As part of the AWS Applied AI Solutions organization we have a vision to provide business applications leveraging Amazons unique experience and expertise that are used by millions of companies worldwide to manage day-to-day operations. We will accomplish this by accelerating our customers businesses through delivery of intuitive and differentiated technology solutions that solve enduring business challenges. We blend vision with curiosity and Amazons real-world experience to build opinionated turnkey solutions. Where customers prefer to buy over build we become their trusted partner with solutions that are no-brainers to buy and easy to use.
The Applied Scientist II will contribute to the development of AI systems. The role requires extending existing scientific techniques and inventing new ones to address specific customer needs at a project level. You should be comfortable working semi-autonomously on difficult problems with visible risks or roadblocks. Youll work closely with technical leaders within the team. Were looking for scientists who can maintain high standards while moving quickly prioritizing both rapid experimentation and responsible AI development to deliver measurable customer impact.
Key job responsibilities
* Design and implement solutions that extend or adapt scientific approaches for customer needs at the project level
* Deliver components into production that meet high quality standards (efficient reproducible testable code)
* Produce research reports demonstrating correctness scholarship and scientific rigor
* Work with product and science teams to deliver impactful AI features
* Contribute to operational excellence in the teams deliverables
About the team
Amazon Connect is a highly disruptive cloud-based contact center that enables businesses to deliver engaging dynamic and personal customer service experiences. Amazon Connect is the result of the ten years of development that went into building the tools Amazon uses to provide its award winning customer service at massive scale and launching it as a publicly available AWS service. With Amazon Connect you can create your own cloud-based contact center and be taking calls in minutes. Amazon Connect leverages the power of Artificial Intelligence and the large ecosystem of AWS services such as Amazon Lex Amazon Polly AWS Lambda Amazon S3 and Amazon Kinesis to provide a truly frustration free easy-to-use extensible and natural customer experience. With this technology we are transforming an industry and the way customers interact with businesses and how agents service them.
- 3 years of building models for business application experience
- PhD or Masters degree and 4 years of CS CE ML or related field 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: algorithms and data structures parsing numerical optimization data mining parallel and distributed computing high-performance computing
- Experience using Unix/Linux
- Experience in professional software development
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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.