Senior LLM Code Scientist for Next-Gen Dev Tools

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Disability accommodations

Job summary

Amazon is building an elite AWS Kiro LLM-Training team to pioneer AI-driven development tools like Kiro IDE and Amazon Q Developer. You will lead frontier research integrating RL methods for code intelligence and scale ML solutions for millions of developers.

The role involves publishing at top conferences, partnering with customers to bring research to production, and contributing to a hybrid work model near AWS offices in the U.S.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Push the boundaries of reinforcement learning and post-training methodologies for large language models specialized in code intelligence.
• Invent and implement state-of-the-art ML solutions at scale.
• Deploy products that impact developers’ daily workflows.
• Advance AI and ML for intelligent code assistance.
• Publish and present work at premier ML/NLP conferences (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, EMNLP).
• Collaborate with customers to transition research breakthroughs into production.

Skills

Java

C++

Python

related language

Education

PhD, or Master’s with 6+ years experience

Tools

R

scikit-learn

Spark MLLib

MxNet

TensorFlow

numpy

scipy

Hadoop

Spark

Job description

Amazon is building an elite AWS Kiro LLM-Training team to pioneer AI-driven development tools like Kiro IDE and Amazon Q Developer. You will lead frontier research integrating RL methods for code intelligence and scale ML solutions for millions of developers.

The role involves publishing at top conferences, partnering with customers to bring research to production, and contributing to a hybrid work model near AWS offices in the U.S.