Senior Frontier GenAI Scientist – LLMs & RL Gyms

Amazon Inc.; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 192,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon Inc. Foundational AI (FAI) team seeks an Applied Scientist with a strong deep learning background to advance GenAI technology with Large Language Models (LLMs).

You will support the development of RL Gyms and assess their usefulness for frontier model advancement, building techniques to push state-of-the-art LLMs. A day in the life includes reviewing experimental results, whiteboarding algorithmic designs, leading science reviews, coaching junior scientists, and drafting research papers

Qualifications

• PhD, or Master's degree and 6+ years of applied research experience.
• 3+ years of building machine learning models for business application experience.
• Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language.

Responsibilities

• Support development of RL Gyms and evaluate their usefulness for frontier model advancement.
• Build techniques to advance the state-of-the-art with LLMs; accelerate GenAI progress.
• Contribute to foundational model development in an applied research role; translate research into customer-facing products and services.

Skills

Java

C++

Python

Education

PhD or MSc

Job description

Amazon Inc. Foundational AI (FAI) team seeks an Applied Scientist with a strong deep learning background to advance GenAI technology with Large Language Models (LLMs).

You will support the development of RL Gyms and assess their usefulness for frontier model advancement, building techniques to push state-of-the-art LLMs. A day in the life includes reviewing experimental results, whiteboarding algorithmic designs, leading science reviews, coaching junior scientists, and drafting research papers