The Data Processing Agents science team is looking for a passionate inventive Applied Scientist with a strong background in programming languages combined with experience in Generative AI to help create industry-leading agentic experiences for big data processing powered by generative AI machine learning and program analysis.
AWS provides a comprehensive set of services for all data analytics needs and enables organizations of all sizes and industries to reinvent their business with data. From storage and management data governance actions and experiences AWS offers purpose-built services that provide the best price-performance scalability and lowest cost.
Key job responsibilities
As part of the Data Processing Agents science team you will have the opportunity to apply your Generative AI and program analysis skills to impact some of the largest analytics services in the industry and their customers. You will innovate by designing and building agentic solutions orchestrating program analyses foundation models and machine learning models and instantiating them to simplify optimize and operationalize the big data processing workflows of AWS customers through automation. You will collaborate with a talented team of applied science peers to drive scientific impact and with engineering product and business leaders to launch your work in production at Amazon scale.
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About the team
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* PhD in engineering technology computer science machine learning robotics operations research statistics mathematics or equivalent quantitative field
* Experience programming in Python Java C or related language
* Experience in patents or publications at top-tier peer-reviewed conferences or journals
* Experience in any of the following areas: algorithms and data structures parsing numerical optimization data mining parallel and distributed computing high-performance computing
* Background or expertise in programming languages or software engineering
* Experience in machine learning generative AI or natural language processing
* Experience with large-scale distributed systems such as Spark Hadoop etc.
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Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees supervisors and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees supervisors and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $136000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223400/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity sign-on payments and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package in addition to a full range of medical financial and/or other benefits. For more information please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.