Amazon
Applied Scientist, AWS Agentic AI
$172K–$222K
New York, NY · Full-time · Posted Aug 18, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years building models for business application; PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience.
- Education
- PhD, or Master's degree
About the job
Develops models and research for AWS intelligent automation, focusing on agentic AI and publishing findings at peer-reviewed conferences and workshops.
What you'll do
- Develop innovative solutions to difficult problems in intelligent automation.
- Partner with technology and business teams to address real-world problems.
- Publish research findings at peer-reviewed conferences and workshops.
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, plus experience in a listed area such as algorithms and data structures, numerical optimization, or distributed computing.
Nice to have
- Experience using Unix/Linux.
- Experience in professional software development.
Pay
171,600.00 - 222,200.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
Java, C++, Python, Unix/Linux
AI focus
Research and development for intelligent automation, including autonomous agents, API orchestration, planning, large multimodal models (especially vision-language models), reinforcement learning (RL), and sequential decision making.
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