Amazon
Applied Scientist, AVM Builder Enablement
$143K–$193K
Austin, TX +1 · Full-time · Posted Oct 14, 2026
- Location
- Austin, TX
Arlington, VA - Experience
- 3+ years of building models for business application experience; PhD or equivalent research experience.
- Education
- PhD or equivalent research experience
About the job
Develops scientific and production systems that identify software vulnerabilities and supply-chain risks, assess their impact, and safely automate fixes across AWS.
What you'll do
- Design vulnerability detection, reachability analysis, risk prioritization, and automated remediation methods.
- Develop program analysis and validation techniques to determine whether vulnerabilities affect AWS systems and whether fixes are safe.
- Lead science projects from experiments through production delivery, collaborating with engineers and security partners.
What they ask for
- PhD or equivalent research experience
- 3+ years of building models for business application 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
142,800.00 - 193,200.00 USD annually (base salary); 142,800.00 - 193,200.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
Java, C++, Python, Unix/Linux
AI focus
Applies generative AI and agentic coding methods, including LLM-based agents, to automate vulnerability fixes, code repair, dependency upgrades, and validation.
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