Senior Applied Scientist: LLM & Conversational AI

Amazon; Boston (MA); 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.com Services LLC in Boston, MA is seeking an Applied Scientist to help build the next generation of large language models and conversational AI experiences. You will design, develop, and evaluate state-of-the-art ML models powering products used by hundreds of millions of customers worldwide, working with large-scale datasets and modern deep learning frameworks.

The role blends rigorous research with engineering excellence to ship reliable, responsible AI at Amazon scale, collaborating

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

• Design, implement, and evaluate machine learning and deep learning models to solve challenging problems in natural language understanding, generation, and conversational AI.
• Develop scalable training and evaluation pipelines for large language models using large, real-world datasets.
• Collaborate with scientists, engineers, and product teams to translate research advances into production systems that improve customer experiences.
• Conduct rigorous experimentation, analyze results, and iterate rapidly to improve model quality, efficiency, and safety.
• Stay current with the latest research, contribute novel ideas, and help raise the scientific bar of the team.
• Champion responsible AI practices, including evaluation for fairness, robustness, and safety.

Skills

Machine learning

Java

C++

Python

Neural networks

Distributed systems

Education

PhD or Master’s with 6+ years experience

Tools

R

scikit-learn

Spark MLLib

MxNet

TensorFlow

NumPy

SciPy

Hadoop

Spark

Job description

Amazon.com Services LLC in Boston, MA is seeking an Applied Scientist to help build the next generation of large language models and conversational AI experiences. You will design, develop, and evaluate state-of-the-art ML models powering products used by hundreds of millions of customers worldwide, working with large-scale datasets and modern deep learning frameworks.

The role blends rigorous research with engineering excellence to ship reliable, responsible AI at Amazon scale, collaborating