Amazon
Applied Scientist, AWS Quick
$172K–$222K
Santa Clara, CA · Full-time · Posted Aug 18, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years building models for business application; alternatively, Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience is specified alongside the PhD requirement.
- Education
- PhD, or Master's degree and 4+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience.
About the job
Develops automated reasoning and intelligent automation models and features for AWS, applying research to real-world problems and producing scientific artifacts.
What you'll do
- Define and implement scalable automated reasoning features using neural learning and symbolic/formal reasoning.
- Apply software engineering practices and deliver high-quality scientific artifacts.
- Collaborate with technical and business teams and help drive business decisions.
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 such as algorithms and data structures, parsing, or numerical optimization.
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
Builds intelligent automation models and automated reasoning features; relevant research areas include autonomous agents, API orchestration, planning, large multimodal models (especially vision-language models), reinforcement learning, and sequential decision making.
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