Sr. Applied Scientist, AWS Specialists and Partner Prototyping

What you'll do

• Frame customer problems, select or adapt models, design experiments, and build and demonstrate working prototypes on AWS.
• Contribute to cloud architecture and scientific design, assess technical feasibility, and help establish a path to production.
• Transfer knowledge through training, publications, reusable patterns, and collaboration with customers, partners, service teams, and sales.

What they ask for

• PhD, or Master's degree and 5+ years of applied research experience.
• Experience building machine learning models for business application.
• Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language.
• Experience using managed ML/AI solutions.

Nice to have

• Experience conveying complex technical concepts to technical and business audiences, or working with Advanced Compute technologies.
• Experience with production LLM or ML systems, AI acceleration hardware, or robotics and Vision Language Action models.

Pay

192,200.00 - 260,000.00 USD annually (base salary); 183,800.00 - 248,700.00 USD annually (base salary); 167,100.00 - 226,100.00 USD annually (base salary); 167,100.00 - 226,100.00 USD annually (base salary)

Tools

AWS, Java, C++, Python, vLLM, SGLang, TensorRT, Neuron

AI focus

Develop and evaluate applied AI prototypes, including physical AI and autonomous robotics, scientific discovery agents, developer agents, and LLMs; adapt models, run experiments, and assess production feasibility.