Principal Applied Scientist, Foundation AI Assets (FAI)

The Frontier AI Assets (FAI) team is looking for a passionate talented and inventive Principal Applied Scientist with a strong deep learning and generative AI background to focus on the development of software development skills of Nova foundational models.

As a Principal Applied Scientist you are a trusted part of the technical leadership. You bring business and industry context to science and technology decisions. You set the standard for scientific excellence and make decisions that affect the way we build and integrate algorithms. You 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. Your solutions are exemplary in terms of algorithm design clarity model structure efficiency and extensibility. You tackle intrinsically hard problems acquiring expertise as needed. You decompose complex problems into straightforward solutions.
You amplify your impact by leading scientific reviews within your organization or at your location. You scrutinize and review experimental design modeling verification and other research procedures. You probe assumptions illuminate pitfalls and foster shared understanding. You align teams toward coherent strategies. You educate keeping the scientific community up to date on advanced techniques state of the art approaches the latest technologies and trends. You help managers guide the career growth of other scientists by mentoring and playing a significant role in hiring and developing scientists and leads.


Key job responsibilities
You will be responsible for defining key research directions adopting or inventing new machine learning techniques conducting rigorous experiments publishing results and ensuring that research is translated into practice. You will develop frontier quality assets for training and evaluating GenAI models. You will also participate in organizational planning hiring mentorship and leadership development. You will be technically strong and with a passion for building scalable science and engineering solutions. You will serve as a key scientific resource in full-cycle development (conception design implementation and testing to documentation delivery and maintenance).

About the team
The FAI team has the mission to push the envelope in GenAI with LLMs in order to provide the best-possible experience for our customers.

Our team is focused on pushing the boundaries of applied science at Amazon building solutions that operate at massive scale and directly shape customer experiences. We value scientific depth collaborative problem-solving and a commitment to turning research into measurable impact.

We are investing in the next wave of scientific capabilities and are looking for a Principal Applied Scientist to help define that trajectory. You will work alongside talented scientists engineers and product partners in an environment that encourages intellectual curiosity and rewards bold ideas.

- 5 years of hands-on work in predictive modeling and analysis experience
- PhD in Electrical Engineering Computer Science Mathematics or a related technical field
- Experience working in predictive modeling and analysis
- Experience distilling informal customer requirements into problem definitions dealing with ambiguity and competing objectives
- Experience programming in Java C Python or related language
- Experience with leading experienced scientists as well as having a record of developing junior members from academia or industry to a career track in a business environment

- 10 years of relevant work in industry or academia experience
- Knowledge of problem solving algorithm design and complexity analysis
- Experience creating novel algorithms and advancing the state of the art
- Have peer-reviewed scientific contributions in premier journals and conferences

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at MA Boston - 198900.00 - 269000.00 USD annually