Principal Research Scientist, AWS Industry Products

Principal Research Scientist, AWS Industry Products

Job ID: | Amazon Web Services, Inc.

AWS Industry Products (IP) is a new AWS engineering organization chartered to build new AWS products by applying Amazon’s innovation mechanisms along with AWS digital technologies to transform the world, industry by industry. We dive deep with leaders and innovators to solve the problems which block their industries, enabling them to capitalize on new digital business models. Simply put, our goal is to use the skill and scale of AWS to make the benefits of a connected world achievable for all businesses.

We are looking for Research Scientists who are passionate about transforming industries through AI. This is a unique opportunity to not only listen to industry customers but also to develop AI and generative AI expertise in multiple core industries. You will join a team of scientists, product managers, and software engineers that builds AI solutions in automotive, manufacturing, healthcare, sustainability/clean energy, and supply chain/operations domains. Leveraging and advancing generative AI technology will be a big part of your charter as we seek to apply the latest advancements in generative AI to industry-specific problems.

Using your in-depth expertise in machine learning and generative AI, you will take the lead on tactical and strategic initiatives to deliver reusable science components and services that differentiate our industry products and solve customer problems. You will be the voice of scientific rigor, delivery, and innovation as you work with our segment teams on AI-driven product differentiators. You will conduct and advance research in AI and generative AI within and outside Amazon.

Extensive knowledge of both state-of-the-art and emerging AI methods and technologies is expected. Hands-on knowledge of generative AI, foundation models, and commitment to learn and grow in this field are expected.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

1. PhD, or Master's degree and 10+ years of quantitative field research experience
2. Experience investigating the feasibility of applying scientific principles and concepts to business problems and products
3. Experience analyzing both experimental and observational data sets

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

1. Knowledge of R, MATLAB, Python or similar scripting language

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