Amazon
Principal Applied Scientist, Frontier AI Assets , Frontier AI Assets
$199K–$309K
BELLEVUE, WA +1 · Principal · Full-time · Posted Oct 30, 2026
- Location
- BELLEVUE, WA
Sunnyvale, CA - Experience
- 10+ years is preferred; no minimum years stated.
- Education
- PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field; or Master's degree with significant additional applied research experience.
About the job
Sets technical direction and builds, evaluates, and scales reinforcement-learning training and evaluation environments (“gyms”) and related assets for frontier generative AI and large language models.
What you'll do
- Lead data collection, sampling, evaluation, and experiments for RL gyms focused on agentic tool use.
- Build scalable gym-development, quality-control, evaluation, and validation tools and assets.
- Provide hands-on technical leadership through scientific reviews, mentorship, and collaboration with domain experts and cross-functional teams.
What they ask for
- Programming experience in Java, C++, Python, or a related language.
- PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field; or a Master's degree with significant additional applied research experience.
- Strong hands-on experience building machine-learning models and systems for real-world applications, including deep learning and neural methods.
- Experience with reinforcement learning and/or RL gyms, learning environments, or agentic tool-use systems; setting technical direction; and leading scientists or engineers.
Nice to have
- 10+ years of relevant work in industry or academia.
- Experience with automated evaluation or quality-control tooling, agentic tool use and LLMs, novel algorithms and peer-reviewed research, or large-scale distributed training and modern ML frameworks.
Pay
USD 228,700.00 - 309,400.00 annually (base salary); USD 198,900.00 - 269,000.00 annually (base salary)
Tools
Java, C++, Python, Large Language Models (LLMs)
AI focus
Builds and validates training and evaluation assets for frontier GenAI, including RL gyms for agentic tool use and systems that help improve LLMs.
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