Senior Applied Scientist, Generative AI Innovation Center

Are you looking to work at the forefront of Machine Learning and AI Would you be excited to apply Generative AI algorithms to solve real world problems with significant impact The Generative AI Innovation Center helps AWS customers implement Generative AI solutions and realize transformational business opportunities. This is a team of strategists scientists engineers and architects working step-by-step with customers to build bespoke solutions that harness the power of generative AI.
The team helps customers imagine and scope bespoke use cases that will create the greatest value for their businesses define paths to navigate technical or business challenges develop and optimize models to power their solutions and make plans for launching solutions at scale. The GenAI Innovation Center team provides guidance on best practices for applying generative AI responsibly and cost efficiently.
You will work directly with customers and innovate in a fast-paced organization that contributes to game-changing projects and technologies. You will design and run experiments research new algorithms and find new ways of optimizing risk profitability and customer experience.
Were looking for Applied Scientists capable of using GenAI and other techniques to design evangelize and implement state-of-the-art solutions for never-before-solved problems.
As an Applied Scientist you will

- Collaborate with AI/ML scientists and architects to research design develop and evaluate generative AI solutions to address real-world challenges
- Interact with customers directly to understand their business problems aid them in implementation of generative AI solutions brief customers and guide them on adoption patterns and paths to production
- Help customers optimize their solutions through approaches such as model selection training or tuning right-sizing distillation and hardware optimization
- Provide customer and market feedback to product and engineering teams to help define product direction



About the team
About the team

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- PhD in operations research applied mathematics theoretical computer science or equivalent or PhD and 5 years of a quantitative field such as statistics mathematics data science business analytics economics finance engineering or computer science experience
- 5 years of computer science fundamentals (object-oriented design data structures algorithm design problem solving and complexity analysis) experience
- Experience with deep learning libraries such as PyTorch TensorFlow MxNet Research publications in computer vision deep learning or machine learning at peer-reviewed workshops conferences or journals
- 5 years of building machine learning models or developing algorithms for business application experience

- Experience with training and deploying machine learning systems to solve large-scale optimizations
- Experience in communicating technical concepts to a non-technical audience
- Experience identifying and resolving complex issues
- Experience in delivering design solutions for projects of large scope and complexity
- Experience with open source tools and resources

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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 $150400/year in our lowest geographic market up to $260000/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.