Amazon.com Services LLC

Technology

PrincipalAppliedScientist,AGIFoundations

$179–309k Boston, Massachusetts, United States FULL TIME
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The Brief

“Principal Applied Scientist, AGI Foundations at Amazon.com Services LLC. Skills: Generative AI, Machine Learning, Large language models, Computer Vision. Define research directions. Invent machine learning techniques”

What You'll Achieve.

Impact customer experiences

Industry & Context.

Technology
Problems you'll solve

Decompose complex problems; Tackle intrinsically hard problems

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

5+ years predictive modeling, PhD in Electrical Engineering, PhD in Computer Science, PhD in Mathematics, Experience programming in Java, Experience programming in C++, Experience programming in Python, Leading experienced scientists, Developing junior members

Nice to Have

10+ years of experience, Experience with AWS, Experience with GCP, Experience with Azure, Experience with PyTorch, Experience with TensorFlow, Experience with scikit-learn, Experience with Hugging Face, Experience with large language models, Experience with multimodal models, Experience with computer vision, Experience with Generative AI, Experience with Amazon-scale use cases, Experience with scientific reviews, Experience with experimental design, Experience with modeling, Experience with verification, Experience with research procedures, Experience with mentoring, Experience with hiring, Experience with developing scientists, Experience with developing leads, Experience with organizational planning, Experience with leadership development, Experience with full-cycle development, Experience with conception, Experience with design, Experience with implementation, Experience with testing, Experience with documentation, Experience with delivery, Experience with maintenance, Experience with multimodal LLMs, Experience with Gen AI, Experience with Computer Vision

What You'll Do.

Define research directions

Invent machine learning techniques

Conduct rigorous experiments

Publish research results

Translate research into practice

Develop long-term strategies

Persuade teams to adopt strategies

Participate in organizational planning

Participate in hiring

Participate in mentorship

Participate in leadership development

Build scalable science solutions

Build scalable engineering solutions

Serve as scientific resource

Lead scientific reviews

Review experimental design

Review research procedures

Foster shared understanding

Align teams toward strategies

Educate scientific community

Keep community updated

Develop junior scientists

Drive development of GenAI

Handle Amazon-scale use cases

Impact customer experiences

Develop multimodal LLMs

Provide customer experience

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Cross-organization views; Organizational planning; Leadership development

Full Job Description

As a Principal Scientist within the Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) organization, you are a trusted part of the technical leadership. You bring business and industry context to science and technology decisions. You set the standard for scientific excellence and make decisions that affect the way we build and integrate algorithms. You solicit differing views across the organization and are willing to change your mind as you learn more. Your artifacts are exemplary and often used as reference across organization. You are a hands-on scientific leader. Your solutions are exemplary in terms of algorithm design, clarity, model structure, efficiency, and extensibility. You tackle intrinsically hard problems, acquiring expertise as needed. You decompose complex problems into straightforward solutions. You amplify your impact by leading scientific reviews within your organization or at your location. You scrutinize and review experimental design, modeling, verification and other research procedures. You probe assumptions, illuminate pitfalls, and foster shared understanding. You align teams toward coherent strategies. You educate, keeping the scientific community up to date on advanced techniques, state of the art approaches, the latest technologies, and trends. You help managers guide the career growth of other scientists by mentoring and play a significant role in hiring and developing scientists and leads. You will play a critical role in driving the development of Generative AI (GenAI) technologies that can handle Amazon-scale use cases and have a significant impact on our customers' experiences. Key job responsibilities You will be responsible for defining key research directions, adopting or inventing new machine learning techniques, conducting rigorous experiments, publishing results, and ensuring that research is translated into practice. You will develop long-term strategies, persuade teams to adopt those strategies, propose goals and deliver on them. You will

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