Senior Applied Scientist - Life Sciences AI for Trials

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

RSUs

401(k) matching

Job summary

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. is hiring an Applied Scientist to build models behind life sciences AI products with a focus on clinical trial operations and agentic reasoning. You will design, train and evaluate systems that reason over clinical and operational logic and ship them into production.

You will collaborate with senior scientists, own experiments end to end, and contribute to production-ready capabilities for customers in a fast-moving scientific domain.

Qualifications

• PhD or Master’s degree with 6+ years of applied research experience.
• Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language.

Responsibilities

• Design, train, fine-tune and evaluate LLM-based agentic systems that reason over clinical protocols, regulatory standards and operational workflows
• Build rigorous evaluation harnesses and benchmarks to measure agent reliability, faithfulness and failure modes in high-stakes domains
• Develop model customization methods (fine-tuning, RLHF, retrieval augmentation, domain adaptation) that help customers get better outputs on their data
• Contribute to graph-based and causal modeling approaches for clinical trial operations
• Partner with Life Sciences domain experts, product and engineering to translate scientific challenges into shipped capabilities
• Own experiments end to end: problem framing, implementation, evaluation, iteration and hand-off to production
• Publish at top-tier venues where the work supports it
• Contribute to drug discovery efforts (protein engineering, antibody design) as opportunities arise

Skills

Java

C++

Python

Education

PhD or Master's + 6+ years applied research

Tools

R

scikit-learn

Spark MLLib

MxNet

Tensorflow

numpy

scipy

Job description

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. is hiring an Applied Scientist to build models behind life sciences AI products with a focus on clinical trial operations and agentic reasoning. You will design, train and evaluate systems that reason over clinical and operational logic and ship them into production.

You will collaborate with senior scientists, own experiments end to end, and contribute to production-ready capabilities for customers in a fast-moving scientific domain.