Amazon
Applied Scientist III, AWS Account Management and Governance
$192K–$260K
Santa Clara, CA · Full-time · Posted Oct 15, 2026
- Experience
- 6+ years of applied research experience with a Master's degree; alternatively, a PhD.
- Education
- PhD, or Master's degree and 6+ years of applied research experience.
About the job
Leads the scientific strategy and development of an AI-based platform that automates account and organizational governance, including policy validation and enforcement.
What you'll do
- Define the technical strategy and develop governance intelligence and policy-matching systems.
- Advance multi-agent LLM and ML frameworks for governance automation, including human-in-the-loop enforcement boundaries.
- Set scientific metrics and evaluation methods, provide technical leadership and mentorship, and diagnose distributed-system performance and correctness issues.
What they ask for
- PhD, or Master's degree and 6+ years of applied research experience.
- Programming experience in Java, C++, Python, or a related language.
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 192,200.00 - 260,000.00 annually base salary
Tools
Java, C++, Python, R, scikit-learn, Spark MLLib, MxNet, Tensorflow
AI focus
Develops AI-driven autonomous governance operations using multi-agent LLMs and traditional ML to automate policy validation, classification, and enforcement, with human-in-the-loop enforcement boundaries.
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