Amazon
Sr. Applied Scientist, Frontier AI Assets
$192K–$260K
Sunnyvale, CA · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 29, 2026
- 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
Develop applied research and techniques for RL Gyms and large language models to advance foundational GenAI models and customer-facing products.
What you'll do
- Develop and assess RL Gyms for frontier model advancement.
- Build techniques to advance LLM capabilities and support foundational model development through applied research.
- Analyze experiments and collaborate on algorithm design, system integration, and research papers.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of building machine learning models for business application experience.
- PhD, or Master's degree and 6+ years of applied research experience.
- Programming experience in Java, C++, Python or 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, scipy etc.
- Experience with large scale distributed systems such as Hadoop, Spark etc.
Pay
192,200.00 - 260,000.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
Java, C++, Python, R, scikit-learn, Spark MLLib, MxNet, Tensorflow
AI focus
Applied research and development for RL Gyms, frontier models, and LLM-based GenAI technology.
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