Drimva

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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