Applied Scientist Ii, Hst Health Evaluation

Amazon Amazon · Big Tech · IN, KA, Bengaluru · Applied Science

Applied Scientist II role focused on developing and optimizing state-of-the-art AI/ML solutions for healthcare, specifically LLMs and VLMs, with a focus on production deployment and model distillation.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead end-to-end development of AI/ML solutions for Amazon Health organization, including Amazon Pharmacy and One Medical
  2. Research, design, and implement state-of-the-art machine learning models, with a focus on Large Language Models (LLMs) and Visual Language Models (VLMs)
  3. Optimize and fine-tune models for production deployment, including model distillation for improved latency
  4. Drive scientific innovation while maintaining a strong focus on practical business outcomes
  5. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate complex technical solutions into tangible customer benefits

Skills

Required

  • building models for business application
  • PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience
  • patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals
  • programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
  • algorithms and data structures
  • parsing
  • numerical optimization
  • data mining
  • parallel and distributed computing
  • high-performance computing

Nice to have

  • Unix/Linux
  • professional software development

What the JD emphasized

  • 3+ years of building models for business application experience
  • Experience in patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals

Other signals

  • state-of-the-art machine learning models
  • Large Language Models (LLMs)
  • Visual Language Models (VLMs)
  • optimize and fine-tune models for production deployment
  • model distillation for improved latency