Principal Applied Scientist, Generative AI Innovation Center

Principal Applied Scientist, Generative AI Innovation Center

Job ID: | Amazon Web Services, Inc.

The Generative AI Innovation Center helps AWS customers implement Generative AI solutions and realize transformational business opportunities. This is a team of strategists, scientists, engineers, and architects working step-by-step with customers to build bespoke solutions that harness the power of generative AI. The team helps customers imagine and scope the use cases that will create the greatest value for their businesses, define paths to navigate technical or business challenges, develop proof-of-concepts, and make plans for launching solutions at scale. The GenAI Innovation Center team provides guidance on best practices for applying generative AI responsibly and cost efficiently. You will work directly with customers and innovate in a fast-paced organization that contributes to game-changing projects and technologies. You will design and run experiments, research new algorithms, and find new ways of optimizing risk, profitability, and customer experience. We’re looking for a Principal Applied Scientist capable of using GenAI and other techniques to design, evangelize, and implement state-of-the-art solutions for never-before-solved problems.

A day in the life

• Collaborate with AI/ML scientists and architects to research, design, develop, and evaluate leading generative AI solutions to address real-world challenges
• Interact with customers directly to understand their business problems, aid them in implementation of generative AI solutions, brief customers and guide them on adoption patterns and paths to production
• Create and deliver best practice recommendations, tutorials, blog posts, sample code, and presentations adapted to technical, business, and executive stakeholders
• Provide customer and market feedback to product and engineering teams to help define product direction

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• PhD in Computer Science, Statistics or related field
• 8+ years applied ML experience in deploying ML solutions to customer facing products
• 7+ years experience in any of the following areas: algorithms and data structures, parsing, numerical optimization, data mining, parallel and distributed computing, high-performance computing
• 5+ years hands on experience with Python to build, train, and evaluate models
• 2+ years experience with design, development, and optimization of generative AI solutions, algorithms, or technologies

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience with design, deployment, and evaluation of Large Language Model (LLM)-powered agents and tools and orchestration approaches
• Experience with design, development, and optimization of high-quality prompts and templates that guide the behavior and responses of LLMs
• 2+ years experience with open source frameworks for building applications powered by LLMs like LangChain, LlamaIndex, and/ or similar tools
• Experience building generative AI applications on AWS using services such as Amazon Bedrock and Amazon SageMaker
• Strong communication skills, with attention to detail and ability to convey rigorous technical concepts and considerations to non-experts
• Scientific thinking and the ability to invent, a track record of thought leadership and contributions that have advanced the field
• Experience in patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $179,000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $309,400/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit . This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

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Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.