Applied Scientist, Aws Automated Reasoning

Amazon Amazon · Big Tech · Boston, MA · Applied Science

The Applied Scientist will focus on automated reasoning, privacy, and sovereignty within AWS, solving complex problems and driving innovation in these areas. The role involves strategic problem-solving, design, implementation, and delivery of long-term impact solutions, with a focus on influencing cross-organizational technical direction and mentoring others. The team operates in a fast-moving, start-up environment within AWS, aiming to build a high bar for automated reasoning across Amazon's products and services.

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
  • 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
  • long-term quantifiable impact
  • cross-organizational technical influence
  • deep technical experience
  • automated reasoning

Other signals

  • automated reasoning
  • program analysis
  • symbolic simulation
  • mechanical theorem proving