Amazon
Applied Scientist II, AWS Quick
$172K–$223K
New York, NY · Full-time · Posted Oct 30, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years of building models for business application experience.
About the job
Develops automated reasoning features and models for intelligent automation, combining neural learning and symbolic/formal reasoning, and delivers scientific work that supports AWS business decisions.
What you'll do
- Define and implement scalable, efficient automated reasoning features for complex problems.
- Apply software engineering best practices and deliver high-quality scientific artifacts.
- Collaborate with technology and business teams to help drive business decisions; publish research findings.
What they ask for
- 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 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
172,400.00 - 223,400.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
Java, C++, Python, Unix/Linux
AI focus
Builds models and automated reasoning features for intelligent automation, with focus areas including autonomous agents, API orchestration, planning, large multimodal models (especially vision-language models), reinforcement learning, and sequential decision making.
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