Amazon
Applied Scientist-LLM, Buy For Me
$136K–$184K
Seattle, WA · Full-time · Posted Oct 7, 2026
- Experience
- 1+ years building machine learning models or developing algorithms for business applications (preferred).
- Education
- Master’s degree in computer science, mathematics, statistics, machine learning, or an equivalent quantitative field.
About the job
Develop LLM-powered agentic AI systems for Amazon’s Buy For Me shopping product, improving customer workflows from product discovery through purchase and post-purchase.
What you'll do
- Invent, implement, and evaluate models and agentic systems; improve performance, safety, reliability, and evaluation.
- Conduct research that may lead to publications, patents, or broader technical influence.
- Collaborate across science, engineering, and product teams; run experiments with customer data and validate hypotheses.
What they ask for
- Programming experience in Java, C++, Python, or a related language.
- Experience with SQL and an RDBMS or data warehouse.
- Master’s degree in computer science, mathematics, statistics, machine learning, or an equivalent quantitative field.
Nice to have
- Experience implementing algorithms with toolkits and self-developed code; publications in top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals.
- Experience building machine learning models or business algorithms; LLM fine-tuning, pretraining, testing, or prompt engineering.
Pay
136,000.00 - 184,000.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
Java, C++, Python, SQL, Oracle, LLM, RAG, MCP
AI focus
Build and evaluate agentic LLM and generative AI shopping capabilities, including web agents, model fine-tuning, reinforcement learning, context engineering, RAG, MCP, and automated benchmarking.
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