Amazon.com Services LLC

Machine Learning Science, Applied Science, Artificial Intelligence

PrincipalAppliedScientist,ArtificialGeneralIntelligence

$179–309k Sunnyvale, California, United States FULL TIME
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The Brief

“Principal Applied Scientist, Artificial General Intelligence at Amazon.com Services LLC. Skills: Artificial General Intelligence, Generative AI, Machine Learning. Define research directions. Adopt new ML techniques”

What You'll Achieve.

Impact customer experiences

Industry & Context.

Machine Learning Science, Applied Science, Artificial Intelligence
Problems you'll solve

Decompose complex problems; Troubleshoot issues

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

5+ years ML experience, Graduate degree in AI, NLP, ML, or computational cognitive science, 7+ years academic and research experience, Publication record, Track record of project delivery, Programming in Java, C++, Python, Excellent communication skills

Nice to Have

PhD in AI, NLP, ML, or computational cognitive science, 10+ years academic and research experience, First author research, Functional thought leader, Experience influencing executive level, Experience mentoring research scientists, Distilling customer requirements, Excellent communication skills

What You'll Do.

Define research directions

Adopt new ML techniques

Invent new ML 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

Scrutinize experimental design

Scrutinize verification

Scrutinize research procedures

Foster shared understanding

Align teams toward strategies

Educate scientific community

Keep community updated

Drive development of GenAI

Handle Amazon-scale use cases

Impact customer experiences

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Cross-functional projects; Organizational planning

Communication Scope

Written communication; Spoken communication; Executive presentations

Full Job Description

As a Principal Scientist in 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 als

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