Senior Applied Scientist, Ascs AI Lab Team

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

Senior Applied Scientist role focused on AI research and development, including Generative AI, Agentic AI, LLMs, and Diffusion Models for Amazon's catalog systems. The role involves designing, training, and deploying AI solutions, with a focus on scaling models and integrating them into production.

What you'd actually do

  1. Design and implement novel AI solutions for Amazon catalog of products
  2. Develop and train state-of-the-art LLMs, Diffusion Models, and other Generative AI models
  3. Build and deploy autonomous AI Agents in Amazon production ecosystem
  4. Scale AI models to handle billions of diverse products across multiple languages and geographies
  5. Conduct research in areas such as Autonomous AI Agents, Generative AI, Language Modeling, Multi-modality Computer Vision, Diffusion Models, Reinforcement Learning

Skills

Required

  • building machine learning models for business application
  • PhD, or Master's degree and 6+ years of applied research experience
  • programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
  • neural deep learning methods
  • machine learning

Nice to have

  • modeling tools such as R, scikit-learn, Spark MLLib, MxNet, Tensorflow, numpy, scipy etc.
  • large scale distributed systems such as Hadoop, Spark etc.

What the JD emphasized

  • 3+ years of building machine learning models for business application experience
  • PhD, or Master's degree and 6+ years of applied research experience
  • Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
  • Experience with neural deep learning methods and machine learning

Other signals

  • Generative AI
  • Agentic AI
  • Large Language Models (LLMs)
  • Diffusion and Flow Models
  • Machine Learning
  • Deep Learning