Principal Applied Scientist - AI for Life Sciences, AWS Applied AI Solutions - Life Sciences

What you'll do

• Lead research on LLM reasoning, agentic AI, and biological model customization; develop and validate methods for scientific and regulatory workflows.
• Partner with customers and domain experts, and collaborate with product and engineering to deliver research as production-scale products.
• Publish research, mentor applied scientists, and influence multi-year research roadmaps while contributing directly to research.

What they ask for

• PhD in Machine Learning, Computer Science, Computational Biology, or a related field.
• Senior- or principal-level applied scientist experience and a record of solving complex technical problems.
• Expertise in LLMs, reasoning systems, agentic AI, and model customization; strong top-tier ML or computational biology publication record.
• Life sciences or related scientific domain experience; experience translating research into products and launching 0-to-1 AI capabilities; strong Python and PyTorch or JAX skills.

Nice to have

• Experience building managed AI services or model-as-a-service offerings for scientists.
• Expertise in protein structure prediction, inverse folding, antibody optimization, clinical data standards, regulatory science, or model customization at scale; mentoring senior scientists.

Pay

198,900.00 - 269,000.00 USD annually (base salary)

Tools

LLMs, Python, PyTorch, JAX, RLHF, retrieval augmentation, domain adaptation, biological foundation models

AI focus

Develops and applies LLM reasoning, agentic AI, and biological foundation-model customization for drug discovery and clinical and regulatory workflows.