Amazon
Applied Scientist, AGI/AI Security
$143K–$223K
Seattle, WA +1 · Full-time · Posted Sep 15, 2026
- Location
- Seattle, WA
New York, NY - Experience
- 3+ years building models for business applications; alternatively, the degree requirement includes 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience with a Master's degree.
- Education
- PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience.
About the job
Conduct research and build production-scale techniques to monitor, protect, validate, and catalog AI systems and applications.
What you'll do
- Develop real-time AI agent monitoring, protection, and automated remediation methods.
- Create scalable security testing and validation for AI applications and capabilities, including adversarial robustness and authorization boundaries.
- Research and build systems to discover, classify, and maintain an inventory of AI assets; deliver research and solutions into production.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of building models for business application experience.
- PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience.
- Experience in patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals.
- Programming experience in Java, C++, Python or a related language; experience in at least one listed area: algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, or high-performance computing.
Nice to have
- Experience using Unix/Linux.
- Experience in professional software development.
Pay
USD 172,400.00 - 223,400.00 annually (base salary); USD 142,800.00 - 193,200.00 annually (base salary)
Tools
Java, C++, Python, Unix/Linux, MCP
AI focus
AI security research and development, including agent monitoring, protection and remediation, application and capability validation, and AI asset discovery.
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