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Amazon · 1 month ago

Principal Applied Scientist, Kiro Science

positionSanta Clara, California, USA
timeFull-time
remoteHybrid
seniorityLead/Staff
money$179K/yr - $309K/yr
date10+ years exp

Amazon is a leading cloud platform provider seeking a Principal Applied Scientist to join the Kiro LLM-Training team. This role involves pioneering AI-driven development tools and implementing cutting-edge machine learning solutions to transform software development practices.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)DeliveryE-CommerceFoundational AIRetail
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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

PhDMaster's degreeBuilding modelsJavaC++PythonAI NLPAI multi-modalityDeep LearningLLM model trainingGraph learningSoftware engineeringFirst author publications

Required

PhD, or Master's degree and 10+ years of CS, CE, ML or related field experience
8+ years of building models for business application experience
Experience in patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals
Experience programming in Java, C++, Python or related language
Experience in any of the following areas: AI (NLP or multi-modality models), Deep Learning, LLM model training, graph learning, software engineering

Preferred

First author publications at Tier-1 ML conferences

Benefits

Equity
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Company

Amazon

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Amazon is a tech firm with a focus on e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence.
dateFounded in 1994
location
Seattle, Washington, USA
people-size10001+ employees
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Funding

Current Stage
Public Company
Total Funding
$8.11B
Key Investors
AmazonKleiner Perkins
2023-01-03Post Ipo Debt· $8B
2001-07-24Post Ipo Equity· $100M
1997-05-15IPO

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Douglas J. Herrington
CEO, Worldwide Amazon Stores
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Werner Vogels
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