Senior Applied Scientist - Knowledge Memory at Scale

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

RSUs/stock options

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Job summary

Amazon is seeking a Sr. Applied Scientist for Personalization's Customer 360 team in Seattle to lead a new knowledge system research program.

You will own the scientific roadmap, scope experiments, and mentor junior scientists while collaborating with engineers to translate research into product decisions. You will publish and advance the field, balancing rigorous evaluation with business impact in a fast-moving environment.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of applied research experience.
• 3+ years of building machine learning models for business applications.
• 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 scientific roadmap for knowledge acquisition, representation, and retrieval at organizational scale.
• Lead research on how AI systems should learn from experience — what to capture, how to generalize, when to forget.
• Design evaluation frameworks for a system where "quality" means something new — right knowledge, right context, right confidence level.
• Own end-to-end research from problem formulation through production impact measurement.
• Mentor Applied Scientists and establish scientific standards for a new team.
• Partner with engineering leadership to translate research into architecture decisions that shape the product.
• Drive technical decisions on model architecture, training methodology, and evaluation frameworks, balancing scientific rigor with business impact.
• Publish at top-tier venues and advance the state of the art in applied knowledge systems.

Skills

Applied research

ML model development

Prototype to production

Leadership

Java

C++

Python

Education

PhD or MS + 6+ years applied research

Tools

TensorFlow

PyTorch

Job description

Amazon is seeking a Sr. Applied Scientist for Personalization's Customer 360 team in Seattle to lead a new knowledge system research program.

You will own the scientific roadmap, scope experiments, and mentor junior scientists while collaborating with engineers to translate research into product decisions. You will publish and advance the field, balancing rigorous evaluation with business impact in a fast-moving environment.