Principal Applied Scientist, Artificial General Intelligence
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Job Location:
Sunnyvale, CA - USA
Yearly Salary:
$ 179000 - 309400
Posted on:
30+ days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
As a Principal Applied Scientist within the Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) organization you are a trusted part of the technical leadership. You bring business and industry context to science and technology decisions set the standard for scientific excellence and make decisions that affect the way we build and integrate algorithms.
A Principal Applied Scientist will solicit differing views across the organization and are willing to change your mind as you learn more. Your artifacts are exemplary and often used as reference across organization. You are a hands-on scientific leader; develop solutions that are exemplary in terms of algorithm design clarity model structure efficiency and extensibility; and tackle intrinsically hard problems acquiring expertise as needed.
Principal Applied Scientists are expected to decompose complex problems into straightforward solutions. You will amplify your impact by leading scientific reviews within your organization or at your location; and scrutinize and review experimental design modeling verification and other research procedures. You will also probe assumptions illuminate pitfalls and foster shared understanding; align teams toward coherent strategies; and educate keeping the scientific community up to date on advanced techniques state of the art approaches the latest technologies and trends.
AGI Principal Applied Scientists help managers guide the career growth of other scientists by mentoring and play a significant role in hiring and developing scientists and leads. You will play a critical role in driving the development of Generative AI (GenAI) technologies that can handle Amazon-scale use cases and have a significant impact on our customers experiences.
Key job responsibilities
You will be responsible for defining key research directions inventing new machine learning techniques conducting rigorous experiments and ensuring that research is translated into practice. You will also develop long-term strategies persuade teams to adopt those strategies propose goals and deliver on them.
A Principal Applied Scientist will participate in organizational planning hiring mentorship and leadership development. You will build scalable science and engineering solutions and serve as a key scientific resource in full-cycle development (conception design implementation testing to documentation delivery and maintenance).
- Graduate degree in Computer Science Math or related field.
- Experience in building complex real-time systems involving AI ML and NLP with successful delivery to customers.
- Experience with project delivery for large cross-functional projects with evolving requirements.
- PhD with specialization in Artificial Intelligence Natural Language Processing Machine Learning or Computational Cognitive Science
- 10 years of combined academic and research experience
- First author research on scaling laws evaluation metrics data mixture optimization data efficiency or neural network architectures in top-tier journals and conferences
- Functional thought leader and sought after for key tech decisions
- Experience influencing decisions at an executive level
- Experience mentoring and training the research scientist community on complex technical issues
- Experience distilling informal customer requirements into problem definitions dealing with ambiguity and competing objectives
- Excellent written and spoken communication skills with successful delivery to customers
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.
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.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process including support for the interview or onboarding process please visit for more information. If the country/region youre applying in isnt listed please contact your Recruiting Partner.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $179000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $309400/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.
A Principal Applied Scientist will solicit differing views across the organization and are willing to change your mind as you learn more. Your artifacts are exemplary and often used as reference across organization. You are a hands-on scientific leader; develop solutions that are exemplary in terms of algorithm design clarity model structure efficiency and extensibility; and tackle intrinsically hard problems acquiring expertise as needed.
Principal Applied Scientists are expected to decompose complex problems into straightforward solutions. You will amplify your impact by leading scientific reviews within your organization or at your location; and scrutinize and review experimental design modeling verification and other research procedures. You will also probe assumptions illuminate pitfalls and foster shared understanding; align teams toward coherent strategies; and educate keeping the scientific community up to date on advanced techniques state of the art approaches the latest technologies and trends.
AGI Principal Applied Scientists help managers guide the career growth of other scientists by mentoring and play a significant role in hiring and developing scientists and leads. You will play a critical role in driving the development of Generative AI (GenAI) technologies that can handle Amazon-scale use cases and have a significant impact on our customers experiences.
Key job responsibilities
You will be responsible for defining key research directions inventing new machine learning techniques conducting rigorous experiments and ensuring that research is translated into practice. You will also develop long-term strategies persuade teams to adopt those strategies propose goals and deliver on them.
A Principal Applied Scientist will participate in organizational planning hiring mentorship and leadership development. You will build scalable science and engineering solutions and serve as a key scientific resource in full-cycle development (conception design implementation testing to documentation delivery and maintenance).
- Graduate degree in Computer Science Math or related field.
- Experience in building complex real-time systems involving AI ML and NLP with successful delivery to customers.
- Experience with project delivery for large cross-functional projects with evolving requirements.
- PhD with specialization in Artificial Intelligence Natural Language Processing Machine Learning or Computational Cognitive Science
- 10 years of combined academic and research experience
- First author research on scaling laws evaluation metrics data mixture optimization data efficiency or neural network architectures in top-tier journals and conferences
- Functional thought leader and sought after for key tech decisions
- Experience influencing decisions at an executive level
- Experience mentoring and training the research scientist community on complex technical issues
- Experience distilling informal customer requirements into problem definitions dealing with ambiguity and competing objectives
- Excellent written and spoken communication skills with successful delivery to customers
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.
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.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process including support for the interview or onboarding process please visit for more information. If the country/region youre applying in isnt listed please contact your Recruiting Partner.
Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $179000/year in our lowest geographic market up to $309400/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.
Required Experience:
Staff IC
Key Skills
- Machine Learning
- Python
- Data Science
- AI
- R
- Research Experience
- Sensors
- Drug Discovery
- Research & Development
- Natural Language Processing
- Data Analysis Skills
- Toxicology Experience
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