Applied Scientist, Aws Automated Reasoning

Amazon Amazon · Big Tech · Seattle, WA · Applied Science

Applied Scientist role focused on automated reasoning, privacy, and sovereignty within AWS. The role involves solving complex problems, designing and implementing solutions, and providing cross-organizational technical influence. Requires a PhD or Master's with significant applied research experience in areas like SAT, SMT, theorem proving, symbolic simulation, program analysis, or type systems. Experience with specific programming languages like O'Caml, Dafny, Haskell, Lean, or Rust is preferred.

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 and scientific innovation
  • long-term quantifiable impact
  • cross-organizational technical influence
  • deep technical experience
  • advanced technical issues

Other signals

  • automated reasoning
  • SAT
  • SMT
  • mechanical theorem proving
  • symbolic simulation
  • program analysis
  • type systems