Amazon
Applied Scientist III, AI & AGI Security
$184K–$249K
New York, NY · Full-time · Posted Sep 29, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years building machine learning models for business applications; PhD, or Master's degree and 6+ years of applied research experience.
- Education
- PhD, or Master's degree
About the job
Researches and builds scalable security monitoring, protection, validation, and asset-discovery systems for AI agents, applications, and capabilities.
What you'll do
- Develop and deploy methods to monitor AI agents, detect security threats, and automate protection and remediation.
- Build scalable security testing and validation methods for AI applications and capabilities, and systems to discover and catalog AI assets.
- Conduct and publish AI security research, implement production solutions, and coordinate security initiatives across teams.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of experience building machine learning models for business applications.
- PhD, or Master's degree and 6+ years of applied research experience.
- Programming experience in Java, C++, Python, or a related language.
- Experience with neural deep learning methods and machine learning.
Nice to have
- Experience with modeling tools such as R, scikit-learn, Spark MLLib, MxNet, Tensorflow, numpy, or scipy.
- Experience with large-scale distributed systems such as Hadoop or Spark.
Pay
USD 183,800.00 - 248,700.00 annually (base salary)
Tools
Java, C++, Python, R, scikit-learn, Spark MLLib, MxNet, Tensorflow
AI focus
AI security research and development: real-time agent monitoring, protection and automated remediation, application and capability validation, and AI asset discovery and inventory.
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