Senior Data Scientist, AWS Professional Services

Description

Are you looking to work at the forefront of Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI)? Would you be excited to apply AI algorithms to solve real world problems with significant impact? The Amazon Web Services Professional Services (ProServe) team is seeking a skilled Senior Data Scientist to help customers implement AI/ML solutions and realize transformational business opportunities.

This is a team of scientists, engineers, and architects working step-by-step with customers to build bespoke solutions that harness the power of AI. The team helps customers imagine and scope the use cases that will create the greatest value for their businesses, select and train and fine-tune the right models, define paths to navigate technical or business challenges, develop scalable solutions and applications, and launch them in production. The team provides guidance and implements best practices for applying 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 Senior Data Scientists capable of using AI/ML and other techniques to design, evangelize, and implement state-of-the-art solutions for never-before-solved problems.

Key job responsibilities

As an experienced Senior Data Scientist, you will be responsible for:

1. Lead end-to-end AI/ML and GenAI projects, from understanding business needs to data preparation, model development, solution deployment, and post-production monitoring

2. Collaborate with AI/ML scientists, engineers, and architects to research, design, develop, and evaluate AI algorithms and build ML systems and operations (MLOps) using AWS services to address real-world challenges

3. Interact with customers directly to understand the business challenges, deliver briefing and deep dive sessions to customers and guide them on adoption patterns and paths to production

4. Create and deliver best practice recommendations, tutorials, blog posts, publications, sample code, and presentations tailored to technical, business, and executive stakeholders

5. Provide customer and market feedback to product and engineering teams to help define product direction

This is a customer-facing role with potential travel to customer sites as needed.

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Basic Qualifications

• Master's degree in computer science, machine learning, robotics, operations research, statistics, mathematics or equivalent quantitative field with 5+ years of experience; or bachelor's degree with 8+ years of experience

• 5+ years of building machine learning models for business application experience

• 3+ years of hands-on experience with training, fine-tuning, evaluating, and deploying transformer models in production

• Experience with cloud services related to machine learning (e.g., Amazon SageMaker) and generative AI applications

• Experience with technical customer-facing engagements, and strong communication skills, with attention to detail and ability to convey rigorous technical concepts and considerations to non-experts

Preferred Qualifications

• PhD in computer science, machine learning, robotics, operations research, statistics, mathematics or equivalent quantitative field

• AWS experience preferred, with proficiency in a range of AWS services (e.g., SageMaker, Bedrock, EC2, ECS, EKS, OpenSearch, VPC) and professional certifications (e.g., Solutions Architect Professional)

• 2+ years of experience with design, deployment, and evaluation of AI agents and orchestration approaches; experience with open source frameworks like LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, and/ or similar tools

• 5+ years of deep learning, computer vision, human robotic interaction, algorithms implementation experience using PyTorch or TensorFlow

• Experience in launching AI applications in production on AWS

• Experience building ML pipelines with MLOps best practices, including: data preprocessing, distributed & GPU training, model deployment, monitoring, and retraining; experience with container and CI/CD pipelines

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

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company's reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $143,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $247,600/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.