Services (AWS) seeks a Senior Applied Scientist to work directly with customers and partners, envisioning complex uses of AWS by building working prototypes tailored to data, devices, and systems. Engagements run in short build cycles, four to six weeks, designed to prove concepts and chart credible paths to production.

You will work across areas we are placing our biggest bets, including physical AI, autonomous robotics, and agentic developer intelligence, contributing to patterns

Qualifications

• PhD or Master’s degree with 5+ years of applied research experience.
• Experience building machine learning models for business applications.
• Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language.

Responsibilities

• As a key member of the AWS Specialists and Partner Prototyping team, ensure customer success through hands-on participation producing and demonstrating prototypes on the AWS platform.
• Participate in deep architectural and scientific design discussions to ensure prototypes are crafted for successful deployment in the cloud and a credible path to production.
• Bring applied science depth to engagements: frame the problem, select and adapt models, design experiments, and judge technical feasibility honestly, including when the answer is that an approach will not work.
• Conduct one-to-few and one-to-many training sessions to transfer knowledge to prototyping customers, partners, and internal business partners.
• Act as a thought leader for your area of domain expertise across AWS, and share best-practice knowledge among the community.
• Author or otherwise contribute to AWS customer-facing publications such as peer reviewed position papers, blogs, and reference patterns.
• Act as a technical liaison between customers, service engineering teams, and sales, carrying real-world signal back to the teams building the services.

Skills

Java

C++

Python

Managed ML/AI solutions

ML model development

Education

PhD or Master's in a relevant field

Tools

vLLM

SGLang

TensorRT

Job description

Amazon Web Services (AWS) seeks a Senior Applied Scientist to work directly with customers and partners, envisioning complex uses of AWS by building working prototypes tailored to data, devices, and systems. Engagements run in short build cycles, four to six weeks, designed to prove concepts and chart credible paths to production.

You will work across areas we are placing our biggest bets, including physical AI, autonomous robotics, and agentic developer intelligence, contributing to patterns