Amazon
Sr. Applied Scientist, AGI
$192K–$260K
Sunnyvale, CA +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Aug 11, 2026
- Location
- Sunnyvale, CA
San Francisco, CA - 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
Develops and evaluates reinforcement-learning environments and techniques to advance large language models and foundational GenAI technology.
What you'll do
- Support development of RL Gyms and assess their usefulness for advancing frontier models.
- Develop techniques that advance the state of the art with LLMs and support foundational model development through applied research.
- Use Amazon’s data sources and large-scale computing resources to accelerate advances in LLMs.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of experience building machine learning models for business applications.
- Experience with large-scale machine learning systems, including profiling, debugging, and understanding system performance and scalability.
- PhD, or Master’s degree and 6+ years of applied research experience.
- Programming experience in Java, C++, Python, or a related language.
Nice to have
- Experience building agents or training LLMs for agentic tasks.
Pay
$192,200.00 - $260,000.00 USD annually (base salary); $192,200.00 - $260,000.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
GenAI, LLMs, Java, C++, Python
AI focus
Applied research and development for LLMs and foundational GenAI, including reinforcement-learning environments and agentic techniques.
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