Amazon
Applied Science Manager, AWS Startups
$184K–$249K
Seattle, WA · Manager · Full-time · Posted Sep 11, 2026
- Experience
- 2+ years of scientists or machine learning engineers management experience; Master's degree, or PhD and 4+ years of building machine learning models or developing algorithms for business application experience.
- Education
- Master's degree in engineering, technology, computer science, machine learning, robotics, operations research, statistics, mathematics or equivalent quantitative field; Master's degree, or PhD and 4+ years of relevant experience.
About the job
Leads a team building machine-learning models and data capabilities that help AWS Startups identify, support, and prioritize startup customers.
What you'll do
- Manage, coach, hire, and develop applied scientists, business intelligence engineers, and business analysts.
- Own the science roadmap and technical direction for machine-learning models and data assets; scope experiments and productionize models.
- Lead science for recommendations, startup segmentation and targeting, and fraud detection, partnering across teams to deliver scalable products.
What they ask for
- 2+ years of scientists or machine learning engineers management experience.
- Master's degree in a stated quantitative field or equivalent quantitative field.
- Master's degree, or PhD and 4+ years of building machine learning models or developing algorithms for business application experience.
- Experience with any programming language such as Python, Java, C++; knowledge of machine learning approaches and algorithms.
Nice to have
- Experience building complex software systems, especially involving deep learning, machine learning and computer vision, successfully delivered to customers.
- Experience training and deploying machine-learning systems for large-scale personalization, recommendation, or ranking systems.
Pay
183,800.00 - 248,700.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
Python, Java, C++
AI focus
Builds machine-learning capabilities, including recommendation systems, startup segmentation and targeting, and fraud detection; the team is building AI-native products.
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