Senior Applied Scientist - Generative AI & NLP Leader

Amazon; Bellevue (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 in Bellevue, WA is seeking a Senior Applied Scientist to invent and build scalable conversational AI. You will mentor engineers and Applied Scientists, design end-to-end ML systems, and influence Alexa’s generative AI roadmap.

The role emphasizes research leadership, collaboration with cross-functional teams, and delivering high-impact features for millions of Alexa users, with a focus on practical, robust AI solutions.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of building machine learning models for business application experience.
• PhD, or Master's degree and 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

• Define the science roadmap and advance core science primitives for conversation modelling, content generation, and automated quality assurance via state-of-the-art computer vision, machine learning, and generative AI
• Architect agentic systems, making high-judgment trade-offs across audio/text/visual quality, relevance, latency, cost, and long-term extensibility
• Establish evaluation frameworks, metrics, and success criteria for the team's scientific initiatives, institutionalizing rigorous validation across customer touch points
• Own end-to-end delivery of complex, ambiguous research initiatives from problem formulation through experimentation to production deployment, with minimal guidance
• Identify whitespace opportunities by staying at the forefront of AI/ML advances and translating them into actionable research directions with clear customer and business impact
• Drive development and deployment of scalable agentic systems for conversation understanding and generation, ensuring architectural decisions support long-term platform evolution
• Set and continuously raise the scientific and engineering bar across the team
• Tackle the team's most complex technical problems while maintaining practical focus on customer value and solution generalizability
• Advance the team's scientific reputation through high-impact publications and presentations at top-tier internal and external venues, and generate intellectual property through patents

Skills

Machine learning

Deep learning

Programming

Education

PhD or MS + 6 yrs

Tools

Java

C++

Python

Hadoop

Spark

Job description

Amazon in Bellevue, WA is seeking a Senior Applied Scientist to invent and build scalable conversational AI. You will mentor engineers and Applied Scientists, design end-to-end ML systems, and influence Alexa’s generative AI roadmap.

The role emphasizes research leadership, collaboration with cross-functional teams, and delivering high-impact features for millions of Alexa users, with a focus on practical, robust AI solutions.