Amazon
Senior Applied Scientist, Frontier AI Assets - Assessments (FAI)
$167K–$226K
BELLEVUE, WA +2 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 2, 2026
- Location
- BELLEVUE, WA
Boston, MA
Bellevue, WA - Experience
- 5+ years building machine learning models for business applications; other experience requirements are listed without a duration.
- Education
- PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, or a related field.
About the job
Develop assessment methods and automated systems to evaluate the quality of datasets and benchmarks used to train and assess frontier AI models and agents.
What you'll do
- Design assessment methodology, measurement methods, and automated systems, including agent-based audits.
- Oversee expert audits, review findings, mentor scientists, and communicate results to data and model teams and senior leaders.
- Set technical direction and publish research on assessment methodology; contribute to patents.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of experience building machine learning models for business applications.
- Programming experience in Java, C++, Python, or a related language; experience with neural deep learning and machine learning.
- PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, or a related field.
- Experience with machine learning and LLM fundamentals or delivering complex software systems to customers; plus experience in a listed technical area or designing/architecting systems.
Nice to have
- Knowledge of public benchmarks for frontier AI models and agents and their limitations; experience with large-scale human data collection or model post-training and alignment pipelines.
- Experience developing recursive self-improving agents; top-tier ML publications; or academic research or teaching experience.
Pay
167,100.00 - 226,100.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
Java, C++, Python, Large Language Model, LLM-as-a-Judge
AI focus
Build and calibrate automated assessment systems, progressing from LLM-as-a-Judge to self-improving agents that plan audits, critique judgments, and improve accuracy over time.
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