Senior Applied Scientist, Cyber Threat Intelligence (AI/ML)

Amazon; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 167,000 - 226,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Cyber Threat Intelligence (ACTI) seeks a Senior Applied Scientist to pioneer AI/ML for cyber threat intelligence at scale. You will invent production systems that score threat likelihood, cluster attacker infrastructure, and empower proactive defense across hundreds of millions of customers.

You will lead the scientific agenda within ACTI, collaborating with engineering teams to deploy models into production, and mentor analysts on AI/ML concepts to raise data literacy and scientific

Qualifications

• PhD in engineering, technology, computer science, machine learning, robotics, operations research, statistics or equivalent quantitative field.
• 5+ years of relevant, broad research experience after PhD (or equivalent body of work).
• Experience deploying AI/ML models into production systems with direct, verified customer impact.
• Experience in NLP/LLMs, graph neural networks, anomaly detection, deep learning, or probabilistic modeling.
• Software development skills.
• Publication record (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, EMNLP, USENIX Security, IEEE S&P, etc.).

Responsibilities

• Invent: frame and solve scientifically-complex threat intelligence problems where no textbook solutions exist.
• Implement: design, build, and deploy production AI/ML systems at scale for threat data.
• Influence: build consensus, mentor teams, and shape research agendas across ACTI.
• Represent ACTI in Amazon's internal science community and publish research.

Skills

NLP/LLMs

Graph neural networks

Anomaly detection

Deep learning

Probabilistic modeling

Software development

Publication record

Education

PhD in engineering, technology, computer science, ML, robotics, OR statistics, or equivalent

Tools

PyTorch

TensorFlow

JAX

AWS SageMaker

AWS Bedrock

AWS EMR

AWS Glue

AWS Lambda

S3

Job description

Amazon Cyber Threat Intelligence (ACTI) seeks a Senior Applied Scientist to pioneer AI/ML for cyber threat intelligence at scale. You will invent production systems that score threat likelihood, cluster attacker infrastructure, and empower proactive defense across hundreds of millions of customers.

You will lead the scientific agenda within ACTI, collaborating with engineering teams to deploy models into production, and mentor analysts on AI/ML concepts to raise data literacy and scientific