Amazon
Senior Applied Scientist, SageMaker AI
$167K–$249K
New York, NY +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 24, 2026
- Location
- New York, NY
Atlanta, GA - Experience
- 3+ years building machine learning models for business applications; PhD, or Master's degree and 6+ years of applied research experience.
- Education
- PhD, or Master's degree and 6+ years of applied research experience.
About the job
Build next-generation SageMaker AI tools for custom customer AI/ML solutions, develop and publish research, and work with technology and business teams on applied problems.
What you'll do
- Develop innovative solutions to difficult applied machine learning problems.
- Partner with technology and business teams to bring research into practice.
- Publish findings at peer-reviewed conferences and workshops.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of experience building machine learning models for business applications.
- PhD, or a Master's degree and 6+ years of applied research experience.
- Programming experience in Java, C++, Python, or a related language.
- Experience with neural deep learning methods and machine learning.
Nice to have
- Experience with modeling tools such as R, scikit-learn, Spark MLLib, MxNet, Tensorflow, numpy, or scipy.
- Experience with large-scale distributed systems such as Hadoop or Spark.
Pay
USD 167,100.00 - 226,100.00 annually (base salary); USD 183,800.00 - 248,700.00 annually (base salary)
Tools
Java, C++, Python, R, scikit-learn, Spark MLLib, MxNet, Tensorflow
AI focus
Research and build AI/ML solutions, with focus areas including distillation, synthetic data generation (text, multimodal), agentic AI, agentic evaluations, MTRL, and ML gyms.
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