Applied Scientist, Aws Automated Reasoning

Amazon Amazon · Big Tech · Austin, TX · Applied Science

This role focuses on automated reasoning, privacy, and sovereignty within AWS, requiring deep knowledge in areas like SAT, SMT, symbolic simulation, and program analysis. The candidate will solve complex problems, lead design and implementation, and provide cross-organizational technical influence. While the company is in AI, the core craft of this role is not AI/ML model building but rather formal methods and reasoning.

What you'd actually do

  1. Solve large or significantly complex problems that require deep knowledge and understanding of your domain and scientific innovation.
  2. Own strategic problem solving, and take the lead on the design, implementation, and delivery for solutions that have a long-term quantifiable impact.
  3. Provide cross-organizational technical influence, increasing productivity and effectiveness by sharing your deep knowledge and experience.
  4. Develop strategic plans to identify fundamentally new solutions for business problems.
  5. Assist in the career development of others, actively mentoring individuals and the community on advanced technical issues.

Skills

Required

  • PhD, or Master's degree and 6+ years of applied research experience
  • Experience in any of the following areas: SAT, SMT, mechanical theorem proving, symbolic simulation, programming language type systems, program analysis.

Nice to have

  • Experience programming in O'Caml, Dafny, Haskell, Kotlin, Lean, Rust, Scala or related language

What the JD emphasized

  • deep knowledge and understanding of your domain
  • scientific innovation
  • strategic problem solving
  • long-term quantifiable impact
  • cross-organizational technical influence
  • deep knowledge and experience
  • fundamentally new solutions
  • advanced technical issues
  • deep technical experience
  • automated reasoning