Amazon · 4 hours ago
Principal Applied Scientist, Amazon AGI
Boston, MA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$179K/yr - $309K/yr
5+ years expAmazon is seeking a passionate and talented Principal Applied Scientist to join their Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) team, focusing on developing software skills for Nova foundational models. In this role, you will lead scientific reviews, define research directions, and mentor junior scientists while ensuring research is effectively translated into practice.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)DeliveryE-CommerceRetail
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 also participate in organizational planning, hiring, mentorship and leadership development
You will be technically strong and with a passion for building scalable science and engineering solutions
You will serve as a key scientific resource in full-cycle development (conception, design, implementation, testing to documentation, delivery, and maintenance)
Qualification
Required
5+ years of hands-on work in predictive modeling and analysis experience
PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related technical field
Experience working in predictive modeling and analysis
Experience distilling informal customer requirements into problem definitions, dealing with ambiguity and competing objectives
Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
Experience with leading experienced scientists as well as having a record of developing junior members from academia or industry to a career track in a business environment
Preferred
10+ years of relevant work in industry or academia experience
Knowledge of problem solving, algorithm design and complexity analysis
Experience creating novel algorithms and advancing the state of the art
Have peer-reviewed scientific contributions in premier journals and conferences
Benefits
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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
Kleiner 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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