Principal Applied Scientist, Automated Reasoning Group

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

Principal Applied Scientist role focused on automated reasoning, privacy, and sovereignty within AWS. Requires a PhD, experience in professional software development, and programming in specific languages like O'Caml or Dafny. The role involves solving complex problems, leading design and implementation of solutions, providing cross-organizational technical influence, and mentoring others.

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 in Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related technical field
  • Professional software development experience
  • Programming in O'Caml, Dafny, Haskell, Kotlin, Lean, Rust, Scala or related language

Nice to have

  • Deep understanding of the science underlying security, privacy, and sovereignty
  • Experience distilling informal customer requirements into problem definitions, dealing with ambiguity and competing objectives
  • 6+ years experience leading scientists, science teams, or science products in either academic or industrial setting

What the JD emphasized

  • PhD in Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related technical field
  • Experience in professional software development
  • Experience programming in O'Caml, Dafny, Haskell, Kotlin, Lean, Rust, Scala or related language