Job ID: 2795034 | Amazon Web Services, Inc.
Are you looking to work at the forefront of Machine Learning and AI? Would you be excited to apply cutting-edge Generative AI algorithms to solve real-world problems with significant impact? Machine learning (ML) has been strategic to Amazon from the early years. We are pioneers in areas such as recommendation engines, product search, eCommerce fraud detection, and large-scale optimization of fulfillment center operations. The AWS Industries Team at AWS helps AWS customers implement Generative AI solutions and realize transformational business opportunities for AWS customers in the most strategic industry verticals. This is a team of data scientists, engineers, and architects working step-by-step with customers to build bespoke solutions that harness the power of generative AI.
The team helps customers imagine and scope the use cases that will create the greatest value for their businesses, select, train, and fine-tune the right models, define paths to navigate technical or business challenges, develop proof-of-concepts, and build applications to launch these solutions at scale. The AWS Industries team provides guidance and implements best practices for applying generative AI responsibly and cost-efficiently.
You will work directly with customers and innovate in a fast-paced organization that contributes to game-changing projects and technologies. You will design and run experiments, research new algorithms, and find new ways of optimizing risk, profitability, and customer experience.
We’re looking for Applied Scientists capable of using GenAI and other techniques to design, evangelize, and implement state-of-the-art solutions for never-before-solved problems.
Key job responsibilities
As an Applied Scientist, you will:
- Collaborate with AI/ML scientists, engineers, and architects to research, design, develop, and evaluate cutting-edge generative AI algorithms and build ML systems to address real-world challenges.
- Interact with customers directly to understand the business problem, help and aid them in the implementation of generative AI solutions, deliver briefing and deep dive sessions to customers, and guide customers on adoption patterns and paths to production.
- Create and deliver best practice recommendations, tutorials, blog posts, publications, sample code, and presentations adapted to technical, business, and executive stakeholders. Publish novel developments in internal and external papers, forums, and conferences.
- Provide customer and market feedback to Product and Engineering teams to help define product direction.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Master's degree in computer science, computer engineering, or related field
- 2+ years of building machine learning models or developing algorithms for business application experience
- Experience programming in Java, C++, Python, or related language
- Experience in any of the following areas: algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, high-performance computing
- Experience building machine learning models or developing algorithms for business applications.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- PhD in engineering, technology, computer science, machine learning, robotics, operations research, statistics, mathematics, or equivalent quantitative field
- Experience in patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals
- 4+ years of deep learning, computer vision, human-robotic interaction, algorithms implementation experience
- Hands-on experience with deep learning (e.g., CNN, RNN, LSTM, Transformer)
- Prior experience in training and fine-tuning of Large Language Models (LLMs)
- Knowledge of AWS platform and tools.
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $136,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $222,200/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.
Posted: August 13, 2024 (Updated 12 minutes ago)
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