Amazon
Senior Applied Scientist, Data Processing Agents Science
$192K–$260K
Santa Clara, CA · Senior · Full-time · Posted Jul 30, 2026
- Experience
- 6+ years of applied research with a Master's degree; alternatively, a PhD. Also requires 5+ years of research applying agentic AI or ML to systems problems.
- Education
- PhD, or Master's degree and 6+ years of applied research experience.
About the job
Develops and launches agentic AI/ML solutions and automation to simplify, optimize, and automate big data processing workflows for AWS customers.
What you'll do
- Design, build, and benchmark agentic solutions and ML-powered automation for data processing workflows.
- Partner with product, engineering, business leaders, and customers to define science features and launch them in production.
- Conduct and share scientific research, and mentor applied science interns and peers.
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.
- Experience in patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals.
- 5+ years of research applying agentic AI or ML to systems problems in programming languages, databases, or distributed systems.
Nice to have
- Experience with large-scale distributed systems such as Hadoop or Spark.
- Experience conducting corporate research, solving business problems with machine learning, data mining, and statistical algorithms, or professional software development.
Pay
USD 192,200.00 - 260,000.00 annually (base salary)
Tools
Java, C++, Python, Hadoop, Spark
AI focus
Agentic AI/ML and ML-powered automation for big data processing workflows and systems problems.
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