Amazon · 2 months ago
Senior Applied Scientist, LLM Code Agents, Kiro Science
Santa Clara, California, USA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$150K/yr - $260K/yr
6+ years expAmazon Web Services (AWS) is assembling an elite team of world-class scientists and engineers to pioneer the next generation of AI-driven development tools. As a Senior Applied Scientist, you will push the boundaries of reinforcement learning, invent state-of-the-art machine learning solutions, and deploy products that impact millions of developers worldwide.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)DeliveryE-CommerceFoundational AIRetail
Responsibilities
Push the boundaries of reinforcement learning and post-training methodologies for large language models specialized in code intelligence
Invent and implement state-of-the-art machine learning solutions that operate at unprecedented Amazon scale
Deploy revolutionary products that directly impact the daily workflows of millions of developers worldwide
Break new ground in AI and machine learning, challenging what's possible in intelligent code assistance
Publish and present your pioneering work at premier ML and NLP conferences (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR , ACL, EMNLP)
Accelerate innovation by working directly with customers to rapidly transition research breakthroughs into production systems
Qualification
Required
3+ years of building machine learning models for business application experience
PhD, or Master's degree and 6+ years of applied research experience
Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
Experience with neural deep learning methods and machine learning
Preferred
First author publications at Tier-1 ML conferences
Benefits
Equity
Sign-on payments
Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits
Company
Amazon
Amazon is a tech firm with a focus on e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$8.11BKey Investors
AmazonKleiner Perkins
2023-01-03Post Ipo Debt· $8B
2001-07-24Post Ipo Equity· $100M
1997-05-15IPO
Leadership Team
Douglas J. Herrington
CEO, Worldwide Amazon Stores
Werner Vogels
VP & CTO
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