Senior Applied Scientist, Generative AI & Agents

Amazon Science; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 167,000 - 226,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon Science in Seattle, WA is hiring a Senior Applied Scientist to advance AI research across Generative AI, LLMs, and diffusion models for Amazon’s catalog and shopping experiences.

You will design and train state‑of‑the‑art models, build autonomous AI agents, and scale solutions to billions of products across languages, collaborating with a global team.

Applicants should have 3+ years of ML experience, a PhD or Master’s with 6+ years research, and proficiency in Java, C++, and Python.

Qualifications

• 3+ years building ML models for business use.
• PhD or Master’s +6 years of applied research experience.
• Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language.
• Experience with neural deep learning methods and machine learning.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement novel AI solutions for Amazon catalog of products.
• Develop and train state-of-the-art LLMs, Diffusion Models, and other Generative AI models.
• Build and deploy autonomous AI Agents in Amazon production ecosystem.
• Scale AI models to handle billions of diverse products across multiple languages and geographies.
• Conduct research in areas such as Autonomous AI Agents, Generative AI, Language Modeling, Multi-modality Computer Vision, Diffusion Models, Reinforcement Learning.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate AI models into Amazon's production ecosystem.
• Contribute to the scientific community through publications and conference presentations.

Skills

Java

C++

Python

Deep learning

Distributed systems

LLMs

Education

PhD

Master's degree + 6+ years applied research

Tools

R

scikit-learn

Spark MLLib

MxNet

TensorFlow

numpy

scipy

Job description

Amazon Science in Seattle, WA is hiring a Senior Applied Scientist to advance AI research across Generative AI, LLMs, and diffusion models for Amazon’s catalog and shopping experiences.

You will design and train state‑of‑the‑art models, build autonomous AI agents, and scale solutions to billions of products across languages, collaborating with a global team.

Applicants should have 3+ years of ML experience, a PhD or Master’s with 6+ years research, and proficiency in Java, C++, and Python.